Simple things you don't see anymore

pushkii

Glow in the dark stickers

DontThankMe

A united Europe

sabat

Beaded things on car seats

Junkyard Tom

Happy-go-lucky singing chimney sweeps.

Duckworth_Luas

Bucktoothed simpletons with eyebrows on their cheeks

neutrino

Wire coathanger car aerials.

Drivers behind politely waiting as two cars come to a stop on a country road to have a chat.

Chain Smoker

neutrino wrote: »

Wire coathanger car aerials.

Drivers behind politely waiting as two cars come to a stop on a country road to have a chat.

Politely seething with rage

darkpagandeath

People Queuing correctly.

Beta Ray Bill

Red Arse Bees

pushkii

Penny sweets that you could count out yourself

The King of Moo

Kellogg's Cornflakes bike reflectors.

Pogs.

Fila jackets and Xworx jeans.

Smash Hits magazine.

Various other things you remember fondly from your childhood that I could easily find by googling "'90s nostalgia.'"

jamesbere

USSR

Archeron

White dog crap

mansize

Nostalgia threads

kneemos

Hair.

dan1895

NAFF Co 54

CarrickMcJoe

The leather strap in school.

Kids climbing trees.

Spangle sweets.

K.Flyer

Jumpers for goal-posts.

Keys left in doors / on a string in the letterbox.

Making go-karts out of lumps of wood and pram wheels.

Honda 50s

demanufactured

Kids outside playing

Olishi4

Those little round red insects that you see on bright surface. We use to call them blooksuckers.

Hopscotch numbered spaces drawn in chalk on the path.

Hulahoops

stampydmonkey

That little nightmare inducing cnut called Bosco

tupenny

Glass milk bottles

Hercule Poirot

That yoke you stuck between the spokes of your bike wheels to make the motorbike noise (that actually sounded nothing like a motorbike but my God you were sh1t cool if you had one of them!)

fatknacker

Penny Farthings, chainmail, bubonic plague, Tasmanian Tiger, Nelson's Pillar, feathered quill pens, Spearmint Woppas.

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Hairy mollies

faceman

Those breath strips that Listerine made that you put on your tongue.

Chimney sweeps

Lads renting videos from their car boot

Stinger bars

Tuthills

Live @ 3

Those key rings that had plastic versions of banknotes on them

kfallon

faceman wrote: »

Stinger bars

You can still get them

whiskeyman

These things on the back of cars.


Back in the 80s, I thought every car had them.
I used to draw car pics with them on always!

Del2005

Olishi4 wrote: »

Hopscotch numbered spaces drawn in chalk on the path.

Still see them in my neck of the woods.

racso1975

Smiley bars

Belfunk

Foil milk bottle tops

Badly Drunk Boy

jamesbere wrote: »

USSR

CCCP

Ronald Wilson Reagan wrote: »

Hairy mollies

I think that's because nowadays, we don't tend to hang out in the same places as hairy mollies. I know that personally, I'm not as close to the ground as I used to be.




[Somebody who worked with me for years used always referred to his wife as 'The Hairy Molly'. Once, they were out at the races or something similar when they met the managing director of the place we work. Even then, he introduced his wife as 'The Hairy Molly'. )

irishgeo

People talking to each other on public transport. Everyone stuck looking at a smartphone.

kfallon

Jumpers for goalposts

faceman

kfallon wrote: »

You can still get them

Ah but the current ones don't have the banned E123 ingredient!

HensVassal

Black football boots

Hercule Poirot

irishgeo wrote: »

People talking to each other on public transport. Everyone stuck looking at a smartphone.

I don't miss this to be honest - I attracted a lot of weirdos on Bus Eireann, or maybe it was just me....

razorblunt

Football jerseys that weren't just Nike Template A in Red, Adidas Template B in Yellow.

Liverpool had some mad ones in the 90s, that green and white box one is a classic.


Cotton rugby jerseys, though this is a good thing, the jersey would get stretched from lads hanging off it trying to tackle you so by the end of the season it would look like a gúna deasa.

maudgonner

Lolo balls.

People using the orange plastic wrap from Lucozade bottles on their headlights during foggy weather.

mickdw

neutrino wrote: »

Drivers behind politely waiting as two cars come to a stop on a country road to have a chat.

This is still a regular occurrence where I live.
Now if it's a choice between city traffic stuck nose to tail or 2 lads stopping to gossip about the neighbours the odd time, I will happily go with the rural option.

crazygeryy

Indicators.

MRnotlob606

Hellen Keller

Lt Dan

HensVassal wrote: »

Black football boots

I remember the first time I say a footballer wearing white boots. It was the 1994 (or 1995) Champions League Final AC Milan player wearing them. Johnny Giles thought he was hilarious suggesting to Bill that the player (who was rubbish btw) had just made his First Communion

Agent Smyth

The Sony Walkman and the C90 Cassette.

keano_afc

maudgonner wrote: »

Lolo balls.

People using the orange plastic wrap from Lucozade bottles on their headlights during foggy weather.

You cans till buy Lolo balls, saw them in Debenhams yesterday. I got one for my 8th birthday, in 1987. When you got bored you could take the ball out and play football with it, made for an interesting game.

Speedsie

faceman wrote: »

Tuthills

Tuthill's, the newsagent? Plenty of them still around.

Lt Dan

Smoking on Trains and even buses

Alter boys (and ghastly , alter girls ) - It is getting rare for obvious reasons

Push Pops & High Sours

Combat Jeans / Chords

Emos (thank God - kill them, kill them all)

Walkmans & Discmans

Video tapes, audio tapes, and even CD's

Illegally recording songs off a radio onto a tape (and getting bits from the dopey DJ)

2FM - When it was a decent radio station

Monday Night TV - When RTE 2 made an effort to put good tv shows on - Fr Ted, Don't Feed The Gondolas/The Panel (when it was decent) etc

When men were men, and "wimen" knew their place.

Lynx having more than just Africa (Appollo etc)

When Music was actually decent and bar Madonna, most had to keep their clothes on

The Backwards Man

Getting a wafer in a shop.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

12 year olds having to iron their hair

Lt Dan

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Getting a wafer in a shop.

I always thought that was what poor people got , and could not afford the real deal like a 99 cone , with , a flake

Fluffy Cat 88

Red numberplates on cars.

Fizz bombs.

Outside toilets.

Groups of people smoking indoors.

Snow washed denim.

Cassette tapes and floppy disks.

Dr scholls sandals.

Cutex nail varnish.

Once shampoo and little sachets of shampoo.

Dairybawn milk (powdered milk you mixed with water - horrible stuff).

Glints hair dye.

Irish punts.