Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
Not sure if it's completely gone but I don't hear old folks making sure they have an insurance policy specifically for their funeral expenses anymore.
Good old IOL Ireland On Line, they killed our subscription back in the 90s because I hacked a university server that was stupid enough to leave its etc/passwd file open to crawlers complete with hashed passwords…
An afternoon with a wordlist and and Pentium 4 make short work of that lol.
No upside from it other than proving it was possible ha.
Back in the 90s early 2000's most of what you could find on the web was interesting, now it's a bit like using a Johnston Press website to read the news!
Amended to 'Silage Farmer' in my rural secondary school. I remember our English teacher not being arsed one day so he rolled the school telly in with the adaptation of the book starring Ben Kingsley.
I also suspect the wallpaper was in part used to camoflage the damp walls so common in so many pre 1980's Irish houses
I also did LC in 89. Poor oul King Lead.
Silas Marner.That's the novel we did.
Yes, King Lear & Wuthering Heights. But the second novel was Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (just 70 pages) so I read that about 50 times and knew it inside out. The question was much easier than the Wuthering Heights one.
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89 was King Lear and Wuthering Heights ? I sailed through English as at the 88 Ulster final I was standing at the wall in St Tiarneachs park when a fat hoor landed on top of me , jumping the wall for free access . The jumper ? , my English teacher 😝
Still a four year cycle. My son did Hamlet this year which I remember being the Leaving Cert play in 1988 (the year before I did mine).
I recently pick up a Neil EP ehile in France, lol.
This one:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firehuse999/10595711944
I saw the below today and instantly thought of this thread. The Yellow Wagon and the stories that went with it!
I thought this was spudgun?
Aah they weren't sh1t. They were great craic for kids.
Spud guns
Dim at the best of times, particularly when on rechargeable batteries; which they ate.
using these .. I used to put twin lights on the front..
^^^
yea ,using cereal boxes to cover school books . If the phone at the post office wasn’t accepting money but still worked all the neighbourhood were there like wildfire to ring the US , Australia etc
Ya, wrapping the school books so they would be in decent nick for the next year. Worked for most books but the English plays and stuff rotated on a 4 year basis if I recall correctly.
We did Othello for the leaving.
"That black ram tupping your white ewe!" or some such.
What my school books in the 90s were wrapped in cause there were loads of rolls of it being dumped in charity shops / handed around mothers groups for that purpose.
Granny wallpaper
Agreed.
Although I think wallpaper and carpets may have had one beneficial side effect of muffling noises etc and wooden floors and bare walls the opposite.
It's come and gone before already this century, was a thing of wallpapering one wall and painting the other three in ~2010. Stripey was the thing that time.
So it'll come back again, and go again, most likely. Floral seems to be what the local shop sell, so late 80s coming back.
Apparently it's coming back.
Utter dose to put up. I'd rather just paint the walls and be done with it.
Absolutely. Read the thread title. When do you think the internet was first available in Ireland?
Hundreds of thousands of people had the internet in the 90s in Ireland
You had the Internet?
Some people still do it, but it's more a hundred euro a roll variety rather than the woodchip that then got painted over when redecorating 😂
Nuttin compared to The Beat on the Peat.
https://www.facebook.com/radiomidwest/posts/-beat-on-the-peat-the-dvd-out-now-it-began-with-a-dream-and-ended-with-the-bigge/3262311650458239/
Electric Eddie and The Beat on the Street
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