I remember when...........

brown*eyed*girl

ok I'll get the ball rolling:

........when we didn't have remote controls for the tv. Imagine we used to get up and walk to the tv to change the channel.

........when we went to the pictures to see a film and not the cinema to see a movie.

..........when Snickers were Marathons and Starburst were Opal Fruits.

.........when IR£1 would get you a chip, burger and small bottle of cadet orange.

fabcat

any game could be made up with a group friends by saying, lets make it.....

Ruu_Old

When all we had was rte one, network 2, bbc1, utv and channel 4 (with very poor reception!).:)

Rockee

brown*eyed*girl wrote:

ok I'll get the ball rolling:

........when we didn't have remote controls for the tv. Imagine we used to get up and walk to the tv to change the channel.

........when we went to the pictures to see a film and not the cinema to see a movie.

..........when Snickers were Marathons and Starburst were Opal Fruits.

.........when IR£1 would get you a chip, burger and small bottle of cadet orange.

Or when the phrases 'Meh, LOL, LMAO,' didnt exist, or when if someone had a mobile phone they were posh!

brown*eyed*girl

some more:

.........when the only option with a readymeal was to boil in the bag or oven cook. Microwaves what are they?!

.........when midnight mass at xmas was actually at 12:00 but had to be stopped as drunk people were coming in.

.........when Gay Byrne hosted the Late Late.

.........when Homestead brought value home!

.........when channels were stations.

..........when Anne Diamand was queen of morning tv. :eek:

Wishbone Ash

...when the radio was the wireless.....and RTE Radio one was simply called 'Athlone'......

Rockee

Or when Irish people only knew of Maxwell House coffee (\cappuccino??? whats that???)

when the idea of no smoking in Irish pubs was laughable

when we'ed run home to see what Zig and Zag would say on The Den

when we only went to the chipper on Fridays

when we got one Easter egg

when there was the 'St. Patricks Day PARADE'

when we would get half days from school to watch Jackies Army

when we werent wine experts.....

brown*eyed*girl

Rockee wrote:

when we only went to the chipper on Fridays
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and it was a treat too. Also a curry chip or salad burger would be fancy enough.

MrJoeSoap

... whether you had two stripes or three on your tracksuit bottoms was your only worry.

Rockee

brown*eyed*girl wrote:

Rockee wrote:

when we only went to the chipper on Fridays
QUOTE]

and it was a treat too. Also a curry chip or salad burger would be fancy enough.

Haha!! True enough! I keep on thinking of more....remember when we could actually remember the ads off the telly?

when we knew who was waving at us in their car

when it wasnt necessary to have a cinema screen on your sitting room wall in order to watch the news.

mt u.s.a.

when text speak didnt exist

brown*eyed*girl

I'm loving these keep them coming. Wouldn't it be great to be able to travel back in time and bring a mobile, laptop & some other cool stuff & show you're mates in school. Thinking about it now technology has come a long way since I was a teen. Can only imagine what changes there will be in the next 15 years.

Rockee

I know, I love trips down memory lane too...Im 25 and cant believe as I sit here the changes!!

Ray D'Arcy on Jo Maxi

Pajo and Scratch Saturday (The Raccoons...awww, excellent )

Dublin 1988 Millenium

No wooden floors

Wallpaper in every house

Jealous cos you heard of a friend who managed to somehow get Sky and the Super Channel

SpitfireIV

I remember when.....

- Hardly ANY shops opened of a Sunday.

- Me and my brother would sit in the boot of my aunts car on journeys looking out the back window at the cars behind (making faces too ) seatbelts werent an issue.

- When we got a LOAN of a video player (The Racoons, mentioned above, was the first video I watched on it!)

- The Sega Mega drive was the computer of the day.

- Christmas started early December........not mid September!

- Children ran about at Halloween wearing black plastic bags and home made witch hats.

GAA widow

I remember......

-when everyone used salad cream, not mayonnaise

- when "orange juice" was a starter on restaurant menus (the only time you'd actually go to one was for a Communion or Confirmation)

-marietta biscuits, custard creams and jersey creams

-garlic was the most exotic herb ever

- subbuteo games in the sitting room (the pitch seemed to cover the entire floor)

- when wearing white ankle socks over black tights to school was regarded as cool

- when everyone ended their sentences in "NOT!"

- being allowed to stay up late to watch "Dallas"

- going on holidays with our cousins in tow in the backseat (seatbelts?) with half the house in the boot and on the roofrack

- building moats on the beach and happily running to fill it with water every 2 minutes for the whole day

- stinger bars and fizzlesticks

- when we bought goodies to watch the Eurovision and the Rose of Tralee

GAA widow

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

I remember when.....


- When we got a LOAN of a video player (The Racoons, mentioned above, was the first video I watched on it!)

PSML You could rent a video player in Xtravision - the first films we watched were "Three Men & A Baby" and "Adventures in Babysitting"

Ruu_Old

When you could buy a heap of sweets with 10p.
When spiked hair was cool.
When video recorders loaded from the TOP.

CroppyBoy1798, The Racoons were brilliant!

Rockee

the Racoons intro is on youtube by the way....i got flashbacks i tells ye all

Capt'n Midnight

traffic on the Quays went the other way

you could hop on or off the bus, or press the bell twice so the driver would take off and there'd be a mad rush to get off before it got too fast

woolworths were in the GPO arcade

television and radio stations stopped transmitting at night,
used to go to bed and listen to RTE2, at 2am it shutdown, you'd go to sleep and then at 6:30 in the morning there was a trumpet solo to wake you up - didn't need alarm clocks or snooze buttons wha ?

byte

LOL @ the Top loader VCR! Our first was one fo those, that was bought second hand! It was a big brute of a thing, and used to take ages for a tape to load up and play!

- when games consisted of wee green plastic army men (which we used to set fire to and watch melt). Otherwise it was cap guns and much running about fields getting destroyed in dirt!

- when the coolest things were either BMX's or Raleigh Grifters!

Ruu_Old

Pretty much the same model of the one we had! It used to get terribly hot and took forever to rewind.:)

SpitfireIV

Speaking of things taking forever to rewind.......I remember when it took 3/4 of an hour for a computer game to load *COUGH* Commodore ....and even after that lenght of time you had no assurance the game would work

Ruu_Old

The bloody colours of that thing, flickering and buzzing. Ah my eyes!

Rockee

Oh!!! Another thing I just remembered....when RTE1 closed down for the night we got the national anthem mixed in with images of butterflies, waterfalls, countryside etc...I dont know why but as a kid it used to freak me out senseless!!!

SpitfireIV

Rockee wrote:

Oh!!! Another thing I just remembered....when RTE1 closed down for the night we got the national anthem mixed in with images of butterflies, waterfalls, countryside etc...I dont know why but as a kid it used to freak me out senseless!!!

Jaysus! I remember the national anthem too! When I used to see that I used to think it was REALLY late....even though it was probably only midnight or so .

Another thing I remembered when watching that ehh....comedian guy on RTE tonight, that bath day was Saturday, haha, out of the bath, into the pj's and onto the couch to watch Gladiators or make a little fort with my blanket between the couch and chairs

aidan_dunne

Rockee wrote:

Oh!!! Another thing I just remembered....when RTE1 closed down for the night we got the national anthem mixed in with images of butterflies, waterfalls, countryside etc...I dont know why but as a kid it used to freak me out senseless!!!

Funny you should mention that because it used to have the same effect on my sister. She could never watch it, when it would come on (if she was still up at that time!) she would go running out of the room almost in tears. You'd swear it was 'Nightmare On Elm Street' or something, the effect it had on her! :eek: And a few other people I knew growing up also hated it as well and were freaked out by it too. Why? It never bothered me in the slightest. I mean, it was only the national anthem playing over a montage of nature images for God's sake, not a blood-and-gore-fest horror film or something!

aidan_dunne

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

out of the bath, into the pj's and onto the couch to watch Gladiators

Jaysus, you must be fairly young then! I was in my early-mid teens when 'Gladiators' was on. Mmmm, Jet! The fantasy figure of many a hormone-fuelled adolescent around that time!

Saturday evening baths ----> into the PJ's ----> onto the couch to watch telly when I was a kid consisted of the likes of 'Knight Rider', 'Airwolf', 'MacGyver', 'The A-Team', 'TJ Hooker', 'Magnum P.I.', 'Simon & Simon', 'The Fall Guy', etc., etc.

Can you guess what decade I grew up in then?

Rockee

aidan_dunne wrote:

Funny you should mention that because it used to have the same effect on my sister. She could never watch it, when it would come on (if she was still up at that time!) she would go running out of the room almost in tears. You'd swear it was 'Nightmare On Elm Street' or something, the effect it had on her! :eek: And a few other people I knew growing up also hated it as well and were freaked out by it too. Why? It never bothered me in the slightest. I mean, it was only the national anthem playing over a montage of nature images for God's sake, not a blood-and-gore-fest horror film or something!

Hahaha!!! 'A Prayer At Bedtime' scares me now. The Trocaire ads freaked me senseless also...:eek:

Jimoslimos

Ruu wrote:

When all we had was rte one, network 2, bbc1, utv and channel 4 (with very poor reception!).:)

In our house it was utv that had bad reception. Also remember getting S4C, Borders and other UK regional channels during hot days.

JungleBunny

So many memories!! Some great ones posted here!

Anyone remeber...
... when Ant and Dec were PJ & Duncan!
... when everyone collected those ugly trolls with the mad coloured hair (my sister was crazy about them)
... the special edition millenium 50 pence coin? Dublin's great in '88?
... 088 mobile numbers?
... when we had no mobile phones at all
... going shopping in Super Crazy Prices

Ruu_Old

Edible paper, has made a comeback recently.

Nalz

manchester united won things
street fighter 2 turbo
when worchester sauce crisps were available
when that annoying saturday show was on
when you could smoke in a pub
when white socks was cool

Kolodny

JungleBunny wrote:

... 088 mobile numbers?
... when we had no mobile phones at all

My first ever mobile number was an 088.
And I can remember even before that when I thought my pager was the height of sophistication! It wasn't even a text one so I had to pay a fortune to collect my messages from phone boxes...the shame!

And I remember walkie-talkies, the precursor to it all

WithCheesePlease

byte wrote:

LOL @ the Top loader VCR! Our first was one fo those, that was bought second hand! It was a big brute of a thing, and used to take ages for a tape to load up and play!

I remember our first VCR was a top loader but it had a remote control.... connected by wire!! So funny when I think back.

WithCheesePlease

JungleBunny wrote:

the special edition millenium 50 pence coin? Dublin's great in '88?

it's all about Cork 800 in 1985 - come alive in '85!

but then of course Dublin had to go one better....

And forget Ant and Dec as PJ and Duncan - it's all aboutt jossy's giants - what a show!!

r3nu4l

I remember the day we got our first colour television, I was about 7 and we were then able to receive BBC1 and ITV because the new tele had multiple tuning frequencies:o

I remember the day Channel 4 launched and I was never allowed to watch it because it was considered a bit risqué in our house!

I remember Super channel!

Funny how it all revolves around television

Although I remember first typing LOAD into the commodore 64 and the countless hours of fun after that

Kolodny

gearoid_healy wrote:

I remember our first VCR was a top loader but it had a remote control.... connected by wire!! So funny when I think back.

We had one of those too - a big chunky old Betamax thing. The wire was ridiculously short though so you practically had to sit right in front of the video to use it anyway! So pointless

deisemum

I can remember when there was only RTE1 and it only came on in the afternoon onwards.

The packets of multi-coloured popcorn that cost 3p per bag.

Wearing mantillas to mass.

Oh all the heavily patterned jumpers.

When Farah trousers were popular.

Recessions and high unemployment

Spraying pink dye into your hair before you went out and applying glitter

In secondary school when only the wealthy were starting to get microwaves and the teachers telling us to stand well back from them or they'd cook your eyes

Wanderly Wagon

The controversy of the film Ryan's Daughter being shown on tv

I remember the old money (back in the 60's), it had animals such as rabbits on it.

The tooth fairy would leave a penny.

When you could get jellies for half penny

GAA widow

gearoid_healy wrote:

it's all about Cork 800 in 1985 - come alive in '85!

Oh yeah, that was HUGE! I remember getting "Cork 800" stickers - and the best school performance in the Cór Fhéile that year won a big red and white teddy with the "Cork 800" logo emblazoned across it.
I soooooo wanted that teddy.....

brown*eyed*girl

Brilliant - keep them coming. I can remember most of them

Some more from me:

......when the junior cert was the inter(mediate) cert. We were the last year to do the inter which was in 1990 & in 1991 it became the junior.

.......when Ireland ruled the Eurovision & Johnny Logan won with Just Another Year.

.......when Crazy Prices had the yellow packs products.

.......when Chomps, Smileys, Time Outs were 10p.

.......when Tayto were 18pish.

.......when Supercans were widely available.

........when fancy pages were collected and swapped by young girls.

........when we were all wondering who shot JR Ewing.

........when a can of Hoffmans was 69p.

........when there was only one type of Selection Box i.e. Cadburys with the Fudge, Curly Wurly, small Dairy Milk etc.

........when the year 2000 was waaaay into the future :eek:

........when the new 20p were introduced.

........when cartons of milk were given out in primary school at little lunch.

Ruu_Old

Hah, remember having to go around with the tray of milk cartons around the rooms and being terrified about going into the more 'senior' classrooms like 5th or 6th class with people way older than me. *shivers*

MrJoeSoap

brown*eyed*girl wrote:

.......when Tayto were 18pish.

I remember them at 12p, with the price on the packet. The bag was see-through as well iirc.

And when the Twix had 28p written on it.

And who could ever forget the 10p bags.

GAA widow

brown*eyed*girl wrote:

........when cartons of milk were given out in primary school at little lunch.

I remember the caretaker dumping them into a wheelbarrow outside the school (for easy distribution later) and watching them curdling under the sun all day until lunchtime.

"Cool Crocker" was huge at one stage - remember the orange/strawberry flavoured milkshake alternative? That got to sit out in the wheelbarrow too.

How mollycoddled are they these days with their refrigerated milk?!

Dun laoire

... we used to get stuff on lay down in the shop.

Tough times i tell ye yet strangley happy times.

Dun laoire

.. i used to buy them cola lollipops. Lucky number 7 i think they were called. The wrapping had red circles and when you opened it, if it had the number 7 you got a free one:D

jellie

Dun laoire wrote:

.. i used to buy them cola lollipops. Lucky number 7 i think they were called. The wrapping had red circles and when you opened it, if it had the number 7 you got a free one:D

aw id forgotten about them! was so exciting to get 1 free!

..when only rich kids got "proper" bars of chocolate, or it was a really really big deal to get 1 (ie. not a chomp, smiley etc, but like a DAIRY MILK or a MARS :O - or maybe i was just poor? )

..watching bosco after school!

..them rope type things you'd make out of LOADS of elastic bands & would wrap around the feet of 2 people standing apart & someone in the middle would have to jump to some rhyme & the elastic would get higher.. wow bad description, anyone understand?

..playing skipping in school with a GIANT rope & 2 people would twirl it & about 20 skip

..doing handstands in the garden

..you didnt have to have the exact change on buses

Ruu_Old

Dun laoire wrote:

.. i used to buy them cola lollipops. Lucky number 7 i think they were called. The wrapping had red circles and when you opened it, if it had the number 7 you got a free one:D

Similar to Mr.Freeze (if you got the number 7, the shopkeeper would give you a free one).

r3nu4l

MrJoeSoap wrote:

I remember them at 12p, with the price on the packet. The bag was see-through as well iirc.

I remember Tayto at 3 1/2 p. :eek: I still have a load of halfpennies at home somewhere in a jar

I remember when Snickers were called Marathon, Cif cleaner was Jif cleaner and Starburst were Opal fruits

I remember when the Simpsons were only minor sketch characters on the Tracey Ullman show.

I remember walking thirty miles to school in the blizzarding snow, with no shoes or clothes to wear and the teacher would beat us with a stick wrapped with barbed wire and studded with nails just to warm us up when we got there.

brown*eyed*girl

sar84 wrote:

..them rope type things you'd make out of LOADS of elastic bands & would wrap around the feet of 2 people standing apart & someone in the middle would have to jump to some rhyme & the elastic would get higher.. wow bad description, anyone understand?

We called it Chinese skipping anyway. I remember one of the ryhmes as "England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, inside, outside donkey's tails"1 - it was some laugh especially when you'd have to move the elastics higher up your legs!

I rememer the Mr. Freeze & free lollies as well with the lucky 7.

r3nu4l yeah right :rolleyes: - think your memory of school is a bit exaggerated there! I do remember getting a slap if we went to the toilet during class. The bibe of a nun Sr. Patricia would let you go but when you came back in you had to stand at the front of the class & she'd either slap your hand with the ruler or the back of your legs. She'd make sure you hadn't your socks pulled up to. Fcuking bitch she was.

r3nu4l

brown*eyed*girl wrote:

r3nu4l yeah right :rolleyes: - think your memory of school is a bit exaggerated there!

Erm, yes, you see that was what we call a joke. People with a sense of humour will recognise this and may or may not chuckle depending on how humourous they find it.

That reminds me. I remember when people on boards.ie had a sense of humour

I was paraphrasing a wonderful Monty Python sketch from way back (probably from a year or two before I was born!).

brown*eyed*girl

r3nu4l wrote:

Erm, yes, you see that was what we call a joke. People with a sense of humour will recognise this and may or may not chuckle depending on how humourous they find it.

That reminds me. I remember when people on boards.ie had a sense of humour

I was paraphrasing a wonderful Monty Python sketch from way back (probably from a year or two before I was born!).

Chill I knew you were only messing, I was only messing too.

jester77

excellent memories there...

I also remember when we got a phone into our house... one of the first in our area!! Had a large dialler on it and if there was ever a thunderstorm it would start ringing!

Bus stopping at the shop on a Friday evening and you could get so much for just 20p- such as..
the lucky bag
frosties (wehn they were bigger)
sparkle ice lollys
chomps
callispo bars that would pull the teeth out of your head
stingers
wham bars
smilies
macroom bars
chocolate + white mice
edible paper.. hehe the thought of that now!!

Having just 6 channels on our TV with no remote, it was one of those more modern touch buttons, so if you licked your finger and touched the button the channel would be stuck for about 5 mins... solved many a row over what to watch in our house

Casettes getting all mangled in your stereo and trying to get it out without breaking the tape and then there would be some warped music in that spot for ages!

Timmy Mallet on Saturday morning!