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Back in my day...

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  • #2
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,590 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    iamstop wrote: »
    ... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
    Windows closed and windows open.

    That you opened with a handle.*



    *winder or whatever you'd call it.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #3
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob


  • #4
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    iamstop wrote: »
    ... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
    Windows closed and windows open.

    Some cars had additional climate control features. The Datsun 120Y, for example, had several holes in the floor.


  • #5
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    iamstop wrote: »
    ... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
    Windows closed and windows open.


    Posh bastard with windows in his car


  • #6
    The chan chan man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »
    That you opened with a handle.

    Which you could reach easily as there were no seatbelts in the back!


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  • #7
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    Mother's used the wooden spoon to rear kids.


  • #8
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Back in my day the window would open but not necessarily close.


  • #9
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,590 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    The chan chan man wrote: »
    Which you could reach easily as there were no seatbelts in the back!

    As kids we'd be in the back of a transit van, and fight over who'd get to sit on the toolbox or wheelarch.

    Not dangerous at all.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #10
    Notdeco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭Notdeco


    branie2 wrote: »
    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob
    I was that knob...


  • #11
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    then I discovered I was Paul Newman.

    Great pasta sauce man.


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  • #12
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    thanks for making ill kids happy as well


  • #13
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Even if i had the cornoa virus, my mother would have refused to beleive I was too sick to go to shcool.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #14
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,187 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    In my childhood home...When we got in central heating (oil) we had to switch it on ‘before’ we went out so the house would be warm enough that evening when we got back....from the switch being flicked to on it took about two and a half hours maybe longer for any feeling of warmth. Now, the house I’m in is about 10 years old but has a gas heating system and from flicking the switch on a freezing cold morning to stifling takes about 15 minutes... some difference.. with the timer also you can have it on in the morning before you get up. Tends to stop you wanting to get up.


  • #15
    beejee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Back in my day we had to slither on shore with jokes for legs, and learning to breathe was no laugh either.

    Young ones these days with their prehensile this and apple that.


  • #16
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,664 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I had to walk to school in my bare feet, uphill both ways. It always rained and the rain was wetter then.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #17
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Jack Frost would leave his mark on the windows overnight.


  • #18
    Noel Bald Warden
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Noel Bald Warden


    Soccer news was page 220 on teletext.


  • #19
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,487 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Jack Frost would leave his mark on the windows overnight.

    The inside of the Windows ..

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #20
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Television broadcasting closed down before or after midnight


  • #21
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,702 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    BuboBubo wrote: »
    Mother's used the wooden spoon to rear kids.

    And teachers too !


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  • #22
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,187 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Even if i had the cornoa virus, my mother would have refused to beleive I was too sick to go to shcool.

    Mine was the same, you’d have to be carrying your head under your arm and then, ‘only’ then might you get... “look, you might be better off taking just today off, but you can get the books out and do a bit of work here, you can’t fall behind !” :rolleyes: :p


  • #23
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I think they used rulers or canes


  • #24
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Flat 7up cured everything


  • #25
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,129 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Strumms wrote: »
    In my childhood home...When we got in central heating (oil) we had to switch it on ‘before’ we went out so the house would be warm enough that evening when we got back....from the switch being flicked to on it took about two and a half hours maybe longer for any feeling of warmth. Now, the house I’m in is about 10 years old but has a gas heating system and from flicking the switch on a freezing cold morning to stifling takes about 15 minutes... some difference.. with the timer also you can have it on in the morning before you get up. Tends to stop you wanting to get up.

    We only moved into a house with central heating when I was about 13. The feeling of luxury to be warm in rooms other than the sitting room, where the fire was the only heat source previously , I'll never forget lol. This was the mid 90s so not even that long ago. Kids today dont know they're born tbh.


  • #26
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,722 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    branie2 wrote: »
    Television broadcasting closed down before or after midnight

    Not before the prayer at bedtime :)


  • #27
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Toffee toast (bread with sugar under the grill...Burnt the gullet out of you ) and bread and sauce...or digestives with butter.


  • #28
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,702 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I had to walk to school in my bare feet, uphill both ways. It always rained and the rain was wetter then.
    You were a lazy bastard , I had to carry you in bare feet , short trousers and smoking a pipe


  • #29
    beejee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I had to walk to school in my bare feet, uphill both ways. It always rained and the rain was wetter then.

    That's luxury. Everyday I would have to hand build my school using only the nubs of fingers left to me after breaking boulders to make gravel bare handed... Only for the flipping thing to be torn down each night because of night tax.

    And that's when it was a nine day week, none of this 7 day cop out bs.


  • #30
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,722 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    anewme wrote: »
    Toffee toast (bread with sugar under the grill...Burnt the gullet out of you ) and bread and sauce...or digestives with butter.

    Rich tea biscuits with butter that you'd squeeze through the holes.


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  • #31
    Third_Echelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,867 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    branie2 wrote: »
    Flat 7up cured everything

    Still does! :D


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