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

gary550 · 13-11-2022 12:52AM

The experience of actually having to wait for things

Not sure if it's just me but when I was a child some of the most joyful memories are of the anticipation before I got something or experienced something new. The lead up to Christmas, counting down the weeks, talking to your mates about what your getting and what they're getting for weeks before. Christmas morning getting up and waiting what seemed like hours and hours for everyone else to wake so we could sneak down, the anticipation was exhilarating. The parents booking a holiday and telling you months in advance and waiting and waiting for that day. Counting down the weeks and days to a school holiday or summer holidays.

Waiting weeks for a film to come out in the cinema or weeks for a new game and taking a trip to xtravision with your mates to get it.

Saving up a couple of quid here and there from whatever little business or enterprise I had going and waiting weeks till you had enough to buy a lego set or game from Smyths or Argos.

That doesn't happen now, most of life now is instant or near instant. The same high from the excitement of anticipation isn't there.

I ordered a new vehicle a while back and it'll be months yet before it's delivered, I couldn't be happier. It would be great to have it now but it's the first time in a very long time I've actually had to wait for something.

13-11-2022 01:18AM

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It’s where the Soviet Union Era related joke came from in the 80s about awaiting a fridge delivery 12 months from now and then asking whether delivery would be morning or afternoon- ironically with the shortages now in place for say cars, it’s pretty much back in fashion

Rawr · 13-11-2022 01:29AM

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Reading the funny jokes from Digitiser and using the "Reveal" button to get punchline.

mojesius · 13-11-2022 01:34AM

Being ferried around with other kids on your road in a trailer full of coal by a neighbour just for the craic.

The homecoming celebration for making the quarter finals of the 1990 world cup on O'Connell Street.

Padre_Pio · 13-11-2022 01:34AM

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Did aertel used to have a daily jokes or am I imagining it?

I says · 13-11-2022 01:37AM

Pints of furstenburg.

Shuttle disasters.

Shifting my older sisters friend at a teenage disco.

mojesius · 13-11-2022 01:38AM

Freestanding brass ashtrays that you had to polish as part of your chores.

xxxxxxl · 13-11-2022 02:13AM

Might see halley's comet a second time but not 3rd.

lumphammer2 · 13-11-2022 03:56AM

A world without Mrs Brown's Boys ...........

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 13-11-2022 08:18AM

Having to wait a whole week to see the next episode of a tv show - and being completely shagged as to what was going on if you missed one.

Same with football: if you missed Match of the Day then you had to wait until next Saturday to see the goals (assuming your team was one of the three matches they showed).

Brian Moore's dulcet tones - "Well, that corner came to nothing so we rejoin the action early in the second half."

Lewis_Benson · 13-11-2022 11:14AM

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Ringing random 1800 numbers from the phone box.

Hotblack Desiato · 13-11-2022 12:08PM

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So nobody got the "buys first car, learns on the job" joke then.

13-11-2022 12:09PM

Given a lift out the industrial estate where gateway 2000 late at night by nice Irish Express cargo truck driver. 1999. Haven't travelled in a truck cab like that since.

Hotblack Desiato · 13-11-2022 12:31PM

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I had post office savings stamps once, but back then they were 10p each and had a picture of a cow on them.

Jim_Hodge · 13-11-2022 12:50PM

Edit. Poster quoted banned, so deleted

Danzy · 13-11-2022 12:57PM

Being taken out to target practice with the rifle at 8.

My first shotgun at 13. Wasn't allowed out on my own til 14 though.

Watching the pig being by slaughtered and butchered in the yard for the freezer, and blood collected for sausages.

Dropping the milk to the creamery before school.

Drinking in the lounge at 14.

Jumper tit being a big deal.

Getting square bales of straw in a tractor trailer load and we'd all be on top, push the phone wires up as they went across.

Count Dracula · 13-11-2022 04:11PM

Smoking on the Bus to Cavan and squeezing in a pint in Navan town, I think it was called McEvoy's, you could smoke in there also. If the driver was sound he might stall for an extra few minutes, the really sound drivers were getting bought a pint....Jeepers, that happened btw.

Come to think of it buying a Pint for £ 1.23 mightn't be ever seen again either.

b v · 13-11-2022 04:40PM

Reading through the banlist and cracking up at some of the absolutely epic names on it.

b v · 13-11-2022 04:41PM

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What year approx are we talking about?

bodhrandude · 13-11-2022 04:58PM

Signing on at the Gardai Barracks, is that still a thing in rural areas. Was on the dole briefly in the 1990s and I remember we used to sign on at the Kinlough Gardai station in County Leitrim, I seen it down in Cork at Macroom too.

Count Dracula · 13-11-2022 05:03PM

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McEvoy's is open almost a century I think.

But the 80's for sure.

gormdubhgorm · 13-11-2022 05:11PM

Cars the state of them and cultural attitudes in them. The advent of NCT’s has ruined the unique nature of cars. Which used to rust badly.

My own father’s car (Mazda 323) had some ‘interesting features’. On the passenger side there was thin piece of wood covering a big hole in the bottom of the car. As children we were given out to when we removed the wood, so we could watch the ‘road moving’.

There was one occasion on a bright sunny day, my father came in the door soaked - apparently he had driven into a big puddle.

Of course there is another thing people cannot experience legally - drink driving.

https://youtu.be/4uIpqG1UGNE

The Garda patrol advice on drink driving was interesting back in the day. ‘Don’t have that fifth/sixth pint’ If you lost count just have two more and stop there’

https://youtu.be/RhR95ei-4eM

Sweet Talkin Romeo · 13-11-2022 05:18PM

"just have the two more and stop there" 😂

quality!

I suppose we'll see no more ashtrays/cigarette lighters in cars, well lighters anyway

13-11-2022 05:22PM

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I remember the cow but I had it in my head they were 5p - a page of 10 would have been 50p - maybe they came in 10p versions as well but 5p is on my mind but this would have been the late 70s

That's back when a Mars bar, Twix etc were 12p so not small money for a saving kid

13-11-2022 05:24PM

Collecting and saving green shield stamps from the likes of petrol stations to save for something in the green shield stamp catalogue

13-11-2022 05:25PM

Sitting in the front seat of a car with no seatbelt on- aged 10!

13-11-2022 05:27PM

Johnston Mooney and O'Brien van delivering fresh bread to your door, Tuesdays and Thursdays

Hotblack Desiato · 13-11-2022 05:31PM

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They may have been 5p alright!

13-11-2022 05:40PM

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Which or whether, they were actually a great way to save - you could physically see your money but it was kindof tied up, unless you walked to the post office - good times.

Hotblack Desiato · 13-11-2022 05:53PM

That Garda Patrol clip is definitely a fake

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