Back in my day...

iamstop

... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
Windows closed and windows open.

Tom Mann Centuria

iamstop wrote: »

... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
Windows closed and windows open.

That you opened with a handle.*



*winder or whatever you'd call it.

branie2

We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

Better Than Christ

iamstop wrote: »

... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
Windows closed and windows open.

Some cars had additional climate control features. The Datsun 120Y, for example, had several holes in the floor.

Ubbquittious

iamstop wrote: »

... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
Windows closed and windows open.

Posh bastard with windows in his car

The chan chan man

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

That you opened with a handle.

Which you could reach easily as there were no seatbelts in the back!

BuboBubo

Mother's used the wooden spoon to rear kids.

AllForIt

Back in my day the window would open but not necessarily close.

Tom Mann Centuria

The chan chan man wrote: »

Which you could reach easily as there were no seatbelts in the back!

As kids we'd be in the back of a transit van, and fight over who'd get to sit on the toolbox or wheelarch.

Not dangerous at all.

Notdeco

branie2 wrote: »

We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

I was that knob...

anewme

[Deleted User] wrote: »

then I discovered I was Paul Newman.

Great pasta sauce man.

branie2

thanks for making ill kids happy as well

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Even if i had the cornoa virus, my mother would have refused to beleive I was too sick to go to shcool.

Strumms

In my childhood home...When we got in central heating (oil) we had to switch it on ‘before’ we went out so the house would be warm enough that evening when we got back....from the switch being flicked to on it took about two and a half hours maybe longer for any feeling of warmth. Now, the house I’m in is about 10 years old but has a gas heating system and from flicking the switch on a freezing cold morning to stifling takes about 15 minutes... some difference.. with the timer also you can have it on in the morning before you get up. Tends to stop you wanting to get up.

beejee

Back in my day we had to slither on shore with jokes for legs, and learning to breathe was no laugh either.

Young ones these days with their prehensile this and apple that.

Leg End Reject

I had to walk to school in my bare feet, uphill both ways. It always rained and the rain was wetter then.

jimbobaloobob

Jack Frost would leave his mark on the windows overnight.

Soccer news was page 220 on teletext.

Mam of 4

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

Jack Frost would leave his mark on the windows overnight.

The inside of the Windows ..

branie2

Television broadcasting closed down before or after midnight

cj maxx

BuboBubo wrote: »

Mother's used the wooden spoon to rear kids.

And teachers too !

Strumms

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Even if i had the cornoa virus, my mother would have refused to beleive I was too sick to go to shcool.

Mine was the same, you’d have to be carrying your head under your arm and then, ‘only’ then might you get... “look, you might be better off taking just today off, but you can get the books out and do a bit of work here, you can’t fall behind !” :rolleyes:

branie2

I think they used rulers or canes

branie2

Flat 7up cured everything

ceadaoin.

Strumms wrote: »

In my childhood home...When we got in central heating (oil) we had to switch it on ‘before’ we went out so the house would be warm enough that evening when we got back....from the switch being flicked to on it took about two and a half hours maybe longer for any feeling of warmth. Now, the house I’m in is about 10 years old but has a gas heating system and from flicking the switch on a freezing cold morning to stifling takes about 15 minutes... some difference.. with the timer also you can have it on in the morning before you get up. Tends to stop you wanting to get up.

We only moved into a house with central heating when I was about 13. The feeling of luxury to be warm in rooms other than the sitting room, where the fire was the only heat source previously , I'll never forget lol. This was the mid 90s so not even that long ago. Kids today dont know they're born tbh.

Princess Calla

branie2 wrote: »

Television broadcasting closed down before or after midnight

Not before the prayer at bedtime

anewme

Toffee toast (bread with sugar under the grill...Burnt the gullet out of you ) and bread and sauce...or digestives with butter.

cj maxx

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I had to walk to school in my bare feet, uphill both ways. It always rained and the rain was wetter then.

You were a lazy bastard , I had to carry you in bare feet , short trousers and smoking a pipe

beejee

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I had to walk to school in my bare feet, uphill both ways. It always rained and the rain was wetter then.

That's luxury. Everyday I would have to hand build my school using only the nubs of fingers left to me after breaking boulders to make gravel bare handed... Only for the flipping thing to be torn down each night because of night tax.

And that's when it was a nine day week, none of this 7 day cop out bs.

Princess Calla

anewme wrote: »

Toffee toast (bread with sugar under the grill...Burnt the gullet out of you ) and bread and sauce...or digestives with butter.

Rich tea biscuits with butter that you'd squeeze through the holes.

Third_Echelon

branie2 wrote: »

Flat 7up cured everything

Still does!

JupiterKid

Fifty pee fine if you forgot to rewind the videotape when you brought it back to Xtra-Vision.

White dog ****e in the little grassy verges of our suburban housing estate.

Dial telephones - they were all beige and all looked the same. The speaking clock - “at the signal, it will be....”

branie2

A mask and black binliners were Halloween costumes

anewme

You couldn't beat a good aul game of knick knack.

peddlelies

Fidelma Miley affair in Glenroe created an awkward feeling between every Parent and young child in Ireland

anewme

You could win a set of saucepans on Murphys Micro Quiz- m.

branie2

peddlelies wrote: »

Fidelma Miley affair in Glenroe created an awkward feeling between every Parent and young child in Ireland

And Glenroe signalled the end of the weekend

JohnnyFlash

A glass bottle of Lucozade and a bunch of grapes wrapped in brown paper was mandatory if visiting someone sick in hospital.

Ishmael

branie2 wrote: »

We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

We had to tune the channels in by pointing the Aerial on the roof in the right direction and then going down to the tv and manually turning the tuning pegs one by one. If you found nothing, back up to the roof. And god help anyone that messed with the settings after the channels had been found.

anewme

Watching The Lost Boys.

from_atozinc

.......there were no black lads.

True story. Really.

cj maxx

from_atozinc wrote: »

.......there were no black lads.

True story. Really.

Probably. If I seen a black man in Dublin I thought it was either Lenny Henry or Paul McGrath

anewme

from_atozinc wrote: »

.......there were no black lads.

True story. Really.

Ahh ffs.

Leg End Reject

Princess Calla wrote: »

Not before the prayer at bedtime

And the National Anthem.

from_atozinc

cjmc wrote: »

Probably. If I seen a black man in Dublin I thought it was either Lenny Henry or Paul McGrath

Sure we didn’t even have a car to go to Dublin.
Couldn’t afford a bus or train either.
Only option to walk in our bare feet. With turf.

anewme

And we all walked from west Dublin to see the Pope in the Pheno.

Princess Calla

branie2 wrote: »

And Glenroe signalled the end of the weekend

And time to start your homework!

branie2

The weekend began with Anything Goes

Ha Long Bay

branie2 wrote: »

We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

What brand of TV was that? Most of the older TV's used to let you change channels with your fingers.

jimbobaloobob

john4321 wrote: »

What brand of TV was that? Most of the older TV's used to let you change channels with your fingers.

I think we had one. Dad used to say “that boll1cks of a television is broken again”.

branie2

The swimwear and lingerie sections of the Family Album catalogue were the closest we ever got to Playboy magazine