Things You Don't See Anymore

brianblaze

Balls on dogs....

foxy farmer

County council bin lorries.

Menas

White dog poo.

whisky_galore

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Think they were a tourist thing in our life-time, but would have been the real deal for travellers way back. They were very pretty - painted green and red, with decorative finishings. Kinda like Wanderly Wagon.

Some tour operator had them as a gimmick actually hiring them out in the 80's. Don't know how that would work out now with all the traffic, bad enough being stuck behind a tractor or a campervan on a minor road!

whisky_galore

Cold War Kid wrote: »

filler cartoons on RTE.

When they ran out of the good stuff, they'd usually put on something from Film Board of Canada or some weird sh*t from the Soviet Bloc. They must have gotten them cheap.

eisenberg1

whisky_galore wrote: »

When they ran out of the good stuff, they'd usually put on something from Film Board of Canada or some weird sh*t from the Soviet Bloc. They must have gotten them cheap.

Lolek & Bolek. That's how bad things were them, RTE importing cartoons from behind the Iron Curtain. That's another you dont see anymore.

whisky_galore

And that trippy Autobahn cartoon they used show when they ran out of ideas...

And RTE hasn't shown these Tom and Jerry cartoons for donkey's years....for obvious reasons...

jetsonx

Menas wrote: »

White dog poo.

This is something which I had completely forgotten about
and is a serious scientific question...feck global warming what about
white dog poo?

eisenberg1

jetsonx wrote: »

This is something which I had completely forgotten about
and is a serious scientific question...feck global warming what about
white dog poo?

I think it has to do with people not feeding bones to dogs as much as they used to, less calcium in the diet, hence lack of white crap. It's all fillet steak now I suppose:D

Qualitymark

Qualitymark wrote: »

Hopscotch chalked on pavements and kids playing it. Skipping on pavements. Marbles ditto. Kids "playing out" generally. I blame the cars.

Blame planning and brown envelopes

SpaceTime

Nuns!

Ireland used to be full of them in the 1990s when I was a kid. These days you hardly ever see them. I see more of them on the continent.

Are they gone into hiding or just extinct?

whisky_galore

SpaceTime wrote: »

Nuns!

Ireland used to be full of them in the 1990s when I was a kid. These days you hardly ever see them. I see more of them on the continent.

Are they gone into hiding or just extinct?

Not the career of choice anymore, not many joining religious orders anymore maybe less than a doz each year.

Probably in 20 or 30 years they might have to import priests or actually go down the lay route.

SpaceTime

Also people actually using pay phones. The remaining few seem to be largely just there for vandalism and nostalgia purposes.

conorh91

whisky_galore wrote: »

Some tour operator had them as a gimmick actually hiring them out in the 80's. Don't know how that would work out now with all the traffic, bad enough being stuck behind a tractor or a campervan on a minor road!

There's still a few companies offering that. One of them in Wicklow.

http://www.discoverireland.ie/Activities-Adventure/clissmann-horse-drawn-caravans/9160

whisky_galore

conorh91 wrote: »

There's still a few companies offering that. One of them in Wicklow.

http://www.discoverireland.ie/Activities-Adventure/clissmann-horse-drawn-caravans/9160

Interesting. Would have thought modern H&S/Insurance would have killed that.

doolox

I used to be a milkman when I left school back in the late 70's. Now the milk is in plastic and lasts much longer and can be got much cheaper in the shops when needed.

We tried getting it delivered lately but found we could not manage to guage consumption accurately enough to avoid wastage or going to the shop if we ran out etc...they only delivered 3 times a week. When I was working it was a 7 day week except Christmas day. Short day of 4 hours no breaks or waiting around or any bull****. No meetings office politics or nonsense courses etc. Just do your job.

Weather was the only drawback.

skittles8710

Rip-Off pants

messrs

Jim79 wrote: »

telecom eireann and nothing else
RTE 1 and RTE 2 only; RTE 2 later renamed network 2. what a way to jazz up your tv viewing!:).

Dempseys den go back a little further wonderly wagon. 40 coats and his 50 pockets.

I used to love 40 coats! altho I was terrified of the witch, esp when my brothers used to tell me she was going to come out of the TV and get me
I was only 5 at the time

Cold War Kid

whisky_galore wrote: »

When they ran out of the good stuff, they'd usually put on something from Film Board of Canada or some weird sh*t from the Soviet Bloc. They must have gotten them cheap.

It was bizarre stuff wasnt it. Halas & Bachelor was the other cartoon crowd theyd show stuff from. Bleak and weird.

That autobahn thing was nuts.

kfallon

Grotbags

the purple tin

And those ads that were just a still, with a voiceover (see 2:32 onwards) - they were shown up to about the early 90s I'd say. Desperate things. :pac:

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

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They still have those cheap sh1t voice over ads on UTV. News presenters and continuity do the voices for them.

whisky_galore

Cold War Kid wrote: »

It was bizarre stuff wasnt it. Halas & Bachelor was the other cartoon crowd theyd show stuff from. Bleak and weird.

That autobahn thing was nuts.

Hamilton the Musical Elephant was another one!

eisenberg1

Daithi Lacha anyone?

That bastardin talking duck!! Used to be made watch it for homework.

FelineOverLord

Single glazed housing. I remember how cold it used to get in Winter, so cold that the glass would freeze on the inside and that run you made from the bathroom to your bed to get warm after a bath. Speaking of beds, you don't see many Candlewick bedspreads any more either.

fiachr_a

Proper rock bands in the Top 40.

Mister Vain

Dump valves in cars. Remember when cars went vrooooom tisssss... vrooooom tisssss.

Cold War Kid

whisky_galore wrote: »

Hamilton the Musical Elephant was another one!

And Barnaby, the lad with the oirish winged fairy godfather Mr O'malley. Total rip-off of Charlie Brown. Real yellow pack cartoons.

Speaking of which: Maurice Pratt.

Anesthetize

skittles8710 wrote: »

Rip-Off pants

And getting them ripped off you in PE.

Ed_Stephens

Cupan Tae from Pat's chat. Pat Ingoldsby is a legend.

Teyla Emmagan

Three rings... When we needed a lift home from the village we'd ring home and let it ring 3 times. Then hang up, so you got your 20p back. Then do it again. After a while Mam would turn up in the car. My sister was caught short once by some tilers doing a job in the house who didn't know the code, so she just asked them to pick her up instead!

EagererBeaver

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

White Dogsh1te.

This. Always what I think of when this question pops up. What happened it?!

ihavenoname3

strangers talking on trains, everyone is too cool and anti social for that with their ipods and mobiles.

Sh1tbag OToole

Mister Vain wrote: »

Dump valves in cars. Remember when cars went vrooooom tisssss... vrooooom tisssss.

Still some of those around. I think the young'uns put em on cars for the sound

Anesthetize

ihavenoname3 wrote: »

strangers talking on trains, everyone is too cool and anti social for that with their ipods and mobiles.

There's times for being social, in a pub for example. But on a train I'm far happier keeping to myself, listening to music and watching the world go by.

Sh1tbag OToole

Can't bate a good ould chat with some rambeling ouldfella on a train. Preferably while downing a Beamish

Jim79

"knock knock open wide see whats on the other side knock knock anymore come with me through the magic door"

at least in my memory those were the words i could be wrong.

the trip through the magic door always seemed to be a trip to dublin zoo

whisky_galore

Cold War Kid wrote: »

And Barnaby, the lad with the oirish winged fairy godfather Mr O'malley. Total rip-off of Charlie Brown. Real yellow pack cartoons.

Barnaby first appeared in 1942, Charlie Brown in 1948. Both started out as comic strips.

Tbf Barnaby looks more like an older version of the Fairy Liquid baby to me.

Kiwi in IE

Were waterbeds popular here? They were the thing to have in 1980s NZ! No one has mentioned them yet.

DivingDuck

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

Were waterbeds popular here? They were the thing to have in 1980s NZ! No one has mentioned them yet.

I knew kids in 80s Ireland who still shared a bed with their siblings.

The only water in those beds was not what anyone wanted.

DivingDuck

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

Were waterbeds popular here? They were the thing to have in 1980s NZ! No one has mentioned them yet.

I knew kids in 80s Ireland who still shared a bed with their siblings.

The only water in those beds was far from popular.

Jim79

waterbeds i never saw one. in the 80's we did not have a pot to pee in never mind buying waterbeds. interest rates were huge then also so loans were seriously expensive. money lenders, now there was a scourge of the 80's

Funnyonion79

Does anyone remember cars having a choke in them? You had to pull out the choke to get the car started...vague memories of that...

Sh1tbag OToole

Funnyonion79 wrote: »

Does anyone remember cars having a choke in them? You had to pull out the choke to get the car started...vague memories of that...

Still have 4 of those cars sitting here

Edit: now that I think of it some have a bit of resin in the carburettor that heats up and functions as an automatic choke. Not sure how well those work now that the resin is a bit old

bodhrandude

Hare Krishna tents at music festivals, was always handy if you ran out of sponds and you could go there for some free food.

Gonzo

MTV Europe (back when MTV used to play music 24/7).

Headbangers Ball

Virgin Megastore

Sky Analogue Satellite tv with German and dutch tv stations

Making Compilations onto Cassette tapes and spending time writing band logos on the back with track listings.

Petrol Stations that offered rewards/gifts for buying X amount of petrol over time.

People used to go to Mass on Sundays.

Shops only open for 2 hours on a Sunday morning for people to buy milk/papers.

Switzers

Border Control at the ROI/NI Border.

Ireland used to win the Eurovision.

Ireland used to qualify and win matchs at the Euros/World Cup.

County Meath would win the All-Ireland and every telephone pole would be plastered with green and yellow manure bags.

Moving Statues

Game on Grafton Street

Club Milks used to be decent

1KG Roses/Quality Street tins at Christmas (they now down to about 650g?)

Video Libraries

Woolworths

Walkmans

Hot summers and snowy winters

Couples talking to each other over a meal in a restaurant instead of sitting in silence browsing their phones.

Potholes everywhere

Drive all over Ireland without seeing a Motorway

The Evening Press / Irish Press

McGonagles Rock Venue

News Of The World

byte

MTV Europe was indeed excellent. So much went wrong with MTV since then.

On top of Headbanger's Ball, there was a show called Noisy Mothers on ITV (it was called something else before being named Noisy Mothers but name escapes me).

And, on the subject of TV shows, The Word on Channel 4, with Terry Christian and Dani Behr!
"I'd do anything to get on TV"

NicoleW85

Ohhhh Crazy Prices! Before Tesco! And those funny individual flaps attached to a metal frame that you pushed your trolley through! Please God tell me you know what I'm talkin about - they were great craic to run through as a child...Oh and the kid size trolleys...

byte

NicoleW85 wrote: »

Ohhhh Crazy Prices! Before Tesco! And those funny individual flaps attached to a metal frame that you pushed your trolley through! Please God tell me you know what I'm talkin about - they were great craic to run through as a child...Oh and the kid size trolleys...

Were Crazy Prices and Quinnsworth one and the same?

I ask, as I believe Tesco took over Quinnsworth, but vaguely remember Crazy Prices ads on the TV/radio.

NicoleW85

Possibly - I spent the first 21 years of my life in the north, so not sure what was going on South of the border back then

_Whimsical_

Being so packed in to the backseat of cars with other kids that standing up between the two front seats to "see the road" on long journeys was a much-coveted opportunity. I remember fighting with cousins to take turns in that unique stance that would probably see you catapulted through the front windscreen if the car breaked heavily. Not only that but it was encouraged by the adult driver who seemed to think a death-defying better view of the road was a great treat.