Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
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.
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 ! 😁
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.
Jimmy Saville.
Those rubber strips on the rear end of cars supposed to stop car sickness or static build up. Allegedly.
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!
???
ive even been on two flights to london that have had seat-back IFE?
Travelin' to Flavin
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) 🙄
Now yer suckin' Diesel
As a 16/17 year old looking for Summer jobs having to "pound the pavement" now your mother just puts up a note on the local facebook page and your sorted.
Funny you should say, I just got this in the door
And the display cabinet with the good set of china for visitors.
Not paying the school bus fare by preserving a previously issued bus ticket.
Worked a number of times for me. Kept 25 pence
Only doable with a TWO crew bus a driver and a bus conductor the one with the ticket machine.
Convince the conductor he already issued the ticket to you
The Parlour…Don't attempt to even look at the door of the Parlour, never mind set foot in there. A room accounting for 25-30% the house deemed unusable just in case the bishop/Pope/President/Visitor from America should turn up unannounced.
Atlantic 252 and the constant playing of 'Kiss By A Rose'.
When I think of Atlantic 252, I think of constant playing of certain songs.
How about Virgin 1215, and Tommy Vance aka The Night Fly.
Bus from Dublin to Limerick stopping in Borris-in-Ossory.
Nightclubs serving a meal in the middle of the night.
Coin operated showers in the hallway of the bedsit and the fcuker next door would always jump in ahead of you.
Dunkin' Donuts.
The bedsit thing there reminds me - I went to view a gaff for sale that had been split in to "apartments", they were all bar one barely better than bedsits but had a tiny bathroom wedged in; the one decent apartment was still tenanted and the poor fucker had to let us in to see his gaff as he was packing up to leave… but anyway - the hallway had two sets of a washer and dryer attached to a 32A plug; and there was a set of 32A, each wired to each individual bedsit meters. You plugged it in to the socket for your meter.
Meaning you could absolutely run your wash/drying on someone else's meter. Particularly if you were at home during the day and they weren't…
The hallway was rotten with damp/mould from all the washing going on and presumably badly vented dryers.
(the place was for sale as the owner had lived, and died, in the smallest of the bedsits; bedsit life has to be bad enough without living with the fecking landlord!)
Jesus! And I thought I’d seen some kips!
The landlord was probably minted too.... leaving a fortune to a niece/nephew they never spoke to!
House was in my price range so it alone wasn't huge; but he'd probably got twenty years of the rental income from the other rooms stuffed in a mattress.
I really must check if I've got any rich childless relatives…
Push bikes with cotter pins on the pedals. They would invariably wear out and you'd be cycling with a terrible clunk on one side for every rotation. Eventually it got so bad you replace it. It would work for a while but it wouldn't take long for it to wear out again. Maybe it was all the jumping off curbs that did it?
Glad they are a thing of the past.
Pupils being sent home from school for having "punk" hairstyles.
One lad from my secondary school (early 90's) came in one morning with a mohican. Biggest bogger going and the haircut didn't do anything to improve things. Our engineering teacher clocked him that morning and just burst his hole laughing.
fair play to him. Takes balls to have a Mohican and wear it around might have done wonders for him.
I miss walking down the road and seeing an 8 or 9 year old sitting on a street curb after a long day of football. He glares at you, as you pass, whilst simultaneously taking a large swig off a bottle of Cadet lemonade, thinking he is hardest man on the planet.
Ireland hasn't changed that much in that regard.
Wear anything slightly out of the ordinary, especially in a pub, and it's a magnet for "gas" pass-remarkable people unable to mind their own business.
And even then they were a fecker to get out. Bating the hell out of the threaded end to get them out when the taper had worn away. I think I replaced them with regular bolts as an interim solution a few times so had wonky misaligned pedals on my Triumph 20! That and poorly repaired tubes and nearly bare tyres so that one almost always had a slow puncture. T'was great when MTB's finally came along for the gravel roads and forest tracks.
Funnily enough I was just thinking lately that our bikes were so mechanically unreliable as teenagers that one would never contemplate goin more than a few miles (or maybe we were just too lazy to go further!). Now I'd think nothing of goin on a 15-20 mile round trip (or sometimes even further) on the bike to get somewhere
The " light guns " for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad to be pointed at the TV Cathode Ray Tube ( yes kids before many millenial boardsies' time ) were junk.
In a similar vein there was also a 'Light Pen' which worked with the same technological premise which in this case you held up to the TV screen. I used one such device on a then 17 year old Philips 22 inch colour television with a zx spectrum.
