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Ever ask for something incredibly old fashioned and obsolete in a shop?

  • 11-02-2020 10:17PM
    #1
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭


    Years ago my granddad told me you could buy the little rubber tube that sits over a bicycle tyre valve separately, rather than buying a whole new valve. Of course I was told they didn't have them since back in the day (i suspect you can probably buy them again now with all the Greta stuff happening now)


    Another time I tried to buy a blade for a really long bushman saw and I was told to "go for an easier life" :D



    If only I could record it covertly I'd go into the local co op and ask some young lad/wan who is just after starting for a well chain


    "Ya know the chain for lifting the wooden bucket out of the well?"


    "You don't? ahh you must be using a rope at your gaff so. An auld hemp rope will do if you have one"


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  • #2
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,513 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    A sheath


  • #3
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,450 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    You can still get those valve rubbers in puncture repair kits

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #4
    ab4248
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭ab4248


    Class reunion a couple of years back. Few of us went to pub after and said we’d chip in for 10 Carrolls like the old days. The barman had a right laugh at us. Took us a while to figure it out


  • #5
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,800 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    I asked for mouse flavoured cat food in Tesco once, many years ago, the girl went looking for it too.

    Alas, she couldn't find any.


  • #6
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    Draught excluder. You used to see them all over the place in the 80s and 90s, different designs like ones that’s looked like dogs or whatever.

    Recently went to a number of shops and could not find one for love or money.


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  • #7
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    A sheath

    Is that like a Geronimo?


  • #8
    Rodin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    Good service...

    A relic of the past.


  • #9
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    A number plate light assembly for a Fiat Panda.


  • #10
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    No, but I once had to wait, far longer than I’d have liked, behind a woman who was asking for a “Raider” bar.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #11
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    When I was a teenager and e-commerce wasn't yet a taken for granted thing, a compilation of prehistoric songs for my dad who was born in 1946, which I know is old, but it's also the same age as (and younger than) the most pioneering musicians and artists of the 60s/70s, and his tastes are actually like those of someone 20 years older. The poor young lad in Golden Discs was stumped.


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  • #12
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Recently ....a Scart lead.


  • #13
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Borax, and suet?


  • #14
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    Draught excluder. You used to see them all over the place in the 80s and 90s, different designs like ones that’s looked like dogs or whatever.

    Recently went to a number of shops and could not find one for love or money.

    was looking for a scissors yesterday - might as well have been looking for a unicorn. But saw draft excluders in Home Store, Woodies and Harvey Norman - of all places. Harvey Normans had saussage dogs on them - was tempted!!!

    spent a considerable amount of time looking fir a spool of navy thread to sew on work shirt buttons last summer - apparently buttonless shirts are now disposable items - thread as rare as winning lotto numbers - lots of rumours and I heard of a man who knew someone who saw it in x place . but no substance


  • #15
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    I asked one of the staff in Lifestyle for a pair of indoor non marking runners for sports once.
    He'd no idea and suggested I try a sports store...



    Style, streetware /athleisurewear has taken over it seems and real sports gear shops are gone.


  • #16
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    JustAThought wrote: »
    was looking for a scissors yesterday - might as well have been looking for a unicorn. But saw draft excluders in Home Store, Woodies and Harvey Norman - of all places. Harvey Normans had saussage dogs on them - was tempted!!!

    Be down to Harvey Norman tomorrow! You are a golden god, may you live to be a thousand years old.


  • #17
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,713 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    Recently ....a Scart lead.

    I threw one away yesterday - its somewhere in an almost full skip...


  • #18
    Ladybird18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Ladybird18


    Tights in a local shop. You would swear I had asked for heroin.


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    Draught excluder. You used to see them all over the place in the 80s and 90s, different designs like ones that’s looked like dogs or whatever.

    Recently went to a number of shops and could not find one for love or money.

    I actually saw some in the front window of Guineys on Talbot street around Christmas time.


  • #20
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,722 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    A coal scuttle...literally looked at me like I had two heads. I was in a big hardware store btw not topman.

    Oh and Milton the disinfectant...no clue


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,583 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    I asked one of the staff in Lifestyle for a pair of indoor non marking runners for sports once.
    He'd no idea and suggested I try a sports store...



    Style, streetware /athleisurewear has taken over it seems and real sports gear shops are gone.

    Yep, try getting a pair of size 13 runners in any of them, not a hope in hell.


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  • #22
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,423 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    A bottle of 'Clinic' Shampoo. blank expression.


  • #23
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Your Face wrote: »
    A number plate light assembly for a Fiat Panda.
    Sounds like a fair swap.


  • #24
    un5byh7sqpd2x0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭un5byh7sqpd2x0


    Ladybird18 wrote: »
    Tights in a local shop. You would swear I had asked for heroin.

    It was a men’s clothes shop wasn’t it?


  • #25
    careless sherpa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭careless sherpa


    JustAThought wrote: »
    was looking for a scissors yesterday - might as well have been looking for a unicorn. But saw draft excluders in Home Store, Woodies and Harvey Norman - of all places. Harvey Normans had saussage dogs on them - was tempted!!!

    spent a considerable amount of time looking fir a spool of navy thread to sew on work shirt buttons last summer - apparently buttonless shirts are now disposable items - thread as rare as winning lotto numbers - lots of rumours and I heard of a man who knew someone who saw it in x place . but no substance

    There was a haberdashery out in donabate would sort you out


  • #26
    sondagefaux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭sondagefaux


    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    Draught excluder. You used to see them all over the place in the 80s and 90s, different designs like ones that’s looked like dogs or whatever.

    Recently went to a number of shops and could not find one for love or money.

    They have them in Aldi at the moment.


  • #27
    lucalux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭lucalux


    gmisk wrote: »
    A coal scuttle...literally looked at me like I had two heads. I was in a big hardware store btw not topman.

    Oh and Milton the disinfectant...no clue

    Coal scuttles, I can only imagine they live in houses where the heating is a switch on the wall:)

    As to Milton, I buy the Lidl or Aldi own brand one, the Aldi one is in a blue bottle (Mamia is the name), regular stock items!


  • #28
    Ladybird18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Ladybird18


    Ryan Strong Sundae wrote: »
    It was a men’s clothes shop wasn’t it?

    No! And I know they aren't sexy but I needed them for an interview asap due to a ladder :(


  • #29
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Ladybird18 wrote: »
    No! And I know they aren't sexy but I needed them for an interview asap due to a ladder :(

    For a ladder ? Was it an interview for the Fire Brigade?


  • #30
    Ladybird18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Ladybird18


    corner of hells wrote: »
    For a ladder ? Was it an interview for the Fire Brigade?

    No but I do recall they said I was hot.








    Getting coat :p


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,009 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I asked in a pharmacy for Vicks Throat Drops, and then mused "They probably don't make those anymore, do they?" to be told "Not in about 20 years, no."


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