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I feel bad for the kids of today

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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,758 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Nearly all the things on that list are crap things to miss.

    I'm 44 and miss hardly any.

    Out of curiousity OP, how old are you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sure you might as well say kids in my youth (1940s and 50s) never experienced the Victorian toys or games. At least kids today also don't have to experience the bad things in life that the current era has reduced or eliminated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭Eutow


    There was nothing good about mini-discs, or waiting 15 minutes for a computer game to load.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    I've never heard of half of this stuff not to mind my children.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,524 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    I feel bad for children and young people today because they can't get away with anything without it being recorded and uploaded, shared, and judged for it, a permanent digital reminder of their naivety and occasional stupidity that follows them long into adulthood.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    humberklog wrote: »
    Nearly all the things on that list are crap things to miss.

    I'm 44 and miss hardly any.

    Out of curiousity OP, how old are you?

    I'm older than that and I don't miss any.

    They really went to the bottom of the barrel to reach 100 didn't they?
    Fentucky Fried Chicken instead of KFC - ffs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    Eutow wrote: »
    There was nothing good about mini-discs, or waiting 15 minutes for a computer game to load.
    The article doesn't claim there is either. OP's either joking or has some serious nostalgia issues.

    "Remember wires! All the fun we had as kids, untangling wires, connecting things together! Oh, kids today'll never know that kind of fun! :("


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,758 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    I'm older than that and I don't miss any.

    They really went to the bottom of the barrel to reach 100 didn't they?
    Fentucky Fried Chicken instead of KFC - ffs

    It reads like a list compiled by someone who didn't exist when the items existed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    An old drunk man once tried to converse with me at a bus stop by saying "you kids today... You have it all and you don't even know it. All the sex and the drugs and the Internet!" and here you are, OP, talking about VHS and square Lego bricks... Yes, I'm sure the kids today are miserable as their cousins instant message them from the other side of the world with a link to watch a movie on their iPad before it's even hit the cinema.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭Eutow


    The article doesn't claim there is either. OP's either joking or has some serious nostalgia issues.

    "Remember wires! All the fun we had as kids, untangling wires, connecting things together! Oh, kids today'll never know that kind of fun! :("


    Ah yes, and finding that the wire is too short, so you need an extension lead... Look at number 79 - days before the nanny state. Stupid list.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Rough Sleeper


    Glad you posted this OP, if there's one thing the intenet's lacking it's yet another list-based article on pre-millenial life.

    Seriously, this **** has long since gone from nostalgic to twee. I grew up in the 90s and while my childhood was happy I still remember how much it sucked when the tape from your cassette got tangled or when you had to blow into your NES cartridges for 45 minutes just to get quick game of Mario in. And where's all the talk about all the horrible stuff that went down? Maybe for the sake of balance we should see more articles like "1,000,000 butchered Rwandans who never got to see the turn of the century."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?


  • Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I used to love Clackers, the amount of smacks on the wrist I got from them things :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?


    Flagons, bein able to buy loose smokes, knowin who would take Butter vouchers for smokes..............


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I'm well in my 30s and I don't remember many of them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Nodin wrote: »
    Flagons, bein able to buy loose smokes, knowin who would take Butter vouchers for smokes..............

    I was more about hacking across muddy fields on a bay gelding and reading up about the life of Tolkien, the Col bitar and Jack Dempsey, but yeah, I get what you're saying.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    I'm well in my 30s and I don't remember many of them

    :eek: LIAR!! :pac::D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    I'm well in my 30s and I don't remember many of them

    Some of them never caught on, tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?

    Have to agree with you on the climbing trees thing. There's trees opposite my home and not once have I seen a child climb them. It does annoy me somewhat that people can stream new series before they're on TV. Any show you watch is spoiled by the internet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    A complete waste of a thread. The stuff mentioned in that article is just redundant technology, apart from vinyl which has risen in sales over the past decade. Technology comes and goes and kids aren't loosing out on anything. There's tons of stuff around now that I would have killed for when I was a teen.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    A complete waste of a thread. The stuff mentioned in that article is just redundant technology, apart from vinyl which has risen in sales over the past decade. Technology comes and goes and kids aren't loosing out on anything. There's tons of stuff around now that I would have killed for when I was a teen.

    Internet porn huh? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Internet porn huh? :D
    Nah I had plenty of that when I was a teen ;) Took a while to download on dial-up though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,112 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    "Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD."

    I have a DJ in the house at the moment who says that vinyl is very definitely back in fashion! Of course the article is already five years old - how were they to know that their list would be obsolete by 2014! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,036 ✭✭✭mad m


    Loved my ZX Spectrum....

    10 Print " Im the dogs bollox"
    20 goto 10
    30 end

    run........:)


    Well it's a bit hazy but something like that...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    The kids are just laughing at you.

    Which is the natural order of things.
    mad m wrote: »
    Loved my ZX Spectrum....

    10 Print " Im the dogs bollox"
    20 goto 10
    30 end

    run........:)


    Well it's a bit hazy but something like that...

    I did that too on my Atari 800 XL but let's be honest, it was shite and you got bored doing it after 2 minutes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    mad m wrote: »
    Loved my ZX Spectrum....

    10 Print " Im the dogs bollox"
    20 goto 10
    30 end

    run........:)


    Well it's a bit hazy but something like that...

    I did too. Though if I had one now I think after about 20 minutes of the novelty/nostalgia I'd realise that they were great in their day but now a bit meh.

    Remember loading a game on it from a tape deck. Sometimes it would, sometimes no. Then to save the game, to another tape. Sometimes OK, other times not so much and then finding the saved game again.

    OK I'm over it now.:)


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


    Kids these days, jaysus even 25 year olds, will never know the unbridled joy, general madness and pure pandemonium of italia '90.

    They'll also never know the sheer panic of ringing a girls house only for her parents to answer.

    And that list is awful. No. 35 says kids these days will never know what it's like to record music in a studio?! Wtf!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    72 still happens. I lie it's usually the phone company.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    :eek: LIAR!! :pac::D

    In his 40s eek


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  • Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nodin wrote: »
    Flagons, bein able to buy loose smokes, knowin who would take Butter vouchers for smokes..............

    I used to buy my loose major in the van shops in Ballymun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    They'll also never know the sheer panic of ringing a girls house only for her parents to answer.

    They'll also never know of the sheer skill required before the mobile phone era, as you organised a Saturday night on the town with your mates. Meeting up at predetermined times & locations with such perfect synchronisation, it would make Seal Team 6 proud.


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


    They'll also never know of the sheer skill required before the mobile phone era, as you organised a Saturday night on the town with your mates. Meeting up at predetermined times & locations with such perfect synchronisation, it would make Seal Team 6 proud.

    All executed while frantically finding an 18 year old to buy you drink, stashing the drink, before you all head home for the dinner


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,239 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Standard nostagia based clickbait

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    The only think I feel sorry about for kids is the amount of junk food they are being fed which is making them very sick. But at least they don't have to go to mass.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    colossus-x wrote: »
    The only think I feel sorry about for kids is the amount of junk food they are being fed which is making them very sick. But at least they don't have to go to mass.

    You actually went?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Waiting every month for favourite games magazine in the late 90's and early-mid 2000's and the demo/videos on the disc, going into newsagents and realising it won't be in for 2 more days and last months one is still there.

    The standard of journalism was really bloody high, quite un-PC, the articles funny and insightful, and I think I learned how to write and read well from them as a kid/teenager, games were build word of mouth on their quality, now its all web-based hype and shockingly feels like I'm reading paid press releases.

    It's like the difference old timeless Simpsons from the 90's and the new ones.

    The tangiblity and the fact there was little to no internet made the hobby feel a lot more personal and special imo. I think my love of reading the magazines made me appreciate the quality of what I would soon buy much more, than if I played them alone.

    I haven't played since 2010 really, kinda sad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Records are great. I think anyone who doesn't listen to an album as a whole is missing out. Most of the others things on that list aren't so great.

    When I was about fourteen years old one of those Emmanuelle films was on Channel 4. Some of my friends had told me it was great and that there was a part where she combed her pubic hair on a train.

    I thought this sounded great so I waited up until about 2.00 AM to record it. I had to rewind the video tape and it sounded like a Boeing 747 taking off. I decided it would be best to rewind it a little at a time so as not to make too much noise at once. It ended up taking ages to rewind and I missed about fifteen minutes of the film.

    Then I heard my sister walking down the stairs. As the video had no remote control I had to pull up my trousers and jump up from the chair as quickly as possible to stop the video before she asked what I was recording. I got away with it but just barely.

    So, no, teenagers aren't missing out on VHS.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    VHS were the worse. Either some dick would snap the top bit off, so it was unplayable, or they'd snap the little thing off the bottom, so you couldn't record over it, and you were stuck with what you had.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?

    I dunno. They have laserdiscs on that list ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    cloud493 wrote: »
    VHS were the worse. Either some dick would snap the top bit off, so it was unplayable, or they'd snap the little thing off the bottom, so you couldn't record over it, and you were stuck with what you had.

    Sellotape dude. just sellotape the bottom.

    http://www.quickmeme.com/img/4d/4db9812d188f52fe482e5a73bca7950c5f52622438351f6f4a1a79a3bf13f9c7.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    ...... My mind is blown, I never knew that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    cloud493 wrote: »
    ...... My mind is blown, I never knew that.

    All those wasted tapes :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    I feel bad for children and young people today because they can't get away with anything without it being recorded and uploaded, shared, and judged for it, a permanent digital reminder of their naivety and occasional stupidity that follows them long into adulthood.

    You never expereinced my mother's eidetic memory combined with her penchant for telling compellingly inapproriate (to me anyway) dinner-party stories...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Queues at phone boxes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭To Elland Back


    I'm 52 and there is nothing on that list that I miss.

    However, I do feel sorry for the kids of today in that they have never seen a proper size Curly Wurly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    Queues at phone boxes.

    I remember queueing in the rain when i was at college. You could be stuck there for an hour waiting to call home just to say "Mum, could you stick a tenner in my account".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,036 ✭✭✭mad m


    I wonder do kids do the glass of red lemonade with a lump of HB Vanilla ice cream thrown into it these days?.....yuuuuumm.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭colossus-x


    Nodin wrote: »
    You actually went?

    Oh my goodness me whatever are you trying to suggest lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Walkmans were great though, you would listen to an album from start to finish more so and therefore would be able to appreciate it as a complete work. This skipping back and forth and listening to single downloads reflects the age of instant gratification which is to the detriment of music as an artform. Also games were better, the cutscenes were often pre rendered graphics or cheesy fmv and they were rewards for oft difficult levels so you really appreciated them. Now it's just boring cutscene after boring cutscene as game devs take themselves too seriously. Also VHS had a warm quality to it in comparison to DVD. The world without fb etc was a quieter one which gave more space for reflection and for the imagination to roam.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,112 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    They'll also never know of the sheer skill required before the mobile phone era, as you organised a Saturday night on the town with your mates. Meeting up at predetermined times & locations with such perfect synchronisation, it would make Seal Team 6 proud.





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