h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What things do you never see anymore? To kick off:

Turkish Delight ads
White dog poo
Metal Mickey
That bloke on the ostrich
Maggie Philbin
Spit the dog
"Dave and Sue" in the front window of cars
Bubblegum machines outside shops

People having sex on the street.. glass bottles with a return price on them.. Empty pubs..

5.25" floppy disks...
Ladybirds... no idea where they've gone...

the last time i saw a 5.5 floppy was in 1996 or was it 1995 I remember thinking at the time, cor, I've not seen one of these for ages.....

llooppyy..

Aliens, isn't as many about now as there used to be...

Sparrows

Polite, well behaved children who can walk down the pavement without spitting, bawling into mobile phones and shoving each other into the road.

Noel Edmonds. What's happened to him?

Cows roaming about on the streets in urban Essex (like Wanstead and Woodford) - has the ancient grazing law been repealed?

Bins on railway stations - just those clear bags hooked onto anything they can find.

Saturday morning pictures. Oh dear - really showing my age there!

Sawdust on the floor in butcher's shops.

Ford Prefects.

Knitted tea cosies.

Machines where you put in a coin and an animated puppet inside a glass box moves for a few seconds.

Machines where you put in a coin and it will emboss your name on a strip of metal.

Sturmey Archer 3-speed gears

Little old ladies all dressed in black with small hats pinned to their heads.

- Cheap Petrol (under 80 cents per litre, In Australia, that is...)
- Record players
- Castlemain Rock (One of my favourite sweets. Also in Aus)

J.J

Telephone boxes.

Trams.

Zebra crossings.

Red buses.

8 inch floppy disks

Noel Edmonds not seen anymore? Hallelujah!

TV sets inside cabinets.

8 Inch ?!
Am i too young to know what these are...?

J.J

No.......I didn't know what they were either

phew...

J.J

....but I'm not too young either....

Hey, i'm only 16... (almost 17, not that it makes much difference)

oh yeah, another thing i don't see anymore...

-The 'Far Side' Calenders...

J.J

Gary Larson retired a few years ago, so the Far Side calendars are not so common anymore.

8 inch floppy disks look exactly the same as 5.25 inch ones except a lot bigger.

maybe wyou will one day....