Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
Jaysus.
The name rings a bell but I don't remember much about it. I would never have been up after midnight in them days, I was too young lol but yes I think we had Super at some point. And possibly Eurosport
Not being in a cable area I remember just reading the TV listings for Super channel and "Sky" and imagining the exotic programming I was missing
Insects… There used to be insects. If you drove in the countryside your car would be splattered… Theres no insects anymore!
These days Gen Z just drive around coked off their heads and drive drunk, but somehow it's considered worse in the 80's & 90's because 'boomers'…
I was also the human remote control. There were six buttons on the telly and if you pressed one, the one that had been pressed already would pop back out. Later we got a fancier telly with smaller quieter buttons. I would have to stand there and wait while mam or dad decided what they wanted to watch :-)
Cassette tapes getting chewed up in your Walkman. Using a pencil to wind your cassette forward if you wanted to save battery power. Recording your favourite songs off the radio. God I am old!
just be grateful you can still remember 🤪
here’s a bit of history on drink drive limits in Ireland - I think it changed from 120 in the late 60s to 100 in late 70s and then 80mg in 90s
Noone quite knew just how many pints you could have without getting caught out with the 120mg limit but I reckon if you had 4 slowly over an evening of say 3 hours you’d probably have been fine considering some of that alcohol would have been processed over those 3 hours
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/52-years-ago-week-november-1969-new-challenge-faced-irish-holohan
fellas going around with comb overs, Bobby Charlton style .. didn’t look good then, think it’s a ‘fashion’ that won’t ever eek its way back into being popular…..it’s gone, get over it, don’t comb over it.
Ian Paisley SNR.
No shinnerbot I took great delight when I saw tv coverage of his trashed apartment complete with smashed television on BBC newsline
Mullets are back.
Well, there is that 😁
Tapping the public phone
Smoke and burning fumes coming up through the back seats in Dublin bus. Total health hazard but we'd just sit there, though sometimes the seats got a little too hot!
Angel Delight lives!!
And ROCKS!!!!!
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Court Summons for speeding offences. None of your "Feck it, I'll take the penalty points. Now leave me alone!" emails back then.
This!!!
Made worse by hanging around in the freezing cold outside the Spar in Baggot Street for half an hour at closing time watching arrogant bastards chugging coffee and pulling their Ross 'n Rachel "WE ARE ON A BREAK!!" BS.
The other thing was each button had to be manually turned to tune in each station to begin with, and if you didn't have enough buttons you'd have to tune one station out and the one you wanted to watch in.
Then when you eventually got a VCR to watch a video you'd have to tune that in aswell, which could be anywhere on the frequency.
Some arsehole putting tape over the tab on your new cassette album so they could tape over it.
Needing a passport, travel documents at airport security, getting on a flight, at immigration, customs. Etc. Don't need these any more. They are like car parking ticket stubs. 🤣🤣🤣
100% - jayzuz when you look back now - it was just one step away from sticking your nose into the exhaust pipe
or forgetting to break the tabs once you recorded something from the radio and then inadvertently taping over it yourself
No children being canned, slippered, beaten and assaulted by evil perverted teachers!
I guess some disciplinarian types will be along shortly to justify child abuse saying it did them no harm back in the day.
VHS blue movie rentals
Banging the side of the TV to make the picture better
sticking a match in the TV button to hold it in
calling to your friends house not knowing if they are there or not
Ah here, we could at this all year!
So much of this thread just reaffirms how little there was to be nostalgic about.
Telephone coinboxes out of order …coins stuck in slot … gobbling up your money and button B not working.
I remember the public bins would be stuffed with cans of soft drinks in summer which made them a haven for sugar crazed wasps. There would be about 10 wasps in each can of coke, fresca, tab, fanta and lilt (totally tropical taste) which meant the whole bin was a death trap. Danger here….if you distubed the bin, a swarm of angry wasps would attack you.
The brothers in the CBS had a thick leather strap in the shape of a penis. Very painful on the hands. Sick fcukers always preyed on the weak and vulnerable the most - the ones who's parents wouldn't dare complain for fear of the church.
