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

Count Dracula

With succinct and definitive regularity successfully masturbating five times a day to the cocktail dress wearing hostesses highlighting the showcase prizes on repeated classic American gameshow The Price is Right shown on Super channel in the 1980's and using the same t-shirt for wiping.

The truth is out there.

MacDanger

TV goes fuzzy

*bangs on the side of TV

TV returns

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119864195#Comment_119864195

5 times? Light weight.

Dodging paying bus conductor as school boy. With preserved ticket. More money for sweets.

cuttingtimber22

Running a business aged 10 washing cars and cutting the grass.

working as a lounge boy on mid week nights during the school year.

‘graduating’ from Wesley to Bective discos.

going to the rainbow rapids. Plus the warning from the parents that someone lost their finger on the slides.

Whole family watching Glenroe on a Sunday night which followed ‘Where in the World’.

Watching John Treacy win his silver medal at the 1984 LA Olympics.

everyone out playing tennis during Wimbledon. Three weeks later we were out on the bikes when the tour de france kicked off.

collecting tokens on corn flake boxes for a Big Mac.

gormdubhgorm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119864195#Comment_119864195

The efforts of teenage boys to ‘survive puberty’. Will never again have to be so creative and such efforts easily ruined.

Teenagers used to have to be constantly alert for ‘opportunity’.

For example that picture in the Corr’s album which conveniently could be folded leaving out ‘Jim Corr’ and just left the three Corr sisters.

There was technology there, but it was rudimentary. Which meant if you recorded Baywatch and paused it on video. The viewer suddenly becomes unsure, it could be an accidental female nipple? As when paused the screen view shakes, lines appeared on the screen.

The same thing happened with ‘the good bit’ in ‘Basic Instinct’.

So alternatives had to be found. Channel 4 late night European films, which had the added bonus of improving that Junior Cert French as well.

Effort had to be put in. It was a waiting game you would not be foolish enough to just blindly trust that video timer to record.

But of course all those efforts could be reversed if someone recorded over your enterprise with ‘Glenroe’ followed by ‘the Sunday Game’.

Such a trauma would likely occur while you were upstairs doing homework (you nearly forgot to do because of that Channel 4 French Film the previous day.)

sydthebeat

Collecting vouchers from Weetabix boxes to post off and receive a cassette of an abridged "now that's what I call music 4"

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854590#Comment_119854590

Checking scores on teletext.

Aertel page 220 for the soccer news and page 221 for the 'cross-channel fixtures'.

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119864225#Comment_119864225

Those are rookie numbers. Gotta get those numbers up!

My friend had Sky, back when no one had Sky, and we'd watch the 900 channels of simulated soft-core porn.

Padre_Pio

Dad would check his shares every day on Aertel and give out when they were down.

Ger Roe

Setting up pirate radio stations in various locations all over Dublin and being able to operate 24hrs a day, 7 days a week..... on Medium Wave and VHF ..... in Stereo!

Making model buildings and vehicles out of cereal box cardboard, and not 3d printed No need for any 3d printer filament. Make a model road for your trainset out of cardboard. Paint the cardboard.

Drumpot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119864868#Comment_119864868

Collecting tokens on the back of the cornflakes boxes to get The plastic boat you put together and if you put soda powder in it , it floated up and down (or something like that).

retalivity

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119864245#Comment_119864245

I was sure that Where in the World was on before Glenroe.

Dramatik

Actually having to get up off your seat and physically press a button on the tv set itself to change channels, as remotes didn't exist.

The back two rows of seats on the upstairs of the bus would constantly be missing and just the metal seat frame left in place.

If you gave a seat on either the bus or dart a good old wallop, it would send a huge cloud of dust into the air and have everyone running for cover.

And finally who could forget the City Gimp busses, with seats that were physically impossible for anyone over four foot tall to fit into.

Fantasizing about the mansion you were going to buy yourself in a few years, when your collection of 50p millennium coins suddenly became the most sought after coins on earth.

odyssey06

Watching Euro 88 on a black and white TV and trying to figure out teams :)

cuttingtimber22

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119865087#Comment_119865087

I thought I had said that. Glenroe followed ‘Where in the World’.

Drumpot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119865189#Comment_119865189

Where in the world theme always triggers anxiety and disappointment in me as that was always officially the end of the weekend on Sunday night with a week of poxy, mind numbingly boring school and week ahead!

Circling the toys in the Argos book you wanted from Santa

As a teenager watching at all hours of the night the sky soft core channels.

Gorteen

Had organised a group cycling tour in Europe last year. All arrangements (chosen routes, accommodation, contact details for things along the way, etc) on mobile phone and decided not to bother bringing 'paper backup'... Sure, What could possibly go wrong????

Phone got soaked and refused to work. Whilst we all survived, it was nothing short of a f**king nightmare!!!

I'll never be caught like that again!!!

cuttingtimber22

When Christmas Day actually meant new movies.

When Christmas specials were actually special.

when we had normal temperatures.

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119863724#Comment_119863724

Your father roaring at you from the passenger seat! 😂

tayto lover

A big lace in the leather football you played with.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119865118#Comment_119865118

City gimp! Forgot about that I believe I got the 55 (or was it the 155 at that stage). Mad yokes. Sitting at at the back was for the brave.

Bendy buses are a bit more modern but were like sieves when it rained.

gameoverdude

I called them whips, but the metre long strawberry sweets. Magical things. Went well with dip dabs and big Mr freeze.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119864245#Comment_119864245

Brilliant with the sports events.

Trying to recreate Ronnie's and Houghtons goals in 88.

Curbs and boxes as well! Jaysus I'd love a good game of them.

Speaking of the cycling. M50 being built and taking a ride on in it. So smooth.

cuttingtimber22

That’s gas about the M50, the Blackrock bypass was our playground.

curbs was a blast from the past - deep in the memory.

retalivity

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119865189#Comment_119865189

Ah, so you did, i read it wrong.

Getting a Cyril the squirrel savings card from the post office and filling it with acorn stamps. Using said cards to save for games or toys.

Kids nowadays get revolut jr or mammy and daddys cards and whatever they want..

018118055

Licking the back of your hand and then pressing your freshly printed bus ticket from the bus conductor over it and pressing down with your other hand for 10 seconds or so - instant blue tattoo of a mirror image bus ticket