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Back in my day...

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  • #2
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,068 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    iamstop wrote: »
    ... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
    Windows closed and windows open.

    That you opened with a handle.*



    *winder or whatever you'd call it.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #3
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob


  • #4
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    iamstop wrote: »
    ... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
    Windows closed and windows open.

    Some cars had additional climate control features. The Datsun 120Y, for example, had several holes in the floor.


  • #5
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,256 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    iamstop wrote: »
    ... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
    Windows closed and windows open.


    Posh bastard with windows in his car


  • #6
    The chan chan man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »
    That you opened with a handle.

    Which you could reach easily as there were no seatbelts in the back!


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  • #7
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    Mother's used the wooden spoon to rear kids.


  • #8
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,477 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Back in my day the window would open but not necessarily close.


  • #9
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,068 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    The chan chan man wrote: »
    Which you could reach easily as there were no seatbelts in the back!

    As kids we'd be in the back of a transit van, and fight over who'd get to sit on the toolbox or wheelarch.

    Not dangerous at all.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #10
    Notdeco
    Registered Users Posts: 464 ✭✭Notdeco


    branie2 wrote: »
    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob
    I was that knob...


  • #11
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    then I discovered I was Paul Newman.

    Great pasta sauce man.


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  • #12
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    thanks for making ill kids happy as well


  • #13
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,634 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Even if i had the cornoa virus, my mother would have refused to beleive I was too sick to go to shcool.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #14
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,800 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    In my childhood home...When we got in central heating (oil) we had to switch it on ‘before’ we went out so the house would be warm enough that evening when we got back....from the switch being flicked to on it took about two and a half hours maybe longer for any feeling of warmth. Now, the house I’m in is about 10 years old but has a gas heating system and from flicking the switch on a freezing cold morning to stifling takes about 15 minutes... some difference.. with the timer also you can have it on in the morning before you get up. Tends to stop you wanting to get up.


  • #15
    beejee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Back in my day we had to slither on shore with jokes for legs, and learning to breathe was no laugh either.

    Young ones these days with their prehensile this and apple that.


  • #16
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I had to walk to school in my bare feet, uphill both ways. It always rained and the rain was wetter then.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #17
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Jack Frost would leave his mark on the windows overnight.


  • #18
    Noel Bald Warden
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Noel Bald Warden


    Soccer news was page 220 on teletext.


  • #19
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,952 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Jack Frost would leave his mark on the windows overnight.

    The inside of the Windows ..


  • #20
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Television broadcasting closed down before or after midnight


  • #21
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,549 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    BuboBubo wrote: »
    Mother's used the wooden spoon to rear kids.

    And teachers too !


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  • #22
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,800 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Even if i had the cornoa virus, my mother would have refused to beleive I was too sick to go to shcool.

    Mine was the same, you’d have to be carrying your head under your arm and then, ‘only’ then might you get... “look, you might be better off taking just today off, but you can get the books out and do a bit of work here, you can’t fall behind !” :rolleyes: :p


  • #23
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I think they used rulers or canes


  • #24
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Flat 7up cured everything


  • #25
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,358 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Strumms wrote: »
    In my childhood home...When we got in central heating (oil) we had to switch it on ‘before’ we went out so the house would be warm enough that evening when we got back....from the switch being flicked to on it took about two and a half hours maybe longer for any feeling of warmth. Now, the house I’m in is about 10 years old but has a gas heating system and from flicking the switch on a freezing cold morning to stifling takes about 15 minutes... some difference.. with the timer also you can have it on in the morning before you get up. Tends to stop you wanting to get up.

    We only moved into a house with central heating when I was about 13. The feeling of luxury to be warm in rooms other than the sitting room, where the fire was the only heat source previously , I'll never forget lol. This was the mid 90s so not even that long ago. Kids today dont know they're born tbh.


  • #26
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    branie2 wrote: »
    Television broadcasting closed down before or after midnight

    Not before the prayer at bedtime :)


  • #27
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Toffee toast (bread with sugar under the grill...Burnt the gullet out of you ) and bread and sauce...or digestives with butter.


  • #28
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,549 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I had to walk to school in my bare feet, uphill both ways. It always rained and the rain was wetter then.
    You were a lazy bastard , I had to carry you in bare feet , short trousers and smoking a pipe


  • #29
    beejee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I had to walk to school in my bare feet, uphill both ways. It always rained and the rain was wetter then.

    That's luxury. Everyday I would have to hand build my school using only the nubs of fingers left to me after breaking boulders to make gravel bare handed... Only for the flipping thing to be torn down each night because of night tax.

    And that's when it was a nine day week, none of this 7 day cop out bs.


  • #30
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    anewme wrote: »
    Toffee toast (bread with sugar under the grill...Burnt the gullet out of you ) and bread and sauce...or digestives with butter.

    Rich tea biscuits with butter that you'd squeeze through the holes.


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  • #31
    Third_Echelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    branie2 wrote: »
    Flat 7up cured everything

    Still does! :D


  • #32
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,888 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Fifty pee fine if you forgot to rewind the videotape when you brought it back to Xtra-Vision.

    White dog ****e in the little grassy verges of our suburban housing estate.

    Dial telephones - they were all beige and all looked the same. The speaking clock - “at the signal, it will be....”


  • #33
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    A mask and black binliners were Halloween costumes


  • #34
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    You couldn't beat a good aul game of knick knack.


  • #35
    peddlelies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭peddlelies


    Fidelma Miley affair in Glenroe created an awkward feeling between every Parent and young child in Ireland


  • #36
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    You could win a set of saucepans on Murphys Micro Quiz- m.


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  • #37
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    peddlelies wrote: »
    Fidelma Miley affair in Glenroe created an awkward feeling between every Parent and young child in Ireland

    And Glenroe signalled the end of the weekend


  • #38
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    A glass bottle of Lucozade and a bunch of grapes wrapped in brown paper was mandatory if visiting someone sick in hospital.


  • #39
    Ishmael
    Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    branie2 wrote: »
    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

    We had to tune the channels in by pointing the Aerial on the roof in the right direction and then going down to the tv and manually turning the tuning pegs one by one. If you found nothing, back up to the roof. And god help anyone that messed with the settings after the channels had been found.


  • #40
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Watching The Lost Boys.


  • #41
    from_atozinc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭from_atozinc


    .......there were no black lads.

    True story. Really.


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  • #42
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,549 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    from_atozinc wrote: »
    .......there were no black lads.

    True story. Really.
    Probably. If I seen a black man in Dublin I thought it was either Lenny Henry or Paul McGrath


  • #43
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    from_atozinc wrote: »
    .......there were no black lads.

    True story. Really.

    Ahh ffs.


  • #44
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Princess Calla wrote: »
    Not before the prayer at bedtime :)

    And the National Anthem.
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  • #45
    from_atozinc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭from_atozinc


    cjmc wrote: »
    Probably. If I seen a black man in Dublin I thought it was either Lenny Henry or Paul McGrath


    Sure we didn’t even have a car to go to Dublin.
    Couldn’t afford a bus or train either.
    Only option to walk in our bare feet. With turf.


  • #46
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    And we all walked from west Dublin to see the Pope in the Pheno.


  • #47
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    branie2 wrote: »
    And Glenroe signalled the end of the weekend

    And time to start your homework!


  • #48
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The weekend began with Anything Goes


  • #49
    Ha Long Bay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,322 ✭✭✭✭Ha Long Bay


    branie2 wrote: »
    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

    What brand of TV was that? Most of the older TV's used to let you change channels with your fingers.


  • #50
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    john4321 wrote: »
    What brand of TV was that? Most of the older TV's used to let you change channels with your fingers.

    I think we had one. Dad used to say “that boll1cks of a television is broken again”.


  • #51
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The swimwear and lingerie sections of the Family Album catalogue were the closest we ever got to Playboy magazine


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