School 1970 V 2010

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

1970 School kids had to put up with travelling to school in dirty ancient black and tan diesel trains and post war busses that one had to enter through a corner corner in the rear. :eek:

I was a schoolkid in the 70's. Cooool buses they were. Jump on, jump off.

2010 Electric trains, bus lanes and a modern fleet.

Yep indeedy. Dublin bus's old name CIE was better and would still work today, since experience showed it stood for Cycling Is Easier.

There was defo less PC bahollocks alright. When it came to kids being kids anyway. That said if Fr Joe was interfering with said kids nada would be said(though I have to say I heard nary even a sniff of that when I was a kid). The church still ruled in most ways, but even under that people largely ignored them, except for the forelock tuggers whom we are destined to be cursed with forever more. Prices were changing all the time. When I started school a coke was 8 pence, when I finished it was 50. Ahh inflation, I knew thee well.

One thing I do note on thinking back, a helluva lot less allergies and asthmatic kids. In my entire year there was one, just one kid who had hay fever and asthma. Nice bloke, but considered unusual and even as kids(who can be cnuts at best) we looked out for him. Now every third kid is huffing inhalers or allergic to something or other. Better diagnosis? I call shenanigans on that one. Asthma can be a serious illness so why weren't many of my classmates falling over wheezing to death? Pollution and ciggy smoke causes it? I call arse to that too. Before the smokeless fuel act Dublin at least was a lot more smokey. No catalytic converters on leaded fuel cars either. And smoking? You could smoke anywhere. Hell I recall my dad visiting an uncle in hospital and my dad having a ciggy in the waiting room. CInemas? No bother. Pubs? well of course. A lot less of the numpties with such sensitive noses they can smell tobacco smoke from 20 metres away. :rolleyes: When you see some complain of people smoking in their cars and they smell it in their own following cars? Jesus wept..... Get a bloody life. I note some diffs with fat kids. The "fat lad" in my year was by some of todays standards barely carrying puppy fat. Ditto for adults. There was defo less fat people.

I think it was a safer time, if even in the public perception. Women had a lot less rights though which is also arse. That is a very welcome change.

The smoking room in my school kept going until 1990 and yea no way could you have that now. Can you imagine the outcry?:eek::eek::eek: