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

fellas going around with comb overs, Bobby Charlton style .. didn’t look good then, think it’s a ‘fashion’ that won’t ever eek its way back into being popular…..it’s gone, get over it, don’t comb over it.

Mullets are back.

Tapping the public phone

Some arsehole putting tape over the tab on your new cassette album so they could tape over it.

100% - jayzuz when you look back now - it was just one step away from sticking your nose into the exhaust pipe

Banging the side of the TV to make the picture better

sticking a match in the TV button to hold it in

calling to your friends house not knowing if they are there or not

Ah here, we could at this all year!

The brothers in the CBS had a thick leather strap in the shape of a penis. Very painful on the hands. Sick fcukers always preyed on the weak and vulnerable the most - the ones who's parents wouldn't dare complain for fear of the church.

remember how much better nostalgia was in the past?

yeah the driving part isnt true, the rest is to be honest but very few will actually drive while under influence

I'd forgotten about a clothes hanger ariel on a car. I also remember my Old Lad winning a car radio in a prize (cars were not usually fitted with radios in '70's. He stuck it in the glove compartment (I think) and wired it up. Wouldn't work as his car was so old it had a Positive Earth, radio was Negative Earth. Probably an Austin Cambridge from the mid 60's.

Brings me back. And not in a good way.

I remember back in the 80s I was hours waiting for a taxi and got home at about 4 in the morning. Realised I’d forgotten my keys. No answer to the doorbell. Figured I’d have to phone home to generate a response.

Went to the nearest public phone 10 mins away and of course it didn’t work. Next nearest phone was about 2km away. It allowed me dial and my mother answered but the 10 pence wouldn’t drop and so she couldn’t hear me.

I had to sprint the 2km home before she fell back to sleep.

Great night out!!

VCRs a fiddly pain alright but think of the alternative... you miss a TV episode and need to find someone who saw it to bring you up to speed!

One reason TV shows with continuing plots had detailed recaps at start of episode.

I remember food being really expensive, peppered steak was just bad meat disguised.

We used to regularly have offal, a cooked chicken was a treat.

My grandmother used to kill and pluck it herself if she wanted chicken.

First video player we had was rented from RTV Rentals in Mary Street. The remote control was a bit of a misnomer. It had a lead which ran from the recorder to the armchair but at least you didn’t have to get off your ass

I remember how difficult it was to rent a new release. They were either already rented or the person who had the previous night hadn’t returned it yet. You’d end up renting some complete crap as an alternative. And it would cost you a fiver! About half the price of a month’s subscription to Netflix.

You wanted Terminator 2 and got Uncle Buck instead.

having a stash of recordable vhs ready to go to stick into the vhs to record. Then who recorded over this or watching over a recording and someone would change the channel

Having to get up off yer arse and change over the record to side 2

Oh wait records are back again 🤪

Queing up the night before in the pissing rain for a big gig at HMV. Never did it myself but know a few that did.