There is a generation that has not grown up with .......

ohnonotgmail · 01-12-2020 2:30pm

The Continental Op wrote: »

Never asked how it was spelt but isn't Paki or is it Packy a shortened Irish name. Confused me when I first moved here.

Edit> Google tells me Packy is sort for Patrick, but not heard it used for a long time.

Packie Bonner

ohnonotgmail · 01-12-2020 2:31pm

CoBo55 wrote: »

No I never heard or used words like paki in school, probably after my time, I'd get a deserved clip round the ear from the father or mother anyway..

we didnt have anybody we could use it to.

CoBo55 · 01-12-2020 5:08pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

we didnt have anybody we could use it to.

Very true.

branie2 · 01-12-2020 7:25pm

Very few transgender people coming out

branie2 · 01-12-2020 8:21pm

Concorde

bodhrandude · 01-12-2020 9:17pm

This brings me back to the late eighties when my parents retired in Scotland and I moved back with them to live in Ireland. For the month that's in it now.

branie2 · 01-12-2020 9:20pm

Young Alan Hughes in that ad

omega42 · 01-12-2020 9:21pm

I cant believe its not butter

Ubbquittious · 01-12-2020 9:22pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

This brings me back to the late eighties when my parents retired in Scotland and I moved back with them to live in Ireland. For the month that's in it now.

A phone box along a road in the arsehole of nowhere. Now there is a sight I haven't seen in a long time

branie2 · 01-12-2020 9:29pm

TV tests cards

the purple tin · 01-12-2020 9:31pm

Ubbquittious wrote: »

A phone box along a road in the arsehole of nowhere. Now there is a sight I haven't seen in a long time

And not smashed up either.

The Continental Op · 01-12-2020 9:35pm

the purple tin wrote: »

And not smashed up either.

They all smelled of p!ss.

blackbox · 01-12-2020 9:41pm

The Angelus on TV every evening at 6pm.

OMG They still do it!

beggars_bush · 01-12-2020 10:09pm

Cushtie wrote: »

Another one in our local. Was when the phone would ring the girl Inside the bar would ask "who is here?" before she answered it.

My mother tracked me down on my 21st birthday by ringing up multiple pubs in the town
I had forgotten she had booked a family meal elsewhere...

angel eyes 2012 · 01-12-2020 10:11pm

Getting a Telecom Eireann callcard with 50 units on it and feeling like a millionaire.

Bins collected by the Council with no bin charges or limits on weight and your Dad threw the binmen a few quid at Christmas for a few pints.

branie2 · 01-12-2020 10:28pm

blackbox wrote: »

The Angelus on TV every evening at 6pm.

OMG They still do it!

Without the religious imagery, though

Purple Mountain · 01-12-2020 10:30pm

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Getting a Telecom Eireann callcard with 50 units on it and feeling like a millionaire.

Bins collected by the Council with no bin charges or limits on weight and your Dad threw the binmen a few quid at Christmas for a few pints.

..or strapped a naggin of whiskey to the bin.

Sardonicat · 01-12-2020 10:31pm

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Getting a Telecom Eireann callcard with 50 units on it and feeling like a millionaire.

The heavy,clunking noise the phone made when you inserted the card

Purple Mountain · 01-12-2020 10:35pm

mikemac2 wrote: »

A note from your granny to buy 20 Major cigarettes for her in the local shop

These days Aldi would request ID from a 40 year old buying a bottle of wine !

My son, when aged 12 was refused service in Aldi buying chocolate because I wasn't by his side! He had cash and I was within eye sight in the store.
As an independent lad, he was offended. I wrote a complaint to customer service but they defended their policy.

L1011 · 01-12-2020 10:38pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I wrote a complaint to customer service but they defended their policy.

Aldis customer care will never, ever go against what a store manager has said/done/decided.

If their store managers didn't include the occasional utter moron that might be a good thing (support your staff, etc) but as they do have said morons; and their customer care staff quote Scottish law (CS are in Scotland) or just make "laws" up whenever they want to its exceptionally useless.

iamstop · 01-12-2020 10:45pm

Are chip vans still a thing anywhere?

Used to love going to the chip van after scouts. Curry chips if you had the extra few bob.

the purple tin · 01-12-2020 10:51pm

iamstop wrote: »

Are chip vans still a thing anywhere?

Used to love going to the chip van after scouts. Curry chips if you had the extra few bob.

Replace by fancier street food vans doing more exotic fare now.

riclad · 01-12-2020 10:51pm

People in a market selling pirate dvds or cds with a low res photocopy of the film or the cd cover
Renting game cartridges from xtravision
Getting stuck in a game by a puzzle before the web
there was no guide to solving games like gamefaqs
If you got stuck on level 2 you might never get a chance to finish the game

the purple tin · 01-12-2020 10:55pm

riclad wrote: »

People in a market selling pirate dvds or cds with a low res photocopy of the film or the cd cover
Renting game cartridges from xtravision
Getting stuck in a game by a puzzle before the web
there was no guide to solving games like gamefaqs
If you got stuck on level 2 you might never get a chance to finish the game

Didn't Nintendo have a phoneline you could ring years ago if you were stuck in a game and they would tell you how to get past it.

Purple Mountain · 01-12-2020 10:56pm

riclad wrote: »

People in a market selling pirate dvds or cds with a low res photocopy of the film or the cd cover
Renting game cartridges from xtravision
Getting stuck in a game by a puzzle before the web
there was no guide to solving games like gamefaqs
If you got stuck on level 2 you might never get a chance to finish the game

Did anyone else have a video man come to their house? Basically it was video library on wheels which you could get into and sit on a stool and browse. For approximately 2quid per video, you'd keep it for a week until the van returned again.

L1011 · 01-12-2020 11:08pm

iamstop wrote: »

Are chip vans still a thing anywhere?

Used to love going to the chip van after scouts. Curry chips if you had the extra few bob.

Yes; rural areas with pubs but no chippers. Probably had a pretty dead 2020 though. But they're far from uncommon in Donegal.

Airyfairy12 · 01-12-2020 11:27pm

There will soon be a generation that will grow up without cigarettes.
I work in youth work and mostly work with disadvantaged teenagers and young adults, most of the 19 - 21 year old's smoke cigarettes', everyone of the teenagers I work with, aged 14 - 18/19 use vapes, majority of them have never smoked a real cigarette.

Ubbquittious · 01-12-2020 11:33pm

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

There will soon be a generation that will grow up without cigarettes.
I work in youth work and mostly work with disadvantaged teenagers and young adults, most of the 19 - 21 year old's smoke cigarettes', everyone of the teenagers I work with, aged 14 - 18/19 use vapes, majority of them have never smoked a real cigarette.

No Harum really

01-12-2020 11:37pm

How about TV and vhs rental, ie the hardware,
Id say that must be completely gone, I just find it hard to believe anyone would be willing to accept that now.

In a rental place, we had a TV and a VHS rented from some local place, forgot about that, that was still in the 90's
A good few people came and went from the house so you wouldn't want your stuff out, if someone didnt nick it, it'd probably get knocked over in a session.

The Continental Op · 01-12-2020 11:41pm

Over the counter Paracetamol in bottles of 100.

Sardonicat · 01-12-2020 11:45pm

The Continental Op wrote: »

Over the counter Paracetamol in bottles of 100.

I recall picking up one if those off the shelf in a UK pharmacy.

The Continental Op · 02-12-2020 12:06am

Sardonicat wrote: »

I recall picking up one if those off the shelf in a UK pharmacy.

I used to buy a bottle once a year when over in the UK. tbh I'm not sure the big generic bottles of paracetamol were available over the counter here, probably because they'd be so expensive.

spurious · 02-12-2020 12:08am

Sharing a bed with sibling(s) - 'topping and tailing'.

The Booze boat - fare a fiver, price of a litre of spirits a fiver, each ticket got you a free litre.
Sailing over, never leaving the Holyhead terminal and sailing back. Clinkety clink.

Hector Grey's and the load of stuff you could get for 50p.

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

Big Ed loves Mona.

the purple tin · 02-12-2020 12:22am

spurious wrote: »

Sharing a bed with sibling(s) - 'topping and tailing'.

The Booze boat - fare a fiver, price of a litre of spirits a fiver, each ticket got you a free litre.
Sailing over, never leaving the Holyhead terminal and sailing back. Clinkety clink.

Hector Grey's and the load of stuff you could get for 50p.

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

Big Ed loves Mona.

Norma you mean? From the Double R.

NewbridgeIR · 02-12-2020 12:28am

the purple tin wrote: »

Norma you mean? From the Double R.

Nicest yogurt ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz1ehU5qpww

the purple tin · 02-12-2020 12:30am

^^
Oh I thought you were talking about Twin Peaks.

Sardonicat · 02-12-2020 12:42am

the purple tin wrote: »

^^
Oh I thought you were talking about Twin Peaks.

It was an ad campaign that went in for weeks. 'Big Ed loves Mona,' a big mystery that no one could figure out. We were on tenterhooks for the big reveal and it turned out to be a feckin yogurt. We all had it in our lunch boxes the following week, though.

riclad · 02-12-2020 12:55am

Xtravision used to rent out consoles too.
People used to pay for a TV it might be 2 or 3 quid
a week, instead of just buying one.
Black and white tvs, there were also bw TV licences
Cheaper than a color TV licence
Before xtravision there were local video rental
stores they might only have a few 100 videos
in stock
Yes there was a helpline for getting advice about
playing Nintendo games
G4 TV a TV channel about video games
Now you can just reviews on youtube

L1011 · 02-12-2020 1:07am

Mona yoghurt used wallpaper paste as thickener. Entirely legit, still is.

spurious · 02-12-2020 6:47am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Nicest yogurt ever.

Full fat diet busting stuff.

CoBo55 · 02-12-2020 9:43am

spurious wrote: »

Sharing a bed with sibling(s) - 'topping and tailing'.

The Booze boat - fare a fiver, price of a litre of spirits a fiver, each ticket got you a free litre.
Sailing over, never leaving the Holyhead terminal and sailing back. Clinkety clink.

Hector Grey's and the load of stuff you could get for 50p.

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

Big Ed loves Mona.

Booze cruise.. Great crack.

CoBo55 · 02-12-2020 9:46am

Free buses to the the disco on Sunday night if you had a complimentary pass. You spent hours on Saturday night trying to get one!! The bus driver would be as scuttered as the passengers.

The J Stands for Jay · 02-12-2020 10:01am

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

There will soon be a generation that will grow up without cigarettes.
I work in youth work and mostly work with disadvantaged teenagers and young adults, most of the 19 - 21 year old's smoke cigarettes', everyone of the teenagers I work with, aged 14 - 18/19 use vapes, majority of them have never smoked a real cigarette.

I saw a girl in a school uniform smoking a cigarette a few weeks ago. I was pretty surprised, hadn't seen a youngster smoking on years

CoBo55 · 02-12-2020 10:05am

McGaggs wrote: »

I saw a girl in a school uniform smoking a cigarette a few weeks ago. I was pretty surprised, hadn't seen a youngster smoking on years

Sadly it seems to be creeping back into fashion again especially with young girls. Disappointing to see.

The J Stands for Jay · 02-12-2020 10:06am

spurious wrote: »

Big Ed loves Mona.

I had a Big Ed loves Mona frisbee.

mikemac2 · 02-12-2020 6:16pm

We had fantasy football before the internet, yes it existed.

The internet did exist but it sure wasn't in most homes in Ireland. The local library is where I accessed the internet

To enter for example the Sunday World competition you needed their paper before the season started. A huge list of players and their prices and positions would be printed. Every player had a code

Once you picked your dream team you needed to register it. To do this you telephoned a special phone line and entered the codes.

Player 1 - David Seaman so you enter his code something like 0013
Player 2

And so on. No week to week changes. If your player broke his leg well tough luck!

whysobecause · 02-12-2020 6:29pm

12 inches Re-Mix
Frankie goes to Hollywood, had the best.

NewbridgeIR · 02-12-2020 7:18pm

whysobecause wrote: »

12 inches Re-Mix
Frankie goes to Hollywood, had the best.

Pet Shop Boys and New Order both continue to release singles on 12" and CD. And occasionally 7".

bodhrandude · 02-12-2020 7:44pm

This music most probably attracted metallers, punks and a whole bunch of rockers to dance music in the mid to late nineties, Chill Out Zone on MTV had them in a loop in the weekend.

The Continental Op · 02-12-2020 7:48pm

Doom - the computer game.

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