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Silly crazes you remember

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  • #62
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Scoobies


  • #63
    Squeeonline
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭Squeeonline


    Pokemon both the cards and stickers,
    and Pogs (still have a ton of them for the grandkids some day!)

    Warhammer (might still be around, not sure)

    Having loads of posters on your bedroom wall

    Crazy writing pens


  • #64
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    brummytom wrote: »
    Scoobies

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHDYfoRYcqQ


  • #65
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Silliest craze I ever remember has to be "The Celtic Tiger"

    What a fad that was!


  • #66
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Oh! BN biscuits, purely because of that advert


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  • #67
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    brummytom wrote: »
    Oh! BN biscuits, purely because of that advert

    I hate you. :mad:

    I didnt know what the ad was, now its stuck in my head.
    Well since im suffering, everyone else may as well:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJOigxTwiIA


  • #68
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    anewme wrote: »
    Silliest craze I ever remember has to be "The Celtic Tiger"

    What a fad that was!
    ...

    Is anyone else sick of the government/politics being dragged up in every single thread?


  • #69
    The Scientician
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭The Scientician


    Smelly fancy paper ('80s)
    XWORX jeans ('90s)
    Inflatable furniture ('90s)
    Lava lamps (in and out of style since they were invented, millennial upsurge)
    Coke sunglasses (1995-ish?)
    Coke ear radio yokeys (1998-ish)
    Fisherman hats
    wallet chains
    scratch and sniff stickers ('80s)
    Wearing a short sleeve t-shirt over a long sleeve one.


  • #70
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Pet Rocks, wtf was that all about :confused:


    Rubix Cube, now that was a craze:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajJ81UJdRxk


  • #71
    UglyBolloxFace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭UglyBolloxFace


    brummytom wrote: »
    Oh! BN biscuits, purely because of that advert

    And The Office písstake of it.


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  • #72
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,164 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Waaaaaaaasssssssuppppppp! budweiser thing.

    Oh fuçk! Sssshhhhhhhh!!! You might start it off again!


  • #73
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Moving statues.


  • #74
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    the premier league stickers in walkers- my copybooks were covered!


  • #75
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I remember girls going crazy for Cabbage Patch Kids ... and all the boys going "huh?" Top Trumps cards were more our style. Except for the geeks and their Rubik's Cubes. :pac:

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #76
    Squeeonline
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭Squeeonline


    Beenie babies

    The really big chains for wallets. I have one in front of me now... I remember about 10 years ago kids had them dragging on the ground almost. They were banned from school and considered weapons by the school.


  • #77
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    girl things I can think of.....those black plasticy choker necklaces, hair springs!


  • #78
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    My school was swamped with kids sent from L.A. to show us how to 'walk the dog' and the like.

    That's was a tricky one to master, I lost poor oul Misty trying.:(


  • #79
    deathrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭deathrider


    Minidisc players... That one only lasted for about 15minutes.


  • #80
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Gob Stopper sweets, out in the early Eighties. About the size of a golf ball, they stopped a few gobs alright. I remember nearly choking on one, fecking lethal they were.


  • #81
    jiltloop
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    putting squashed up coke cans in the spokes of your bike wheels to make it sound like a moped.


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  • #82
    The Gibzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭The Gibzilla


    Lazer pointers, I remember one Christmas they were a big deal, of course I never fell for them, never saw the point. :D


  • #83
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    anyone remember those super sowers? they came in green packaging, feckin made your eyes water, but they were lovely :)

    and mr freezes!

    and lucky bags!!


  • #84
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    The Scientician wrote: »
    Wearing a short sleeve t-shirt over a long sleeve one.

    I still do this... I'm pretty sure its not a fad as its still going on...

    nuxxx wrote: »
    and mr freezes!

    and lucky bags!!

    A fad, probarbly not. Things from your youth, yes.


  • #85
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    FearDark wrote: »
    I still do this... I'm pretty sure its not a fad as its still going on...



    A fad, probarbly not. Things from your youth, yes.


    Each to their own :o


  • #86
    bernyh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭bernyh


    wearing grolsch tops on ur shoes...

    flared jeans n hoodies (early 90's)

    those horrible florescent socks (pink n yellow)

    Board shorts

    (nb I grew up in UK)


  • #87
    CongoPowers
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    I was thinking lads who stick their tracksuit bottoms/jeans into their socks, but I'm not sure if some still do that?

    Oh, and alien babies!

    Or those bloody Furbies. Christ.


  • #88
    Marty McFly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,222 ✭✭✭✭Marty McFly


    Eating paper,stuff was terrible but still loved it

    Chocolate Cigarettes when you think of it how were they ever let sell them to kids no wonder i started smoking :).

    Eclipse and x-works jeans were fashionable for about 6 months right around the time I was doing my confirmation, there some photos to look at :o


  • #89
    myflipflops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭myflipflops


    Rollerblades.


  • #90
    Show Time
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭Show Time


    Two tone jeans.


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  • #91
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi

    Tamagotchi. You raised a pet that would to be fed and get attention at various times and the alarm would ring.
    Not surprisingly schools cracked down and banned them

    Kellogs cycle reflectors
    http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/1/9/3/9/7/webimg/3100124.jpg
    Was a big thing to collect these


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