Things you don't see anymore

DrumSteve

mexican flavour pot noodle

Nolanger

Young Irish rock bands thinking they're the next U2!

aujopimur

Wimmin scrubbing doorsteps.

Corner boys.

Lads playing cards in alleyways.

Outside boghouse.

IK09

black cat bangers

5 down/ headers and volleys

world cup

tip the can

40/40

american dreams (kids r such pussys these days)

pellet guns

a good old fashioned hiding....they were sore as ****

them stupid looking goalie gloves...yellow with black dots all over, they're oldschool

BengaLover

Frada, i just clicked on your sig...:D:D:D

IK09

dead arms

Mr Magners

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

Well, I called it 'squares' but I forgot the name of it and asked a youngster so evidently it's still played!!

Kick the can, hopscotch with a shoe polish tin as the erm....'pog' ? Can't remember what we called it! Conkers, connect 4, operation, etch-a-sketch, skipping, roller skates, CB radio, pirate radio. Ra-ra skirts, Simon Hart shoes, Ritz, The Iveigh Rooms, Blooms, West Coast Cooler, The Grove.

Frizbees, swingball, amassing hugely dangerous and unsupervised bonfires, saying 'help the Haloween party' instead of 'trick or treat' .

Going places on your own on the bus at 11, 12 or 13. Playing out all day and sometimes the night with no-one batting an eyelid.

Getting battered and laughing about it instead of ringing childline. Potato cakes. Wagon wheels and chipsticks.

Leif Garrett, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Noel Edmonds swopshop. Play School, Why-Dont-You and Rent-A-ghost....

I showed two 9 yr old kids how to play conkers this year. After a bit of time trying to explain I figured the best thing to do was demonstrate. I set up two conkers and showed them how to play.

They looked at each other, then looked at me the way only kids can as if they felt sorry for me and said that they'd seen this game before....in their history books:eek:

I went back to my cocoa with my ancient tail between my legs

Coriolanus

Peg guns.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Mr Magners wrote: »

I showed two 9 yr old kids how to play conkers this year. After a bit of time trying to explain I figured the best thing to do was demonstrate. I set up two conkers and showed them how to play.

They looked at each other, then looked at me the way only kids can as if they felt sorry for me and said that they'd seen this game before....in their history books:eek:

I went back to my cocoa with my ancient tail between my legs

I played conkers as a child and Im only 19. I cant say I found it very thrilling though.

Nolanger

Golliwogs.

sensibleken

Nolanger wrote: »

Golliwogs.

no no. i got one. theres loads of shops in england that specialise in them. theyre terrifying

DeepSleeper

Evening-time queues for public payphones in student areas of cities...

DublinWriter

aujopimur wrote: »

Corner boys.

Most of the Dublin ones ended up in Grangegorman after all the roundabouts were built.

- 25 a side football, with jumpers for goalposts
- describing the chronically alcoholic as being 'fond of the sup'
- primary school teachers who chain smoked in class all day
- every class having 'the fat kid' (they're all mostly fat now)
- shouting 'sketch!' when you saw a guard and legging it, although you did nothing wrong, it guaranteed a chase
- Neck lumps
- TV repairmen
- Washing machine repairmen
- The local neighbourhood weirdo-slash-rumoured child-molester-slash-transvestite
- The Mineral Man
- Milkmen
- Saturday morning children's television
- Furstenburg (someone once seriously tried to argue the point with me that it was the best beer because a barman had once said that the Furstenburg pipes were always the cleanest in the pub)
- Clocks (the insect)
- The local kid who thought he was Evil Kenevil on his little bike and usually did crazy stunts involving planks of wood and/or other kids
- The Priest coming around to visit the house (still happens, but usually under supervision)
- 10p Gas Meters
- The TV Test Card, complete with instrumental 'Girl from Ipanema' musak
- Your Dad using the nearest halting site as a branch of Halfords
- Postal strikes that lasted nine months

BengaLover

Famous Five books - I got some for my kids and they laughed at me.:o
Horrid school milk - in winter arriving frozen and teacher putting it on the hot water pipes to thaw. *shudder*
Kids with an imagination.
Traveller women going round on carts knocking on doors and asking for stuff.(nowadays they use a Hi-Ace)
ooh, a hi-ace, not seen one of them for ages.
People selling ducks and turkeys out of their car boots on a Monday.
Sonas and Spraoi books.

BengaLover

Ooh, im off again lol..
Sherbert Fountains - 'member the paper wrapping always got soggy?
Old men wearing a knotted hanky as a hat in summer.
Sweets sold in big jars.
Cassettes (my kids didnt know what one was until last week, then we rediscovered all my old Bon Jovi tapes..bliss)

stoneill

Kids out making slides in the cold weather.
Gangs of kids playing kick the can, queenie - eye - oh, sick dying dead and buried, rounders and kiss chasing.
Stone throwing fights, runners hanging over telephone wires, clackers.
Van shops, barbers using a strop, plastic sandals, bikes without tyres.
Ropes tied around lampposts as swings.
2 bob meters for the lekky.
Gig's or trolleys whether with pram wheels or large bearings.
Farmers collecting food waste for the pigs.
Go Aheads on buses, and the panic if an inspector got on.
Sugar bread sambo's
Kids being sent to the shops with the money wrapped in brown paper.
Groceries being called messages.
Dogs carrying the newspaper.

kincsem

Television aerials. What happened?

Captain_Generic

kincsem wrote: »

Television aerials. What happened?

They perfected the brain beam.

Run_to_da_hills

kincsem wrote: »

Television aerials. What happened?

Taken over by Sat dishes,

House already has three of them :eek:

filthymcnasty

Sink The Banana wrote: »

American Crunchos ,hot dog flavor ,I would kill for a packet of them:pac:

they were fecking savage.

ma reilly crisps
george webb shoes and white socks combo
pushing the car to get it started.
snorkel jackets

Tonyandthewhale

stoneill wrote: »

bikes without tyres.

How does that work?

Cú Giobach

Real milk with the cream on top.
(I buy a carton of cream and add it to anything I use milk in mmmm).

thebullkf

IK09 wrote: »

black cat bangers

5 down/ headers and volleys

world cup

tip the can

40/40

american dreams (kids r such pussys these days)

pellet guns

a good old fashioned hiding....they were sore as ****

them stupid looking goalie gloves...yellow with black dots all over, they're oldschool

MIKASA;););)

JohnMearsheimer

Binmen asking for tea at the front door.

Thesafetyman

Drive in movies for cyclists!

aujopimur

Sissies.

bonerjams03

kowloon wrote: »

Afraid not

I bought it the other day in Super Valu. Delicious mixer.

[American Cream Soda]

Cheap Thrills!

licks

M.Pool

stoneill wrote: »

Groceries being called messages.

Was talking about getting the "messages" the other day and teenagers looked at me as if I'd just spoken Japanese

the choke you pulled out to start the car in cold weather
stipey windbreakers with wooden poles on the beach
white knee high socks with pictures printed on the side
soldiers at the border
kids wearing eye patches
massive plastic frame glasses on kids
three legged dogs
pacman in the pub
1 pound note
old men with wooden walking sticks
parcels wrapped in brown paper & string

mad m

Butterflies

Captain Caveeeemannnnn!!!

Spud Guns

Knockadolly.

Fish on a Friday....

Gas meters that took old 50 pence.

Batch bread toasted on the open fire (Ohhh Yes)

M.Pool

mad m wrote: »

Captain Caveeeemannnnn!!!

can picture the hairy devil now, best cartoon ever, it was compulsory to shout his name too.

Cots1

ah butterflies

Copper23

Strange people hanging outside the house. :eek:

ChainWhip

Positive Equity

CrazyRabbit

Decent music.
Kids who aren't wrapped up in cotton wool by overprotective, paranoid parents.
A time when being social meant more than just updating your Facebook status.
1 hour queues for Taxi's during off-peak times.
Teachers who were allowed to discipline their kids.
Parents who actually disciplined their kids.
Computer games that could be bought for less than £5 and would entertain you for months.
Walkman's.
A real coal fire (can't be beaten).
Traditional Irish food (Haven't had coddle or stew in ages!)
'10 penny' bags of sugary sweets.
Houses that cost less than 50k

CrazyRabbit

Sex.


God I miss being 8.

Mjollnir

My ex wife.

Long may she run, and long may she run far away from where I run.

Pandoras Twist

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Decent music.
A real coal fire (can't be beaten).
Traditional Irish food (Haven't had coddle or stew in ages!)

Have had these three in the last 24 hours. Coddle has to be the best thing ever.

mrsdewinter

Groups of children out playing - without parents hovering self-consciously nearby.

Voodoomelon

Dunno if it was posted, but the reason there is no longer any white dog poo is because the dog food manufacturers used to add a large concentration of ash to the product. This is no longer allowed.

maninasia

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

Well, I called it 'squares' but I forgot the name of it and asked a youngster so evidently it's still played!!

Kick the can, hopscotch with a shoe polish tin as the erm....'pog' ? Can't remember what we called it! Conkers, connect 4, operation, etch-a-sketch, skipping, roller skates, CB radio, pirate radio. Ra-ra skirts, Simon Hart shoes, Ritz, The Iveigh Rooms, Blooms, West Coast Cooler, The Grove.

Frizbees, swingball, amassing hugely dangerous and unsupervised bonfires, saying 'help the Haloween party' instead of 'trick or treat' .

Going places on your own on the bus at 11, 12 or 13. Playing out all day and sometimes the night with no-one batting an eyelid.

Getting battered and laughing about it instead of ringing childline. Potato cakes. Wagon wheels and chipsticks.

Leif Garrett, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Noel Edmonds swopshop. Play School, Why-Dont-You and Rent-A-ghost....

Squares is square, kerbs is kerbs, they're not the same thing at all...sheesh.

maninasia

Confab wrote: »

What's with all the anti-EU invective lately?

The money train stopped flowing..now it's all blame the EU, shure it couldn't be our own fault could it now.

Mackman

Kids with cardboard sellotaped between the spokes of the wheels of their bikes.

Sounded like a motorbike :pac:

rockynavan

bald head whit a fringh? huging sumone at a rave while on xtc.lol 20/20stawberry.raves.the i.r.a. xworkx.airforce runners.doc boots

[Jackass]

You just never see your uncle coming into your room at night any more doing his elephant impressions... what ever happened to THAT??

t0mm13b

another classic gem - the parka jacket - with the german flag on it, where it had a detachable woollen lining with buttons on it and you detach it for the summer, attach it for the winter... marbles stalls in primary schools, - "Roll up roll up 3 for a 5'er", then seeing a lad with a steel marble that is bigger than yours and you end up getting robbed cos the fceker's marble was ginormous and knocked out your stall completely...and staring into the bag of what's little left!!! breakdancing - anyone remember them - teachers forbade them from school on the grounds of "breaking a bone" and didn't want to be liable!!!! bwaha ha ha ha... happy days back then... shame they are all now mollycoddled and wrapped up in cotton wool!!!

Mr Magners

Speakng of school...kids don't cycle to school anymore. Remember cycling in the morning 7 a-breast on the road, hands off the handlebars, sunshine rain snow it didn't matter cycling was the only way to get there.

sensibleken

people writing

xtc = nrg

on walls

BengaLover

PLO scarves
Jelly shoes/bags
brown leather satchels
The punt (bring back the punt!!)

old_aussie

Black and white TV's

Kids playing marbles

Hula hoops