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    #752
    MoodeRator
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    #753
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,389 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Not many people grew up with IZAL bog paper at home but it was in a lot of institutions and perhaps in schools?

    You forgot to add Woolworths https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/1006/650327-woolworths-irish-stores-close/ .

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #754
    MoodeRator
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    It was abundant in my early years, it was even considered fancy by some people at the time.


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    #755
    The Continental Op
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    MoodeRator wrote: »
    It was abundant in my early years, it was even considered fancy by some people at the time.

    You'd have to say fancier than what :eek:

    But I can remember grandparents having newspaper cut up in the bog.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #756
    bodhrandude
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    Doodle Brappis

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



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    #757
    El Tarangu
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    The Continental Op wrote: »
    You'd have to say fancier than what :eek:

    But I can remember grandparents having newspaper cut up in the bog.

    This is a double - everyone has money for toilet paper now, and no-one reads newspapers.


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    #758
    Ceirseach
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭Ceirseach


    Comhrá: teacher cutting out pictures and sticking them to green felt sheet to make us talk Irish
    X marks the ball competition in Sunday Independent and posting in replies
    Teachers wearing graduate gowns to protect clothes from chalk
    The arrival of 'smash' dehydrated mashed potatoes, 'dairy bawn' dehydrated milk and vesta beef curry: just add boiling water.


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    #759
    Andrewf20
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    ...not grown up with toilet air freshners with a green poisonous wobbly bit in the middle of a plastic cover. Cannot find a pic of them but they were big in the 1990s. The wobbly bit would shrink over a few weeks.


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    #760
    Sardonicat
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    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    ...not grown up with toilet air freshners with a green poisonous wobbly bit in the middle of a plastic cover. Cannot find a pic of them but they were big in the 1990s. The wobbly bit would shrink over a few weeks.

    Yes, it was a weird gelatinous substance, the stink of which made your eyes water for the first 24hrs and then smelled of nothing thereafter.


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    #761
    Sardonicat
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    Ceirseach wrote: »
    vesta beef curry: just add boiling water.

    Vesta curry was feckin divine. Nothing like actual curry, mind


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    #762
    spring lane jack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭spring lane jack


    HASH, Very little of it around nowadays, The wonderful smell permeated lots of building sites, FÁS training centres and school yard corners.


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    #763
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,389 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Vesta curry was feckin divine. Nothing like actual curry, mind

    If I could buy shares to refloat a company to bring back an old product I think I'd go for it. Nothing compares to it even down to the sultanas.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #764
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,389 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    spring lane jack wrote: »
    HASH, Very little of it around nowadays, The wonderful smell permeated lots of building sites, FÁS training centres and school yard corners.

    You could have had FÁS training centres all on their own.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #765
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    spring lane jack wrote: »
    HASH, Very little of it around nowadays, The wonderful smell permeated lots of building sites, FÁS training centres and school yard corners.
    I notice it a lot more now than ever but maybe it is because the youngsters all smoke smelly skunk now.


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    #766
    Hyperbollix
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    The Continental Op wrote: »
    Doom - the computer game.

    Doom came out in 2016


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    #767
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,389 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Hyperbollix wrote: »
    Doom came out in 2016

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #768
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Hyperbollix wrote: »
    Doom came out in 2016

    Ah ha ha ha ha ha


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    #769
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Vesta curry was feckin divine. Nothing like actual curry, mind

    I’m fierce fond of the fancy Thai curries we have now, but I’ve eaten so many that I actually crave the old stuff , so on a recommendation I purchased Paul McGrath’s chip shop curry (just add water) had it on my chips and it was awesome:)


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    #770
    Pauliedragon
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    Hyperbollix wrote: »
    Doom came out in 2016
    Christ mate I was playing Doom back in the days when I was able to **** to the page 3 girls in the mid nineties let alone 2016.


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    #771
    The J Stands for Jay
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    The Continental Op wrote: »
    Not many people grew up with IZAL bog paper at home but it was in a lot of institutions and perhaps in schools?

    You forgot to add Woolworths https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/1006/650327-woolworths-irish-stores-close/ .

    Getting the bus to Derry to buy CD singles in Woolworths. They were 99p when they were new releases, then the price went up to £2 or £3 the week.


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    #772
    El Tarangu
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    spring lane jack wrote: »
    HASH, Very little of it around nowadays, The wonderful smell permeated lots of building sites, FÁS training centres and school yard corners.

    I remember when the first of the lads started getting weed in in my area in about '03 or so, we all felt very sophisticated - like Dr Dre rolling fat blunts, instead of burning lumps of hash and finding them filled with bits of plastic bags, and Lord knows what else...


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    #773
    CoBo55
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    Hyperbollix wrote: »
    Doom came out in 2016

    :confused::confused:


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    #774
    KKkitty
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    Someone mentioned thumbing a lift. I'm 40 next year and when I was thumbing I'd make a point to remember as many registration numbers of people in my hometown as I could or who was driving what car and the colour. As soon as a car looked familiar I'd stick out my thumb.


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    #775
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,846 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    branie2 wrote: »
    The Dandy comic

    And the Beano


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    #776
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,889 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    “Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...”

    ― Terry Pratchett


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    #777
    jelem
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭jelem


    grown up with ---out the masses expecting millions of facebook friends
    and without everyone wanting to be mary whitehouse
    and without everyone despite lack of knowledge and facts
    being\doing\supporting green and climate stooges.
    with out having masses of know alls whom know nothing but
    gain sway and popularity.
    it was nice when the odd individual moron would sprout crap
    and all accepted them as fools.


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    #778
    branie2
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    James Bond Junior


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    #779
    RandomViewer
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    Hyperbollix wrote: »
    Doom came out in 2016

    The Rock Was in the film version in 04/05


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    #780
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    branie2 wrote: »
    James Bond Junior

    This series, along with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles', was produced in Dublin.


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    #781
    whysobecause
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 61 ✭✭whysobecause


    El Tarangu wrote: »
    This series, along with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles', was produced in Dublin.

    A friend of mine, was one of the artists. It was cool to see his name in the credits.


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