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What's changes to the world / society have you encountered in your life?

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    looksee wrote: »
    How about a pair of tights?

    McGyver would be proud. :cool:


  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    Gone away in the last 40 years:

    Smog

    Lead in fuel

    Asbestos

    corporal punishment

    Kids playing on "trolleys"

    Outdoor pursuits

    time


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    for me it would be easier to list what has not changed... I grieve for much of it


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    New Home wrote: »
    [Has anyone else noticed that Boards has gone a bit funny tonight, posting replies ahead of the post we're replying to, adding flags to the posts, and moving punctuation around in the text we've typed? Two out of three happened to me in this thread already.]

    try logging off then back on... works for me




  • I’m 57 and these are all within my living memory from the time my parents got first house phone:

    Pims Department Store closes so no more virtual reality boat trips to Santa; a 1960s Christmas trumps a 20teens Christmas in Dublin!
    Break-out of war in the North
    Peace in the North
    House phones becoming commonplace
    Pedestrianisation of Grafton Street & others
    Demise of Russell, Hibernian, Montrose Hotels in Dublin
    Great Southern Hotels no longer part of CIE
    No longer any need to wear a hat at Mass
    No longer any need to say you’re going to Mass
    Ireland joins EEC
    Colour televisions
    A new need to subdue the fact that you might go to Mass
    Food becoming affordable and much greater in variety.
    Decriminisation of homosexual acts.
    Boeing 747
    Concord arrives
    Concord dies
    Turbofan & turboprop engines make airplanes quieter
    Ability to buy your own house phone as Telecom Eireann modernises.
    Divorce
    Registry Office weddings
    Humanist funerals
    Civil Partnership
    Same-sex marriage
    Artificial joints
    Transplants
    Flatscreen televisions
    Fall of Soviet Europe & communist regime in Eastern Bloc
    Fall of Berlin Wall
    Day-case surgery
    Day-case maternity
    Coronary stents
    Affordable & extremely high safe air travel
    Introduction of seatbelts
    Advancement of car production technology where they no longer rust
    Advancement of car drivability with power steering.
    Advancement of car safety with airbags
    Advancement of car safety with advanced braking systems
    Cars you can no longer service yourself, but are much more reliable.
    3 day & less hospital stays for major complex surgery
    Curability of certain cancers
    Demise of hospital matrons
    Biological treatments of various diseases
    Dart Train in Dublin
    LUAS Tram in Dublin
    Libraries, housing & waste disposal being taken largely out of local authority control.
    Church scandals
    Child abusers being discovered & made accountable
    Computerization of everything.
    Internet by phone cable
    Broadband
    WiFi
    Smart phones
    Hybrid cars
    Introduction of electric cars to mass market
    Health & Safety
    Examples of third world countries entering the modern ideological world in spite of remaining in material poverty, one example being Nepal having on its visa application form 3 choices in gender tickbox.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭Count Down


    When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s every green area in housing estates was taken up by kids playing football. Nowadays they're deserted.
    All indoors on xbox, getting obese and unfit. :mad: I'm 58 and fitter than most of them. Lazy shower. :(


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