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

Edgware · 20-11-2020 07:21PM

riclad wrote: »

Do kids still play conkers in the autumn ,
Or do they just look at phone screens and make tik toks .
no one was bullied on social media or insulted by weirdo,s .
Theres an article almost every day on daily mail uk,
celeb x ,i was bullied or insulted by online trolls, it s usually women .
Theres billions of people on the web ,of course some of them are creeps who hate women +
copying tapes on a double tape ghetto blaster stereo.
Waiting with the pause button on a tape recorder to to record the top 20 songs on cassette tapes trying to avoid taping the dj,s intro .
making mixtapes on cd or cassette of your favourite songs.
random programs in the 70s, or the 80,s on rte tv presented by a priest which were unwatchable by anyone under the age of 50.

What about spitting pearl barley through a biro tube at the nerd in the class?

atr2002 · 20-11-2020 07:24PM

1. Decent Cadbury chocolate
2. Taking a beating from a school teacher
3. being afraid to come out as gay

Floppybits · 20-11-2020 07:59PM

1. The slow set
2. Ringing a radio station to make a request for a song for your friends.
3. Crisps like hot dog flavoured crun choos
4. Heading of god knows where during the summer
5. Walking the tracks home after being in good time Charlie's in howth
6. Trying to get a taxi home from town on a rainy Friday or Saturday night after the nightclub. Plenty of long walks from the city centre to fairview hoping to catch a taxi on the way.

bodhrandude · 20-11-2020 08:09PM

PGE1970 wrote: »

They are not gathering dust. They are an investment!

In my mother's attic (I am 50!), there are still vinyl copies of New Order 12"s, vinyl albums from The Smiths, Lloyd Cole, The Waterboys, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Jesus & Mary Chain, Stone Roses, The Cure etc to copies of Nik Kershaw, Now Thats What I Call Music and pop singles all bought before I got my first CD player in 1991.

I also have Undertones albums, a colour sleeve album from That Petrol Emotion and loads of other Irish rock/indie stuff.

They will either be worth a fortune or won't be worth scrap.

I'm not sure yet!

It would do no harm maybe in getting the Record Collector magazine or I'd presume you could get them valued online if you have the catalogue numbers of the records, they would have to be in mint condition though for you to make any sort of money from them.

ohnonotgmail · 20-11-2020 08:10PM

Floppybits wrote: »

1. The slow set
2. Ringing a radio station to make a request for a song for your friends.
3. Crisps like hot dog flavoured crun choos
4. Heading of god knows where during the summer
5. Walking the tracks home after being in good time Charlie's in howth
6. Trying to get a taxi home from town on a rainy Friday or Saturday night after the nightclub. Plenty of long walks from the city centre to fairview hoping to catch a taxi on the way.

good time charlies? how young are you. It was called Saints in my day

CoBo55 · 20-11-2020 09:35PM

Spud guns:pac: They were great fun.

The Continental Op · 20-11-2020 09:42PM

And Pea Shooters both the guns and the blow pipes - acknowledging that firing pearl barley through a bic biro has already been mentioned (imagine that with Covid).

Then there were cap bombs where you put a cap under a firing pin and through the bomb up in the air so it landed on hard surface and made a bang.

CoBo55 · 20-11-2020 09:59PM

The Continental Op wrote: »

And Pea Shooters both the guns and the blow pipes - acknowledging that firing pearl barley through a bic biro has already been mentioned (imagine that with Covid).

Then there were cap bombs where you put a cap under a firing pin and through the bomb up in the air so it landed on hard surface and made a bang.

Did you ever make the ones with two M6 Gutter bolts bolted into the same nut and the space in between filled with the sulphur peeled from red match heads :pac::pac: Great bang from them:D

Banging caps in the Thursday evening film run by the Christian Brothers, caps were banned but we always snook some in.

gerrycollins · 20-11-2020 10:06PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My wife's friends 13 year old daughter doesn't know how to turn on an oven or butter bread. I do blame the (single) mother but I fear there is a generation coming up that don't have basic skills in self sufficiency. They are more concerned with men having periods

I work in retail and there is an amazing amount of current teenagers who cant count out money.

Worse still the "older" college going workers cant figure out the change a customer is owed unless the till tells them. I've seen one even get out a pen and paper to work it out.

silliussoddius · 20-11-2020 10:11PM

The Continental Op wrote: »

And Pea Shooters both the guns and the blow pipes - acknowledging that firing pearl barley through a bic biro has already been mentioned (imagine that with Covid).

Then there were cap bombs where you put a cap under a firing pin and through the bomb up in the air so it landed on hard surface and made a bang.

Clothes peg guns made from elastic bands. And a bow and arrow from a wavin pipe.

olestoepoke · 20-11-2020 10:19PM

CoBo55 wrote: »

Did you ever make the ones with two M6 Gutter bolts bolted into the same nut and the space in between filled with the sulphur peeled from red match heads :pac::pac: Great bang from them:D

Banging caps in the Thursday evening film run by the Christian Brothers, caps were banned but we always snook some in.

We did that too

Strumms · 20-11-2020 10:20PM

Padre_Pio wrote: »

The insides of the windows were wet with condensation.
Hot water bottles were a necessity.

Then we upgraded to oil filled heaters in our bedrooms. No point just turning it on, the heat would leave the room just as quick, so we'd wheel the heater beside the bed and throw the duvet over it.

Bout last February my central heating went. Fûck ! It’s a modern enough gas system so when you are icicles cold and hitting the switch, to you wearing a T-shirt is only 15-20 minutes, it’s savage but without it...ffffffffffûck..

I rediscovered the joy, warmth, convenience and comfort of hot water bottles, bought four for the beds and the fifth which I had I just had on the chair with me like a proper auld lad.

Went again last week, need a new boiler which is here next week.

olestoepoke · 20-11-2020 10:23PM

Collecting ice pop sticks and digging the tar from the middle of the road, gluing them together to make all sorts of flying triangles and squares. Killy and moul using a small shore to play your coin from to "lay out" so the next person had to hit your coin to win it.

riclad · 20-11-2020 10:26PM

It's called helicopter parenting , it's been around for 20
years, some parents try and do everything for kids.
Then when the kids leave home they find it hard to do simple things like cooking .
Its always was hard to get a taxi on Saturday or Friday night
at least it was before covid shut down all the pubs and clubs
Living in flats in rathmines, there would be one phone
in the hallway you, d putting coins in to phone someone
I don't think kids play marbles anymore
they have phones with fortnite on them

20-11-2020 10:42PM

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

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

About €75. Don't think the second booklet enhances it too much.
I bought it on release too; played a few times. Like All You Can't Leave Behind, the CD has an extra track.

Zooropa used to be the rarest as it sold very few copies on vinyl. Prices have come down a bit. I bought it in Top 20 Kilkenny. Had to pre-order the vinyl from the late Willie Meighan. They just got two copies in. About 250 CDs and cassettes. The other person never collected their album so I bought it as well about a week later.

20-11-2020 10:44PM

McGaggs wrote: »

I have an early DVD copy of Bladerunner that has two sides on it. One was wide-screen, and the other was old-fashioned TV sized (I can't even remember what that was called 14:9? Pan and scan?).

Fullscreen or 4:3

ohnonotgmail · 20-11-2020 10:46PM

silliussoddius wrote: »

Clothes peg guns made from elastic bands. And a bow and arrow from a wavin pipe.

they could leave a nice little mark if you made them properly.

branie2 · 20-11-2020 10:46PM

Black and white TV

ohnonotgmail · 20-11-2020 10:48PM

riclad wrote: »

It's called helicopter parenting , it's been around for 20
years, some parents try and do everything for kids.
Then when the kids leave home they find it hard to do simple things like cooking .
Its always was hard to get a taxi on Saturday or Friday night
at least it was before covid shut down all the pubs and clubs
Living in flats in rathmines, there would be one phone
in the hallway you, d putting coins in to phone someone
I don't think kids play marbles anymore
they have phones with fortnite on them

not even close to how hard it was before they deregulated the taxis in dublin. You could be waiting 2 hours at the rank.

20-11-2020 10:48PM

PGE1970 wrote: »

They are not gathering dust. They are an investment!

In my mother's attic (I am 50!), there are still vinyl copies of New Order 12"s, vinyl albums from The Smiths, Lloyd Cole, The Waterboys, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Jesus & Mary Chain, Stone Roses, The Cure etc to copies of Nik Kershaw, Now Thats What I Call Music and pop singles all bought before I got my first CD player in 1991.

I also have Undertones albums, a colour sleeve album from That Petrol Emotion and loads of other Irish rock/indie stuff.

They will either be worth a fortune or won't be worth scrap.

I'm not sure yet!

www.discogs.com and check the sales history. It lists individual pressings so easy to work out which one you have.

General rule - if it's a common title that sold a lot of copies on vinyl then not worth too much unless near mint. Obviously there are exceptions.

Or else the Rare Record Price Guide book issued by Record Collector (UK and some Irish pressings only)

To be honest, '90s vinyl is where it's at in terms of rarity.

LineConsole · 20-11-2020 11:41PM

spook_cook wrote: »

I reckon I was five years old when my parents first sent me to the shop to buy them fags. All the kids on the street did likewise. I still remember a 10 box of Silk Cut Blue was about 90p leaving a nice wedge for ten penny sweets. I imagine parents who did that nowadays would be imprisoned.

One of our local shops sold loose cigarettes too.

LineConsole · 20-11-2020 11:43PM

The Continental Op wrote: »

Include a self addressed stamped envelope.

I heard that phrase so much as a child the first time I tried to buy an envelope in a post office I asked for a stamped addressed envelope like a thick. “You’ll have to address it yourself” was the response.

Edgware · 20-11-2020 11:56PM

CoBo55 wrote: »

Did you ever make the ones with two M6 Gutter bolts bolted into the same nut and the space in between filled with the sulphur peeled from red match heads :pac::pac: Great bang from them:D

Banging caps in the Thursday evening film run by the Christian Brothers, caps were banned but we always snook some in.

What about stink bombs ? In the desks where you raise the seat we would put a few under the hinges when we were moving class. Then when the next class moved in there would be the most awful stink.
In the local cinema there was a 9 inch gap on the top of the wall between the gents and ladies toilets. We would **** a few stink bombs or bangers over the gap and then stroll innocently back to our seats and await the bang/stink and screaming

An Ri rua · 20-11-2020 11:56PM

The smell of p*ss in phoneboxes...

Capt'n Midnight · 21-11-2020 12:10AM

CoBo55 wrote: »

Spud guns:pac: They were great fun.

The red metal ones could also use caps or be a water pistol.

But were only ever used with spuds.

silliussoddius · 21-11-2020 12:18AM

Missions at mass, time to buy cheap plastic crap from stalls in the car park.

Capt'n Midnight · 21-11-2020 12:21AM

Floppybits wrote: »

6. Trying to get a taxi home from town on a rainy Friday or Saturday night after the nightclub. Plenty of long walks from the city centre to fairview hoping to catch a taxi on the way.

New Years Eve in town.

Walking home because you weren't going to get a taxi for ages.

The Bewleys in South Great George's Street that used to stay open till way late.

Normal One · 21-11-2020 12:24AM

Do yiz remember when some of the radio stations would run a competition where they'd phone a random number every hour and if you answered with "I listen to Classic Hits 98fm" or whatever station it was, you'd win £20 or something crap like that?

bodhrandude · 21-11-2020 03:02AM

Lol silly ad from the seventies.

Vita nova · 21-11-2020 03:30AM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Lol silly ad from the seventies.
[video removed]

That reminds of this 70s' classic

In the racially and culturally homogeneous Ireland of the 1970s this was a vision of a multicultural paradise but who knew it had been conceived by Don Draper all along.

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

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