Things that have changed in Ireland over the last 30 years

Triangla wrote: »

Dog poo was white before because dogs would be chewing on meaty bones day and night.

Dogs get fed well now so no more white poo. Plus less bones for them to chew on, mostly plastic toys.

Get fed well now? Ehhh no. Meaty bones are far better for them, compared to the meat flavoured weetabix most dogs get today.


Differences I've seen? People tend to want instant gratification more and are more impatient. You see this in the media. While episodic series have story arcs the individual episodes need to be more standalone.

In Ireland people drink far booze more than they did in the early 80's and there are many more outlets for buying booze. Plus the style of drinking has changed. My dad liked wine, literally a glass a day, but he was considered odd in his choice. Before you had less daily drinking. Now people are happy to admit necking a bottle a wine of an evening, most evenings.

The church still held a lot of sway. Stories of moving statues today would have people pissing themselves with derisive laughter and scorn(rightfully. Any half educated person in the west believing in such was a gibbering eejit). There was a lot of "father Ted is a documentary" stuff going on.

The roads were quieter and you saw far fewer BMW's and Mercs. Cars didn't last long either. A ten year old car would have been a rarity.

Kids tended to be more physical in play as computer gaming was in it's infancy as a mainstream toy.

There was a much bigger gulf between urban and rural Ireland. Today with modern coms that's pretty much gone.

Far fewer people ate takeaways and when they did it was from the chipper. Maccydees had barely kicked off in Dublin and Chinese stuff was rare enough too.

Fewer people travelled for it's own sake. No off to Oz for a year kinda thing.

Fewer big bands came here for gigs and movies were often out at least six months in the states before here.

Casual sex was much harder to get and people were generally older before they got any at all. I'd reckon of my sixth year buddies in 85, just over a hundred blokes, ten if that weren't virgins.

*edit* people are definitely fatter than they were, men and women. The "fat bloke" in my year was carrying a couple of extra stone and a round babyface, but he'd barely register as tubby today. Of the women I knew I can only think of one who was over size 14 and most were size 10.