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Things you could but cant do in ireland anymore?

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    #152
    WillieCocker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭WillieCocker


    gwhiz wrote: »
    dont ever go into a shop and ask for "black" bags, they are now called "refugee sacks"

    Proper order.


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    #153
    Mr.Lizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    johnny_knoxvile wrote: »
    appearantly in Dublin years ago people used the "N" word as a pet name for dogs or "Blackie". It wasn't meant with any racial slant

    Watch the 1950's movie "The Dam Busters". One of the main characters has a dog called "******" and uses his name frequently throughout the movie.


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    #154
    gwhiz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭gwhiz


    Tchaikovsky wrote: »
    Urge to kill rising, rising, RISING
    So essentially, you can't say 'black'? How about 'really, really, really, really dark blue'?

    Bring back Golly Bars!!



    Golly Bars..... what a blast from the past. I think they sell similar icecreams now but with a different name??
    and
    remember the Golly Wog dolls.... I had one when I was a kid.. seemingly they were not allowed to make them any more (too racist) and the old ones are quite collectible so if you have one in your attic, hold on to it !!
    and
    the Black & White Minstrel Show (really showing my age here)... everyones faces were painted black and their eyes and lips in white... this was banned too.... twas a load of rubbish anyways :D


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    #155
    Bricriu
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭Bricriu


    Get the RA to deal with local drugdealing scum.


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    #156
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    get 10p back for glass bottles, the 80's were cool


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    #157
    WillieCocker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭WillieCocker


    Bricriu wrote: »
    Get the RA to deal with local drugdealing scum.

    They are too busy extorting them and selling the stuff themselves.


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    #158
    homerun_homer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,024 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    I miss being able to call customer care/IT and not having to talk to someone in India on a broken line.


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    #159
    BuachaillAbroad
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭BuachaillAbroad


    Rent your videos from the VHS rent van...anyone else have one of these?


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    #160
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    BuachaillAbroad wrote: »
    Rent your videos from the VHS rent van...anyone else have one of these?
    No actually.
    But there weren't many sex criminals in the area I grew up in.


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    #161
    chiliconparmi
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    BuachaillAbroad wrote: »
    Rent your videos from the VHS rent van...anyone else have one of these?

    Yeah we had a guy come around with vidoes to rent as well. I think he rented them from extra vision and copied them.


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    #162
    stateofflux
    Registered Users Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    in stephens green last week .after i did my shopping i went to the green cos it was sunny.i had some heineken cans , milk and bread and sausages in a shopping bag. i was drinking a lucozade...3 wardens come over and order me to leave the park....for 'having alcohol in the park 'with possible intent to consume'...wtf!!!.....

    i was fuming so much i went down to trinity and opened a can like about 30 people around me were and watched the cricket in peace lol

    add this to smoking ban, no off licence sales after 10.30, clubs closing at 2.30, blasphemy rulings, and its verging on totalitarian dystopia...scary....


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    #163
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    stateofflux wrote: »
    in stephens green last week .after i did my shopping i went to the green cos it was sunny.i had some heineken cans , milk and bread and sausages in a shopping bag. i was drinking a lucozade...3 wardens come over and order me to leave the park....for 'having alcohol in the park 'with possible intent to consume'...wtf!!!.....

    i was fuming so much i went down to trinity and opened a can like about 30 people around me were and watched the cricket in peace lol

    add this to smoking ban, no off licence sales after 10.30, clubs closing at 2.30, blasphemy rulings, and its verging on totalitarian dystopia...scary....
    If that's as scary as your totalitarian dystopia gets, I'm in!


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    #164
    stateofflux
    Registered Users Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    i spend a lot of time in berlin...so im used to being treated like a human :)


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    #165
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    stateofflux wrote: »
    in stephens green last week .after i did my shopping i went to the green cos it was sunny.i had some heineken cans , milk and bread and sausages in a shopping bag. i was drinking a lucozade...3 wardens come over and order me to leave the park....for 'having alcohol in the park 'with possible intent to consume'...wtf!!!.........


    You were worse to listen to them, I would have told them to go away and die of a disease!!


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    #166
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Claim your rock band are going to be the next U2.


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    #167
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Hear and read people using the phrase "PC" and actually knowing what it meant (i.e. fuk all to do with, for instance, walking a dog without a leash).


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    #168
    bladespin
    Registered Users Posts: 7,336 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Import something from abroad and sell it for four times the buying price though some still try :P


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    #169
    shaner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭shaner


    homerun_homer wrote: »
    I miss being able to call customer care/IT and not having to talk to someone in India on a broken line.

    Being able to call Eircom support and talk to a Computer Science student who didn't care and who's supervisor was a student in the same class...


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    #170
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    bladespin wrote: »
    Import something from abroad and sell it for four times the buying price though some still try :P

    lol when the psp 1st came out in ireland there was a shortage of sony 1gb memory cards, they cost over 120euro in the shop and i could get them for 35euro. sold them in the buyandsell. at the time most irish people were still afraid of ebay and online shopping. and after an order of 200euro worth never arrived i could see why...


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    #171
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    1) Drink tap water without worrying if it has been polluted with cryptosporidium.
    2) Walk through a large town without seeing American fast food places like McDonalds or Subway.
    3) Walk anywhere without encountering a bunch of teenagers wearing hoodies as well as socks pulled up over their tracksuits.
    4) Go out for a walk and not have to listen to people shouting on mobile phones.
    5) Go out without locking the door and setting the alarm.
    6) Hear about something other than the recession on the RTE news.
    7) Not dislike Irish people in general.


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    #172
    JPA
    Registered Users Posts: 13,761 ✭✭✭✭JPA


    kumate_champ07 wrote: »
    lol when the psp 1st came out in ireland there was a shortage of sony 1gb memory cards, they cost over 120euro in the shop and i could get them for 35euro. sold them in the buyandsell. at the time most irish people were still afraid of ebay and online shopping. and after an order of 200euro worth never arrived i could see why...

    The PSP came out 4 years ago FFS! Get some proper nostalgia.


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    #173
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,892 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Quazzie wrote: »

    Go to yur doctor and have him know you without checking it on a screen, and expect him to diagnose you from experience and not from an computer programme.

    Believe me, the software doctors use doesn't give any clinical advice at all. Seeing as its banned for it to do so...


    Even in my shorter life than some of those on here, its no longer possible to:

    Go out and get drunk on 20 quid
    Go to the jacks in a pub and know you're not going to pay for anything unless you need johnnies
    Get phone credit on a scratchcard you could leave lying around the house for weeks knowing that nobody could use the code without opening the shrinkwrap AND scratching off the silver
    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    get 10p back for glass bottles, the 80's were cool

    Irn Bru still comes in glass deposit/return bottles in Scotland, was in a newsagent when someone brought in some of them. Felt like I'd fallen through a time vortex...




    ....when I got out of my car in Scotland the previous night. That just added to it.


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    #174
    conchubhar1
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    order a feckin drink after 10

    ****in hate that


    ''Go out and get drunk on 20 quid''

    6 for 7 - and then have a few in the nightclub with 3 euro deals much?


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    #175
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    JPA wrote: »
    The PSP came out 4 years ago FFS! Get some proper nostalgia.

    i can get a 4gb memory card for 6euro now. that makes it nostalgic


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    #176
    conchubhar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭conchubhar1


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    1)
    5) Go out without locking the door and setting the alarm.

    things you could do before when you were not an idiot


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    #177
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    Does anybody rob clothes lines anymore? Haven't heard of it in years, i'm throwing that one into the ring.


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    #178
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    joke about having a bomb


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    #179
    Borneo Fnctn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Borneo Fnctn


    At least you can't drive drunk and abuse children anymore.


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    #180
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    conchubhar1 wrote: »
    things you could do before when you were not an idiot
    There was actually a time when you could leave your house without worrying about having it broken into. Remembering such a time has nothing to do with being an idiot.


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    #181
    conchubhar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭conchubhar1


    you were just lucky to not have it robbed

    leaving it open, in any time period, is being stupid in fairness


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