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

  • 15-11-2020 2:24am
    #1
    PGE1970
    Registered Users Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭


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


    Dial-up internet access :eek:


  • #3
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


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


  • #4
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,319 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


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


  • #5
    alchemist33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Writing a letter to someone


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


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


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  • #7
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,895 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭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


  • #10
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Vita nova


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


  • #11
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 9,981 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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  • #12
    Raichu
    Registered Users Posts: 7,502 ✭✭✭Raichu


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    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.


  • #13
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,058 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    the misery of endless remorseless political correctness.


  • #15
    smurf492
    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭smurf492


    Buttered popcorn at the cinema...


  • #16
    smurf492
    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭smurf492


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


  • #17
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,058 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #18
    smurf492
    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭smurf492


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


    Dublin.. Not for me


  • #19
    smurf492
    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭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..


  • #20
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #21
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    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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  • #22
    zanador
    Registered Users 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.


  • #23
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


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


  • #24
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,391 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.



  • #25
    Stateofyou
    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!


  • #26
    juneg
    Registered Users 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


  • #27
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,276 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


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

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

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #28
    GhostyMcGhost
    Registered Users Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭GhostyMcGhost


    MikeOxsgreen wrote: »
    Going to the video library , renting your video, getting it home to discover its crap

    Or not rewound


  • #29
    Sam Hain
    Registered Users 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.


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    GhostyMcGhost wrote: »
    Or not rewound


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


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  • #31
    lemonTrees
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭lemonTrees


    Cancel culture.

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


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