things that will disappear in our lifetimes

[alocispepraluger102]

an impressive, if not depressing number.....

i've a laundry list, but chime in.

[AllenLowe]

me

[alocispepraluger102]

me

say it isn't Lowe!

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

Corks in wine bottles?

'Democratic' People's Repulic of Korea?

Lifesavers Candy Canes?

A Kennedy walking the halls of Congress? Naaaa.

[A Lark Ascending]

Hopefully, the exclamation 'Awesome!'

Sadly, if this year is anything to go by, the sun.

Edited July 5, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[alocispepraluger102]

Hopefully, the exclamation 'Awesome!'

Sadly, if this year is anything to go by, the sun.

folks tell me that beer bottles are going the way of the cork. some perfectly decent craft beers now come in cans. one that comes to mind is buried hatchet stout, which members of our political forums can't stand. :rolleyes:

Edited July 5, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[ejp626]

Free-standing telephone booths

Public telephones, except at airports and train stations

Free-standing mailboxes?

AOL

Blackberry/RIM

[A Lark Ascending]

Britain's forests...well if Cameron hadn't been found out trying to flog them off to his Eton mates.

[alocispepraluger102]

the larkster is on a roll!!! take another chorus or two, sweety!!!!!

[A Lark Ascending]

The USA as 'the greatest country the world has ever seen' (a quote from these pages a few years back).

[Adam]

tigers in the wild

glaciers in Greenland?

CDs

[A Lark Ascending]

The British National Health Service (see above) (aka 'that hotbed of socialism').

The BBC (see above)

The concept that there is something wrong with those with wealth buying their sons and daughters to the front of the educational queue.

Cylinder discs.

Printed newspapers.

Jazz critics.

Beatles revivals.

Edited July 5, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[Neal Pomea]

People will be mortified that they ever used a lower case i before a capital letter as in iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac, and the newest substitute for library school, the iSchool. Oh, and CNN's iReporters!

Edited July 5, 2012 by Neal Pomea

[king ubu]

The BBC (see above)

But... they already survived one nucular war!

[Pete C]

Beatles revivals.

Come the apocalypse, that's all that'll be left.

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

The annual ritual of tossing the yellow/white pages phonebook on the driveway.

[Quincy]

The annual ritual of tossing the yellow/white pages phonebook on the driveway.

Took care of that one last year. Opt out of dumb phonebook deliveries.

[Dave Garrett]

Along similar lines:

Going, Going, Gone: Vanishing Americana

This was originally published in 1994, so in the intervening 18 years many of the things covered have receded even further into the past, but there's still much of interest between its covers.

[BeBop]

Manual transmissions in cars (boo)

Probably conventional automatics too

Bicycle wheels with serviceable spokes

Malaria, typhoid, small pox, polio. As long as I'm dreaming here, I'll throw in AIDS and cancer.

[ejp626]

Took care of that one last year. Opt out of dumb phonebook deliveries.

Some newspaper reporter (remember them?) did a quick bit of research and found that in many (most) parts of the city and suburbs, the people dropping off the phone books didn't have a no-drop off list on them and scoffed at the idea they would bother to consult one. So I suspect you'll still end up with the phone books for the near term at least.

[Shawn]

The USA as 'the greatest country the world has ever seen' (a quote from these pages a few years back).

That quote has already been proven wrong countless times over.

[alocispepraluger102]

Along similar lines:

Going, Going, Gone: Vanishing Americana

This was originally published in 1994, so in the intervening 18 years many of the things covered have receded even further into the past, but there's still much of interest between its covers.

that little book has pretty much vanished. my local library sold it, probably to a rag dealer.

[BeBop]

Not to be too cynical, but "privacy" probably belongs on the list. Through a combination of self-disclosure and information harvesting.

[ejp626]

The USA as 'the greatest country the world has ever seen' (a quote from these pages a few years back).

That quote has already been proven wrong countless times over.

Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results

In any case, I think it is quite a stretch to claim that even today the US is the greatest country in the world.

[thedwork]

things that will disappear in our lifetimes, eh?

hopefully not, but on my weaker days i'm not so sure:

Edited July 6, 2012 by thedwork