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    #782
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,298 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Kerrygold ads with French people


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    #783
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,526 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Booze cruise.. Great crack.

    Booze cruise on the vomit comet if you didn't have sea legs.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




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    #784
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    There is a generation that has not grow up with ......

    Clockwork toys, at Christmas :)

    I once got a windup Trainset from Santa!
    Don't see many clockwork toys anymore.


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    #785
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,857 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    McGaggs wrote: »
    I saw a girl in a school uniform smoking a cigarette a few weeks ago. I was pretty surprised, hadn't seen a youngster smoking on years

    You can't fix stupid. I suppose cancer is "fake news" these days.


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    #786
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,298 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Before my time, but the national anthem in the cinema after the film ended


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    #787
    the purple tin
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Before my time, but the national anthem in the cinema after the film ended
    And at the end of the disco, bands used to play it at the end of their set as well. Stand up even though you were well pie-eyed by that stage.


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    #788
    teroknor83
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭teroknor83


    Collecting nice things in Cereals


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    #789
    TheAsYLuMkeY
    Registered Users Posts: 634 ✭✭✭TheAsYLuMkeY


    I see mentions of Doom of games past,

    One of my Favorites was Another world,

    http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-another-world_31309.html

    I had the two floppy disc set for Atari ST, thought it was the most amazing game when i got hold of it.

    Fast forward to present day and i have it now on PS3.

    Excellent game.


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    #790
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,427 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Who can remember having their boiled egg in the morning and hearing this playing on RTE Radio One during the seventies. :)

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



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    #791
    branie2
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    O'Donnell Abu!


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    #792
    sbsquarepants
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    And at the end of the disco, bands used to play it at the end of their set as well. Stand up even though you were well pie-eyed by that stage.


    I remember that.


    Also discos had a slow set (AKA the erection section) where you had to run around like an escaped sex offender and try get your dirty hands on a quare one or walk to the side of the room and skull pints with the other lonely misfits.


    Jesus, no pressure like!


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    #793
    whysobecause
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 61 ✭✭whysobecause


    The Irish landscape not covered with windmills.


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    #794
    NewbridgeIR
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    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I remember that.


    Also discos had a slow set (AKA the erection section) where you had to run around like an escaped sex offender and try get your dirty hands on a quare one or walk to the side of the room and skull pints with the other lonely misfits.


    Jesus, no pressure like!

    I know a guy who asked what seemed like 50 women to dance one night - as they came out of the jacks. All said no.


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    #795
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I remember that.


    Also discos had a slow set (AKA the erection section) where you had to run around like an escaped sex offender and try get your dirty hands on a quare one or walk to the side of the room and skull pints with the other lonely misfits.


    Jesus, no pressure like!

    Oh, the old stumble round, when you snuzzled his shoulder so he couldn't get his lips to your face but he was a sound fella and you didn't want to hurt his feelings.


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    #796
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,613 ✭✭✭Feisar


    branie2 wrote: »
    O'Donnell Abu!

    Some tune!

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #797
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Feisar wrote: »
    Some tune!

    Learned to 'play' that on the tin whistle in third class. Probably still have the scars on top of my head from being belted by the whistle by my lovely teacher. There's been a generation who hasn't grown up being randomly belted round the place by unhinged adults at school.


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    #798
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    School milk cartons, I think they were 1/4 litre. Oh a straw as well

    They would be left on the wall outside the school and someone in each class had the job to bring them in. In winter they were frozen!

    Now and again Dawn Dairies would give us freebies and fancy stuff like strawberry milk to try to win a contract but they never ever did.

    All that business was given to the local creamery. It wouldn't surprise me if someone in the school staff was getting a kickback.

    You signed up by term and I think it was very very cheap for parents to subscribe.


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    #799
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,613 ✭✭✭Feisar


    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/ .

    Dad said all it was good for was spreading shíte around yer hole. Or words equally eloquent.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #800
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,364 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Feisar wrote: »
    Dad said all it was good for was spreading shíte around yer hole. Or words equally eloquent.

    I can vouch for the fact it wasn't know for its absorbency. More like wiping you bum with greaseproof paper.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #801
    YellowLead
    Registered Users Posts: 7,711 ✭✭✭YellowLead


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    School milk cartons, I think they were 1/4 litre. Oh a straw as well

    They would be left on the wall outside the school and someone in each class had the job to bring them in. In winter they were frozen!

    Now and again Dawn Dairies would give us freebies and fancy stuff like strawberry milk to try to win a contract but they never ever did.

    All that business was given to the local creamery. It wouldn't surprise me if someone in the school staff was getting a kickback.

    You signed up by term and I think it was very very cheap for parents to subscribe.

    In our school I remember we went through a phase of not wanting it and we’d all pour it down the sink (shameful I know) that was for arts and crafts at lunch when no teacher in the room - there was always an awful stink of sour milk in the room, must not have rinsed properly or something!


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    #802
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,217 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    School milk cartons, I think they were 1/4 litre. Oh a straw as well

    They would be left on the wall outside the school and someone in each class had the job to bring them in. In winter they were frozen!

    Now and again Dawn Dairies would give us freebies and fancy stuff like strawberry milk to try to win a contract but they never ever did.

    All that business was given to the local creamery. It wouldn't surprise me if someone in the school staff was getting a kickback.

    You signed up by term and I think it was very very cheap for parents to subscribe.
    Cartons? Tsk. We had glass milk bottles in school.


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    #803
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,613 ✭✭✭Feisar


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    School milk cartons, I think they were 1/4 litre. Oh a straw as well

    They would be left on the wall outside the school and someone in each class had the job to bring them in. In winter they were frozen!

    Now and again Dawn Dairies would give us freebies and fancy stuff like strawberry milk to try to win a contract but they never ever did.

    All that business was given to the local creamery. It wouldn't surprise me if someone in the school staff was getting a kickback.

    You signed up by term and I think it was very very cheap for parents to subscribe.

    And if it wasn’t brought in quick enough we got it in cups, you knew the crows got theirs when we got the milk in cups.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #804
    silliussoddius
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    Spraoi, Sugriu, Sonas, Siamsa


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    #805
    Speedsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    The Continental Op wrote: »
    I can vouch for the fact it wasn't know for its absorbency. More like wiping you bum with greaseproof paper.

    Tracing paper-like qualities. The rumour in school was that it made an excellent substitute.

    Think I last saw it in a loo around 1985/6.


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    #806
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    I don't remember IZAL toilet paper but I read online British Rail used it for years and years.

    And never once did anyone steal supplies!


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    #807
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    silliussoddius wrote: »
    Spraoi, Sugriu, Sonas, Siamsa
    I think the chislers still get those every year, believe it or not.


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    #808
    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    Downloading songs on limewire ,or napster.
    It was impossible to know what version of a song you might get ,bootleg,live, or the radio version .
    buying songs on itunes, i presume they are all using streaming apps now.
    Buying a vinyl lp and listening to the whole record all the way through.
    i think hipsters only buy vinyl lps now.


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    #809
    angel eyes 2012
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    Speedsie wrote: »
    Tracing paper-like qualities. The rumour in school was that it made an excellent substitute.

    Think I last saw it in a loo around 1985/6.

    Yes, it was in our school in the late 80s. The Principal then asked if we could take it in turn to bring in proper toilet paper from home.

    I always remember my teacher in 5th and 6th class drove an 89D red Ford Fiesta and I thought she was the height of glam. In reality she had to teach nearly 40 girls, day in day out, and there were no classroom assistants in those days.


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    #810
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    I know a guy who asked what seemed like 50 women to dance one night - as they came out of the jacks. All said no.


    That was me


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Oh, the old stumble round, when you snuzzled his shoulder so he couldn't get his lips to your face but he was a sound fella and you didn't want to hurt his feelings.


    That was me too, you were number 51:D


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    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    sbsquarepants wrote: »






    That was me too, you were number 51:D

    Sorry 'bout the crushed meta-tarsals.


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