Whatever Happened To...

[Saga Lout]

This thread is for those moments when you suddenly realise that something that was ubiquitous several months or years ago seems to have disappeared.

I'll start: Whatever happened to people saying "There's nothing worse than..." followed by some minor inconvenience like "...breaking a nail" or "...getting stuck in traffic" and never "...the end of civilisation as we know it" or "...the heat death of the universe"? I once had a colleague tell me five things there was nothing worse than in the space of about 10 minutes. I don't hear it any more.

Maybe the people who used to say it got fed up with people like me pointing out how silly they sounded.

Or maybe they started avoiding me.

[KungFooBob]

...the current affairs section?

[Mr. Dazzle]

Whatever happened to top tips?

I already know the answer, they became life hacks.

Same sort of thing probably occurred with the OP.

[Horse]

Maybe the people who used to say it got fed up with people like me pointing out how silly they sounded.

These days, they say "Literally ... "

[cheb]

We no longer have problems, we have issues.

[MrLongbeard]

Lemon puffs, bloody love 'em buy can't buy them for love nor money.

Screw caps you could take off a bottle, I create more plastic waste pulling the new ones off than I ever did with a good old fashioned removeable ones. (maybe I should have skipped this one as it is political)

The OBDII standard, oh sure ever car has the port, but you can't do diddly without the manufacturers software which kind of defeats the object.

[Lutin]

What ever happened to the plural of "sign" not being "signs" anymore?

[Eclipse]

Lemon puffs, bloody love 'em buy can't buy them for love nor money.

I buy these quite often, really nice

https://groceries.asda.com/product/afri ... 0001816969

[MrLongbeard]

Lemon puffs, bloody love 'em buy can't buy them for love nor money.

I buy these quite often, really nice

https://groceries.asda.com/product/afri ... 0001816969

There are imitators, but none that are a shadow of the originals

[Horse]

What ever happened to the plural of "sign" not being "signs" anymore?

I think the distinctions are

- sign; one sign
- signs, more than one
- signing; the layout / plan for multiple signs
- signage; signs and associated posts, frames, etc.

[The Martian]

"There's nothing worse than some old bugger on the internet reminiscing about turns of phrase that are no longer popular"

[Rockburner]

Lemon puffs, bloody love 'em buy can't buy them for love nor money.

In that vein....

When I was living in the van in France I used to regularly buy a pack of biscuits/cookies that were a "scandinavian" oats and "something sticky" biscuit sandwich with a thin layer of chocolate between them. Damned if I can find them anywhere - even on the online shops for the very same supermarkets I used to frequent in France. It doesn't help that I can't remember the name.

Ikea sell the same things, but only in huge packets, and I don't visit Ikea any more. (they don't sell food online).
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/kafferep-o ... -20524390/

I can't find anything similar in any supermarkets.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I have been known to visit IKEA just to buy biscuits. Quite a lot closer for me though

The little marzipan cake things they do are aces. Only topped by the same thing from fancy bakeries in Copenhagen

[Rockburner]

I have been known to visit IKEA just to buy biscuits. Quite a lot closer for me though

The little marzipan cake things they do are aces. Only topped by the same thing from fancy bakeries in Copenhagen

I'm complaining here - but conversely I'm not prepared to go into the centre of Portsmouth just for biscuits....

[Mr Moofo]

... Lion's Midget Gems (though I am not sure you can call them "midget" anymore)
Cotter pins for bicycle cranks - most of my youth was wasted trying to fit those
Remington Buttoneer and Fuz-a-way
Fat Bikes
Manners
The Shakesperos?

[Taipan]

Leon Trotsky?

[v8-powered]

.....white dog shit?

[gremlin]

Nostalgia. That used to be good.

[Count Steer]

Nostalgia. That used to be good.

It's still around, but it's not as good as it used to be.

[DefTrap]

... Lion's Midget Gems (though I am not sure you can call them "midget" anymore)
Cotter pins for bicycle cranks - most of my youth was wasted trying to fit those
Remington Buttoneer and Fuz-a-way
Fat Bikes
Manners
The Shakesperos?

I dunno about Lions (Lyons?) Midget Gems but you can certainly get Maynards ones, and I'm sure I've see Asda / Tesco ones.
Cotter pins for bicycle cranks are best left burning in a fiery hell along with all crank assemblies that involve loose bearing and finesse adjustment (See also Sturmey Archer 3-speed gears)