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    #32
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,908 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    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.


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    #33
    Cushtie
    Registered Users Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Cushtie


    ednwireland wrote: »
    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.


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    #34
    logically
    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 ?


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    #35
    rockatansky
    Registered Users Posts: 1,336 ✭✭✭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


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    #36
    Cushtie
    Registered Users Posts: 699 ✭✭✭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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    #37
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    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)

    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.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    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)


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    #39
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,391 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.



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    #40
    ZV Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭ZV Yoda


    rockatansky wrote: »
    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


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    #41
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
    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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    #42
    dmc17
    Registered Users Posts: 3,726 ✭✭✭dmc17


    MikeOxsgreen wrote: »
    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


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    #43
    CountNjord
    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..


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    #44
    mojesius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭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


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    #45
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,742 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Corporal punishment.

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


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    #46
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,433 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


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


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    #47
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,475 ✭✭✭✭_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.


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    #48
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,091 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.


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    #49
    Valresnick
    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 !


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    #50
    Mena Mitty
    Registered Users Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    Holes in the soles of their shoes.


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    #51
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,742 ✭✭✭✭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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    #52
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,054 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.


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    #53
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,491 ✭✭✭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

    🙈🙉🙊



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    #54
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users Posts: 4,897 ✭✭✭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.


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    #55
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users Posts: 13,083 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


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


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    #56
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    .....only 2 sexes.


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    #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.


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    #58
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭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.


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    #59
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


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


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    #60
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭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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    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭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


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