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Things that used to be cool/trendy

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  • #62
    Arthurdaly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Arthurdaly


    bad list


  • #63
    Jess16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    Silly people living champagne lifestyles on lemonade salaries


  • #64
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Christianity.


  • #65
    RhubarbCrumble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Onions on your belt

    It was the style at the time :D


  • #66
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Do kids still collect these?


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  • #67
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭Yahew


    Sweat bands.


  • #68
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    check shirts


  • #69
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    psychward wrote: »
    I remember there was some trend around 2002 for people to wear trousers and tracky pants which were too long in the leg so they'd almost trip up over them. They'd walk through puddles and through urine soaked jacks and the ends of the legs where it covered the shoe would be disgusting looking but they still did it. And it was kind of widespread at least among students. Anyone remember that ?

    Guilty.
    coonecb1 wrote: »
    Xworx jeans

    Guilty....only mine were about 3 inches too short. Not so cool.:(


    After my embarrassing "rave" stage of my early teens, I started wearing t-shirt of grunge bands and gypsy skirts with docs and got my ears pierced multiple times and a nose ring and an undercut....


  • #70
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    Guilty.



    Guilty....only mine were about 3 inches too short. Not so cool.:(


    After my embarrassing "rave" stage of my early teens, I started wearing t-shirt of grunge bands and gypsy skirts with docs and got my ears pierced multiple times and a nose ring and an undercut....

    Wanna make out?


  • #71
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Pogs.
    Those button up tracksuit pants that you could rip the leg the whole way down like stripper pants.


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  • #72
    merengueca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭merengueca


    7up's Beat on the Street roadshow every summer.
    I remember giving it socks to Cotton Eye Joe on the Quinnsworth Car Park


  • #73
    AlmightyDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭AlmightyDublin


    Anyone remember these like 8 years ago? http://www.sistersinwonderland.eu/WebRoot/StoreLNL/Shops/62597275/4D6F/CE18/C248/C710/C76E/C0A8/28B8/51BD/alienegg.jpg


  • #74
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    You think Levis jeans are uncool? I think the current fashion for buying jeans that are already falling apart will go down in history as being one of the most ridiculous fads ever. Has anyone ever stopped to think how ridiculous it is to buy a pair of jeans that already have about fifteen years of wear in them? They don't even look convincing as they're worn and faded in all the wrong places. And what's with the ones that are faded and dyed yellow? I can honestly say I've never had a pair of jeans turn that colour naturally.

    Even people like myself who don't actually want these jeans don't have any choice as it's almost impossible to buy a new pair of jeans that actually look new. Most new jeans are at least slightly worn now.

    As for stupid things I used to wear; I used to have a flat top haircut. I also had a pair of LA Gear runners with three different coloured pairs of laces that you were supposed to wear at one time. I couldn't figure out how to tie them so I wore a different colour lace in each runner and would occasionally swap one colour for the third colour lace.


  • #75
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    The Temple Theatre on a Saturday night :o


  • #76
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    Those combats with loads of strings hanging off them that almost every female under 20 was wearing around 2003/4. I had at least five pairs :o usually worn with a mesh-vest too.

    Sunny D, before everyone thought it would turn you orange.

    Furbies. Creepy fcukers :P

    There were these kind of rubber ball things full of water on strings that (a bit like a yoyo) that everyone had - then someone choked themself with one and the government banned them... so the shops cut the string-bit off and tried to sell them anyway. Didn't work :P


  • #77
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    AlmightyDublin wrote: »
    Anyone remember these like 8 years ago? http://www.sistersinwonderland.eu/WebRoot/StoreLNL/Shops/62597275/4D6F/CE18/C248/C710/C76E/C0A8/28B8/51BD/alienegg.jpg


    Oh how I wanted one! I couldn't get one ANYWHERE, they were sold out everywhere I tried. I even sent my dad into Lifestyle Sports cause a girl in my class said that's where she got hers (never occurred to me that she could have got the shop wrong) - the people there thought he was mental :D


  • #78
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Gobbing on the pavement, while waiting at the bus stop :))


  • #79
    AlmightyDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭AlmightyDublin


    languagenerd wrote: »
    AlmightyDublin wrote: »
    Anyone remember these like 8 years ago? http://www.sistersinwonderland.eu/WebRoot/StoreLNL/Shops/62597275/4D6F/CE18/C248/C710/C76E/C0A8/28B8/51BD/alienegg.jpg


    Oh how I wanted one! I couldn't get one ANYWHERE, they were sold out everywhere I tried. I even sent my dad into Lifestyle Sports cause a girl in my class said that's where she got hers (never occurred to me that she could have got the shop wrong) - the people there thought he was mental :D
    Haha that must've been hilarious at lifestyle :D


  • #80
    Donald_ducked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭Donald_ducked


    Those disgusting shetland wool jumpers that felt horrible on the skin

    My ma had to get rid of hers because I wouldn't hug her when she had it on when I was a little fella


  • #81
    Donald_ducked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭Donald_ducked


    Also spud guns!

    http://www.shophalloweentown.com/FileStorage/100203


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  • #82
    leggo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,057 ✭✭✭leggo


    Premier League stickers
    Porno mags
    I don't know what a tracker mortgage is
    Wassssssuppppp


  • #83
    Bobby Baccala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭Bobby Baccala


    George michael


  • #84
    Johnnio13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Johnnio13


    iPhone 4
    Grifter
    Air Jordans
    501 frames


  • #85
    Elliemental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    Does anyone else remember those plastic, flourescent coloured toy dummies that every was wearing back in the early `90's? Baby dummies, not shop dummies, that is. I used to see people wearing hundreds of them. Had something to do with the Rave scene. Anyway, that was a mercifully short lived trend.

    Another was the Beastie Boys inspired VW signs that were usually nicked off cars, being worn on chains around the neck.

    Flavour Flave inspired huge clocks worn on chains around the neck is yet another.

    I don't think todays fads measure up to the silliness of the late 80's and early 90's.


  • #86
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Your Da telling you to get up and turn the tv over...no remote...2 channels of entertainment!!


  • #87
    cackhanded
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭cackhanded


    Elliemental wrote: »
    Does anyone else remember those plastic, flourescent coloured toy dummies that every was wearing back in the early `90's? Baby dummies, not shop dummies, that is. I used to see people wearing hundreds of them. Had something to do with the Rave scene. Anyway, that was a mercifully short lived trend.

    Aww, bless your innocence:).


  • #88
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Your Da telling you to get up and turn the tv over...no remote...2 channels of entertainment!!

    I used to throw a bouncy ball at the old telly to change channels while camped out in some cosy corner watching cartoons. Looking back I musta had some skill. We only had 4 channels really but the buttons were very close together and right next to the volume and off switch. Laziness is the greatest motivator of innovation sometimes ;)


  • #89
    Elliemental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    cackhanded wrote: »
    Aww, bless your innocence:).

    To be fair, I was only about 10 years old at the time.


  • #90
    hubba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭hubba


    bodywaves


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  • #91
    The Scientician
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭The Scientician


    Scratch 'n' sniff stickers, how come they never made a comeback?


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