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

partyguinness

Mimon wrote: »

Not trying to outdo you but my aunts moved to the US at 15 and 16. My father was out working at 15 also. Crazy when you think about kids in their 30s and 40s living at home now.

2020 is very different from 1950. 15-16 year olds in the 1940s more often than not had little option. Remember you had to pay for secondary school back then so heading out into the workplace was the only option and in Ireland emigrate to the US or the UK where there was plenty of work rebuilding after WWII. I had 2 g/uncles that did just that in 1950. Lived there for 50 years.

But that just shows how skewed the system is now that you do have adults living at home with parents. I am sure 30-40 year olds do not want to leave at home but with prices it is just not possible to do otherwise.

filbert the fox

Floppybits wrote: »

Anyone remember using videoplus to set the video recorder up to record programmes. The programme listing in the newspaper use to give the I think it was a 7 digit code to be put in.

Funniest thing was that there was a videoplus code for the Angelus!:rolleyes:

Timing belt

Ringing the talking clock

iamstop

L1011 wrote: »

Yes; rural areas with pubs but no chippers. Probably had a pretty dead 2020 though. But they're far from uncommon in Donegal.

The food trucks (as they call them here in Winnipeg) are a standard fixture at most outdoor events here. They even have a food truck competition. Or had, prior to you know what!

The J Stands for Jay

Floppybits wrote: »

Anyone remember using videoplus to set the video recorder up to record programmes. The programme listing in the newspaper use to give the I think it was a 7 digit code to be put in.

Was there a more advanced version that used barcodes in the TV listings and some sort of scanner?

bonzodog2

McGaggs wrote: »

Was there a more advanced version that used barcodes in the TV listings and some sort of scanner?

I had a Panasonic VCR in the 90s that had a handheld scanner for that. Doubt I used it.

chimneypot20

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

good prospects of buying a property!

iamstop

Waiting on the Teletext pages to change so you knew what was on what channel for the next few hours.

Vita nova

Ubbquittious wrote: »

A little glass jar with a fabric applicator 'neath the lid containing a colourless stain remover branded "dab-it-off"

It was very effective at removing stains from clothes. I can still remember my mother lamenting that the old version was no longer for sale. I also remember that it contained the same solvent as the old version of Tippex, namely 1,1,1 trichloroethane, which kids used to sniff before the makers of Tippex changed the formulation.

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Vita nova

Having to clean dead insects off a windscreen after or during a long drive. That was common when I started to drive over 30 years ago but nowadays I rarely see a large number of dead insects on the windscreen.

I only realised it recently after I heard mention of the 'windscreen phenomenon' on TV. It's related to a decline in the population of insects due to human activity.

Panthro

Using Aertel to check to see if I won anything on me prize bonds!

gozunda

branie2 wrote: »

The original Battlestar Galactica

Used to watch this when I got back from school as a form of escapism ...

branie2

Budget Travel holiday brochures

RandomViewer

Vita nova wrote: »

Having to clean dead insects off a windscreen after or during a long drive. That was common when I started to drive over 30 years ago but nowadays I rarely see a large number of dead insects on the windscreen.

I only realised it recently after I heard mention of the 'windscreen phenomenon' on TV. It's related to a decline in the population of insects due to human activity.

Or screen wash instead of plain water and the absence of dry warm weather

Quantum Erasure

Tamagotchis

The Belly

Blue skies package holidays until they went wallop

jelem

whisky_galore wrote: »

You can't fix stupid. I suppose cancer is "fake news" these days.

cancer from smoking is deemed by scientific research to be one of the lesser cancers.
i can recall figure about 23% of cancers.
it seems stomach and skin along with "chemical\pollution\ lifestyle" are more prominant.
was a good Scare tactic to hide the fact cars and factories caused more harm.

whisky_galore

Glue sniffing.

Capt'n Midnight

Vita nova wrote: »

It was very effective at removing stains from clothes. I can still remember my mother lamenting that the old version was no longer for sale. I also remember that it contained the same solvent as the old version of Tippex, namely 1,1,1 trichloroethane, which kids used to sniff before the makers of Tippex changed the formulation.

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Dab it off contained carbon tetrachloride but you can't have it these days because it destroys your liver and nervous system.

spurious

The blue and yellow punt to euro calculators.

For Forks Sake

spurious wrote: »

The blue and yellow punt to euro calculators.

(missing) Iodine tablets

Big Back Clock

Sneaking upto the room in the house the “computer” was in, with the dial up internet, making sure no one was around.

The boyhood mischief, getting up the WWF Divas website and watching their videos and photos. The danger of your ma walking in all added to it.


Bliss.

branie2

Microsoft Encarta

Mr Meanor

Actually building your computer (ZX80)

carbsy

Making your own fizzy drinks with Soda Stream.

carbsy

Typing in endless hours of code from VIC20 magazine just to see a stick man move across the screen.

Vita nova

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Dab it off contained carbon tetrachloride but you can't have it these days because it destroys your liver and nervous system.

There was definitely a version of Dabitoff or maybe a period when it contained 1,1,1 trichloroethane because I remember noticing (~80s) that it was the same solvent as in Tippex. I think carbon tetrachloride may have been in an earlier version because it was banned for certain applications before 1,1,1 trichloroethane.

the purple tin

Tea in a bottle for babies.

Sardonicat

the purple tin wrote: »

Tea in a bottle for babies.

Gripe water.

Dtp1979

Sardonicat wrote: »

Gripe water.

Still being used to this day

Dtp1979

carbsy wrote: »

Making your own fizzy drinks with Soda Stream.

Still use my soda stream, although it’s the more modern version

bodhrandude

And before Soda Stream there was this.

Sardonicat

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Still being used to this day

I thought it was banned?

silliussoddius

Speedsie

Sardonicat wrote: »

I thought it was banned?

I think they just removed the alcohol we all grew up with!

So now it's Alcohol Free Gripe Water, or Zero Percent Gripe Water.

Don't think you can get the hard stuff any longer.

the purple tin

Alcoholic babies :pac:

cj maxx

They'll, the lucky ones, only be 9 or so now and older kids hopefully won't remember. But Roy Hodgson as a liverpool manager

Sardonicat

Speedsie wrote: »

I think they just removed the alcohol we all grew up with!

So now it's Alcohol Free Gripe Water, or Zero Percent Gripe Water.

Don't think you can get the hard stuff any longer.

Does it do any good now?

bodhrandude

Can we ever forget this from 2009, Pat Kenny gets a nice shake down on live TV.

Hangdogroad

bodhrandude wrote: »

Can we ever forget this from 2009, Pat Kenny gets a nice shake down on live TV.

Yer mans as mad as a box of frogs, friend working in call centre says he used to regularly ring them.

Speedsie

Sardonicat wrote: »

Does it do any good now?

I've absolutely no idea! Can't imagine it does though.

I suppose the alternative of a thumb dipped in whiskey can still be used!

(No children in my life, and as I'm rapidly hurtling towards 50, that boat has sailed!)

Ash.J.Williams

Spitting on bands

RandomViewer

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Spitting on bands

Cant see that one coming back anytime soon

bonzodog2

The non-PC early Tom and Jerry cartoons. Thomas!

RandomViewer

Gerry Ryan

the purple tin

Status Quo

branie2

Thin Lizzy

Hangdogroad

Decent guests on the Late Late Late Show.

silliussoddius

Quantum Leap.

branie2

The Houndcats and the Barkleys on video