Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
Worrying about that little rent/mortgage guy with his pink receipts getting robbed...again!
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
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.
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?
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.
Robbing apples from orchards. We would always go too early when they were inedible. Just hungry I guess. Or a fear of scurvy.
we had single pane glass in the 1970 and 80 - waking up,with ice on the inside of,the glass after frosty nights
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.
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.
I think that's a bad thing now, shows there is a lot less insects, which is bad.
Lot less white dog poop nowadays
I witnessed that happening two weeks ago in my estate. It wasn't successful, though.
Lost art.
Children with one lens of spectacles taped over to cure "lazy eye".
"Tartans".
Limbless ex-servicemen in Remembrance Sunday parades.
Angel Delight.
Smokers with yellow finger-ends.
Leaded Petrol, Seat Belts existence/compliance. Really, and I mean really bald tyres and 'Ply Tyres'. Optional Handbrakes. Topping up brake fluid and checking dip sticks for oil levels every week. Liam Brady advertising 'Havolin Motor Oil' on TV. Actually, there could be a full thread on motoring differences…
Waiting years to get a telephone installed. For those fortunate enough to afford a phone.
Absolutely sh*t roads that were little better than goat tracks in places connecting our cities. Back roads filled with potholes, some so big they were impassible.
Widespread drink driving.
It a song was on MTV alot it would be a hit .physical media ,not many people go to a show to buy CDs or DVDs ,most games are bought by digital downloads .there would be one PC in a room to access the internet now most people use wifi on laptops or phones people buying
Magazines with game demos on a CD or DVD-ROM to play on PC or console
No central heating and having to leave the warmth of the fire downstairs to go to bed. Single glazed windows with frost in the inside in the mornings.
I remember game would need to be loaded from a cassette. Might be 15-25 minutes wait for some games and you hope it would work
Piling 4 or 5 kids into the back of a car. Sure one of them could just stand in the middle. I remember going on one trip with a couple of us sitting in the boot to make room (it was an estate car).
Fog of smoke in the cinema as half of the customers had a cigarette.
I applied for a passport renewal online. It took 10 minutes. A few days later and I have the tracking for the delivery. And I'm in Germany. I'm honestly amazed that I managed to renew a passport when i am abroad and it was so easy. I even took my own photo, with my phone.
Waiting for hours at night in Dublin to get a taxi home.
Fog of smoke in the car as well.
A "loosey" - One cigarette and a match for 10p on the way to school - the ciggie lasted you all say!!
Both my daughters had these up until 5 years ago - still see a few kids with them.
For Reg was long gone by then though. And I don't think the year made as much a difference in the mid/late 80s? That sort of silliness didn't kick off till the Celtic Tiger. Plus For Reg was there in the old system too I'm fairly sure, when the new year was irrelevant
Having to head to gig, disco or pub on your own as your friend didn't show up at arranged place and hoping you would bump into them there. H
And word would get around of a new issue with codes in it and you'd head in and write down the codes instead of buying the magazine. BSTARD was a cheat code for the original GTA. I'll never forget that one!
love this one…and yet the improvement and in some cases eradication of those examples which has massively improved our lives is now lumped in with ‘pc gone mad’ and the ‘green/liberal agenda’ 🤦♂️
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