**** things about the 70s,80s,90s...that don't happen now!

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122686816#Comment_122686816

Murder Casebook, first issue had Peter Sutcliffe. Published by Marshall Cavendish. Came out in 1990. Had some creepy Sutcliffe family photos taken in the 1970s.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122686853#Comment_122686853

Yes I think that was it. It was the debut issue of the magazine in question. I remember letters of complaint to Mailbag, cant be 100% but I think Arthur Murphy said in response that RTE had pulled the ad.

Edit, this was it. I remember it being shown early evening.

https://youtu.be/5FZUI6fSd1Y?si=TixHmBvBhnPoNShc

Strumms

Zooming back to the nineteen hate-ies. ….

having to save up about £250 to pay for a return flight to London. Months in advance too. That was big money then, my cousin was over there and had to scrimp and save to get back for Christmas…

people calling to your house to sell you stuff…. There was an ‘egg man’ in our area, fella with a van who just sold nothing but eggs. There was also lots of cold callers selling raffle tickets..usually to benefit a sports club, cubs / scouts, guides, Red Cross or whatever charity, haven’t encountered that in an age.

the pools, always remember the little pools girl…. Kathleen L, a character…she was tiny, me granny was known for regularly winning a few bob on that.

People dropping in endless catalogs in your letterbox …. Toys, homeware/tupperware & fashion…probably more too. Doesn’t happen with any regularity now.

L1011

The pools girl/guy still exists in some places, most of them merged in to The Care Trust which does a prize draw rather than old fashioned football pools.

My mother was utterly baffled when The Care Trust phoned her about a medium sized prize (hundred quid or so) that was above what the local seller was allowed hand out - to her, it was The Mater Hospital Pools, she'd even been a seller for it some years earlier, and she never noticed the name change. She assumed it was a scam call.

The Mormons, when have they all gone we do get the JW occasionally but haven't had a Morman calling around in years.

Collections in pubs for various causes at one stage it was organised a man with a van would bring teenagers to pubs and get them to go around busy pubs collecting, a lot of fundraising was a scan the sellers were paid for going door to door.

Door-to-door insurance sales men which turned out to be a scam as well.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122691120#Comment_122691120

I saw two Mormons on the Luas a while ago, one had the Book of Mormon in Portuguese with him so they may be targetting the Brazilian community here (who are more religious on average I'd guess).

whisky_galore

Part works in general. The Internet probably killed much of that market off, Wikipedia, cheap books, ebooks, streaming and podcasts.

Lots of them were basically elaborate scams, the ones with say a model part in each edition costing far more than an equivalent model bought outright.

Purple Mountain

Back in the 90s, we had one of those massive televisions that weighed a tonne, with the long back on them. You'd switch it on and it would take a good ten minutes to "warm up" for a clear picture to come through.

You'd have to know when your programme would be coming on so that you could the TV on for a few minutes before.

LambshankRedemption

I was in town earlier at the doctors. I asked for the prescription, but the doctor had already emailed it to my pharmacist, and they had it in stock.

So I walked around to the pharmacy and got it.

Instant communication between the Doctors and the pharmacy - on a Sunday.

It's easy to have rose tinted glasses about the past, but there is a lot of good stuff about today. With the technology available, things could be even better though.

I pay 9.99 a month for Amazon Music and have access to 95% of all music that ever existed. Versus, recording songs off the radio, and saving up for an album I wanted.

I don't have NetFlix, but I remember spending a week downloading an episode of Star Trek Enterprise. Today, I can download it in about 4 minutes. As it turned out, it was a sh1te episode, so I shan't download it again.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122691261#Comment_122691261

I fell for the trap that was part works more than once. The first issue was terrific, always. By issue 4 it was crap and you had a half-built t-rex/Lancaster Bomber/Submarine. I did finish the T-Rex, as did lots of other people, because there was a second year where you were meant to put the glow in the dark skeleton of the first one inside the skin of year two. Turns out it didnt fit.

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122682183#Comment_122682183

or dry rides as we called them

Speedsie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122691697#Comment_122691697

The erection section. 😁

whisky_galore

Tupperware parties.

Company filed for bankruptcy this year.

Sgt Hartman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122689228#Comment_122689228

I remember on our estate we had a fruit and veg man, a milkman, a bread man, a turf man who used to come up from Kerry, and a video man who would sell and rent dodgy pirate videos from the back of his van. There was also Eamonn the rent man, Mr. Clinton the coal man, Dom the Lisnagry Charity Foundation raffle man and Michael Earls the pools man who sadly passed away a few months back. Michael would keep you talking at the door for ages before finally moving on.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122692859#Comment_122692859

I remember on our estate we had a fruit and veg man, a milkman, a bread man, a turf man who used to come up from Kerry, and a video man who would sell and rent dodgy pirate videos from the back of his van.

My next-door neighbours still have a milkman, and an egg-woman, and until a few months ago, a fruit & veg man (but he retired). At the start of Covid and since they are elderly, I suggested getting their shopping online from Tesco which they now love, but they still get their eggs and milks separately.

Hangdogroad

These kind of cheap looking hair restorer ads in the press. They always seemed to feature the same guy.

odyssey06

@Hangdogroad is it the same guy though :)

JupiterKid

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122691721#Comment_122691721

I think that these days, tupperware parties have been pretty much replaced by Ann Summers sex toy parties. 😁

JupiterKid

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122691261#Comment_122691261

I was a sucker for those part works in my teens - usually something on history, geography, crafts, gardening etc. They were hugely popular in the late 1980s/early 90s.

They often had a sort of ring binder folder to add each monthly section as you collected it - and the infamous models that took forever to assemble. I would always start off collecting them enthusiastically but later run out of interest...

JupiterKid

The Filofax, beloved accessory of the late 1980s/early 1990s yuppie.

Contained a diary, week planner, notes pages, maps etc. in a compact leather bound ring binder. Inserts were very expensive to buy.

Replaced by the Psion organiser (my late Dad had one of these!), then the Blackberry and finally by the smartphone.

ottolwinner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122712292#Comment_122712292

I still use the Filofax. It’s my bible for what’s happening

Never got into the blackberry or using the phone for organising myself.

Charles Babbage

Down or Meath winning All Irelands.

mobby

Army Jumpers. Green and Airforce blue..

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122712159#Comment_122712159

Viz had the measure of them.

mobby

A few others come to mind

If you ate, you could not swim for 1 hr, counted to the second by me ma.

Postcards. Now when some folk go on holiday it's pictures on Facebook etc from the Airport bar at start to Airport bar at the end and everything in between.

Rubber swim caps that cut the blood supply to your brain.

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122712236#Comment_122712236

From rumours I’ve heard they were pretty much the same thing in the 80’s .

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122712773#Comment_122712773

Before going to into a swimming pool you had to wade through some scutter coloured liquid that was sub zero, in order to kill the verrucas.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122712773#Comment_122712773

I still receive the odd postcard but yep it’s not the regularly occurring thing it was.

The rubber caps that would cut off your blood supply or the fabric / polyester ones that always fell off or over to one side of your head when you dived in.

Pauliedragon

The local Guard coming into the pub I worked in at 3pm on Sunday to make sure we weren't serving booze. The poor regulars had to run out the back door for a few mins.