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Back in my day...

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    #182
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Jelly and a block of ice cream and wafers
    after dinner on a sunday. Dessert on a weekday was unheard of.


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    #183
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,369 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    bottlebrush wrote: »
    Jelly and a block of ice cream and wafers
    after dinner on a sunday. Dessert on a weekday was unheard of.

    Sometimes Tapioca


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    #184
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    cjmc wrote: »
    Sometimes Tapioca

    Or Sago


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    #185
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    The picture on the telly dwindling to a dot when switched off. The picture on the telly taking ages to appear as it warmed up. Cheese in a shade of orange not known in nature. **** cars, **** buses, **** trains. **** holidays.....if anyone bombs Youghal out of existence, I shall cheer loudly.....CIE taking the ****ing piss, as always. Four and a half hours to go to Cork on a train, which stopped at every rural station not actually closed down since the Emergency. Four and a half hours, allegedly, to go to Cork on a bus, in the days before motorways, when the bus went through Rathcoole, Naas, Monasterevin before eventually reaching Urlingford and draining your bladder only to realise that you were only halfway there. I rejoiced when independent bus companies finally came along and magically,it didnt take half a day anymore!!!


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    #186
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    Rice pudding as dessert. We called it "flytrap"....


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    #187
    [Deleted User]
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    The murderer was found in Great Unprecedented Bizarre Unbelievable circumstances.

    The main thing though was that he got a just sentence.

    A racehorse was kidnapped.

    An Irish train robbery:. Still no movie after all these years.....Wonder what the Irish film industry is spooging on about all this time!


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    #188
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Trying to be the first to open the pint bottle of milk to put the cream on your porridge :)


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    #189
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,073 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    A packet of plain crisps with a paper twist of salt inside the packet

    A 3p or 6p waver of ice cream as a treat

    Sent to the shop for 1 shillings worth of broken biscuits

    Sent for a fresh Vienna bread and poking a hole in the crust and eating the white bread


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    #190
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Every room in the house was wallpapered.
    Big flowery patterned stuff. Didn't matter whether the curtains or carpets matched.

    Peach coloured toilet, sink and bath, or worse still, avocado or light blue.

    No Home of the Year tv programmes back then. Houses were for living in, not showing off


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    #191
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,154 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The murderer was found in Great Unprecedented Bizarre Unbelievable circumstances.

    The main thing though was that he got a just sentence.

    A racehorse was kidnapped.

    An Irish train robbery:. Still no movie after all these years.....Wonder what the Irish film industry is spooging on about all this time!

    Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented.


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    #192
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,073 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Stovepipe wrote: »
    Rice pudding as dessert. We called it "flytrap"....

    Tabioca for dessert , we called it frog spawn


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    #193
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Watching the animals being slaughtered in the local butchers by looking in the keyhole of the yard door!!!!


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    #194
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The murderer was found in Great Unprecedented Bizarre Unbelievable circumstances.

    The main thing though was that he got a just sentence.

    A racehorse was kidnapped.

    An Irish train robbery:. Still no movie after all these years.....Wonder what the Irish film industry is spooging on about all this time!

    There was only about 1 murder a year in Ireland, if even that


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    #195
    Firblog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Firblog


    No yellow, orange or red wind warnings, it was gale force 10, storm force 11, and hurricane force 12, and none of them shut the bloody schools down.

    There was a yellow snow warning, but that was a different thing..


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    #196
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    The insurance man that called to the house every payday.


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    #197
    whisky_galore
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    bottlebrush wrote: »
    There was only about 1 murder a year in Ireland, if even that

    Surely more paramilitary than domestic murders back then.


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    #198
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,356 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Travelling out to the orchards at Baldonnel to rob as many apples as possible.
    My kids cant understand why anyone would want to rob an orchard.


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    #199
    branie2
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    The Famous Five (seventies version) on the telly


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    #200
    Princess Calla
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    bottlebrush wrote: »
    Jelly and a block of ice cream and wafers
    after dinner on a sunday. Dessert on a weekday was unheard of.

    Or Angel delight :)


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    #201
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Tapping the public phone....


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    #202
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    These little bolloxes in your bubble bath.

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    #203
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Surely more paramilitary than domestic murders back then.

    Not counting the paramilitary murders.
    Which reminds me of the News always starting with "it was another night of violence in the north last night".


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    #204
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Princess Calla wrote: »
    Or Angel delight :)

    and you'd always know your Da made it if it was lumpy :D


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    #205
    Cork Trucker
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    #206
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,753 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Rubbery blocks of cheese from Galtee and Calvita.


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    #207
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Scuttin' on the back of the milk float.


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    #208
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Every pub in Dublin had an old guy working there called Johnny who used to scowl at young folk because they wouldn't emigrate.


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    #209
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    There ain't no 'back in the day' n**ga, ain't no nostalgia to this shit here, there's just the street, and the game, and what happen here today.


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    #210
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Two tin cans and a 100 yards of twine between the upstairs window of your and your friend's house :cool:


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    #211
    SAMTALK
    Registered Users Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    Slow set especially when je t, aime was played


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