More comfortable and cleaner cinemas etc, yeah you're probably right.
But the fact that the films are, indeed, worse makes all that a bit worthless.

Well I did say it was rather ironic.

Overall the quality of TV has definitely declined. Eene though the titles might be funny for a minute - Small Medium at Large - the content is poor.

Bring back good drama like "The Edge of Darkness".

better. Less keen on inflicting eye-watering pain...

So many of them have shrunk; I remember watching films in huge auditoria, where there was plenty of leg room, and you didn't have to indulge in heavy petting with strangers merely to get to your seat in the middle of a row. So many cinemas have now been divided, some into rooms which are genuinely not much bigger than a very large living room. The reasons for this are obvious, but I don't like it nonetheless. Also the advent of hot food (complete with eye-watering prices) was A Bad Thing. And I have a third reason they're worse: inflexible automated ticketing systems. They give us the best available seats, they say. They lie.

About 30 pubs are closing down each week in the UK. In that regard I would say that it's never been worse.

30 years ago - no pictures, not even a commentary from all tracks, no refreshments, no windows (not allowed) so no natural light, and worst of all, every single person in there except me seemed to smoke.

Now - every race shown live, multiple big screens all round the shop, tea, coffee, sandwiches, bright and airy rooms, and a smoking ban.

Now if I could just pick a few more winners ...

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Better

Railways - Brave one this, I know. But after being away from the UK for several years I got on a clean, warm, fast, 21st century-looking train from Waterloo to Portsmouth in Christmas 2007. This was a dramatic change from the icy crates that used to rattle down the same line at 20mph in my youth.

Borrowing books from the library - much easier now.

Banking - I used to turn my head at the cashpoint (so I couldn't see my balance) and hope that it would make the noise that meant it was coughing up the required cash. I had no real idea of what I had in my account until I received my monthly statement in the post. The internet has helped me enormously in quantifying to the last cent just how poor I am - updated instantly too!

Worse

Pop music seems more knowing, more grown-up and less, well, poppy.

Media trained politicians that sound decisive but are saying precisely nothing. Only Geoffrey Howe used to be able to do this but now they all do it. Warning sign - when they say "Let me make this perfecty clear ..."

Gentle humour. Most comedy seems to be maximum impact gross-out LOL, LMAO or ROTFL. In the 70s, there were many gentle quiz shows, often involving Frank Muir, that had no nasty side.
Often, they weren't that funny but at least they weren't lowest common denominator codswallop and there was something comforting about them.

Better
Computers - we wouldn't all be here otherwise.
Magazines - how did we use to find out about intelligent life on planet Rock?
Plumbing - it's only fairly recently that British houses have stopped having separate taps for boiling hot and freezing cold, decades after the rest of Europe.

Worse
Can't really think of anything, to be honest. People have said TV and music, but there's so much choice nowadays it's only a question of wading through the rubbish to find as much good stuff as there ever was.
The thing is, if everything's so rosy, why does life feel like one long grumble?

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