Things people don't do anymore!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-06-2017 08:38AM

Go to Mass on a Sunday.

mikemac2 · 03-06-2017 08:47AM

Buy a car in November and use a "for reg" plate and then register in January

I also remember someone telling me new cars had to be "run in" so take it easy for the first while. Never hear of that anymore

TheDriver · 03-06-2017 08:50AM

Getting red raw sunburnt

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-06-2017 08:53AM

TheDriver wrote: »

Getting red raw sunburnt

Because the sun doesn't shine on this godforsaken island anymore.

Chris. · 03-06-2017 08:54AM

Use their brains.

Cortina_MK_IV · 03-06-2017 11:42AM

Play table tennis on a table not on a Wii.

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-06-2017 11:52AM

Use the choke to keep her started

Chuchote · 03-06-2017 11:54AM

Ride a bicycle to school, alas - though I think that's starting to come back.

Sam Kade · 03-06-2017 12:02PM

MysticMonk wrote: »

Very true that. My father and uncles could repair cars,build walls and sheds,do electrical work,wallpaper, paint and pretty much everything else.
As for mechanical work on cars..I witnesses my dad and uncle literally swinging a sledgehammer at a Renault 4 after the axle or something bent on it.
With the exception of painting
I wouldn't probably try any of that stuff myself and would hafta pay for it.
In the 70s a great driver was the fact that nobody had any money. If you needed a wall built you did it yourself,or got somebody to show you

Swinging a sledge at an axle to straighten it, hardly as the axle is cast iron and it wouldn't bend in the first place never mind trying to straightened it.

Sam Kade · 03-06-2017 12:03PM

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Use the indicators on their car to indicate where they are f?cking going.

What? People actually did this one time?

Dr Turk Turkelton · 03-06-2017 12:05PM

cml387 wrote: »

Play cards.
It was never my thing but my parents wold quite often go to a friends house for a game of 25. They could last till 3 in the morning.

Maybe it still happens but i've never heard of it.

You sure your parents weren't swingers?

helimachoptor · 03-06-2017 12:08PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Just a thing that came up on the Motors forum. People are much less likely to do their own simple car servicing these days. When I were a lad(insert pic of short trousers, flat cap and a sweet cigarette hanging from my lip), most dads of a weekend once a month would be under the bonnet doing some fiddling about. Actually a bit of DIY servicing of household stuff in general. People are much more likely to "get a man in". Now stuff has become more complex(often needlessly I would argue) which has an effect and more stuff is "sealed for life", but much of the time you can sort out many problems in short order. Especially now that we have google/youtube that will show you how. Though maybe it's like cookery and gardening programmes and people want to watch rather than do?

Agree, i think technology has become more complicated but for sure there's a lot more resource to help you figure it out

Sam Kade · 03-06-2017 12:11PM

Hold a conversation.

corner of hells · 03-06-2017 12:36PM

School fights

I've two teenage boys and in conversation asked them about "punch ups" in school.
Never happens , not even a scuffle.

When I were a lad unarmed combat regularly broke out , often with teachers getting involved.

helimachoptor · 03-06-2017 01:07PM

corner of hells wrote: »

School fights

I've two teenage boys and in conversation asked them about "punch ups" in school.
Never happens , not even a scuffle.

When I were a lad unarmed combat regularly broke out , often with teachers getting involved.

they just bully each other online now..

MysticMonk · 03-06-2017 01:10PM

Sam Kade wrote:

Swinging a sledge at an axle to straighten it, hardly as the axle is cast iron and it wouldn't bend in the first place never mind trying to straightened it.

I don't know exactly what they were walloping,I was a kid at the time. I'm curious about it myself

A Battered Mars Bar · 03-06-2017 02:29PM

Rubbish men hanging off the back of the rubbish lorries as it drives down the street. EU regulation's to blame again probably. You hear that! F*ck you EU you f*cking f*ck. Rule Britainnia. Britain shall never ever ever beeeee slaves. Glorious days it was watching filthy rubbish men dangling with one arm from a steamy truck. With the sun glistening their sweaty biceps. You f*ck EU. F*cking f*ckface EU f*ck.

gammygils · 03-06-2017 02:39PM

Stop their kids roaring & screeching and running around wild in public!

CeilingFly · 03-06-2017 02:45PM

Getting up off the couch to change the tv channel.

03-06-2017 02:49PM

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Rubbish men hanging off the back of the rubbish lorries as it drives down the street. EU regulation's to blame again probably.

I still see them do this.

MysticMonk · 03-06-2017 11:12PM

Smoking on buses,or hospitals,schools,shops and pubs

Your Face · 03-06-2017 11:23PM

Unfortunately, not nostalgia.

Lorelli! · 03-06-2017 11:42PM

pawrick wrote: »

Borrow milk/sugar from the neighbour

My neighbour always knocks in for little things like that. I'd rarely ask her but it is nice to know you can although I did think it looked a bit odd the other day when she sent her son down to me for a lend of some salt and I put it in a sandwich bag! I'm not giving her any containers anymore because she never gives them back!!

I use to take my mother's good tapes if I didnt have a blank one and fill the squares at the top with a little bit of paper. It would allow them to record. Then I'd record over them with songs from the radio!

Other things people don't do anymore, bunk the train!

Badly Drunk Boy · 04-06-2017 10:22AM

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Go to a concert/event and take it in and not have to hold a f**king phone in the air to film it.

I was at Kraftwerk's 3D gig last night and there was very little of it. To get the best of the show, you had to wear 3D glasses but even without them, the visuals were amazing (I peeked). Still, anytime anybody got out their phone, the staff were there shining a torch on them to admonish them/tell them to stop.

It was quite refreshing not to see all the stupid phone light. :cool:

me_right_one · 04-06-2017 10:25AM

LordSutch wrote: »

.. bless themselves as they pass each & every Church.

(Irish people).

Everyone I know blesses themselves when they pass a church, or graveyard

Chuchote · 04-06-2017 10:26AM

Lean your bicycle against the edge of the pavement, unlocked, while you go into a shop, have a long chat with the shopkeeper and buy a few things, come out, throw the stuff in the basket and cycle off. Bicycles now have to be locked like Fort Knox, and so many are stolen that they're excluded from the Garda theft statistics because including them would reveal a crime wave.

Leave your pram outside the shop, baby snoozing, and come out to find a circle of people around, oogly-googling, and the baby kicking and wriggling and laughing delightedly.

nice_guy80 · 04-06-2017 10:26AM

Giving a child a smack in public cause they were bold

nice_guy80 · 04-06-2017 10:27AM

Chuchote wrote: »

Lean your bicycle against the pavement, unlocked, while you go into a shop, have a long chat with the shopkeeper and buy a few things, come out, throw the stuff in the basket and cycle off. Bicycles now have to be locked like Fort Knox, and so many are stolen that they're excluded from the Garda theft statistics because including them would reveal a crime wave.
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we still do that down the country

Neames · 04-06-2017 10:28AM

Arrange a place and time to meet and arrive punctually at said place.

This has been replaced by text me when you're in town and I'll text you some lame excuse about why I'm late or not showing up.

Chuchote · 04-06-2017 10:28AM

nice_guy80 wrote: »

Giving a child a smack in public cause they were bold

Dear God, yes; or because you're drunk or impatient. Tis well I remember getting on the ferry after a couple of years in London and realising I was going home from the haze of smoke and the chorus of smacks across legs and miserable howls that happened as soon as the engine started.

Things people don't do anymore!

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