u/Grammarhead-Shark

I guess it has been long enough that Urbanspoon is now nostalgia territory!

I will still swear to this day folding it into Zomato (after their buy-out) was the worst decision ever. It crashed and burned so badly in the local market.

Urbanspoon had such a such a high regard in the community. I recall many a ma-and-pa type restaurants proudly displaying their Urbanspoon ratings and reviews. Urbanspoon was such a go-to for me especially for smaller Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants in Melbourne.

Nobody like Zomato. It went over with the Australian community like a lead balloon. It really was a case of a big multi-national not understanding the local market.

I am not even 100% sure any of the newer sites have filled the space Urbanspoon had in the Australian community. It had such an ubiquitous position in a lot of our hearts. At best these days I use what reviews pop up on Google/Google Maps. And we've never really adopted some of the overseas restaurant review sites (like Yelp).

Honestly I feel like there is a legit gap in the Australian market here. Pity I don't have the capital or the tech-skills to create one - hahahaha!

Naturally spoilers abound...

For me it will forever be Molly Ringwald at the end of "Not Another Teen Movie"

For half a moment before they reveals her face I was like - I know that voice!

Please Don't tell me you just quoted Freddy Prinze Jr!

Fucking teenagers!

Actually her entire two minute cameo is full of fantastic one-liners that I can think quote to this day.

I am not talking about alcohol or such that is only available to 18+, but stuff that only mum or dad ate or drink while the kids had something different.

Maybe it was a taste preference or maybe ones folks just didn't feel like wasting money on something the kids wouldn't appreciate, so they limited it to themselves and even today as an adult it still feels like weird ordering it because your great up with only mum or dad doing it.

For me:

Diet Coke - growing up, us kids had the full leaded version, while mum and dad did the unleaded one. These days I prefer Zero - and I wonder if subconsciously I don't care for Diet is based on something subconscious!

Mangos and avocados - these where definitely foods mum loved and she admitted later we as kids just didn't appreciate them enough to waste money letting us eat them. I do think this one was a fair call - and at least as an adult now I love them!

Viennetta Ice Cream - like above - us kids wouldn't apricate it - so they just gave us your basic Neapolitan ice-cream with whatever brand was on special. I'll be honest though, as an adult now having Vienetta - I think it is a bit overhyped! LOL

When Best Movie was expanded from 5 nominees to 10 nominees a lot of folk did expect animated movies to be regularly featured in the nominations.

After all one of the driving factors was 'WALL-E' failing to be nominated the year prior.

In the first two years we got 'Up' and 'Toy Story 3' but since then... nada.

Yes one factor is Pixar films slowly declining and losing that 'sparkle', but it isn't like we've had great animated films since then either (especially from other studios).

'Coco' was one of the most critically acclaimed and commercial successful films of the 2010s and 'Soul' and "Encanto' got critical acclaim (even if both kinda got screwed over a bit box office wise, due to the pandemic)