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    #242
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭COVID


    Green Shield Stamps


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    #243
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Butter vouchers. Using butter vouches to buy fags.


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    #244
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Cigarette Cards

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #245
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,497 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    TAX IN POST written on a piece of cardboard in a car window

    ...for two years :D post was very slow.


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    #246
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭COVID


    Fake cigarettes that kids could eat!


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    #247
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Penny Chews, inflation marked their cards.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #248
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    Bus conductors

    Bus conductors giving you the unused bus rolls from ticket machine

    Ha'penny sweets


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    #249
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Cigarette coupons - save 5 million and you to can be the proud owner of ...........

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #250
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,557 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    H Williams supermarket.


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    #251
    filbert the fox
    Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    Gob stoppers - Lethal!!!


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    #252
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    White dog sh*te


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    #253
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    TAX IN POST written on a piece of cardboard in a car window
    Some chanced a Guinness beer mat in the hope that the Garda would wave you on as you approached the checkpoint


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    #254
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,866 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    When a man in a dress was a panto dame.


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    #255
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    When a man in a dress was a panto dame.

    OH NO SHE ISN'T!

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #256
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,679 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    drake70 wrote: »
    Dial-up internet access :eek:

    Wankin to magazines


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    #257
    JimmyVik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    Anaseed balls


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    #258
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,679 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    MikeOxsgreen wrote: »
    Little did we think, in the future the noodi ladies would just be there in an instant . Not arriving pixilated line by pixilated line, until 3 mins later you had your image, only to find out in the last few lines, she had a willy.

    Saw a great one.
    The Crying Game.
    It was brilliant!
    There was this girl,
    then you find out it's really a man!
    They got his lad out.


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    #259
    AndrewJRenko
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    Floppybits wrote: »
    Ah but they are missing out on the suspense. :)
    But you didn't miss out on the suspenders.

    Snorkel jacket anoraks for the lads and see through plastic raincoats for the lassies.


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    #260
    whysobecause
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 61 ✭✭whysobecause


    Ekerot wrote: »
    Corporal Punishment

    It only toughen us up.


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    #261
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,866 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    whysobecause wrote: »
    It only toughen us up.

    A grown adult hitting a child is such a scummy thing to do.


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    #262
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,679 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    A grown adult hitting a child is such a scummy thing to do.

    A lot of small bitter little people involved in teaching back then.


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    #263
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Having to wire a 13 amp plug on every new electrical appliance you bought and having to decide which appliance you use the least to "borrow" a plug from.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #264
    [Deleted User]
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    I used to love the "THIS XMAS ON BBC1" ads in the 80's. Educating Rita, Tootsie, Dusty bin, and school in December was amazing, spraying that fake snow over stencils on the single pane windows and making **** on the art tables!!

    1982,83 &84 were great in my house til the old man got laid off..a decade of misery and alcoholism followed!!

    but that's my journey!! :D


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    #265
    CoBo55
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    The Continental Op wrote: »
    Having to wire a 13 amp plug on every new electrical appliance you bought and having to decide which appliance you use the least to "borrow" a plug from.

    Wasn't that unbelievable, it was with everything. I remember the mother buying a toaster on the never never on the esb bill, remember that!! and miss grouchy behind the counter grunting they had no plugs... Weren't we some fools to be putting up with that crap.


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    #266
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,850 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Waiting 3 years to get a phone in the house and all the neighbours using it.


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    #267
    Mrcaramelchoc
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    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    My wife's friends 13 year old daughter doesn't know how to turn on an oven or butter bread. I do blame the (single) mother but I fear there is a generation coming up that don't have basic skills in self sufficiency. They are more concerned with men having periods

    You've based this all on one child. That's interesting.

    Building a ramp to jump over your other friends on your bike.


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    #268
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,850 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Getting a colour TV.


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    #269
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,679 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Getting a colour TV.

    Renting it


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    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,850 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Renting it

    And watching the man setting it up to get a coloured snow picture instead of a black and white snow picture:D


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    #271
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,679 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    And watching the man setting it up to get a coloured snow picture instead of a black and white snow picture:D

    There was a guy used come collect the rent in cash and also a door to door life insurance guy walking around with bags of cash.

    My friend still had one for years after in her sitting room. After a while the TV guy just stopped coming round looking for rent


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