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

Watching movies on something like this…

Then the pipe goes and you end up with this…

Listening to music on something like this…

Which had to use these…

Recording songs off the radio and standing by with your finger on the pause button on the "Cassette Radio" so you can get as much of the song recorded after some twat DJ stopped talking over it…

Playing computer games on something like this…

Which looked like this…

Heating one room in the house with this thing, cos there was no central heating…

Having to wear your itchy Sunday clothes to be dragged down to mass.

I saw a lad smoking a pipe a few weeks ago, walking down clarendon st in Dublin. He was in his 30s, didnt seem outwardly hipstery, just a guy coming from work in a shirt and trousers, puffing away Must be the first time in about 25 years ive seen an old fashioned pipe being used, was wondering where you'd even get pipe tobacco nowadays

A posh jumble sale used to be called a "Sale Of Work". These were normally held in aid of some Catholic church project. The Protestant version was the Garden Fete.

Not just roads, on the railway lines the sheer amount of litter people threw out of windows you could open. That and the sh1t from toilets that just emptied out on the ground.

Underage drinking in pubs seems to have disapered also where have all the with night clubs gone.

When it rains, the kids don't race lollipop sticks down the stream on the side of the road. Another lost art.

yes. Pink paper. Use to be loads of men waiting for it to arrive. Might get the odd result of L-L as to injury time meant it was to late for the print

a sale of work was nearly always about cakes and knitting 😀

I don’t think I’ve ever attended a garden fete - it’s more an English thing isn’t it? Would Protestants in Eire have had fetes the way you describe?

Not sure if it was official or unofficial but mine had one too up until the late 70s or early 80s- it was for 6th year students only-.i was still a kid but remember passing it one day and when the door opened a cloud of smoke came out 😀

Of course then you’d have to marry it.

Still have sales of work … kinda rebranded as 'country market'. But to benefit the producers rather than a charity cause.

This one in Raheny once a month.

https://www.facebook.com/rahenycountrymarket/

Why did you only just recently get a front window on your house? 🤪

No going to the local mechanics and getting a few patched up tractor tyre blown up and using it to go down a nearby weir and float off down the river for a mile or so in a summer flood, and then bringing back the tractor tyre through the fields so he'll give it to you again tomorrow.

The whole "we had common sense not elf'n'safety" thing that seems to be a common line amongst English people particularly forgets just how many deaths there used to be.

Even when I started school there'd probably be one kid a year that didn't come back in September, cause they'd died in some summer misadventure or working on a relatives farm. I did go to a big enough school in a town surrounded by farms though.

Everyone having phones to call for help has probably made more of an impact there than the safety ads tbh.

Workplace deaths were horrendous back then also; any large building project would have a death toll.

or at home Maxwell House or Nescafé 😀

or the Lyon’s tea labels to enter a draw for a car

Drinks promos in pubs, where you could win free pints or merchandise, sadly killed off by the PC brigade.

Anyone remember the 1p pints of Guinness they had on some anniversary of the brewery?

Edit, you got a scratch card and paid whatever the cost of the pint was in the year you revealed.

Female Gardaí officially referred to as "Bán Garda" or WPC if they were serving in the North or Britain. Edit: corporal punishment handed out by clergy with celibacy frustration, hospitals staffed by nuns and monks who had taken a vow of poverty and probably saved the government health coffers millions but didn’t do much in way of actually caring.

I think it was more a business than charity when you consider their baby export model.