Back in my day...

branie2 · 18-03-2020 7:28pm

partyguinness wrote: »

Ah to be fair was a bit ****e. Even I thought it was ****e when I was on the show with my school in 1993.

Everyone picked "Sport" as their specialist topic.

The male teams did

branie2 · 18-03-2020 7:49pm

The Campbells, about a Scottish family in Canada in the 19th century

IAMAMORON · 18-03-2020 7:51pm

Pills cost 25 quid and worked for hours. You came up and down around 3 or 4 times.

branie2 · 18-03-2020 8:05pm

Ten penny sweets

Beasty · 18-03-2020 9:11pm

We'd start the car with a handle. Someone would walk in front of us with a red flag.

When I we'r a lad we'd have foot 'n mouth before breakfast, and swine fever by tea-time - none of this namby-pamby self-isolation stuff. If it didn't kill us (and it didn't) we wer all't better for it

We wer 'ard though - back up't chimney before bedtime. 1 slice of Hovis fer Christmas lunch - that wer ar treat

Beasty · 18-03-2020 9:13pm

branie2 wrote: »

Ten penny sweets

ten pennies for a sweet??? Did ye shop in 'arrods?

iamstop · 18-03-2020 9:26pm

Beasty wrote: »

ten pennies for a sweet??? Did ye shop in 'arrods?

We used to get '10 penny bags'. 10p and you got a little white bag with ten random sweets in it.
Jellies, chocolate mic, black jacks, apple jacks, postman pats, fruit salads, those chocolate discs with the little hundreds and thousands on then, flogs.

Rufeo · 18-03-2020 11:14pm

branie2 wrote: »

With the beard?

Yes

harry Bailey esq · 18-03-2020 11:20pm

Bobblehats wrote: »

I remember those flasks not being as robust as advertised

Back in my day ours was wrapped in jack Doyle (tinfoil)

partyguinness · 19-03-2020 11:01am

Lucky Bags

branie2 · 19-03-2020 12:21pm

Wonderstruck

Hi, I'm Bob McDonald and I'm curious about... everything!

Pherekydes · 19-03-2020 12:58pm

Playing marbles in the street. A bus route, no less. Does anyone play marbles any more?

Dogs (even biters) were allowed roam around free. :mad: Bitten twice by the same dog.

The track in Santry was a cinder track. Hard as concrete in the summer, in the winter soft and gluey.

Esho · 19-03-2020 1:04pm

Pherekydes wrote: »

Dogs (even biters) were allowed roam around free. :mad: Bitten twice by the same dog..

Yes - everyone knew the names of the local dogs. And no-one picked dog crap up.

Neighbours stopped to chat or said hello.

Church on Tuesday · 19-03-2020 1:06pm

... you were able to pop down pub for a pint, go to places like restaurants and shops and we had these things called cinemas too.

Football and other sports would be played typically of a weekend.

Memories...

Antares35 · 19-03-2020 1:09pm

Esho wrote: »

Yes - everyone knew the names of the local dogs. And no-one picked dog crap up.

Neighbours stopped to chat or said hello.

And dog poop always seemed to be chalky and a funny yellow/white colour. Must have been the rubbish food they were fed.

Vita nova · 19-03-2020 1:14pm

Pherekydes wrote: »

Playing marbles in the street. A bus route, no less. Does anyone play marbles any more?

...

No, we've all lost our marbles over the years.

Itssoeasy · 19-03-2020 1:19pm

- Eurovision and Ireland winning it most years
- call cards
- zig and zag on TV and at Christmas had the massive bed where the camera never saw the bottom. Ray darcy was funny
- World Cup 1994
- Barcelona olympics
- weird TV shows like round the twist and pugwall
- cartoons were better like duck tales and inspector gadget.
- terminator 2
- TMNT 2

iamstop · 19-03-2020 1:57pm

BIMD everything was made in Taiwan, now it is all made in China.

branie2 · 19-03-2020 2:21pm

I loved toy machine guns when I was a boy

Ger Roe · 19-03-2020 4:44pm

branie2 wrote: »

I loved toy machine guns when I was a boy

We made wooden rubber band guns out of a clothes peg, a plank of wood and wavin pipe seal rubber rings that we found on building sites..... remember those?.... not the guns....... building sites?.

the purple tin · 19-03-2020 4:54pm

The Green Godess, Busy Lizzie and Mr Motivator with their morning workouts

Bobblehats · 19-03-2020 4:56pm

There was something a friend introduced me to out his back garden. He called it collecting “chinkys” and it involved digging for shards of ornate broken teacups anyone else recall that?! Maybe he just had an angry mother but it led me the impression our ancestors might have bn from somewhere else altogether.

branie2 · 19-03-2020 4:58pm

Ger Roe wrote: »

We made wooden rubber band guns out of a clothes peg, a plank of wood and wavin pipe seal rubber rings that we found on building sites..... remember those?.... not the guns....... building sites?.

building sites are still around

19-03-2020 5:19pm

branie2 wrote: »

building sites are still around

But back then they were open and accessible "playgrounds", try that today, you'll need a safepass!

branie2 · 19-03-2020 8:17pm

good point

Redneck Reject71 · 19-03-2020 8:22pm

One I remember, and won't have any connection to these shores,obviously,heh.But as kids we had snake duty in my Abuela's garden. When she went to harvest, we would walk up and in-between the rows with a stick, looking for them.

19-03-2020 8:25pm

My mam used to love watching Upstairs Downstairs and the Onedin line,I'd love if they were repeated.

The small Cadbury dairy milk chocolate bars wrapped in foil,yum.

the purple tin · 19-03-2020 9:28pm

Laural and Hardy films and Looney Tunes cartoons on telly on weekend afternoons.
They can't show them anymore because of a legal dispute over who owns the rights

branie2 · 19-03-2020 10:32pm

Dangermouse
The Wind in the Willows
Count Duckula

These shows had characters voiced by Sir David Jason

19-03-2020 10:42pm

The Brady Bunch and Black Beauty on a Friday afternoon.

ohnonotgmail · 19-03-2020 10:56pm

this show on saturday morning

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with this fantastic theme tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Sb9AoirSU

branie2 · 19-03-2020 11:01pm

Reruns of the TV series The Fugitive in the 90s

Leg End Reject · 19-03-2020 11:03pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

My mam used to love watching Upstairs Downstairs and the Onedin line,I'd love if they were repeated.

The small Cadbury dairy milk chocolate bars wrapped in foil,yum.

I wanted to be Lesley Anne Down when I grew up, the glamour!

Psychlops · 19-03-2020 11:03pm

Transformers cartoon every saturday morning from 10am on Sky One, Start Trek The Next Generation on Sky One every monday to friday at 5pm & Airwolf!

bottlebrush · 19-03-2020 11:37pm

Pippi longstocking

Skippy the Bush kangaroo

Grisly Adams

the purple tin · 19-03-2020 11:39pm

Little House on the Prairie
The Waltons on Sunday morning
Anne of Green Gables

Redneck Reject71 · 19-03-2020 11:50pm

Getting wooden cars and airplanes my grandfather made as Christmas presents,heh.

maudgonner · 20-03-2020 12:32am

branie2 wrote: »

Wonderstruck

Hi, I'm Bob McDonald and I'm curious about... everything!

That reminded me of How, and How 2, with Fred Dineage. Like a children's forerunner to QI. Good show actually, they should bring it back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3NgegX7gwQ

the purple tin · 20-03-2020 9:35am

maudgonner wrote: »

That reminded me of How, and How 2, with Fred Dineage. Like a children's forerunner to QI. Good show actually, they should bring it back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3NgegX7gwQ

Yeah making 10p bets with each other

Then things got really serious and they upped the stakes to 20p :eek:

the purple tin · 20-03-2020 9:37am

Pob the little puppet. He used to blow on the screen to fog it up and write his name on it with his finger.
Puh-Oh-Buh.

Ruby Ring · 20-03-2020 9:43am

May have already been mentioned but I loved Anything Goes on a Saturday morning. Mary would make cute things and I was really envious of the end products - we had no glue back then and I used to try replicate her creations but they never looked the same as they were ridiculously shiny from all the sellotape. She had special glue!

partyguinness · 20-03-2020 11:10am

"Anything Goes" on a Saturday morning which was great up to about 12pm then the content was for older kids/teenagers and they had bands playing. I 'think' Dave Fanning or Brush Shields did this segment for 30 mins basically raving about obscure music bands. Boring as fcuk for a 7-8 year old and switched off.