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

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    #62
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


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

    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!



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    #63
    Doc07
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Doc07


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047923#Comment_122047923

    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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    #64
    Doc07
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Doc07


    replied to wrong post



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    #65
    Doc07
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Doc07


    This is brilliant example and basically describes all my family holidays in the 80s



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    #66
    z80CPU
    Registered Users Posts: 572 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    That CIE locomotive broke down at Manulla junction , the one that is to take you from there to Ballina. A second locomotive will haul all the passengers in a single coach along with the broken down loco. Every minute or so there is a loud bang from the very overloaded Deisel engine of the single loco also hauling the dead one. This trip will go through the night to Foxford, at a pace of 25 mph. At that point, passengers for Ballina train station are put on a clapped out Mercedes minibus. Some days later, intending passengers for the train at Ballina train station are put on the same clapped out minibus. An very angry senior citizen gives out to the driver as if this will magically change things. I believe we were brought to Ballyhaunis to pick up th train to Dublin.

    April 1989.



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    #67
    BrianD3
    Registered Users Posts: 8,300 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Driving back from NI with a "smuggled" 14 inch TV in the car and praying that Mr Customs wouldn't jump out from behind a bush to nab you as you crossed the border.



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    #68
    mykrodot
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭mykrodot


    I loved the nineties, life was simpler then.



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    #69
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users Posts: 7,854 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


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

    at least ye had a bin collection.

    Back in the 80s or early 90s we brought the rubbish to the dump, and of course never on a special spin but when we were on the way to visit the relatives so as kids you had stinking weeks old rubbish inches behind your head in the boot.

    And as the last post mentioned, meeting up with someone was a matter of staying in a place for ages till they turned up, and as a backup you'd have an arrangement to leave a message with your folks or their folks that you could ring with a 20p from a payphone if needs be.

    Thats of course for those who had phones, and it wasnt that uncommon for houses to not have a phone.



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    #70
    z80CPU
    Registered Users Posts: 572 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    Dad driving up North on business in his Mk1 Ford Escort and queuing at the border to have his car reg reported by a British Soldier into his radio and then waved on.



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    #71
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,165 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122046992#Comment_122046992

    No power cuts? Obviously you were not there!



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    #72
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048342#Comment_122048342

    ah that’s an easy one to sort - get the retailer to issue you with a “shop soiled” receipt for an amount under the limit (I think that might have been £120 or so if memory serves?



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    #73
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users Posts: 8,761 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    I forgot about going to the dump. We would drive up to the dump at night with the car lights off as we got closer. Then we would turn off the car and wait quietly for 5 mins. Then full beams and gasp at the number of rats moving in the rubbish. The dump was literally alive. Amazing but scary too! You'd dare not open the car door.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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    #74
    Bluefoam
    Registered Users Posts: 7,718 ✭✭✭Bluefoam


    No sense of community



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    #75
    RoboRat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭RoboRat


    The Gardai telling you not to have that fifth pint… 4 was ok… 5 was bad!

    Having to go to Aertel to get footie results and the inevitable waiting.

    Dinners being kept warm on a pot of boiling water and ending up as mush.

    Smoking on a plane/ train / bus.

    Loading PC games via tape (ughhhh the torment).

    That noise that came from a PC when you used the internet via phone connection.

    The crap internet.

    Encyclopedias

    The phone book / yellow pages

    The [insert washing powder brand] doorstep challenge



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    #76
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    Getting stopped and searched going into large department stores in Belfast by armed RUC officers.

    Petrol robbed from car petrol tanks at night throughout the petrol shortage




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    #77
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    The Gardai telling you not to have that fifth pint… 4 was ok… 5 was bad!

    That's an urban myth fortunately - it's a Mitchell and Webb joke

    https://www.thejournal.ie/factcheck-1972-drink-driving-poster-3725712-Nov2017/



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    #78
    GBX
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    Shop lifting… way too many security cameras nowadays



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    #79
    jmreire
    Registered Users Posts: 8,338 ✭✭✭jmreire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048203#Comment_122048203

    I used the 1999-2000 years as an example, but yes that practice was long gone by then. But i still remember a man who bought his new car in Oct-Nov and was for-regging it hoping to make Jan of the new year. But about the 3rd week into Dec, the Guards made him register it! But even now, it's possible to buy in late autumn, and delay registering until the new year, as long as iit'snot on the road.



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    #80
    z80CPU
    Registered Users Posts: 572 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    Sudden closures of multinational companies like Ferenka in Limerick and of course the PMPA cue the pasty flabbergasted face of the PMPA CEO on the front of a main Irish newspaper. Loads of car owners had to scramble for new insurance.



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    #81
    yagan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭yagan


    Parish envelopes.

    Edit to add my parents stopped giving them money after Eamon Casey as they'd given money when we had very little while Eamon Casey was funding his kids expensive education in the US.



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    #82
    griffin100
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭griffin100


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

    Whilst both you and they were smoking on the upstairs of the bus.



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    #83
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,045 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Being the human remote control. We had 7 buttons on our old (first) tv in the 80s as far as I remember and had that tv for many years. You'd be told to 'see what's on'.

    Press button 1 on the front of the tv, wait for a few seconds til you were told to go on, press 2. Rinse and repeat through however many channels we had at the time while also trying not to stand in the way of the screen so your parents could see what was on. I still remember what was on each:

    #1 RTE1

    #2 Network 2 when it came along

    #3 UTV

    #4 BBC1

    #5 BBC2

    #6 Channel4

    #7 Sky - the excitement of a channel to fill the last button when it eventually came. Note it wasn't Sky1 or Sky News or Sky Sports, it was just 'Sky' 😁

    We didn't have all of those channels from the start but they came along eventually. While I was still pushing the buttons 😀



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    #84
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,045 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    The dirt that would come out of my hair when I washed it over the bath (does anyone do that any more?) due to the smog and smoke outside from open fires in homes and fumes from cars, at least that's what I assume it was. I lived in an urban area so walking to school and wherever else you'd be around a lot of homes with fires burning for heat.

    Another thing - waking up on a winter's morning and trying to get dressed as quickly as possible in front of the two bar heater in your bedroom because there was no central heating and the fire wouldn't be lit that early in the morning. Brrr.

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    #85
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048524#Comment_122048524

    yeah I forgot a lot of the conductors smoked so they’d head upstairs every so often



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    #86
    black & white
    Registered Users Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭black & white


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048117#Comment_122048117

    I remember banking up the fire with wet slack so it would stay burning all night, a lost art nowadays. I wonder if you can even buy slack anymore ?



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    #87
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048563#Comment_122048563

    I learned about slack when in student accommodation - did the job nicely of keeping the fire going for as long as possible and giving us the heat we needed so desperately



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    #88
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,481 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048529#Comment_122048529

    Did you have Super Channel too (probably around 1987)? That had some great music after midnight, for an impressionable young teenager like myself. I particularly remember The Fall, The Wedding Present and Laibach, and you wouldn't have seen them anywhere else.



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    #89
    GloriaBog
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭GloriaBog


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048460#Comment_122048460

    Just two will do was the advert that we remember here.



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    #90
    yagan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭yagan


    Bit of a dark one but just casual violence by teachers against pupils being kinda of acceptable.

    I was lucky as the most notorious brutes always seemed to go too far in the year before I had them and they were on watch. My older brothers told me that a religious order teacher broke a kids arm off the runner that held the blackboard duster, turned out the kids dad was in the local barracks and a personal visit put an end to that level of violence.

    He was still sadistic and I dreaded my turn in his class, but the very year it was my turn in his class he was mysteriously no longer a teacher and was confined to admin duty in the school.



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    #91
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Being asked by dad to change the channel... Getting up, walking over to the 14 inch b&w grundig & pushing the relevant button.

    We had one with a dial selector at one stage rather than push buttons.

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