Things you don't see anymore

desbrook · 11-09-2014 11:04PM

Ring pulls discarded on the paths.

recylingbin · 11-09-2014 11:07PM

Datsun Cherrys
The man from del Monte adverts
Keith Chegwin
Sodastreams

retalivity · 11-09-2014 11:11PM

Cigarette sticks
Edible money
People in or hanging round phone boxes
Corned beef
Shell suits
Half and half (still about but dying out)

recylingbin · 11-09-2014 11:19PM

retalivity wrote: »

Half and half (still about but dying out)

Is that milk?

retalivity · 12-09-2014 08:28AM

recylingbin wrote: »

Is that milk?

Half pint and a short.
Not many oulfellas left ordering a glass of smithwicks and a powers...

Sam Kade · 12-09-2014 08:34AM

retalivity wrote: »

Half pint and a short.
Not many oulfellas left ordering a glass of smithwicks and a powers...

It was a pint and a drop down our way, Guinness and powers. Who drinks Smithwicks pure dyke water?
Ould fellas with caps.

boobar · 12-09-2014 08:49AM

"home made" go carts

dodderangler · 12-09-2014 09:09AM

boobar wrote: »

"home made" go carts

What about home made guns made from bread boards and washing pegs. Dangerous fcukin things

pickarooney · 12-09-2014 10:16AM

There was an article in The Examiner (I think) yesterday about the resurgence in populaity of High Nellies. They go for over a grand new.

boobar · 13-09-2014 11:29AM

dodderangler wrote: »

What about home made guns made from bread boards and washing pegs. Dangerous fcukin things

The ones that used to shoot elastic bands? Yeah I remember being on the receiving end of one of those in a go cart drive by.

Real gangsta stuff...

Andrewf20 · 13-09-2014 12:13PM

- Mo peds / scooters. There were tons of them 15 years ago.
- Kids called Phillip. Name seems to have gone extinct for the young generation.
- Kids playing kerbs / squares / hide and seek out on the road.
- Push lawnmowers (except our one).
- Supercans (500ml cans of coke / 7up like in the 1980s)

darkdubh · 13-09-2014 04:10PM

Gardai and members of the Defense Forces with moustaches.

ireland.man · 13-09-2014 04:12PM

Kids playing with 'gats', catapults made out of metal coat hangers and elastic bands.

Sgt Hartman · 13-09-2014 04:30PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

It was a pint and a drop down our way, Guinness and powers. Who drinks Smithwicks pure dyke water?
Ould fellas with caps.

I remember my Grandad would order a pint of Murphy's and a "small one". After about 5 of those he would be half pissed and call for a sing-song, blaring out "Hello Patsy Fagan, HELLO!!" at the top of his lungs.

Daveysil15 · 13-09-2014 04:34PM

Women flashing their boobs in public for no reason.

anncoates · 13-09-2014 04:39PM

Normal black football boots or astro trainers.

When you go and try and buy a pair, all that's there are these homo fluorescent ones that would have made Liberace blush

DLMA23 · 13-09-2014 04:41PM

Robertson's Gollywog jam

Ralf and Florian · 13-09-2014 06:16PM

Historical TV dramas where the actors bear a physical resemblence to the real life person they're playing.And did not have a skinny actor playing a famously fat monarch.Ie this guy.

http://static.bbc.co.uk/history/img/ic/640/images/resources/people/henry_viii.jpg

Historical TV dramas that were moderatly historicaly accurate and diden't have token black characters in settings like Medieval England.

ceadaoin. · 13-09-2014 06:27PM

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Historical TV dramas where the actors bear a physical resemblence to the real life person they're playing.And did not have a skinny actor playing a famously fat monarch.Ie this guy.

http://static.bbc.co.uk/history/img/ic/640/images/resources/people/henry_viii.jpg

Historical TV dramas that were moderatly historicaly accurate and diden't have token black characters in settings like Medieval England.

But Henry VIII was skinny and athletic in his younger years. He got fat after a fall from a horse made it hard for him to be active. Also there were black people in medieval England, even Shakespeare has black characters in his plays.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18903391

TheBeardedLady · 13-09-2014 06:37PM

Cyber Cafes.

puss · 13-09-2014 06:39PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I'd love to play cards in a pub. Seems like a proper 'man's man' activity.

In my old local it was 50/50 men to women playing cards. Mainly at Christmas playing for "the turkey".
Are glass milk bottles a thing of the past?

Fallschirmjager · 13-09-2014 06:53PM

Clinic shampoo...

What the hell happened there, Jeasus it used to be everywhere

Daveysil15 · 13-09-2014 06:56PM

anncoates wrote: »

Normal black football boots or astro trainers.

When you go and try and buy a pair, all that's there are these homo fluorescent ones that would have made Liberace blush

Ahh yes, the humble black football boots. Back in the day when shorts were shorts and diving was rare.

Fat Christy · 13-09-2014 07:08PM

Kids going tricker treating in bin bags. That's what we used to do when we were young-uns, we used black bin bags as capes and vampire blood was your mothers lipstick. Oh, how times have changed.

ceadaoin. · 13-09-2014 07:09PM

Did anyone else have a bread man as well as a milkman back in the day? I have a vague memory of him going to all the houses to be paid once a week.

Besides parks and playgrounds, you don't really see that many kids playing outside these days.

FloatingVoter · 13-09-2014 07:26PM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Did anyone else have a bread man as well as a milkman back in the day? I have a vague memory of him going to all the houses to be paid once a week.

Besides parks and playgrounds, you don't really see that many kids playing outside these days.

Two of them kicking a football around my street outside now. Though I think they're only doing lookout for their uncle. He's broken into the house across the street.

joe stodge · 13-09-2014 07:37PM

White dog shïte

Bongalongherb · 13-09-2014 07:42PM

Democracy.

And six legged dog.

Fat Christy · 13-09-2014 07:43PM

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Democracy.

We never seen it, not now, not ever...there was and always will be corruption. Life, it isn't fair, you just have to deal with it.

Bongalongherb · 13-09-2014 07:57PM

Fat Christy wrote: »

We never seen it, not now, not ever...there was and always will be corruption. Life, it isn't fair, you just have to deal with it.

I don't believe in 'not ever'.

But we don't have to deal with it. We can do better.

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