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

Larbre34

Real dirt destitute poverty. In Ireland at any rate.

Yes there are people living in terrible cicumstances still, homeless, long term illness and disability, debt ridden, children deprived, dieecr provision, traveller specific issues etc

But, my parents in only their 70s were old enough to remember real squalor, malnourishment, tenements, full illiteracy, the diseases of poverty and starvation, high infant mortality. Thats gone now and it would be hard to get anyone under 30 to wrap there head around how it was.

Das Reich

BeerWolf wrote: »

Watching films on Laser Discs in the 80s and early 90s. Paired with a THX Surround Sound 5.1 setup was some quality stuff to watch on.

There was this thing in Ireland in the 80's? I remember a relative bought a CD player (music) in 1993 in Brazil, and when I came to Europe end of 90's people still were using cassette. I think dvd replaced VHS in Europe only in 2000.

Wanderer78

PGE1970 wrote:

Abject Unemployment

Its just been replaced with precarious employment and increasing insecurities, not much difference really

minikin

...knowing that he’s definitely coming.

AndrewJRenko

Larbre34 wrote: »

But, my parents in only their 70s were old enough to remember real squalor, malnourishment, tenements, full illiteracy, the diseases of poverty and starvation, high infant mortality. Thats gone now and it would be hard to get anyone under 30 to wrap there head around how it was.

Have you spoken to many travelers lately?

Jequ0n

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Have you spoken to many travelers lately?

As you make your bed...

Eggs For Dinner

minikin wrote: »

...knowing that he’s definitely coming.

Boys will be boys. Not much has changed there...

NewbridgeIR

Das Reich wrote: »

There was this thing in Ireland in the 80's? I remember a relative bought a CD player (music) in 1993 in Brazil, and when I came to Europe end of 90's people still were using cassette. I think dvd replaced VHS in Europe only in 2000.

Yes - fairly low take-up but a few people bought laserdiscs. I knew one person who had a player and bought the films in Virgin Megastore.

I bought a CD player in 1986 but carried on buying the majority of my music on vinyl. In 1988, for every six albums sold, four were on cassette. CDs only overtook them in 1992/93. Vinyl was at its lowest ebb in the ‘90s; I kept buying new releases on the format (as well as reissues on CD) but you’d often see unsold copies of LPs on the shelves for months, particularly major label releases in HMV / Virgin.

DVD launched in 1997 but in Ireland were very expensive. I remember things like Fight Club and The Wicker Man were £40 for 2-disc editions. When The Sopranos Season 1 came out in 2000, the VHS box was £50 and plenty people bought it. Piles of them in HMV Grafton Street. That was the last stand for the format, after that it was a steady decline - particularly for sales of film and TV shows. People kept taping stuff for a while longer though.

TheAsYLuMkeY

I bought a copy of this on release, never played it, and discovered when opening it to check its integrity that it has two insert books by mistake with it.

Never been played with two books, i wonder what its worth.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/1089302328

sbsquarepants

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Have you spoken to many travelers lately?

Too many

branie2

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Stone axes, imported flints, fire ?

Luxury. We used to dream of a damp cave instead of having to live in the belly of a rotting mammoth carcass.

To live in the belly of a rotting mammoth carcass instead of on the damp ground was our dearest wish

bertiebomber

branie2 wrote: »

Expensive flights before Michael O'Leary came along

& nice mannered people on those flights no druken fights and shouting no cream crackers going to Spain !! Bliss

un5byh7sqpd2x0

Have skin mags been mentioned?

Normal One

Small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. It's all AstroTurf and floodlights now.

Feisar

bertiebomber wrote: »

& nice mannered people on those flights no druken fights and shouting no cream crackers going to Spain !! Bliss

The proletariat weren't meant to have nice things. Drudgery they can handle, anything nice fecks them up.

Feisar

Emanuel Jealous Kickback wrote: »

Have skin mags been mentioned?

Twice now

whisky_galore

bertiebomber wrote: »

& nice mannered people on those flights no druken fights and shouting no cream crackers going to Spain !! Bliss

It's not the same since the great unwashed were allowed travel by air.

bertiebomber

whisky_galore wrote: »

It's not the same since the great unwashed were allowed travel by air.

now the unwashed travel and we stay-cation to avoid them!

Snickers Man

JustAThought wrote: »

the misery of endless remorseless political correctness.

I find your attitude offensive.

Strumms

filbert the fox wrote: »

208 Radio Luxembourg on the Trannie (transistor radio) only available after 8:12pm

B sides

Clock radio

polishing shoes

kissing in the lane

Hammer house of horror

I miss buying physical music. Yes the accessibility of Spotify is amazingly brilliant but I loved spending 40 minutes in the old tower records in Wicklow St.. trawling shelves... Virgin megastore on the Champs Elysses ( you’d need 2 hours ), Fargo and FNAC in Paris, and HMV Oxford St...

sbsquarepants

Strumms wrote: »

I miss buying physical music. Yes the accessibility of Spotify is amazingly brilliant but I loved spending 40 minutes in the old tower records in Wicklow St.. trawling shelves... Virgin megastore on the Champs Elysses ( you’d need 2 hours ), Fargo and FNAC in Paris, and HMV Oxford St...

One of my favourite things to do was to spend an hour or so, aimlessly browsing in tower or the Virgin Megastore. Flicking through the posters being a particular highpoint:D


Rarely bought anything more than a can of coke, so i can see how it wasn't very sustainable as a business.

IAMAMORON

Emanuel Jealous Kickback wrote: »

Have skin mags been mentioned?

Emanuel Jealous Kickback wrote: »

Have skin mags been mentioned?

Yes twice now.

branie2

Mail order catalogues

branie2

BeerWolf wrote: »

Watching films on Laser Discs in the 80s and early 90s. Paired with a THX Surround Sound 5.1 setup was some quality stuff to watch on.

The forerunners of DVDs and Blu-rays

bonzodog2

Answers on a postcard please

The Continental Op

Include a self addressed stamped envelope.

branie2

Mailbag with Arthur Murphy

PGE1970

Those red and white canvas huts put up by P&T workers around manholes.

Invariably to keep them from public eye while they had their tea!!

branie2

Walkmans

Be right back

Cars with roll up windows.

.........Privacy.

branie2

Video players

The J Stands for Jay

buried wrote: »

Maybe not so much in other countries but definitely here in Ireland there is a generation that has not grown up with mainstream radio stations playing a selection of new forward pushing music or syndicating a show that selects current forward pushing pop/rock/electronic music. This was not the case in the 80's, 90's early 2000's. The last mainstream show to do this was probably Dineen's slot for Today FM about nearly 15 years ago now. An Taobh Tuathail on Raidió na Gaeltachta still does it, but unfortunately that station is far from the ears of the majority. It's a f**king shame because plenty of good new music is being released on a constant basis but the mainstream stations won't touch it or allow anybody to play it. And these artists could do with the showcasing, especially now in the current situation where live shows are basically gone.

I miss No Disco on rte.

The J Stands for Jay

Das Reich wrote: »

There was this thing in Ireland in the 80's? I remember a relative bought a CD player (music) in 1993 in Brazil, and when I came to Europe end of 90's people still were using cassette. I think dvd replaced VHS in Europe only in 2000.

I think it was the PS2 that really kicked off the acceptance of dvds in Ireland. I remember buying my first cd player in 1996 because I was disgusted by the extra tracks on a cd single compared to a single on a cassette.

BeerWolf

Das Reich wrote: »

There was this thing in Ireland in the 80's? I remember a relative bought a CD player (music) in 1993 in Brazil, and when I came to Europe end of 90's people still were using cassette. I think dvd replaced VHS in Europe only in 2000.

Was living in Malaysia at the time. Country had a big influence from the USA, and was honestly more modern than Ireland then.

The J Stands for Jay

sbsquarepants wrote: »

One of my favourite things to do was to spend an hour or so, aimlessly browsing in tower or the Virgin Megastore. Flicking through the posters being a particular highpoint:D


Rarely bought anything more than a can of coke, so i can see how it wasn't very sustainable as a business.

Going to the import section of the times Square virgin megastore, then realising you're a dope because all the imports are the stuff you have at home (they didn't seem to have many Japanese imports).

olestoepoke

Tying a rope around the concrete street lights and swinging at dizzying heights for entire summers. Holy moly, if I saw my kids doing that today I'd have a heart attack. Or the excitement of calling into Virgin on the quays every Friday on the way home from work to browse and by a CD. Theres about a 1,000 of them in the attic gathering dust whilst I listen to Spotify.

BeerWolf

branie2 wrote: »

The forerunners of DVDs and Blu-rays

Was a nuisance having to flip the disc over halfway through a film until players eventually had the feature to read both sides... that was game changing!

SB71

A generation (not all i may add) who find offence in the slightest things, some actually go out of their way to be offended, whether that be Only fools and horses, James Bond, Friends,etc,etc,etc the latest one is BBC radio playing a modified version of the classic much loved fairytale of New York because it contains the word "fa*got" ,have people nothing else to be doing in they're sad mundane lives than to continually find office with so many things, and they then get all offended because they are called millennial snowflakes. :rolleyes:

Say Your Number

Older generations going on about soft they are and boring on about how much better things were in their day.

The J Stands for Jay

BeerWolf wrote: »

Was a nuisance having to flip the disc over halfway through a film until players eventually had the feature to read both sides... that was game changing!

I have an early DVD copy of Bladerunner that has two sides on it. One was wide-screen, and the other was old-fashioned TV sized (I can't even remember what that was called 14:9? Pan and scan?).

branie2

Bosco

SB71

Say Your Number wrote: »

Older generations going on about soft they are and boring on about how much better things were in their day.

Ever occurred to you that it was,they were carefree innocent times when as kids during the school holidays we went out from morning until evening climbing trees, playing football or rounders or tennis during Wimbledon we weren't stuck indoors all the time playing video games like so many kids are now, do kids even play any sports now in school at lunch time or just huddle around looking into their phones at snap chat or tik tok, sad what has become of society.

bertiebomber

not being stressed and bullied in their bedrooms by technology

Strumms

sbsquarepants wrote: »

One of my favourite things to do was to spend an hour or so, aimlessly browsing in tower or the Virgin Megastore. Flicking through the posters being a particular highpoint:D


Rarely bought anything more than a can of coke, so i can see how it wasn't very sustainable as a business.

Totally..When you see though now, Spotify premium is 9.83 a month. The whole of the music catalog on the planet or access to it for 9.83... you wouldn’t get a single album for 9.83 at one stage... certainly not a new release anyway.

silliussoddius

Baking soda powered toys from cereal packets.

PGE1970

olestoepoke wrote: »

Theres about a 1,000 of them in the attic gathering dust whilst I listen to Spotify.

They are not gathering dust. They are an investment!

In my mother's attic (I am 50!), there are still vinyl copies of New Order 12"s, vinyl albums from The Smiths, Lloyd Cole, The Waterboys, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Jesus & Mary Chain, Stone Roses, The Cure etc to copies of Nik Kershaw, Now Thats What I Call Music and pop singles all bought before I got my first CD player in 1991.

I also have Undertones albums, a colour sleeve album from That Petrol Emotion and loads of other Irish rock/indie stuff.

They will either be worth a fortune or won't be worth scrap.

I'm not sure yet!

The Continental Op

Peig

Strumms

McGaggs wrote: »

I miss No Disco on rte.

Loved the show when Uaneen Fitzsimons presented it in particular... it wasn’t like some indie schmindy rock show presenter talking down to their audience, more like a mate who loved music too sharing their discoveries and loves...

riclad

Do kids still play conkers in the autumn ,
Or do they just look at phone screens and make tik toks .
no one was bullied on social media or insulted by weirdo,s .
Theres an article almost every day on daily mail uk,
celeb x ,i was bullied or insulted by online trolls, it s usually women .
Theres billions of people on the web ,of course some of them are creeps who hate women +
copying tapes on a double tape ghetto blaster stereo.
Waiting with the pause button on a tape recorder to to record the top 20 songs on cassette tapes trying to avoid taping the dj,s intro .
making mixtapes on cd or cassette of your favourite songs.
random programs in the 70s, or the 80,s on rte tv presented by a priest which were unwatchable by anyone under the age of 50.