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Back in my day...

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  • #32
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,965 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Fifty pee fine if you forgot to rewind the videotape when you brought it back to Xtra-Vision.

    White dog ****e in the little grassy verges of our suburban housing estate.

    Dial telephones - they were all beige and all looked the same. The speaking clock - “at the signal, it will be....”


  • #33
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    A mask and black binliners were Halloween costumes


  • #34
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    You couldn't beat a good aul game of knick knack.


  • #35
    peddlelies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭peddlelies


    Fidelma Miley affair in Glenroe created an awkward feeling between every Parent and young child in Ireland


  • #36
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    You could win a set of saucepans on Murphys Micro Quiz- m.


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  • #37
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    peddlelies wrote: »
    Fidelma Miley affair in Glenroe created an awkward feeling between every Parent and young child in Ireland

    And Glenroe signalled the end of the weekend


  • #38
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    A glass bottle of Lucozade and a bunch of grapes wrapped in brown paper was mandatory if visiting someone sick in hospital.


  • #39
    Ishmael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    branie2 wrote: »
    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

    We had to tune the channels in by pointing the Aerial on the roof in the right direction and then going down to the tv and manually turning the tuning pegs one by one. If you found nothing, back up to the roof. And god help anyone that messed with the settings after the channels had been found.


  • #40
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Watching The Lost Boys.


  • #41
    from_atozinc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭from_atozinc


    .......there were no black lads.

    True story. Really.


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  • #42
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,708 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    from_atozinc wrote: »
    .......there were no black lads.

    True story. Really.
    Probably. If I seen a black man in Dublin I thought it was either Lenny Henry or Paul McGrath


  • #43
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    from_atozinc wrote: »
    .......there were no black lads.

    True story. Really.

    Ahh ffs.


  • #44
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,665 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Princess Calla wrote: »
    Not before the prayer at bedtime :)

    And the National Anthem.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #45
    from_atozinc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭from_atozinc


    cjmc wrote: »
    Probably. If I seen a black man in Dublin I thought it was either Lenny Henry or Paul McGrath


    Sure we didn’t even have a car to go to Dublin.
    Couldn’t afford a bus or train either.
    Only option to walk in our bare feet. With turf.


  • #46
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    And we all walked from west Dublin to see the Pope in the Pheno.


  • #47
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,727 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    branie2 wrote: »
    And Glenroe signalled the end of the weekend

    And time to start your homework!


  • #48
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The weekend began with Anything Goes


  • #49
    Ha Long Bay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,001 ✭✭✭✭Ha Long Bay


    branie2 wrote: »
    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

    What brand of TV was that? Most of the older TV's used to let you change channels with your fingers.


  • #50
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    john4321 wrote: »
    What brand of TV was that? Most of the older TV's used to let you change channels with your fingers.

    I think we had one. Dad used to say “that boll1cks of a television is broken again”.


  • #51
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The swimwear and lingerie sections of the Family Album catalogue were the closest we ever got to Playboy magazine


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  • #52
    Ha Long Bay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,001 ✭✭✭✭Ha Long Bay


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    I think we had one. Dad used to say “that boll1cks of a television is broken again”.

    Nothing a good hard slap on one side or the other that would stop the image rolling.


  • #53
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    I think we had one. Dad used to say “that boll1cks of a television is broken again”.

    We used to have to wallop ours 3 or 4 times and then it would come on.


  • #54
    Beachballz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Beachballz


    The first 5 days after the weekend were the hardest, but after that they pick up.


  • #55
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    You could collect tokens on Jacobs biscuits to ‘shake a shamrock in Italy ‘ for Jack Charlton. We’ve always known you’re out there, now thanks to Jacobs we’ll know where”
    Maybe someone can locate the advert


  • #56
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Cover the fire with newspaper to get it to light.

    Newspaper always went up in flames.


  • #57
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Tayto were 10p and you could get 10 fags, a pack of tayto and golf ball chewing gums(about 5or6) for a pound. Matches were 7p a box.


  • #58
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Tayto were 10p and you could get 10 fags, a pack of tayto and golf ball chewing gums(about 5or6) for a pound. Matches were 7p a box.

    Jsysus, I remember Tayto 2 or 3p..


  • #59
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,708 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Getting 20p back for returning empty mineral bottles


  • #60
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,208 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    anewme wrote: »
    We used to have to wallop ours 3 or 4 times and then it would come on.

    A bit personal ! :eek:


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  • #61
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Strumms wrote: »
    A bit personal ! :eek:

    The TV.


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