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Things you won't see in houses anymore

  • 13-09-2011 7:55pm
    #1
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭


    Following from the hideous things you don't see in houses anymore thread, what household items do you guys think we will look back on in 20-30 years time and call hideous old fads? What in todays society will be a thing of the past? What will you look back on and have a good laugh at how stupid you feel now for using it?

    A difficult question but the genius of AH can usually work these out.


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  • #2
    Hootanany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Newspaper for toilet roll.


  • #3
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Cian A wrote: »
    Following from the hideous things you don't see in houses anymore thread, what household items do you guys think we will look back on in 20-30 years time and call hideous old fads? What in todays society will be a thing of the past? What will you look back on and have a good laugh at how stupid you feel now for using it?

    A difficult question but the genius of AH can usually work these out.

    RTE hopefully.


  • #4
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    All cutlery. We will evolve to the point, where we can shovel food into our mouths, with the power of our minds and laugh at all that had to wash knives and forks after a meal. Mwahahaha!


  • #5
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Sporks are the future!


  • #6
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    A massive hunk of personal computer that can't interface directly with your brain so you therefore have to type posts on boards.ie instead of think them.


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  • #7
    ChunkyLover_53
    Closed Accounts Posts: 901 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover_53


    Light switches will be replaced by Energy Saving Motion Detectors in your rooms.

    You heard it here first.

    Oh & the 3 sea shells from Demolition Man will replace toilet roll.


  • #8
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I could see horses being replaced by self-propelled mechanical vehicles that you wouldn't have to whip to motivate.


  • #9
    LondonIrish90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭LondonIrish90


    Doors with conventional locks.

    Will be iris or fingerprint recognition within 15 years I think


  • #10
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Anything that doesn't hover. Everything will hover in the future. Hovercars, hoverboards, hoverships, hovermicrowaves.
    You name it, it'll hover.


  • #11
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Gramophones and wireless radios


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  • #12
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Sporks are the future!

    "What do you mean? You used TWO separate utensils! Primitive f*****s"


  • #13
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    I'd say over the next few years of hardship, what's most likely to disappear from houses are the owners.


  • #14
    ChunkyLover_53
    Closed Accounts Posts: 901 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover_53


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    I'd say over the next few years of hardship, what's most likely to disappear from houses are the owners.

    Sweet. No rent to pay to the Landlord so.


  • #15
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »
    Sweet. No rent to pay to the Landlord so.

    Your landlord will be NAMA, or the first Chinaman to turn up with treefiddy cash to buy your whole street.


  • #16
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    I could see horses being replaced by self-propelled mechanical vehicles that you wouldn't have to whip to motivate.

    You've clearly never driven a Fiat....


  • #17
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    LondonIrish90 wrote: »
    Doors with conventional locks.

    Will be iris or fingerprint recognition within 15 years I think
    already use the fingerprint ones every day, getting more and more common. pain in the hole when your hands are dirty. I reckon the mouse controller will soon be dead, touchscreen will be standard.


  • #18
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    Anything that doesn't hover. Everything will hover in the future. Hovercars, hoverboards, hoverships, hovermicrowaves.
    You name it, it'll hover.

    Including the Family Dog ;)


  • #19
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    I'd say over the next few years of hardship, what's most likely to disappear from houses are the owners.

    Would you say its time for us to crack each other heads open and feast upon the goo inside?


  • #20
    jackie1974
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭jackie1974


    Books :(


  • #21
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Entrance house door keys, all entrance doors will only be entered by eye scanning or fingerprinting recognition :-)


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  • #22
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »
    Light switches will be replaced by Energy Saving Motion Detectors in your rooms.

    You heard it here first.

    They already exist.

    Seriously!


  • #23
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Wires for electrical goods.


  • #24
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Surprised religion hasn't got a mention yet.


  • #25
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Cian A wrote: »
    Surprised religion hasn't got a mention yet.

    I've covered that already, it'll be replaced with hover-religion. Keep up, man.


  • #26
    The Snipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭The Snipe


    My mother in law hopefully! :rolleyes:


  • #27
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Wires for electrical goods.

    I really hope this happens.

    There are so many wires behind my computer desk I once got tangled in them and was trapped for two days until someone found me.


  • #28
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Me. Hopefully within the next 30 years I'll move out of my parents house.
    Ok maybe 35, just to be safe like


  • #29
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Cian A wrote: »
    Surprised religion hasn't got a mention yet.
    religious pictures hanging on walls, and holy water fonts hanging beside the door, yeah they'll be hovering too


  • #30
    kavsmdf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭kavsmdf


    Beds, they'll be hover-beds.

    And chairs, they'll be hover-chairs.

    And as Richard Hillman said, wires for electrical goods. They'll be hover-wires for hover-electrical goods.


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  • #31
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    So are we just getting rid of gravity or what? :p


  • #32
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »
    Light switches will be replaced by Energy Saving Motion Detectors in your rooms.

    You heard it here first.

    Oh & the 3 sea shells from Demolition Man will replace toilet roll.

    I've got the three sea shells. Have to keep washing them. :mad:


  • #33
    cosmicfart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭cosmicfart


    to slow


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