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Back in my day...

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  • #202
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    These little bolloxes in your bubble bath.

    51D%2BYfgNKaL._SX355_.jpg


  • #203
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,195 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Surely more paramilitary than domestic murders back then.

    Not counting the paramilitary murders.
    Which reminds me of the News always starting with "it was another night of violence in the north last night".


  • #204
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Princess Calla wrote: »
    Or Angel delight :)

    and you'd always know your Da made it if it was lumpy :D


  • #205
    Cork Trucker
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  • #206
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Rubbery blocks of cheese from Galtee and Calvita.


  • #207
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Scuttin' on the back of the milk float.


  • #208
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Every pub in Dublin had an old guy working there called Johnny who used to scowl at young folk because they wouldn't emigrate.


  • #209
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    There ain't no 'back in the day' n**ga, ain't no nostalgia to this shit here, there's just the street, and the game, and what happen here today.


  • #210
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Two tin cans and a 100 yards of twine between the upstairs window of your and your friend's house :cool:


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  • #211
    SAMTALK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    Slow set especially when je t, aime was played


  • #212
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,195 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    SAMTALK wrote: »
    Slow set especially when je t, aime was played

    And Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight


  • #213
    ryansmith171
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭ryansmith171


    ANY GOOD SONGS


  • #214
    Redneck Reject71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    We only had 3 channels on a small black and white tv set with rabbit ears wrapped in aluminium foil to boost the signal. And at 10:59 p.m ,the channels would go off-air until 6:00 a.m. Just realizing posting that makes me feel old,heh.


  • #215
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Breaking ''the windows'' on your potato waffles.


  • #216
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Grocery van would park at the end of the road. Fruit and veg, sweets if you had any pocket money left.
    Buster, Whizzer and Chips and Bunty for the girls once a week. Your surname would be written on the price tag cos you had a subscription with the local newsagent. You'd be ragin' if they missed a week
    Lad going around in the winter shouting COAL OR LOGS!
    Do lads still go around with mowers in the summer cutting grass? No shirt on, skinny lads always.

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



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  • #217
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    The big snow of 82 , I think . 10ft snow drifts.
    Cycling through British army check points shouting "up the Ra"


  • #218
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,195 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Half the cars back then were bangers. Riddled with rust and exhausts tied up with baling twine. Rubber mud guards hanging off. Animal print seat covers and steering wheel covers. Pulling out the choke to get the car going. No power steering. Lucky to have a radio, never mind a fancy tape deck.
    I miss those days


  • #219
    Marhay70
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    There was a man in dark clothes and carrying a big stick used to walk around our neighbourhood, terrorising all the gurriers. We called him Garda, wonder what ever happened to him?


  • #220
    SAMTALK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    No phones to arrange meet ups. Just down to your local and the whole gang would be there.
    What happened when out was never seen again!!
    No Facebook or snapchat


  • #221
    SAMTALK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    bottlebrush wrote: »
    Half the cars back then were bangers. Riddled with rust and exhausts tied up with baling twine. Rubber mud guards hanging off. Animal print seat covers and steering wheel covers. Pulling out the choke to get the car going. No power steering. Lucky to have a radio, never mind a fancy tape deck.
    I miss those days

    And about 8 people squashed in for a road trip


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  • #222
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,195 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    SAMTALK wrote: »
    And about 8 people squashed in for a road trip

    I was stopped at a checkpoint one night coming home from a disco. 7 of us in the car and a lad in the boot. I got a lecture about the crowd in the car, but he let me on. Luckily he didn't check the boot.


  • #223
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    bottlebrush wrote: »
    I was stopped at a checkpoint one night coming home from a disco. 7 of us in the car and a lad in the boot. I got a lecture about the crowd in the car, but he let me on. Luckily he didn't check the boot.

    He would have thought there was a kidnapping!


  • #224
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,195 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    branie2 wrote: »
    He would have thought there was a kidnapping!

    Or a stoaway. "I have no idea how he got in there, your guardship"


  • #225
    FatherTed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭FatherTed


    branie2 wrote: »
    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

    I'm so old we never had to worry about changing channels when I was a kid because there was only 1 channel.


  • #226
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The chan chan man wrote: »
    Which you could reach easily as there were no seatbelts in the back!

    Or front, in the old Zephyr.


  • #227
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    SAMTALK wrote: »
    No phones to arrange meet ups.

    Meet ye at Central bank at 2pm. If you're not there by 2:30 I'll be in Comet Records.

    The place with the cool painted walls behind CB. Back when Temple Bar wasn't such a kip. Or maybe it was but I didn't notice. I remember the first time I saw the Bad Ass Cafe. Got a kick outta that one.

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



  • #228
    SAMTALK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    Never having pasta or rice. Spud veg and meat


  • #229
    FatherTed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭FatherTed


    SAMTALK wrote: »
    The National Anthem was played at the end of the disco and lights turned up full !


    My kids laughed at A. Calling it a disco and B. playing the National anthem

    Right on about the lights coming on. Cue all the women scattering in droves away from the dancefloor while the guys are still standing there, shirt sleeves rolled up and covered in sweat trying to mumble the words of the Amhran.


  • #230
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Streets were empty during Italia 90 matches.
    Oo ah Paul McGrath
    Put 'em under pressure!
    Who put the ball in the English net?

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



  • #231
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    iamstop wrote: »
    Streets were empty during Italia 90 matches.
    Oo ah Paul McGrath
    Put 'em under pressure!
    Who put the ball in the English net?

    They were some days. Total blind support, it was brilliant.


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  • #232
    SAMTALK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    When the summers were so hot you went around barefoot squashing the melting tar on the roads


  • #233
    Esho
    Registered Users Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Esho


    Fizzlesticks for 2 p and the awful day fizzbombs went up from 1/2p to 1p


  • #234
    Manc_Red
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭Manc_Red


    You slept out your back garden with your mates tent and stashed cans over the wall to collect after-dark.


  • #235
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Esho wrote: »
    Fizzlesticks for 2 p and the awful day fizzbombs went up from 1/2p to 1p

    On April fools day, you'd replace their chalk with fiddlesticks thinking you were so clever.... Our teachers had the grace to go along with it :D


  • #236
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Brilliant thread. Nostalgia almighty.

    We used to have boiled spare ribs every Saturday night for the Late Late Show. Feckin gorgeous they were, dripping down your fingers, and so tender, thanks mammy RIP. But we were sent to bed before the bishops and the nighties came on the panel.


  • #237
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Everyone went to Mass


  • #238
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    branie2 wrote: »
    Everyone went to Mass

    Or pretended they did. We used to go to 5.30 pm Mass on a Sunday, in the days when it was held. We walked around and went into the church at the end. Had it timed, so that Biddy up the road could verify we were there.

    The parents were at the 12 noon Mass in the choir, great singers, but we had to put the dinner on, so were hoofed out at 5 to go to evening Mass. We had more fun dodging it LOL. Happy Days really.


  • #239
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,195 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    branie2 wrote: »
    Everyone went to Mass

    And confession


  • #240
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    The back seat of the Hillman Minx :cool::cool:


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  • #241
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    There was a man in dark clothes and carrying a big stick used to walk around our neighbourhood, terrorising all the gurriers. We called him Garda, wonder what ever happened to him?

    Come on now....


    Who remembers Lugs Brannigan?


  • #242
    sondagefaux
    Registered Users Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭sondagefaux


    branie2 wrote: »
    We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

    We used our hands in our house, but each to their own.


  • #243
    Redneck Reject71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    I grew up on a farm and we had to hand shuck corn to be made into feed for the livestock. And also how many today can hand milk a cow?heh


  • #244
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989




  • #245
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,634 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    WestWicklow1 wrote: »
    Come on now....


    Who remembers Lugs Brannigan?

    "Qif, in the game of chess, you must never let your opponent see your pieces..."

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #246
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,195 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Redneck Reject71 wrote: »
    I grew up on a farm and we had to hand shuck corn to be made into feed for the livestock. And also how many today can hand milk a cow?heh

    Me too. Five of us children on top of a trailer load of bales of hay or straw, none of them tied down. The load swaying from side to side as the tractor plodded along from the field to the shed and us ducking under the electricity wires. I've used up most of my nine lives on that farm.


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  • #247
    [Deleted User]
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

    That’s a nice 2nd place you posted..

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


  • #248
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,155 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    bottlebrush wrote: »
    Me too. Five of us children on top of a trailer load of bales of hay or straw, none of them tied down. The load swaying from side to side as the tractor plodded along from the field to the shed and us ducking under the electricity wires. I've used up most of my nine lives on that farm.

    And then spend the evening picking off ticks with a tweezers


  • #249
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bottlebrush wrote: »
    And confession

    It’s hard to find a confession these days. I was always taught you couldn’t have communion if you hadn’t been to confession for a month but it’s near impossible.


  • #250
    Redneck Reject71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    Making apple butter in an iron cauldron lined with copper so it didn't stick. And canning everything to hold us for the year.


  • #251
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Eventually going home after a marathon 'jumper for goalposts' game fished 24-22 due to one or all of the following reasons:

    - ball owner gets called in after exhausting his "5 more minutes", can't leave the ball behind as its his older brothers
    - the grass is getting dew-y and lads are slipping everywhere
    - you've copped a hit on the inside of the thigh or side of the face and now you've been branded by Mitre or Adidas Tango
    - too dark to see where the ball went
    - the goalie gets tired and changes to "kicker fetches" and lads get the ball back but head home as they're halway there anyway


    You then get told "you smell like outside go for a bath" after you've downed 2 litres of water with the thirst and you're still gasping.

    I feel alive reading that. I miss those days.


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