Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
I think that's a bad thing now, shows there is a lot less insects, which is bad.
Your car registration was a year younger if you registered in say January 2000 or Dec. 1999. There were often good deals to be had when garages were trying to meet end of year sale targets. Oct, Nov, Dec The trick was to try delaying registration until Jan of the following year. It's different now with 2 registrations per year. But the old "For Reg" trick no long longer works.
Rotten smog-filled air in the winter months in my early teens, it would get on your clothes and some days you could hardly see anything in the distance.
Dogsh*te everywhere, especially on those little grassy verges between the pavement and street in suburbia where I grew up.
Adults of all ages hobbling and limping around with awful posture - I was told that was due to rickets being widespread in the bad old days.
we had single pane glass in the 1970 and 80 - waking up,with ice on the inside of,the glass after frosty nights
Robbing apples from orchards. We would always go too early when they were inedible. Just hungry I guess. Or a fear of scurvy.
sitting downstairs back row on a Dublin bus and wondering if you’d need a hearing aid for the rest of your life such was the roaring din of those engines.
I remember that up to the late 80s anyway - though would have associated it more with the old number plate system, which went out in 1986. What was the advantage of waiting till January though?
I agree. The advant of the modern computer has just made people lazy and less ambitious
No way. People got away with that? When did it stop? We could only afford a brand new car in the late 90s. Never had any untill then.
UTV News announcements asking key holders to return to their premises.
Bus conductors taking your fare and giving you a ticket from a mechanical device
Worrying about that little rent/mortgage guy with his pink receipts getting robbed...again!
Pushing cars to get them to start.
Dogs roaming around especially on bin day when the bins were just black bags piled up outside...
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.
The stink of cigarette smoke.
Everywhere.
And having to get up to change between channels and then adjusting the vertical or horizontal hold to watch it.
1 tv with 2 channels for the whole house.
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…..
Yeah but the talking clock never accepted the charges
Could have just reversed the call😊
How many times do I have to say it? No positive posts please lol 😂
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.
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.
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.
Wallpaper...everywhere
Phone boxes, and needing a bagful of loose change to make long distance call😒
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.
Smoking inside service buildings..oh wait..never mind...ppl vaping indoors to their hearts content- wrecks me
Kneecapping
no more 10c jellies!! Or cadet sodas. 🤣 20c fredo bars gone. no way your mammy can send you to the shop for fags.
No long dole Qs
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