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

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  • #92
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭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 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 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 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: 624 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 15,712 ✭✭✭✭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 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 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭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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  • #102
    storker
    Registered Users Posts: 5,644 ✭✭✭storker


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Electric windows have been around for a long time, old 70s Renault 18 had them,

    Yeah, but, ones that work... :D


  • #103
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,403 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    It's strange that pre Covid they weren't sacrificing school ski trips to northern Italy for the good of the planet.

    True, nor their phones or tablets.


  • #104
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    There is a generation that has not grown up with.

    Smoke filled cinemas.
    Smoke filled busses..
    Smoke filled pubs...
    Smoke filled trains.


  • #105
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    vriesmays wrote: »


    They're old TV shows not movies.
    Your point is???


  • #106
    PGE1970
    Registered Users Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭PGE1970


    10p when you returned your coke bottles.

    Cream soda.

    Star bars.

    Sam Spudz.


  • #107
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    PGE1970 wrote: »
    10p when you returned your coke bottles.

    Cream soda.

    Star bars.

    Sam Spudz.

    The crinckle ridge crisp. The smokey bacon was to die for. I didn't know you couldn't get stzr bars anymore.


  • #108
    cannotlogin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭cannotlogin


    The "good" room for visitors & "the stations" only

    The sacred heart lamp in every house

    Bin bags & white sheets for Halloween customs

    Birthday parties were tk lemonade, rice crispy buns and jelly & ice cream

    Being given a £1 for the treat and buying half the sweet shop with it, - frosties, Dan bar, ghosties, small mineral and the rest in penny sweets

    Summer evenings where robbing apples and playing hide & seek between hay stack was the highlight of the summer

    Having a pre agreed meeting place to go to if you got lost city centre

    The excitement of the annual Christmas parcels from America from aunts who immigrated

    Italia 90 and how it lifted the country


  • #109
    arctictree
    Registered Users Posts: 4,283 ✭✭✭arctictree


    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. 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.

    Fair play to her. My 11 year old can kill, pluck and clean out a chicken! Essential life skill!


  • #110
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    I love change.
    Mine experienced some of the things mentioned and 'missed out' on some others.
    They're none the worse for missing sone stuff. I wish I had:)


  • #111
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Using a film camera, getting the film developed and putting the photos in a real album.
    I'd say very few people nowadays bother getting their digital photos developed or putting them in an old style album.


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  • #112
    Sam Quentin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    Raichu wrote: »
    Sure look she’s a kid still. She might not be able to use an oven, but there’s adults just over twice her age who can’t use most modern technology effortlessly. These are skills she‘ll learn in time. My brother didn’t figure out how an oven works till the day before he left to college at 18.

    I'm sorry she won't learn in time and when she is pretending she's learning she'll really be wondering what's happening on fb or Instagram or some other social media platform.... Unfortunately social media rears our children now,.and we can't stop it.
    Doomed I tell yaa DOOOOOMMMMED.


  • #113
    cannotlogin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭cannotlogin


    mr_edge_to_you wrote: »
    1) being told to go outside and play because the pipe is gonel

    I'm in my 30s and have no idea what this means?


  • #114
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    cannotlogin wrote: »
    I'm in my 30s and have no idea what this means?

    I'm considerably older and am none the wiser. The telly, maybe?


  • #115
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    cannotlogin wrote: »
    I'm in my 30s and have no idea what this means?
    Cable TV used to be referred to as piped TV. TV antennas were known as aerials (still common enough) and the radio was often called the wireless.


  • #116
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Waiting for RTE2 to start in the evenings


  • #117
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,712 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Closedown, the test card and that monotone whine.


  • #118
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭COVID


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Closedown, the test card and that monotone whine.

    Your mam telling you it's time for bed. :)


  • #119
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    The Soviet Union.

    Apartheid and the boycotts.

    Emigration being final, ie the last time you could reasonably expect to see the person who was leaving for several years, if indeed you ever saw them again at all.


  • #120
    cooperguy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,650 ✭✭✭cooperguy


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    It's strange that pre Covid they weren't sacrificing school ski trips to northern Italy for the good of the planet.

    Aviation accounts for 2% of emmisions, quite the lazy stereotype you've got there


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  • #121
    Mullaghteelin
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Mullaghteelin


    Potatoes for dinner every day without question.
    Foreign foods with funny names were avoided.
    There is still a remnant throwback to this in hospital meals, where "chicken curry with rice" may include a big wallop of mash, but just a spoonful of rice.

    I consider it old people food.


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