Oh the times, they are a changing....

**joeSoap** · 02/05/2007, 8:41 AM

Listening to Ray D'Arcy this morning and its amazing how little things I grew up with are no more, or rapidly becoming that way. Only 2% of people are now using cheque books to pay bills....practically nobody uses telephone booths any more.....you can no longer get a chili willi ice pop....CD's will be obsolete in a number of years, and DVD's within a decade they reckon. Video Recorders are a thing of the past....

Anbody else remember things that are no longer....or about to be no longer?

**RogerMilla** · 02/05/2007, 8:55 AM

ireland going to world cups

**joeSoap** · 02/05/2007, 8:56 AM

Cricket...Rugby....???

**noby** · 02/05/2007, 9:28 AM

I am one of that 2%, but not all the time.
People still use telephone boxes, but not for their original purpose.
They've been saying that about CD's for years.

**BohsPartisan** · 02/05/2007, 9:28 AM

I used a phone box yesterday. First time in ages though.

**Macy** · 02/05/2007, 9:31 AM

Originally Posted by noby

They've been saying that about CD's for years.

Yeah, we'll all be using minidisks

**Dodge** · 02/05/2007, 9:43 AM

Lots of businesses still pay bills by cheque

Oh and I haven't bought a CD in a couple of years. MP3s all the way

**Bluebeard** · 02/05/2007, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by joeSoap

Only 2% of people are now using cheque books to pay bills....

Originally Posted by noby

I am one of that 2%, but not all the time.

I still use cash...

**BohsPartisan** · 02/05/2007, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by Macy

Yeah, we'll all be using minidisks

Nah we'll be uploading tunes straight into our spinal chords by inserting a USB device up our asses. Saw it on tomorrows world.

**Jerry The Saint** · 02/05/2007, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by joeSoap

Anbody else remember things that are no longer....or about to be no longer?

Ray D'Arcy, hopefully...

Oooh, Magnum PI, Opal Fruits, they were brilliant weren't they? Space Hoppers, eh, what was all that about? FORTYCOATS! etc...

**noby** · 02/05/2007, 10:54 AM

Space hoppers are still on the go. We have two at home, although my son calls them 'boingy boingy's, and laughs at me when I insist on giving them their proper name.

**Calcio Jack** · 02/05/2007, 11:02 AM

West Germany, The USSR and crowded churches on a sunday

**tetsujin1979** · 02/05/2007, 11:03 AM

The ozone layer

**jebus** · 02/05/2007, 11:39 AM

Fat Frog ice pops, they brought them back a couple of years ago to tease me, as they took them back off the shelves again.

As for CDs, well they saw off mini-disk pretty easily, they dealt with the vinyl revival without breaking a sweat, and they're holding their own against the dreaded MP3, and I reckon they'll be around for a while yet. People like to have something to hold in their hands when they purchase something, not just a new song on their iPod

**Bluebeard** · 02/05/2007, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by jebus

Fat Frog ice pops, they brought them back a couple of years ago to tease me, as they took them back off the shelves again.

The re-mix Fat Frogs were a seriously poor cousin to the original and far superior edition that was. I reckon that it was down to the fact that they were all e-numbers. Who'da thunk it - half of Ireland under 12 was in thrall to "e" in the 1980s.

As a matter of anachronistic amusement, I use minidiscs all the time by choice.

**jebus** · 02/05/2007, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by Bluebeard

The re-mix Fat Frogs were a seriously poor cousin to the original and far superior edition that was. I reckon that it was down to the fact that they were all e-numbers. Who'da thunk it - half of Ireland under 12 was in thrall to "e" in the 1980s.

Ah they were alright, better then nothing, if not as good as the 1980's version. Another quality 80's ice pop had to be the Robin of Sherwood orange and cola ice pops that went out around the start of the 90s