Experiences and stuff that won't happen again....

Tuning in a games console on channel 36.

Oh wow ! Had forgotten about this chocolate

And none of this messing of only eating 2 squares. the whole bar or nothing

Rich kids had clear plastic covers for schoolbooks

Poor kids wrapped schoolbooks in wallpaper. We were clearly poor! With all the talk of recession and cost of living do people still use wallpaper? I’d be interested to know

Fitting 70 kids on a yellow bus scoile designed for 50 - acceptable

A hole in the floor and water flooding this CIE rusted cast off bus scoile - acceptable

Kid sitting on the engine cover beside the driver and would fly straight out the windscreen if anything happened - acceptable

Bus breaks downs (happened often) so all students walk down a national road with no hard shoulder or footpath on a winter morning - acceptable

Simpler times 🤗

Now that's not fair. They include manuals just no specific information about the particular model. More like, for a hairdryer - warning, do not use under water. Will only work if plugged in. I think they are flogging them to aliens who don't know what a hairdryer is.

Where I lived, boys had to go to the convent school until 2nd class. There was this vicious old hag who loved to prowl the corridors swinging a leather, anyone not lined up close enough to the wall got a whack in the back of the (bare - shorts!) leg. Stung like hell.

Another time we were standing outside our class waiting to go in when Sr. Sea Hag turned up, grabbed me, wrenched my hand out and leathered the f**k out of it. Then she muttered a barely audible "Sorry" and did the same to the kid next to me 😳

Why did they make us listen to the internet dial tone? Surely they could have figured out some elevator music to play instead?

Getting a weird phone number of someone at school, and when you rang it, you were eavesdropping on private telephone conversations in England.

This came back in my head a few weeks ago, dunno what it was. rang it a few times from the landline, was never charged extortionate rates and everytime was differenet random english people talking, switching to different calls ad they hung up. Bit mad looking back.

Also thngs that wont happen again? Getting served in the pub when 13/14

All three. Except the third one we gradually copped onto and calmed down.

Smoking room was only for sixth years. The others had to use the Jack's and keep sketch. At the least one of the teachers would let you keep a few and he'd smoke the rest.

When i started in 87 smoking was fine in the classroom!

One maths teacher would happily puff away during class, and Michael Cleary gave a sex education lecture to our religion class (seriously) and literally chain smoked the whole way through.

Another one I'm sure somebody has mentioned, is nicknacks (or however it's spelt). Kids these days are so shite at them.

No chance of a hiding if caught.

Not dinner time!

Making mix tapes on CDRs , playing pirated games on CDRs on a chipped PS2 consoles, renting consoles from a video store .recording music videos on VHS tapes, recording songs off the radio on audio cassettes .watching black and white TV.going to any concert or public event without someone recording it on a mobile phone . People using 8 track music players .the time when you could interact or deal with company's services without being asked to use their app or give them your email address Theres still rings in Halloween bracks

Every pop song is on YouTube with perfect sound do people actually watch mediocre videos on mobile phones that they recorded themselves

We have Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo consoles no other company's can afford to launch consoles to compete in that market

Saving data on 3.5 inch disks on pc