The good olde days

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.

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.

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

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.

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:

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 ****?

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

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feelingstressed wrote: »

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 !