There's not much I miss about my childhood
However, there's several things about modern life that stick in my craw.
Celebrities who are famous for being famous - no discernible talent, no real charisma just the luck to be put through the celeb mill and hyped to the rafters by gossip mongers. Following on from that....
Gossip mags. I'm sure there weren't glossy magazines full of pictures and speculation about non-people when I was young. These mind-meltingly-mediocre wastes of tree pulp run me into my third, and biggest disappointment about modern life.....
Celebration of stupidity. It's now OK to be thicker than a whale omelette. It's more socially acceptable than actually being intelligent, curious about your world and the people in it and having a critical mind.
It's probably my age but I'm now past believing that this will end. It'll be just like 'Brave New World' very soon. I just hope I'm graded as a Beta.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Fri 17 Jul 2015, 16:36, 4 replies)

You can be the epsilon minus
who gets to cheerfully wipe my bum.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Fri 17 Jul 2015, 19:14, closed)

'Roof, oh roof!'

(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Sat 18 Jul 2015, 17:53, closed)

Why do otherwise intelligent peop0le think it's funny to know nothing about maths.
When people who believe strongly in education, are well read, and have excellent written English tell me, 'I can't do maths, LOL. It's like another language to me,' I like to tell them that, in my mind, what they just said is no different to them laughing about themselves being illiterate.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Fri 17 Jul 2015, 20:29, closed)

And I thought I was the only one
...tis indeed a pleasure!
(Anthony Burgess' Chocolate Orange, Fri 17 Jul 2015, 20:49, closed)