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Back in my day...

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  • #122
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    You could get a provisional licence, buy a car and drive off - without ever having learned to drive


  • #123
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Sally O'Brien, and the way she might look at you


  • #124
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    bottlebrush wrote: »
    You could get a provisional licence, buy a car and drive off - without ever having learned to drive

    I done exactly that.... you know, back in my day:D

    The guy in the garage actually had to come out and tell me to take off the handbrake as the car kept cutting out as i tried to pull off and i had no idea why!

    I soon as that was pointed out to me, it was out into rush hour traffic on the greenhills road - shítting myself!

    Fúcking madness when you think of it:D


  • #125
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    branie2 wrote: »
    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob
    I was usually the knob that had to change the channel in our house.


  • #126
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I went to the cinema on rare occasions.


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  • #127
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    - glass Lucozade bottles in the grandparents drink cabinet contained Poteen.
    - computer games loaded up from cassettes
    - Mars bars were the most expensive item in the sweet shop at 28p
    - free kicks in GAA were taken from the ground


  • #128
    Be right back
    Registered Users Posts: 6,034 ✭✭✭Be right back


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

    And panic to get the homework done!


  • #129
    matchthis
    Registered Users Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭matchthis


    When I went to the Classic cinema at Harolds Cross Dublin, we queued up Outside the front door. Think it was girls queued on the left, boys the right side. Movie stopped half way through to top up on grub. This was the time of Ghostbusters and Scrooged movies


  • #130
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    When you went to a nightclub you got a voucher at the door for a meal, usually some supernaturally delicious chips and cocktail sausages or something along those lines. Hit the spot nicely at 1:00 am or so after a feed of pints!


  • #131
    Ryertex
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭Ryertex


    Job ad in the news would say, “Shop assistant required. Apply to PO box 24”
    And that was it, no mention of what kind of shop, location, wages etc. But being desperate for work in the eighties you applied anyway and of course rarely got a reply.


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  • #132
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    ..soccer was a contact sport and putting in a fair crunching tackle was part of the game and not a hanging offence
    ..sheep/cow **** on the pitch was normal (or a burnt out car if playing in Cork city's north side)


  • #133
    SAMTALK
    Registered Users Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


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

    And you got money back if you returned the bottle to the shop :)

    Back in the day we knew what dinner was going to be every day because the menu stayed the same 7 days a week every week


  • #134
    wexandproud
    Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    we walked to school hail rain or snow . took longer walking home on a wet day because we played ''boat races '' in the drains with bits of sticks . On frosty mornings we often arrived in school with bruises from sliding and falling on the frost and ice .
    A bath every saturday night '' whether you needed it or not '' . It consisted of a tin bath on the kitchen table , carbolic soap and kettles of hot water . Skin would be raw from scrubbing with bar of soap. Last one of us was often dirtier after the bath than before . Hair combed with a fine comb to remove tangles and ''stuff'' . Tea before 7 as we had to fast for 12 hours before being marched off to mass next morning , skin still glowing red from previous evenings scrubbing with soap and flannel


  • #135
    spaceHopper
    Registered Users Posts: 3,966 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    Tatyo was 2p and you could only see in Black & White


  • #136
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,354 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Back in my day my duvet was an FCA greatcoat.


  • #137
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,453 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    corner of hells wrote: »
    Back in my day my duvet was an FCA greatcoat.

    That was our duvet.
    “ Mammy my foot is stuck in the pocket of the duvet”.


  • #138
    pjdarcy
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭pjdarcy


    The Diceman used to scare the sh1te out of us kids on Grafton Street.


  • #139
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    partyguinness wrote: »
    ..soccer was a contact sport and putting in a fair crunching tackle was part of the game and not a hanging offence
    ..sheep/cow **** on the pitch was normal (or a burnt out car if playing in Cork city's north side)

    That was always so incredibly annoying and inconvenient.












    You need a second car the other post.


  • #140
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,318 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    corner of hells wrote: »
    Back in my day my duvet was an FCA greatcoat.

    Duvets used to be called continental quilts.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



  • #141
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Bosco was king.


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  • #142
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Holidays on the costa del Waterford, Wexford or Cork.


  • #143
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    SAMTALK wrote: »
    ...Back in the day we knew what dinner was going to be every day because the menu stayed the same 7 days a week every week

    Ha ha. I remember that. "What's for dinner Ma?". And she'd shoot you a quare look.

    The makings of us sure.


  • #144
    Crock Rock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Crock Rock


    Auguste Comte wrote: »
    If a young lad wanted to get the ride on a regular basis he just had to join the alter boys.

    Disgusting comment. Not funny.


  • #145
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    When you went to a nightclub you got a voucher at the door for a meal, usually some supernaturally delicious chips and cocktail sausages or something along those lines. Hit the spot nicely at 1:00 am or so after a feed of pints!

    Or chicken curry and rice :)


  • #146
    teroknor83
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭teroknor83


    Eating my body weight in breakfast cereals just to get some little plastic toy in the boxes was a big deal


  • #147
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,318 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    teroknor83 wrote: »
    Eating my body weight in breakfast cereals just to get some little plastic toy in the boxes was a big deal

    And the disappointment when you got 2 of the same one.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



  • #148
    GBX
    Registered Users Posts: 11,899 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    The world didnt go into a panic over a bit of flu


  • #149
    wexandproud
    Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    Crock Rock wrote: »
    Disgusting comment. Not funny.
    every thread , there's always one


  • #150
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Queuing up outside a phone box to ring somebody, with a bag of 5p pieces and when the operator connected you, you pressed button A.


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  • #151
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users Posts: 8,259 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    When you were playing cards at the Custom House and if you're Big Dawn was caught trying to cross on a short suit....you were fooked in the River Liffey

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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