Things You Don't See Anymore

KungPao

Steiger lager.
Skol (huge in Brazil but last seen in these parts in Only Fools and Horses circa 1989).
Holsten Pils.
Miller pils (was nicer and cheaper than "genuine draft").
Stonehouse cider.*
Scrumpy Jack cider.*
Woodies alcopops.
Hooch alcopops.

*may still be available but I steer clear of the cider section these days 'cause it's poison.

filbert the fox

Taylor Keith Lemonade

Savage Smyth Orange

Club orange - the cholcolate biscuit bar

Sanor squash

Barley sugar?

Smithwicks barley wine.

Malibou bars

kfallon

United bars!

GotTheTshirt

Samaris wrote: »

Public mobile phone charging stations

Huh?

kelledy

Pogs & premier league sticker albums

chopperbyrne

kelledy wrote: »

premier league sticker albums

It's all about Match Attax these days.

Wright

Charlie19 wrote: »

Peg guns.
Lolo balls.
Kids playing paths (curbs).

Curbs man... we should bring it back.

Daith

Irish ppl using AirBnB

The J Stands for Jay

riclad wrote: »

kids used to build go carts.

I can't imaging a Quinny or Bugaboo costing the guts of a grand being sacrificed for a go cart. I don't think there's any pram/buggy available now that has an axle between the wheels that you could attach to a few planks of wood...

the purple tin

Gardai on the beat - walking not driving.

NicoleW85

Club orange biscuits are still alive & well!

messrs

Berserker wrote: »

Fry's Orange Cream chocolate bars. You can buy them online but you never see them in shops here any more.

I still see them in the shops, along with regular and the mint one

jetsonx

the purple tin wrote: »

Gardai on the beat - walking not driving.

A rare sight indeed.

Dublin City Centre at 1am - rarely to be seen.

A bank holiday Monday in leafy Dublin suburbs during daylight hours - bloody loads of them...(something to do with triple Bank Holiday pay I believe)

whisky_galore

Daith wrote: »

Irish ppl using AirBnB

Irish people offering AirBnB could be on the way out too....

sm213

skittles8710 wrote: »

It fills my heart with joy when I go back to my home estate in Kerry. Bunches of kids playing around making their own fun. .traditional games like hide and seek, kerbs etc. Boys and girls mixing not a bother. No technology in sight* and having a great time. That's the environment I want for my kids in the future.


*Make Kerry jokes at your peril.

Maybe I should move to Kerry. Or anywhere.

eisenberg1

Slainte Orange
Honda 50's
Bars of two & two

Kerrydude1981

kfallon wrote: »

Homestead products!

And yes, ye are all singing the 'jingle' in your heads now

wylie

Anyone remember two tone jeans! I can't find any pictures of them.

lanos

phill106 wrote: »

Tv stations stopping broadcasting.
The national anthem at the end of the broadcast.

or waking up freezing at 3am in front of the TV when the drink wears off
and the TV emitting a deafening Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep accompanied by testcard

lanos

or waking up at 5am (after an even bigger feed of drink )
to white noise on TV (after testcard is finished)

lanos

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Bars of two & two

its a crime against humanity that these disappeared.

whisky_galore

skittles8710 wrote: »

It fills my heart with joy when I go back to my home estate in Kerry. Bunches of kids playing around making their own fun. .traditional games like hide and seek, kerbs etc. Boys and girls mixing not a bother. No technology in sight* and having a great time. That's the environment I want for my kids in the future.


*Make Kerry jokes at your peril.

What a terrible existance, this folks, is rural Ireland without Broadband.

eisenberg1

mojesius wrote: »

A slow set.

I'm not in love , so don't forget, it's just a silly phase I'm going through

Bring back the slow set!

AKA The erection section:D

KungPao

Windows 7.

I hope I haven't made a terrible mistake :eek:

zcorpian88

Aimeee wrote: »

M&S have these but not called Campinos. Usually in a little boxes by the till. They are yummy.

I'm living in a town without an M&S......waaaaaah!

Jim79

telecom eireann and nothing else
RTE 1 and RTE 2 only; RTE 2 later renamed network 2. what a way to jazz up your tv viewing!:).

Dempseys den go back a little further wonderly wagon. 40 coats and his 50 pockets.

Cold War Kid

Mobile libraries, gypsy caravans, public information ads, filler cartoons on RTE.

bodhrandude

Stout at music camping festivals.

Speedsie

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Mobile libraries, gypsy caravans, public information ads, filler cartoons on RTE.

Still get mobile libraries, ours comes every second Monday!

Ed_Stephens

Not really something you see but I miss not being able to talk about a tv show the morning after it shows, like did you see Game of Thrones last night? Then someone will inevitably say oh don't tell me what happened I'm still on season four or episode 5 of 10. There's a whole bunch of people who just record things on their Sky+ box and never watch them condemning the rest of us never to discuss them.

Kids playing football with jumpers for goalposts. Childhood seems so prescribed these days.

Smoking on planes, smoking on buses, a pound bag of chips, do people still ask for singles of chips? I remember when chips used to be about 80-90 pence and if you gave them a pound you got an extra shovel or so. Video rental vans were all the rage in the '80's.

Sh1tbag OToole

KungPao wrote: »

Windows 7.

I hope I haven't made a terrible mistake :eek:

I suppose you moved to Linux. In which case welcome to the light side!

eisenberg1

going back a bit now. late 60's maybe, these guys used to go door to door selling "colour TV conversion kits" for a black and white TV.
basically a sheet of clear plastic with rainbow of colours painted on that you stuck in front of your telly. My aunt got suckered for one..if you watched snooker snooker, the ball changed colour as it moved across the screen. We kids thought they were great.

Mister Vain

Modified cars

Decent nightclubs

Skinheads with long fringes

Sh1tbag OToole

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Mobile libraries, gypsy caravans, public information ads, filler cartoons on RTE.

What happened to those gypsy caravans? I remember them in the 90's. Did the owners all get good jobs during the tiger and moved into nice newly built "units" with a jaccuzi? Surely they wouldn't throw their lifestyle and culture behind them like that?

KungPao

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

I suppose you moved to Linux. In which case welcome to the light side!

Well Sh1tbag, I was toying with the idea of Linux, you know? Weighing up the pros and cons of a UNIX OS. Wondering if the Kernel was up to the job, and if the on-board megabytes had the power to handle my gigabytes of motherboard ROM.

Then I decided to just go for the nice and easy Windows 10 upgrade!

Cold War Kid

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

What happened to those gypsy caravans? I remember them in the 90's.

Think they were a tourist thing in our life-time, but would have been the real deal for travellers way back. They were very pretty - painted green and red, with decorative finishings. Kinda like Wanderly Wagon.

Mister Vain

Women pissing in the middle of roundabouts. Those were the days.

KungPao

Mister Vain wrote: »

Women pissing in the middle of roundabouts. Those were the days.

Is that a "Kildare" thing!?

Mister Vain

KungPao wrote: »

Is that a "Kildare" thing!?

Aye, sadly its becoming a lost art, just like the cow tipping.

GotTheTshirt

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

I suppose you moved to Linux. In which case welcome to the light side!

How do you know if someone uses Linux?


THEY'LL ****ING TELL YOU!

KungPao

GotTheTshirt wrote: »

How do you know if someone uses Linux?


THEY'LL ****ING TELL YOU!

Can I do one?

How do you know if someone still uses Windows Vista?

They think Windows XP is AMAZING!!! LOL ROFL etc.

Okay, I'm no good at jokes okay? Don't have a go!

major bill

Video Games that require an IQ of 130 to complete, Commodore64 games were impossible!!!

the smell of winter, the smell of smoke coming from the chimneys on a cold pissy day!!

Coal men delivering coal around the estate

the sound of screaming kids out playing til all hours in the summer

When George Hamilton sounded like he was commentating from the moon when Ireland were playing in some mad kip

riclad

Games in big boxes,
pc games would come in large boxs ,
even though there was maybe 2 cds inside.
People dont seem to wear donkey jackets anymore.

Funnyonion79

Wendy Houses - the ones that you can to put together every summer, with plastic poles that fitted into each other and the plastic "house" sheet to cover it.

Having to give "three rings" when you got home from visiting family in the country because it was too expensive to ring directly.

Cold War Kid

Mentioned public information ads, e.g. like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWHrjCG1LQ

And those ads that were just a still, with a voiceover (see 2:32 onwards) - they were shown up to about the early 90s I'd say. Desperate things. :pac:

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

DivingDuck

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Mentioned public information ads, e.g. like this:

We still have those "Cyclists have a right to the road" ads that seem to play at least twice an hour after midnight on some stations. The voiceover sounds horribly similar to the one in this clip, as well...

Qualitymark

Government ads that are obviously designed to keep the citizenry terrified and obedient, like virtually all ads for road safety, showing blood, screaming and horrified, regretful tears.

skittles8710

whisky_galore wrote: »

What a terrible existance, this folks, is rural Ireland without Broadband.

Lovely existence, Tralee town.. not exactly rural but sure everything is rural to a Dub. Kids who have broadband at their disposal but choose to interact with other kids face to face instead.

skittles8710

Jumble sales. ..And mothers going mental after their kid sold off heirlooms for 10p.

Menas

These yokes. Did they ever lift any dirt?