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  • #602
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Deodorant ads where theyd show a semi naked girl spraying herself and a tantalising glimpse of side boob.

    Ambre solaire ads - the ladies in bikinis


  • #603
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,934 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    A cool ad from the nineties, up Leftfield. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #604
    JimmyVik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,360 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    branie2 wrote: »
    Ambre solaire ads - the ladies in bikinis

    Tenents beer cans

    https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/NINTCHDBPICT000339390096.jpg?strip=all&w=960


  • #605
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Nice one :)


  • #606
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Milk in school


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  • #607
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,350 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Don't forget the 1 toilet.

    My nephew is horrified at the idea that three brothers would share the one bathroom in the mornings, rotating between the shower / sh1te / shave positions in turn.


  • #608
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,427 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    My nephew is horrified at the idea that three brothers would share the one bathroom in the mornings, rotating between the shower / sh1te / shave positions in turn.

    fatherstone.jpg

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #609
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Diego Maradona, the hand of God. May he rest in peace


  • #610
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,934 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    They don't make horror monster movies like this anymore unless you count Lake Placid.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #611
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,701 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Old style CRT TVs.
    Raleigh Choppers.
    The video Cassette.
    Vesta curries.


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  • #612
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,107 ✭✭✭✭CoBo55


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Old style CRT TVs.
    Raleigh Choppers.
    The video Cassette.
    Vesta curries.

    Feckin loved the Vesta curries, beautiful after a clatter of pints on grant day, you've brought back a few memories there:D


  • #613
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,114 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Bosco

    Hard as nails soccer players who punched the heads off each other after a tackle

    Been left outside a pub on Sunday afternoon with a big bottle of lemonade and a pack of crisps

    Eurotrash on channel 4 on a friday night


  • #614
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    branie2 wrote: »
    King Crisps

    You still get them


  • #615
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    ?width=605

    Did we mention these?


  • #616
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,202 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    ...affordable housing.


  • #617
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,202 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    branie2 wrote: »
    Milk in school


    amd warm with it.


    Our milk arrived around 11am but it was then left to sit there until 2pm on a counter- no fridge.


    When the weather warmed it was undrinkable. Basically room temperature/warm milk at 2pm- it was revolting.


  • #618
    filbert the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    partyguinness wrote: »
    amd warm with it.


    Our milk arrived around 11am but it was then left to sit there until 2pm on a counter- no fridge.


    When the weather warmed it was undrinkable. Basically room temperature/warm milk at 2pm- it was revolting.

    you musta had centerdal Hatin' - lucky duck


  • #619
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,202 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    ?width=605

    Did we mention these?


    Jaysus...we had war over those in national school. Lads would be stealing them off the wheels. The more you had the better.



    We were then told that they weaken the integrity of the wheel so we went right off them.


  • #620
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,062 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Its probably been mentioned but pay phones , British army checkpoints on the border, life without social media or even internet, punts,


  • #621
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,934 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude




    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Golightly

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #622
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,092 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Raleigh Choppers.

    Never understood the love for these things.

    Must have taken an eternity to cycle anywhere not to mention the gear change in a strategic position in the event of a crash.


  • #623
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,963 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    cj maxx wrote: »
    Its probably been mentioned but pay phones , British army checkpoints on the border, life without social media or even internet, punts,

    not just pay phones but the really old ones with A and B buttons and the use thereof.


  • #624
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,096 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Jimson wrote: »
    HAIRY BUSHES - Their all shaved or lasered or hair removal cream now.

    Bring back the bush, not a jungle bush but a nice trimmed bush. :)


  • #625
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,430 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    partyguinness wrote: »
    Jaysus...we had war over those in national school. Lads would be stealing them off the wheels. The more you had the better.



    We were then told that they weaken the integrity of the wheel so we went right off them.

    Remember Spokey Dokeys?

    8jRRd7OXw1jmnjzusf231.jpg

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #626
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,180 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    the purple tin wrote: »
    No delivery from the take aways.

    And when delivery started it was only pizza. Nothing else.

    Local decent Indian had about ten seats and did 90% of its business take out, all people driving up (frequently pissed) to collect it.

    Now in a new site it has 100 seats and can't use any of them! But has a fleet of drivers every night.


  • #627
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,180 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Ger Roe wrote: »

    Don't get me started on the TV licence detector van that prowled slowly down the road with a rotating detection antenna on it's roof.


    A prop - while detecting flyback on CRT TVs is in theory possible, they did not do so in the vans - there was absolutely no way they could tell it was coming from a specific house; and the second home computer monitors started they were goosed anyway as they aren't licenced.. There is no way to detect any form of non CRT display

    People were as easily diddled then as they are now by psedoscience. Just these days its aunties on Facebook spreading stuff, not RTE driving around with a giant rotating prop on van.

    Then like now they had lists of houses without licences and they looked for aerials, external cable hookups etc.


  • #628
    The Continental Op
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    L1011 wrote: »
    A prop - while detecting flyback on CRT TVs is in theory possible, they did not do so in the vans - there was absolutely no way they could tell it was coming from a specific house; and the second home computer monitors started they were goosed anyway as they aren't licenced.. There is no way to detect any form of non CRT display

    People were as easily diddled then as they are now by psedoscience. Just these days its aunties on Facebook spreading stuff, not RTE driving around with a giant rotating prop on van.

    Then like now they had lists of houses without licences and they looked for aerials, external cable hookups etc.

    Some interesting reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #629
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,180 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    The Continental Op wrote: »
    Some interesting reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van

    Lots of theory, none of which was every actually used. It simply wasn't practical to put in a mobile unit; it didn't give enough guarantee that what you were detecting was in a specific house and later on, it detected any and every CRT going even if it was on a Spectrum or C64.

    I'm a broadcast engineer, not someone just randomly stating they didn't exist. I know it wasn't possible.

    The most important part of the kit list is the "list of valid and recently expired licences" - they just went and knocked on the doors without licences and had aerials (or that had recently expired, cause its very likely they hadn't got rid of their TV). The rest was there to scare people. The FOI request finding that nobody had ever been prosecuted based on evidence from a van is probably the most telling bit.


  • #630
    foxy farmer
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    We weren't allowed to hear Gerry Adams speaking in his own voice.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdf4xOdas1g


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  • #631
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,180 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    This should have been done instead tbh

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR6jGJ1lq2U


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