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

RandomViewer · 21-11-2020 8:52pm

Frankie Machine wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQNLokv0D8

Maurice Pratt

Yellow pack products

L1011 · 21-11-2020 8:56pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Postal orders.

I had to buy a postal order last year to pay court fees to take a cross-border small claims case (I won, so the effort was worth it). So they're still available but only used in ridiculously niche circumstances.

Frankie Machine · 21-11-2020 9:06pm

CoBo55 wrote: »

Or married!!

CoBo55 · 21-11-2020 11:53pm

L1011 wrote: »

I had to buy a postal order last year to pay court fees to take a cross-border small claims case (I won, so the effort was worth it). So they're still available but only used in ridiculously niche circumstances.

Believe it or not but the Taxi Regulator would only take postal orders to renew my (now unused) psv drivers licence during the lockdown, fcukin waste of €250:mad:

Cluedo Monopoly · 22-11-2020 12:04am

Being absolutely fcuking horrified when the price of a bag of Tayto went from 4p to 7p.

branie2 · 22-11-2020 2:54am

Dermot Morgan on Scrap Saturday

branie2 · 22-11-2020 2:58am

Anne and Barry reading books

uch · 22-11-2020 3:07am

When you're only choice for an Ice pop was super split, Choc Ice or a Brunch and possibly a dracula pop, I've no idea what a orange juice gelato is and I think I can live without it

uch · 22-11-2020 3:20am

miss.paula wrote: »

Hairy fannys
all women under 30 shave or wax, unthinkable not to, the influence of porn

So do you prefer Choc Ice or Dracula Pop?

An Ri rua · 22-11-2020 3:56am

mikemac2 wrote: »

Hard hitting public safety ads

Your harmless family pet dog turns into a bloodthirsty cutthroat at night and kills sheep. Do you know where your dog was last night??

Grandad falling into the river and drowning

Young lad getting zapped to oblivion for climbing on ESB equipment.

Lots more

The nun shouting "Boh!" in the kids ear!

Are you deaf, child? You are now!!

Kaybaykwah · 22-11-2020 4:01am

Are there any more men carrying coal in horse drawn wagons? That was still a thing in the year of our Lard nineteen hundred and eighty seven.

smurf492 · 22-11-2020 6:04am

uch wrote:

So do you prefer Choc Ice or Dracula Pop?

I think it was called the count

AndrewJRenko · 22-11-2020 8:05am

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

Being absolutely fcuking horrified when the price of a bag of Tayto went from 4p to 7p.

Being able to combine our two 1p bus fares when my brother and I managed to skip our bus fares to buy a packet of crisps in the tuck shop on arrival at school. But not Tayto, they were 3p each.

Hangdogroad · 22-11-2020 8:27am

mikemac2 wrote: »

Hard hitting public safety ads

Your harmless family pet dog turns into a bloodthirsty cutthroat at night and kills sheep. Do you know where your dog was last night??

Grandad falling into the river and drowning

Young lad getting zapped to oblivion for climbing on ESB equipment.

Lots more

"Wheres Grandad?"
"So you're off to school on your bike"
"John did ya put the cat out?"
"Kids, wouldn't ya die if anything happened them?"

NewbridgeIR · 22-11-2020 9:25am

440Hertz wrote: »

The mystery of picking up the phone and having no idea who was going to be on the other end!

Caller ID didn't widely exist until the mid to late 1990s, and initially in Ireland was only between GSM mobiles and on ISDN.
It didn't come to all Telecom Eireann analogue landlines until 1998.

I still don’t have caller ID on my landline. Makes no odds, have no issue with answering phone. Same with private numbers on mobile. Can’t understand the fear.

The J Stands for Jay · 22-11-2020 9:26am

whisky_galore wrote: »

Postal orders.
Cheque books.

Cash will be next to go the way of the cheque book. I haven't had a cheque book since around 2008. Don't think I've actually had a banknote in 2020.

The J Stands for Jay · 22-11-2020 9:27am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

I still don’t have caller ID on my landline. Makes no odds, have no issue with answering phone. Same with private numbers on mobile. Can’t understand the fear.

Found the poster who isn't behind on their debts

NewbridgeIR · 22-11-2020 9:28am

McGaggs wrote: »

Cash will be next to go the way of the cheque book. I haven't had a cheque book since around 2008. Don't think I've actually had a banknote in 2020.

Wrote a few cheques in last 12 months. Three related to school activities for my children. And one for a new boiler.

Vita nova · 22-11-2020 10:53am

The speaking clock, this was a telephone service where you could phone a number and an automated voice would say something like "at the next beep the time will be 9h30 and 30 seconds... It may seem stupid nowadays to ring a phone number to get a precise time but in the pre-digital era it was a commonly used service.

Wake-up calls, again this was a telephone service where you phoned a number and booked an alarm call. I think you booked the call with a real person but the alarm call was automated however go back far enough and it was manual too. This was a service I used a lot back in the day. I was paranoid about missing flights or important meetings so in addition to setting the old analogue alarm clock, I'd book a wake-up call.

Beasty · 22-11-2020 11:00am

Noggin the Nog

Munsterman12 · 22-11-2020 11:01am

The English. In my day they were everywhere. We had to doff our cap and pay a shilling for the privilege.

mojesius · 22-11-2020 11:27am

As a child, being sent to the shop by your grandparents with a note:

"Please supply with 40 silk cut purple".

Vita nova · 22-11-2020 11:48am

Sardonicat wrote: »

Being forced out the door to mass. Being interrogated as to what the readings were on your return to make sure you actually went. This was done to adult children home at the weekend.

Used to go to the video arcade (that's something that probably belongs in this thread) during Mass but I think my mother was suspicious and I'd get the interrogation. We lived in the country and the only time I could easily go to the arcade was at lunchtime on school days, so the temptation to play a few games on a Sunday was too great.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-11-2020 12:37pm

Vita nova wrote: »

The speaking clock, this was a telephone service where you could phone a number and an automated voice would say something like "at the next beep the time will be 9h30 and 30 seconds... It may seem stupid nowadays to ring a phone number to get a precise time but in the pre-digital era it was a commonly used service.

especially after a power cut

Hangdogroad · 22-11-2020 2:01pm

Vita nova wrote: »

Used to go to the video arcade (that's something that probably belongs in this thread) during Mass but I think my mother was suspicious and I'd get the interrogation. We lived in the country and the only time I could easily go to the arcade was at lunchtime on school days, so the temptation to play a few games on a Sunday was too great.

Lol, that's exactly what I did when I hit about 13. My mother would grill me about the priest reading out death notices etc.

RandomViewer · 22-11-2020 2:05pm

smurf492 wrote: »

I think it was called the count

Wasn't there one called a " Chilly Willy"?
Edit: Found it

https://images.app.goo.gl/wGMRTQKGHMXPLwbk7

RandomViewer · 22-11-2020 2:09pm

440Hertz wrote: »

Television channels that didn't tell you what programme is on. It's not that many years ago, before digital tv, that even on cable and satellite, you had absolutely no idea what you were watching without referring to a TV guide or guessing.

Didn't you have to buy RTE guide, TV Times and Radio Times to get the listings for RTE,UTV and BBC

NewbridgeIR · 22-11-2020 2:27pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Didn't you have to buy RTE guide, TV Times and Radio Times to get the listings for RTE,UTV and BBC

Yes

Easier to check the newspaper (if you had one)

22-11-2020 2:59pm

Mastitis and Scour ads on TV

And liverfluke.

angel eyes 2012 · 22-11-2020 3:05pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Yes

Easier to check the newspaper (if you had one)

Teletext or Aertel

shesty · 22-11-2020 3:05pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Yes

Easier to check the newspaper (if you had one)

Checking the newspaper for the TV schedule!Or to see when the prgoramme I had heard about was on.The memoriesðŸ˜³
And I am not 40 yet :-)

Frankie Machine · 22-11-2020 3:08pm

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Mastitis and Scour ads on TV

And liverfluke.

Nilzan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzv_xRCFUS8

mikemac2 · 22-11-2020 4:02pm

Midnight mass on Christmas Eve was actually as advertised.

Somewhere in the 90´s midnight mass moved to 7pm. It's still called midnight mass though!

storker · 22-11-2020 4:23pm

mikemac2 wrote: »

Midnight mass on Christmas Eve was actually as advertised.

Somewhere in the 90´s midnight mass moved to 7pm. It's still called midnight mass though!

That was because of the Christmas Eve pub throwouts who would wander up to the church for midnight mass, arrive late, hang around the door talking during the service, leave early and then go home and declare that they "Got Mass".

440Hertz · 22-11-2020 4:39pm

Do you remember simulcasts on Network 2 for the Beat Box on a Saturday morning?

At the time TV sound quality was still largely mono, unless you were loaded and had a Nicam digital stereo TV or a satellite dish with proper stereo (cable didn't support it either). So to get the music videos with full quality sound, RTE used to broadcast the show on Network 2 and 2FM at the same time.

If you turned on your big old hi-fi and turned the volume of the TV right down, you got glorious music videos with full quality stereo FM audio for as much as two hours a week!

Sardonicat · 22-11-2020 5:12pm

440Hertz wrote: »

Do you remember simulcasts on Network 2 for the Beat Box on a Saturday morning?

At the time TV sound quality was still largely mono, unless you were loaded and had a Nicam digital stereo TV or a satellite dish with proper stereo (cable didn't support it either). So to get the music videos with full quality sound, RTE used to broadcast the show on Network 2 and 2FM at the same time.

If you turned on your big old hi-fi and turned the volume of the TV right down, you got glorious music videos with full quality stereo FM audio for as much as two hours a week!

Or if you were in my house you turned the volume off and sat there in your pyjamas with your Walkman headphones on (only it wasn't s Walkman) cos "I'm not having that rubbish blasted through the house on a Sunday morning!"

RandomViewer · 22-11-2020 5:53pm

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Teletext or Aertel

Lots of tv's didn't have a remote so no teletext

Ger Roe · 22-11-2020 6:39pm

440Hertz wrote: »

Do you remember simulcasts on Network 2 for the Beat Box on a Saturday morning?

At the time TV sound quality was still largely mono, unless you were loaded and had a Nicam digital stereo TV or a satellite dish with proper stereo (cable didn't support it either). So to get the music videos with full quality sound, RTE used to broadcast the show on Network 2 and 2FM at the same time.

If you turned on your big old hi-fi and turned the volume of the TV right down, you got glorious music videos with full quality stereo FM audio for as much as two hours a week!

Just a bit before that... when RTE Radio first went in stereo on VHF, the guide mags and newspapers would have a (S) indicated next to some of the listed scheduled radio programmes, to indicate which ones were going to be originating from the stereo studio.

The TV equivalent was in the mid 70's when RTE started to introduce colour broadcasting regularly. I remember being in for a tour of TV centre when it was being upgraded for the launch of RTE 2 TV and saw a colour mixing desk in the presentation booth, where someone was monitoring the output off the actual broadcast signal on a TV and was then adjusting the colour tones manually, to get the balance right. This was particularly required when transmitting USA imported programmes as the standards conversion required at the time (NTSC to PAL), wasn't quite up to the job and Kojak and co usually looked a bit seasick, with too much green in the mix.

The Continental Op · 22-11-2020 6:54pm

Grease nipples.

Anyone remember when cars had steering and suspension joints that needed greasing as part of serviceing?

branie2 · 22-11-2020 7:00pm

Playtex bra ads on telly
Ads for cigarettes in newspapers and magazines

Tony EH · 22-11-2020 7:20pm

PGE1970 wrote: »

I was 50 this year.

My commiserations.

PGE1970 wrote: »

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?

The Smiths they can put on anytime. Log onto YouTube and hear everything when they want. They only thing they're missing is the wait between album releases. What most kids don't have today is going to the shop, buying the record, getting home, putting the needle on the vinyl and then listening the whole thing in one sitting.

'Only Fools and Horses' is on tele nearly every day of the week and it's still brilliant.

Abject unemployment...well, I don't know about that. Nearly everyone I know is unemployed at the moment due to some Covid related shite and others have their jobs hanging in the balance. However, what kids today will never know is the comfort of having a job that you know will be there in 5 or 10 years time. These days most people in the private sector are lucky to be in a job for more than 3 years at a stretch only to be turfed out the door because some wanker decided to "downsize" or "outsource". Lots of people today have a string of jobs as long as your arm by the time they're in their early 30's.

Tony EH · 22-11-2020 7:34pm

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

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

Remember this one well.

We got "the pipe" in the 80's and the BBC used to show 'Dungeons and Dragons' on a Monday after school. Except the pipe would bloody well go and all you could see was static.

My little heart was broken, every feckin Monday.

bodhrandude · 22-11-2020 7:48pm

Vita nova wrote: »

Used to go to the video arcade (that's something that probably belongs in this thread) during Mass but I think my mother was suspicious and I'd get the interrogation. We lived in the country and the only time I could easily go to the arcade was at lunchtime on school days, so the temptation to play a few games on a Sunday was too great.

Another trick was to attend the mass very briefly and pick up the days bulletin for the service and memorise some of the readings so you wouldn't get caught out.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-11-2020 8:03pm

To the metre of Poe's "The Raven"

Abort, Retry, Ignore

Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets.
Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer,
I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store,
Only this and nothing more.

Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing,
Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more.
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
"Save!" I said, "You cursed machine! Save my data from before!"
One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more,
Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

Was this some occult illusion, some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices undesired, ones I'd never faced before.
Carefully I weighed the choices as the disk made impish noises.
The cursor flashed, insistent, waiting, baiting me to type some more.
Clearly I must press a key, choosing one and nothing more,
From "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

With fingers pale and trembling, slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,
Praying for some guarantee, timidly, I pressed a key.
But on the screen there still persisted words appearing as before.
Ghastly grim they blinked and taunted, haunted, as my patience wore,
Saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

I tried to catch the chips off guard, and pressed again, but twice as hard.
I pleaded with the cursed machine: I begged and cried and then I swore.
Now in mighty desperation, trying random combinations,
Still there came the incantation, just as senseless as before.
Cursor blinking, angrily winking, blinking nonsense as before.
Reading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted.
Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor.
And then I saw a dreadful sight: a lightning bolt cut through the night.
A gasp of horror overtook me, shook me to my very core.
The lightning zapped my previous data, lost and gone forevermore.
Not even, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

To this day I do not know, the place to which lost data go.
What demonic nether world us wrought where lost data will be stored,
Beyond the reach of mortal souls, beyond the ether, into black holes?
But sure as there's C, Pascal, Lotus, Ashton-Tate and more,
You will one day be left to wander, lost on some Plutonian shore,
Pleading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

branie2 · 22-11-2020 11:41pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

Another trick was to attend the mass very briefly and pick up the days bulletin for the service and memorise some of the readings so you wouldn't get caught out.

What if you were asked what the sermon was about? Then you'd be in trouble.

branie2 · 22-11-2020 11:46pm

A Prayer at Bedtime

Feisar · 22-11-2020 11:53pm

storker wrote: »

That was because of the Christmas Eve pub throwouts who would wander up to the church for midnight mass, arrive late, hang around the door talking during the service, leave early and then go home and declare that they "Got Mass".

Can we all thank the above post please. “”Got Mass””, classic!

Jaysus, did ya get Mass?

NewbridgeIR · 23-11-2020 12:04am

Best use of "got / get mass" was a lad describing a fetish club he end up in on a stag in Cologne one Saturday night.

After describing the decadence, lighting and leather he was asked

"So what sort of people were there?"

"Not the sort who would be too worried about getting mass the following morning"

Floppybits · 23-11-2020 2:08am

mikemac2 wrote: »

Hard hitting public safety ads

Your harmless family pet dog turns into a bloodthirsty cutthroat at night and kills sheep. Do you know where your dog was last night??

Grandad falling into the river and drowning

Young lad getting zapped to oblivion for climbing on ESB equipment.

Lots more

Wasn't there one with a kid falling into a barrel full of water, if i remember correctly. There was another crazed dog one were your lovely pet dog would meet up with other dogs during the night and they would turn into a blood thirsty pack before turning back into your lovely pet by sun up.

LineConsole · 23-11-2020 3:00am

“Yunfella! Will ye go the shop?” Shouted by random mother from her doorway at random child. Was nothing odd about it, we all helped each other out.

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

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