Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
Now yer suckin' Diesel
A neighbour used to always buy his cars in Cavan and get a better deal on the CN reg. He always had an LMFM sticker in the back window so everyone would know he was really a local (Meath) 🙄
Travelin' to Flavin
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ive even been on two flights to london that have had seat-back IFE?
Radio station stickers in your car window. I think the FM104 ones used to be serial numbered and you could win prizes if your number was called out over the air.
The phrase that pays!
Those rubber strips on the rear end of cars supposed to stop car sickness or static build up. Allegedly.
Jimmy Saville.
Washing powder that would cause you to break out in hives and rashes and would advertise itself on nuclear bright orange buses that could be seen from space.
I think the clue was in the name, today Radeon sounds like something dangerous in a power plant.
Maybe it's been mentioned ...
but video screen on the back of airline seats and you could choose an actual movie to watch and the person next to you could choose a different movie to watch ...
Wild times ! 😁
True, my dad used to bring me to work with him some Sundays when he did overtime.
He drove a Dublin bus though (then CIE)😁
When he was assigned a bus in the office I'd get the reg and run around the depot in Ringsend to find it, then sit on the shelf they had then at the front window while picking up passengers.
My parents used to bring me to work when I was a kid. I'd play around on the floor of the shop while they worked. Before I could walk, they'd have me sitting in one of those bouncy baby chairs on the desk beside them, while they served customers.
Somehow I don't think you'd get away with that kind of carry on these days.
Most cars having these car door dinging reflectors. Shockingly they seem to be making a comeback.
Old pully ring pulls on cans. Would occasionally snap without opening the can, and you could get some awesome lip injuries from them too. And you found them absolutely everywhere.
Or the missions, a week of masses when there were stalls in the car parks selling all kinds of tat.
Torches with incandescent bulbs. Absolutely ate battery power and if you dropped it the bulb would almost certainly fail. It was dark times before LEDs. Literally.
Milk cartons with perforated pull away to open. Before the days of the plastic screw lids. Some people used to buy those little plastic spouts you could attach to it after you open it. Sometimes opening the carton would result in spillage if you were not careful.
My folks still have one. The mother wouldn't sleep if it wasn't chained.
That's still around, and might get more popular thanks to the deposit/return scheme.
Declining numbers of cars with Padre Pio stickers these days. Bluey sunshades tho...
Soda Stream. With the exception of Lemonade the rest of the flavors were vile
Clearing the mother in law's house at the moment and she has a wired in sacred heart lightbulb. I remember her telling me that before electrification they had a sacred heart lantern that always had a candle lit.
We've the full set of plaster religious statues, they creep me out.
Solemn Novena stickers on the windows of most people in the neighbourhood.
Fitted to doors of nervous types who can peek out at whoever's there without fully opening the door. Kind of largely redundant with spy holes and security cams.
There's a subset of people who still buy these and put them up I imagine but decorative plate wall hangings.
Reader's Digest.
Awful looking home "improvements" which I guess date from before planning was tightened up. Worst looking are windows roughly grafted onto the roofs of small terrace houses.
Those stupid shower attachments with the rubber hoses that went onto the bathtub taps, the hot one inevitably popped off giving one a cold shower.
nearly every front door in a house had a door chain.
why I don’t know, because if you are breaking in and can get past a yale lock, and a mortice lock….that won’t be any issue to ya. Might delay your entry by 15 seconds, tops.
Carpeted toilet lid covers, to match the U shaped carpet around the bowl and at the base of the sink.
I remember a trend of padded seats too - if you're sitting it on that long, go to the doctor!
That U shaped piece of carpet people used have at the jacks bowl.
Carpets in toilets full stop.
Those dolls and stuffed toy like things people hid their bog roll in.
Net curtains everywhere, for spying on neighbours or whoever was outside without being seen.
Also a framed pic with JFK and two Popes for some reason.
I visited an elderly lady, friend of the family, in her house outside London a few years back. I couldn't get over the HUNDREDS of tiny ornaments, cheap religious statues and shítty holiday souvenirs. She died last year and her family are still trying to empty the house of masses of, basically worthless crap, before they can put it up for sale.
Even expensive things like Waterford Crystal will become next to worthless because people don't want to fill their homes with useless dust gatherers anymore.
Our dining room table had built in swivel out ashtrays on each corner, top of the range!
Away the lads
