Things that used to be cool/trendy

Ghandee

Ok, searched but couldn't find any threads (no doubt some kind soul will just love to price me wrong though) so if there's another thread similar, apologies in advance!

Just looking through a few pics from about fifteen years ago, laughing at the hair cuts on us (remember the middle shade/curtain hair do on lads?) Wearing our Levis 501'a, Puma runners with the massive tongues sticking out above our Jeans like cricket pads! Back then we prob thought we were the dogs gonads, and it prob was the fashionable thing at the time.

A few other things I can think of that had their day of glory is:

Going to the roller disco!
Naff jackets (cringe)
Leather ties
Rave music
Mullets
Bum fluff moustaches
Lo-Lo balls
Lines shaved into your head (Jeez what thirteen year old lad at school didn't think he was hard as fcuk cos he had an arrow shaved into the head lol?)
Wearing football Jerseys to night clubs (what were we thinking?)
Lads perming their hair,
Girls perming their hair too!
Leg warmers
Calculator watches (ten plus fourteen? Ah that's easy!/five mins later, pressing tiny buttons to give the wrong answer Lol)
Learning to line dance cos it was the 'in' thing at the time (not me personally)
Grey leather jackets (shudders)
White socks with black shoes (bonus points for suede shoes)

Jaysus, I could go on all day.

What can you think of, that at the time was cool /trendy, but looking back you looked like a right tít, anything from an item of clothing to an activity our possession you had.

irish_stevo815

Lists of things that used to be cool/trendy used to be cool & trendy

1966

Duffle coats ???

Hootanany

1966 wrote: »

Duffle coats ???

But can you hang a wet one of your John Thomas

--Kaiser--

Onions on your belt

Saila

people will be laughing when they see this thread in 50 years. "ha look they use to think duffle coats/mullets and roller disco's werent trendy! LMAO!!!! "

wall paper is coming back in ffs! it all comes back around in a big ol loop

LETHAL LADY

Stone washed jeans tucked into runner boots worn with a washed out ac/dc t-shirt with the sleeves cut off. Over that a biker jacket, over the biker jacket a denim jacket with the sleeves cut off also, covered in heavy metal bands patches. Topped off a with long greasy mane of hair.

Dotrel

Big Bushy Pubic Hair
Slavery
Pogs

Ghandee

Recording the top forty of the radio!

blackdog2

Pubic Hair

Mr. Rager

Tama-fúcking-gotchi

castletownman

Witty replies to thread titles

Duff

Pokemon cards. I once killed a man for a Charizard.

greenmachine88

joe duffy

Saila

being part of the euro

Hank_Jones

Ireland
Greece
Bertie Ahern

Ghandee

This prick.

gsxr1

Gun n Roses and smoking

http://www.popularsmokers.com/albums/slash/slash.jpg

westendgirlie

Stealing VW signs from cars. Those bold Beastie Boys!

Sauve

These bad boys.

Chuck Stone

Fear of fire.

coonecb1

Xworx jeans
Watching 'The Word' on Friday nights...
'Step' and 'Undercut' hairstyles...

Ghandee

Sauvignon82 wrote: »

These bad boys.

Fcukin flash back city dude!
Forgot they actually existed until seeing that lol!

Lando Griffin

Getting a phone number from a girl at the disco and ringing her from the phone box on wednesday organising to meet the following saturday night, and she turning up too.

Frank Black

Me.

Jaxxy

coonecb1 wrote: »

Xworx jeans

And eclipse jackets!

And those horrific neon green/orange puffa jacket things.

Ghandee

Wearing these things.....

TanG411

Rubick's cubes.

Jimoslimos

coonecb1 wrote: »

Xworx jeans

Jaxxy wrote: »

And eclipse jackets!

And don't forget PetroMotion:o

Stayin up late to watch smut on C4 - internet has killed it.:(

Vicxas

Collecting pokemon cards...

psychward

I remember there was some trend around 2002 for people to wear trousers and tracky pants which were too long in the leg so they'd almost trip up over them. They'd walk through puddles and through urine soaked jacks and the ends of the legs where it covered the shoe would be disgusting looking but they still did it. And it was kind of widespread at least among students. Anyone remember that ?

Dotrel

ThinksAmoral wrote: »

Rubick's cubes.

Actually, they're cool again.

Bodhidharma

coonecb1 wrote: »

Xworx jeans
Watching 'The Word' on Friday nights...
'Step' and 'Undercut' hairstyles...

Xworx, thats them. I seem to remember baggy jeans called Eclipse also, great for listenin to Outer Space by The Prodigy and carrying spray paint to 'tag' places.

Yes, we are almost thirty now

hubba

Lady Di blouses (virginal, up to the neck with a big bow)
donkey jackets
Simon Hart shoes
Sony Walkman's the size of a bus
shoulder pads
leg warmers
Bottles of Ritz

Bodhidharma

Jimoslimos wrote: »

And don't forget PetroMotion:o

Stayin up late to watch smut on C4 - internet has killed it.:(

The Word and EuroTrash.

Terry Christian was a smouldering ball of Manchester snide, the gals used to like him.

LETHAL LADY

Bodhidharma wrote: »

The Word and EuroTrash.

Terry Christian was a smouldering ball of Manchester snide, the gals used to like him.

I didnt like him but he did have a great mouth for catching frisbees.

wil

Retro :cool:

InkSlinger67

TURN THAT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Turtyturd

Reebok Pumps

Tracksuit bottoms with buttons on the side, horrible things to be wearing on a windy day.

InTheTrees

"The Celtic Tiger"

Wtf was that? I could never figure out why a "tiger"?

Its not like one ever made it to these shores outside of a crate addressed to the Zoo...

:mad:

NoHornJan

Cheesecloth shirts.
Bellbottom trousers.
Desert boots.
Cravattes.
Petuli oil.(sp)

AnonoBoy

Undercuts.

Bodhidharma

InTheTrees wrote: »

"The Celtic Tiger"

Wtf was that? I could never figure out why a "tiger"?

Its not like one ever made it to these shores outside of a crate addressed to the Zoo...

:mad:

Thats a reference to Asian tiger economies that grew very quickly in the early nineties

InkSlinger67

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Undercuts.

Oh jesus! I had one of them for a long time. I went back to the barber when I was 25 and asked for one and he laughed at me!

Tom Russell

Tuning your radio to 252 on longwave

Jaxxy

Tom Russell wrote: »

Tuning your radio to 252 on longwave

Atlantic two-five-twwooooo, roadshow!

Ghandee

Tom Russell wrote: »

Tuning your radio to 252 on longwave

2fm's Rick O'Shea used to be a DJ on there!

NoHornJan

"Grab a Tiger by the Tail." The Esso petrol slogan.
Lots of cars had stupid wooly tiger tails dangling
from the rear view mirrors.

NoHornJan

Radio Dublin and all the other pirate radio stations at the time.

PeefsPixie

Jelly shoes, pokemon cards, terrible girl band pop ****e... The memories will haunt me forever, hahaha

Sentid

Killinaskully

And feckin pot-pourri on the cistern of the toilet