Things You Don't See Anymore

chops018

I remember back in 2003 me, my sister and my Dad went to a concert and we got talking to a guy and his girlfriend there - they came from Northern Ireland and forgot a camera.

We were in the pit and all had a great view. He asked my father for a loan of his camera and he managed to squeeze to the front and got great snaps. He asked my dad if he would send the pictures if he gave us his address. My dad didn't have his phone with him at the time to take down an address etc. so the guy had his phone with him and my dad said to take our address and that he could take the film from the camera and send us back the negatives when he was done with them.

About a week later we got post with the negatives, a copy of the photo's, and €10.00 for the snaps along with a thank you note.

I was just thinking that this kind of stuff just doesn't happen anymore - thinking back on it there was a lot of personal stuff to it and niceness by each party. Today it's all social media and you just don't get memories like that from an event these days.

Anyone else have any things/memories like the above that you just don't seem to see anymore?

boobar

People don't do punctuality....

Me: See you at 8 under Clerys Clock
Friend: Sound
8.00 : We meet.

None of this texting I'm running late bollo&%s....

Junkyard Tom

Hitler.

Charlie19

Peg guns.
Lolo balls.
Kids playing paths (curbs).

Filmer Paradise

Petrol vans.

Young lads with motorbikes.

White Dogsh1te.

Smoking indoors.

5+ kids crammed into a Fiesta.

Notes on the kitchen table (none of that textin lark).

The list goes on.......Ah nostalgia.

wylie

Pubs closing 2-4pm on Sundays.

Filmer Paradise

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Hitler.

Not just there for the Nazi things in life.:pac:

Golden Pages adverts on telly!

NachoBusiness

Beaded car seats.

colossus-x

Michael Jackson

One More Toy

Polio

The_Valeyard

Telephone boxes


Roman Centurions

One More Toy

Watching TV late at night on a black and white Grundig TV because you weren't allowed to stay up late and you sneaked it out of the attic

**** you parents

Filmer Paradise

One More Toy wrote: »

Polio

Ah yes. The sugar cube with something injected into it.

That was a thing for us '70s kids. Wonder does it still go on..

Filmer Paradise

One More Toy wrote: »

Watching TV late at night on a black and white Grundig TV because you weren't allowed to stay up late and you sneaked it out of the attic

**** you parents

2 tellys in the house!

Back in the day there was only one & nearly always...........it was rented.:eek:

fleet_admiral

I saw white dog eggs the other day. I said to myself 'Theres something you see very little of nowadays'

One More Toy

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

2 tellys in the house!

Back in the day there was only one & nearly always...........it was rented.:eek:

There's another thing you don't see anymore - rented tvs

I don't think the Grundig counted, it had individual buttons for each channel which you also has to twist to tune. And it did an intermittent buzz every so often

fleet_admiral

wylie wrote: »

Pubs closing 2-4pm on Sundays.

You mean pubs closing their doors between half 3 and ten to 4?

Filmer Paradise

One More Toy wrote: »

There's another thing you don't see anymore - rented tvs

Along with....

VHS

Cassettes

Moustaches on men under 40.

Big Hair

Kids under 12 on push-bikes without a responsible adult following

Leg warmers

Shops that would sell you single cigarettes for 10p.

Donkey Jackets.

Ruu

TV repair shops.

DivingDuck

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Notes on the kitchen table (none of that textin lark).

My family and extended family still leave notes for one another regularly. Texting someone potentially wakes them if they're sleeping, or disturbs them if they're at work.

Is this weird now?

Filmer Paradise

DivingDuck wrote: »

My family and extended family still leave notes for one another regularly. Texting someone potentially wakes them if they're sleeping, or disturbs them if they're at work.

Is this weird now?

Apparently so.

I don't care. I hardly ever carry a mobile myself & I sometimes pick up the kids from school in my '74 Rover P6.

And.........I'm not bothered how embarrassed they are!:D:D:D

DivingDuck

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Apparently so.

I don't care. I hardly ever carry a mobile myself & I sometimes pick up the kids from school in my '74 Rover P6.

And.........I'm not bothered how embarrassed they are!:D:D:D

We're all mobile nuts in my family, but even so it's nice to leave a note and know that it will only be found when the person in question needs it!

I have no doubt this use case will soon be provided for by apps, though...

TEXT: Johnny
ON ENTRY TO LOCATION: The kitchen
MESSAGE CONTENT: Gone to the shops, do you want anything?
MESSAGE VALIDITY: Until next Debit Card transaction

...That's actually a spiffy idea, now I think about it.

The_Valeyard

50-50 cash back, 50-50 cash back, da daa da daa

One More Toy

The_Valeyard wrote: »

50-50 cash back, 50-50 cash back, da daa da daa

1890 222 22 22222

Nesta99

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Along with....

VHS, Cassettes, Cd's, probably DVD's

Moustaches on men under 40.(Isnt that kind of cool now al la (True Detectives)

Big Hair...have ye seen the heads on those at the AD/DC concert?

Kids under 12 on push-bikes without a responsible adult following...kids on a pushbike at all?? Sure that means exercise!!

Leg warmers - ugg boots were leg warmers with feet parts.

Shops that would sell you single cigarettes for 10p. Thankfully!

Donkey Jackets.

Duffle coats, parkers, bomber jackets? Queues and queues of traffic backed up behind tractors on 'main' roads. Guiness/Carlsberg etc in some pubs. Proper spare wheel in cars, Smug Liverpool fans (hmmm). Weve loads of reincarnations of old TV gameshows but no Blockbusters grrrr. Re-runs of old shows but no CHiPs....

galljga1

Raleigh Chopper
Cavan Cola
Real Curly Wurlys
Mansize Yorkie Bars
Rashers that you can fry on the pan without oil
Freedom for kids to disappear for the day without a combined police, army, navy task force being launched

Nesta99

What is Cavan Cola? Cheap mans Pepsi? Pepsi challenge is a goner that should be redone!

conorh91

Attendants with flashlights in cinema houses.

zcorpian88

Lada Riva's, they were everywhere in the early 90s when I was a kid, they inspired some pretty funny jokes!

LordSutch

The milk man - milk bottles left outside your front door!

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conorh91

The milkman is back in south Dublin again. Comes around in a van 3 days a week where I live, he even delivers orange juice.

ElvisChrist6

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Lada Riva's, they were everywhere in the early 90s when I was a kid, they inspired some pretty funny jokes!

What's the difference between a Lada and a sheep?


It's marginally less embarrassing getting caught coming out the back of a sheep.

kfallon

My hair

Qualitymark

LordSutch wrote: »

The milk man - milk bottles left outside your front door!

Mark still delivers around Harold's Cross, and then collects money once a week on his moped. Tetra-Paks nowadays, because the milk bottles were discarded after reports of snails nesting in the bottles stored in the dairies…

White dog poo is less common because dogs don't regularly get bones to eat any more. But thankfully, dog poo is gradually getting less common anyway because it's the norm for people to carry doggy bags.

By the same token: many litter bins on streets (we used have two at the end of our street, two at the end of the next street - all four gone since privatised rubbish collection, because people were using them to dump household rubbish, so the City Council removed the service).

Teaks81

The coal man.

We still have a coal man.

I picked up someone hitchhiking last week. It'd been ages since I saw someone doing that. I used always do it, even in my early teens I used get a bus to within a few miles of the golf club and hitch a lift the last few miles....golf bag and all.

Kids walking to school. Do they all get lifts these days?

Robsweezie

Toys in the cereal box.

eternal

TheTorment wrote: »

We still have a coal man.

I picked up someone hitchhiking last week. It'd been ages since I saw someone doing that. I used always do it, even in my early teens I used get a bus to within a few miles of the golf club and hitch a lift the last few miles....golf bag and all.

Kids walking to school. Do they all get lifts these days?

Lazy bastards won't walk anywhere. I honestly remember walking miles to school no matter how bad it was. I'm not being old man like but it is true, kids do not exercise half as much these days.

Qualitymark

Hopscotch chalked on pavements and kids playing it. Skipping on pavements. Marbles ditto. Kids "playing out" generally. I blame the cars.

phill106

Tv stations stopping broadcasting.
The national anthem at the end of the broadcast.
Slow sets in clubs, national anthem at the end of the night.
Children getting a slap on the arse when bold.
Fear of the wooden spoon!

looksee

Robsweezie wrote: »

Toys in the cereal box.

In the brief time between toys being not allowed in the actual cereal bag, so they were put in the box, and toys disappearing altogether, the kids of the owner in our local (rural) shop used sneak the toys out of the boxes by carefully opening and resealing the bottoms of the packets.

Qualitymark

eternal wrote: »

Lazy bastards won't walk anywhere. I honestly remember walking miles to school no matter how bad it was. I'm not being old man like but it is true, kids do not exercise half as much these days.

Proper segregated cycle network ftw.

Bikes too - when I got my first bike I was never off it. Got the bus to school at first, but soon started cycling, and there were flocks of kids on bikes heading for schools all over the city, and on country roads too. Made kids much more self-reliant.

Also: local shops, where you could walk to the shop, meet the neighbours and have a goss. Great for social networking of a real kind. Great for local money circulation - "we all take in each other's washing", as they say: money is paid to your neighbours, and they buy your services. Good for kids' manners too - I saw kids the other day talking quite impertinently to a man serving in Lidl; they wouldn't do it if he were a neighbour and knew their ma.

Robsweezie

looksee wrote: »

In the brief time between toys being not allowed in the actual cereal bag, so they were put in the box, and toys disappearing altogether, the kids of the owner in our local (rural) shop used sneak the toys out of the boxes by carefully opening and resealing the bottoms of the packets.

finding two toys in the bag was something else all covered in rice krispie dust.

Titzon Toast

Trasher's wearing Doc Martins, with Iron Maiden and Anthrax patches sewn onto denim waste coats worn over leather jackets.

SuperGrover

Telephone table in the hall. With a green velvet seat.

ohnonotgmail

SuperGrover wrote: »

Telephone table in the hall. With a green velvet seat.

posh gits. we didnt even have a telephone in the house when i was growing up.

ohnonotgmail

Dublin telephone numbers with only 6 digits.

Menas

Nostalgia...you dont see good nostalgia like you used to in the old days.

Ger Roe

Light beams dancing through the smoke haze at the pictures (cinema). You used to be able to follow different colours through the smog, down to the screen.

Nowdays the picture just magically appears at the front

razorblunt

I was going to add NAFF Jackets, but I saw someone wearing (what looked like a new one) recently enough.

skittles8710

Umbro clothing. ..outside of the Ireland kit.
Remember when umbro shorts were all the rage.

Ahhh Sliocht a h'Aon ..LC memories 2005.
"Ca bhfuil mo dheinims dubha agus m'umbro top"