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  • #482
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    THE FAST SHOW



  • #483
    Frankie Machine
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Lol silly ad from the seventies.

    That's Barry from Last of The Summer Wine.

    There's a generation that hasn't grown up with having to wait a week to see a favourite programme, in a two-channel land.


  • #484
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Strumms wrote: »
    I miss buying physical music. Yes the accessibility of Spotify is amazingly brilliant but I loved spending 40 minutes in the old tower records in Wicklow St.. trawling shelves... Virgin megastore on the Champs Elysses ( you’d need 2 hours ), Fargo and FNAC in Paris, and HMV Oxford St...

    There is nothing like buying physical formats - I have been doing it for almost 40 years and have no intention of stopping. Not sure why people say they "miss it" when record shops still exist, the reissues market is flooded with new product, special editions and a huge second market exists.


  • #485
    atr2002
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭atr2002


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    There is nothing like buying physical formats - I have been doing it for almost 40 years and have no intention of stopping. Not sure why people say they "miss it" when record shops still exist, the reissues market is flooded with new product, special editions and a huge second market exists.

    I bought Nirvana Nevermind on 12" yesterday in Harvey Norman of all places.

    I'd normally head into Spindizzy.. but in these times, its take what you can get.


  • #486
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Strumms wrote: »
    Loved the show when Uaneen Fitzsimons presented it in particular... it wasn’t like some indie schmindy rock show presenter talking down to their audience, more like a mate who loved music too sharing their discoveries and loves...

    I loved that there was no sticking to any genre. First place I ever encountered Aphex Twin.


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  • #487
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,729 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Nighthawks.


  • #488
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,803 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    not even close to how hard it was before they deregulated the taxis in dublin. You could be waiting 2 hours at the rank.

    It was grim before deregulation. I remember if I was out Friday or Saturday at a gig in Dublin city, over around 11ish, no fûcking way am I hanging around in the city for drinks, it’s straight in a cab and back to the local.

    That feeling, in January / February... 1am, scouring Dame St for half an hour or wherever with an eye on a car with a yellow light on the roof, only for somebody to walk out straight from a restaurant or bar, put their hand out and presto..

    You can’t feel your hands or feet, just the impending hangover.

    Anybody that was anti deregulation needs reprogramming.


  • #489
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    LineConsole wrote: »
    I heard that phrase so much as a child the first time I tried to buy an envelope in a post office I asked for a stamped addressed envelope like a thick. “You’ll have to address it yourself” was the response.

    I'll go one further than that.

    I used to listen to foreign radio stations on Short Wave (that's not even the main point), and would get QSL cards (proof of reception) back from them, for the reception reports that I sent out.

    You would have to write down what you heard on their broadcast, the date and time, what equipment you were using and how good the signal was. Then you posted off the report and waited.... and waited ... for the return reply.

    In order to cover their postage you had to buy an I.R.C. from the post office - an International Reply Coupon, that anyone in a postal union country could take to their local post office and exchange for an international post stamp, so that they could send back to you.

    You try telling the young people today that.... and they wouldn't believe any of it. :)


  • #490
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,803 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    There is nothing like buying physical formats - I have been doing it for almost 40 years and have no intention of stopping. Not sure why people say they "miss it" when record shops still exist, the reissues market is flooded with new product, special editions and a huge second market exists.

    Miss it because there are only a handful of actual music stores left to buy physical product.... after covid see what’s left on the landscape...

    But using my home city as an example, Dublin.... Tower Records, and the now handful of indie stores...


  • #491
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,731 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Postal orders.
    Cheque books.


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  • #492
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Strumms wrote: »
    Miss it because there are only a handful of actual music stores left to buy physical product.... after covid see what’s left on the landscape...

    But using my home city as an example, Dublin.... Tower Records, and the now handful of indie stores...

    Agree, it's not like it was. In the '90s I'd spend hours every Saturday doing a trawl of the shops - would start with Virgin, HMV, Tower. Then Freebird, Comet, Borderline, Freak Out, Abbey Discs, Tag, Outlaw, Chapters etc...

    Buy most of my records & CDs online now. I moved out of Dublin in 2003 so had to make a special trip every few weeks. After around 2006, I found that the shops were become unreliable particularly when it came to some new releases and a lot of new reissues (not coming in on time or not at all). Nowadays I'll go in for a browse if I'm passing and will usually buy something - but generally will pre-order online anything new.


  • #493
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,364 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Squats, you never see or hear of squats anymore. I remember some squats in Galway city in the early nineties, some of them mad party houses. There was one in Dominic St next to the Jug of Punch pub, the pub had a fire and over the next few days crowds from the squat during a party jumped over the back wall and came back with bins full of burnt cans, apparently still drinkable. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #494
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Hard hitting public safety ads

    Your harmless family pet dog turns into a bloodthirsty cutthroat at night and kills sheep. Do you know where your dog was last night??

    Grandad falling into the river and drowning

    Young lad getting zapped to oblivion for climbing on ESB equipment.

    Lots more


  • #495
    Frankie Machine
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Hard hitting public safety ads

    Your harmless family pet dog turns into a bloodthirsty cutthroat at night and kills sheep. Do you know where your dog was last night??

    Grandad falling into the river and drowning

    Young lad getting zapped to oblivion for climbing on ESB equipment.

    Lots more

    'But he never gave a thought to his back-booooone to the tune of 'Big Bad John' !


  • #496
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Being forced up the aisle to take communion.


  • #497
    Frankie Machine
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQNLokv0D8

    Maurice Pratt


  • #498
    Frankie Machine
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    RTE Continuity Announcers...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nxDmrkuMl0


  • #499
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,803 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Agree, it's not like it was. In the '90s I'd spend hours every Saturday doing a trawl of the shops - would start with Virgin, HMV, Tower. Then Freebird, Comet, Borderline, Freak Out, Abbey Discs, Tag, Outlaw, Chapters etc...

    Buy most of my records & CDs online now. I moved out of Dublin in 2003 so had to make a special trip every few weeks. After around 2006, I found that the shops were become unreliable particularly when it came to some new releases and a lot of new reissues (not coming in on time or not at all). Nowadays I'll go in for a browse if I'm passing and will usually buy something - but generally will pre-order online anything new.


    Was pretty much my trek too, That could be me most Saturdays, about 2 hours just shopping for music.

    I loved the original Record Collector on Wicklow St.just down from the original tower.. the late George Murray was the owner, a super nice man who used gave me the odd freebie over the years... as well of tonnes of good steers onto something I’d like based on my love of x artist... used to bump into him at whelans and vicar st at the odd gig, we had a mutual love of Rodney Crowell and it was nice to get to know even a little bit of the man whose passion for music went to inform my own...

    I remember with fondness going into that little basement, an aladdins cave.


  • #500
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,729 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Pauliedragon wrote: »
    Being forced up the aisle to take communion.

    Or married!!


  • #501
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Pauliedragon wrote: »
    Being forced up the aisle to take communion.

    Being forced out the door to mass. Being interrogated as to what the readings were on your return to make sure you actually went. This was done to adult children home at the weekend.


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  • #502
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Frankie Machine wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQNLokv0D8

    Maurice Pratt

    Yellow pack products


  • #503
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,610 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Postal orders.

    I had to buy a postal order last year to pay court fees to take a cross-border small claims case (I won, so the effort was worth it). So they're still available but only used in ridiculously niche circumstances.


  • #504
    Frankie Machine
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Or married!!

    :D


  • #505
    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,729 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    L1011 wrote: »
    I had to buy a postal order last year to pay court fees to take a cross-border small claims case (I won, so the effort was worth it). So they're still available but only used in ridiculously niche circumstances.

    Believe it or not but the Taxi Regulator would only take postal orders to renew my (now unused) psv drivers licence during the lockdown, fcukin waste of €250:mad:


  • #506
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users Posts: 8,586 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Being absolutely fcuking horrified when the price of a bag of Tayto went from 4p to 7p.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #507
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Dermot Morgan on Scrap Saturday


  • #508
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Anne and Barry reading books


  • #509
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    When you're only choice for an Ice pop was super split, Choc Ice or a Brunch and possibly a dracula pop, I've no idea what a orange juice gelato is and I think I can live without it

    21/25



  • #510
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    miss.paula wrote: »
    Hairy fannys
    all women under 30 shave or wax, unthinkable not to, the influence of porn

    So do you prefer Choc Ice or Dracula Pop?

    21/25



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  • #511
    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Hard hitting public safety ads

    Your harmless family pet dog turns into a bloodthirsty cutthroat at night and kills sheep. Do you know where your dog was last night??

    Grandad falling into the river and drowning

    Young lad getting zapped to oblivion for climbing on ESB equipment.

    Lots more

    The nun shouting "Boh!" in the kids ear!

    Are you deaf, child? You are now!!


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