some 80's nostalgia

miss choc

anyone remember these 80's things

little salt packets in the ready salted crisps
conte colouring pastel pencils (I think you dipped them in water for a richer colour)
magic markers (where the white one always dried up first)
red/blue pens with eraser on top
multi colour click pens
tahiti cube shower gel
biarrizz blue triangle chocolates (barry manilow blue triangle ad)
The Weetabix skinheads ad in the 80's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV3E2SJ4B7U&feature=related

The Princess Bride

I remember the tahiti shower gel and the triangular chocolate.
It's a bit of a haze with the rest of the list though !

steveone

yes the weetabix skinheads, dunk and co ha ha... I had the weetabix glow in the dark poster !
is clinic shampoo still about?

Stained Class

Tiswaz.
Glenroe.
Inter Cert.
Queen in Slane '86.
Emigrating.
Smoking allowed everywhere.
Yellow Pack.
BMX Bikes.
No seatbelts.
Mittens.

Also. Freedom from the rules that came from being a 'rich' country.

steveone

needing the leaving cert to get a job!

miss choc

4 colour pens still around it seems http://www.bicworld.com/en/products/details/18/4-color

Magic markers
http://www.orientaltrading.com/color-changing-magic-markers-a2-56_53.fltr

more things

le clic camera - I had a lovely pink one
fergie bows
swatch watches
coloured denim
paisley shirts
perms
troll dolls
cassette walkman
spirograph, operation, guess who, simon, doodle board, perfection blockbusters

vektarman

Anyone remember these from the 80's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBrN1sLZVik

Son Of A Vidic

Stained Class wrote: »

BMX Bikes.

The there was the movie BMX Bandits which cashed in on the craze big time.

steveone

dark blue garda cars.....

darkdubh

I remember the Weetabix skinheads.They also did an ad that was a pastiche of the A-Team.And they used to advertise these yellow ghetto blasters that you could send off tokens from the packet for.

chakotha

Orange double decker buses with windows so dirty you couldn't see out through them.

darkdubh

Gardai and Defence Force members with moustaches.

Lawrence1895

Standing areas for away supporters at football matches and proper beer as well.

Aglomerado

Orange and white P&T (precursor to Telecom Eireann and Eircom.) vans, in the early 80s. God I'm old

Cars with one different coloured door (like the one in the Inbetweeners) and / or coat hanger for aerial!

gammygils

Aglomerado wrote: »

Orange and white P&T (precursor to Telecom Eireann and Eircom.) vans, in the early 80s. God I'm old

Cars with one different coloured door (like the one in the Inbetweeners) and / or coat hanger for aerial!

Ya. Remember them. Renault 4 in orange with white doors

I even remember their predecessers. Dark green Ford Anglias. And the bigger VW Vans. How old am I?

darkdubh

gammygils wrote: »

Ya. Remember them. Renault 4 in orange with white doors

I even remember their predecessers. Dark green Ford Anglias. And the bigger VW Vans. How old am I?

The Guards had the Renault 4 as well up to the late 80's.Can't imagine them catching up with speeding culprits,I imagine they must have been for transporting prisioners.

9959

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with string
and, er, the recession.

vektarman

darkdubh wrote: »

The Guards had the Renault 4 as well up to the late 80's.Can't imagine them catching up with speeding culprits,I imagine they must have been for transporting prisioners.

Very small prisoners I assume 'cos I remember four of us going from Dublin to Cork once in a Renault 4, cramped would be an understatement, nice fun car though.

IrishHomer

"ska" was all the rage in the 80s

Frisbees, disco headbands with bobbing balls on top

9959

IrishHomer wrote: »

"ska" was all the rage in the 80s

Frisbees, disco headbands with bobbing balls on top

Ah yes 'Ska'.
In the 80's I saw 'The Specials' in the Olympic Ballroom, supported by 'Dr. Feelgood', now beat that!

fatbhoy

Petrol vans.

BlaasForRafa

vektarman wrote: »

Very small prisoners I assume 'cos I remember four of us going from Dublin to Cork once in a Renault 4, cramped would be an understatement, nice fun car though.

Try a family of 7 going on a holiday to Achill Island from waterford in a blazing hot summer (we had hot summers back then) in a Renault 4, my father must have been insane. That car was like a feckin bouncy castle they way it would bounce over humps and potholes and there were certainly no seat-belts in the back of the car thats for sure.

Masala

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Chopper bikes
Dinky cars
Can of Shandy.... my first 'drink'....
Wagons Wheels....
and...

Radio Luxemburg -only late at nite cos reception was crap! Mostly sitting in teh fathers car..freezing !!!

steveone

driving from dublin to athlone and stopping in kinnegad to break the journey.....

Sikpupi

aaahhh... Harry's in Kinnegad!!

Unfortunately... I remember Kinnegad as the mother of all Traffic Jams!! TG they bye-passed it!!!

gammygils

Masala wrote: »

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Chopper bikes
Dinky cars
Can of Shandy.... my first 'drink'....
Wagons Wheels....
and...

Radio Luxemburg -only late at nite cos reception was crap! Mostly sitting in teh fathers car..freezing !!!

Radio Luxemburg. The Great 208. Rod Jones,Benny Brown etc.
Used to put it on when Pascal Mooney was on Radio 2!
Reception was ****e. But music was good

Stained Class

fatbhoy wrote: »

Petrol vans.

Extinct now.

AFAIK, business's can claim back the VAT on Diesel but not on Petrol.

Remember when you sold your car, you kept the Stereo & put it your new car?

Lots of cars then didn't have stereos in them, even when they were new.:eek:

steveone

IrishHomer wrote: »

"ska" was all the rage in the 80s

Frisbees, disco headbands with bobbing balls on top

Walking the streets with a 2 in 1 on your shoulder (not to be mistaken with the hip hop breakdancer craic...this was jeans, bob marley jumpers and adidas rom territory ha!....depending on which suburb of DNS it was ska or reggae........

miss choc

Remember LW Atlantic 252 radio used to love that in College

Taltos

Preferred Sunshine 101 & Gerry Ryan's late night chat show...

shockwave

Glass litre bottles of coke and Tk lemonade.

Sgt Hartman

500ml Supercans of Coke
Amusement arcades with great games like Double Dragon, Robocop and JailBreak
Toploader VHS machines that cost a fortune and weighed a ton

RainMaker

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Toploader VHS machines that cost a fortune and weighed a ton

Betamax toploaders!
This one actually!

Smidge

Puff ball skirts
Bottle tops on shoes(usually Grolsch)
Slow sets
Hair-sprayed fringes(girls)that were backcombed to within an inch of your life and the sprayed with a half a can of hairspray the HAD cfc's still in it.
Blue eyeshadow and mascara

padd b1975

shockwave wrote: »

Glass litre bottles of coke and Tk lemonade.

Used to love taking the empty ones back to the shop and getting some money for them.

steveone

padd b1975 wrote: »

Used to love taking the empty ones back to the shop and getting some money for them.

No Deposit No Return ha! that was stamped into the glass!

IvyTheTerrible

miss choc wrote: »

Remember LW Atlantic 252 radio used to love that in College

Yep! They were based in Trim and I remember staying there with my granny in the early 90's, going up to their offices and knocking on the door hastling them till we got stickers and hats and stuff!

steveone

LW 252..was talking to dusty rhodes a while back about the regulars on that station...

KLF /tammy wynnette justified and ancient..
prince.. diamonds and pearls
george and elton.. don't let the sun go down (steady on there)

he said they had them on catridge and stuck them on if they were running into dead air while changing tape or cd..

brilliant!

steveone

how about Hawker vans...
we had one in our street..

The Princess Bride

Had a vivid memory of drinking orange from a brown glass bottle with a straw,tasted amazing.
Today,I remembered the name.

"A dwink is not a dwink without a Dwans".

Anybody remember?

uch

msthe80s wrote: »

Had a vivid memory of drinking orange from a brown glass bottle with a straw,tasted amazing.
Today,I remembered the name.

"A dwink is not a dwink without a Dwans".

Anybody remember?

Yep, they had a depot in Cherry Orchard, me Da used to work next door, so we always had gallons of free Dwans in our house back then.