Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
No space shuttle launches anymore π.
No Concorde anymore π
No Giant screen in the SAVOY in Dublin.
No Imax at Parnell Street π abymore except for fakemax.
No Cinema near me anymore. There used to be up to the early 90s.
No teens with their faces planted in their phones all day.
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.
And the passport office!
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.
No positive posts please π I'm trying not to be nostalgic!
Sharing bath water lol π€£
fcuk it, I answered this wrong.
no power cuts, TV signal cutsβ¦
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.
No long dole Qs
no more 10c jellies!! Or cadet sodas. π€£ 20c fredo bars gone. no way your mammy can send you to the shop for fags.
Kneecapping
Smoking inside service buildings..oh wait..never mind...ppl vaping indoors to their hearts content- wrecks me
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.
Phone boxes, and needing a bagful of loose change to make long distance callπ
Wallpaper...everywhere
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.
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.
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.
How many times do I have to say it? No positive posts please lol π
Could have just reversed the callπ
Yeah but the talking clock never accepted the charges
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, blursβ¦..
1 tv with 2 channels for the whole house.
And having to get up to change between channels and then adjusting the vertical or horizontal hold to watch it.
The stink of cigarette smoke.
Everywhere.
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.
Dogs roaming around especially on bin day when the bins were just black bags piled up outside...
Pushing cars to get them to start.
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