Experiences and stuff that won't happen again....

Sgt Hartman

I used to love staying up late on a Friday night when the parents had gone to bed so I could catch something raunchy on Channel 4. RTE2 would also sometimes show a foreign art house movie late on a Friday eve where you'd be guaranteed to see a flash of tit or ass.

I also remember my neighbors using our landline phone in the spare room as we were one of the few people on the road who had a landline at the time. My Dad would charge my neighbors 10p per call so we had a giant jam jar full of the old 10p coins with the salmon of knowledge on them. In the same spare room I had my ancient Phillips tv with the 6 big buttons for RTE, BBC, ITV etc although I used it for my old grey box Nintendo NES.

Tabnabs

• Buying a cassette of a concert you had been to from a guy with a briefcase of them on O'Connell St bridge.
• Collecting stamps when you bought petrol or diesel and saving up for crappy mugs or a watch that had a radio in it.
• Crowds forming around the perimeter tape to see what was going on when a building in Dublin city centre was sealed off after a bomb threat.
• The excitement when someone brought home an Argos catalogue from a trip to Belfast.
• Road traffic reports being given by a guy in a helicopter over the city.
• Travellers cheques for your foreign holiday.

Adults flying kites in the local park.

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119855804#Comment_119855804

Communicating by letter with your school friends during summer holidays.

That's a good one.

I used work in England for the summer in my late school/early college days and we used to communicate with friends via letter.

Going back to the 70s my mother and her sister who lived 35 miles apart wrote to each other every day.

Dramatik

"The time in the slime" the clock they put in the river liffey, it lasted 3 days before it was taken out

RobbingBandit

obligatory post

The floozy in the jacuzzi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119856998#Comment_119856998

It was taken out 10 times to be cleaned. Was supposed to be self cleaning as well.

AndyBoBandy

Knocking on your friends door to see if they're coming out, with no prior arrangement or agreement in place to knock at that specific time!

Getting a McDonald's and it being a big deal

King Burger in the Ilac Centre, not to be confused with Burger King

Mary Dunne aka Dancing Mary who used to dance on O'Connell Street

DoozerT6

Tiger tokens at the Esso petrol station!

satguy

Getting a 10p piece for your pocket money when 10 Major was 11p,, you had to give the kid who stumped up the penny 3 cigs ... the bastard..

AMKC

Watching shows on the T.V and looking forward to the episode the next week then and then when a season ends waiting months for the next season to begin especially if you were left with a cliffhanger like say EG: "The Best Of Both Worlds" episode from Star Trek TNG.

Now It's nearly all shows and episodes dropping together on the net and binge watching.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854801#Comment_119854801

Every weekend in 4th class we had to write a summary of a news related story that occured over the weekend. I was lucky enough to have got a TV with teletext on it early on, I would pretty much just copy a story word for word off Aertel at 8.55pm of a Sunday, never was sussed out by anyone, how I loved that TV

Or maybe you were but maybe they just thought awe look he his at least doing the homework even its basically a copy from the teletext and not actually watching it.

They had enough to be doing without saying stop copying and start watching the news to you lol.

Rows over what ever was free in the corn flakes

bodhrandude

A Dub who became a Galwegian, if anyone was in Galway around the nineties, they will remember this legendary busker Robbie, the man with the Golden Voice. He also made a cameo in the Gabriel Byrne film The Courier. We'll never see his likes again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Droq8bn58

Andrewf20

Picking chewing gum off the pavement and eating it.

Trigger Happy

I once met a fella who was born in the 1880s and spoke no english...only Irish.

Goodigal

Sending home postcards from your holiyers!

Purple Mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119855980#Comment_119855980

I'm obviously only a nipper so 😆

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119855657#Comment_119855657

-Being in the sacristy alone with the local priest (nowhere safer than there..)

Well that really turned out to not be the case

Lewis_Benson

This thread makes me wish I could go back in time, simpler times.

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119857424#Comment_119857424

Remember being sent to buy 10 Gold Bond by my mam, they were 9 and a half p. Got to spend the ha'penny on ha'penny sweets.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119857837#Comment_119857837

John Hinde Photographer made an industry out of it. Millenials won't know who the hell I'm talking about.

Sweet Talkin Romeo

going down to t'pub to play the machines for 10p or a game of pool for 20p :(

Purple Mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119858658#Comment_119858658

Put on the juke box for me there while you're at it.

Sweet Talkin Romeo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119858742#Comment_119858742

yep, dat too ☺️ 10p a choone or 50p for 6 - for da richer folks! 😁

knucklehead6

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119858742#Comment_119858742

Once it wasn’t the album version of Insomnia

lo lo balls.

Collie Dollys

looksee

Gently pulling the scrambled tape out of the guts of a cassette player, then using a biro (one of the hexagonal ones) to rewind the cassette.

Having a land line that was a party line, especially when you didn't get on with the neighbour you were sharing with.

Replacing the elastic band that held the gear ball and socket together. (that car was driven for some 8 years with a supply of large rubber bands in the glove compartment ready to make the car driveable again)

Hotblack Desiato

'FOR REG'

Cars that looked like they were held together with rust and twine. Usually less than ten years old...

Brand new cars with no headrests or rear seat belts because they cost extra.

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119858925#Comment_119858925

And sticking the slip from the VLC to the windscreen so you didn't have to tax it for months.

The knack of inserting a two pin plug into a three pin socket, inserting it diagonally to open the slots and then swinging it down, mad.