Back in my day...

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

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

We used to have to wallop ours 3 or 4 times and then it would come on.

You could collect tokens on Jacobs biscuits to ‘shake a shamrock in Italy ‘ for Jack Charlton. We’ve always known you’re out there, now thanks to Jacobs we’ll know where”
Maybe someone can locate the advert

Getting 20p back for returning empty mineral bottles

Strumms wrote: »

A bit personal ! :eek:

The TV.

Ahhhh lads..The Safe Cross Code
Legend.

Remember, one....

The money lender knocking of a payday.

In my day we didn't care the world was ending I still don't

This wan

Sunday, March 17th, 1974 - Durty Nellys -1 round, 5 x pints of draft Guinness, IR£1.00

Duffel coats with shiny sleeves from snotty noses.

People clapping the pilot after landing.

Concrete statues that moved if you stared at them long enough, and prayed really really hard.

If you misbehaved, you got a few kicks up the hole.

Every house had that creepy holy picture with the eyes that followed you with the red electric lamp underneath. The red light indicated if God was present in the building.

The Soviets were going to kill us all with nukes.

Crows pecked holes in the milk bottles

Princess Calla wrote: »

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

God be with the days.

At the end of the summer you would have the track of your watch left on your wrist in white from no sun getting under it.
Proper summer weather.
Doesn’t happen anymore.

walking to school in the rain and hundreds of worms would come up through the cracks and weeds in the footpath and you would try not stand on them.

having ‘indoor’ and ‘outdoor’ shoes for your school uniform so the nuns could keep the marble floors polished and dry

any parent could come out and give out to you and you would have to behave or you would be in big trouble when your father got home

Almost every kid had a father unless they were dead and lived in a married family with all children having the same parents

you would have to be in off the road before it got busy at 5 or 6 o clock when all the fathers came home from work in their car and parked it in their driveway.

Everyone knew and hated the family with 2 cars because they parked it on the road and got in the way of playing football / games of tennis in the summer

branie2 wrote: »

Flat 7up cured everything

Still does

you had to have a bath because they hadn’t invented showers (yet).

You lived in a wealthy home if your bath had rubber connector on the bath tap that had a rubber hose with a shower head on it which you would have to disconnect when someone wanted their bath! The hose only went to elbow height so you had to be short or crouch down if you wanted to get all of you done. There was no attachment to hang it on the wall only a suction thing that never worked particularly if it got wet!

Bath night was once a week and you shared the water which got colder and dirtier depending on your age and position in the family. Dad always got a full bath of piping hot and fresh clean water on a separate night with nobody banging on the door to tell them to hurry up or that their turn was over. If you were good, or last, or fast or lucky you got to pull the plug and watch the water shrieking down the plughole.

If you committed some crime your mother would make you go over to the neighbours house and apologise on the doorstep and would watch from the door to make sure you did it. If it was a particularly big sin she would march you over and stand over you while you apologised and begged forgiveness and took whatever ear lashing you were given or punishment they gaVe you . You would then be marched home for whatever beating awaited you or ‘until your father got home’.