Things That Were Acceptable In Your Youth...

Big Nasty · 25-03-2012 05:35PM #1

...that are not accpetable now.

Being let out to play at 8am and not being expected back until dinner time.
Going down the shops to get a packet of fags for yore ma
'Catch a ni&&er by the toe'
being told to get married just coz you were polled
NOT leaving your husband / wife coz he / she is a cnut

Any more...........

Yakult · 25-03-2012 05:37PM

Being a youth. Now they just seem too obsessed with trying to be older.

lisaface · 25-03-2012 05:37PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

...that are not accpetable now.

Being let out to play at 8am and not being expected back until dinner time.
Going down the shops to get a packet of fags for yore ma
'Catch a ni&&er by the toe'
being told to get married just coz you were polled
NOT leaving your husband / wife coz he / she is a cnut

Any more...........

Just being outdoors , I think is the main one. Seemingly that isn't "acceptable" today by both youths or their parents.

My name is URL · 25-03-2012 05:37PM

Gollywog Ice-cream bars

Gummy Panda · 25-03-2012 05:37PM

Eating butter.

Now it's all fake hydrolysed vegetable oil spreads. Garbage!

God... · 25-03-2012 05:38PM

Priests molesting kids apparently.

lividduck · 25-03-2012 05:39PM

Overall majorities by FF

kincsem · 25-03-2012 05:40PM

Cycling to school.

Immaculate Pasta · 25-03-2012 05:40PM

Drink driving
Smoking

I'd also even go so far to say talking to strangers which is a shame really.

nlgbbbblth · 25-03-2012 05:41PM

Calling non-spastics spastics but never calling real spastics spastics.

ChunkyLover_53 · 25-03-2012 05:41PM

Offering strangers lifts, Larry Murphy ruined it for everyone.

Chuck Stone · 25-03-2012 05:42PM

Being forced to come in when it gets late by your parents.

Fago! · 25-03-2012 05:43PM

Shifting a teenage girl.

Friel · 25-03-2012 05:44PM

Seen a video of me when I was a kid, in the f*cking swimming pool. My da was actually allowed the video camera in to the pool, the place was packed too and I was in the baby pool. You'd do time for that kinda thing now.

real stig · 25-03-2012 05:44PM

Playing with schoolchildren

wexie · 25-03-2012 05:45PM

driving around with the kids loose in the back playing (or sleeping on the parcel shelf)

ChunkyLover_53 · 25-03-2012 05:46PM

Recording Music/Films on tapes, no one gave a rats in the 80s/90s

Soon the modern equivalent will get you a nasty fine & jail time.

Big Nasty · 25-03-2012 05:46PM

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

I'd also even go so far to say talking to strangers which is a shame really.

Was only talking about this to a friend last night. She spent a year in NY on a transfer with the company she was working for and was saying that strangers chatted away goodo as a group on the subway every day while here everyone's ram rod straight and silent listening to their ipod on the bus.

flanders1979 · 25-03-2012 05:48PM

Having jobs to do to earn pocket money.

Fago! · 25-03-2012 05:50PM

Having less than €2500 in my bank account. Thanks alot AIB!!!!

ChunkyLover_53 · 25-03-2012 05:50PM

Latch Key Kids; free gaffs were great

mattjack · 25-03-2012 05:51PM

Being allowed bring your shotgun into the post office to collect your dole before ya went off hunting for the day,a friend of mine did that regularly years ago, the ol' wan behind the counter never batted an eye lid.

blueshark22 · 25-03-2012 05:52PM

Not wearing seatbelts in the back
Being let walk out of the school grounds to go buy the teachers snack and tayto at break time
Staying all day in your neighbours house, including having meals - when you were never even invited

mikemac1 · 25-03-2012 05:52PM

Thumbing at the crossroads

Calling kids over to your front door and giving them money to buy you cigarettes

For reg as a number plate

Schoolyard football games and even rugby games in the ballcourt. We'd be battered and cut after lón but aye we were happy.
Compo culture ended that

Order a phone line from Telecom Éireann and at best you'd get it six weeks later.
UPC are superstars in comparison to those bad old days

Drink driving, twas the done thing and nobody cared

Smoking in the car with the kids. Yeah it still goes on but you get filthy looks from others

ChunkyLover_53 · 25-03-2012 05:53PM

Walking round the house in your Jeyes Fluid.

Now if I try it, my Mrs. and her mates run amok.

Big Nasty · 25-03-2012 05:54PM

Sitting on your Da's lap and steering the car when you were 8 years old!

joyce2009 · 25-03-2012 05:56PM

collecting glass bottles to bring back to the shop for a few pence so we could buy choc ices..:D

Jen Pigs Fly · 25-03-2012 05:57PM

playing pokemon!

I'm now scared that someone will see me playing pokemon black on my DS

the shame

Friel · 25-03-2012 05:58PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Sitting on your Da's lap and steering the car when you were 8 years old!

I still do that with my niece when I get in to my street.

krudler · 25-03-2012 05:58PM

kids just being allowed be kids, now its all ADD if a kid isnt like a trained dog.

when having a pound in your pocket would buy you enough sugar filled sweets to render you diabetic.

arcades, real ones with proper video games not stupid dance mat ones

mikemac1 · 25-03-2012 05:59PM

Kids hanging out the back of tractors and your Dad driving along
If you slip you go straight under the wheels of the trailer but sure it was normal to me, kids don't see danger

Putting children on top of a trailer of square bales for some extra weight.
Bouncing around way up there with your brothers, dodging tree branches and loving it

Fook, how was I not killed on the farm

Explosions in the Sky · 25-03-2012 05:59PM

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

playing pokemon!

I'm now scared that someone will see me playing pokemon black on my DS
the shame

I'm 20 and I play Pokemon yellow on my Gameboy colour (behind closed doors of course

)

razorblunt · 25-03-2012 06:01PM

The width of the post in Jumpers for goalposts could vary from inches to feet depending on the score at the time (usually 17-19)

Coriolanus · 25-03-2012 06:06PM

Sitting on the bonnet of a jeep as it was going down a bumpy field, or alternatively standing on the rear step plate, holding onto the spare wheel for dear life.

Leaving the house at 8 am with a packed lunch and a few bob for a treat to go cycling in the country with mates for the day.
Insert swimming/fishing/camping above too.

Being put on a bus into Dublin to go to the cinema.

All done regularly when I was in primary school.

Jen Pigs Fly · 25-03-2012 06:16PM

Explosions in the Sky wrote: »

I'm 20 and I play Pokemon yellow on my Gameboy colour (behind closed doors of course )

Omg I play my pokemon red on my gameboy original!
I have an emulator on the laptop where I play yellow, crystal and a few others. I have red, sapphire, silver, soul silver and black.

PhlegmyMoses · 25-03-2012 06:16PM

lisaface wrote: »

Just being outdoors , I think is the main one. Seemingly that isn't "acceptable" today by both youths or their parents.

Not sure this is fair. Was outside in the garden earlier and there were around 30 kids playing football on the green in front of the house.

Big Nasty · 25-03-2012 06:16PM

Going swimming in the local resevoir, pi$$ing in same, then having a big healthy glass of water (from same resevoir) when you went home.

wonderfulname · 25-03-2012 06:18PM

Leaving the house at dawn and not getting back til dusk, perfectly fine for a child in the 90's but I'd say if I switched off my phone for that long now people would go spare.

Turning up at peoples houses with no prior warning.

I miss life without mobiles...

Bodhidharma · 25-03-2012 06:23PM

Fighting. I remember it was all taken with a pinch of salt, I'd say if a young fella (under 12 I mean) was in a fight these days the school would have him confronting anger issues in front of a counsellor.

Ben D Bus · 25-03-2012 06:23PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Going swimming in the local resevoir, pi$$ing in same, then having a big healthy glass of water (from same resevoir) when you went home.

I'm sure it's still happening. Just somebody else's piss now

Explosions in the Sky · 25-03-2012 06:27PM

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

Omg I play my pokemon red on my gameboy original!
I have an emulator on the laptop where I play yellow, crystal and a few others. I have red, sapphire, silver, soul silver and black.

I had that emulator for my iphone, so good

byhookorbycrook · 25-03-2012 06:28PM

Swimming in the river
Being encouraged to get a "good colour" (ie lobster) when at the seaside for the day
Having buck teeth
Eating "Space dust" (Imagine all the e additives!!)
Getting slapped by teacher and then thumped at home as well, even if you were in the right
The "nit nurse" coming to school to check us all one by one.

looksee · 25-03-2012 06:28PM

Riding pillion on my dad's motor bike aged about 7 or 8, and neither of us with helmets.

Mr. Manager · 25-03-2012 06:29PM

Drinking water from the tap!

mikemac1 · 25-03-2012 07:08PM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

The "nit nurse" coming to school to check us all one by one.

Does that still happen in schools?

I remember it well, all getting lined up and the nurse checks us all

If you have nits you get some piece of paper about the sheep dip shampoo which you took home to the Mammy

No big deal, is it unacceptable nowadys

Jen Pigs Fly · 25-03-2012 07:14PM

Explosions in the Sky wrote: »

I had that emulator for my iphone, so good

I can't afford an iphone, I'm using a sony ericsson that is 6 years old:rolleyes:

SeanW · 25-03-2012 07:15PM

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Drinking water from the tap!

Yeah, we used to do that in secondary school.

Probably the maddest story I've ever heard about "back in the day" my Uncle in law (RIP) used to borrow a mini-bus so he could drive old people to mass on a Sunday, people who had no other way to get there.

He was 14 or 15 at the time ...

This would have been in the 1950s.

The King of Moo · 25-03-2012 07:20PM

Quoting an entire article in your OP

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cloud493 · 25-03-2012 07:22PM

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

playing pokemon!

I'm now scared that someone will see me playing pokemon black on my DS
the shame

I do that on the bus every day :rolleyes:

Jen Pigs Fly · 25-03-2012 07:26PM

cloud493 wrote: »

I do that on the bus every day :rolleyes:

omg really? Black or white;)

Caraville · 25-03-2012 07:28PM

Being a bit odd. Now you're labelled with something with a few letters. Sometimes that's a positive, but not always.

Also I remember when the teacher would give you money to go down to the shop to get the paper in primary school. Don't think you'd be allowed to let a kid walk to the shop on their own anymore now.

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