Things You Don't See Anymore

BringingSexyBack

1. Playboy magazine was a big deal ; later decent weekly editions of Nuts and Zoo magazines which were actually not all about boobies. All before the internet really made them redundant - along with the do gooders whining about women's rights - ignoring what the girls who take part think.
2. Page 3 of the Sun - due to a tiny noisy minority
3. The much anticipated Shoot / Match football annual - and their weekly editions - do kids still buy these magazines ? Even top football clubs sold monthly glossy magazines (Arsenal always was published in top quality)
4. Properly good music stations on TV - like Q, VHI 1 and 2 (At Christmas the Indie 500 best indie tunes - on all day)
5. Stuff like Babestation being a thing - more access than running to the phone box to call naughty chat lines - Late night ads for said chat lines with the euro style music
6. GAA games - Home made, original and sometimes funny Banners and flags on display
7. Auld biddies going in between the stone benches in GAA grounds selling cans of mineral and tubes of ice cream (stopped in the mid 1990s) I always find it amusing that if one attends Leopardstown horse racing,of all places, said biddies would be outside trying to flog you huge tubes of Tuberones . Of all the chocolate
8. Lotto football boots and football shoes (for indoor soccer)
9. Is indoor soccer still a thing , now that many clubs have access to astroturf facilities? Basically I mean, playing football with a yellow , softer ball, on concrete floor or a tiles / wooden basketball court
10. Basketball courts in EVERY playground. I know schools still have basketball courts on their property, even new schools............ why basketball courts ? In Ireland ? The sport never really picked up , outside of schools. (Now with more foreigners from Asia and Eastern Europe , the game might become more popular)
11. Ireland had a healthy seniors basketball league ie clubs all over the country even in GAA heartlands like Mayo (Yes, Kerry have and had their teams)
12. When it was popular and okay to be a cyclist. Everyone had a bike , of various types. Cycles clubs taking part in races all over the country was a big thing (1970-1980s) and Ireland jumping on the bandwagon due to the exploits of Sean Kelly, Stephen Roach, Martin Early and Paul Kimmage . The former two on a lot of promotions eg Galtee Cheese
13. Prominent food brands like Monaghan Milk and Dawn Milk - the later is gone / sold out to Kerry Group - Factories in several areas (like the sugar groups)
14. When Channel 4 was truly diverse, interesting and willing to shock and make people question things - mostly done intelligently - no heavy reliance on muck like Big Brother or Guess whose coming to dinner (that is not that bad) - Had Football Italia on Sunday with a programme show on Saturday morning (flick between BBC Live and Kicking and Football Focus - IF your football game was not on until 2-3 pm) and Euro trash lol
15. Proper soaps like Brookside where the reeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllll people come from , La.
16. Great Sketch shows and comedy shows like Fast Show; Harry Enfield; Fr Ted; Smack the dead poney, Day to Day, Bottom - With honourable exceptions like Black Books, IT crowd and Peep Show, Inbetweeners and Friday Night Dinner, a lot of what passes as comedy since 2013ish is dire.
17. They have tried to make women funny......sorry, they just aren't (honorable exceptions to Saunders, French and Wood and maybe Smack the Dead Pony
18. Jim Sheridan and Nell Jordan NOT directing films (probably no harm )
19. Pranks calls to anyone eg school teachers , friends , even the cheeky 999 (in a telephone box, obviously)
20. Decent Cadbury Selection boxes - big and with all the fancier bars
21. Superior HB ice cream range (the ice cream on sticks/pops) and stuff like Mr Freeze (10 p)
22. When the Irish men's International Rugby team were utter rubbish . Really bad, Wooden Spooner contenders. Funny how many of the bandwagon who were around then, wouldn't touch them
23. When the AIL (Rugby) league use to attract better crowds than Munster and Leinster and Connacht .......Many clubs could attract up to 3-5,000 + every home game right up to the mid 2000s. Sometimes, star players came back to play a game of two for their home clubs . Now, barely anyone goes to AIL games

BuildTheWall

Freedom.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118442690#Comment_118442690

Cross border trains with the turned-up headlight gizmo so they can be tracked by helicopters.

Ubbquittious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118454676#Comment_118454676

You're also immediately branded as a Trumpologist and conspiracy nut for wondering where it went

whisky_galore

Why are you not free?

Not free to do what exactly?

Esel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118454505#Comment_118454505

People writing a thesis in reply to a simple topic. TL/DR, soz.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118454676#Comment_118454676

Expect a knock at the door soon.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456301#Comment_118456301

Do some research

BringingSexyBack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118457409#Comment_118457409

If you consider that as a thesis - Christ, you are in serious trouble if you manage to actually see what a real thesis looks like

It would be great when adults learn to communicate by using full words and not that lazy illiterate internet speak

No need to be sorry, attention spans of gold fish must be awful. You have my sympathy

ohnonotgmail

People taking the ball out of their mouse to clean it.

AndrewJRenko

People under 40 with their ankles covered - do they not be freezing in this weather?

vriesmays

Decent rock bands in the top 40 singles charts.

Pauliedragon

Public toilets in Cork city is a thing of the past.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456262#Comment_118456262

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118457685#Comment_118457685

Are you saying you're not a Trump supporter or believer in conspiracy theories?

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118444940#Comment_118444940

Tbh id say a lot of those radio prank calls were faked anyway. 96FM in Cork used to do them and they mostly sounded very set up to me.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118486741#Comment_118486741

24hr Public toilets anywhere really. Bar petrol stations.

There use to be a rent man that would be out every Monday (I think it was Mondays where I lived) and he'd call into houses and collect mortgage payment/rent payment.

He was still going as late as around 1993. He use to wear a bumbag to put the money in and would give pink dockets/reciepts. Had to stop because he was always getting robbed.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118488266#Comment_118488266

we had someone similar who would come around every friday and collect payments for life insurance policies. He worked for Royal Liver insurance.