Things of past decades that would never be allowed today

Boredstiff666 · 06-01-2020 05:01PM

This place is full of 'White Honkies'!

DrumSteve · 06-01-2020 05:02PM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Definitely wouldn't happen now. The Poles all have jobs in bars or on construction sites now.

Re-Read my own post in a borat voice due to this.

Boredstiff666 · 06-01-2020 05:13PM

So could you tell Irish jokes now?

vriesmays · 06-01-2020 06:15PM

Black baby donation boxes.

Gallant_JJ · 06-01-2020 06:19PM

The gap between the two front seats in a car, becoming a 6th seat for the youngest child.

whisky_galore · 06-01-2020 06:19PM

Kids in cars without car seats or sitting on each other's laps.

Smoking indoors or in cars with kids present.

Cartoon characters in alcohol and cigarette ads.

Smoking areas in planes and trains.

Lyons Tea minstrels.

Leaving kids feck off to play at a river, derelict site, quarry.

Calor Housewife of the Year Competition.

John Player Tops.

jmayo · 06-01-2020 06:48PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

12 year olds driving tractors

And ?

JupiterKid wrote: »

Growing up back in the 1980s, casual racism and homophobia weren't just commonplace and accepted, they were petty much expected of everybody.

Ehh someone forgot to send us the memo on that because I don't ever remember anyone telling us we all had to label people with certain racist terms or go round having at go everyone gay.

Yes a fair few people did come out with very questionable and objectionable stuff, but trying to claim we were all at it is frankly insulting to those of us that weren't acting the clown.

jmayo · 06-01-2020 06:51PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Kids in cars without car seats or sitting on each other's laps.
...

You do know the adults were also in cars without seat belts?

And shock horror I can legally drive around in a car without a seat belt today.

Disclaimer: the car has to be an old one that never had seat belts.

Nigel Fairservice · 06-01-2020 06:52PM

Do kids still play in building sites? I did a bit of that back in the 80s.

iamstop · 06-01-2020 07:35PM

Cans of Scrumpy Jack 6 for a 5er.

soups05 · 06-01-2020 09:07PM

Personal responsibility, these days everyone has a reason to blame others for their own mistakes. Bad upbringing, disadvantaged, etc etc trotted out in every court on the daily. Falling off swings and lodging a claim, expecting a house to be handed to you along with a "living income" while never working a day.

There is a profound sense of i want it so therefore YOU need to give it to me for free cos.....reasons.

Ubbquittious · 06-01-2020 09:15PM

boardlady wrote: »

Still happens!

Long may it last

Rubberlegs · 06-01-2020 09:17PM

Cigarettes being sold singly in shops, I can remember buying them for 10p each.
Travelling home from the dump in the empty trailer, bumping along the road:)

whisky_galore · 06-01-2020 09:58PM

1940s Tom and Jerry cartoons on RTE.

Duke of Url · 06-01-2020 10:02PM

Pepé Le Pew Cartoon

Galwayguy35 · 06-01-2020 10:08PM

Our lift home from school in a Ford Fiesta mid 80s.

2 kids in the front seat, 3 in the back seat and 2 kneeling in the boot.

I was only a 5 min journey but still it was a bit crazy by todays standards.

mikemac2 · 06-01-2020 10:11PM

Buy a new car in October or November and your plate could be "for reg"

In January you then register it to get your shiny new plate, be grand

Having said that new cars were very rare. Hell a family with two cars was even rarer!

dresden8 · 06-01-2020 10:13PM

Rubberlegs wrote: »

Cigarettes being sold singly in shops, I can remember buying them for 10p each.
Travelling home from the dump in the empty trailer, bumping along the road:)

A "loose and a match"

mikemac2 · 06-01-2020 10:22PM

12 year olds and other youngsters hitchhiking. Perfectly acceptable. I do not see anyone thumbing for lifts anymore. Sure some parents won't let their children even walk to school.

If you were driving along and knew the hitchhikers but couldn't pick them up as you were not going the full way you put your hand across your chest for the person to see. A clear signal to show you saw them and wasn't being an ass, just you were not going the full way and cannot take them.

Say Your Number · 06-01-2020 10:32PM

I knew Blazing Saddles would be mentioned when I saw this thread title, outside of the 'I like rape' line I didn't think there was anything too objectionable about it, does it not portray racists as thick and backwards or am I missing something, also wasn't the N word thrown around like confetti in Django Unchained don't recall any major outcry about that.

mikemac2 · 06-01-2020 10:36PM

Everyone knows that Donagh O'Malley introduced free secondary school education but what gets forgotten is alongside this was the introduction of rural school transport.

This put the Irish government in a bind. Where do we get money for a countrywide bus fleet? And the Irish government did what it does best and found a cheap half ass solution......put the nations children's in leaking, unreliable, falling apart, deathtrap castoffs from CIE! Even CIE didn't want these buses so local drivers in a rural area would tender for this and get the job.

Ah the yellow Bus Scoile. I was using one of these in the 80´s and it was still going in the 90´s held together with bailing twine no doubt.

Oh the amount of times it broke down on a busy road and 80 students which was waaaaaay over capacity walk along a road on a winters morning. Rural area remember, no footpaths. Yep perfectly acceptable.

CIE got rid of their ****ty buses, the Irish government saved money, local bus drivers won contracts and children got soaked on leaking yellow bus scoile that constantly broke down.

ceadaoin. · 06-01-2020 10:36PM

Iscreamkone wrote: »

I loved those sweet cigarettes that shops sold to the kids that were just too young to smoke for real.
They made me look really cool.

What about fake cigarettes you could buy in the joke shop that had talc inside or something that would come out when you blew into it for a real smoke effect. They were all the rage when I was in primary school!

05eaftqbrs9jlh · 06-01-2020 10:42PM

decky1 wrote: »

heard lately that if beer etc was invented now they would not get permission to sell it.

In his book "Home", Bill Bryson describes research suggesting that humanity wouldn't exist in its current form without beer. It allowed communities to gather because the alcohol killed some of the diseases that would be contained in drinking areas of densely-populated areas and it also enables people to actually tolerate each other and sometimes bond! I haven't done my own research on that, but it seems to check out.

Your point stands though, if we invented it now there would be SO much litigation!

is_that_so wrote: »

Schools would be covered by the government so probably not relevant. Sorry state of affairs that some schools don't allow it.

Nope, schools have to pay for their own insurance. If there's any claims, it goes up. The amount of paperwork required to do absolutely anything in a school has actually become untenable for this very reason. The government doesn't fund diddly.

ceadaoin. wrote: »

What about fake cigarettes you could buy in the joke shop that had talc inside or something that would come out when you blew into it for a real smoke effect. They were all the rage when I was in primary school!

That was asbestos. You don't see that sounds much anymore now, come to think of it.

Incidentally my friend's dad worked for an asbestos removal company in the early 90s. He died from a load of COPD I think, or something respiratory anyway. I always wondered how he died from asbestos-related issues, because surely he knew that they were removing it because it was dangerous and took adequate precautions.

TuringBot47 · 06-01-2020 10:45PM

Say Your Number wrote: »

I knew Blazing Saddles would be mentioned when I saw this thread title, outside of the 'I like rape' line I didn't think there was anything too objectionable about it

Well there was also an intellectually challenged character called "Mongo".

Sorry about that · 06-01-2020 10:49PM

When my aunt used to visit, she'd send me to the shop for her cigarettes. I'd have been around 8. Not a bother. I remember being unsure about asking for "twenty silk cut purple" or "twenty purple silk cut".

TuringBot47 · 06-01-2020 10:50PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Our lift home from school in a Ford Fiesta mid 80s.

2 kids in the front seat, 3 in the back seat and 2 kneeling in the boot.

I was only a 5 min journey but still it was a bit crazy by todays standards.

Car seats? luxury.

My Da had a company Toyota Hiace van for years.
We put unrestrained kitchen chairs in the back for long drives to Brittas bay/Wicklow etc. For safety he'd give the back a quick sweep of the brush to get most of the nails off the floor.

06-01-2020 10:55PM

veryangryman wrote:

Marrying 14 year olds because you were rich and famous (Elvis comes to mind)

Not to be picky but elvis didn't marry anyone under age. Are mixing him up with Jerry Lee Lewis who married his 13 or 14 year old cousin?

06-01-2020 10:58PM

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Well there was also an intellectually challenged character called "Mongo".

It is still used regularly as an insult of choice on Boards of course;

https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?sort=newest&date_to=&date_from=&query=mongo

06-01-2020 10:59PM

Rubberlegs wrote:

Cigarettes being sold singly in shops, I can remember buying them for 10p each. Travelling home from the dump in the empty trailer, bumping along the road

I used to be able to buy a cigarette & a match on the way to primary school in the 70s. No ID required

ArnoldJRimmer · 06-01-2020 11:09PM

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Not to be picky but elvis didn't marry anyone under age. Are mixing him up with Jerry Lee Lewis who married his 13 or 14 year old cousin?

While Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin, Elvis first started seeing Priscilla when he was 24 and she was 14. They didn't marry until she was 20/21 though, and there is no suggestion that they did the deed while she was still underage

Things of past decades that would never be allowed today

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