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

Anyone mention Germany army surplus coats that were everywhere around 84/85?

That was videoplus, which was pioneered on Tomorrow's World, which told us all what 'the future' was going to look like.

Before that you required a degree in rocket science to program a VCR to record something in your absence. So many times I arrived home excited to watch something to discover I'd failed to execute one of the 26 steps required correctly.

VHS, vinal, cassette ... you just knew you were going to buy something that'd wear out.

Luckily CDs came out when I could actually afford to buy music, and then DVDs, but to be honest I never really watched a movie more than once, so I rarely bought movies, rentals was perfect for DVDs, and VHS.

Never liked CDs for the simple reason that any small scratch or smudge on them and your perfect music experience could be tarnished with skipping and so on. Cassettes, although of lower audio quality and you had to rewind and fast forward them, they didn't have those kinds of problems. Plus you could get recordable cassettes which made it possible to have mixtapes and capture things from the radio.

Millennials..

Why was that woman throwing a hippo into the fire when Ulster Bank left?

Henry was the Ulster Bank mascot, Cyril An Post

Calling disabled people by completely un PC names.. handicapped, spastics, mongols.

Well, its something I've not seen for many, many, years. I do apologize for any offence caused, and I hope that your daughters are now doing well.

Writing band names with tippex on schoolbags, textbooks, lunchboxes, etc…

Grabbing the flapping open door of a K-series Dublin Bus while on rollerskates,

Birthday parties involving a trip to a local fun factory which was usually run by gangsters and supervised by stoned teenagers who were not that much older than us,

Crispy Pancakes and other yellow-pack frozen foods of no nutritional value whatsoever were considered a treat,

Looking forward to weekend trips to Rathfarnham/Stillorgan/Dundrum (old one) shopping center,

Not learning anything from teachers who hardly ever came to class and constantly smelled of stale alcohol,

Anyone who liked something that everyone else didn't like was gay…

We wouldn't buy crisps at a particular "auld lad" pub because they'd be well out of date.

Would have been perfectly acceptable calling people with mental illnesses retards.

Calling people "gay" as an insult.

I had a TSB Fox money box, weird little key to open it underneath

I'm sure these have come up, any way

All the Honda 50s

Rust bucket cars

When my oldest was young a birthday party was rice crispy buns, Crisps, sandwiches, games and running around the garden.

Rural night clubs a friend on a weekend away ended up on in one about 10 years ago last gasp of them I'd say. They were playing proud Mary and Missippie!

This is a great thread.

Border crossings. I grew up on the continent, and I still remember waiting for what felt like hours at the Suben Autobahn border crossing between Austria and Germany because every vehicle was getting a thorough search. Or later, when my family moved to Prague, having the car you were on essentially ripped apart by annoyed customs officers was not an uncommon occurrence. It was not fun!