Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

There is a generation that has not grown up with .......

1111214161738

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,326 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    One Foot In the Grave


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,326 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Smoking in pubs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    Making your own stone axes to go hunt woolly mammoths.

    Carving crude stick figures onto the walls of your cave.

    Banging flint stones together to start a fire, so that you can keep warm and not die.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Making your own TV aerial to pick up the 2 BBCs, UTV and CH4 from the nearest hill that had a relay. Didn't have the £100+ to purchase an aerial booster and have it installed. Could only ever get 2 out of the 4 stations, and if the weather was ****e, so was the reception.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭LineConsole


    “Video piracy, daylight robbery.”


  • Advertisement
  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    “Video piracy, daylight robbery.”

    You Wouldn’t Steal a Car ?

    The rights agency stole that work and then tried to claim massive fees for collecting the resulting fine.


    FACT the Federation Against Copyright Theft pirated that music from Melchior Rietveldt who only licensed it to Buma/Stemra for one event and then when he went to the music royalty collection agency in the Neatherlands who are the aforementioned Buma/Stemra they tried to keep a third of that money as a finders fee.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭sabat


    A shelf on the wall of the chipper with chocolate bars and smokes because getting 10 Major and a Yorkie with your cod and chips was totally normal.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    10 Major and a box of matches, Pints of bottled milk left outside your front door in the morning, taping the Radio.
    Listening to Horse races in the bookies on the radio.
    Spin the Bottle,Tip The Can,10 penny bags, apple drops,Chilly Willies
    Brown Bags of Broken Biscuits and Club Milks,Super Cans
    Bosco
    The Magic Door
    Slow Sets
    Subutteo
    Playing soccer with a Tennis Ball at break time
    Kiss Cuddle or Torture
    Driving down Grafton Street, or parking on it.
    Leaving a car unlocked or without an alarm or demobiliser
    Bus Conductors
    Smoking in the Cinema, or on the bus.
    Getting the ride
    Shifting
    A G A G R A G R O AGRO
    Stink Bombs
    Itching Powder
    Address Books
    actually dialing a phone number
    RentaGhost
    Anything Goes
    Bagpuss
    Battle of the Planets
    Thermo Nuclear War
    The Famous Five
    Buck Rogers
    The A Team
    Nancy Drew
    Champion the Wonder Horse
    People actually phoning up the Late Late Show to talk about stuff that mattered and people up half the night listening to it and debating it for the whole week because it mattered.
    The Pope
    Pinching arse ( it is a lost art these days, only practiced by the very brave, or women, they get away with anything now its not fair )
    Hogging the phone
    Yokes that cost 25 quid and worked all night and gave you multiple rushes and made you look like a window licker
    I can't remember the rest, its all a blur really.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Making your own stone axes to go hunt woolly mammoths.

    Carving crude stick figures onto the walls of your cave.

    Banging flint stones together to start a fire, so that you can keep warm and not die.
    Stone axes, imported flints, fire ?

    Luxury. We used to dream of a damp cave instead of having to live in the belly of a rotting mammoth carcass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Watching films on Laser Discs in the 80s and early 90s. Paired with a THX Surround Sound 5.1 setup was some quality stuff to watch on.

    94899553889decb28f81ed96626cd5b2.jpg


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,748 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Real dirt destitute poverty. In Ireland at any rate.

    Yes there are people living in terrible cicumstances still, homeless, long term illness and disability, debt ridden, children deprived, dieecr provision, traveller specific issues etc

    But, my parents in only their 70s were old enough to remember real squalor, malnourishment, tenements, full illiteracy, the diseases of poverty and starvation, high infant mortality. Thats gone now and it would be hard to get anyone under 30 to wrap there head around how it was.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Das Reich


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Watching films on Laser Discs in the 80s and early 90s. Paired with a THX Surround Sound 5.1 setup was some quality stuff to watch on.

    There was this thing in Ireland in the 80's? I remember a relative bought a CD player (music) in 1993 in Brazil, and when I came to Europe end of 90's people still were using cassette. I think dvd replaced VHS in Europe only in 2000.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,309 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    PGE1970 wrote:
    Abject Unemployment

    Its just been replaced with precarious employment and increasing insecurities, not much difference really


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,977 ✭✭✭minikin


    ...knowing that he’s definitely coming.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,344 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    But, my parents in only their 70s were old enough to remember real squalor, malnourishment, tenements, full illiteracy, the diseases of poverty and starvation, high infant mortality. Thats gone now and it would be hard to get anyone under 30 to wrap there head around how it was.

    Have you spoken to many travelers lately?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    Have you spoken to many travelers lately?

    As you make your bed...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,166 ✭✭✭Eggs For Dinner


    minikin wrote: »
    ...knowing that he’s definitely coming.

    Boys will be boys. Not much has changed there...


  • Posts: 4,229 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Das Reich wrote: »
    There was this thing in Ireland in the 80's? I remember a relative bought a CD player (music) in 1993 in Brazil, and when I came to Europe end of 90's people still were using cassette. I think dvd replaced VHS in Europe only in 2000.

    Yes - fairly low take-up but a few people bought laserdiscs. I knew one person who had a player and bought the films in Virgin Megastore.

    I bought a CD player in 1986 but carried on buying the majority of my music on vinyl. In 1988, for every six albums sold, four were on cassette. CDs only overtook them in 1992/93. Vinyl was at its lowest ebb in the ‘90s; I kept buying new releases on the format (as well as reissues on CD) but you’d often see unsold copies of LPs on the shelves for months, particularly major label releases in HMV / Virgin.

    DVD launched in 1997 but in Ireland were very expensive. I remember things like Fight Club and The Wicker Man were £40 for 2-disc editions. When The Sopranos Season 1 came out in 2000, the VHS box was £50 and plenty people bought it. Piles of them in HMV Grafton Street. That was the last stand for the format, after that it was a steady decline - particularly for sales of film and TV shows. People kept taping stuff for a while longer though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    I bought a copy of this on release, never played it, and discovered when opening it to check its integrity that it has two insert books by mistake with it.

    Never been played with two books, i wonder what its worth.

    https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/1089302328


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Have you spoken to many travelers lately?


    Too many


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,326 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Stone axes, imported flints, fire ?

    Luxury. We used to dream of a damp cave instead of having to live in the belly of a rotting mammoth carcass.

    To live in the belly of a rotting mammoth carcass instead of on the damp ground was our dearest wish


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭bertiebomber


    branie2 wrote: »
    Expensive flights before Michael O'Leary came along
    & nice mannered people on those flights no druken fights and shouting no cream crackers going to Spain !! Bliss


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    Have skin mags been mentioned?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Normal One


    Small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. It's all AstroTurf and floodlights now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭Feisar


    & nice mannered people on those flights no druken fights and shouting no cream crackers going to Spain !! Bliss

    The proletariat weren't meant to have nice things. Drudgery they can handle, anything nice fecks them up.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Have skin mags been mentioned?

    Twice now

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,091 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    & nice mannered people on those flights no druken fights and shouting no cream crackers going to Spain !! Bliss

    It's not the same since the great unwashed were allowed travel by air.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭bertiebomber


    It's not the same since the great unwashed were allowed travel by air.
    now the unwashed travel and we stay-cation to avoid them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    the misery of endless remorseless political correctness.

    I find your attitude offensive.









    ;)


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,039 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    208 Radio Luxembourg on the Trannie (transistor radio) only available after 8:12pm

    B sides

    Clock radio

    polishing shoes

    kissing in the lane

    Hammer house of horror

    I miss buying physical music. Yes the accessibility of Spotify is amazingly brilliant but I loved spending 40 minutes in the old tower records in Wicklow St.. trawling shelves... Virgin megastore on the Champs Elysses ( you’d need 2 hours ), Fargo and FNAC in Paris, and HMV Oxford St...


Advertisement