Things that have changed in Ireland over the last 30 years

Voodoomelon

Technology aside, what little things have you noticed have changed since the early 80s?

I remember not having shower gel, was a soap only wash.
Lots of people don't bother with wristwatches any more.
You don't see anywhere near the same amount of people smoking in cars whilst driving.
PVC windows in houses look like crap compared to timber windows.
There are gyms in most decent sized towns now, no one bothered with fitness 25-30 years ago. In the same breath, there are far more overweight people today.
No more white dog poo.

BraziliaNZ

I think in as recently as the 80s, people didn't really shower very often, like once or twice a week. I was but a child but can anyone older comment on this?

Wacker The Attacker

INTERNET PORN

Kolido

You can drive to and from the north without having your car checked.

Nemeses

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Lots of people don't bother with wristwatches any more.
You don't see anywhere near the same amount of people smoking in cars whilst driving.

No more white dog poo.

Lies - I smoke in the car and many many people do.

Also I wear a watch... but not so many other people do..



White dog poo? - You may be onto something here..

swimming in a sea

if you took a Sunday drive 20 years ago you would see 30 cars outside every country pub, now if they're not already closed you'd be lucky to see tumbleweed rolling by..

Some would see this as good and others bad...

elfy4eva

Not as much focus on brass ornament collecting/display.

kfallon

The amount of crisps in a bag of Tayto!

Also, the currency

Wacker The Attacker

swimming in a sea wrote: »

if you took a Sunday drive 20 years ago you would see 30 cars outside every country pub, now if they're not already closed you'd be lucky to see tumbleweed rolling by..

Some would see this as good and others bad...

The recession has helped drink driving so

Crooked Jack

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I think in as recently as the 80s, people didn't really shower very often, like once or twice a week. I was but a child but can anyone older comment on this?

Im 27 and unless I had jsut done something physically demanding, gone out for a run or been working on the farm all day, i would only shower once or twice a week. I really don't understand these anal freaks who feel the need to shower once or twice a day

Annasopra

Shops open on a Sunday

Shanotheslayer

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Im 27 and unless I had jsut done something physically demanding, gone out for a run or been working on the farm all day, i would only shower once or twice a week. I really don't understand these anal freaks who feel the need to shower once or twice a day

Because wanting to feel clean makes you an anal freak. How does that work?

The Backwards Man

Houses used to have two rooms between twenty people, now they have twenty rooms between two people.

Crooked Jack

mango salsa wrote: »

Shops open on a Sunday

It's a pain in the arse that the big shops are only open 1-6 though.

PhlegmyMoses

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Im 27 and unless I had jsut done something physically demanding, gone out for a run or been working on the farm all day, i would only shower once or twice a week. I really don't understand these anal freaks who feel the need to shower once or twice a day

You either don't sweat at all, only eat food that doesn't come through your pores or you smell. I can't go to work in a shirt without having a wash that morning. I'd feel grim.

BraziliaNZ

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Im 27 and unless I had jsut done something physically demanding, gone out for a run or been working on the farm all day, i would only shower once or twice a week. I really don't understand these anal freaks who feel the need to shower once or twice a day

But I have to shower every morning or I'm absolutely manky at work and feel awful. I'm not sure how I would have coped in earlier times, most people didn't even have showers!

Wossack

am a bit young to remember personally 30 years ago, but from looking at old photos and television, theres far more colours nowerdays then there used to be

dd972

Choice of crisps and beer in the off licences have changed exponentially !

Boombastic

10p crisps and penny sweets are now crazy prices :eek:

Stojkovic

Politicians are not as corrupt as they were in the 80s.

oldyouth

You bought a car, you bought a licence, you bought insurance and loaded the thing up with your mates and headed out on the road.

Crooked Jack

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

You either don't sweat at all, only eat food that doesn't come through your pores or you smell. I can't go to work in a shirt without having a wash that morning. I'd feel grim.

If you've got shirt troubles
I feel bad for you, son
I got 99 problems
But smelling because I don't obsessively shower aint one.

attempting to rap, however, is one of them.

Itwasntme.

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Im 27 and unless I had jsut done something physically demanding, gone out for a run or been working on the farm all day, i would only shower once or twice a week. I really don't understand these anal freaks who feel the need to shower once or twice a day

It's not anal to want to shower every day. Anal is showering three or four times a day.

Boombastic

Itwasntme. wrote: »

It's not anal to want to shower every day. Anal is showering three or four times a day.

Does Anal know we are in drought and they shouldn't be wasting water?

irritablebaz

people are more independent now, we are not afraid to question those in authority anymore. on the down side people seem to have lost time to talk to each other properly. we are all working every hour and no-one has the time to visit which i used to love as a kid.

The Backwards Man

Boombastic wrote: »

10p crisps and penny sweets are now crazy prices :eek:

What price were 10p crisps in 1983?
I think they were 7p

PhlegmyMoses

Crooked Jack wrote: »

But smelling because I don't obsessively shower aint one.

Not your decision to make. Has anyone ever remarked to you how smelly somebody else is? If not, you're the smelly friend. Name change from Crooked Jack to Unwashed Sack please.

Crooked Jack

Itwasntme. wrote: »

It's not anal to want to shower every day. Anal is showering three or four times a day.

Im just glad everybody is saying anal all of a sudden

markomuscle

better sports stadiums, though 15 years ago they were terrible as well

Lando Griffin

You could sit on top of a trailer load of bales and smoke a fag when bringing them to the shed, near impossible now that they are big round ones.

Boombastic

The Backwards Man wrote: »

What price were 10p crisps in 1983?
I think they were 7p

For 10p in 1983 you could get a bag of tayto, 5 ha'penny sweets, a box of cigarettes and the bus home..

wp_rathead

The good:
Drink driving is now seen as a big no-no

The bad:
The price of pints compared to both 30 years ago and too mainland europe

The ugly:
stupid ghost estates now seen all over Ireland, often in middle of nowhere

Crooked Jack

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Not your decision to make. Has anyone ever remarked to you how smelly somebody else is? If not, you're the smelly friend. Name change from Crooked Jack to Unwashed Sack please.

People tell me my smell is invigorating. It's the smell of a man who has been places and is willing to go places. My musk drives women wild and puts animals in heat. They'd bottle it and sell it as perfume only it would smash through the glass because it refuses to be contained.
My unwashed sack is one of my best features. People always prefer it to some over-sanitised scrotum. If you wash them things too much they get that weird disinfectant smell and then girls feel like they're tea-bagging a hospital.
You'd wanna be careful.

Also, loop the loops have changed since the 80s.

corklad12

Well people didn't shower as much back in the 80's because it was to much hassle compared to showering now.

Crooked Jack

Wrestling has changed. it's absolute shite now

Nemeses

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Wrestling has changed. it's absolute shite now

It always was.

I was never a fan of it so my opinion may be slightly biased here..

But I speak the truth.

Triangla

Dog poo was white before because dogs would be chewing on meaty bones day and night.

Dogs get fed well now so no more white poo. Plus less bones for them to chew on, mostly plastic toys.

kylith

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I think in as recently as the 80s, people didn't really shower very often, like once or twice a week. I was but a child but can anyone older comment on this?

I know as a child in the 80s I was washed once a week.

jamnik

I just returned to Ireland after 43 years in the states. It was hard to get used to businesses closing so early, I am so used to shops staying open till 9-10pm.

Crooked Jack

Nemeses wrote: »

It always was.

I was never a fan of it so my opinion may be slightly biased here..

But I speak the truth.

Ah no man, wrestling in the 80s and 90s was class. I know I was a kid at the time but even now looking back on old videos they're still better than the crap on today.

MusicalMelody

Having hair straighteners! The amount of dodgy pictures in my house.

old_nick

I remember when a mr freeze was around seven pence ,which was about seven times too much for it

OneArt

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Im 27 and unless I had jsut done something physically demanding, gone out for a run or been working on the farm all day, i would only shower once or twice a week. I really don't understand these anal freaks who feel the need to shower once or twice a day

I don't understand how some people can get out of bed and get dressed straight away. I always feel grimy and disgusting when I wake up, have to shower at least once a day.

minotour

Triangla wrote: »

Dog poo was white before because dogs would be chewing on meaty bones day and night.

Dogs get fed well now so no more white poo. Plus less bones for them to chew on, mostly plastic toys.

Never heard this before, i always thought it was due to a lack of litter laws. People are forced to pick it up nowadawys whereas before it was left to rot and thus go white....

Crooked Jack

OneArt wrote: »

I don't understand how some people can get out of bed and get dressed straight away. I always feel grimy and disgusting when I wake up, have to shower at least once a day.

You should probably stop sleeping in a bin

crockholm

The roads. Take a bow Ireland,not having to pass through every manky midlands town to go somewhere has been finally consigned to history.Should I have spelled it "fin-anal-y" to keep the theme going?

S Barrett

The Backwards Man wrote: »

What price were 10p crisps in 1983?
I think they were 7p

Back in the late 70`s you could get a bag of Tayto for 4 pence and a Trigger Bar ( now called Chomp ) for 3 pence.

Gyalist

Triangla wrote: »

Dog poo was white before because dogs would be chewing on meaty bones day and night.

Dogs get fed well now so no more white poo. Plus less bones for them to chew on, mostly plastic toys.

There's been a change in the composition of dog food. Bone meal was used as a bulking agent and filler, nowadays it's cereals that are used.

Crooked Jack

Cans of mineral are mad now as well. I remember coke being 35p a tin and 50 p a bottle. some shops in Newry are selling them now for 90p a tin and £1.30 a bottle. And Im only 27 so it's not as if I'm some auld boy going "back in my day."

Boombastic

Crooked Jack wrote: »

.................. And Im only 27 so it's not as if I'm some auld boy going "back in my day."

It is, you just haven't come to terms with and learned to accept you are one of the auld boys now..welcome to the club :P

A_Sober_Paddy

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Because wanting to feel clean makes you an anal freak. How does that work?

We actually shower too often as people, now in this weather we need to, but normally just showering 5 times a week is enough...I shower nearly everyday myself, but I think it can open your chances of illness and damage your skin too...over showering that is