Things you never could have predicted

[Zincubus]

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Handing over MONEY for bottles of water ...


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[Arran]

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Free porn!.....not that i ever would you understand.

More like the end of pages from abandoned porno mags in parks etc. A common feature of towns in the 1990s that has all but vanished.

There is a theory that the internet only became popular because of porn.

[tex]

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Free porn!.....not that i ever would you understand.

[Arran]

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Kids no longer watching (broadcast) TV. They watch videos on YouTube now. Freeview? It's what my grandparents watch!

The internet not just becoming popular but taking over our lives. I was informed by a former engineer from Philips that their corporate policy back in 2000 was that the internet would never become anywhere near as popular as broadcast TV nor function as a significant conveyor of video materials. How wrong were they.

More kids owning an internet enabled digital device than owning a bike.

[zabadak]

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Electronic cigarettes!

[George 1978]

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I thought that Evans was going to leave after a couple of years in the Radio 2 Breakfast slot - I was half expecting him to play truant half the time just like he did from the Big Breakfast when he was coincidently ill on the same day that he was expecting a new Ferrari to be delivered to his mansion, and of course when he wanted to skive off from Radio 1 on Fridays, during his TFI seasons.

[tex]

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Chris evans quits "top slot" on radio 2, not clear why yet but probably over money

[George 1978]

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A few years ago I was watching a repeat of Carrott's Commercial Breakdown which was made in the mid 1990s, and towards the end of the episode, I was rather shocked at how accurately spot on Jasper Carrott's observations were - he was accurately predicting 2005 a good few years before it actually happened!

Carrott mentioned that by the time the episode was repeated again, Labour would win a third term in government, and that Prince Charles would marry Camilla - spot on observations for 2005! The only thing he got wrong was the fact that he said that it would be repeated on UK Gold - he was wrong about that because it had been repeated on Bravo, and it was just after 2005 as well.

[escorteclipse1990]

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Tax Discs ending, Leaving the EU, and big name shops going bust.

[amethyst]

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M & S closing 30 stores with 45 possibly to be downgrading is a result of lack of car parking in town centres.Well there wont be much shops left open in towns due to out of town shopping with free parking.More boarded up places then making towns more run down

[amethyst]

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I don't understand why they keep closing post offices as surely with eBay and the like people are sending and receiving more stuff through the post than EVER before - confused !!

Rural areas are the worst affected,especially if folks have to travel miles to their nearest town.

I am surprised the likes of Tesco havent had an instore PO section,they got Timpsons shoe repairs,opticians etc

[battyrat]

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Like you I don't understand why post offices are closing down. Every time I try to use one there's a queue a mile long and a half hour wait to be served.

My bank has recently boarded up two of its tills saying that they are no longer needed, and out of the two remaining tills only one ever gets used the other is conveniently broken down or out of action. Not always the same till. Even on a Saturday when there's a big queue out of the door they still can't find the decency to look after their customers. It's enough to drive anybody to find an easier and quicker way to do their banking. The banks are their own worse enemy especially when it comes to customer care. They just don't anymore.

[Zincubus]

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More banks to close because of online banking,libraries Post Offices everything is being thin down

I don't understand why they keep closing post offices as surely with eBay and the like people are sending and receiving more stuff through the post than EVER before - confused !!

[amethyst]

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More banks to close because of online banking,libraries Post Offices everything is being thin down

[Arran]

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Schools - or more precisely primary schools - are teaching computer science and programming. When I was at school they had ICT which was about using computers for office type things. Even in 2010 I was saying that schools will never teach computer science due to the inflexible nature of mass state education and a lack of interest in the subject by the teaching profession.

It was hard enough getting traditional science into primary schools back in the 1980s but at least NQT had studied the subject at secondary school. Computer science is a subject that very few NQT teachers even knew the basics of in 2010. In many secondary schools ICT was being taught by history or English teachers with only elementary knowledge of computers.