Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
Back in the 80s, pulling up at a garda check point with a half dozen pints on you and the Gard sticking his head in the window and saying, " good lad, take it 'asy there now" and waving you on.
ah man deepfat fryers. Buying frozen battered sausages and frying them in that. white bread, crispy pancakes all heart disease on a plate but gorgeous all the same!
the black bits in the dandy bar. I use to love smiley bars
Double Dip with swizzelstick ... a gateway drug.
Not anywhere in ROI anymore.
If these didn't rip your teeth out, nothing will.
I unplugged the stereo on day on a two pin - for whatever reason I got a shock and was essentially propelled half way across the sitting room - a bit of a sore finger for a while that was all but japers 😀
Well, once was enough for me when repairing successfully a power supply brick of a ZX81 computer. more careful next time with projects like that and not have the thing plugged in next time.
Two pin plugs, and getting electrocuted being a part of everyday life.
That not a thing anymore? - milkman now only comes every other day, but still glass bottled to the door.
Candy cigarettes ..
I can't find anything on the web about them, those old carboard milk cartons that used to have a version at christmas where you could make your own nativity scene.
I saw a guy hitchhiking today which I haven't seen in along time. Does this go on a lot? I remember doing that in the pissing rain getting drenched cause there was no bus. At least there's a proper bus service now (most of the time)
The excitement when the dairies put the Christmas bottle tops on.
You knew that it was just around the corner.
Can still get them, the safety valves got better
The dairies eventually provided plastic cloches
It was great, but the birds pecking holes in the tinfoil bottle tops used to annoy my mum!
Why do you think this was shit?
AFAIC, that kind of thing was great.
Do you want quick or slow death with those tasty chips?!?
Pressure cookers which would randomly explode and blow a hole in the the kitchen ceiling. I think they eventually got banned.
Cooker top chip pans which would burst into flame and burn a house down.
Replaced by the much safer deep fat frier which gave everybody heart disease.
No lock on the only phone in the house and no having to put 10p into the box that Dad put beside the only phone in the house.
No crappy roller skates that strapped onto your shoe and were lethal.
No risking life and limb by doing crazy break dance moves on a piece of lino.
No leather ties, rolled up pink linen jackets or trying to look like Morten Harket, Morrissey or Spandau Ballet.
No "Our Boys" magazine or the missions magazine if you went to a CBS.
The cover of the Victor Annual for 1981 featured a Kamikaze bearing down on a pair of Royal Navy Sailors shooting at it.
I live in Winnipeg. This can happen at anytime for about 50% of the year.
Glass milk bottles delivered to your door every morning by the milkman.
I used to bring a lead lamp out of the letterbox and burn a 60w bulb all night beside the distributor on my Fiat 124 :):)
If I forgot, it simply wouldn't start and I'd have the hairdryer going for a good 15 minutes before it'd start. This was even with a new distributor cap, HT leads, plugs, the lot. The spray, what was it called? Absolutely nothing else would work, blanket, plastic wrap around distributor etc. but the lead lamp worked every time :)
Every single Christmas morning of my childhood alongside whatever the "big" present was (usually Scalectrix or Action-man related) there'd be a selection of the various Annuals waiting for me - Victor , Warlord , Hotspur , The Beezer etc.
I'm pretty certain that my Mother (now in her 80's) who is a bit of a hoarder to be fair has a box of all my old annuals in the attic at home somewhere.
Must go up there and find them next time I'm over there.
waking up and everywhere white with snow..
they were gorgeous - got a few myself back in the day
Ill see your Hotspur and raise you a Tiger 😁
Yes I was.
😊
The printers of the Beano and Dandy were notoriously anti Catholic and wouldn't hire Catholics for decades.
