Things that might die (out) in your lifetime

[paranoid android]

Rock music.

[Central Belt Caley]

1 hour ago, dundeefc1783 said:

Not unless there is a drastic improvement in electric cars there won't be. Cost far to much money, don't do enough miles and take far to long to charge. Unless you only make short journeys around town imo they are no use at all unless big improvements made. 

Totally agree that the infrastructure isn’t there yet but the UK gov have said no new petrol and diesel cars to be sold from 2030 onwards and no new hybrids sold from 2035 onwards. Although not like they’ve changed their minds before 

[MEADOWXI]

The changes in smoking, remember on double deckers it was upstairs for smoking, or single deckers it was at the back after the wee step as it kept the smoke from the front LoL.

Was working at Lothian Regional Council and it was either start after Ney Year 1994 or 1995 you could no longer smoke at your desk, Worked at a bank of 4 desks and the other three were smokers. Went from working in a cloud of smoke to them having to disappear every hour to go out for a fag. (the boss even came in over the holidays and had removed all the ashtrays from the desks). Changes in pubs and restaurants too, and cost must see this a dying industry in so many ways.

[ICTChris]

Newspapers are a good example.  My dad was a reporter for many years, there used to be a big infrastructure of local news journalists that just doesn't exist anymore.  At one point he ran an office with about a dozen or more full time reporters in the North of Scotland and other national papers had similar set ups.  I doubt there are that many full time journalists in the entire North of Scotland now.  I think it's a big loss, that local infrastructure especially.  Nothing that can really be done about it though - a lot of the revenue for it came from small and local advertising and that literally doesn't exist anymore.

[Hillonearth]

13 minutes ago, paranoid android said:

Rock music.

I dunno - they've been predicting that one for a long time and it hasn't happened yet, although it's clearly currently in a slump.

There are certain forms of rock music - heavy metal is a good example - that appear to have turned into something almost along the lines of C&W, rarely mainstream but never in any real trouble of dying off completely.

 

[ICTChris]

I wonder if pubs are a dying industry or at least one that is changing significantly.  Around the time of the smoking ban I worked, briefly, for a large brewery who also owned pubs.  We went to a presentation that showed the plans for pubs post-smoking ban.  Essentially the model for a profitable pub was one that was large, focused on food and had significant contained outdoor spaces that could be covered and heated.  This meant that groups of people socialising could sit outside where some could smoke without getting rained on or cold, people wanting to eat could sit inside.  All seating areas could have screens to attract people for sporting events etc.  Obviously this model excludes the majority of pubs and a lot of places have closed over the years and that's without taking into account the three horsemen of the service industry apocolpyse - Brexit, Covid and War in Ukraine/cost of living.

This is the number of pubs in the UK between 2000 and 2020

[paranoid android]

1 hour ago, Hillonearth said:

I dunno - they've been predicting that one for a long time and it hasn't happened yet, although it's clearly currently in a slump.

There are certain forms of rock music - heavy metal is a good example - that appear to have turned into something almost along the lines of C&W, rarely mainstream but never in any real trouble of dying off completely.

 

I think there will always be massive artists and big events like Glastonbury.

It will never die completely, but it just isn't exciting anymore - other than the big artists who are in vogue and big events, it will become a minority interest, imo.

[ICTChris]

Here are the best selling albums in the 21st century - how many of them could be described as rock music?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_of_the_21st_century_in_the_United_Kingdom#:~:text=With sales of 6 million,21st century in the UK.

Kings of Leon at number 13 and the only other contemporary artists that you could describe as rock are The Killers, Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers.  You've also got Greatest hits by Guns n Roses, Fleetwood Mac and Queen.

[tarapoa]

Cash.

There are probably a reducing number of legitimate and necessary reasons to use it that aren't dodgy.

Saying that my local Chinese takeaway still didn't manage to fix their card machine, even through Covid.

 

[Paranoid]

Rice pudding.

[TxRover]

2 hours ago, Central Belt Caley said:

Totally agree that the infrastructure isn’t there yet but the UK gov have said no new petrol and diesel cars to be sold from 2030 onwards and no new hybrids sold from 2035 onwards. Although not like they’ve changed their minds before 

The main catching point will be people who do not own their residence. Most for let residential facilities lack an electrical connection at the parking location, if they even have an assigned parking spot. With full electric vehicles effectively requiring a plug in daily, this lack makes the mandate unenforceable. Until the non-owners have access to a means of charging their vehicles, without having to pay to install hardware or lease a new parking spot after any move, unless the old proposal of replacing battery packs at drive in locations matures.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

31 minutes ago, tarapoa said:

Cash.

There are probably a reducing number of legitimate and necessary reasons to use it that aren't dodgy.

Saying that my local Chinese takeaway still didn't manage to fix their card machine, even through Covid.

 

Our local chipper had  card machine running during Covid.

You could feel the seethe every time they had to use it.

Of course its "broken" now. 

[Abdul_Latif]

2 hours ago, ICTChris said:

This is the number of pubs in the UK between 2000 and 2020

Arguably there are still too many licensed establishments, if we are using pubs in your graph as an all encompassing term.

The shite places that can’t work out what they are, holding the soulless middle ground, wouldn’t be missed imo.

[Abdul_Latif]

I genuinely reckon the eating of meat could be outlawed in the next 50 years.

Think it’ll be gradual, but the shift is already beginning due to climate change fears and the impact of intense animal farming.

[Richey Edwards]

1 hour ago, ICTChris said:

Here are the best selling albums in the 21st century - how many of them could be described as rock music?

Dunno but most of them could be described as "shit".

[Billy Jean King]

6 hours ago, coprolite said:

Wearing ties to work

Who still has to do that ?

[Melanius Mullarkey]

40 minutes ago, Abdul_Latif said:

Arguably there are still too many licensed establishments, if we are using pubs in your graph as an all encompassing term.

The shite places that can’t work out what they are, holding the soulless middle ground, wouldn’t be missed imo.

You do realise that its not the pubco establishments that are disappearing so if you want to live in a world of Brewdog, Wetherspoons and Greene King, be my guest but f**k that for pint on a Sunday afternoon. 

[Jacksgranda]

3 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

Who still has to do that ?

A tie salesman?

[tamthebam]

1 hour ago, ICTChris said:

Here are the best selling albums in the 21st century - how many of them could be described as rock music?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_of_the_21st_century_in_the_United_Kingdom#:~:text=With sales of 6 million,21st century in the UK.

Kings of Leon at number 13 and the only other contemporary artists that you could describe as rock are The Killers, Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers.  You've also got Greatest hits by Guns n Roses, Fleetwood Mac and Queen.

Rock won't die- you can still go and listen to Dixieland Jazz if you like for example- it's just it won't be as big as it was.

I'd like to think dugs shiteing on football pitches will die out- we just need a campaign against it and provision of other places for them to shite.  

[coprolite]

3 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

Who still has to do that ?

We’ve not had to for a few years for day to day but we’re expected to suit up for visiting clients. I don’t wear a tie with my suit but plenty do. I think I’m probably supposed to but most clients will be in jeans and a polo shirt anyway. The firm I work for can be quite old fashioned. 
 

I expect that a load of the more old school brokerages and merchant banks on the square mile still expect ties with a pin with a three piece suit and double cuffed shirts etc and will hold out at least another decade. 
 

The very last hold out will be the houses of parliament.