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

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    #32
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    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.



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    #33
    ruth...less
    Registered Users Posts: 989 ✭✭✭ruth...less


    Dogs roaming around especially on bin day when the bins were just black bags piled up outside...

    I was a television version of a person with a broken heart...



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    #34
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Pushing cars to get them to start.



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    #35
    ruth...less
    Registered Users Posts: 989 ✭✭✭ruth...less


    Worrying about that little rent/mortgage guy with his pink receipts getting robbed...again!

    I was a television version of a person with a broken heart...



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    #36
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,292 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    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




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    #37
    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,737 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122046912#Comment_122046912

    I agree. The advant of the modern computer has just made people lazy and less ambitious

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047596#Comment_122047596

    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.



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    #38
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    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?



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    #39
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,981 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047839#Comment_122047839

    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.



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    #40
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users Posts: 8,886 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Robbing apples from orchards. We would always go too early when they were inedible. Just hungry I guess. Or a fear of scurvy.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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    #41
    Grassy Knoll
    Registered Users Posts: 288 ✭✭Grassy Knoll


    we had single pane glass in the 1970 and 80 - waking up,with ice on the inside of,the glass after frosty nights



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    #42
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,659 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    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.

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    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.

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    #43
    jmreire
    Registered Users Posts: 8,355 ✭✭✭jmreire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047876#Comment_122047876

    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.



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    #44
    suvigirl
    Registered Users Posts: 7,046 ✭✭✭suvigirl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047783#Comment_122047783

    I think that's a bad thing now, shows there is a lot less insects, which is bad.



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    #45
    suvigirl
    Registered Users Posts: 7,046 ✭✭✭suvigirl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047797#Comment_122047797

    Lot less white dog poop nowadays



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    #46
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,517 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047798#Comment_122047798

    I witnessed that happening two weeks ago in my estate. It wasn't successful, though.



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    #47
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,941 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047954#Comment_122047954

    Lost art.



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    #48
    Duke of Schomberg
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭Duke of Schomberg


    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.



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    #49
    In the old days
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭In the old days


    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…



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    #50
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,659 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    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.



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    #51
    thereiver
    Registered Users Posts: 224 ✭✭thereiver


    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



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    #52
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    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.



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    #53
    Trampas
    Registered Users Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭Trampas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048098#Comment_122048098

    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



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    #54
    timetogo1
    Registered Users Posts: 853 ✭✭✭timetogo1


    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.



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    #55
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122046890#Comment_122046890

    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.



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    #56
    Ted222
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭Ted222


    Waiting for hours at night in Dublin to get a taxi home.



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    #57
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048142#Comment_122048142

    Fog of smoke in the car as well.



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    #58
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,617 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    A "loosey" - One cigarette and a match for 10p on the way to school - the ciggie lasted you all say!!



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    #59
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,617 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048056#Comment_122048056

    Children with one lens of spectacles taped over to cure "lazy eye".

    Both my daughters had these up until 5 years ago - still see a few kids with them.



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    #60
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047938#Comment_122047938

    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

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    #61
    Photobox
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Photobox


    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



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