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Baitball Blogger

(46,570 posts)
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 11:50 AM Jun 2016

Name traditions or styles which have drastically changed over time.

Weddings: The bride and groom now stay till the end celebrating with friends and family members instead of hurrying off to "consomme" the marriage.

Styles: Wallpaper and popcorn ceilings out.

Styles: Mauve and grey-ancient color combinations. Burnt Orange and Avocado Green experiencing a resurgence.

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Name traditions or styles which have drastically changed over time. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jun 2016 OP
yikes those colors Florencenj2point0 Jun 2016 #1
Ummm, don't you mean consummate? oregonjen Jun 2016 #2
It's the lounge. We're allowed poetic license. Baitball Blogger Jun 2016 #4
Consommé is a type of clear soup. I see no connection to wedding night sex. Kaleva Jun 2016 #3
Sheeshus. What happened to everybody's funny bone? Baitball Blogger Jun 2016 #5
I'm on Lounge duty patrol tonight. I take my job seriously!! Kaleva Jun 2016 #6
That's another thing that has gone out of style....Humor. nt clarice Jun 2016 #8
Well...if the groom can't perform...he might be in hot water.nt clarice Jun 2016 #7
Oh broth-er Orrex Jun 2016 #13
Maybe it's wedding soup? Orrex Jun 2016 #14
Naah jmowreader Jun 2016 #15
I think that's a stock photo. Orrex Jun 2016 #22
It is, but it's not consommé jmowreader Jun 2016 #23
You're way off base Orrex Jun 2016 #27
Just hang on there one menudo. Don't be a chowderhead. pinboy3niner Jun 2016 #34
Popcorn celings were never in north of the Mason-Dixon line. KamaAina Jun 2016 #9
No I'm up here in Iowa and we have it here in my house. 47of74 Jun 2016 #11
They're all over the place - just about any house built in the '80s has them. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #16
And I wonder how many couples actually consumate their marriages anymore on the wedding night. 47of74 Jun 2016 #10
Bristol Palin just got married Kaleva Jun 2016 #18
How many is this for her now? 47of74 Jun 2016 #19
Believe it or not, it's her first jmowreader Jun 2016 #24
Pantyhose lunatica Jun 2016 #12
My advertising director wears them jmowreader Jun 2016 #25
she must be a Boomer lunatica Jun 2016 #30
She's 37. Not a boomer. jmowreader Jun 2016 #31
How strange. lunatica Jun 2016 #32
I wear them when I'm robbing convenience stores that aren't on the way home. Orrex Jun 2016 #28
but how do you decide which leg to use? lunatica Jun 2016 #29
Outhouses with 2 or more seats Kaleva Jun 2016 #17
Parents house originally had no indoor plumbing. 47of74 Jun 2016 #20
Saturday morning cartoons 47of74 Jun 2016 #21
So long, childhood nt MrScorpio Jun 2016 #26
Women wearing pants Freddie Jun 2016 #33
Wedding announcements in the newspaper used to always contain a photo of the bride only Midwestern Democrat Jun 2016 #35

Kaleva

(36,145 posts)
3. Consommé is a type of clear soup. I see no connection to wedding night sex.
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 09:18 PM
Jun 2016

Unless on has a fetish I've never heard of.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
11. No I'm up here in Iowa and we have it here in my house.
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 08:52 PM
Jun 2016

After my mom and dad took a drop ceiling at my maternal Grandma's house that had been put in back in the early 70s they just put a popcorn ceiling layer on the base, it looked nicer than the drop ceiling did.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,267 posts)
16. They're all over the place - just about any house built in the '80s has them.
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 12:24 AM
Jun 2016

I'm in MN, and popcorn ceilings are common here in houses of that vintage. The other things that were trends in interior decorating during that rather heinous decade were "gold" (brass) faucets in the bathroom and vast, voluminous draperies.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
10. And I wonder how many couples actually consumate their marriages anymore on the wedding night.
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 08:48 PM
Jun 2016

If they hadn't taken care of businez before the wedding day already I wonder if couples still have the energy to do it at the end of a long ass day?

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
19. How many is this for her now?
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 01:01 AM
Jun 2016

I'm not going to look up the information since Google would start thinking I was actually interested in what Queen and Princess Dumbshit of the North Woods were up to these days.

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
24. Believe it or not, it's her first
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 05:55 AM
Jun 2016

He is NOT, however, her first fiancee. Guys tend to sober up before they wake up with Sarah Palin as their mother-in-law.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
12. Pantyhose
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 10:58 PM
Jun 2016

Who wears them anymore? No one. I haven't seen pantyhose on anyone for ages. For probably a decade or so.

And I'm very, very happy about it, but I never thought that would end.

And I'm old enough to have worn those gawdawefull garters, and then the horrible girdles and then the choke me if I pull them on crooked pantyhose.

Today's teen and young women have no idea how much better they have it.

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
25. My advertising director wears them
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 06:02 AM
Jun 2016

Every freakin' day, the same basic outfit: blazer, knee-length skirt, starched frilly white blouse, pantyhose and three-inch heels.

All her minions dress in t-shirts and jeans.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
30. she must be a Boomer
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 05:20 PM
Jun 2016

No one who isn't one of the first women to get jobs in a man's world would dress like that.

But at least she allows others to dress more comfortably.

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
31. She's 37. Not a boomer.
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 05:39 PM
Jun 2016

This is how she chooses to present herself to the world. We don't have a dress code in our part of the Corporation - if you want to wear a suit and tie to work (our publisher does) that's fine, if jeans and polos are your speed (like my production manager or the business manager does) that's cool too. Our reporters don't dress up either, and you'd think they would. Go two blocks south to Hospitality and they've got a real strict dress code.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
29. but how do you decide which leg to use?
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 05:18 PM
Jun 2016

It's just too many choices! Do you wear the crotch on the right or left side of your face? Or is it on the back of your head?

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
20. Parents house originally had no indoor plumbing.
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 01:05 AM
Jun 2016

Had an outhouse where the garden is now. (We make every effort not to think about that too much). Now there's two indoor bathrooms in the house, with the second one getting put in just a couple years ago.

The church my parents belonged to also had an outhouse. When it was closed and bought by a local excavating company the building finally got indoor plumbing. About two years ago they took out the color window panels (they never really had any stained glass there worth keeping) and put in regular windows and put metal siding on the outside so it looks like the large storage shed it is now.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
21. Saturday morning cartoons
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 01:15 AM
Jun 2016

I remember growing up they used to be a thing, we'd sit and watch cartoons on Saturday mornings.

As I'm getting older the network channels don't carry much in the way of cartoons on Saturday mornings anymore - NBC is going to stop its Saturday morning cartoon block later this year and most of the other network channels don't have that much if anything in the way of cartoons.

Of course now kids can go to the internetz or dedicated cartoon channels. Kids today don't know what they missed out on when we were growing up.

Freddie

(9,231 posts)
33. Women wearing pants
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 06:13 PM
Jun 2016

My grandmother (1904-1992) *never* wore pants. She'd dress up beautifully for church and wore house dresses (remember them?) on weekdays. Not a religious thing, I just think that generation of ladies did not feel comfortable in pants.
My mom (1929-2013) didn't either, she was a teacher and wore a dress or suit w/skirt every day. She finally wore pants (sweats or track suits, never jeans) her last 5 years or so in the retirement community mainly because it was easier with her mobility issues.
I was in the generation that was forced to wear a skirt or dress to (public) school until 8th grade. I would wear a skirt/dress to work once in a while up til about 10 years ago when I just got sick of dealing with pantyhose and heels. Haven't worn a dress since my mother-of-the-bride gown 6 years ago.

35. Wedding announcements in the newspaper used to always contain a photo of the bride only
Fri Jun 17, 2016, 08:36 AM
Jun 2016

- they now have a photo of both the bride and groom together - I think this change happened about 20 years ago.

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