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Pure Necessity when we were poor, but an extravagance now

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  • #62
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    bijapos wrote: »
    Don't forget that the last 12 months it was too small for you, it only went down to about 2 inches above your wrists, and it was so tight that you couldn't put your arms by your sides, they stuck out and you looked like an angry Chimpanzee.

    Lord Anthony Parkas were a common alternative too, only the well off could afford german army suplus parkas. :)




    Couldn't agree more with you, food tastes like bland sh1te these days. If you want good tomatos grow your own, get a small greenhouse or poly tunnnel and you can have them 12 months of the year.


    hilariouis, and too true.
    and then once you couldn't fit it anymore it was passed down to the next in line for the next few years.


  • #63
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    bijapos wrote: »
    only the well off could afford german army suplus parkas. :)





    When I was going to secondary school,everyone wore German Army surplus.Cheap & warm plus you could take out the lining for the warm weather.Plus there was competition as to who could get one with the coolest name badge on it.

    Saw some for sale online now & they are nearly €100:eek: Damn emo kids & their stupid fashion sense.We wore 'em cos they were practical & better than duffle coats.


  • #64
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    ah duffle coats.

    everyone had one - they were bought for you to last you for the next FIVE YEARS. First couple of years you were half killed from the weight of it, until you "grew" into it. Worn day in day out, year in year out and nobody batted an eyelid. :P

    And do you remember spending 10 minutes trying to unfasten the bastard things when your hands were frozen stiff numb from the cold.


  • #65
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    Lobster. Used to be common prison food in some parts of the world before ww2. Now you would drop 20 plus euro if you ate one in a restaurant.


  • #66
    wonderfulname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    Unpasturised milk, used to take it from the tank as a child because we went through so much, even though my gran was genuinely scared it would give us tb, now thanks to the "raw food" fad it's being sold for a fortune, don't ask me how it's legal.


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  • #67
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,078 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    asherbassad wrote: »
    fishy fishy wrote: »
    ah duffle coats.

    everyone had one - they were bought for you to last you for the next FIVE YEARS. First couple of years you were half killed from the weight of it, until you "grew" into it. Worn day in day out, year in year out and nobody batted an eyelid. :P

    And do you remember spending 10 minutes trying to unfasten the bastard things when your hands were frozen stiff numb from the cold.

    Do you remember the smell of them when they got wet?

    Like a mix of wet dog, badger and dead cat!


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