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The 70's and 80's in Ireland
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JupiterKid wrote: »That’s fookin’ disgusting!!
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I know. We didn't know any better, pure kids messing. My mother always kept the house spotless, my sister's knew that if my mother found out what we were doing we were in for a leathering from the father. Tough times but we were never hungry and rarely sick.0 -
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Ok the 70s and 80s for me....
No seat belts in cars and even if you had them you prob didn't wear them.
Parents smoking in the car.
People driving with large amounts of alcohol in them.
Cars that broke down more often then you would have liked.
No showers. Mainly baths where the water was re-used for your siblings.
Furstenburg.
Holy hour 2.00 to 4.00 on a Sunday.
Dublin and Kerry football finals.
The fuel crisis.
Teachers beating the **** out of you with impunity.
Love in an elevator, picking me up when I'm going down....
The Troubles.
The Pope telling young people of Ireland I love you and not realising what that really meant.
No central heating. We had electric heaters in our bedrooms and our dad would have a conniption if you fell asleep and left it on by mistake.
Michael Jackson.
No sun holidays.
Lucinda Lusardi.
Emigration.
Eurovision success for Ireland.
Taking 5 hours to get to Kerry from the midlands. Probably about half that time now.
Friends coming back home from abroad telling you how well things were going for them.
...oh and Sam Fox.
All my lecherous thoughts about Sam Fox became zero on the International Impure Thoughts Scale when it was revealed that she was actually a lezzer! 0 -
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This is such a blast from the past thread!
I was born in 74 so remember a good bit from round about that time...
From school days, I remember we used to play in the ditches, wherever there was a gap. We had jam jars for cups and used to have ‘tea’
There was some sort of concrete slab in the school grounds (probably a cover for the septic tank, I don’t know!), but when the weather was hot, we used to ‘draw’ on it with a blade of grass using water! I can still visualise it even now!
Also, in school I remember the milkman bringing us a small carton of milk everyday. Still love milk, no wonder I’ve never broken a bone in my life!
Also, I remember we had to bring a shoe bag with shoes to wear in class - I can still see the row of hooks that we used to hang them up on!
And roll call - they would call out your name, and you’d reply ‘Anseo’...
Oh, and nature walks - coming back from them and putting whatever leaves you found etc under a piece of paper and rubbing a pencil over them to get an impression of the leaf or whatever!
Being allowed to clean the blackboard is something that sticks out for me too - such satisfaction!
Fancy paper and smelly rubbers - dear god I was addicted! Used to have a set of notelets and envelopes with that character with a tear on her face... Pierre? Can’t remember it, damn!
Back to home life, I remember my dads cars so well - a navy Ford Escort, a Fiat Ritmo. I loved that Escort, there was a picture of me sitting up on the bonnet when I was a nipper and sadly it must’ve got lost over the years- I’d love to have it now.
There was trips to the pub too I remember... my dad used to bring me after mass. Taytos and Coke, and the barwoman, Helen, used to always have lollipops for me. I can still see the small Formica topped tables and the stools with red ‘leather’ covering with the stuffing falling out at a bit at the corners.
Perms.... they were such a thing! Shaggy perms! I got a perm for my confirmation and it wasn’t shaggy -it was hideous! Between that and the outfit that we went up to Dublin for specially, and my Deirdre Barlow specs!
Earrings were huge, I remember my aunt had the most amazing earrings and she had a sort of homemade rack for them... loads of them! Got quite mad at her one night and told her I hated her because of it!
My granny’s house is probably what I best remember from that time... the range, the outdoor toilet (when I was there at night, I was too scared to go there, so I used to pee under a mat in the hall!), her making cakes or bread and flour everywhere and licking the wooden spoon! She had a fireplace in her bedroom and I used to go in there every night and put on her orange and white record player and pull out the threads from her candle wick bedspread!
TV was great too, used to love ALF and fondly remember watching All Creatures Great and Small. The Cosby Show was great, Sapphire and Steel is another one. Someone mentioned Hammer House earlier and there’s one scene where there was blood seeping out from the walls in one episode, don’t know what episode it was but would love to watch it again now. Fortycoats ( where I got my username!)
Getting fags for free off a friend who’s dad used to own a pub... and smoking them (and near throwing up) under a chestnut tree in a field near our house! Rothmans!
TLDR- I liked that era! 1 -
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This is such a blast from the past thread!
I was born in 74 so remember a good bit from round about that time...
From school days, I remember we used to play in the ditches, wherever there was a gap. We had jam jars for cups and used to have ‘tea’
There was some sort of concrete slab in the school grounds (probably a cover for the septic tank, I don’t know!), but when the weather was hot, we used to ‘draw’ on it with a blade of grass using water! I can still visualise it even now!
Also, in school I remember the milkman bringing us a small carton of milk everyday. Still love milk, no wonder I’ve never broken a bone in my life!
Also, I remember we had to bring a shoe bag with shoes to wear in class - I can still see the row of hooks that we used to hang them up on!
And roll call - they would call out your name, and you’d reply ‘Anseo’...
Oh, and nature walks - coming back from them and putting whatever leaves you found etc under a piece of paper and rubbing a pencil over them to get an impression of the leaf or whatever!
Being allowed to clean the blackboard is something that sticks out for me too - such satisfaction!
Fancy paper and smelly rubbers - dear god I was addicted! Used to have a set of notelets and envelopes with that character with a tear on her face... Pierre? Can’t remember it, damn!
Back to home life, I remember my dads cars so well - a navy Ford Escort, a Fiat Ritmo. I loved that Escort, there was a picture of me sitting up on the bonnet when I was a nipper and sadly it must’ve got lost over the years- I’d love to have it now.
There was trips to the pub too I remember... my dad used to bring me after mass. Taytos and Coke, and the barwoman, Helen, used to always have lollipops for me. I can still see the small Formica topped tables and the stools with red ‘leather’ covering with the stuffing falling out at a bit at the corners.
Perms.... they were such a thing! Shaggy perms! I got a perm for my confirmation and it wasn’t shaggy -it was hideous! Between that and the outfit that we went up to Dublin for specially, and my Deirdre Barlow specs!
Earrings were huge, I remember my aunt had the most amazing earrings and she had a sort of homemade rack for them... loads of them! Got quite mad at her one night and told her I hated her because of it!
My granny’s house is probably what I best remember from that time... the range, the outdoor toilet (when I was there at night, I was too scared to go there, so I used to pee under a mat in the hall!), her making cakes or bread and flour everywhere and licking the wooden spoon! She had a fireplace in her bedroom and I used to go in there every night and put on her orange and white record player and pull out the threads from her candle wick bedspread!
TV was great too, used to love ALF and fondly remember watching All Creatures Great and Small. The Cosby Show was great, Sapphire and Steel is another one. Someone mentioned Hammer House earlier and there’s one scene where there was blood seeping out from the walls in one episode, don’t know what episode it was but would love to watch it again now. Fortycoats ( where I got my username!)
Getting fags for free off a friend who’s dad used to own a pub... and smoking them (and near throwing up) under a chestnut tree in a field near our house! Rothmans!
TLDR- I liked that era!
Great memories in that post and a lot I can relate to especially the type of pub tables it’s amazing the little things that bring back great memories0 -
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I forgot another one... my idol back then was Madonna... I used to buy Smash Hits and all them magazines at the time...
sometimes they had a big poster freebie in the mag.. but twirlagig wasn’t allowed to put up posters on her wall so instead I kept them all and attached them to rolls of wallpaper!
So yes, I actually did carry a roll of wallpaper to school several times and rolled them out for all to see! Gas when you look back on it
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NasserShammaz wrote: »
Never had it in our house but a friend used to... I couldn’t stop myself picking it! Like spots, I guess... you know you shouldn’t but you can’t stop yourself! 0
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