Ways of living you never want to go back to

thinkabouit · 25-04-2023 5:45pm

Wearing masks or have to prove you've been vaccinated.

Being told by government you can't travel 5km from your home

jaffa20 · 25-04-2023 5:50pm

Working in an office 5 days per week!

iamstop · 25-04-2023 5:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120520136#Comment_120520136

I can see how Spotify is the best choice for most people. It's just not for me. I am a vinyl addict and can't bring myself to 'lease' music. I want to own it. So I use my phone as a giant Walkman. I get ones that allow micro SD cards and I load it up with MP3s. Preferably 320kbps.

Thelonious Monk · 25-04-2023 6:49pm

Flatsharing. It's been a while but still, hated it so much, apart from when I lived with friends.

LambshankRedemption · 25-04-2023 6:58pm

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Seconded on that one.

My sister moved into a flat share with her two closest friends when at college. I don't know what happened but after 2 years they fell out and as far as I know about 20 years later they still arent speaking.

While I have heard people say they made some of their best friends when flat sharing. I know of more than one set of friends who moved in together and now don't talk or fell out somehow.

iamstop · 25-04-2023 7:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120520391#Comment_120520391

I house shared with a flat earther. #neveragain

LambshankRedemption · 25-04-2023 8:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120520503#Comment_120520503

I never had a flat earther, but a few people were at a similar level of crazy. And some of them took the phrase "taking liberties" to the extreme.

thinkabouit · 25-04-2023 8:33pm

Staying in a 16 bedroom dorm in a hostel in Australia.

iamstop · 25-04-2023 9:40pm

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I backpacked around Asia back is 2005. If given half the chance to do the same around South America I'd jump at the chance. Is backpacking around Australia a thing, given the vast emptiness of most of it?

thinkabouit · 25-04-2023 9:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521002#Comment_120521002

Yes it is, but think it's more like people living in the city's temporarily because it's cheaper.

KanyeSouthEast · 25-04-2023 9:48pm

Covid and all the restrictions

25-04-2023 10:58pm

Both diesel and a manual gearbox.

sprucemoose · 25-04-2023 11:02pm

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please go back to not having one, nobody wants to listen to your music etc, while you pass.

Purple Mountain · 25-04-2023 11:17pm

Being a parent to anyone who's not a teenager.

Tork · 25-04-2023 11:36pm

Not having a mobile phone.

greencap · 25-04-2023 11:54pm

Sharing the house with a prick who was forever using the kitchen.

Starvin. Just wanted to get a fried egg and disappear to my room, and the cnt would be making all sorts of stews and roasts til all hours.

Padre_Pio · 25-04-2023 11:58pm

Getting public transport.

I'd rather spend twice as long in the comfort of my car.

Markus Antonius · 26-04-2023 12:40am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058293964/ways-of-living-you-never-want-to-go-back-to

I never want to own a car that doesn't have a key fob

as opposed to what exactly? I don't see fobless vehicles dominating the market necessarily...

Tork · 26-04-2023 12:56am

Travelling to London by ferry and bus. Did it in the 90s before Ryanair's cheap flights became a thing. It was all the good stuff: the choppy 3-hour ferry crossing on a dingy boat surrounded by some interesting characters. The clinking duty-free where you could buy boxes of Major and bottles of booze. On disembarking in the utopia that is Holyhead, the scramble to find the right bus to London. Because most of the drivers had decided to liven things up a bit and not display their destination city on their buses, you'd hone your telepathy skills. And that's before you'd get onto the infernal bus and start the interminable drive south. The highlight was a stop-off at some jaysus service station at ungodly o'clock to visit the jacks and sip on some sort of hot drink that was allegedly coffee. And still, London was hours away.

Strumms · 26-04-2023 2:57am

In France… living next door on one side In apartments to a couple who were either shagging at 280 dB or roaring and calling each other all sorts of expletives at 360 dB and I think it may have got physical once or twice, certainly furniture was kicked or thrown….herself ended up with a shiner once, but you’d see them later the next day, looking in a desperate state but holding hands. I was much younger and didn’t have the nerve to intervene…aside from smacking the wall out of it…to attain quiet and sleep which happened about every 4 or 5 weeks.

the shagging would have been on returning from the pub around 1.30 am… not a pleasant image, rough pair and she looked like Worzel Gummidge in drag… probably a little harsh on Worzel but anyway.

the fights / arguing was always at stupid o’clock in the mornings like 3am or 4am on a Saturday or Sunday morning and drink fuelled.. They were both Irish, Limerick and Kildare people if memory serves me and the arguments never seemed to be about anything aside from who could be more infuriating and insulting about stupid shît….

Count Dracula · 26-04-2023 3:46am

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It was Crewe or sometimes Stoke. I miss the bus if I am honest, like it was real travelling. Kings cross on a Tennants hangover at 7.00 am is something I cannot forget. The ferry and Train was more comfy, I used to love singing with other travellers, literally. The plane is not the same.

I remember selling a Playboy mag featuring Erika Eleniak, to a Diamond Geezer type in a bookies on the Edgeware Road. He gave me the price of my ticket over and back for it, I bagged 2 copies in Euston Station that morning, sold out.

Diamond white and Carlsberg export snake bites cost around 89p for 660 ml. 10 fags were about 80 pence, blue Regal or Players. Major were 14 punts for 200 on the ferry, around 18 euro or so. 200 Major costs € 298 now, I am deadly serious, look it up, unless you are flying to Norway, they don't care if you buy cheap fags flying there. It is cheaper to buy fags in Iberia than it is in Duty Free. Snooker players played drunk,even in the Crucible. Jockey Wilson Won a world Darts title drinking Tennants by the Gallon. That is an achievement.

Porno Mags is a proper way to enjoy pornography. You have to endure clandestine scorn when purchasing one, everyone envies someone buying a Porno Mag, they might also consider you a lecherous perverted whanker? Them is the breaks and that cookie crumbles from there in. It is a real thing, not this lap top internet nonsense that is making everyone go dead from the waste down, Mags rock, your mouse is stealing your imagination and not even telling you.

It was a different time, ok?

Sgt Hartman · 26-04-2023 7:20am

Renting. Never ever again, especially from an owner occupier because you'll just spend your whole time walking on eggshells around them.

SAMTALK · 26-04-2023 10:53am

Never having to live with your parents again and tell them everywhere you were going, what you were doing and when you'd be home

sniperman · 26-04-2023 11:01am

living with an alcoholic partner and daughter

hoodie6029 · 26-04-2023 11:43am

Social Media. Never again.

iamstop · 26-04-2023 2:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521362#Comment_120521362

Eh, no. You missed the bit where I said I'd never go back to not having one. But worry not. I'm act responsibly. I'm not one of the scrotes who walk around town blasting tunes at max volume.

I hang it quite close to my ears and I only turn it up when I'm on busy streets with lots of noisy traffic and very few or no people. If I'm in a park or on a trail I have it on a low volume and you'd have to be practically standing next to me to hear it.