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I feel bad for the kids of today

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  • #2
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Nearly all the things on that list are crap things to miss.

    I'm 44 and miss hardly any.

    Out of curiousity OP, how old are you?


  • #3
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sure you might as well say kids in my youth (1940s and 50s) never experienced the Victorian toys or games. At least kids today also don't have to experience the bad things in life that the current era has reduced or eliminated.


  • #4
    Eutow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭Eutow


    There was nothing good about mini-discs, or waiting 15 minutes for a computer game to load.


  • #5
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    I've never heard of half of this stuff not to mind my children.


  • #6
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    I feel bad for children and young people today because they can't get away with anything without it being recorded and uploaded, shared, and judged for it, a permanent digital reminder of their naivety and occasional stupidity that follows them long into adulthood.


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  • #7
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    humberklog wrote: »
    Nearly all the things on that list are crap things to miss.

    I'm 44 and miss hardly any.

    Out of curiousity OP, how old are you?

    I'm older than that and I don't miss any.

    They really went to the bottom of the barrel to reach 100 didn't they?
    Fentucky Fried Chicken instead of KFC - ffs


  • #8
    The Strawman Argument
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    Eutow wrote: »
    There was nothing good about mini-discs, or waiting 15 minutes for a computer game to load.
    The article doesn't claim there is either. OP's either joking or has some serious nostalgia issues.

    "Remember wires! All the fun we had as kids, untangling wires, connecting things together! Oh, kids today'll never know that kind of fun! :("


  • #9
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    I'm older than that and I don't miss any.

    They really went to the bottom of the barrel to reach 100 didn't they?
    Fentucky Fried Chicken instead of KFC - ffs

    It reads like a list compiled by someone who didn't exist when the items existed.


  • #10
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    An old drunk man once tried to converse with me at a bus stop by saying "you kids today... You have it all and you don't even know it. All the sex and the drugs and the Internet!" and here you are, OP, talking about VHS and square Lego bricks... Yes, I'm sure the kids today are miserable as their cousins instant message them from the other side of the world with a link to watch a movie on their iPad before it's even hit the cinema.


  • #11
    Eutow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭Eutow


    The Strawman Argument wrote: »
    The article doesn't claim there is either. OP's either joking or has some serious nostalgia issues.

    "Remember wires! All the fun we had as kids, untangling wires, connecting things together! Oh, kids today'll never know that kind of fun! :("


    Ah yes, and finding that the wire is too short, so you need an extension lead... Look at number 79 - days before the nanny state. Stupid list.


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  • #12
    Rough Sleeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Rough Sleeper


    Glad you posted this OP, if there's one thing the intenet's lacking it's yet another list-based article on pre-millenial life.

    Seriously, this **** has long since gone from nostalgic to twee. I grew up in the 90s and while my childhood was happy I still remember how much it sucked when the tape from your cassette got tangled or when you had to blow into your NES cartridges for 45 minutes just to get quick game of Mario in. And where's all the talk about all the horrible stuff that went down? Maybe for the sake of balance we should see more articles like "1,000,000 butchered Rwandans who never got to see the turn of the century."


  • #13
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
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    I used to love Clackers, the amount of smacks on the wrist I got from them things :(


  • #15
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?


    Flagons, bein able to buy loose smokes, knowin who would take Butter vouchers for smokes..............


  • #16
    The Backwards Man
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    I'm well in my 30s and I don't remember many of them


  • #17
    Tail Docker
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    Nodin wrote: »
    Flagons, bein able to buy loose smokes, knowin who would take Butter vouchers for smokes..............

    I was more about hacking across muddy fields on a bay gelding and reading up about the life of Tolkien, the Col bitar and Jack Dempsey, but yeah, I get what you're saying.


  • #18
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I'm well in my 30s and I don't remember many of them

    :eek: LIAR!! :pac::D


  • #19
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I'm well in my 30s and I don't remember many of them

    Some of them never caught on, tbh.


  • #20
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?

    Have to agree with you on the climbing trees thing. There's trees opposite my home and not once have I seen a child climb them. It does annoy me somewhat that people can stream new series before they're on TV. Any show you watch is spoiled by the internet.


  • #21
    SilverScreen
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    A complete waste of a thread. The stuff mentioned in that article is just redundant technology, apart from vinyl which has risen in sales over the past decade. Technology comes and goes and kids aren't loosing out on anything. There's tons of stuff around now that I would have killed for when I was a teen.


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  • #22
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    SilverScreen wrote: »
    A complete waste of a thread. The stuff mentioned in that article is just redundant technology, apart from vinyl which has risen in sales over the past decade. Technology comes and goes and kids aren't loosing out on anything. There's tons of stuff around now that I would have killed for when I was a teen.

    Internet porn huh? :D


  • #23
    SilverScreen
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    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    Internet porn huh? :D
    Nah I had plenty of that when I was a teen ;) Took a while to download on dial-up though.


  • #24
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    "Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD."

    I have a DJ in the house at the moment who says that vinyl is very definitely back in fashion! Of course the article is already five years old - how were they to know that their list would be obsolete by 2014! :D


  • #25
    mad m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,051 ✭✭✭mad m


    Loved my ZX Spectrum....

    10 Print " Im the dogs bollox"
    20 goto 10
    30 end

    run........:)


    Well it's a bit hazy but something like that...


  • #26
    anncoates
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    The kids are just laughing at you.

    Which is the natural order of things.
    mad m wrote: »
    Loved my ZX Spectrum....

    10 Print " Im the dogs bollox"
    20 goto 10
    30 end

    run........:)


    Well it's a bit hazy but something like that...

    I did that too on my Atari 800 XL but let's be honest, it was shite and you got bored doing it after 2 minutes.


  • #27
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    mad m wrote: »
    Loved my ZX Spectrum....

    10 Print " Im the dogs bollox"
    20 goto 10
    30 end

    run........:)


    Well it's a bit hazy but something like that...

    I did too. Though if I had one now I think after about 20 minutes of the novelty/nostalgia I'd realise that they were great in their day but now a bit meh.

    Remember loading a game on it from a tape deck. Sometimes it would, sometimes no. Then to save the game, to another tape. Sometimes OK, other times not so much and then finding the saved game again.

    OK I'm over it now.:)


  • #28
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    Kids these days, jaysus even 25 year olds, will never know the unbridled joy, general madness and pure pandemonium of italia '90.

    They'll also never know the sheer panic of ringing a girls house only for her parents to answer.

    And that list is awful. No. 35 says kids these days will never know what it's like to record music in a studio?! Wtf!


  • #29
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    72 still happens. I lie it's usually the phone company.


  • #30
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    :eek: LIAR!! :pac::D

    In his 40s eek


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
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    Nodin wrote: »
    Flagons, bein able to buy loose smokes, knowin who would take Butter vouchers for smokes..............

    I used to buy my loose major in the van shops in Ballymun.


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