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

bodhrandude

Remember this ad for Castrol GTX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_IImR6ajA

Itssoeasy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130052#Comment_122130052

I can remember my parents getting photos developed and the majority of the photos were grand and of something or someone, and then the last two would be of the ground to use up the roll.

Also, in the mid nineties my parents had a “portable” tv which weighed a ton.

blade1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122134286#Comment_122134286

That reminds me of this.

Remember being a very small boy and my father using it

Hangdogroad

RE: page 3 and topless women, unlike the English Red tops, the Sunday World rarely showed women topless (in the 80s anyway). They did have weekly glamour models in a state of undress but they'd usually stop short of showing nipple. They'd sometimes show them naked from behind. I can remember one time all right they announced that weeks glamour model would be appearing topless the following week and sure enough she did.

I remember those black bars they'd use to censor genitalia for lurid stories. When Kevin Sharky was presenting Megamix on RTE circa 1987 the Sunday World dug up a nude photoshoot he'd done for a gay porn mag in London years previously and the black bar was employed to cover his tackle.

black & white

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122115459#Comment_122115459

The older houses in Shannon (built '60's) all had the 2 pin round sockets, later ones went for the current 3 pin. Only sold my old pairs house last year and there was one 2 pin still working in it.

odyssey06

English First Division manager of the month gets a massive bottle of Bells Whisky..

These appear to be unopened :)

PP Lee

Watching snooker and darts players on TV guzzling beer and smoking like chimneys during games

z80CPU

Tennis Player John Mc Enroe agruing with Umpires at Wimbleton. Also, throwing his racket on the ground. Shouting about the noise of the aircraft flying overhead.

More serious, a female tennis player getting stabbed by an angry fan.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122136129#Comment_122136129

Watching Late Late Show guests smoking.

The pointless "smoking sections" on planes.

thereiver

People making cassete mixtapes, or cd r disks with their choice of mp3 music files. professional soccer players ,rugby players smoking.Men smoking pipes in pubs .top of the pops, theres no program like it nowadays .it would show all kinds of music,reggae, rock, pop, new wave, indie ,country whatever was in the top 30.

now its replaced by multiple music channels ,mtv, or youtube.i think the standard of lyrics in pop songs has declined alot in the last 10 years , lyrics are in general more basic or simple, apart from singers like taylor swift . there doe,snt seem to be any more rock bands in the charts .wheres, the gen Z type rock band in the charts.

smartphones have replaced mp3 players or the sony walkman radio.

no one smokes on tv anymore ,unless its an old drama,or a repeat of a tv show .

hoodie6029

Getting your shopping on the tick. I’m sure there’s a few rural places doing it but not as common as it was up to the 90’s.

pjordan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130033#Comment_122130033

Yep, as the only tabloid newspaper of the time in Ireland they almost held a respectable position on envy amongst the broadsheets, whereby they dared to run with the stories (mostly innocouous and gossipy scandal mongering) that the MSM papers wouldn't touch (but secretly probably coveted). I remember speaking to an acquaintance of the daughter/victim of one notorious child abuser/paedophile who recalled that this man used visit their house (with his unfortunate daughter on tow)) and read the Sunday World from cover to cover and then dismiss it as a "filthy rag" that he wouldn't allow into his own house!.

Was it the SW that first ran with the story about the priest in the South East who claimed that one wanton young woman was deliberatively infecting loads of unfortunate, gullible young lads with AIDS? One of their other stories I particularly recall was round the time of the popes visit in 1979 entitled "The night Fr Horan wants to forget" which dealt with the allegation that the devil appeared in Tooreen dance hall run by him as PP back in the early 1960's (along with countless similar other dance halls in stories purposely created by competing dancehall promoters). It was alleged that after the event the dance hall closed, never to reopen, when in fact my parents had attended dances there for years afterwards. It was one of the first times I learnt to never believe everything you read in the papers.

DialecticAspirations

Waiting patiently for a specific song to come on the radio so I could record it on my double tape deck.

Getting a perfect recording right from the start…..only for the ****head DJ to start talking towards the end of the song, ruining everything.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122140410#Comment_122140410

The priest was a Fr Kennedy in Dungarvan. A complete spoofer. Cant remember where the story broke first but it was a media frenzy for a while.

Pauliedragon

I remember 16 years old in the bookies at school lunchtime putting a couple of quid on the grand national. Full uniform on no questions asked. Probably couldn't see me with all the smoke😤

blade1

butter vouchers for people on the dole

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122142425#Comment_122142425

Butter and cheese mountains!

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122142547#Comment_122142547

And wine lakes!

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122142562#Comment_122142562

Just needed to add a few crackers for a good night. 😂

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122142425#Comment_122142425

And butter being the last thing they were used to purchase, they were practically a separate currency

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122135556#Comment_122135556

I'm not going to do an image search at work but I remember a headline about a sheep, a hotel room and snuggle time.

Trampas

Eclipse jeans was it? We use to call them raver jeans.

tom23

There used to be a shop on wheels (a van) that used to go around my estate selling everything from bags of broken kitkats to bleach. I think they accepted butter vouchers

tom23

cloudy recollection of ‘Fuente’ jeans that could be bought down on liffey street. the ken ackers wore those two tone jeans. scandalous looking. Then came NAFF jackets. You reached the low of the low 😎😁

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122142616#Comment_122142616

Do you mean Energie? I still have a pair of Energie jeans. Top notch.

https://www.nssmag.com/en/fashion/16489/energie-clothing-history-brand

StormForce13

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122134286#Comment_122134286

Sumptuous horn solo!

The 1984 'Liquid Engineerin­g' advert, complete with its catchy interpolat­ion of Mahler's Symphony No.7, is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever television ads.

Strumms

there was definitely Eclipse & X-Works…. Naf naf I just about recall too. Jeans so baggy it was ridiculous….

Trampas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122142664#Comment_122142664

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122142696#Comment_122142696

Wasnt energie. Might be x works. Bagging and some two tone.

Then kickers shoes were all the rage in mid 90’s

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122142696#Comment_122142696

You're right, twas Eclipse, and yes naf beyond the extreme. Never had a pair that's for sure, though I did have an x-works polo neck😳.

Grassy Knoll

scarcity of jobs … what would be considered menial work now often represented a livelihood for many’s the person and was often hard come by … now we have more jobs than people to fill them …