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

storker · 15-11-2020 4:43pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

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

Yeah, but, ones that work...

Jim_Hodge · 15-11-2020 4:47pm

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.

Hamsterchops · 15-11-2020 5:07pm

There is a generation that has not grown up with.

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

Edgware · 15-11-2020 5:32pm

vriesmays wrote: »

They're old TV shows not movies.

Your point is???

PGE1970 · 15-11-2020 5:59pm

10p when you returned your coke bottles.

Cream soda.

Star bars.

Sam Spudz.

Sardonicat · 15-11-2020 6:15pm

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.

cannotlogin · 15-11-2020 6:27pm

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

arctictree · 15-11-2020 6:36pm

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!

Rubberchikken · 15-11-2020 6:39pm

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:)

Vita nova · 15-11-2020 6:41pm

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.

Sam Quentin · 15-11-2020 6:43pm

Deleted User 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.

cannotlogin · 15-11-2020 6:50pm

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?

Sardonicat · 15-11-2020 6:51pm

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?

Vita nova · 15-11-2020 7:01pm

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.

15-11-2020 7:18pm

Waiting for RTE2 to start in the evenings

whisky_galore · 15-11-2020 7:21pm

Closedown, the test card and that monotone whine.

COVID · 15-11-2020 7:23pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Closedown, the test card and that monotone whine.

Your mam telling you it's time for bed.

15-11-2020 7:28pm

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.

cooperguy · 15-11-2020 7:28pm

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

Mullaghteelin · 15-11-2020 7:36pm

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.

Sardonicat · 15-11-2020 7:49pm

Mullaghteelin wrote: »

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.

My SIL refers to pasta as "Foreign Muck!". But she was born old.

Edgware · 15-11-2020 8:40pm

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Waiting for RTE2 to start in the evenings

Waiting for rte to start in the evening at 5.30.
No TV on Good Friday except Stations of the Cross and music as if Brezhnev had died

15-11-2020 8:41pm

valoren wrote: »

Serialised television. No more having to wait a week to find out what happens next. Entire series dropped at the same time. Instant gratification.

Using Limewire to download TV episodes from the US, rather then waiting six months for them to be shown on TV here.

The J Stands for Jay · 15-11-2020 8:41pm

Polio and smallpox

djr15 · 15-11-2020 8:42pm

Wet wipes

The J Stands for Jay · 15-11-2020 8:44pm

smurf492 wrote: »

Good music.. The 80s and 90s are amazing compared to the shtie today

Don't worry, every generation gets to hear all wans going on about how music that isn't 20 or 30 years old is ****e

screamer · 15-11-2020 8:45pm

Patience, everything is now, now, now instantaneous, from digital to material they just want it all and want it now.... Verucca Salts

KrustyBurger · 15-11-2020 8:47pm

Canvas tents that leaked if you touched them.
Horrible orange Dublin diesel buses.
Bus conductors.
Fas apprenticeship brochures.
Litter blowing through the streets everywhere.
Slow sets.

Manach · 15-11-2020 8:48pm

I'd say Catholic's being targetted for attacks at a Church, as happened in Northern Ireland but then the events at Nice, France last month.

roroliam · 15-11-2020 8:49pm

Stripping wallpaper

The J Stands for Jay · 15-11-2020 8:55pm

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

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

You had to go outside if you had no running water?

feartuath · 15-11-2020 9:01pm

Spending days in the bog doing turf.
Days in the meadow making trams of hay (hay stacks to you city folk).
Weeks later making a huge reek of hay with those same trams of hay.
Not being able to breathe with the dust while forking that same hay into a shed.
Stacking Square bales.

Milking cows after school every evening.
Digging potatoes and burying them in a pit covered in straw and clay to come back weeks later to dig them up again and half of them eaten by rats.

Earning your first bit of money selling foxes caught in a trap, 30 pounds was a fortune to a 12 year old in the 70's
Catching a small trout in the field behind your house and frying him within 5 minutes.

chrissb8 · 15-11-2020 10:15pm

McGaggs wrote: »

Don't worry, every generation gets to hear all wans going on about how music that isn't 20 or 30 years old is ****e

Ah come on, you only have to look at what was in the charts then compared to now. I hardly think WAP or Maroon 5 are going to leave an imprint as the Spice Girls and Oasis did.

A few good songs around but nothing as iconic as the artists of the 80's or 90's where every year you could pick out at least 3-4 classic albums that all charted very highly in their time and are still being discovered by new generations till this day.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-11-2020 10:50pm

feartuath wrote: »

Spending days in the bog doing turf.

Stacking turf.

ILoveYourVibes · 15-11-2020 10:51pm

Mullaghteelin wrote: »

Potatoes for dinner every day without question.

Neither of my parents had this.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-11-2020 10:53pm

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Waiting for RTE2 to start in the evenings

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.

The Continental Op · 15-11-2020 10:56pm

... not having to get up and manually swap over the TV channels.

moonage · 15-11-2020 10:56pm

Oh, those Brazilians, you know? Circa 1970? Broke the mould. Theory out the window. Free expression of football. Uncategorisable. Is that a word? It is now! You know? Far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous.

Stihl waters · 15-11-2020 11:03pm

dresden8 wrote: »

My girlfriend's 17 year old has racked up more air miles than I have in 51 years. She blames me for global warming.

Your girlfriend is 17, fair fcuks

The J Stands for Jay · 15-11-2020 11:39pm

chrissb8 wrote: »

Ah come on, you only have to look at what was in the charts then compared to now. I hardly think WAP or Maroon 5 are going to leave an imprint as the Spice Girls and Oasis did.

A few good songs around but nothing as iconic as the artists of the 80's or 90's where every year you could pick out at least 3-4 classic albums that all charted very highly in their time and are still being discovered by new generations till this day.

Current top 5.
1 positions [Explicit] Ariana Grande.
2 Lemonade (Ft. Don Toliver, Gunna & Nav)
3 Sweet Melody. Little Mix.
4 See Nobody (Ft. Hardy Caprio) [Explicit] ...
5 Midnight Sky. Miley Cyrus.

Hits of Mid November 1990
1 Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody
2 Kim Appleby Don't Worry
3 Gazza & Lindisfarne Fog On The Tyne (Revisited)
4 Black Box Fantasy
5 Beautiful South A Little Time

Equally ****e

Have a look at BBC 4. Theyve been replaying old top of the tops for ages now. They're up to 1990 now, so you can see how bad it actually was. New Kids on the Block were on last night...

dubstarr · 15-11-2020 11:44pm

smurf492 wrote: »

Good music.. The 80s and 90s are amazing compared to the shtie today

Not that im disagreeing but everyone says that about previous generations.

Say Your Number · 15-11-2020 11:49pm

There's a lot of sh1te music played on Reeling in the Years and any Golden Hour type programme, I imagine the best stuff of the seventies to nineties got feck all exposure, John Creedon usually plays good modern music any time I tune into him.

dubstarr · 15-11-2020 11:55pm

chrissb8 wrote: »

Ah come on, you only have to look at what was in the charts then compared to now. I hardly think WAP or Maroon 5 are going to leave an imprint as the Spice Girls and Oasis did.

A few good songs around but nothing as iconic as the artists of the 80's or 90's where every year you could pick out at least 3-4 classic albums that all charted very highly in their time and are still being discovered by new generations till this day.

I cant believe you think the Spice Girls are going to leave an imprint.The Beatles they are not.

Girl Power my bollix.

15-11-2020 11:57pm

McGaggs wrote: »

Current top 5.
1 positions [Explicit] Ariana Grande.
2 Lemonade (Ft. Don Toliver, Gunna & Nav)
3 Sweet Melody. Little Mix.
4 See Nobody (Ft. Hardy Caprio) [Explicit] ...
5 Midnight Sky. Miley Cyrus.

Hits of Mid November 1990
1 Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody
2 Kim Appleby Don't Worry
3 Gazza & Lindisfarne Fog On The Tyne (Revisited)
4 Black Box Fantasy
5 Beautiful South A Little Time

Equally ****e

Have a look at BBC 4. Theyve been replaying old top of the tops for ages now. They're up to 1990 now, so you can see how bad it actually was. New Kids on the Block were on last night...

I’m sure that Gazza had a few “Wets on the wall”! One of my favourite Lindisfarne songs.

W123-80's · 16-11-2020 12:07am

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Going to the video library , renting your video, getting it home to discover its crap

You forget to mention having to rent the actual video player too.
Or were you one of those really posh houses with a video recorder and channel 4?

On a related note, when we eventually got a video player/recorder, having to type those really long codes from the TV listings into the video recorder in order pre program it to record something in advance.

Fun times.

The J Stands for Jay · 16-11-2020 12:10am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I’m sure that Gazza had a few “Wets on the wall”! One of my favourite Lindisfarne songs.

If you're going to insist on a 90s song from a Geordie footballer, I'll have to give you this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ct5puqTSi0

COVID · 16-11-2020 12:21am

smurf492 wrote: »

Good music.. The 80s and 90s are amazing compared to the shtie today

Deleted User wrote: »

I’m sure that Gazza had a few “Wets on the wall”! One of my favourite Lindisfarne songs.

'Meet Me On The Corner'

16-11-2020 12:25am

COVID wrote: »

'Meet Me On The Corner'

Run for home, Lady Eleanore.

Junkyard Tom · 16-11-2020 12:37am

Silent tears as the drone of bomber engines becomes audible through the wail of air raid sirens.

foxy farmer · 16-11-2020 12:52am

whisky_galore wrote: »

Closedown, the test card and that monotone whine.

You forgot A Prayer At Bedtime and the National Anthem.

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

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