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

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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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Exchanging high fives this side of the Atlantic

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

additional!

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!

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!

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

Onesie

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

Watershed (still don't understand it)

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

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

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

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

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

Brexit

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

Mindfulness

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

Gransnet

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

Skybox

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

Google

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

Rheumatism !!!

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

Texted.

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

Facetime

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

Selfie

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

"Ipad"
" Carbon footprint"