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

filbert the fox · 16-11-2020 5:05pm

You're absolutely right - except it looks more like some sugary drinks concoction than the fruit of the vine!!:eek:

whysobecause · 16-11-2020 5:33pm

Watching snooker on a Black and White TV.
Trying to make out the colour of the balls.
When it wasn't there turn, the players would be sitting down, drinking beer and smoking.

McGinniesta · 16-11-2020 5:44pm

I used to **** off to skinny mags.

Shortwave Radio.

When Dalymount Park hosted Ireland Matches.

bullpost · 16-11-2020 6:02pm

whysobecause wrote: »

Watching snooker on a Black and White TV.
Trying to make out the colour of the balls.
When it wasn't there turn, the players would be sitting down, drinking beer and smoking.

Snooker commentator, the late Ted Lowe, uttered the immortal phrase, "and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green" during one of his commentaries.

16-11-2020 6:12pm

Little did we think, in the future the noodi ladies would just be there in an instant . Not arriving pixilated line by pixilated line, until 3 mins later you had your image, only to find out in the last few lines, she had a willy.

Floppybits · 16-11-2020 6:32pm

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Little did we think, in the future the noodi ladies would just be there in an instant . Not arriving pixilated line by pixilated line, until 3 mins later you had your image, only to find out in the last few lines, she had a willy.

Ah but they are missing out on the suspense.

RandomViewer · 16-11-2020 7:17pm

storker wrote: »

Yeah, but, ones that work...

Renault were world leaders in electric accessories that didn't work, must be a French thing, wire it up, it doesn't work, shrug shoulders

Sardonicat · 16-11-2020 7:21pm

Listening to the charts on a Sunday waiting for what the number 1 would be.

Edgware · 16-11-2020 7:56pm

Fingering

16-11-2020 8:00pm

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

GMSA · 16-11-2020 8:06pm

Edgware wrote: »

Fingering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPF0pPaVRWk

Pauliedragon · 16-11-2020 8:12pm

Searching for Pamela Anderson pics on diall up internet which took about 5 mins to download with a massive horn.

ohnonotgmail · 16-11-2020 8:20pm

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Little did we think, in the future the noodi ladies would just be there in an instant . Not arriving pixilated line by pixilated line, until 3 mins later you had your image, only to find out in the last few lines, she had a willy.

we found our pictures of nudey ladies in hedges.

16-11-2020 8:22pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

we found our pictures of nudey ladies in hedges.

Stiff with what you hoped was dew

ohnonotgmail · 16-11-2020 8:22pm

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Stiff with what you hoped was dew

but you knew it wasn't.

wexwitch · 16-11-2020 8:23pm

8 kids all piled into a Escort estate, not a seat belt in sight. All survived.

Camping in a canvas tent, when it was lashing you woke up wet.

Swinging on the pole at the back of bus, while the bus was moving.

Getting stuck in the old diesel train, too small to reach the handle.

Tarzan, football, snooker etc. in black and white.

Pirate radio.

Recording music off the TV, Top of the Pops, begging your Ma to not talk while recording.

CiarraiAbu2 · 16-11-2020 8:26pm

Robbing Orchards

16-11-2020 8:32pm

Mechanical non electric Slot machines

String Percussion Pianos / organs / keyboards

RandomViewer · 16-11-2020 8:51pm

wexwitch wrote: »

8 kids all piled into a Escort estate, not a seat belt in sight. All survived.

Camping in a canvas tent, when it was lashing you woke up wet.

Swinging on the pole at the back of bus, while the bus was moving.

Getting stuck in the old diesel train, too small to reach the handle.

Tarzan, football, snooker etc. in black and white.

Pirate radio.

Recording music off the TV, Top of the Pops, begging your Ma to not talk while recording.

CA Bedford van, still smelling of sheep from earlier

Capt'n Midnight · 16-11-2020 8:54pm

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

And isnt it amazing that with all the leaps forward in technology, the original magnetic tape (albeit with a lot of R&D gone into advancement of the technology) can still Outperform HDD’s for capacity,

It just means that a roll of tape has a much larger surface area than a disk.

And on proper OS's you can even boot from tape which can come as a surprise to anyone who has ever encountered difficulties setting one up.

If you drop a tape it probably won't die.
And in theory you could restore data off a 30 year old tape.

[RANT]
The reality is that unless you have lots of data, hard drives are cheaper because tape drives are really expensive and tapes aren't cheap. And good luck trying to restore a 30 year old tape in the Microsoft world unless you have the right software and right service pack and right firmware on a working drive which is likely to be SCSI so good luck getting a working cable. Any working old IDE or SATA drive can be read with a cheap adaptor. But it's much easier to copy all the stuff off an old drive onto a bigger new one.

Tape is obsolete unless you have a robotic storage library and way too much data. [/RANT]

Capt'n Midnight · 16-11-2020 8:55pm

whysobecause wrote: »

Watching snooker on a Black and White TV.
Trying to make out the colour of the balls.
When it wasn't there turn, the players would be sitting down, drinking beer and smoking.

"Steve is going for the pink ball - and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green.".
- Ted Lowe

lawred2 · 16-11-2020 8:57pm

Used to like only fools and horses when I was a kid

Don't know why really because it's fcking crap

spurious · 17-11-2020 1:34am

Kerry Creams.

I don't know where they went, but you can't get them and their psychedelic pink coloured filling anymore.

Oberkon · 17-11-2020 1:39am

lawred2 wrote: »

Used to like only fools and horses when I was a kid

Don't know why really because it's fcking crap

Ah here it was bloody brilliant , don’t let non stop reruns ruin it either . I remember the very first episode when it was aired all them years ago too weirdly .

Bonnet de douche My good friend !

SouthWesterly · 17-11-2020 1:46am

Golly wogs

Ekerot · 17-11-2020 1:54am

Corporal Punishment

ILoveYourVibes · 17-11-2020 1:55am

Ekerot wrote: »

Corporal Punishment

True and they don't seem more mis behaved or spoiled..yet they don't seem more secure and happy either.

CoBo55 · 17-11-2020 10:13am

Pushing cars in the morning.

lawred2 · 17-11-2020 10:14am

Homestead

Aglomerado · 17-11-2020 10:15am

CoBo55 wrote: »

Pushing cars in the morning.

Was talking about this with my mum at the weekend, pushing my dad's old clapped out bangers down the hill from our house to get them started, being swathed in plumes of stinky smoke... my mum swears the pushing of the cars was the cause of various gynae problems she's had since!!!!

whisky_galore · 17-11-2020 10:35am

Cars that needed a choke to start.

Frequent breakdowns, cars actually falling apart on the road with rust.

Those little rubber strips that were supposed to stop car sickness.

AXE TAX stickers.

Adults smoking in the car with kids on board.

Montage of Feck · 17-11-2020 10:38am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Leaving the radio on at night

Closed down at 2am and silent until 6:30am when there was a fanfare. Who needed alarm clocks ?
Had to be to leaving the house when the horoscopes came on to catch the bus.

Wasn't there a time rte did live 24hr radio on 2fm ?

ohnonotgmail · 17-11-2020 10:38am

TAX IN POST written on a piece of cardboard in a car window

Ash.J.Williams · 17-11-2020 10:47am

Your Face wrote: »

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

only a proper cnt would say that

Ash.J.Williams · 17-11-2020 10:51am

McGinniesta wrote: »

I used to **** off to skinny mags.

Shortwave Radio.

When Dalymount Park hosted Ireland Matches.

and the biggest bands of the 90's

Aglomerado · 17-11-2020 10:52am

whisky_galore wrote: »

AXE TAX stickers.

I remember those. "Axe the Tax: Don't be driven off the road" was the full text.

COVID · 17-11-2020 11:12am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

TAX IN POST written on a piece of cardboard in a car window

The first laugh of the day is usually the best one!
Thanks.

JimmyVik · 17-11-2020 11:16am

whisky_galore wrote: »

Cars that needed a choke to start.

Frequent breakdowns, cars actually falling apart on the road with rust.

Those little rubber strips that were supposed to stop car sickness.

AXE TAX stickers.

Adults smoking in the car with kids on board.

My dad had a car where if you sat in the front seat you could see the road under you between your feet. You had to put your feet either side of the giant hole from rust.

Or the 6 hour drives to Kerry with all of us sitting on the back of a flat bed truck.

friendlyfun · 17-11-2020 11:18am

Tesco vouchers. We used to get them for our school to get a computer.

ohnonotgmail · 17-11-2020 11:20am

The EEC butter and cheese mountains

COVID · 17-11-2020 11:21am

Green Shield Stamps

super_furry · 17-11-2020 11:22am

Butter vouchers. Using butter vouches to buy fags.

The Continental Op · 17-11-2020 11:30am

Cigarette Cards

For Forks Sake · 17-11-2020 12:10pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

TAX IN POST written on a piece of cardboard in a car window

...for two years

post was very slow.

COVID · 17-11-2020 12:11pm

Fake cigarettes that kids could eat!

The Continental Op · 17-11-2020 12:17pm

Penny Chews, inflation marked their cards.

TheAsYLuMkeY · 17-11-2020 12:18pm

Bus conductors

Bus conductors giving you the unused bus rolls from ticket machine

Ha'penny sweets

The Continental Op · 17-11-2020 12:22pm

Cigarette coupons - save 5 million and you to can be the proud owner of ...........

Floppybits · 17-11-2020 12:33pm

H Williams supermarket.

filbert the fox · 17-11-2020 12:38pm

Gob stoppers - Lethal!!!

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

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