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    #962
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,687 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Using Aertel to check to see if I won anything on me prize bonds!


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    #963
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    branie2 wrote: »
    The original Battlestar Galactica

    Used to watch this when I got back from school as a form of escapism ...


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    #964
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Budget Travel holiday brochures


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    #965
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Vita nova wrote: »
    Having to clean dead insects off a windscreen after or during a long drive. That was common when I started to drive over 30 years ago but nowadays I rarely see a large number of dead insects on the windscreen.

    I only realised it recently after I heard mention of the 'windscreen phenomenon' on TV. It's related to a decline in the population of insects due to human activity.
    Or screen wash instead of plain water and the absence of dry warm weather


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    #966
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,170 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Tamagotchis


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    #967
    The Belly
    Registered Users Posts: 572 ✭✭✭The Belly


    Blue skies package holidays until they went wallop


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    #968
    jelem
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭jelem


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    You can't fix stupid. I suppose cancer is "fake news" these days.
    cancer from smoking is deemed by scientific research to be one of the lesser cancers.
    i can recall figure about 23% of cancers.
    it seems stomach and skin along with "chemical\pollution\ lifestyle" are more prominant.
    was a good Scare tactic to hide the fact cars and factories caused more harm.


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    #969
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,767 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Glue sniffing.


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    #970
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,746 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Vita nova wrote: »
    It was very effective at removing stains from clothes. I can still remember my mother lamenting that the old version was no longer for sale. I also remember that it contained the same solvent as the old version of Tippex, namely 1,1,1 trichloroethane, which kids used to sniff before the makers of Tippex changed the formulation.

    .
    Dab it off contained carbon tetrachloride but you can't have it these days because it destroys your liver and nervous system.


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    #971
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,120 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    The blue and yellow punt to euro calculators.


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    #972
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,481 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    spurious wrote: »
    The blue and yellow punt to euro calculators.

    (missing) Iodine tablets


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    #973
    Big Back Clock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31 ✭Big Back Clock


    Sneaking upto the room in the house the “computer” was in, with the dial up internet, making sure no one was around.

    The boyhood mischief, getting up the WWF Divas website and watching their videos and photos. The danger of your ma walking in all added to it.


    Bliss.


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    #974
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Microsoft Encarta


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    #975
    Mr Meanor
    Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    Actually building your computer (ZX80)


    file.php?id=7218&sid=ea55c25c91c6e32e9fc4d84aaeb08a56&mode=view


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    #976
    carbsy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭carbsy


    Making your own fizzy drinks with Soda Stream.


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    #977
    carbsy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭carbsy


    Typing in endless hours of code from VIC20 magazine just to see a stick man move across the screen.


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    #978
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Dab it off contained carbon tetrachloride but you can't have it these days because it destroys your liver and nervous system.

    There was definitely a version of Dabitoff or maybe a period when it contained 1,1,1 trichloroethane because I remember noticing (~80s) that it was the same solvent as in Tippex. I think carbon tetrachloride may have been in an earlier version because it was banned for certain applications before 1,1,1 trichloroethane.


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    #979
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Tea in a bottle for babies.


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    #980
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Tea in a bottle for babies.

    Gripe water.


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    #981
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,730 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Gripe water.

    Still being used to this day


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    #982
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,730 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    carbsy wrote: »
    Making your own fizzy drinks with Soda Stream.

    Still use my soda stream, although it’s the more modern version


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    #983
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    And before Soda Stream there was this.

    5668786.jpg?display=1&htype=0&type=responsive-gallery

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



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    #984
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Still being used to this day

    I thought it was banned?


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    #985
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    2296799-hot88.jpg


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    #986
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    I thought it was banned?

    I think they just removed the alcohol we all grew up with!

    So now it's Alcohol Free Gripe Water, or Zero Percent Gripe Water.

    Don't think you can get the hard stuff any longer.


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    #987
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Alcoholic babies :pac:


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    #988
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,379 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    They'll, the lucky ones, only be 9 or so now and older kids hopefully won't remember. But Roy Hodgson as a liverpool manager :(


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    #989
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Speedsie wrote: »
    I think they just removed the alcohol we all grew up with!

    So now it's Alcohol Free Gripe Water, or Zero Percent Gripe Water.

    Don't think you can get the hard stuff any longer.

    Does it do any good now?


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    #990
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Can we ever forget this from 2009, Pat Kenny gets a nice shake down on live TV.

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



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    #991
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,896 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Can we ever forget this from 2009, Pat Kenny gets a nice shake down on live TV.


    Yer mans as mad as a box of frogs, friend working in call centre says he used to regularly ring them.


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