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  • #662
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Airyfairy12 wrote: »
    Every retailer and service in Ireland did the very same or put up the costs, RTE jumped on that bandwagon.
    Shortly after the change over Ireland become known as rip off Ireland.
    You would be fuming if you won the 1 million after the changeover. Somebody who had won it beforehand would be taking home over 200 grand more than you.


  • #663
    mikemac2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    A contestant was given an obscure body part and was asked where in the body was located. Their answer wasn’t accepted so they were eliminated

    A heart surgeon from a hospital in Dublin went to the newspapers and said the contestants answer was actually correct. The producers claimed they were correct and got opinions from other consultants to back their side

    It was a badly worded question and a bit of shambles

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0621/16217-millionaire/


  • #664
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Band Aid and Live Aid


  • #665
    Whestsidestory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭Whestsidestory


    Spending hours in the tax office to get your car tax. If you forgot to take your number it meant even longer. They would refuse to issue tax if the form wasn't filled out properly..the nerves heading up to the desk!


  • #666
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Whestsidestory wrote: »
    Spending hours in the tax office to get your car tax. If you forgot to take your number it meant even longer. They would refuse to issue tax if the form wasn't filled out properly..the nerves heading up to the desk!
    Sent in by your parents back in the days before smartphones or Walkmans

    First upset is when you realise that that queue is your queue. Out the door , round the corner and down the street. *hopes it doesn't rain*

    Second upset is when eventually you get into the building you can see the queue going up a couple of flights of stairs.

    Finally you get up the stairs and along the corridor and into the room, only to realise that there's barriers and the queue snakes back and forth loads of times across a very large room so there's still loads of waiting.


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  • #667
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Commodore 64 computer


  • #668
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Top of the Pops
    Jim'll Fixit (thankfully, because of what we know now)


  • #669
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    the purple tin wrote: »
    You would be fuming if you won the 1 million after the changeover. Somebody who had won it beforehand would be taking home over 200 grand more than you.




    I'll be fuming if I win the Euro millions on Tuesday, will mean I wasted an extra euro buying the plus


  • #670
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,062 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Getting caned, in both national and secondary schools


  • #671
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Collecting tokens from milk cartons to get a gift


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  • #672
    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,457 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    branie2 wrote: »
    Top of the Pops
    Jim'll Fixit (thankfully, because of what we know now)

    Loved top of the pops! still cant believe it ended.


  • #673
    spring lane jack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭spring lane jack


    Porn magazines or commonly known decades ago as skin mags. They were as rare as hens teeth, normally a few students would bring some back from school tours abroad and they would get passed around amongst pupils. There would always be someone heading home with the mag in his schoolbag smiling away, delighted with himself.


  • #674
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    101 News
    150 lottery
    220 Football
    221 Latest football scores. Refresh, refresh! This took either 60 seconds or 120 seconds, I forget

    240 GAA

    170 TV listings
    183 Movies tonight

    There was even a jokes page that gave you the beginning and then you push a button to refresh for the punchline.

    Good times :pac:

    Right up until the end of Aertel my parents checked lottery on Aertel. I did use it for TV listings too, very useful

    Ceefax had vastly more content than Aertel but alas we never had those British Channels

    ...and when the signal was bad (say, in bad weather), the text would distort.

    The tech was so, so awesome and yet also so, so shoddy.


  • #675
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    branie2 wrote: »
    Collecting tokens from milk cartons to get a gift

    I remember back in the mid 80’s collecting tokens at school and we got a football for the class. Might have been milk cartons. Speaking of milk cartons, making cribs from them.


  • #676
    1874
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,404 ✭✭✭1874


    I dont know if this has been mentioned, but rewinding/fast forwarding the video at all, and rewinding before returning it, or get charged a fee, aside from missing out on that, what a scam.


  • #677
    filbert the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    the purple tin wrote: »
    When we changed from punt to euro the crafty gits kept the prizes at the same amount so you would actually be winning less money, and it saved them a chunk of change.

    I'm glad this was posted.

    My brother pointed out that Gay Byrne repeatedly stated that contestants were 15 questions away from the Million pound/euro question.
    WRONG
    It's either 15 questions away from WINNING €1m. or 14 questions away from the million euro question.
    How the producers couldn't see this was sloppy in the extreme


  • #678
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,896 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    branie2 wrote: »
    Special K ads with the women in the white swimsuits

    My kids don't have much experience with ads at all. They were shocked and appalled at the ads in the toy show.


  • #679
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,203 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    silliussoddius wrote: »
    I remember back in the mid 80’s collecting tokens at school and we got a football for the class. Might have been milk cartons. Speaking of milk cartons, making cribs from them.

    Its not that long ago that Donegal Creameries did the cutouts for making a crib from the cartons - only worked on the old style shorter/fatter cartons that are still used for juice in some places, the new ones are too long and thin.


  • #680
    mikemac2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    A note from your granny to buy 20 Major cigarettes for her in the local shop

    These days Aldi would request ID from a 40 year old buying a bottle of wine !


  • #681
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    silliussoddius wrote: »
    I remember back in the mid 80’s collecting tokens at school and we got a football for the class. Might have been milk cartons. Speaking of milk cartons, making cribs from them.

    That was Snocream that was made down in Waterford and is now part of Glanbia.


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  • #682
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    1874 wrote: »
    I dont know if this has been mentioned, but rewinding/fast forwarding the video at all, and rewinding before returning it, or get charged a fee, aside from missing out on that, what a scam.
    Was the fine a bluff? I never heard of anyone getting the fine for not rewinding. 20p I think it was at one stage!


  • #683
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    branie2 wrote: »
    The Commodore 64 computer

    Oh the joys ...... tape decks, reel to reel.
    Remember creatures? Terminator 2, Flimbos Quest Rainbow Islands.......


  • #684
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    branie2 wrote: »
    Band Aid and Live Aid
    Don't forget Self Aid. It sounds a bit wrong nowadays :o


  • #685
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,806 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Measl... no, it's back, forget I said anything.


  • #686
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Don't forget Self Aid. It sounds a bit wrong nowadays :o

    ??? you mean a jar of vaseline and some tissues? Who doesnt need a second hand from time to time


  • #687
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    filbert the fox wrote: »
    I'm glad this was posted.

    My brother pointed out that Gay Byrne repeatedly stated that contestants were 15 questions away from the Million pound/euro question.
    WRONG
    It's either 15 questions away from WINNING €1m. or 14 questions away from the million euro question.
    How the producers couldn't see this was sloppy in the extreme

    Wouldnt know, too much drama. It was like watching paint dry on the wall. Give me the weakest link any day.


  • #688
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    Loading games from a tape cassete on to a computer , like the spectrum,
    Making up a batch file to run games on an old pc with limited ram.
    buying old pc games in massive boxs in a shop.
    Now every game comes on 1 or 2 dvdroms and fits in a standard disc case.
    Buying a pc game which had to be loaded from 5 or 6 3.5inch floopy discs.


  • #689
    whysobecause
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 61 ✭✭whysobecause


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    A note from your granny to buy 20 Major cigarettes for her in the local shop

    These days Aldi would request ID from a 40 year old buying a bottle of wine !

    I would buy Carroll's for my Grandfather, but it was a small village with two shops, no note required.


  • #690
    1874
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,404 ✭✭✭1874


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Was the fine a bluff? I never heard of anyone getting the fine for not rewinding. 20p I think it was at one stage!


    No, was added to your account


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  • #691
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Music produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman


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