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    #812
    branie2
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    The Lone Ranger cartoon on during the week at teatime


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    #813
    Conall Cernach
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    branie2 wrote: »
    The Lone Ranger cartoon on during the week at teatime
    The Lone Ranger, Champion the Wonder Horse, Zorro and Flash Gordon on TV in the morning during Summer holidays.


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    #814
    Marhay70
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    branie2 wrote: »
    The Lone Ranger cartoon on during the week at teatime

    We used to watch the live version on BBC, the only TV station at that time.We had a 17" black and white Bush Tv from Drages store on Grafton Street, paid for on the drip over three years. The final price was £202, a small fortune. The Da had also rigged up a short wave aerial that looked for all the world like a sweeps's brush, which meant we could tune into AFN, the U.S. Forces Radio network. This allowed us to listen to the original radio series plus Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy and Dragnet and the great comedy shows featuring Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante etc. The Yanks really had radio variety off to a tee, it was like you were there.
    It always seemed to be Winter, maybe because they had a season or maybe just foggy memories but I recall sitting around the fire with my brothers, totally absorbed in the goodies ridding the world of the baddies, how times have changed.


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    #815
    Sleepy
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    Edgware wrote: »
    The only way to get a container of badly needed building materials etc was to "sort" the foreman who would then get the crane driver to hoist the container out.

    One of the unions had control of the slot machines on the ferries. When the English 50 p and the Irish 50p were the same size whoever was emptying the machines swopped English 50 p coins for Irish one and making 10% on the transaction in the bank.
    The tricks going on down the docks were legendary.
    One lad was known as a diesel fitter
    "Thes'ill fit Mary thes'ill fit Tommy"

    My father-in-law is a retired docker and the tricks were still going well into the 90's if not beyond. The speakeasy they had going in one of the containers was only shut after one of the lads drove a tug off the dock. Despite being drunk on the job and destroying an extremely expensive piece of kit he wasn't fired: the union wouldn't have it! The stuff they got up to down there made the lads in the second season of The Wire look like rank amateurs!


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    #816
    iamstop
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    Ha'penny sweets.

    They were mingin' as far as I recall. lol

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #817
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The Wuzzles


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    #818
    iamstop
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    The Snorks!

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #819
    branie2
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    The Care Bears


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    #820
    harry Bailey esq
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    Supergran


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    #821
    js35
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    Banana man


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    #822
    branie2
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    Danger Bay


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    #823
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,814 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Captain Caveman!

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    #824
    branie2
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    Captain Planet and the Planeteers. The power is yours!


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    #825
    the purple tin
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    You got your haircut at home by ma. You only got to go to the barbers for your confirmation.


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    #826
    iamstop
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    You got your haircut at home by ma. You only got to go to the barbers for your confirmation.

    Yup. Then in 2nd year I got my brother to cut it. He gave me a blade 1 all over. I got suspended for a week.

    Hand me downs. I have two older brothers so I always got the dregs. Add to that two older male cousins and you can imagine I rarely went clothes shopping. Maybe that's why I never really liked clothes shopping :confused:

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    #827
    branie2
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    Good Afternoon with Thelma Mansfield


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    #828
    iamstop
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    I remember when the frozen Goodfellas pizzas came out. Game changer! Prior to that you had the pizza delis at the supermarkets or regular crust frozen pizzas but Goodfellas stepped it up a few notches.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #829
    branie2
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    Some time back in the 80s, Don Conroy presented a TV series on the life of Jesus, with his own drawings


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    #830
    the purple tin
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Good Afternoon with Thelma Mansfield
    Please, this is not the place to brag about your sex-life :pac:


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    #831
    chooseusername
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    Skipping off down the road to neighbours house to watch 1966 World Cup.
    Black and white t.v.
    Pele, Beckenbaur, Eusabio.


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    #832
    branie2
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    We only had our birthday parties at home, not at play centres


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    #833
    Ultrflat
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    iamstop wrote: »
    I remember when the frozen Goodfellas pizzas came out. Game changer! Prior to that you had the pizza delis at the supermarkets or regular crust frozen pizzas but Goodfellas stepped it up a few notches.

    And the Cheese Supreme, not being cheese apposed a substance close to molten lava.

    The amount of times those pizzas burnt my mouth is just not worth remembering.


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    #834
    DelBoy Trotter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭DelBoy Trotter


    iamstop wrote: »
    I remember when the frozen Goodfellas pizzas came out. Game changer! Prior to that you had the pizza delis at the supermarkets or regular crust frozen pizzas but Goodfellas stepped it up a few notches.

    I used to love those pizzas :D


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    #835
    Bobblehats
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    DelBoy Trotter wrote: »
    I used to love those pizzas :D

    Used to get the San Marco pizza slices there was good tang off the sauce.

    Would they still taste the same....


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    #836
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    Bobblehats wrote: »
    Would they still taste the same....
    Probably, but your tastebuds will have changed since then.


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    #837
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    They were delicious!


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    #838
    branie2
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    Cornetto ads set in Venice

    Open the door
    Throw down the keys!


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    #839
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,814 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    90s and 00s fashions

    Xworx, Petro Motion and Eclipse Jeans
    Naff Naff jackets
    Umbro jumpers
    Blue Nike air Max
    Tear off tracksuit trousers
    Lads with undercuts and curtain fringes
    Rattails
    Shaved heads and a really long fringe slicked back.
    The bang o Brylcreem. The red one.
    Tommy Hilfiger

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #840
    cj maxx
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    Back in my day we shook hands . Went to bars where you would try to get very close to women.


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    #841
    branie2
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    Budget Travel Brochures with the bikini ladies


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