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Words and things you wouldn't have understood 20 years ago.

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Daddima Sun 21-Feb-16 17:11:09

"Ipad"
" Carbon footprint"

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Grannyknot Sun 21-Feb-16 17:11:48

Selfie

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tanith Sun 21-Feb-16 17:13:39

Facetime

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Daddima Sun 21-Feb-16 17:14:14

Texted.

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grannylyn65 Sun 21-Feb-16 17:32:54

Rheumatism !!!

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NanaandGrampy Sun 21-Feb-16 17:39:36

Google

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grandMattie Sun 21-Feb-16 17:40:37

Skybox

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Maggiemaybe Sun 21-Feb-16 18:18:41

Gransnet

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Maggiemaybe Sun 21-Feb-16 18:19:40

Mindfulness

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Ana Sun 21-Feb-16 18:22:10

Brexit

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POGS Sun 21-Feb-16 18:27:30

Sick. ( Can now officially mean cool, awesome, crazy really good)

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numberplease Sun 21-Feb-16 18:32:09

Wicked, back then it meant horrible and evil, the opposite now!

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Greymary Sun 21-Feb-16 18:36:46

Watershed (still don't understand it)

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Bellanonna Sun 21-Feb-16 18:41:53

Onesie

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Elrel Sun 21-Feb-16 18:44:06

Ana - even 10 months ago perhaps!
Maggie - mindfulness has been around as long as Buddhism, it just became commercial!

Body con dress
Contactless card
Catch up tv
Smart phone
FaceTime
Kinship care (the term, not the concept)
Pulled pork
Jeggings

Ther must be so many more!

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Elrel Sun 21-Feb-16 18:45:59

Greymary. - I learnt watershed in geography long ago but somehow it seems to have acquired a strange addition meaning!

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Elrel Sun 21-Feb-16 18:46:23

additional!

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Bellanonna Sun 21-Feb-16 18:46:29

Exchanging high fives this side of the Atlantic

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Greymary Sun 21-Feb-16 18:50:53

Elrel I understand what a 'watershed' is, except in the current Politic Speak. So many words and phrases have taken on different meanings now.

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Stepnana4 Sun 21-Feb-16 19:23:39

Treggins
Wireless wifi
Key Safe
Twitter
Memory stick
Download
Bluetooth
Instagram
BlueRay
Netbooks
Microwaveable heat pads ( couldn't imagine life without them)
Freeview
Top up
Tinder
Hotmail
Dongle
Wifi
Nectar Points
Kindle

Ok I'll stop now

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Maggiemaybe Sun 21-Feb-16 22:16:49

Maggie - mindfulness has been around as long as Buddhism, it just became commercial!

Well, Elrel, I'm obviously a bit of a thicko - I still wouldn't have heard of it 20 years ago grin

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Maggiemaybe Sun 21-Feb-16 22:21:06

I did however eat pulled pork in Tennessee in the 1980s.

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Grannyknot Sun 21-Feb-16 22:29:19

It's difficult to remember what was around 20 years ago e.g. did we have laptops back then?

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Bellanonna Sun 21-Feb-16 22:39:37

Fitbits

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Bellanonna Sun 21-Feb-16 22:40:28

Latte

Skinny latte with cinnamon, even

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