Ireland is peaceful. Germany is reunited.
Traditional big-catalog stores will lose out to a new competitor. The new competitor will have no brick and mortar stores, and people will happily purchase items from a picture on a (sort of) TV screen.
Taxicabs will be replaced by drivers who will use their personal cars. (But - In the 1920’s these were called “jitneys” and were blamed for taking business away from streetcars.)
I got a new car and it’s amazing! It has seven cupholders!
Per seat!
Buying from a tv screen would not be all that ridiculous to someone in 1985. The Home Shopping Club began in 1982, and it was renamed as the Home Shopping Network in 1985.
OTOH, you’re going to have to explain what you mean by a “brick and mortar” store. (Cue Jack Nicholson: Is there any other kind?)
Brick and mortar: The customer goes into a building. The term was used regardless of the actual materials used in construction.
The term brick and mortar would not be used for purchases made by home delivery (even though the delivery person would pick up the items from a building), purchases from a streetcorner vendor, or from purchases direct from a farmer.
Sears still has brick and mortar locations, but they’re darn few. I think there are 5 in PA now.
Sorry for being unclear. What I meant was that you’re going to have to explain to the 1985 person what you mean by a “brick and mortar” store.
I don’t think the term “brick and mortar” was common until the ubiquity of on-line shopping. Like the term “acoustic guitar” to someone in the early 1900s, they could probably figure out what the term means, but not why you are bothering to call it that.
The 80’s remind me of my step daughter, her sky high hair, and her having to sand the hairspray off her curling iron at least once a week. Most people from then would be shocked to know that many women of all ages, shapes, sizes, colors, will shave all or portions of their heads. I did a half shave this year. I’m 63.
Pubic lice are a much less common problem because so many people remove their habitat
My 61 year old Wife has pretty short hair. No longer than mine for sure. Her hair is salt and pepper. Mostly salt. Looks great with her purple mirrored (prescription of course) sunglasses. It’s da bomb.
Here in Mesa the K-Mart not only closed, the whole building was torn down. Talk about your scorched earth.
Did they salt the parking lot?
They might have – I didn’t sample the it – but they left no brick on top of another.
Trump was a national news figure no later than 1983-1984 when he bought the New Jersey Generals football club. That’s when I—a midwesterner who wasn’t even interested in sports—started seeing regular coverage of him.
Oh, definitely, and the most popular superhero team is the Avengers, not the X-Men or the Justice League, or even the Fantastic Four.
This certainly represents a changing of the guard since 1985, but I can’t see that it would make you sound crazy. Comic book superheroes being portrayed in live-action TV and cinema had already been done by then.
The extent to which comics are taken seriously by adults might make you sound crazy; but I can’t remember to what extent that shift had already taken effect in 1985. It would certainly have made you sound crazy in, say, 1970.
What would sound crazy is that it would be those superheroes. When Marvel began the MCU they had given away the movie rights to their most popular characters. Nobody in 1985 would believe that the there would be nine incredibly successful movies either starring or featuring Iron Man, or that a Black Panther movie would be nominated for Best Picture. If you told them how popular Spider-Man is they’d believe you.
Watching strangers (in another country, even) play computer games in real time or recorded will be a popular form of entertainment.
Dinosaurs had feathers.