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

  • 21-04-2024 05:29PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ruth...less
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    Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,891 AMKC
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    No space shuttle launches anymore 😞.

    No Concorde anymore 😞

    No Giant screen in the SAVOY in Dublin.

    No Imax at Parnell Street 😞 abymore except for fakemax.

    No Cinema near me anymore. There used to be up to the early 90s.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,152 cnocbui
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    No teens with their faces planted in their phones all day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,396 Atlantic Dawn
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    Having to spend a good hour plus in the motor taxation office filling in multiple forms to tax your own car as if you were applying for financing for a large cruise ship.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ruth...less
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,152 cnocbui
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    I blame the PC.

    Before the PC there was the SR-71, The VC10 still holds the record for fastest subsonic trans-atlantic flight - 'hush power' - Concorde; they could build nuclear reactors and achieve zero CO2 with relative ease and cost. Kids could climb trees and run around at school. You could put money in a bank account and they would actually pay you interest and didn't charge you for every thing you wanted to do with your own money. You could ring a company, an actual person would answer the phone and then more often than not, connect you directly to another person who you could talk to.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ruth...less
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    No positive posts please 😁 I'm trying not to be nostalgic!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ruth...less
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    Sharing bath water lol 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,890 bodhrandude
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    fcuk it, I answered this wrong.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,900 Strumms
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    no power cuts, TV signal cuts…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,211 Jim_Hodge
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    No more internet drops because somebody tried to make a phone call.

    No more walking from pub to pub to find out which one your mates are in.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 mountai
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    No long dole Qs



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    no more 10c jellies!! Or cadet sodas. 🤣 20c fredo bars gone.
    no way your mammy can send you to the shop for fags.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,636 denismc
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    Kneecapping



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 Alexus25
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    Smoking inside service buildings..oh wait..never mind...ppl vaping indoors to their hearts content- wrecks me



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,077 thomil
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    For me, it would be no more air raid drills in primary school. I entered primary school in northern Germany in the mid 1980s, and we still had that.

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,614 monseiur
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    Phone boxes, and needing a bagful of loose change to make long distance call😒



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ruth...less
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    Wallpaper...everywhere



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,396 Atlantic Dawn
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    People buying brand new cars in October and sticking a "For Reg" cardboard sign as the front and back number plate until they got the car registered in January the following year to save a few quid, a blind eye was shown for years.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,255 Capt'n Midnight
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    Queuing down the street, round the corner and then up several flights of stairs and then zig-zagging in the office itself to pay for someone else's motor tax.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,396 Atlantic Dawn
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    And the stench of the place, I still remember it to this day, like rotten piss mixed with stale tobacco in circa 30 degree dead heat.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ruth...less
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    How many times do I have to say it? No positive posts please lol 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 626 Jeju
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,643 machiavellianme
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    Yeah but the talking clock never accepted the charges



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,211 Jim_Hodge
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    Taking 24 photos on a roll of film. Leaving them in to be developed and 3 days later getting prints with 22 of them pure rubbish with people's eyes closed, glare, blurs…..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 Pauliedragon
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    1 tv with 2 channels for the whole house.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,211 Jim_Hodge
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    And having to get up to change between channels and then adjusting the vertical or horizontal hold to watch it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,115 blackbox
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    The stink of cigarette smoke.

    Everywhere.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 772 Vita nova
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    Car windscreens and number plates being covered in dead insects after a long summer's drive. (Still happens but nothing compared to how it used to be)

    Careful control of the choke to ensure a car didn't cut out or use too much fuel before pushing the choke in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ruth...less
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    Dogs roaming around especially on bin day when the bins were just black bags piled up outside...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,570 Titzon Toast
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    Pushing cars to get them to start.



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