There is a generation that has not grown up with .......

CoBo55

breezy1985 wrote: »

There was a guy used come collect the rent in cash and also a door to door life insurance guy walking around with bags of cash

Waste of his time coming to our house... They paid nothing (pub first everything else went out the window)

CoBo55

Battery charger hooked up to the car overnight.
Remould Cross ply tyres that lasted about 5000 miles.

CoBo55

Bypassing the ESB meter...

bocaman

Taping your favourite songs off the radio.

Walkmans.

The Beano.

All first division games on a Saturday afternoon.

The UEFA Cup.

filbert the fox

breezy1985 wrote: »

There was a guy used come collect the rent in cash and also a door to door life insurance guy walking around with bags of cash.

My friend still had one for years after in her sitting room. After a while the TV guy just stopped coming round looking for rent

What you used to have calling to your house:

Coalman

Insurance man

Milk man

Egg man (see insurance man above)

Bread man

Meat delivery boy(me!)

Meter reading man (gas & esb)

Postman

Telegram boy (not me)

Pools man

Encyclopedia salesman

Avon lady

Veg man

Boy scout - to bob-a-job (me!)

Central Heating Salesman (yes indeed! - we told him it was unhealthy!)

Piano tuner.

Gutter cleaning man

Schools inspector

gozunda

Graces7 wrote: »

Enjoying my second childhood here and living happily as I did over 70 years ago..

Hot water bottles are still bliss, and the coal/turf fire..

Although I would never be without the internet......;)

Best of both worlds really.

According to the latest research - an old fashioned type open fire is bad for you...

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/open-fires-negatively-affect-elderly-peoples-cognitive-abilities-study-finds-39688663.html

So are cities but we haven't banned them yet ...

Absolute bulliks imho. A good fireplace and chimney means you shouldn't have issues with 'particulates' or smoke. If you do you have more immediate problems

Padre_Pio

filbert the fox wrote: »

What you used to have calling to your house:

A friend still has a "potato man" call to the house

whisky_galore

TVs and radios with crap aerials, metal clothes hangers jerry rigged as aerials

Floppybits

filbert the fox wrote: »

What you used to have calling to your house:

Video rentals guy. You'd get to pick the movies out of the boot of the car.

breezy1985

filbert the fox wrote: »

What you used to have calling to your house:

Coalman

Insurance man

Milk man

Egg man (see insurance man above)

Bread man

Meat delivery boy(me!)

Meter reading man (gas & esb)

Postman

Telegram boy (not me)

Pools man

Encyclopedia salesman

Avon lady

Veg man

Boy scout - to bob-a-job (me!)

Central Heating Salesman (yes indeed! - we told him it was unhealthy!)

Piano tuner.

Gutter cleaning man

Schools inspector

Never heard of egg/veg/meat boy although there is a butcher round my way doing it now during covid.

Definitely no piano tuner guy round my estate ever

Frankie Machine

Vita nova wrote: »

Looking through a telephone directory or the Golden Pages (yellow pages) for a number or service.
Ordering items from a paper catalogue over the phone or by post.

There is a generation that has not grown up with... jacking off to a Family Album.

iamstop

Was thinking about how I used to carry a big honking Walkman with me every time I was getting a bus to town. Usually a few extra tapes to swap out and sometimes even spare batteries. The ratio volume of what I needed to the minutes of music it could hold is vastly different to nowadays. I just put a 512GB memory card in to my phone.
Say on average it's 100MB for an album. Can easily fit over 5000 albums on the card and still have room left for the artwork and photos or whatever. The phone is maybe half the volume of a Walkman. Most tapes were 60 or 90 minutes. I'd usually record an album on to tape and then fill the rest of the blank space at the end of each side with random tracks of a similar ilk.

GMSA

They don't remember the ads on RTE about HIV/AIDS condoms and unprotected sex one night stands with strangers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i0TXthjDks

bodhrandude

I posted this in the 70's thread a good while back, but timely enough here too, do you remember the frustrations having to make a long distance call with this yoke.

AndrewJRenko

filbert the fox wrote: »

What you used to have calling to your house:

And what my MIL calls the 'Siaty man', an abbreviation of 'Society', which is an abbreviation of one of the old school insurance companies which were Societies.

He collected weekly payments on life insurance or funeral insurance policies.

Padre_Pio wrote: »

A friend still has a "potato man" call to the house

Baldy fella with three hairs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq3tq6qfmj8

Sardonicat

^^^^^^^
I just about remember those.

There is s generation who has never said "Gotta say bye, the pips are going and I've run out of 10p's."

This generation is the first windows and mac users not to have to type in a command like "win". "setup", "install"

The Continental Op

I'm thinking of the UK but I remember the Milk man and him calling to collect his money every week (normally Friday).

Then there was the Bread man, the Fish man and the Butcher which all called in some areas.

Again UK but I can remember "pop" being sold from a lorry that called once a week. iirc it was primarily Iron Brew sold from the lorry.

Frankie Machine

The Continental Op wrote: »

I'm thinking of the UK but I remember the Milk man and him calling to collect his money every week (normally Friday).

Then there was the Bread man, the Fish man and the Butcher which all called in some areas.

Again UK but I can remember "pop" being sold from a lorry that called once a week. iirc it was primarily Iron Brew sold from the lorry.

I remember seeing the little milk bottle carrier with the hand and numbers on, to tell the milkman how many bottles to deliver.

Was amazed.

Capt'n Midnight

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

TAX IN POST written on a piece of cardboard in a car window

FOR REG written on a piece of cardboard where the registration plate should have been.

Frankie Machine

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

FOR REG written on a piece of cardboard where the registration plate should have been.

And red-backed plates at that.

COVID

¼lb of Scots Clan

Aglomerado

COVID wrote: »

¼lb of Scots Clan

Oh I had some of those at the weekend! They're lovely old school chewies!
Emeralds with the green wrapper, have not seen those for a long time.

nozzferrahhtoo

PGE1970 wrote: »

Anyone else?

Cecil Nolan

Mam of 4

bodhrandude wrote: »

I posted this in the 70's thread a good while back, but timely enough here too, do you remember the frustrations having to make a long distance call with this yoke.

Ooh I used to love tapping those , great when you had no money

For Forks Sake

filbert the fox wrote: »

What you used to have calling to your house:

Coalman

Insurance man

Milk man

Egg man (see insurance man above)

Bread man

Meat delivery boy(me!)

Meter reading man (gas & esb)

Postman

Telegram boy (not me)

Pools man

Encyclopedia salesman

Avon lady

Veg man

Boy scout - to bob-a-job (me!)

Central Heating Salesman (yes indeed! - we told him it was unhealthy!)

Piano tuner.

Gutter cleaning man

Schools inspector

Money Lender

Attitude Adjustor if you neglected to repay said moneylender

riclad

Buying a vinyl Lp or a cd to listen to one or 2 good songs.
Waiting 10 minutes to download one song using a 56k modem Spending 10 minutes browsing in xtravision
before renting a film
Setting a vcr to record a program on tape
Going to a phone box to make a phone call with 10 or 20 pence
Saving files to a 3.5inch disk on a pc
Putting family photos in a photo album
Buying magazines like official playstation
Or pcgamer because each mag came with a demo disc of the latest games on it
Listening to pirate radio or radio Luxembourg
before 2fm and other Irish pop radio stations were licenced

howyanow

Vita nova wrote: »

Visiting or phoning a travel agent to book a holiday or flight.

They wont be able to book one off Teletext either as per Peter Kay sketch!!

riclad

Dísc drives are not absolete, you can use em to watch 4k movies, not everyone has fast Internet to download games that are 250gig plus. Millions of users in America have no acess to fast broadband.
I like to buy games play them once then trade
them in
And also buy preowned games for 20 euro
A digital download is of no value once you have played
People complain about doxxing
Every house used to get a phone directory which listed
every person by name who rented a phone or had a phone line
Most consoles being sold still have a disk drive
USB drives are still useful for booting up Linux or just
Saving files as a backup
This generation is the first to expect all media on demand eg all TV programs will be on streaming services every TV station can be viewed live online

The Continental Op

Modifying config.sys to get your game to run.