Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
That not a thing anymore? - milkman now only comes every other day, but still glass bottled to the door.
Two pin plugs, and getting electrocuted being a part of everyday life.
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.
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 😀
If these didn't rip your teeth out, nothing will.
Not anywhere in ROI anymore.
Double Dip with swizzelstick ... a gateway drug.
the black bits in the dandy bar. I use to love smiley bars
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!
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.
I had not realised that.
In the UK there used to be "public safety films" which came on with the adverts on ITV. One of these was about a chip pan which caught fire and then the consequences of either throwing water on it (bad) or draping a damp towel over it (good) - I've never been comfortable around chip pans since (if you're reading his thread "great-aunt-Josie-in-law" please buy oven chips the next time we're over in Emyvale).
I vividly remember a tooth being pulled out by a wham bar. Loved those things
Hopeless cases put off the road who need to get to the pub and/or bookies and the odd random backpacker, that's about it.
Lino on the floor …. None of your fancy tiles, wood, polished concrete or what not ….
Depressing looking wallpaper with drab colours and garish patterns. Racer bikes were all the rage also, I thought they were death traps with their skinny wheels and light frames.
In our neighbourhood we had a milkman, a bread man, a coal man and also a rent man who was robbed at least once every few weeks. Mr Clinton the coal man would usually spend a lot of time in the neighbourhood houses chatting and drinking tea when he was on his rounds.
renting a telly. From about 99-2001 my flatmates and I rented a telly and took turns paying the weekly rent of 3quid in cash
Its gone to another extreme now but I have very few pictures. We didn't photograph everything back then. I have only like one photo of myself from the age of 13 to around 19.
Remember the 3 pin, round pin plugs with no fuse? I also remember the house having only maybe 3 single electrical sockets and a bare light socket hanging off a wire out of the wall which my dad used to plug in his electric razor. I once stood on the table and put my finger into it - good, if very painful lesson learnt!
There was a green version with black bits in it called a 'Gorgo' bar. It had a gargoyle on the front, here's a similar version, from the US, I can't find an image of the UK/Ire one
Also Bubble King, chewing gum and mint and kola woppa bars.
That is still around now. It's just not as common as it used to be.
I had to do it around 5 years ago. Normally drove to train station (30 minute walk) but car was in for service and my alarm didn't go off. So I was late and needed to be in work for a meeting. So I started walking and hitching at same time. Numerous cars drove out of my estate and not one of them stopped.
And having to stick a match into the top whole of the socket to get the socket holes to open and let the two pin plug in.
Gorgo : one of my favourite Irish Kaiju.
The yellow Big Time bars. Thinnest possible "chocolate" coating on brittle toffee , would shatter like glass unless it was warm and then it would stretch forever so you couldn't break a piece off.
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It Is odd how we never really had homegrown comics in Ireland up to recently. The closest thing were those Folens school annuals like Sonas, Siamsa etc. In the 90s you had Viz clones like Yellow Press and Fitz but they obviously weren't aimed at kids.
First one may be a bit too local.
Sounds, NME, Record Mirror, Hot Press, Melody Maker, Record Collecter, Spiral Scratch then along came the bi-monthlies Q Magazine, Mojo, Select, Classic Rock etc. I spent a fortune on music mags in my time.
and for some reason that same wallpaper ended up as a cover on all of my school books.
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