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Things that used to be cool/trendy

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  • #32
    Dotrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    ThinksAmoral wrote: »
    Rubick's cubes.

    Actually, they're cool again.


  • #33
    Bodhidharma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Bodhidharma


    coonecb1 wrote: »
    Xworx jeans
    Watching 'The Word' on Friday nights...
    'Step' and 'Undercut' hairstyles...

    Xworx, thats them. I seem to remember baggy jeans called Eclipse also, great for listenin to Outer Space by The Prodigy and carrying spray paint to 'tag' places.

    Yes, we are almost thirty now :(


  • #34
    hubba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭hubba


    Lady Di blouses (virginal, up to the neck with a big bow)
    donkey jackets
    Simon Hart shoes
    Sony Walkman's the size of a bus
    shoulder pads
    leg warmers
    Bottles of Ritz


  • #35
    Bodhidharma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Bodhidharma


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    And don't forget PetroMotion:o

    Stayin up late to watch smut on C4 - internet has killed it.:(

    The Word and EuroTrash.

    Terry Christian was a smouldering ball of Manchester snide, the gals used to like him.


  • #36
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Bodhidharma wrote: »
    The Word and EuroTrash.

    Terry Christian was a smouldering ball of Manchester snide, the gals used to like him.

    I didnt like him but he did have a great mouth for catching frisbees.


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  • #37
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Retro :cool:


  • #38
    InkSlinger67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    TURN THAT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • #39
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Reebok Pumps

    Tracksuit bottoms with buttons on the side, horrible things to be wearing on a windy day.


  • #40
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    "The Celtic Tiger"

    Wtf was that? I could never figure out why a "tiger"?

    Its not like one ever made it to these shores outside of a crate addressed to the Zoo...

    :mad:


  • #41
    NoHornJan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    Cheesecloth shirts.
    Bellbottom trousers.
    Desert boots.
    Cravattes.
    Petuli oil.(sp)


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  • #42
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Undercuts.


  • #43
    Bodhidharma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Bodhidharma


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    "The Celtic Tiger"

    Wtf was that? I could never figure out why a "tiger"?

    Its not like one ever made it to these shores outside of a crate addressed to the Zoo...

    :mad:

    Thats a reference to Asian tiger economies that grew very quickly in the early nineties


  • #44
    InkSlinger67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Undercuts.

    Oh jesus! I had one of them for a long time. I went back to the barber when I was 25 and asked for one and he laughed at me! :D


  • #45
    Tom Russell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Tom Russell


    Tuning your radio to 252 on longwave


  • #46
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Tom Russell wrote: »
    Tuning your radio to 252 on longwave

    Atlantic two-five-twwooooo, roadshow!


  • #47
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Tom Russell wrote: »
    Tuning your radio to 252 on longwave

    2fm's Rick O'Shea used to be a DJ on there!


  • #48
    NoHornJan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    "Grab a Tiger by the Tail." The Esso petrol slogan.
    Lots of cars had stupid wooly tiger tails dangling
    from the rear view mirrors.


  • #49
    NoHornJan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    Radio Dublin and all the other pirate radio stations at the time.


  • #50
    PeefsPixie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭PeefsPixie


    Jelly shoes, pokemon cards, terrible girl band pop ****e... The memories will haunt me forever, hahaha


  • #51
    Sentid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭Sentid


    Killinaskully

    And feckin pot-pourri on the cistern of the toilet :p


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  • #52
    NoHornJan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    :pac:French Knickers . . .


  • #53
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    Cornrows


  • #54
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Bebo, myspace, those rectangular glasses with thick plastic frames, glasses with huge lenses, girls wearing those chinese dresses, celine dion, the beegees, the thrills, atlantic 252, the royal family, air travel.


  • #55
    the culture of deference
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    meeting a friend on a tuesday and arranging to meet outside easons in 2 saturdays time at 2pm. (with no further contact between both days)

    going out for a night where 300 photos weren't taken

    i miss hearing stories in the pre internet days / mobile phone days where old wives tales and i heard this from so and so, had to be belived because we knew fcukall else

    oh and trigger bars


  • #56
    ameliadad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 55 ✭✭ameliadad


    buying a house


  • #57
    SerialComplaint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭SerialComplaint


    Having a job.


  • #58
    AlmightyDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭AlmightyDublin


    Duff wrote: »
    Pokemon cards. I once killed a man for a Charizard.
    LOL! :)


  • #59
    sophieblake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭sophieblake


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Wearing these things.....


    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


  • #60
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    NoHornJan wrote: »
    "Grab a Tiger by the Tail." The Esso petrol slogan.
    Lots of cars had stupid wooly tiger tails dangling
    from the rear view mirrors.

    I remember it as "Put a tiger in your tank"


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  • #61
    Katgurl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    Most of the fashion trends mentioned here have already come back around, undercuts reappeared over a year ago.


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