Things that aren’t acceptable to do anymore that should be allowed.

ChunkyLover54

Giving your secretary a pat on her gorgeous ass when she makes your coffee just right.

Purple Mountain

Marje wrote: »

County council binmen collecting weekly rubbish and you could leave anything out and they would take it.

Even a bold child..

storker

Marje wrote: »

County council binmen collecting weekly rubbish and you could leave anything out and they would take it.

And throwing the dustbins more or less in the general direction of your house after emptying them, with the result that the lids no longer fitted properly because the bins were so bent out of shape from being flung about. Nowadays our wheelie bins are the same shape as when we got them and the lids still fit. It's disgraceful.

Junkyard Tom

Kids were more free. These days kids are wrapped up in tinfoil and put in the oven for 20 minutes per pound... sorry, I started thinking of cooking Christmas dinner there.

Permabear

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Ave Sodalis

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The babysitter will need a Fetac Level 5 certificate in childcare, an up to date first aid and safeguarding course, 10 years experience and 7 references.

Purple Mountain

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Well in fairness the 12yr old was probably running up the landline bill ringing some spotty 15 year old and sneaking a few smokes from the parents stash while the kiddies were asleep.

Sue Pa Key Pa

Keep a dog that has white ****e

everlast75

faceman wrote: »

Being able to bring kids to the pub AFTER 7:30pm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ptSnOj1eU

SEPT 23 1989

Marje wrote: »

County council binmen collecting weekly rubbish and you could leave anything out and they would take it.

those old bin trucks could eat anything put in front of them,saw one eating 7 interior house doors at one address one morning

Chrongen

Once kids are familiar with the route to school they should be walking it themselves. I was walking with my friend, unaccompanied by an adult, to school at the age of 5.

MarkY91

Age 8 I was getting the bus from kimmage to school in ballyfermot alone. Age 10 my cousin can't go to school alone.
The school is literally on the same street, about 3 minute walk away..

Parents need to stop babying their children so much.

The respect that young people had for adults. You just knew as a child there was a line to be crossed and you'd get a slap on the head. Now it's adults that step lightly around children.

Bonfires on Holloween. The fun of a whole estate or community coming together to have a bonfire with various food and drinks.

Steet food was more common. Those vans that did a variety of greasy fast food outside clubs or any event. (I know they're still around but there used to be far more of them)

And lastly the death of the bar scene. Sure, drink driving and smoking inside were bad, but the traditional bar scene in rural Ireland has mostly died.

marko99

frozenfrozen wrote:

driving an old car or a car with a big engine

My car will be 40 years old next year, costs a fraction of what my ten year old one does to run.

AllForIt

faceman wrote: »

Being able to bring kids to the pub AFTER 7:30pm.

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

You should be able to slap your child in public if they are being an absolute pain in the a%% and annoying everyone around them.

Yeah that's not exactly what I go to the pub for , to see or hear a child making a racket and then to see it's parent give it a good shlap followed by floods of tears. UUGH!

somefeen

Cycling anywhere just because it was handier or you couldn't afford a car.
These days your a 'cyclist' and everyone hates you.

somefeen

somefeen wrote: »

Cycling anywhere just because it was handier or you couldn't afford a car.
These days your a 'cyclist' and everyone hates you.

Just if you insist on cycling on the footpath (not the bike lane). I can certainly understand someone cycling on the footpath if the road is particularly busy/narrow, but some cyclists seem to think they have more right to the footpath than pedestrians. Would be nice if they actually used the bells on their bikes rather than ghosting along behind you and then zipping past when they "think" they have an opening.

branie2

Air guitar

Schwiiing

faceman wrote: »

Spurned by a conversation with friends, we were talking about things that aren’t acceptable to do anymore. And while some are justified and others feel they are more so a product of a PC generation, wanted to see what AH thought.

A couple to get you started.

Being able to bring kids to the pub AFTER 7:30pm.

Being able to buy paracetamol in containers bigger than 24

Correct grammar on Boards.

It should read 'Spurred on by...' not 'Spurned by...'.

davidk1394

A serious decline in the art of conversation. Everyone just stares blankly into their phone and don't bother talking to anyone.

Guillotining people who whinge about not being allowed to be arseholes to the poor & those who call themselves “anti PC” as if that’s a good thing and not the scummiest, filthiest, below-the-level-of-arse-pus-from-a-burst-colonic-ulcer, excuse for a feeling thing on earth.

Rules are there for a F***ing reason. Sit the f*** down, shut the f*** up and follow the f***ing Rules.

Ye might as well be looking for Holy Hour to be brought back.

Edit: I’m narky tonight.

Hermy

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

You should be able to slap your child in public if they are being an absolute pain in the a%% and annoying everyone around them.

And any random stranger who witnesses you slapping a child in public should be allowed to slap you twice as hard and face no sanction.

Hermy

Hermy wrote: »

And any random stranger who witnesses you slapping a child in public should be allowed to slap you twice as hard and face no sanction.

Except for a punch in the face in return.

Look. I get the need to reduce physical abuse of children, but slapping a child for misbehaving is not abuse.

Hermy

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Look. I get the need to reduce physical abuse of children, but slapping a child for misbehaving is not abuse.

I disagree. An adult reprimanding a child by slapping them is abuse.

Hector Bellend

Hermy wrote: »

I disagree. An adult reprimanding a child by slapping them is abuse.

Little Johnny could do with a good crack on the arse

Hermy

Hermy wrote: »

I disagree. An adult reprimanding a child by slapping them is abuse.

Fair enough. I was slapped as a child/teen when I badly misbehaved and I've never considered any of it as abusive.

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Hermy

Deleted User wrote: »

Fair enough. I was slapped as a child/teen when I badly misbehaved and I've never considered any of it as abusive.

So was I. I didn't think it was abuse back then but times have changed and I think that now we should know better than to resort to hitting children to get them to bend to our will.

somefeen

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Just if you insist on cycling on the footpath (not the bike lane). I can certainly understand someone cycling on the footpath if the road is particularly busy/narrow, but some cyclists seem to think they have more right to the footpath than pedestrians. Would be nice if they actually used the bells on their bikes rather than ghosting along behind you and then zipping past when they "think" they have an opening.

Yes but if you cycle on the road some dumbass will hate you for delaying him by 10 seconds.
Or someone will hate you because they think you hate them for driving an old car with a big engine
If your on a narrow road and you pull off and stop to let a car pass another cyclist will hate you for letting the car drivers think they own the road.
If you cycle in the cycle lane mister neon ****ing gimpsuit will whizz past with inches to spare probably hating you for adding a fraction of a second to his commute time.

You can't win, everyone is judging you just for getting on a bike in a public place these days. I'm a sensitive chap and it takes about ten minutes of self affirmations that I'm a good person and other peoples opinions of me don't matter just to get the fecking thing out of the shed.

faceman

davidk1394 wrote: »

A serious decline in the art of conversation. Everyone just stares blankly into their phone and don't bother talking to anyone.

Maybe if you weren’t so boring we’d talk to you.