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

hoodie6029

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122053873#Comment_122053873

leaving the empties out for the milkman too.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122053903#Comment_122053903

That lasted in Premier Dairies areas til 1999

I still have a milkman, Avonmore now but was Dawn years and years ago; always been Tetrapak here that I can remember.

griffin100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122053683#Comment_122053683

That reminded me that when we were very small and lived in Dolphins Barn flats my dad would take the distributor cap out of his Ford Escort engine every night and bring it inside so no one could steal the car.

PP Lee

My local shop would let the neighbours buy stuff “on tick” with the shopkeeper keeping a record of what people owed him in a little red book. He would also accept butter vouchers as payment for groceries and would occasionally sell bottles of poteen from underneath the counter.

I remember bringing bagfuls of milk tokens to Dawn Dairies in Clare Street Limerick to exchange for cutlery and tea towel sets.

Ted222

Apex airfares and having to stay a Saturday night before the return flight.

No idea why.

Also, stand-by fares where you’d go out to the airport and hope for a last minute bargain.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122053903#Comment_122053903

And needing a cover for the bottles after delivery so birds wouldn't peck them open to get at the cream at the top.

iamstop

Trying to figure out how to set the video to record your show. Easy to get the times or the channel wrong. If you missed it, who knows when you'll get another chance to watch it.

Then came video plus where you could enter an 8 digit code and it would set the start, end and channel.

Generally though, TV shows weren't so 'series' based. So if you did miss an episode you wouldn't be too lost if you caught the next one.

Now it's binge watchers paradise.

emo72

I remember my baby sister's night gown, it wasn't made from fireproof material, and standing at an open fire it would go up in flames. She was ok, I'm sure the parents got it off quick. Also the fireguard stopping sparks from setting the carpet on fire. How did we survive?

lord lucan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122053965#Comment_122053965

My da had a small piece of wood to put over the bottles,didn't stop the crows though.

There was always a race to see who could get the bottles open first to get the cream on top, absolutely magic.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122054124#Comment_122054124

I still remember missing a Babylon 5 episode, dunno if I set the times wrong or power cut. And that was a series where as it went on every episode counted.

I don't remember the episode for obvious reasons !

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122054131#Comment_122054131

In my folks area the milkman gave out solid plastic covers that went down to the ground, with the brand name on it. Like a plastic box with one end open. Even the crows couldn't flip it so milk safe from pecking.

ceadaoin.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122053683#Comment_122053683

That reminds me we lived next to a green area and there would frequently be stolen cars speeding around on it at all hours of the night. Gangs of youths hanging around and drinking all night, killing people's pets, clothes getting stolen from the line, windows smashed if you said anything to them, young people dying from overdoses all the time. It was actually low key traumatizing to live on a council estate in Dublin in the 80s/early 90s. Things seem to be a lot more quiet now

whisky_galore

Pissing in phone boxes.

Those steering wheel anti theft things.

Getting felt up by a priest.

Getting battered by nuns, Christian brothers, teachers, your parents, everybody.

Cars with no seat belts. cars with calves in the back seat, cars held together with baler twine.

Shíte choice of food.

Houses with no indoor toilets and rural houses with no toilets.

If the dog misbehaved, he got a kick up the hole

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122053337#Comment_122053337

I was just about to post that you don't see dogs chasing cars anymore.

looksee

Stuff held together with baling twine. Cars, gates, fences, tools, if it fell apart it was fastened back together with baling twine.

The hedges across from the dump full of plastic bags. Looked like they were acting as bag filters.

Cigarette butts everywhere.

looksee

The neighbours had a dog that chased cars, dratted nuisance. Chased me to the end of the street on day and I turned left at the end - he kept going and 'caught' me. He was not seriously injured but stopped chasing cars.

thereiver

getting hit with the leather strap on the hand by the teacher, christian brother if you went to A CBS school . i dont think theres any schools left where theres christian brothers as teachers .

people smoking at work, in pubs, shops, everywhere, men smoking pipes . houses with a shed out the back where the toilet was located .people with glass,s held together with tape. milkmen delivering milk in glass bottles to the house. making phone calls in a phone box with coins , if you got a answer you,d press an a or a b button the money would fall into the metal box , and the person on the other end would hear you.

people renting tvs or vcrs from a shop rather than buying them ,tvs were usually 20 or 32 inchs wide,

there was no such thing as 50 inch large screen tvs,

tom23

**** - just got a dose of a 1980’s reality there! 😁 I remember smacking back one of the brothers in Brunner. Got the head kicked of me by his ‘colleagues’

Shite food? Chinese from a chinese takeaway van. Eating half the chips on the way home and oul lad going ape **** that there was only half a bag.

tom23

That leather strap had a name… nicodemus.

Duke of Schomberg

"sticking a match in the TV button to hold it in"

. . . Sticking a match into the firing mechanism of an FN FAL self-loading rifle to turn it from semi-automatic to fully-automatic (the only drawback being that once you'd pulled the trigger there was no way of stopping until the magazine had emptied).

Grassy Knoll

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122054131#Comment_122054131

yes milk with cream, absolutely delicious, bet the crows even miss it too, unlike the water we have now! Ya, we had a board over the grey milk crate to keep the f€ckers out of the cream. Happy memories from a simpler time.

Duke of Schomberg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048563#Comment_122048563

Slack was nasty stuff: it pumped out loads of sulphurous fumes - it was sold as "nutty slack" by the National Coal Board in Britain as a cheaper alternative to coal . . . burned in urban centres it was responsible for the killer smogs of the early 1950s. You can't now even buy coal for domestic use in England (not sure about Wales or Scotland), so I now have to ferry bags back from NI . . . oh! that smell of coal fires burning that you still get in NI. But yes, I still keep the slack in a scuttle to bank up the fire.

Tony EH

Watching movies on something like this…

Then the pipe goes and you end up with this…

Listening to music on something like this…

Which had to use these…

Recording songs off the radio and standing by with your finger on the pause button on the "Cassette Radio" so you can get as much of the song recorded after some twat DJ stopped talking over it…

Playing computer games on something like this…

Which looked like this…

Heating one room in the house with this thing, cos there was no central heating…

Duke of Schomberg

So . . .

Still get milk delivered in bottles, but can't remember the last time the birds pecked the lids (early 1980s?)

Children in callipers.

As has been mentioned, dogs roaming freely (and to be avoided!) - I must have walked loads of extra miles as a child just to avoid the local roaming dogs.

Somebody mentioned "ply tyres" - yes, and the consequences of when idiots mixed cross-ply and radial tyres rear/front or same-axle . . . "screech, BANG".

Shop assistants in Britain saying "no!" as they passed an Eire 10p back to you.

Pauliedragon

Having to wear your itchy Sunday clothes to be dragged down to mass.

thereiver

One pc in one room in the house if you wanted to use the internet that was your only option.

do jumble sales still exist. There would be tables covered with clothes books box's of vinyl records everything would be cheap money goes to a local charity

retalivity

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122055306#Comment_122055306

I saw a lad smoking a pipe a few weeks ago, walking down clarendon st in Dublin. He was in his 30s, didnt seem outwardly hipstery, just a guy coming from work in a shirt and trousers, puffing away Must be the first time in about 25 years ive seen an old fashioned pipe being used, was wondering where you'd even get pipe tobacco nowadays

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122055593#Comment_122055593

James J Fox opposite Trinity College sell pipes and I assume tobacco for them. Cigars also. Ive only bought whiskey in there myself.

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122055572#Comment_122055572

A posh jumble sale used to be called a "Sale Of Work". These were normally held in aid of some Catholic church project. The Protestant version was the Garden Fete.

Trampas

Waiting at the newsagents on a Saturday for late evening herald that would have the football scores from 3pm games