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

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  • #52
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Recoding songs from the radio onto a cassette and praying the DJ wouldn’t start talking

    To this day, whenever I hear particular songs I expect to hear Dave fanning at the end of my recording.


  • #53
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


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

    A crack on the head
    Is just what you get
    Why, because of who you are

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #54
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,343 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    "Meet you under Clerys clock at 9."

    And at 9 o clock when there's no sign of them you don't know if they're only around the corner, stuck in the bus, forgotten about you or dead.


  • #55
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Far too much smiths bashing for my liking in here...


  • #56
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    .....only 2 sexes.


  • #57
    Stateofyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭Stateofyou


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    .....only 2 sexes.

    Only 2 that you were aware of. This has never been true. I think the term you probably meant was gender. Same answer.


  • #58
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Padre_Pio wrote: »
    "Meet you under Clerys clock at 9."

    And at 9 o clock when there's no sign of them you don't know if they're only around the corner, stuck in the bus, forgotten about you or dead.

    People ALWAYS turned up thou - unless there was a death. And you see huddles of people waiting and lots of singles -
    hoping in anticipation their date was a hot as when they made the plan the previous Saturday night at 2am!!

    Free refills of coffee.

    Not having to have change for the bus - the conductor would pay you back before you got off or let you off if they didn’t have it at the time.

    Powerstrikes where people used candles.

    Automatic emigration to tge cousin in the US or boat & train/bus to the UK when you left school/college. Everyone gone.

    Waiting for the second post for something important like a job reply.

    Seasonal only products in shops - Strawberries,
    Cadbury Cream eggs, caramel Whispas.


  • #59
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    The excitement when some lad In your class brought in a page torn out of a porn mag and it gets passed around


  • #60
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Locks on the dial on the house phone!

    Applying for a second phone for the house from Eir/Eircom - and being told the waiting list for instillation was 8 months-2 years.


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  • #61
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


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

    Or doing that annoying thing the whole way through where the picture breaks up every ten or so seconds


  • #62
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Having to have an auntie or cousin in England get you anything you wanted from Argos or Boots.

    Having to get up and walk over to the tv to change the channels.


  • #63
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Windup toys.


  • #64
    Masala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,501 ✭✭✭Masala


    Thumbing a lift


  • #65
    Masala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,501 ✭✭✭Masala


    Throw in turf


  • #66
    tea and coffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭tea and coffee


    Bargain last minute holidays from Teletext


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  • #67
    dresden8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭dresden8


    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. 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 !

    My girlfriend's 17 year old has racked up more air miles than I have in 51 years. She blames me for global warming.


  • #68
    Dufflecoat Fanny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭Dufflecoat Fanny


    Pubic Lice


  • #69
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,890 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    Writing a letter to someone

    In the last year, I have received four hand-written messages, three through the post and one left by a guest on the mantlepiece, all written by twenty-somethings.
    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.

    You're right to blame the parent(s). It's the overprotective 30-50 year olds that won't let their children handle knives, fire, raw food, etc who are the threat to our existence. :pac:
    mojesius wrote: »
    Wallpaper on school books
    Wallpaper? :eek: So posh! Ours were wrapped with HWilliams brown paper bags turned inside out!


  • #70
    Fuascailteoir
    Registered Users Posts: 627 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    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. 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 !

    Awareness of the planet except for short life tech, fast fashion, cosmetics and travel


  • #71
    Valresnick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭Valresnick


    Fuascailteoir wrote: »
    Awareness of the planet except for short life tech, fast fashion, cosmetics and travel

    All driven and created by middle aged CEO’s who come from a very greedy power hungry generation.


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  • #72
    Rodin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    Taking responsibility for one's actions...


  • #73
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    findus crispy pancakes


  • #74
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Captain Havoc wrote: »
    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.

    I'm going to disagree and say what I've observed while staying with my Dad over the summer is that the opposite is true. Granted this is in the country whereas i live usually in the city, but neighbours and friends call in person or on the phone willy-nilly. Little care seems to be given to the time or what we might be doing. Also it seems the phone and door is answered no matter what.

    As a mid-thirties man, an unexpected phone call from a friend is very rare, and calls in person are even rarer. In fact the only unexpected calls to the house are a delivery I'd forgotten about or was earlier than expected. Also unless I'm expecting something, I have no problem letting either phone or door go if its inconvenient.


    "picking black berries".

    I picked blackberries yesterday.


  • #75
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,217 ✭✭✭✭briany


    GhostyMcGhost wrote: »
    Or not rewound

    Had a little trick to avoid that. Used to look at the tape before putting it in, and determine if it was rewound or not.


  • #76
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭storker


    Road Runner


  • #77
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Valresnick wrote: »
    All driven and created by middle aged CEO’s who come from a very greedy power hungry generation.

    People can choose not to buy these things, it's not compulsory.


  • #78
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,698 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Or doing that annoying thing the whole way through where the picture breaks up every ten or so seconds

    Tracking, tracking what where!?!

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #79
    CountNjord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭CountNjord


    There's no magic or flights of fantasy tollerated anymore.
    Like hauntings, cryptoids, different dimensional beings, Tir na Nog , and Irish mythology.

    Since I was a kid I've loved all that stuff, my niece love's when I tell her about Fairy fort's and leylines etc you can see her thinking about it, and she'll make up her own mind about it.

    People today rely on their peer's for information rather than drawing their own conclusions.

    We should be free to express ourselves, and if someone wants to slag you off fck em slag them back...

    Critical thinking is ok in moderation, but if one goes around constantly suspicious of society and people's agendas then you've no freedom.

    Nothing better than hopping on a unicorn and flying over rainbows and lollipops and sunshine everywhere and mist in the distance...

    If you're into fantasy and not harming anyone, embrace it because it's yours nobody else's :)


  • #80
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭COVID


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Windup toys.

    That has to be a wind-up.


  • #81
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    A bidet with matching sanitary ware in avocado


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  • #82
    Halenvaneddie
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭Halenvaneddie


    Sending handwritten love letters


  • #83
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Catholic Church oppression.


  • #84
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    MikeOxsgreen wrote: »
    Going to the video library , renting your video, getting it home to discover its crap
    Whatever happened to those who signed up for life membership of the video shop? Did they get a refund?


  • #85
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Black and white movies on the TV. Now all they show are recent crap from the last two decades. A generation who've never seen Marx Bros, Laurel & Hardy, Astaire and Rogers, Tarzan, film noir.


  • #86
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Corporal punishment.

    Abject awe and fear of the church and its henchmen and women.
    Never bothered me. Just ignored the ones who were *****


  • #87
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭COVID


    Playing 'Conkers' and having a lark.


  • #88
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Black and white movies on the TV. Now all they show are recent crap from the last two decades. A generation who've never seen Marx Bros, Laurel & Hardy, Astaire and Rogers, Tarzan, film noir.
    F Troop, The High Chapparal, The Saint, The Virginian


  • #89
    Andrewf20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    ...with an opportunity to travel in the dark boot of Dads car.

    ...changing the gas bottle in the superser.

    ...proping up a corner of the bed with a pile of books because the screw in bit for the leg is goosed underneath.


  • #90
    ollaetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    The cars most kids are ferried around in nowadays are more like the Starship Enterprise than what was the norm not too many years ago. They wouldn't have a clue about how power steering and electric windows were extras and we had to do with very basic radios a million miles from "infotainment" systems. God I feel old.


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  • #91
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Edgware wrote: »
    Whatever happened to those who signed up for life membership of the video shop? Did they get a refund?

    They were executed in the great Xtravision purge of 2009.


  • #92
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭valoren


    Serialised television. No more having to wait a week to find out what happens next. Entire series dropped at the same time. Instant gratification.


  • #93
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    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)

    Washing machines are a mystery to me, could put it together if it was in bits in front of me but couldn't wash my socks properly in it, no issues with ovens or other kitchen appliances but can't get the hang of a washing machine


  • #94
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    ollaetta wrote: »
    The cars most kids are ferried around in nowadays are more like the Starship Enterprise than what was the norm not too many years ago. They wouldn't have a clue about how power steering and electric windows were extras and we had to do with very basic radios a million miles from "infotainment" systems. God I feel old.

    Electric windows have been around for a long time, old 70s Renault 18 had them, power steering was an extra for years, very few paid for it so that's why you have cars up to mid to late 90s with no PAS


  • #95
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Edgware wrote: »
    F Troop, The High Chapparal, The Saint, The Virginian

    They're old TV shows not movies.


  • #96
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    MikeOxsgreen wrote: »
    A bidet with matching sanitary ware in avocado

    I know a few houses with an avocado bathroom still, there's a brown shade as well, 1970s really were colour blind


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  • #97
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Washing machines are a mystery to me, could put it together if it was in bits in front of me but couldn't wash my socks properly in it, no issues with ovens or other kitchen appliances but can't get the hang of a washing machine

    The one setting deos 99% plus of stuff,


    Its like something,who's control panel was designed by a committee


  • #98
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭COVID


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Washing machines are a mystery to me, could put it together if it was in bits in front of me but couldn't wash my socks properly in it, no issues with ovens or other kitchen appliances but can't get the hang of a washing machine

    If you've no issues washing your socks in an oven, or kitchen blender, why the hell can't you wash them in a washing machine like the rest of us? :confused:


  • #99
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Hearing by word of mouth or stumbling across a ruin or cool spot that hasn't been instagrammed to death or spoiled by visitors.

    Walking through a derelict site without a rent a cop roaring at you.


  • #100
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    vriesmays wrote: »


    They're old TV shows not movies.

    That's 60s, The Sweeney and The Professionals with a bit of Dempsey and Makepeace thrown in for good measure, plots are paper thin, dialogue is wooden but fistfights and car chases guaranteed


  • #101
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    1) being told to go outside and play because the pipe is gone

    2) losing 20p on the blasted payphones where you were only supposed to drop in the coin once the call was answered.

    3) made a reverse charge phonecall


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