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The good olde days

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    In the 80's and early 90's, it was a condition to get a late licence to give a "substantial meal".
    Our local nightclub had you pay in and your ticket got you sausages and chips.

    Bring this back I say! :D

    Do you have a death wish? I had a part-time job cooking those meals and I still shudder at the things we did both because we had to and because we were having a laugh.

    They tasted nice for the same reason KFC tastes nice when you're blind drunk.
    The-Rigger wrote: »
    I remember that law, never got a damn thing to eat in a nightclub. :-/

    You were the lucky one! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Free curries in nightclubs?Ireland had Whimpy's?




    I have to say it was 10000x times more enjoyable to go abroad before it became cheap enough for everyone to go everywhere non stop. There are few places you can go where you want see or hear some ham headed **** and you may as well in town on match day.

    Yeah. It was law at the time that you were entitled to ask for food in nightclubs and it was part of the cover price. Ie free.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Bull****. it's way better now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Luxie wrote: »
    Yeah. It was law at the time that you were entitled to ask for food in nightclubs and it was part of the cover price. Ie free.


    The fact that the cover price went from IR£5 TO IR£7 very shortly afterwards may have skipped your notice. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Drinking 2 litres of cider and FA Cup final day on the BBC


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Sports Staduim with Brendan O Reilly on Saturdays on Network 2,mostly Horse racing and a live soccer on at 3,with George Hamilton and John Giles doing the commentary,nearly always had Liverpool on but it was still great.

    Waking up in my parents house on a Saturday (afternoon, after a big night out) and hearing 'The Final Countdown' downstairs on the telly which meant it must be time for lunch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭iMax


    Back in the late 80's early 90's the golden age before all this internet carry on and the twitter machine when people had patience and were not so insular when we had great tv shows before all this reality tv ****e, when feile was alive in tip and the beatbox was on network 2 and when people drank sunkist and wore la gear and when we all tuned into rte at 9:30 on Sat night to watch Dallas drunk before going out to get a free curry at the local nightclub which was included in the admission price, walking 6 miles home and loving it the following morning, when wipmy's was still in Ireland and we could tape tv shows in vhs when jake the snake was on tv and when aer lingus flights cost 1500 pounds to go to london , the golden age:(

    Get out of my head !!!

    I was only thinking this the last couple of days. It may be that I'm getting older & that's why my thoughts are going that way, but I've started to listen to a lot of 80s/90s music & am watching a lot more TV from that era (currently watching Larry Sanders).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    I always think there will never be a decade again with the authenticity of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s (which was really only 2000-2001), ive only first hand experienced the 80s, 90s, 00s, and now but from here on its just going to be the same i would say, if we survive 2012 of course :rolleyes:
    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,192 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Luxie wrote: »
    Waking up in my parents house on a Saturday (afternoon, after a big night out) and hearing 'The Final Countdown' downstairs on the telly which meant it must be time for lunch.[/QUOTE


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyggY_R3jU8


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    The fact that the cover price went from IR£5 TO IR£7 very shortly afterwards may have skipped your notice. :D

    I was only a mere child at the time. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    ROCKMAN wrote: »
    Heavy Metal in the Top Hat and SFX...

    Darn tootin..

    Seen Ozzy, Metallica (twice) and Slayer there all the same year ('88).

    Amazing gigs, tons of stage diving .. ah great days indeed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,537 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977



    RTÉ2 was Network2
    Unless you lived on the east coast, you had two channels and you were glad to have them.

    we in roscommon had all the british channels in 1982, ah the days of watching big daddy and giant haystacks, supergran and bullseye on sunday, treasure hunt

    as for wimpys there was one in ballyhaunis in mayo years ago alright


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Jonah's. Blinkers. Curries. Fights. Ugh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭123balltv


    curry chips in a bag instead of a tray


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭deisedevil


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    I have to say it was 10000x times more enjoyable to go abroad before it became cheap enough for everyone to go everywhere non stop. There are few places you can go where you want see or hear some ham headed **** and you may as well in town on match day.

    In town on match day? Ham headed ****?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    TV now just can't compare to 'the good olde days'



    Also competitions used to be great back then. The Children's Channel (pre Nickelodeon Nickelodeon) ran one where you had to mail them in a crisp and if it got there in one piece you won some sh*tty 80's present.

    Kids now don't know what they are missing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    TBH I prefer all the stuff we have now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    ran one where you had to mail them in a crisp and if it got there in one piece you won some sh*tty 80's present.

    that's fking genius!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    being in the army in the 70s an 80s free holidays to the leb time off over there and head off to places like egypt israiel etc up to beruait and have a few beers in some bombed out bars with a few hesbullagh mighty craic if there was a shoot out there was allways a few spare ak47 lying around so you could join in and all free god i miss the smell of cordite:D:D:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    Drinking 2 litres of cider and FA Cup final day on the BBC
    only 2ltrs sh1t i drank four:D:D:eek::eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    a watching europe sing there brings back memories cant rember the singeres name but he was hot and so was the drummer they played here a few times great stuff great times but i guess we have too move on:eek::eek::eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    You tried ringing 0181 811 8181 the odd time on a sat morning.
    If you did, you're probably humming the tune to the number now...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭St.Spodo


    I'd like to have lived the late 80s for The Smiths, The Stone Roses and The Pixies.Not too arsed otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    St.Spodo wrote: »
    I'd like to have lived the late 80s for The Smiths, The Stone Roses and The Pixies.Not too arsed otherwise.


    Luckily we have internet now. You can download them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭cucbuc


    123balltv wrote: »
    curry chips in a bag instead of a tray

    We used to buy curried chips on the way home from the nightclub and eat them walking along. All very fine until you'd put your coat on next day going "up the town" with brown streaks of grainy curry in your button holes/zip/everywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭Dr.Winston O'Boogie


    Ha ha f*ck off the internet is the bollox.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭LambsEye


    AHHHHHHHHH Top 30 Hits AHHHHHHHHHHH Top 30 Hits



    "They NEVER play the song I like."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭jennytightlips


    a watching europe sing there brings back memories cant rember the singeres name but he was hot and so was the drummer they played here a few times great stuff great times but i guess we have too move on:eek::eek::eek:

    my friend his name was joey tempest :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭imitation


    The Trip to Tipp
    Your schoolbooks were covered in wallpaper, only rich kids have the clear plastic covers.

    Parents had issues affording heating oil so you went to bed with a hot water bottle. And so many blankets above you you could barely turn over in the bed! Yep, no heating for much of the year
    Even nowadays I rarely use the heating, just don't feel the cold

    Farmers owned a jeep and a car.
    Quite rare for others to have two cars, some families had one car and many had none..

    The done thing for schoolbooks in my parts was wrapping paper.

    Heating was a pointless anyway when you didnt have insulation and single glazing (actually my parents still have a house like this !)

    I remember atlantic 252 as well ! Class songs, nowadays FM = Radio.

    Any farmer I knew only had another car, usually a saloon or estate. The reason was obvious when you looked in the back, nobody was gonna drop the kids off at the school with a dead calf/bale of straw/bag of meal in back of the car.(Unless were talking some really hardcore culchies)

    Cars were always at least 5 years old (not that you could tell by plates in the good old days), rusting profusely and spent as much time in the garage as on the road.

    I remember the holy grail when I was a kid was the 500ml Can of Coke, the bottle just wasn't the same !


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