Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
Did anyone else cross their fingers and shout 'P&T' when they saw a van?
Those early milk cartons - no way you’re opening them without a scissors.
Having to go to a bank to get a sterling cheque to send away in the post to buy something.
Most men over 40 dressed in suit jacket, v-necked jumper, shirt and tie, flat cap. You might see a few now but they are very rare, most of the older generations dress younger now.
Buying single cigarettes from the side window of a pub aged 12.
.A lot of shops being closed on a Thursday and nothing, I mean NOTHING open on a Sunday.
Missing events or get togethers as you were not at home and uncontactable.
VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs being expensive to buy. Fines for returning rental tapes late.
Reading in Cheeky comic the strip Paddywhack which made great fun of an Irish man and his presumed lesser intellect and appearance
Watching your teachers beat the **** out of the kids from broken homes who lived in the local orphanage which was pretty much the last thing they needed. 9 years old we were.
Door ro door insurance salesmen from Combined, Irish Life, New Ireland, Canada Life calling to house monthly around children’s allowance, collecting say £3 monthly on a policy that paid £90 after 5 years and £140 after remaining 5 years with about £220 life assurance. Not uncommon for each child in the house having one for first communion savings etc from these rip off shisters.
I used to work for Securicor for a summer. Actually maybe 2 summers…? Anyway, I'd be in the full gear with helmet and all going from van to shop to van, picking up cloth bags of coins or plastic boxes of notes. While going from place to place the vans were locked, windows didn't go up or down, there was just a small vent and fan to cycle the air but yeah, often times two of the three person crew would be smoking and filling the van. I was 17-18 and never smoked. It was gross.
After a bit I got to know some of the drivers who would be nice enough to not smoke in the van, but some just didn't care or really needed the nicotine kick. 🤮
And people wondered what difference the smoking ban was going to make….
Off topic, but, it's scandalous 😱😆 My 16 year old has had good sex ed in school since he was about 11. Last year, they had what I can only describe as how-to-be-a-good-lover ed!! It was sexually explicit and went through all the male/female parts and the various ways same could be pleasured! Thankfully, they also drum in the contraception advice ..😮
If the Mrs reads that post she'll send me back to school.
On topic. Might have been mentioned but the price of flights. None of this heading away 3,4 times a year for a couple of days.
Wallpaper has pretty much died out in home decoration from what I can see. Remember wallpaper with the sort of raised foam bits? Usually floral design.
Then for a while people were putting up dado rails with a striped wallpaper under it and a more plain paper above.
Fancy skirting boards, coving and ceiling molds for around light fixtures.
Seems to me like a lot of these ornate features have died out for a simpler, minimalist style. Nowadays it's LED light strips and bulbs.
do you think they will come back into fashion? I don’t fancy wallpapering haven’t done it in years.
That book cover stuff was very versatile.
Electric Eddie and The Beat on the Street
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/
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 😂
You had the Internet?
Hundreds of thousands of people had the internet in the 90s in Ireland
Absolutely. Read the thread title. When do you think the internet was first available in Ireland?
Apparently it's coming back.
Utter dose to put up. I'd rather just paint the walls and be done with it.
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.
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.
Granny wallpaper
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.
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.
^^^
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
using these .. I used to put twin lights on the front..
Dim at the best of times, particularly when on rechargeable batteries; which they ate.
Spud guns
Aah they weren't sh1t. They were great craic for kids.
I thought this was spudgun?
I saw the below today and instantly thought of this thread. The Yellow Wagon and the stories that went with it!
I recently pick up a Neil EP ehile in France, lol.
This one:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firehuse999/10595711944
