**** things about the 70s,80s,90s...that don't happen now!

ruth...less

Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!

AMKC

No space shuttle launches anymore 😞.

No Concorde anymore 😞

No Giant screen in the SAVOY in Dublin.

No Imax at Parnell Street 😞 abymore except for fakemax.

No Cinema near me anymore. There used to be up to the early 90s.

cnocbui

No teens with their faces planted in their phones all day.

Atlantic Dawn

Having to spend a good hour plus in the motor taxation office filling in multiple forms to tax your own car as if you were applying for financing for a large cruise ship.

ruth...less

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122046798#Comment_122046798

And the passport office!

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122046737#Comment_122046737

I blame the PC.

Before the PC there was the SR-71, The VC10 still holds the record for fastest subsonic trans-atlantic flight - 'hush power' - Concorde; they could build nuclear reactors and achieve zero CO2 with relative ease and cost. Kids could climb trees and run around at school. You could put money in a bank account and they would actually pay you interest and didn't charge you for every thing you wanted to do with your own money. You could ring a company, an actual person would answer the phone and then more often than not, connect you directly to another person who you could talk to.

ruth...less

No positive posts please 😁 I'm trying not to be nostalgic!

ruth...less

Sharing bath water lol 🤣

bodhrandude

fcuk it, I answered this wrong.

Strumms

no power cuts, TV signal cuts…

Jim_Hodge

No more internet drops because somebody tried to make a phone call.

No more walking from pub to pub to find out which one your mates are in.

mountai

No long dole Qs

no more 10c jellies!! Or cadet sodas. 🤣 20c fredo bars gone.
no way your mammy can send you to the shop for fags.

denismc

Kneecapping

Alexus25

Smoking inside service buildings..oh wait..never mind...ppl vaping indoors to their hearts content- wrecks me

thomil

For me, it would be no more air raid drills in primary school. I entered primary school in northern Germany in the mid 1980s, and we still had that.

monseiur

Phone boxes, and needing a bagful of loose change to make long distance call😒

ruth...less

Wallpaper...everywhere

Atlantic Dawn

People buying brand new cars in October and sticking a "For Reg" cardboard sign as the front and back number plate until they got the car registered in January the following year to save a few quid, a blind eye was shown for years.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122046798#Comment_122046798

Queuing down the street, round the corner and then up several flights of stairs and then zig-zagging in the office itself to pay for someone else's motor tax.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047597#Comment_122047597

And the stench of the place, I still remember it to this day, like rotten piss mixed with stale tobacco in circa 30 degree dead heat.

ruth...less

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047535#Comment_122047535

How many times do I have to say it? No positive posts please lol 😂

Jeju

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047108#Comment_122047108

Could have just reversed the call😊

machiavellianme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047641#Comment_122047641

Yeah but the talking clock never accepted the charges

Jim_Hodge

Taking 24 photos on a roll of film. Leaving them in to be developed and 3 days later getting prints with 22 of them pure rubbish with people's eyes closed, glare, blurs…..

Pauliedragon

1 tv with 2 channels for the whole house.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047698#Comment_122047698

And having to get up to change between channels and then adjusting the vertical or horizontal hold to watch it.

blackbox

The stink of cigarette smoke.

Everywhere.

Vita nova

Car windscreens and number plates being covered in dead insects after a long summer's drive. (Still happens but nothing compared to how it used to be)

Careful control of the choke to ensure a car didn't cut out or use too much fuel before pushing the choke in.

ruth...less

Dogs roaming around especially on bin day when the bins were just black bags piled up outside...

Titzon Toast

Pushing cars to get them to start.

ruth...less

Worrying about that little rent/mortgage guy with his pink receipts getting robbed...again!

Oscar_Madison

UTV News announcements asking key holders to return to their premises.

Bus conductors taking your fare and giving you a ticket from a mechanical device

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122046912#Comment_122046912

I agree. The advant of the modern computer has just made people lazy and less ambitious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047596#Comment_122047596

No way. People got away with that? When did it stop? We could only afford a brand new car in the late 90s. Never had any untill then.

cdeb

I remember that up to the late 80s anyway - though would have associated it more with the old number plate system, which went out in 1986. What was the advantage of waiting till January though?

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047839#Comment_122047839

sitting downstairs back row on a Dublin bus and wondering if you’d need a hearing aid for the rest of your life such was the roaring din of those engines.

Cluedo Monopoly

Robbing apples from orchards. We would always go too early when they were inedible. Just hungry I guess. Or a fear of scurvy.

Grassy Knoll

we had single pane glass in the 1970 and 80 - waking up,with ice on the inside of,the glass after frosty nights

JupiterKid

Rotten smog-filled air in the winter months in my early teens, it would get on your clothes and some days you could hardly see anything in the distance.

Dogsh*te everywhere, especially on those little grassy verges between the pavement and street in suburbia where I grew up.

Adults of all ages hobbling and limping around with awful posture - I was told that was due to rickets being widespread in the bad old days.

jmreire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047876#Comment_122047876

Your car registration was a year younger if you registered in say January 2000 or Dec. 1999. There were often good deals to be had when garages were trying to meet end of year sale targets. Oct, Nov, Dec The trick was to try delaying registration until Jan of the following year. It's different now with 2 registrations per year. But the old "For Reg" trick no long longer works.

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047783#Comment_122047783

I think that's a bad thing now, shows there is a lot less insects, which is bad.

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047797#Comment_122047797

Lot less white dog poop nowadays

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047798#Comment_122047798

I witnessed that happening two weeks ago in my estate. It wasn't successful, though.

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047954#Comment_122047954

Lost art.

Duke of Schomberg

Children with one lens of spectacles taped over to cure "lazy eye".

"Tartans".

Limbless ex-servicemen in Remembrance Sunday parades.

Angel Delight.

Smokers with yellow finger-ends.

In the old days

Leaded Petrol, Seat Belts existence/compliance. Really, and I mean really bald tyres and 'Ply Tyres'. Optional Handbrakes. Topping up brake fluid and checking dip sticks for oil levels every week. Liam Brady advertising 'Havolin Motor Oil' on TV. Actually, there could be a full thread on motoring differences…

JupiterKid

Waiting years to get a telephone installed. For those fortunate enough to afford a phone.

Absolutely sh*t roads that were little better than goat tracks in places connecting our cities. Back roads filled with potholes, some so big they were impassible.

Widespread drink driving.

thereiver

It a song was on MTV alot it would be a hit .physical media ,not many people go to a show to buy CDs or DVDs ,most games are bought by digital downloads .there would be one PC in a room to access the internet now most people use wifi on laptops or phones people buying

Magazines with game demos on a CD or DVD-ROM to play on PC or console

ceadaoin.

No central heating and having to leave the warmth of the fire downstairs to go to bed. Single glazed windows with frost in the inside in the mornings.

Trampas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048098#Comment_122048098

I remember game would need to be loaded from a cassette. Might be 15-25 minutes wait for some games and you hope it would work

timetogo1

Piling 4 or 5 kids into the back of a car. Sure one of them could just stand in the middle. I remember going on one trip with a couple of us sitting in the boot to make room (it was an estate car).

Fog of smoke in the cinema as half of the customers had a cigarette.