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    #692
    the purple tin
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    1874 wrote: »
    No, was added to your account
    The sly dogs. I suppose if they had asked people for it up front they would have been told to whistle for it.


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    #693
    CoBo55
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    The sly dogs. I suppose if they had asked people for it up front they would have been told to whistle for it.

    Ahh, feck that nobody ever paid any of those things, just let the account go dormant and get the brother to open a new one;)


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    #694
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    the purple tin wrote: »
    The sly dogs. I suppose if they had asked people for it up front they would have been told to whistle for it.

    Now and again xtravision would have an amnesty.

    The fines would be forgiven if you just returned and started renting again


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    #695
    StupidLikeAFox
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    Queing up to buy Ryanair tickets from their office in Dublin


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    #696
    the purple tin
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    Racist jokes in the playground.


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    #697
    CoBo55
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Racist jokes in the playground.

    Yea, Paddy Irishman, Paddy Englishman, Paddy Scotsman, go to heaven, are in a pub, etc.harmless fun really.


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    #698
    the purple tin
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    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Yea, Paddy Irishman, Paddy Englishman, Paddy Scotsman, go to heaven, are in a pub, etc.harmless fun really.
    Those too but there were also the n*gger and paki jokes.
    A lot of it was from comedians like Bernard Manning and Roy Chubby Brown I reckon. Kids would probably be watching them on TV with their parents and then coming to school to repeat the jokes.


    But now that you mention the Paddy jokes, why was Paddy Irishman always the dimwit? Why were we slagging ourselves.. I never understood it :confused:


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    #699
    ohnonotgmail
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Those too but there were also the n*gger and paki jokes.
    A lot of it was from comedians like Bernard Manning and Roy Chubby Brown I reckon. Kids would probably be watching them on TV with their parents and then coming to school to repeat the jokes.


    But now that you mention the Paddy jokes, why was Paddy Irishman always the dimwit? Why were we slagging ourselves.. I never understood it :confused:

    they were kerryman jokes when I was growing up


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    #700
    CoBo55
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Those too but there were also the n*gger and paki jokes.
    A lot of it was from comedians like Bernard Manning and Roy Chubby Brown I reckon. Kids would probably be watching them on TV with their parents and then coming to school to repeat the jokes.


    But now that you mention the Paddy jokes, why was Paddy Irishman always the dimwit? Why were we slagging ourselves.. I never understood it :confused:

    No I never heard or used words like paki in school, probably after my time, I'd get a deserved clip round the ear from the father or mother anyway..


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    #701
    The Continental Op
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    Never asked how it was spelt but isn't Paki or is it Packy a shortened Irish name. Confused me when I first moved here.

    Edit> Google tells me Packy is sort for Patrick, but not heard it used for a long time.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #702
    ohnonotgmail
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    The Continental Op wrote: »
    Never asked how it was spelt but isn't Paki or is it Packy a shortened Irish name. Confused me when I first moved here.

    Edit> Google tells me Packy is sort for Patrick, but not heard it used for a long time.

    Packie Bonner


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    #703
    ohnonotgmail
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    CoBo55 wrote: »
    No I never heard or used words like paki in school, probably after my time, I'd get a deserved clip round the ear from the father or mother anyway..

    we didnt have anybody we could use it to.


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    #704
    CoBo55
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    we didnt have anybody we could use it to.

    Very true.


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    #705
    branie2
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    Very few transgender people coming out


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    #706
    branie2
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    Concorde


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    #707
    bodhrandude
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    This brings me back to the late eighties when my parents retired in Scotland and I moved back with them to live in Ireland. For the month that's in it now. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #708
    branie2
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    Young Alan Hughes in that ad


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    #709
    omega42
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    I cant believe its not butter


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    #710
    Ubbquittious
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    bodhrandude wrote: »
    This brings me back to the late eighties when my parents retired in Scotland and I moved back with them to live in Ireland. For the month that's in it now. :)


    A phone box along a road in the arsehole of nowhere. Now there is a sight I haven't seen in a long time


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    #711
    branie2
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    TV tests cards


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    #712
    the purple tin
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    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    A phone box along a road in the arsehole of nowhere. Now there is a sight I haven't seen in a long time
    And not smashed up either.


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    #713
    The Continental Op
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    And not smashed up either.

    They all smelled of p!ss.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #714
    blackbox
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    The Angelus on TV every evening at 6pm.







    OMG They still do it!


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    #715
    beggars_bush
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    Cushtie wrote: »
    Another one in our local. Was when the phone would ring the girl Inside the bar would ask "who is here?" before she answered it.

    My mother tracked me down on my 21st birthday by ringing up multiple pubs in the town
    I had forgotten she had booked a family meal elsewhere...


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    #716
    angel eyes 2012
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    Getting a Telecom Eireann callcard with 50 units on it and feeling like a millionaire.

    Bins collected by the Council with no bin charges or limits on weight and your Dad threw the binmen a few quid at Christmas for a few pints.


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    #717
    branie2
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    blackbox wrote: »
    The Angelus on TV every evening at 6pm.







    OMG They still do it!

    Without the religious imagery, though


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    #718
    Purple Mountain
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    angel eyes 2012 wrote: »
    Getting a Telecom Eireann callcard with 50 units on it and feeling like a millionaire.

    Bins collected by the Council with no bin charges or limits on weight and your Dad threw the binmen a few quid at Christmas for a few pints.
    ..or strapped a naggin of whiskey to the bin.

    To thine own self be true



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    #719
    Sardonicat
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    angel eyes 2012 wrote: »
    Getting a Telecom Eireann callcard with 50 units on it and feeling like a millionaire.
    The heavy,clunking noise the phone made when you inserted the card


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    #720
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,118 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    A note from your granny to buy 20 Major cigarettes for her in the local shop

    These days Aldi would request ID from a 40 year old buying a bottle of wine !

    My son, when aged 12 was refused service in Aldi buying chocolate because I wasn't by his side! He had cash and I was within eye sight in the store.
    As an independent lad, he was offended. I wrote a complaint to customer service but they defended their policy.

    To thine own self be true



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    #721
    L1011
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    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    I wrote a complaint to customer service but they defended their policy.

    Aldis customer care will never, ever go against what a store manager has said/done/decided.

    If their store managers didn't include the occasional utter moron that might be a good thing (support your staff, etc) but as they do have said morons; and their customer care staff quote Scottish law (CS are in Scotland) or just make "laws" up whenever they want to its exceptionally useless.


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