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There is a generation that has not grown up with .......

  • 15-11-2020 2:24am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭PGE1970


    I was 50 this year. It makes you think.

    I look at my kids.

    For me they they are a generation that has not grown up with nor know.......

    The Smiths

    Only Fools and Horses

    Abject Unemployment

    Anyone else?


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭drake70


    Dial-up internet access :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Count themselves lucky if they never hear The Smiths.
    A band for cunts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,627 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Reading about a band for ages before you actually got a chance to listen to them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Writing a letter to someone


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Going to the video library , renting your video, getting it home to discover its crap


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Every generation of the million years of human evolution up until the 1980s grew up without Only Fools And Horses and The Smiths. And all the other stuff that defines your formative years.

    This generation, and every one after then for the next million years of human evolution, will get in just fine without them too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Looking through a telephone directory or the Golden Pages (yellow pages) for a number or service.
    Ordering items from a paper catalogue over the phone or by post.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    My wife's friends 13 year old daughter doesn't know how to turn on an oven or butter bread. I do blame the (single) mother but I fear there is a generation coming up that don't have basic skills in self sufficiency. They are more concerned with men having periods


  • Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Visiting or phoning a travel agent to book a holiday or flight.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,413 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    I’m sure current and future generations will get on just fine without all the crap of previous generations. After all there are a lot of 50+ year olds that don’t know how to solder a hole in a bucket with a fire iron, or an electric one for that matter... replace a valve in a radio or fix a tv... all skill that were thought to be useful when I were a boy.


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  • My wife's friends 13 year old daughter doesn't know how to turn on an oven or butter bread. I do blame the (single) mother but I fear there is a generation coming up that don't have basic skills in self sufficiency. They are more concerned with men having periods (which is mental illness)

    Sure look she’s a kid still. She might not be able to use an oven, but there’s adults just over twice her age who can’t use most modern technology effortlessly. These are skills she‘ll learn in time. My brother didn’t figure out how an oven works till the day before he left to college at 18.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,412 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Having to tax your car at the motor taxation office. It was basically a smoke filled piss laden aired fooking kip that you had to fill in a form that took a good 10 minutes despite the fact you just wanted to add another years tax to your car you already owned based on the registration xyz123.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    the misery of endless remorseless political correctness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭smurf492


    Buttered popcorn at the cinema...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭smurf492


    Good music.. The 80s and 90s are amazing compared to the shtie today


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,412 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    smurf492 wrote: »
    Buttered popcorn at the cinema...


    UCI still do or did, I will not financially support a cinema not offering it, pure delish :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭smurf492


    UCI still do or did, I will not financially support a cinema not offering it, pure delish


    Dublin.. Not for me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭smurf492


    Values.. Or responsibility.. Fcuk I never thought I'd say that as I'm not a codger, just turned middle age.. :) but christ the twenty odds these days are like zombies. In jobs and in general..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,537 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    PGE1970 wrote: »

    The Smiths

    Awful
    PGE1970 wrote: »

    Only Fools and Horses

    Awful
    PGE1970 wrote: »

    Abject Unemployment

    Awful

    Anything you think newer generations have missed thats worth actually experiencing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,537 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    UCI still do or did, I will not financially support a cinema not offering it, pure delish :D

    UCI ceased to exist about eight years ago. So your idea of "did" is not even vaguely useful.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭zanador


    smurf492 wrote: »
    Values.. Or responsibility.. Fcuk I never thought I'd say that as I'm not a codger, just turned middle age.. :) but christ the twenty odds these days are like zombies. In jobs and in general..

    I couldn't disagree more, when I went back as a mature student a few years ago all the kids (who'd be in their 20s now) were working at least one job, volunteering in at least one scheme and were way more confident and put together at their age than my generation were (I was born late 70s).

    My 15 year old and his mates are so clued in and aware of themselves and others.


    I love young people, we're leaving them with an awful burden globally and I think we should just support them however we can.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Recoding songs from the radio onto a cassette and praying the DJ wouldn’t start talking


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    Phoning people at specific times. You knew everyone's routine. There was no mobile phone or catch-up TV so you had to phone someone's house when they weren't at football or something good wasn't on TV. Every social meeting was organised in advance. I don't think kids are missing out by not having mobiles or catch up TV but it doesn't help their organisational or communication skills.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭Stateofyou


    Reading maps and memorising routes to get from A to B. Cursing the lack of road signs and bad directions!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭juneg


    Using a rotary dial phone. Using a pay phone. Relying on a book or an encyclopedia for your information.
    Instant Communications in general is the massive change


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    drake70 wrote: »
    Dial-up internet access :eek:

    no internet access ! going to phone box to ring your mates who had phones


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭GhostyMcGhost


    Going to the video library , renting your video, getting it home to discover its crap

    Or not rewound


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭Sam Hain


    L1011 wrote: »
    Awful



    Awful



    Awful

    Anything you think newer generations have missed thats worth actually experiencing?

    Wow, you just sound like an older version of the newer generation, some sort of hybrid.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Or not rewound


    Or your player mangles it, then dropping it back saying nothing...


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭lemonTrees


    Cancel culture.

    It genuinely is one of the most insidious things about the modern world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    My wife's friends 13 year old daughter doesn't know how to turn on an oven or butter bread.

    My 11 year old daughter bakes twice a week, completely independently. She looks up the recipe herself, goes down to the shop herself to buy any ingredients we don’t have with her own money, uses the mixer and oven herself. Our dishwasher is currently broken, and yesterday she washed everything up by herself after. The stuff she bakes is genuinely delicious, and there’s a few recipes she knows totally off by heart now, so she can bake perfect shortbread cookies and fairy cakes without looking up the recipe at all. But just as my example isn’t typical of the entire current generation of tweens, yours isn’t too.

    Every generation fears that the upcoming generations aren’t as good as them. If boards are been around in 1980, our parents generation would be on it complaining that hat the kids are all listening to crap like The Smiths and they don’t know what real music like Elvis is. How we’re all wasting our time playing with Action Man and Sindy dolls stupid plastic Lego, and don’t know what a real toy like Mechano with lead paint is. If boards had been around in 1940, their parents would be on it complaining that the “kids today” are so pampered that they don’t even get jobs in coal mines at 12, and they wouldn’t know a good Count John McCormack gramophone record if the Kaiser threw it at them.

    There’s differences between every generation, and it can be fun to point them out. But let’s not pretend that civilisation is ending with the current one. There’s stuff that they will absolutely run rings around us with. They’ll be the ones on here in 2060 complaining complaining about how their stupid parents can’t even program a hologram, or that they still keep reaching for the gearstick in the flying car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Cushtie


    no internet access ! going to phone box to ring your mates who had phones

    Or ringing the phone box and asking the person who answered it to get Mary at no 27 and hoping no one would come on in the meantime and hang it up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭logically


    Jim2007 wrote: »
    I’m sure current and future generations will get on just fine without all the crap of previous generations. After all there are a lot of 50+ year olds that don’t know how to solder a hole in a bucket with a fire iron, or an electric one for that matter... replace a valve in a radio or fix a tv... all skill that were thought to be useful when I were a boy.

    Can the OP not start a 'reeling in the years' type thread for a bit of entertainment and reminiscing on things that came to his mind without the Buzzkill D'Arcy type response ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭rockatansky


    Your Face wrote: »
    Count themselves lucky if they never hear The Smiths.
    A band for cunts.

    It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.

    Yours sincerely

    A Cunt


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Cushtie


    Another one in our local. Was when the phone would ring the girl Inside the bar would ask "who is here?" before she answered it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    My wife's friends 13 year old daughter doesn't know how to turn on an oven or butter bread. I do blame the (single) mother but I fear there is a generation coming up that don't have basic skills in self sufficiency. They are more concerned with men having periods (which is mental illness)

    I shared a house with someone 15 years ago who was afraid to switch on the gas fire or oven. She was from a county (the same one as me) that doesn't have natural gas available. She was 'afraid' of it, apparently. While she was younger than I she was no child either. She"d be about 40 now. She was bone idle, round the house as well - never once lifted a finger to clean up after herself. My point being, it's not just the kids now who are like that. There"s always been a cohort of useless adults and there always will and they'll always find some mug to 'mind' them.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    My 11 year old daughter bakes twice a week, completely independently. She looks up the recipe herself, goes down to the shop herself to buy any ingredients we don’t have with her own money, uses the mixer and oven herself.

    Ah you were doing so well....

    (Only messin- fair play to her. Mine is the same, a great life skill)


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    Music wasn't better or worse at anytime, it's just the good songs keep getting played. We'll forget all the crap from this decade just as much as we've forgotten the crap from previous decades.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭ZV Yoda


    It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.

    Yours sincerely

    A Cunt

    There’s always someone somewhere (with a big nose) who knows
    Who’ll trip you up and laugh when you fall


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    Blowing into videogame cartridges in the forlorn hope that it'll make them work.

    Praying that the Playstation would get beyond the little start-up jingle and load the disc.

    Phone cards. Phone boxes. Actually smelled of piss most of the time but how and ever. Being able to go out the door in the morning with no more than "I'll be back later" and just play outside for hours with friends. Dial-up internet sounds and connecting at 31k on IOL most of the time. Floppy disks.

    Mobile phones that were the size of bricks and were just phones. AERTEL telly text. Looking for football results on that. Movies that weren't remakes or reinterpretations all the time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Going to the video library , renting your video, getting it home to discover its crap

    Probably should've checked the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes first :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭CountNjord


    Geography, history, mythology, heritage...

    The country side, robbing orchards, picking black berries, getting sick from foraging...

    The bitter tastes of a sloe, popping fuchsia flower's, getting lost...

    Getting a good shlap, wearing wellies and still getting them full of water.

    Finding porn mags dumped in the bushes, that was like a treasure trove in the 80's for lads...

    I remember when a rubber Jonnie would appear somewhere half the school would be looking at it, then the usual messer would pick it up with a stick and chase someone with it.

    The famous five, the hardy boys, the fall guy ..

    Lighting fire's and cooking sausages on a stick.

    Smoking John Player Blue at 11, the first one you'd cough then after that they're ok although Major were a smooth smoke..

    Oh the childhood of the 80's we were tough, rugged and had more cuts and bruises and never had to go to A and E.

    Haunted houses, creepy woods, chased by bulls, eating ice from a puddle.

    Catching crow's, building forts, territorial area's controlled by kids from different parts of the town, scermishes with kids from different parts of town.

    Calling teen-agers name's and getting chased and maybe held there when we're caught by the mods or rockers, the ska guys were the worst..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,361 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Being slowly gassed to sleep by a superser in the sitting room

    Wallpaper on school books

    Giant ashtrays on brass stands (that may or may not spin)

    That heavy duty plastic covering that everyone used to protect their carpets

    How to expertly untangle a VHS tape when it got eaten by the video recorder.

    Frosties sweets


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Corporal punishment.

    Abject awe and fear of the church and its henchmen and women.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,216 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    Outside toilet in the yard or at the bottom of the garden.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,617 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Without phones and communication literally everywhere. When I started out driving a truck at 18 there were no phones and you only had a tiny handful of phone boxes that you could stop with a truck at.
    So you’d leave home and that was it, if you got broke down or whatever you just had to sort it yourself.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,489 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    PGE1970 wrote: »
    I was 50 this year. It makes you think.

    I look at my kids.

    For me they they are a generation that has not grown up with nor know.......

    The Smiths

    Only Fools and Horses

    Abject Unemployment

    Anyone else?

    You can put on The Smith's and OFAH any time you want to let them experience them.

    As for abject unemployment, the next ten years will make the 80s seem like a dream.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭Valresnick


    Don’t write off this generation just yet. They may have grown up without a lot of skills from the past but they are making up for that with their awareness of our planet. Sure, there are a few bad apples and lazy kids around but I know many a 50 year old person who can barely make a dinner and has awful taste in music. Every generation blames the one before ! Great song !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    Holes in the soles of their shoes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Valresnick wrote: »
    Don’t write off this generation just yet. They may have grown up without a lot of skills from the past but they are making up for that with their awareness of our planet.

    It's strange that pre Covid they weren't sacrificing school ski trips to northern Italy for the good of the planet.


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