[General Discussion] Experiences lost with new technology

I miss finding things out for myself. These days if you want to know something you just type it into Google whereas once upon a time you actually had the sense of satisfaction from doing some research or whatever.

That said, I cook proper food, don't and won't use an ebook thingy and have no need for or desire to get a GPS (Although I do use Google to find directions if I've never been somewhere before and then Streetview to look at the junctions where I have to turn so I recognise them but I do seem to have an uncanny sense of direction and ability to find my way back to anywhere I've been once before) so my life hasn't changed all that much due to technology over the years.

Actually, scratch that, I miss when companies weren't all multi-nationals and as such the lazy bastards didn't just import adverts made for other countries and try to use them to sell me shit. European ads which are badly dubbed are pretty bad and make me want to never buy that product again but the very, very worst are the companies that take a US ad, filmed for NTSC and then punt it out over here without converting it to PAL. They look ugly as fuck, American accents don't encourage me to buy things and nine times out of ten the sentiment is completely at odds with the national feeling over here. Every time I see a US ad imported onto UK telly it makes me want to not only avoid that product but also every other product that company makes. I mean, big multi-nationals can afford to localise their advertising so they fucking should, cunts.

How ya doing, buddy?