Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
Brass tortoise (turtles) were pretty common. Some of them had the shell open to form a sort of stash box.
One in the jacks too to shame you if you having a quick tug. Jesus is watching you sinner🤣
My friends granny had one of these and we wanted to take it and use it as one of our Barbies
I think every house used to have one of these when I was a kid.
Sorry just looked it up there it was called Youku.
I don't remember that one but there has been countless streaming sites that come and go over time. The good ones become well known and eventually too big and get shut down.
RIP Torrentz too.
Do you remember YokuTube, it was an Asian version of Youtube but with full boxsets of tv series and films but dodgy as fcuk with pop ups.
Ya think thats good, Mother dearest still has the Table she got from her parents as a wedding gift. It's used constantly. Formica never looked so good.. received in 1960.. :)
My folks still have a knife they got as a wedding present in 1976. Still works perfectly.
Times before private or incognito browsing. I was kinda the tech guy of our group and would sometimes get calls or texts asking how to delete browsing history. Can only imaging what they were browsing back in those days on the family computer…
Ha ha we had one of them, spent hours just pressing the spring loaded top which would chime off the metal. Eventually the ashtray was replaced with a pot plant which stood at the top of the stairs for years, knocked it over a few times coming home from the pub😁
Or The Child of Prague.
In some ways getting presents for events like weddings, birthdays etc is annoying but just giving money (it makes sense but) is so impersonal and it's made events transactional...like bride and groom's counting the predictive money they'll be getting beforehand or using it to pay for the meal. There is something sweet about one of the mothers baking the cake, the aunty making the dress, the lack of expectation of receiving a certain amount from each guest ...and half the guests aren't even close to the couple etc.
Someone gets married and you get a heavy case of cutlery. Actually several of these
Now is it Sheffield Steel or some reputable brand, I dunno.
My parents have stacks of cutlery sets which probably haven't been opened since the 1970´s. Not to sound like an ungrateful brat and I was not even alive then but the thread is for things that don't happen now. Nobody in 2024 buys cutlery sets for a wedding couple.
Oh we had these horrible buddha drink things...they actually contained some horrible alcohol...used as a last resort at parties...I was too young before they were empty thankfully 😁
I remember my mother getting this from a friend as a souvenir from Spain, ghastly looking ashtray thing from the early eighties.
It's good things from olden times not creepy things. Oh actually it is bad things 😂😂😂😂😂 reminds me of that scene from the snapper where she's talking with her friend and the girl says about the ornaments!
Especially in the little used front room / parlour…
Ornaments, ornaments everywhere. Every house, be it a ceramic statue of a Victorian couple on a bench, a set of six small brass cannons, or a trippy tie dye blue glass fish with eyes that followed you around,, you would find large pointless and often creepy dust gatherers everywhere.
Thankfully that seems to have died out.
I was chatting with my mate and made a reference to those metal balls that you'd get in a Chinese styles box. They were supposedly stress relievers. You would rolls them around in your hand, making sure they stayed touching at all times. They had some sort of bell/chime thing in them.
He mentioned that you do see or hear about those anymore, and I stopped to think, he might be right!
Forget if they tasted shîte or not but who remembers these?
yeah, Lolo Wood is the blonde, a good few familiar faces in that clip.
I was at The Cramps in the SFX too, great gig. Lux gyrating against the mic.
One of those girls was on the same course as me in Trinity. A couple of the others went there too.
And I wasn't a psychobilly but I saw The Cramps when they played at the SFX in 1995. (The SFX is something that isn't around these days!)
Lovingly preserved by the BFI on DVD. Their CFF sets are great.
When I was about 15 or so I used to stand at the traffic lights near the Dead Mans Inn on what is now the N4 selling newspapers. When the lights went red you'd walk / jog down between the lines of cars with a Herald and a Press on each arm so the headlines were clearly visible. You'd sell the papers through the car windows and then try and dodge your way back to the traffic lights when they went green and the traffic starting moving again. My folks though I was delivering papers on a paper round as we all used to head off in a van loaded with newspapers after school to be dropped off. When they found out what I was actually doing they went mad and stopped me doing it any more. The tips were always great!
Psychobilly was a combination of punk and rockabilly music, characterised by bands like the Cramps, with large quiffs and punk riffs.
Few if any shops offer them but both the Indo and Irish Times offer delivery in many urban areas (using each others networks to fill in gaps and offering other papers or mags too) plus I think An Post will do it for elderly/housebound elsewhere.
Mine is delivered by a guy in a car. Paid monthly by card, never talk to the guy as I'm rarely awake at that time!
Not sure if mentioned already but are paper boys gone? Remember my brother delivering the herald or press to house. I can still remember the smell of the bag he used. Use to be a house than the papers got dropped to and all the boys went there to get them. Even did a Sunday run and do the collection run on a Friday for money
Not sure if this quite belongs here but saw this on Twitter and found it interesting. Talking to young people in Dublin in 1989 about their fashion looks. Seems like Dublin was a pretty cool place back then anyway. I see central bank was big hangout place, same as when I was a teen in the mid/late 90s
No idea what a psychobilly is though lol.
https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1795196262322483252
Me too! Thanks for asking it👍
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