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Simple things you don't see anymore

  • 30-06-2016 03:49AM
    #1
    pushkii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭


    Glow in the dark stickers


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  • #2
    DontThankMe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭DontThankMe


    A united Europe


  • #3
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭sabat


    Beaded things on car seats


  • #4
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Happy-go-lucky singing chimney sweeps.


  • #5
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Bucktoothed simpletons with eyebrows on their cheeks


  • #6
    neutrino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭neutrino


    Wire coathanger car aerials.

    Drivers behind politely waiting as two cars come to a stop on a country road to have a chat.


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  • #7
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    neutrino wrote: »
    Wire coathanger car aerials.

    Drivers behind politely waiting as two cars come to a stop on a country road to have a chat.
    Politely seething with rage


  • #8
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    People Queuing correctly.


  • #9
    Beta Ray Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭Beta Ray Bill


    Red Arse Bees


  • #10
    pushkii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭pushkii


    Penny sweets that you could count out yourself


  • #11
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Kellogg's Cornflakes bike reflectors.

    Pogs.

    Fila jackets and Xworx jeans.

    Smash Hits magazine.

    Various other things you remember fondly from your childhood that I could easily find by googling "'90s nostalgia.'"


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  • #12
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    USSR


  • #13
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    White dog crap


  • #14
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    Nostalgia threads


  • #15
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Hair.


  • #16
    dan1895
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    NAFF Co 54


  • #17
    CarrickMcJoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    The leather strap in school.

    Kids climbing trees.

    Spangle sweets.


  • #18
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,560 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    Jumpers for goal-posts.

    Keys left in doors / on a string in the letterbox.

    Making go-karts out of lumps of wood and pram wheels.

    Honda 50s


  • #19
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Kids outside playing


  • #20
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    Those little round red insects that you see on bright surface. We use to call them blooksuckers.

    Hopscotch numbered spaces drawn in chalk on the path.

    Hulahoops


  • #21
    stampydmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    That little nightmare inducing cnut called Bosco


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  • #22
    tupenny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭tupenny


    Glass milk bottles


  • #23
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    That yoke you stuck between the spokes of your bike wheels to make the motorbike noise (that actually sounded nothing like a motorbike but my God you were sh1t cool if you had one of them!)


  • #24
    fatknacker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    Penny Farthings, chainmail, bubonic plague, Tasmanian Tiger, Nelson's Pillar, feathered quill pens, Spearmint Woppas.


  • #25
    Ronald Wilson Reagan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 282 ✭✭Ronald Wilson Reagan


    Hairy mollies


  • #26
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,691 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Those breath strips that Listerine made that you put on your tongue.

    Chimney sweeps

    Lads renting videos from their car boot

    Stinger bars

    Tuthills

    Live @ 3

    Those key rings that had plastic versions of banknotes on them


  • #27
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    faceman wrote: »
    Stinger bars

    You can still get them :)


  • #28
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    These things on the back of cars.


    Back in the 80s, I thought every car had them.
    I used to draw car pics with them on always!


  • #29
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,162 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Olishi4 wrote: »

    Hopscotch numbered spaces drawn in chalk on the path.

    Still see them in my neck of the woods.


  • #30
    racso1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭racso1975


    Smiley bars


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  • #31
    Belfunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭Belfunk


    Foil milk bottle tops


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