You hear the phrase, "it was a bit before my time" in conversation more often.

EG:

Gen X: The Challenger space shuttle blowing up shortly after liftoff was tragic.

Gen Z: It was a bit before my time. Was that to do with the moon landing?

You read the Homepin thread and see most of the same actors from the Bumper Amusements debacle with the standard script of either posturing to be front and centre stage or point scoring against the rest of the cast.

Either the Australian pinball sandpit has shrunk in the last 5 years or we've been down this road before......
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Going back further....how about Will Rogers?

You can remember going to any concert and not having to spend 90% of your time blocking out phone screen illumination in your peripheral vision.

Seeing the person in front of you in line buy one thing for <$5 and pay for it with a card is mildly irritating.

you have to sit down on the side of the bed in order to take your pants off.

You order a meal in a restaurant and when it is placed in front of you your first inclination is to eat it rather than take a photo of it.

It was terrible casting considering it was about Jack's slow descent into madness.

Yet Nicholson's last big hit prior was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest set in an asylum.

So everyone went in with the preconception that RP McMurphy becomes caretaker of a regular hotel and does what comes naturally.

You spend your spare time contacting food manufacturers to complain about them changing the ingredients in your favourite foods and demanding them change it back to the original.

You are happy to spend 20 minutes trapped behind the boom gate inside a parking station arguing with the attendant on the boom gate controller box intercom because you refuse to pay the $8 parking fee by card only.

Stupid millenial: "Only old people pay cash now".

Old person: "Cash is still legal tender, kid and the longer you want to argue about it the more the other cars are going to pile up behind mine."

You remember seeing Gene Hackman on the big screen as Lex Luthor in Superman.

Before you google it. He's 93.

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You remember when you didn't have to pay to enter a National Park.