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

branie2 · 25-11-2020 2:33pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Deodorant ads where theyd show a semi naked girl spraying herself and a tantalising glimpse of side boob.

Ambre solaire ads - the ladies in bikinis

bodhrandude · 25-11-2020 3:23pm

A cool ad from the nineties, up Leftfield.

JimmyVik · 25-11-2020 3:50pm

branie2 wrote: »

Ambre solaire ads - the ladies in bikinis

Tenents beer cans

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/NINTCHDBPICT000339390096.jpg?strip=all&w=960

branie2 · 25-11-2020 4:22pm

Nice one

branie2 · 25-11-2020 4:49pm

Milk in school

AndrewJRenko · 25-11-2020 5:36pm

the purple tin wrote: »

Don't forget the 1 toilet.

My nephew is horrified at the idea that three brothers would share the one bathroom in the mornings, rotating between the shower / sh1te / shave positions in turn.

Akrasia · 25-11-2020 6:34pm

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

My nephew is horrified at the idea that three brothers would share the one bathroom in the mornings, rotating between the shower / sh1te / shave positions in turn.

branie2 · 25-11-2020 7:16pm

Diego Maradona, the hand of God. May he rest in peace

bodhrandude · 26-11-2020 3:31am

They don't make horror monster movies like this anymore unless you count Lake Placid.

Hamsterchops · 26-11-2020 8:16am

Old style CRT TVs.
Raleigh Choppers.
The video Cassette.
Vesta curries.

CoBo55 · 26-11-2020 1:01pm

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Old style CRT TVs.
Raleigh Choppers.
The video Cassette.
Vesta curries.

Feckin loved the Vesta curries, beautiful after a clatter of pints on grant day, you've brought back a few memories there:D

neris · 26-11-2020 1:06pm

Bosco

Hard as nails soccer players who punched the heads off each other after a tackle

Been left outside a pub on Sunday afternoon with a big bottle of lemonade and a pack of crisps

Eurotrash on channel 4 on a friday night

RandomViewer · 26-11-2020 2:29pm

branie2 wrote: »

King Crisps

You still get them

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 26-11-2020 3:01pm

Did we mention these?

partyguinness · 26-11-2020 3:30pm

...affordable housing.

partyguinness · 26-11-2020 3:32pm

branie2 wrote: »

Milk in school

amd warm with it.

Our milk arrived around 11am but it was then left to sit there until 2pm on a counter- no fridge.

When the weather warmed it was undrinkable. Basically room temperature/warm milk at 2pm- it was revolting.

filbert the fox · 26-11-2020 4:43pm

partyguinness wrote: »

amd warm with it.

Our milk arrived around 11am but it was then left to sit there until 2pm on a counter- no fridge.

When the weather warmed it was undrinkable. Basically room temperature/warm milk at 2pm- it was revolting.

you musta had centerdal Hatin' - lucky duck

partyguinness · 26-11-2020 4:47pm

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Did we mention these?

Jaysus...we had war over those in national school. Lads would be stealing them off the wheels. The more you had the better.

We were then told that they weaken the integrity of the wheel so we went right off them.

cj maxx · 26-11-2020 6:19pm

Its probably been mentioned but pay phones , British army checkpoints on the border, life without social media or even internet, punts,

bodhrandude · 26-11-2020 7:34pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Golightly

whisky_galore · 26-11-2020 7:43pm

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Raleigh Choppers.

Never understood the love for these things.

Must have taken an eternity to cycle anywhere not to mention the gear change in a strategic position in the event of a crash.

ohnonotgmail · 26-11-2020 8:34pm

cj maxx wrote: »

Its probably been mentioned but pay phones , British army checkpoints on the border, life without social media or even internet, punts,

not just pay phones but the really old ones with A and B buttons and the use thereof.

Floppybits · 26-11-2020 9:00pm

Jimson wrote: »

HAIRY BUSHES - Their all shaved or lasered or hair removal cream now.

Bring back the bush, not a jungle bush but a nice trimmed bush.

iamstop · 26-11-2020 10:20pm

partyguinness wrote: »

Jaysus...we had war over those in national school. Lads would be stealing them off the wheels. The more you had the better.

We were then told that they weaken the integrity of the wheel so we went right off them.

Remember Spokey Dokeys?

L1011 · 26-11-2020 10:50pm

the purple tin wrote: »

No delivery from the take aways.

And when delivery started it was only pizza. Nothing else.

Local decent Indian had about ten seats and did 90% of its business take out, all people driving up (frequently pissed) to collect it.

Now in a new site it has 100 seats and can't use any of them! But has a fleet of drivers every night.

L1011 · 26-11-2020 10:54pm

Ger Roe wrote: »

Don't get me started on the TV licence detector van that prowled slowly down the road with a rotating detection antenna on it's roof.

A prop - while detecting flyback on CRT TVs is in theory possible, they did not do so in the vans - there was absolutely no way they could tell it was coming from a specific house; and the second home computer monitors started they were goosed anyway as they aren't licenced.. There is no way to detect any form of non CRT display

People were as easily diddled then as they are now by psedoscience. Just these days its aunties on Facebook spreading stuff, not RTE driving around with a giant rotating prop on van.

Then like now they had lists of houses without licences and they looked for aerials, external cable hookups etc.

The Continental Op · 26-11-2020 11:00pm

L1011 wrote: »

A prop - while detecting flyback on CRT TVs is in theory possible, they did not do so in the vans - there was absolutely no way they could tell it was coming from a specific house; and the second home computer monitors started they were goosed anyway as they aren't licenced.. There is no way to detect any form of non CRT display

People were as easily diddled then as they are now by psedoscience. Just these days its aunties on Facebook spreading stuff, not RTE driving around with a giant rotating prop on van.

Then like now they had lists of houses without licences and they looked for aerials, external cable hookups etc.

Some interesting reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van

L1011 · 26-11-2020 11:04pm

The Continental Op wrote: »

Some interesting reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van

Lots of theory, none of which was every actually used. It simply wasn't practical to put in a mobile unit; it didn't give enough guarantee that what you were detecting was in a specific house and later on, it detected any and every CRT going even if it was on a Spectrum or C64.

I'm a broadcast engineer, not someone just randomly stating they didn't exist. I know it wasn't possible.

The most important part of the kit list is the "list of valid and recently expired licences" - they just went and knocked on the doors without licences and had aerials (or that had recently expired, cause its very likely they hadn't got rid of their TV). The rest was there to scare people. The FOI request finding that nobody had ever been prosecuted based on evidence from a van is probably the most telling bit.

foxy farmer · 26-11-2020 11:19pm

We weren't allowed to hear Gerry Adams speaking in his own voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdf4xOdas1g

L1011 · 26-11-2020 11:23pm

This should have been done instead tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR6jGJ1lq2U

Capt'n Midnight · 26-11-2020 11:48pm

L1011 wrote: »

A prop - while detecting flyback on CRT TVs is in theory possible, they did not do so in the vans - there was absolutely no way they could tell it was coming from a specific house; and the second home computer monitors started they were goosed anyway as they aren't licenced.

The RTE van was fake,

But Van Eck phreaking is real.

CRT computer monitors ran at 60Hz/72Hz/75Hz or higher not the 50Hz that TV's used. So a van could detect the TV 15.625 kHz flyback even with CRT's in the background.

And the colour crystals in our TV's ran at 4.43361875Mhz ± 50ppm so there's that too.

<yawn>

We used to stare at vacuum tubes that emitted x-rays, and could electrocute you if you picked up one and implode and take the face off you with flying glass if you dropped it.

branie2 · 27-11-2020 12:47pm

The original Den

CoBo55 · 27-11-2020 12:56pm

I remember a friend's mother had an ancient black and white TV that had two buttons 405 and 625 they had it on 405, I told her that 625 would give a better picture. You'd think I was priming the hydrogen bomb she was that nervous about me pressing the button... What will the husband say when he comes home etc.. we pressed it anyway, there was a marginal improvement, we were so disappointed.

filbert the fox · 27-11-2020 1:33pm

CoBo55 wrote: »

I remember a friend's mother had an ancient black and white TV that had two buttons 405 and 625 they had it on 405, I told her that 625 would give a better picture. You'd think I was priming the hydrogen bomb she was that nervous about me pressing the button... What will the husband say when he comes home etc.. we pressed it anyway, there was a marginal improvement, we were so disappointed.

In the Summer the piped tv would constitute a series of horizontal interference lines which would be explained away as sure it's the Summer!

dresden8 · 27-11-2020 1:46pm

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Mastitis and Scour ads on TV

And liverfluke.

Not to mention sarcoptic mange mites. Us city boys used to know the ways of them countryfolk

branie2 · 27-11-2020 3:46pm

Garda Patrol

RandomViewer · 27-11-2020 5:41pm

CoBo55 wrote: »

I remember a friend's mother had an ancient black and white TV that had two buttons 405 and 625 they had it on 405, I told her that 625 would give a better picture. You'd think I was priming the hydrogen bomb she was that nervous about me pressing the button... What will the husband say when he comes home etc.. we pressed it anyway, there was a marginal improvement, we were so disappointed.

405 was RTE and UTV, 625 was BBC, you needed 2 aerials and a little junction switch to jump between them, guessing your telly had that built in

Ger Roe · 27-11-2020 5:44pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The RTE van was fake,

But Van Eck phreaking is real.

CRT computer monitors ran at 60Hz/72Hz/75Hz or higher not the 50Hz that TV's used. So a van could detect the TV 15.625 kHz flyback even with CRT's in the background.

And the colour crystals in our TV's ran at 4.43361875Mhz ± 50ppm so there's that too.

<yawn>

We used to stare at vacuum tubes that emitted x-rays, and could electrocute you if you picked up one and implode and take the face off you with flying glass if you dropped it.

It wasn't an RTE Van. The P&T (department of post and telegraphs) had the responsibility for putting the fear of God into people with strange looking vans.

branie2 · 27-11-2020 6:00pm

Corporal punishment in school

CoBo55 · 27-11-2020 6:08pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

405 was RTE and UTV, 625 was BBC, you needed 2 aerials and a little junction switch to jump between them, guessing your telly had that built in

Jesus I haven't a clue tbh. There was only rte at that time.

For Forks Sake · 27-11-2020 6:31pm

foxy farmer wrote: »

We weren't allowed to hear Gerry Adams speaking in his own voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxpYW_w5pgo

whisky_galore · 27-11-2020 6:44pm

branie2 wrote: »

Garda Patrol

Appeals for assistance with IRA armed bank robberies interspersed with reports of stolen cow boxes.
Simpler times.

28-11-2020 12:48pm

Not sure if it’s been mentioned, but cooking comes to mind in a way. 20-30+ years ago if you wanted food & didn’t wanna cook there was a high likelihood you we’re gonna be hungry. Now it’s grand just order on just eat with the iPad haha. Same with kids, I rarely see toys anymore like Mr. Frosty or the likes.

bodhrandude · 28-11-2020 4:55pm

Anyone remember RTE's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

NewbridgeIR · 28-11-2020 5:25pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

Anyone remember RTE's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

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Jousting! Remember that f*ck up?

NewbridgeIR · 28-11-2020 5:29pm

The definition of jousting was a question on the Irish Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

The guy didn't know, did a 50/50 and then phoned a friend. Mounted combat was one of the options, can't remember the other.

The friend paused for around 15 seconds and said 'I think the answer is jousting'.

The contestant and Gay Byrne looked at each other in horror before shouting 'No! Jousting is what we are asking about'. The friend then said he didn't know. The guy went for mounted combat in the end but wasted two lifelines in the process.

CoBo55 · 28-11-2020 6:12pm

mikemac2 wrote: »

We weren't rich at all but we were one of the first in the area to have a VCR

Mitsubishi was the brand and it cost a large part of a working mans weekly wage. Big money at the time. Years later you could get a DVD player for under 50 euro. So many buttons and dials and options for "tracking" on this VCR when most people had no idea how these worked.

Our club won the county final and our VCR visited a few homes so neighbours could watch a taped replay in their homes.

Was it the model with the remote on a cable? We got a VCR in the early 80's that had a proper remote, the rented telly was still a, nearest one to the button jobbie...

the purple tin · 28-11-2020 6:13pm

mikemac2 wrote: »

We weren't rich at all but we were one of the first in the area to have a VCR

Mitsubishi was the brand and it cost a large part of a working mans weekly wage. Big money at the time. Years later you could get a DVD player for under 50 euro. So many buttons and dials and options for "tracking" on this VCR when most people had no idea how these worked.

Our club won the county final and our VCR visited a few homes so neighbours could watch a taped replay in their homes.

The ad that used to be on before the film about pirate videos. Your man tryng to return his dodgy copy of Trainspotting to the cockney geezah on the market stall. 'That's your tracking mate, trackin's very tricky innit

'.

Ger Roe · 29-11-2020 9:16am

foxy farmer wrote: »

We weren't allowed to hear Gerry Adams speaking in his own voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdf4xOdas1g

Another one from that era - having news flash announcements pop up on UTV at night time, asking shop owners on certain Belfast streets to return to their premises because 'incendiary devices' were going off.

Conway635 · 29-11-2020 9:26am

Ger Roe wrote: »

Another one from that era - having news flash announcements pop up on UTV at night time, asking shop owners on certain Belfast streets to return to their premises because 'incendiary devices' were going off.

Remember that well Ger. And on BBC also.

I was a huge Dr. Who fan as a kid, and almost every other episode would be interrupted at some point, the sound would be turned off and a notice put on the screen (with the programme continuing in the background) asking shopkeepers to return to check their premises. I missed a great many crucial Jon pertwee era scenes that way!!

C635

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