Ways of living you never want to go back to

Count Dracula · 26-04-2023 2:46am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521551#Comment_120521551

It was Crewe or sometimes Stoke. I miss the bus if I am honest, like it was real travelling. Kings cross on a Tennants hangover at 7.00 am is something I cannot forget. The ferry and Train was more comfy, I used to love singing with other travellers, literally. The plane is not the same.

I remember selling a Playboy mag featuring Erika Eleniak, to a Diamond Geezer type in a bookies on the Edgeware Road. He gave me the price of my ticket over and back for it, I bagged 2 copies in Euston Station that morning, sold out.

Diamond white and Carlsberg export snake bites cost around 89p for 660 ml. 10 fags were about 80 pence, blue Regal or Players. Major were 14 punts for 200 on the ferry, around 18 euro or so. 200 Major costs € 298 now, I am deadly serious, look it up, unless you are flying to Norway, they don't care if you buy cheap fags flying there. It is cheaper to buy fags in Iberia than it is in Duty Free. Snooker players played drunk,even in the Crucible. Jockey Wilson Won a world Darts title drinking Tennants by the Gallon. That is an achievement.

Porno Mags is a proper way to enjoy pornography. You have to endure clandestine scorn when purchasing one, everyone envies someone buying a Porno Mag, they might also consider you a lecherous perverted whanker? Them is the breaks and that cookie crumbles from there in. It is a real thing, not this lap top internet nonsense that is making everyone go dead from the waste down, Mags rock, your mouse is stealing your imagination and not even telling you.

It was a different time, ok?

Sgt Hartman · 26-04-2023 6:20am

Renting. Never ever again, especially from an owner occupier because you'll just spend your whole time walking on eggshells around them.

SAMTALK · 26-04-2023 9:53am

Never having to live with your parents again and tell them everywhere you were going, what you were doing and when you'd be home

sniperman · 26-04-2023 10:01am

living with an alcoholic partner and daughter

hoodie6029 · 26-04-2023 10:43am

Social Media. Never again.

iamstop · 26-04-2023 1:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521362#Comment_120521362

Eh, no. You missed the bit where I said I'd never go back to not having one. But worry not. I'm act responsibly. I'm not one of the scrotes who walk around town blasting tunes at max volume.

I hang it quite close to my ears and I only turn it up when I'm on busy streets with lots of noisy traffic and very few or no people. If I'm in a park or on a trail I have it on a low volume and you'd have to be practically standing next to me to hear it.

pgj2015 · 26-04-2023 2:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120523308#Comment_120523308

Would you not just use ear/head phones? 🙄

hoodie6029 · 26-04-2023 2:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120523308#Comment_120523308

So if I have to be practically standing f next to you to hear it, how well are you hearing it? Very poorly, I’d say. So what is the point?

sprucemoose · 26-04-2023 3:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120523308#Comment_120523308

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120523637#Comment_120523637

as the other poster said, use earphones

iamstop · 26-04-2023 3:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120523727#Comment_120523727

No.

Using headphones is dangerous when cycling.

o1s1n · 26-04-2023 3:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120523899#Comment_120523899

You also said you use it while 'walking around'.

sprucemoose · 26-04-2023 4:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120523899#Comment_120523899

if you can hear what youre listening to on a speaker in any way clearly its not that different

and you can get earphones with transparency mode

or just use a single one

its just common courtesy to be honest

HazeDoll · 26-04-2023 4:39pm

Trying to get by in education without drawing attention to the fact that I'm not participating in the religious pageantry. Hoping nobody notices that I didn't mutter a prayer and bless myself at the start of staff meeting - that's right, staff meetings! - and drying to avoid having to explain why nobody saw me going up for communion at graduation masses.

thankfully my current school is much less immersed in 1950's catholic mentality.

HazeDoll · 26-04-2023 4:43pm

I'll also add my voice to the chorus regarding housesharing. I enjoyed most of my houseshares but I would take to sleeping under a tree in the woods before I'd go back.

Bobblehats · 26-04-2023 5:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120524216#Comment_120524216

moving on ..

brokenbad · 26-04-2023 6:41pm

Dial up internet.....

Having to take a half day off work to stand in a queue in the local tax office to tax your car......

Browsing through the buy and sell paper edition looking at a potential car to buy with no pictures....

2 channel tv....

Offering each other the sign of peace at mass....

Fr Tod Umptious · 26-04-2023 6:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120524673#Comment_120524673

Having to take a half day off work to stand in a queue in the local tax office to tax your car......

This

iamstop · 26-04-2023 7:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120524096#Comment_120524096

It's hilarious how bent out of shape some of yizz are getting about this. I'm gonna do what I'm going to do. I don't play it excessively loud, I turn it off when going in to shop and if some is passing me and hears a few bars of music for a few seconds, good for them. The alternative is cars and trucks, police sirens and traffic lights telling you if you can cross or not.

I often hear hear cyclists and pedestrians play music from speakers as they pass me and not once has it ever irked me. Usually I try to see if I know what the music is. Mostly my attitude is 'Good for them, rock on'.

L1011 · 26-04-2023 7:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120523899#Comment_120523899

Bone conduction setups aren't audible to anyone else and don't block/cover your ears

sprucemoose · 26-04-2023 7:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120524802#Comment_120524802

'I'm gonna do what I'm going to do.' thats a great attitude to have

'The alternative is cars and trucks, police sirens and traffic lights telling you if you can cross or not.' those are all very important things to be able to hear, so the rest of us would prefer to be able to hear them rather than whatever youre playing (not to mention, you previously said that headphones were dangerous to cycling........)

iamstop · 26-04-2023 7:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120524825#Comment_120524825

Hahahaha, what a terrible argument. There is not a snowball's change that my funky little JBL clip on speaker is drowning out a police siren or traffic noise. You might want to go back to secondary level science class and learn a bit more about the physics of sound waves. Good luck.

iamstop · 26-04-2023 7:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120524808#Comment_120524808

If my speaker breaks maybe I'll look into this. But for now, the speaker is doing a great job.

bucketybuck · 26-04-2023 7:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120524802#Comment_120524802

Its a dickhead thing to do, without exception. People who do it are a blight on the streets, every single other person in the vicinity wishes they would stop being such needy little attention seekers and just get a pair of damn headphones like everybody else.

But you do you.

iamstop · 26-04-2023 8:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120524914#Comment_120524914

It's really not a dickhead thing to do when 1% or less of time I'm listening to my speaker is spent in the listening vicinity of someone else. Absolutely nothing to do with seeking attention. Quite the opposite. I much prefer quieter areas, away from people.

Since you're hell bent on trying to tell me what to do, maybe I can offer some advice: Take a chill pill bro. It's not good for you're heart to be so stressed all the time.

sprucemoose · 26-04-2023 8:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120524859#Comment_120524859

thens whats the point? you are arguing against yourself here

'if some is passing me and hears a few bars of music for a few seconds, good for them. The alternative is cars and trucks, police sirens and traffic lights telling you if you can cross or not' - which is it.

also, its not just people passing you, someone could be cycling/walking behind you for any length of time for one

buried · 26-04-2023 8:28pm

The older I get, I find there are ways of living from the past that I'd love to go back experiencing.

bucketybuck · 26-04-2023 8:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120525215#Comment_120525215

Sorry, can't hear you over the noise of some self important clown playing music out of speakers. I'll try again when he moves on.

iamstop · 26-04-2023 8:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120525229#Comment_120525229

Facepalm of doom man, you're fighting a losing battle. Take your tail, place it betwixt thine legs and toddle on. Cheerio.

Larbre34 · 26-04-2023 9:08pm

This thread is an interesting angle.

But it demonstrates something even more interesting. The challenge of changing the habits of the western world concerning travel, diet and consumption in general, vis-a-vis climate change demands.

What it demonstrates, is that no human wants to go back. In any way. Ever.

You can't de-innovate. You can't de-evolve.

The answer to 'ways of living you never want to go back to', is always 'all of them before today'.

Gusser09 · 26-04-2023 9:11pm

3.5 hours spent commuting a grand total of 52km a day. **** me. I dont know how i did it. I will never ever go back to working in dublin city centre. I'll go on the dole first.

sprucemoose · 26-04-2023 9:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120525600#Comment_120525600

oh youre one of those

Potential-Monke · 26-04-2023 11:59pm

Working days: There's a calmness to working nights. It's great that most of the country is asleep so I don't have to deal with them.

Working Mon-Fri/9-5: I have a 6 week rota with a rostered week off included. I know what I'm working in 2030 if I'm still with them doing this. I work 4 nights in a row once in those 6 weeks (2 hours shorter per shift, followed by the week off) and work no more than 3 nights in a row otherwise. It's awesome.

Being social: This was a factor in my anxiety, and becoming unsocial has made me happier. It was draining trying to be social, trying to pretend to be interested in the same crap people gossip about. Now I do what I like most the time and feel like I'm living a better life. It's a short life and I've already wasted enough trying to be what other people want me to be.

Alcohol: While I did visit the demon recently, and will be doing so again twice more this year (stag and wedding), I have loved being "sober" for the 6+ years before it. Alcohol is a poison. My body and mind are thankful. I look forward to no more weddings. See above point to see how to avoid. This wedding may not even have happened if they didn't have an unexpected child a couple years ago. Happy for them though.

Sharing with anyone: I have lived by myself for a lot of my adult life up to a point. And while I'm currently living with my mother (and my father up to a few months ago), I never want to share with anyone after that. My mother is a gem, and I love her and don't count her in this situation. I love my own company, but I love my mammy more. After that, people can get da f. Although, the door will always be open for my siblings to come "home" if they ever need to. Just hope they don't.

Being beardless: Never again. My beard is my life. I got more compliments in the first few years of growing my beard than I had in the 30 before it. While it hasn't grown to the length I'd prefer (long enough to hide stuff/make a weapon out of), it's still my beard and I'm proud of it. Shaving sucks and I'll never do it again. Even if I somehow lose my mind and cut the beard, I will never be clean shaven.

Sgt Hartman · 27-04-2023 7:50am

After discovering the joys of having a decent laptop with an SSD drive I will never ever EVER again buy one with a standard hard drive

xxyyzz · 27-04-2023 8:12am

Living in a town with no skatepark. Honest to god, it is beyond the comprehension of 90% of people in this country that there are folks out there who are not into GAH and soccer. One small patch of concrete that didn't cost that much in the greater scheme of things has brought so much joy to kids and adults and it took 15 years of fighting the council to convince them that there was a demand for it.

Also, this is a nice and interesting thread, can ye stop arguing about the speaker, just live and let live. Shouting into a bucket on a forum isn't going to change things.

John_Rambo · 27-04-2023 8:13am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120525650#Comment_120525650

Yeah, it's interesting. I loved living in a shared house but wouldn't do it now! I liked working in an office but wouldn't do it now! It's like the person who gets made redundant and is very bitter about it. A year later it's "the best thing that happened, they did me a favour" I guess it's a decent enough positive survival instinct.

As for the people complaining about a small speaker on someone walking or cycling by? If that's bothering you you need to reassess things and make more of life.

FazyLucker · 27-04-2023 8:32am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120520136#Comment_120520136

Video did that years ago.....long before Spotify was even conceptualised.

FazyLucker · 27-04-2023 8:38am

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In one way I'd say "yes" but in general, having done the same thing I'd say it was brilliant. You had no idea what sort of crack pot was going to arrive in, what sort of hot lassie, or a hot lassie crack pot or anything in between.

It isn't something I'd do now but back then it was great craic. The best craic was always with the randomer who you ended up going for a beer with for the evening.

I don't exactly look back fondly at the couple who came home from the pub and decided to "enjoy themselves" on the bunk below me, but it all adds to the hilarity of being a backpacker.

It is a great experience for any young lad or young one, now that I'm settled with kids etc I look back very fondly at those carefree easy years. Wouldn't change it for anything!

DownByTheGarden · 27-04-2023 9:00am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521535#Comment_120521535

A key I imagine. Youve probably never seen a dialer on a phone either if youve never seen a car key :)

John_Rambo · 27-04-2023 9:05am

I think a lot of this is age related. "Imagine doing that now"... except for the ones that actually hated it at the time.

John_Rambo · 27-04-2023 9:06am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120526648#Comment_120526648

Yeah, backpacking as a singleton is just the best. You literally didn't know what was around the next corner along with the romances. I absolutely loved it, I have amazing memories.

Not so sure about doing it now!!

Basically, there's lots of things I wouldn't go back to doing, but I enjoyed doing them back then and I gained heaps of experience from them (including jobs that I wouldn't fancy doing now)

FazyLucker · 27-04-2023 9:11am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120526758#Comment_120526758

The unmistakable "aroma" of a 16-bed dorm, in particular in the morning after people have been drinking / farting all night.

Living the dream right there :D

Guildenstern · 27-04-2023 9:24am

Being overweight. Once I lost 2/3 stone, never felt better, both physically and mentality. There's a lot to be said about government programmes in tackling obesity, in all ages.

27-04-2023 10:06am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120526648#Comment_120526648

Yeah it was good Craic at the time when younger. In late 30s now I don't think I'd be able for it again lol

Markus Antonius · 27-04-2023 2:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120526733#Comment_120526733

I've never seen a car that didn't have a fob. Also, I am the proud owner of a 1960s rotary telephone 😉

iamstop · 27-04-2023 2:30pm

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I've only owned three cars in my life. The 1st one, a silver Seat Cordoba, was fobless. I had to physically insert the key in to the lock. I nearly got my record bag stolen off me when the lock failed one day in town and a junkie decided to rummage through my car. The records were in the boot but the lad knew to pull the seat down to get in the back. That was close. It was only because he was still in the car when I got back that I managed to keep my stuff.