Reddit user Darko992 asked:
"What should we bring back from the past?"
Here are some things Reddit really wishes we never let go of.
Frock Yeah
"Cloaks."
"They look cool, often one size fits all, easier to take on or off than a jacket, and don’t have a dumb zipper."
- lordcaledonia
"Ya know how in Harry Potter they walk around London in cloaks and sh*t and people don’t even notice? "
"Well I was in the line at TSA and didn’t notice for a full 10 minutes that the lady in front of me was wearing a full-on velvety cloak. Once I did notice, my first thought was 'sh*t that’s a cool cloak.' So now I understand Muggle London"
- hausishome
"When I was stationed in Yongsan, South Korea I was waiting in line at Taco Bell when I see another soldier I kind of know walk up. We were both in civilian clothes - but her version of civvies was an awesome cloak."
"I got to talking with her and asked if she was going to a larp, she said no and said she just felt like rocking a cloak that day. "
"To this day her confidence has inspired me!"
- 360Entertainment
GiphyPractical Effects
"More real effects instead of CGI in movies. Obviously, CGI has made the impossible possible, but directors like Guillermo Tel Toro prove that there is a lot that can be created believably and beautifully on film."
- -PyramidHead
"Good practical effects will hold up basically forever, too. Look at The Thing; that movie is now forty years old and the effects still look top notch."
- ironwolf56
"Good CGI goes unnoticed. Slightly bad CGI looks f*cking terrible."
- crysco
"It still doesn't age well. The best CGI from the 90s looks decent (IE: Terminator 2) but you still have to be like 'It looks good....for 1991' since it never holds up to age."
- HelmutHoffman
What Wear When?
"Every fashion from every era at the same time. I'd love the mess it would make"
- AldaronWilwarin
"The 1720s. Puffy pants and powdered wigs baby"
- Joke_Mummy
"Well right now 60's-90's is apparently coming back in style, plus Amish attire."
"Source- worked at Nordstroms for a bit this year."
- PrityBird
"If capes were back in style I'd cry from joy."
- CityOfZion
"Definitely already a thing, with people coming in mullets and thrifting"
- GabrielliaPumphrey
AFK
"The expectation of lack of availability."
"The amount of technology we have is truly amazing and I love that I get to experience it. That being said, the idea that I am available 100% of the time from morning to night is easily the biggest source of stress I have in my life."
"I miss the time before smartphones."
- andlecrusher
"I felt the same, that anyone could demand my attention at any time and I would be expected to give it especially with phone calls."
"For the last few years I've had my phone on silent (no vibration). I choose when I look at my phone and respond to texts or call people back. Its freeing."
"Some people get frustrated by that, but that's a them problem."
"Just because they want to talk to me at a particular time does not mean that they can, I have a life too."
- isthisthewifi
Giphy
"Unless it's my girlfriend or my family, I just don't respond to texts or anything after like 5pm."
"Phone call? Go to voice-mail."
"You don't owe anybody your time, regardless of how they may feel about that."
- gamesireallylike
"I agree and I've learned to set boundaries so this is no longer an expectation."
"Work knows my hours and that I am not going to respond outside of those hours."
"The worst offender was my mother, who'd call like 5x in as many minutes at 10pm (I usually go to bed at 9pm, she knows this)."
"I set the boundary and told her that unless its an emergency, please do not call after 7pm (that's family time for us). Texting is ok, but I'll respond at my leisure then."
- cheesemongrel938491
Love Thy Neighbor
"A sense of community"
- Jaxxs90
"It's odd, this one. Because everyone alive would love for it to happen, but nobody wants to make it happen."
"When was the last time you spoke to your neighbours? A while ago I bet."
- fancybigballs
"I read a book about this. It's the idea of social infrastructure- creating spaces that encourage physical, human interaction and a community."
"Cars and suburbs in America have really f*cked this up because they prevent social interaction/sense of community."
"You get up in your suburban home where your nearest neighbor is still fairly distant, get in your car, and drive straight to work. Then you drive back home. Maybe you drive to some large superstores."
"In contrast, imagine more walkable cities like some in Europe or Asia. Neighborhoods where people live in closer proximity, where shops/cafes/libraries/small businesses owned by families are within walking distance, and where walkable paths and parks abound."
"A day might involve a lot more walking, passing by your neighbors on your street, building common interactions with locals, and where communities can hold more community events like farmers markets and stuff. "
"It's better for humans, better for the environment, better in almost every aspect."
"Not to say these things don't exist in America, or only exist in other countries, but most cities are such a far cry from this kind of community."
- ButterfreePimp
Built Tough
"Stuff being made to last a lifetime rather than a few months to a few years."
- Nobody91765
"Yes. A ban on planned obsolescence would be VERY nice."
- UsedLandscape876
"Poorly made throwaway goods have always been a staple of the market."
- ReallySmallWeenus
"It's not planned obsolescence, it's a 'defined service life.' "
"Materials science got to a point where they can cut costs down and deliver absolute minimum quality of material to hit a desired lifespan on a product."
"You can still buy things that last forever, they're just considered luxury product and cost 3-4 times as much."
"Go to the grill section of your local Home Depot and check out a Weber Genesis next to your average Charbroil or NexGrill for a visual example. "
"The Weber will easily last you a decade-plus, probably 20 years if you take care of it. On the other hand, the Charbroil will rust out within 3-5 years."
"Basically, if we want things that last, we either have to accept that everything is going to get at least 30% more expensive, or we just need to go pay for luxury items now."
- duffman13jws
GiphyGet Ronald On The Phone
"Old design of McDonalds buildings"
- Left-Pop-9420
"Right?! The new design looks like a depressed millennial. I want my free circus again!"
- arlingLee
"Including the ball pits and play places"
- obert-wan-kenobert
"When the new commercials came out that featured the retro lamps I got excited. I thought a franchise wide re-design was on the way. Nope."
- keylabulous
GiphyChill
"A relaxed life style and more family gatherings"
- adallal
"I would kill for the first one alone."
"Take me back to a time where like, you would just need to do your job, your part, and maintain your responsibilities and that's it."
- MolhCD
"Yeah. Now, it's more complex than just that."
"I think now we have too many responsibilities and higher expectations that those of the old days. This brings more worries and stress."
- adallal
Fresh
"Expunging juvenile records for stupid and petty crimes."
"I get having to prosecute minors as adults for serious crimes, but for stupid and petty things they don't automatically expunge them anymore like they used to and a juvenile record can haunt them for years."
"As long as the crime was petty and non-violent I want to get back to letting that child have a fresh start once they're an adult."
- llcucf80
"Wow! I didn’t know that changed. I’ll have to look in to that. Kids make stupid decisions and shouldn’t have to carry that burden in to adulthood."
- Equal_Nail925
GiphyLet's Get Physical
"Physical media. I miss the days of VHS and browsing video stores."
- lunchboxbeard82
"Yes! Physical all the way! I hate it when I hear an album or song and I find out it’s not on CD. I need something to play in the car!"
- Ok-Call-4805
"That's more on the consumer's end. Most digital media is still available in a physical counterpart."
"I'm somewhere in between, I get the appeal of physical media but I don't like having things. I still dislike streaming that turned media into basically a service that most of their users take for granted."
"I tend to buy digital copes of albums and keep listening to them in the same behavior I did when I was a kid and bought a cassette tape and was the only thing I heard for some time."
- flacocaradeperro
"Get that too. For me I miss the ritual of browsing and picking up an album or movie, reading the box, opening the box first time, etc."
GiphyOOH!
I just remembered another thing.
Do you guys remember when Pizza Hut was an awesome sit down experience with a salad bar and everything?
That crust just hit different—especially if you were there to celebrate your grades or reading accomplishments and you got your free little personal pizza.
I'm pretty sure it's all been down hill since pizza hut stopped being awesome.
TV romance is the stuff of legend. Can we be wrong?
Let's Talk...
Season 3 Episode 21 GIF by FriendsGiphy"They always make awkward situations look like a good way to start a convo, but in reality it just makes you wanna die."
Aromatic-Car-824
Knock Knock
"When the guy knocks on the girl’s bedroom window in the middle of the night."
snazzylittlequetzal
"An ex did this to me after we had broken up (he cheated). I was going through a phase of blasting music in my headphones and staying up til like 5am, and for hours I kept hearing this lil knock now and again, until I was like okay wtf is that and turned off my music and realised it was pebbles being thrown at my window. My ex was there... throwing pebbles at my window... for several hours... it wasn't romantic."
GrossWordVomit
Fireworks
"When you've broken up but then get back together. In movies it seems like fireworks fly, but in reality there are a lot of trust/commitment issues to work through."
theoptionexplicit
"I met up with an ex years ago (about 3 years after we'd broken up) and within 2 hours their voice was like nails on a blackboard and I thought 'now I remember!'"
kij101
Speak Now
"Stopping a wedding to profess how they love/never stopped loving him or her. Then they both run off together."
227743
"I absolutely agree except for in one case... The Graduate. That shot of them on the bus where reality of their actions sink in is brilliant. Their laughter going to smiles and then the smiles fading as they stare straight ahead and don’t face one another."
UniDublin
"I quite like how they handled this on Frasier. Daphne and Niles finally confess their feelings for each other right when she's about to marry someone else, decide to run off together, get into a car, and that's how the season ends. But in the first episode of the next season they're shown to only have made it to the end of the driveway where they decide to turn around and go deal with the situation like adults. Which of course doesn't do much to soften the fallout - Daphne's fiancé even sues her for emotional damages."
48pieces
Following You
wo glenn close GIFGiphy"-Stalking a person until they agree to go on a date with you."
"-Lock two people in a room to confess their feelings, (they did it to me, I ended up escaping through a window)."
Environmental_Hall42
Stalking can be sexy. Right?
Kissed
"Being forcibly kissed to make you shut up."
bobobonon135
"I went to a party with a male friend who I knew liked me. I always made it clear I didn't feel the same about him. Before the party he told me that he thought I would like one of his friends that was going to be there and he was right."
"The friend and I hit it off and I ended up staying the night with him (he lived there). In the morning, the guy went outside, I was standing in a doorway, and my friend was across the room. He walked over to me, grabbed my face and kissed me before I knew what was happening. He asked me if I felt anything and I said no. I was shocked, like dude I just hooked up with your friend, you can't kiss me like we're in a movie or some crap.
J09Lynn
“run away”
"A person dropping their entire life to 'run away' with someone they just met. My sister literally just did this. Took off on a boat for 2 weeks with a man she met 3 weeks before. They found out they are NOTHING alike and it was all just lust not love. Too late now they are stuck together on boat. They quickly realized they CANNOT handle living together and were miserable. It’s not all just roses and rainbows when you run off with 'the love of your life.'"
momogirl200
Bye...
"When a guy shows way too much interest in you after you've made it crystal clear you are not interested."
bootsandmittens11
"The only time I found it flattering when a guy kept asking me was in high school. I only turned him down because his parents were the owners of the grocery store I worked at and I thought it’d be awkward if it ended badly. And I did like him, he was a great guy, but I always said no. When I quit, I finally agreed to go out with him."
Ok-IrrelevantIdol
Bad Idea
couple making out GIFGiphy"Sex in the shower. The amount of times I’ve had patients come into the ER after slipping and falling after having shower sex? Numerous."
signaturefox2013
TV and movies have ruined us all. I'm on a break!!
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Wisdom is everywhere. I have found hope in the witty advertisement of a vodka bottle. You?
Truth
The One Where Estelle Dies Episode 15 GIF by FriendsGiphy"There is no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse."
Emilyx33x
I Love You
"Grief is just love that has nowhere to go."
i_am_scared_ok
Andrew Garfield’s quote on this subject really touched me. When talking about his mother who passed away he said, 'I hope this grief stays with me. It’s all the unexpressed love I didn’t get to tell her.'”
kyhansen1509
So Empty
“'What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.'”
"-Epictetus"
Crypto_Bro12
"'Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. -Rabbi Tarfon'"
"It helps when I'm feeling anxious about geopolitical events I have no control over."
HonestSummer
The Burn
"'Doing what you love as a job is a great way to make it something you used to love.'"
"Former boss that got burnt hard. That's funny but honestly idk what his past was. He was a very bitter person when I knew him. He said that when I was talking about wanting to be a full time artist when I was younger. The idea gave me pause."
Crying_Reaper
frodo GIFI'm feeling slightly inspired so far. You?
GIF by moodmanWinning
"There's this awesome webcomic called Multiplex that I used to read ( it finished its run a few years ago). It's mostly goofy jokes and snarky digs at Hollywood, but one of the characters said, 'You should get out of the mindset that for you to win, someone else has to lose. It's unhealthy.' Don't know why it stuck with me, but I've been trying to get out of that way of thinking ever since (I don't always succeed, but I'm trying man, I'm trying real hard)."
Raptorthrust
“it is what it is”
"Might be lame but my mom gave me a mug with 'it is what it is' written on it and it truly changed my philosophy about how I handle my anxiety. I was going through a lot but drinking coffee everyday with that mug really gave me a weird sense of peace."
corpcoincorporated
No!
"'Don't tell yourself no. Let someone else tell you no.' -- a co-worker who stopped me from canceling an interview 16 years ago. He's embarrassed that I bring it up because to him, it was just an off-the-cuff comment. But it literally put me where I am now."
farrenkm
'It's always those off-the-cuff remarks that do it. I will say, this one might be THE one from this thread that sticks with me... Most often it seems that the only person who ever gets in my way is myself."
CautiousCactus505
No Room
Black And White Halloween GIF by Fleischer StudiosGiphy"The graveyard is full of people who had the right of way."
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