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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
Since I am older than many, but not all, of the members the general std. of living was very much lower than generally obtains today in Ireland.
The blatant difference, that strikes me most when I am out is that the vast majority of young people have a phone, and a very powerful computer, which is combined into a single handheld device, as on Star Trek.
A change of clothes; I only had one set, and only one pair of shoes.
Two monochrome TV BBC & UTV channels, on a single domestic television set. If we went out into South Armagh RTE was available.
Emigrating relations, whom one never saw again nor ever spoke to ever again!
The list is almost infinite, when one delves into the fine detail.
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Me too. We called it an eiderdown those days....
And when my dad was finished with shoe polish that was great - we could fill the tin to make it heavy so we could use it to play hopscotch or piggy that we drew with chalk on the pathway. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
Being able to taste the acute sweetness of sugar in confectionery, or very rarely honey on bread.
The majority of children's foods today are saturated with sugars, fructose and artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin, etc.
Children's tastebuds today have been desensitised to the point that they don't really taste anything at all. This regrettably also applies to most adults in westernised industrialised societies where processed foods is the norm. |
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Porn! Lol. Well, not actual porn, but watching late-night foreign films on Channel 4 where there might be a brief bit of nudity was the most erotic thing to a growing lad.
Kids today don’t know they’re born, able to look at anything they want on their phones 24/7.  |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
Air conditioning, esp. a/c in cars; we used to just open the windows.
For a time, in my youth I lived in a house with no electricity supply and with no bathroom or inside toilet. The nearest phone was three miles away; in a public phone box.
Furthermore, teachers were often abusive; today laws prevent this outrageous behaviour towards children |
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Mr wolf here...having the gaming console to myself. Growing up with three brothers two of which where older. With at first commadore 64. Then Atari 7800, sega megadrive etc. To come home from school to find they where all out parent included...was bliss. No one to rush me off the system. Pretended not to hear the knocking when when my brothers wanted to come back in. 
Now the systems still get used a lot But now from time to time I think of us all huddled around the T.V "debating" who's turn it was next. Of course it was the eldest in between everyone elses turn lol. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
If the war in the Ukraine escalates and daily energy supply, in the form of electricity, becomes a real problem, young people will find it difficult to cope with the loss of conveniences that they have been used to taking for granted; I often speak to young people about the potential loss of the use of their samrtphones; they tell me they couldn't live without them.  |
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