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Simple things you don't see anymore

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  • #32
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,423 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    jamesbere wrote: »
    USSR
    CCCP
    Ronald Wilson Reagan wrote: »
    Hairy mollies
    I think that's because nowadays, we don't tend to hang out in the same places as hairy mollies. I know that personally, I'm not as close to the ground as I used to be.




    [Somebody who worked with me for years used always referred to his wife as 'The Hairy Molly'. Once, they were out at the races or something similar when they met the managing director of the place we work. Even then, he introduced his wife as 'The Hairy Molly'. :D )


  • #33
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,024 ✭✭✭✭irishgeo


    People talking to each other on public transport. Everyone stuck looking at a smartphone.


  • #34
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Jumpers for goalposts


  • #35
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,691 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    kfallon wrote: »
    You can still get them :)

    Ah but the current ones don't have the banned E123 ingredient! ;)


  • #36
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    Black football boots


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  • #37
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    irishgeo wrote: »
    People talking to each other on public transport. Everyone stuck looking at a smartphone.

    I don't miss this to be honest - I attracted a lot of weirdos on Bus Eireann, or maybe it was just me....


  • #38
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Football jerseys that weren't just Nike Template A in Red, Adidas Template B in Yellow.

    Liverpool had some mad ones in the 90s, that green and white box one is a classic.


    Cotton rugby jerseys, though this is a good thing, the jersey would get stretched from lads hanging off it trying to tackle you so by the end of the season it would look like a gúna deasa.


  • #39
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Lolo balls.

    People using the orange plastic wrap from Lucozade bottles on their headlights during foggy weather.


  • #40
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,037 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    neutrino wrote: »

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

    This is still a regular occurrence where I live.
    Now if it's a choice between city traffic stuck nose to tail or 2 lads stopping to gossip about the neighbours the odd time, I will happily go with the rural option.


  • #41
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    Indicators.


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  • #42
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Hellen Keller


  • #43
    Lt Dan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    HensVassal wrote: »
    Black football boots

    I remember the first time I say a footballer wearing white boots. It was the 1994 (or 1995) Champions League Final AC Milan player wearing them. Johnny Giles thought he was hilarious suggesting to Bill that the player (who was rubbish btw) had just made his First Communion


  • #44
    Agent Smyth
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    The Sony Walkman and the C90 Cassette.


  • #45
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    maudgonner wrote: »
    Lolo balls.

    People using the orange plastic wrap from Lucozade bottles on their headlights during foggy weather.

    You cans till buy Lolo balls, saw them in Debenhams yesterday. I got one for my 8th birthday, in 1987. When you got bored you could take the ball out and play football with it, made for an interesting game.


  • #46
    Speedsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,366 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    faceman wrote: »

    Tuthills

    Tuthill's, the newsagent? Plenty of them still around.


  • #47
    Lt Dan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    Smoking on Trains and even buses

    Alter boys (and ghastly , alter girls ) - It is getting rare for obvious reasons

    Push Pops & High Sours

    Combat Jeans / Chords

    Emos (thank God - kill them, kill them all)

    Walkmans & Discmans

    Video tapes, audio tapes, and even CD's

    Illegally recording songs off a radio onto a tape (and getting bits from the dopey DJ)

    2FM - When it was a decent radio station

    Monday Night TV - When RTE 2 made an effort to put good tv shows on - Fr Ted, Don't Feed The Gondolas/The Panel (when it was decent) etc

    When men were men, and "wimen" knew their place.

    Lynx having more than just Africa (Appollo etc)

    When Music was actually decent and bar Madonna, most had to keep their clothes on


  • #48
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Getting a wafer in a shop.


  • #49
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    12 year olds having to iron their hair


  • #50
    Lt Dan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Getting a wafer in a shop.

    I always thought that was what poor people got , and could not afford the real deal like a 99 cone , with , a flake


  • #51
    Fluffy Cat 88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭Fluffy Cat 88


    Red numberplates on cars.

    Fizz bombs.

    Outside toilets.

    Groups of people smoking indoors.

    Snow washed denim.

    Cassette tapes and floppy disks.

    Dr scholls sandals.

    Cutex nail varnish.

    Once shampoo and little sachets of shampoo.

    Dairybawn milk (powdered milk you mixed with water - horrible stuff).

    Glints hair dye.

    Irish punts.


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  • #52
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Lt Dan wrote: »
    I always thought that was what poor people got , and could not afford the real deal like a 99 cone , with , a flake

    More ice cream in it and no yucky chocolate stuck in it. Wafers are what the smart people get.


  • #53
    Lt Dan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    More ice cream in it and no yucky chocolate stuck in it. Wafers are what the smart people get.

    It that what mammy use to say to you? :D

    A block/slab of ice cream half frozen to within an inch of it's life (though HB was awesome after din dins )

    vs

    Creamy, whipped, smooth ice cream from the machine. Throw on some syrup or sprinkles.


  • #54
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Skinheads.
    Buying single ciggerettes.
    kids with measles.


  • #55
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Phone booths

    Casette tape players

    Soda Stream

    Cans and bottles with deposits returned (precursor to recycling)

    Internet dialup

    Ceefax old school


  • #56
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    12 year olds having to iron their hair

    Was this in the Magdalene laundries or what?


  • #57
    Lt Dan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    Phone booths

    Casette tape players

    Soda Stream

    Cans and bottles with deposits returned (precursor to recycling)

    Internet dialup

    Ceefax old school

    Channel 4 Teletext / ceefax had a fun set of games , that made use of the green , red and yellow coloured buttons on the remote. Buzz something or other. BBC football page 302

    Phone Booths on Sunday morning, a mess .


    Call Cards as collectibles


  • #58
    weatfest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭weatfest


    Static straps hanging off the mud flaps on cars.


  • #59
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Children smoking in cars


  • #60
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    Men smoking pipes , 8 track players ,kid s carrying boomboxs ,
    women wearing scarves , people wearing combat style jackets,
    programs on rte presented by priests ,
    Priests used to make programs on religion,
    pop quiz type programs on rte tv.
    56k modems,cds with internet acess on them,aol type cdroms .
    100 free hours of internet ,printed fanzines made by amateurs ,vhs tapes for rent.Skinhead kids .
    Men selling pirated dvds on the street .pubs with no tvs,
    There seem to be large tvs in every pub now .Famous actresses having a nude pinup in playboy.
    now they just post nude pics on instragram.
    When an actress needed money, was no longer a big star,
    she would do a playboy shoot.
    Games on cdrom, games would come on 4 cdroms for pc.before dvdrives
    were standard .
    Emos have been replaced by hipsters .
    cartidge games for rent,
    now every game is on dvd or blueray.
    pirate console games on cd.
    Alot of people used to copy ps2 ,dreamcast games .
    its not worth copying games anymore
    You can buy an xbox game for 7 euro in cex.


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  • #61
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    these yokes


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