The good olde days

JONJO THE MISER

Back in the late 80's early 90's the golden age before all this internet carry on and the twitter machine when people had patience and were not so insular when we had great tv shows before all this reality tv ****e, when feile was alive in tip and the beatbox was on network 2 and when people drank sunkist and wore la gear and when we all tuned into rte at 9:30 on Sat night to watch Dallas drunk before going out to get a free curry at the local nightclub which was included in the admission price, walking 6 miles home and loving it the following morning, when wipmy's was still in Ireland and we could tape tv shows in vhs when jake the snake was on tv and when aer lingus flights cost 1500 pounds to go to london , the golden age:(

Daegerty

1945-2000 were probably the best days to live in. Last 10-20 years it has all been downhill, people becoming more insular, the law becoming ever more pervasive and what have you

Saila

I was waiting for a point to that ...none came..

chin_grin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PR_rzF8ofw

Daegerty

Daegerty wrote: »

1945-2000 were probably the best days to live in. Last 10-20 years it has all been downhill, people becoming more insular, the law becoming ever more pervasive and what have you

I think you mean the last five years, yes, the baby boomers (those born between 1945-50ish) have seen things improve their entire lives, they will have had the best adult lifestyles ever! They will mostly be gone/too old to care by the time the real decline kicks in. Twenty years from now, it will be like the 1950s again, limited car ownership limited jobs etc but with most of the gadgets we have now, well the future versions of them anyway.

Daegerty

Deleted User wrote: »

I think you mean the last five years, yes, the baby boomers (those born between 1945-50ish) have seen things improve their entire lives, they will have had the best adult lifestyles ever! They will mostly be gone/too old to care by the time the real decline kicks in. Twenty years from now, it will be like the 1950s again, limited car ownership limited jobs etc but with most of the gadgets we have now, well the future versions of them anyway.

Thats a real shame its not the other way around. I would happily trade the gadgets for the cars. but if Facebook dies and is not replaced by something similar i'd be happy

JONJO THE MISER

tread died a death just proves my point really.

mikemac

The Trip to Tipp
Your schoolbooks were covered in wallpaper, only rich kids have the clear plastic covers.

RTÉ2 was Network2
Unless you lived on the east coast, you had two channels and you were glad to have them!
Dusty Rhodes was the man on 2FM as compensation. LW252 was great though poor quality compared to FM. But Hollywood Hayes had all the tunes. Until LW252 turned into ****ty talksport, a sad day

Cadet Cola and wagon wheels for sos and lón
Everyone collected football cards, Jurgen Klinsmann was the holy grail of cards, very rare
A holiday was a day in Leisure Land in Salthill. Only rich people fly abroad.
A trip to Dublin cost IR£3.50 single on JJ Kavanaghs (if you're in the midlands you know Kavanaghs!) and you went on December 8th. Once you got there a lad in a tracksuit would ask for change for the bus and you not being street wise would give money :rolleyes::o

Chicago Bulls were the best team in the world, people wore their baseball caps

Parents had issues affording heating oil so you went to bed with a hot water bottle. And so many blankets above you you could barely turn over in the bed! Yep, no heating for much of the year
Even nowadays I rarely use the heating, just don't feel the cold

Farmers owned a jeep and a car.
Quite rare for others to have two cars, some families had one car and many had none. Thumbing was very common at the local crossroads and of course you'd stop and give a lift

Driving home from the pub after a few pints was not only accepted but it was the done thing.

OutlawPete

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

..the beatbox was on network 2 ..

Don't think I ever watched that without a hangover.

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

.. free curry at the local nightclub which was included in the admission price, walking 6 miles home and loving it the following morning..

Ah Jets nightclub .. them were the days alight.

Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty
You're listening to the boy from the big bad city
This is jam hot ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MnELifX3sQ

Jesus Wept

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Back in the late 80's early 90's the golden age before all this internet carry on and the twitter machine when people had patience and were not so insular when we had great tv shows before all this reality tv ****e, when feile was alive in tip and the beatbox was on network 2 and when people drank sunkist and wore la gear and when we all tuned into rte at 9:30 on Sat night to watch Dallas drunk before going out to get a free curry at the local nightclub which was included in the admission price, walking 6 miles home and loving it the following morning, when wipmy's was still in Ireland and we could tape tv shows in vhs when jake the snake was on tv and when aer lingus flights cost 1500 pounds to go to london , the golden age:(

Free curries in nightclubs?
Ireland had Whimpy's?

wrote:

Ireland
There are a few outlets in Ireland, most combined with petrol stations. It has an outlet in Urlingford, County Kilkenny, Ireland, which is the location of the rest stop for buses between Dublin and Cork; and one in Celbridge, County Kildare. Most are located in Petrogas (Applegreen) petrol stations, as they hold the master franchise.[5]

I have to say it was 10000x times more enjoyable to go abroad before it became cheap enough for everyone to go everywhere non stop. There are few places you can go where you want see or hear some ham headed **** and you may as well in town on match day.

Khyra24

No offense intended to anyone here but sure there were "good olde days" but not everything was perfect back then as it's definitely not perfect now. Great TV shows back then we would watch and think they're crap now but they were the thing at the time. There are plenty of patient people nowadays, you just won't realize it until today has become part of the good olde days. Also, the internet is a very powerful and useful tool and I'm glad we've advanced as far as we have with it...it's just a shame that many use it mainly for facebook or twitter...but then again, social networking is very useful in itself.

All I'm trying to say is that, yeah, reminisce about the good olde days but you should really be living in the present and enjoy what you can now. And if you don't enjoy anything then make whatever changes you can so you can have a better future for yourself and your descendants. But really, just open your eyes a bit more and you'll see that there are many good things going on today that you turn a blind eye to because you're stuck in the past.

Pdfile

the good days imho where when you could go to the shop with a pound your hand and not leave empty handed !

good times :cool:

mikemac

The-Rigger wrote: »

Free curries in nightclubs?
Ireland had Whimpy's?

I started a thread on it over in Legal forum a few months back.
In the 80's and early 90's, it was a condition to get a late licence to give a "substantial meal".
Our local nightclub had you pay in and your ticket got you sausages and chips.

Bring this back I say!

As for Whimpys, I remember one near Loughrea, possibly Craughwell around 2002, no idea if Whimpys are still in Ireland

PrincessLola

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

when aer lingus flights cost 1500 pounds to go to london , the golden age:(

Holy ****! Really? when was this??

Anyways time for a rousing speech: Nostalgia is bull****. Face it guys, the past is gone and is never gonna come back. the future is now!

Jesus Wept

feelingstressed wrote: »

I started a thread on it over in Legal forum a few months back.
In the 80's and early 90's, it was a condition to get a late licence to give a "substantial meal".
Our local nightclub had you pay in and your ticket got you sausages and chips.

Bring this back I say!

As for Whimpys, I remember one near Loughrea, possibly Craughwell around 2002, no idea if Whimpys are still in Ireland

I remember that law, never got a damn thing to eat in a nightclub. :-/

bigmouth writes again

PrincessLola wrote: »

Nostalgia is bull****. Face it guys, the past is gone and is never gonna come back. the future is now!

wrong. the past has substance, the future has yet to be written.

if there's anything left to write.. retrospect is your friend. its when it all went off ;p

mikemac

Naw, the flights didn't cost that much but you'd easily pay 250 punts for a flight

cassid

I remember Club M in Dublin has a set area for food, nobody ate the food but they had to have area of the club set aside for diners as part of the license !

bigmouth writes again

'80s backing tapes rule. end-of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eQy-4WV-_I

jd007

PrincessLola wrote: »

Holy ****! Really? when was this??

Anyways time for a rousing speech: Nostalgia is bull****. Face it guys, the past is gone and is never gonna come back. the future is now!

Isn't now the present?

pragmatic1

This is the best time ever in the history of mankind to be alive. The next best time ever will be next year. Its an amazing time to be alive.

Fek that.. You were just getting laid more OP so it seems better than it was.

who the fug

PrincessLola wrote: »

Holy ****! Really? when was this??

Anyways time for a rousing speech: Nostalgia is bull****. Face it guys, the past is gone and is never gonna come back. the future is now!

Bit of exaggeration but a round trip could be £ 300.00 or more.


So have little sympathy for Air fungus

Dravokivich

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

and we could tape tv shows in vhs

What's this we business? I still use me VHS...

The Agogo

Don't forget callcards to call the missus!

TheZohanS

feelingstressed wrote: »

I started a thread on it over in Legal forum a few months back.
In the 80's and early 90's, it was a condition to get a late licence to give a "substantial meal".
Our local nightclub had you pay in and your ticket got you sausages and chips.

Bring this back I say!

As for Whimpys, I remember one near Loughrea, possibly Craughwell around 2002, no idea if Whimpys are still in Ireland

The downside to these "substantial meals" was copious amounts of vomit in nightclubs and occasional cases of food poisoning the following day.

Sykk

The good ole days when OP's used full stops :pac:

Donal Og O Baelach

pragmatic1 wrote: »

This is the best time ever in the history of mankind to be alive. The next best time ever will be next year. Its an amazing time to be alive.

Wait a minute - you're not one of us... You're a...AN OPTIMIST!

How the fk did you get in here? Where are the Mods?

ROCKMAN

Heavy Metal in the Top Hat and SFX...

Kerrydude1981

Sports Staduim with Brendan O Reilly on Saturdays on Network 2,mostly Horse racing and a live soccer on at 3,with George Hamilton and John Giles doing the commentary,nearly always had Liverpool on but it was still great.

pragmatic1

Donal Og O Baelach wrote: »

Wait a minute - you're not one of us... You're a...AN OPTIMIST!

How the fk did you get in here? Where are the Mods?

Nope, I'm a realist.

up for anything

feelingstressed wrote: »

In the 80's and early 90's, it was a condition to get a late licence to give a "substantial meal".
Our local nightclub had you pay in and your ticket got you sausages and chips.

Bring this back I say!

Do you have a death wish? I had a part-time job cooking those meals and I still shudder at the things we did both because we had to and because we were having a laugh.

They tasted nice for the same reason KFC tastes nice when you're blind drunk.

The-Rigger wrote: »

I remember that law, never got a damn thing to eat in a nightclub. :-/

You were the lucky one!

Luxie

The-Rigger wrote: »

Free curries in nightclubs?Ireland had Whimpy's?




I have to say it was 10000x times more enjoyable to go abroad before it became cheap enough for everyone to go everywhere non stop. There are few places you can go where you want see or hear some ham headed **** and you may as well in town on match day.

Yeah. It was law at the time that you were entitled to ask for food in nightclubs and it was part of the cover price. Ie free.

RichieC

Bull****. it's way better now.

up for anything

Luxie wrote: »

Yeah. It was law at the time that you were entitled to ask for food in nightclubs and it was part of the cover price. Ie free.

The fact that the cover price went from IR£5 TO IR£7 very shortly afterwards may have skipped your notice.

SEPT 23 1989

Drinking 2 litres of cider and FA Cup final day on the BBC

Luxie

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Sports Staduim with Brendan O Reilly on Saturdays on Network 2,mostly Horse racing and a live soccer on at 3,with George Hamilton and John Giles doing the commentary,nearly always had Liverpool on but it was still great.

Waking up in my parents house on a Saturday (afternoon, after a big night out) and hearing 'The Final Countdown' downstairs on the telly which meant it must be time for lunch.

iMax

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Back in the late 80's early 90's the golden age before all this internet carry on and the twitter machine when people had patience and were not so insular when we had great tv shows before all this reality tv ****e, when feile was alive in tip and the beatbox was on network 2 and when people drank sunkist and wore la gear and when we all tuned into rte at 9:30 on Sat night to watch Dallas drunk before going out to get a free curry at the local nightclub which was included in the admission price, walking 6 miles home and loving it the following morning, when wipmy's was still in Ireland and we could tape tv shows in vhs when jake the snake was on tv and when aer lingus flights cost 1500 pounds to go to london , the golden age:(

Get out of my head !!!

I was only thinking this the last couple of days. It may be that I'm getting older & that's why my thoughts are going that way, but I've started to listen to a lot of 80s/90s music & am watching a lot more TV from that era (currently watching Larry Sanders).

candy-gal1

I always think there will never be a decade again with the authenticity of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s (which was really only 2000-2001), ive only first hand experienced the 80s, 90s, 00s, and now but from here on its just going to be the same i would say, if we survive 2012 of course :rolleyes:

Kerrydude1981

Luxie wrote: »

Waking up in my parents house on a Saturday (afternoon, after a big night out) and hearing 'The Final Countdown' downstairs on the telly which meant it must be time for lunch.[/QUOTE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyggY_R3jU8

iMax

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VORolcd3UmU

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Luxie

up for anything wrote: »

The fact that the cover price went from IR£5 TO IR£7 very shortly afterwards may have skipped your notice.

I was only a mere child at the time.

OutlawPete

ROCKMAN wrote: »

Heavy Metal in the Top Hat and SFX...

Darn tootin..

Seen Ozzy, Metallica (twice) and Slayer there all the same year ('88).

Amazing gigs, tons of stage diving .. ah great days indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGRjCf9NE7M

rossie1977

feelingstressed wrote: »

RTÉ2 was Network2
Unless you lived on the east coast, you had two channels and you were glad to have them.

we in roscommon had all the british channels in 1982, ah the days of watching big daddy and giant haystacks, supergran and bullseye on sunday, treasure hunt

as for wimpys there was one in ballyhaunis in mayo years ago alright

old hippy

Jonah's. Blinkers. Curries. Fights. Ugh.

123balltv

curry chips in a bag instead of a tray

deisedevil

The-Rigger wrote: »

I have to say it was 10000x times more enjoyable to go abroad before it became cheap enough for everyone to go everywhere non stop. There are few places you can go where you want see or hear some ham headed **** and you may as well in town on match day.

In town on match day? Ham headed ****?

Turtyturd

TV now just can't compare to 'the good olde days'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPpMTHBBWuw

Also competitions used to be great back then. The Children's Channel (pre Nickelodeon Nickelodeon) ran one where you had to mail them in a crisp and if it got there in one piece you won some sh*tty 80's present.

Kids now don't know what they are missing.

bonerm

TBH I prefer all the stuff we have now.

RichieC

Turtyturd wrote: »

ran one where you had to mail them in a crisp and if it got there in one piece you won some sh*tty 80's present.

that's fking genius!

vampire of kilmainham

being in the army in the 70s an 80s free holidays to the leb time off over there and head off to places like egypt israiel etc up to beruait and have a few beers in some bombed out bars with a few hesbullagh mighty craic if there was a shoot out there was allways a few spare ak47 lying around so you could join in and all free god i miss the smell of cordite:D:D:D