The 70's and 80's in Ireland

eviltimeban

This is now officially a retro sweets thread.

Anyone remember Gorgo bars? They were like Wham bars but were green had black bits. Also Dan (of the Desperate variety) bars.

Re the phone wrecker ad - that guy seems pretty committed to wrecking that phone. I'd like to know his motivations. Obviously phone box "wrecking" was so prevalent in the mid 80s that they were compelled to make a TV advertisement about it! Also that I recognise that guy from Irish movies, think he was in a Roddy Doyle one.

Big Nasty

Well that escalated quickly! :eek:

ohnonotgmail

Fuaranach wrote: »

Economically speaking, the 80s were spectacularly bad in my home from 1983 until 1989. Seven of my older siblings emigrated, but there were so many local people in their part of New York/Brussels/London that my mother would get updates on her own children from neighbours she met in the shop. This place was a basket case, and the 'letter from America' kept our family and many others afloat in the 1980s, just as it did Irish families in the 1880s. I especially remember the ridiculously high cost of phone calls, and how the monopolies Telecom Éireann and Aer Lingus were gougers on an egregious level.

Yeah, and the hurt in the house when that Fianna Fáil politician came on RTÉ to tell us how, in response to the latest emigration statistics, "that's good; let them go. We can't all live on a small island". And then the disclosures of the corruption of senior members in his own party who had previously lectured us that "as a nation we are living beyond our means". The pathetic stunts, such as flying out to Stephen Roche in Paris in 1987 when he won the Tour de France, while behind the scenes receiving millions in various bribes from businessmen.

Real, grade A slaveen bastards, and it is painfully sore that extraordinarily corrupt, immoral, gloating, snivelling, sneering parochial thugs like Pee Flynn remain in 2018 not only outside prison but in receipt of enormous pensions.

Why not just say Charlie Haughey?

bullpost

The whole bootboy/skinhead/suedehead culture in the 70's and the football hooliganism that came with it.

Richard Allen books were required reading : https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/fads/richard-allen-books/

mikemac2

Kat1170 wrote: »

Remember another one out at around the same time about drink/drugs with the tag line 'That's a sick way to live'. Can't remember if it was Bob in that one or not.

Was that Gerry Ryan who had the anti drugs advert on TV?

Little did we know at the time hmmmm

Hotblack Desiato

Hate that juvenile British tabloid guff of following some celeb / minor villain around on holidays. Performs the required function though of getting the readers jealous / riled up.

"that's good; let them go. We can't all live on a small island" - Brian Lenihan Sr

"as a nation we are living beyond our means" - Haughey

Sgt Hartman

Deleted User wrote: »

There was Big Bars. They were little bars that cost 5p.

Is there no equivalent to those septic 25p bottles of cola these days?

I remember those Big Bars, they were disgusting though Sugary cheap artificial chocolate.

I think bottles of Shannon Cola and Cadet Cola are still going.

branie2

Small bottles of JR cream soda

Heroditas

When you think that Charlie made the famous "living beyond our means" speech in January 1980, it's stunning to realise that the country was essentially in the toilet until the mid 90s. Even when I started studying engineering in 92, I fully expected to have to emigrate unless I was lucky to get a job in the ESB.
As it turns out, by the time I finished, the country was most definitely on the up and barely aniyone in my year emigrated unless it was by choice to work abroad for a year or two and then return home.
Tax rates of 60%. Christ Almighty... I remember my parents listening to the budget and sighing as they realised they'd have even less money the following year.

Yep, my folks both had what would be considered good jobs but we still had feck all. No holidays or Sky or anything so fancy.

Car trips used to be fun, there could be 12 of ye fired into the back. Was probably in my teens before wearing a seatbelt

Eggs For Dinner

My favourite memory of the 70's is the FA Cup Final on TV. Switching between ITV and BBC from 9am with all sorts of build up segments. Live broadcast from team hotels, following fans on trains and busses as they travelled to Wembley. Celebrity fans, games etc. Would have gotten in supplies of sweets, crisps and drink to see you through until around 6

The Crowman

eviltimeban wrote: »

This is now officially a retro sweets thread.

Anyone remember Gorgo bars? They were like Wham bars but were green had black bits. Also Dan (of the Desperate variety) bars.

Re the phone wrecker ad - that guy seems pretty committed to wrecking that phone. I'd like to know his motivations. Obviously phone box "wrecking" was so prevalent in the mid 80s that they were compelled to make a TV advertisement about it! Also that I recognise that guy from Irish movies, think he was in a Roddy Doyle one.[/QUOTE]

He was in most if not all of them. The son in the army in the Snapper. Yer man looking to buy drugs in the Commitments.

JupiterKid

Anyone else remember this advert? Cook Electric - aired first in early 1982. Loved it

https://youtu.be/iRDCVZkRi0E

The Crowman

JupiterKid wrote: »

Anyone else remember this advert? Cook Electric - aired first in early 1982. Loved it

https://youtu.be/iRDCVZkRi0E

Yes, I remember that. Maddeningly catchy jingle.

Joe_ Public

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

My favourite memory of the 70's is the FA Cup Final on TV. Switching between ITV and BBC from 9am with all sorts of build up segments. Live broadcast from team hotels, following fans on trains and busses as they travelled to Wembley. Celebrity fans, games etc. Would have gotten in supplies of sweets, crisps and drink to see you through until around 6

FA Cup and Grand National were truly great days, dominating an entire days sport the way it’s hard to do now in this age of super saturation. I remember as a kid how much we looked forward to motd every Saturday night and how greedily we gorged on The Big Match on Sundays when we finally got the foreign channels on. Slim pickings compared to now for sure, but unlike now I really savoured live sport back then. Just different times I guess.

AskMyChocolate

Josiah Greasy Barefoot wrote: »

Both decades were, to my experience, marked by high unemployment and high interest rates.


I wouldn't go back to them for any reason.

Fair play to Jimmy, for getting in between yourself and Kermit. Very industrious back in the eighties we were.

thesandeman

FYI A lot of those retro sweets are being sold in LIDL this week. Reasonably priced as well.

branie2

With Halloween coming up in two weeks, I remember that Halloween costumes in my day (80s) was a mask and black binliner.

Heroditas

branie2 wrote: »

With Halloween coming up in two weeks, I remember that Halloween costumes in my day (80s) was a mask and black binliner.

White sheets for ghosts and black binliners for everything (and I mean absolutely everything) else.
Go as a bat? Binliners tied to your arms.
Go as Dracula? Binliner for a cape...

SCOL

Heroditas wrote: »

White sheets for ghosts and black binliners for everything (and I mean absolutely everything) else.
Go as a bat? Binliners tied to your arms.
Go as Dracula? Binliner for a cape...

Yes, and going to the bonfire not going to near the fire because the bag would melt.

DEFTLEFTHAND

branie2 wrote: »

With Halloween coming up in two weeks, I remember that Halloween costumes in my day (80s) was a mask and black binliner.

Same for us in the 90s.

The bin bag was a great thing.

Bullocks

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Same for us in the 90s.

The bin bag was a great thing.

We used to have the bin bag as well , I haven't a clue what we were supposed to be like with it though!

cameramonkey

branie2 wrote: »

With Halloween coming up in two weeks, I remember that Halloween costumes in my day (80s) was a mask and black binliner.

A pyrotechnic delight, saw a guy who had a face mask melt on him.


I can still remember the smell of those masks when you put them on. Walking around peering out through the slits. They were simple times.

Grandeeod

Halloween in the 70s and 80s was "Help the Halloween party" and none of the "Trick or Treat" BS. We got fruit and nuts. Sweets were a fooking long way off, but we loved it anyway. These days Halloween is like a 2 day Christmas loada crap.

NewbridgeIR

cameramonkey wrote: »

A pyrotechnic delight, saw a guy who had a face mask melt on him.


I can still remember the smell of those masks when you put them on. Walking around peering out through the slits. They were simple times.

Back in 1983, someone on our road threw a full orange gas cylinder into a bonfire. It had been stolen from a local shop (remember they used to kept outside?)

Everyone legged it as it exploded up in the air and disintegrated, showering bits everywhere.

cameramonkey

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Back in 1983, someone on our road threw a full orange gas cylinder into a bonfire. It had been stolen from a local shop (remember they used to kept outside?)

Everyone legged it as it exploded up in the air and disintegrated, showering bits everywhere.

Simple times. those were the days.

I remember that it was reported that Rathfarnham a guy got a bullet in the leg after someone threw it in the bonfire.

Mid 70's i think.

JupiterKid

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Back in 1983, someone on our road threw a full orange gas cylinder into a bonfire. It had been stolen from a local shop (remember they used to kept outside?)

Everyone legged it as it exploded up in the air and disintegrated, showering bits everywhere.

Neither smart or funny. A small child could have been seriously injured or worse. The big Halloween bonfires round my area had older kids throwing French bangers into them. That was as crazy as it got in 80s Castleknock...:D

lawred2

Bullocks wrote: »

We used to have the bin bag as well , I haven't a clue what we were supposed to be like with it though!

Same, two holes for eyes. All good.

Wouldn't dream of sending the young lads out like that nowadays

JupiterKid

Yep - cheapy "costumes" - ****ty thin plastic mask and bin bag at Halloween was de rigeur for trick and treat in suburban Dublin in the 80s. But we did get sweets as well as toffee apples (if very lucky) and fruit and nuts. Then back home before the "big kids" caused mayhem with bangers and rockets to have a little party with apple dunking etc...

...simpler times. The idea of Halloween decorations was a long way off.

klaaaz

JupiterKid wrote: »

Neither smart or funny. A small child could have been seriously injured or worse. The big Halloween bonfires round my area had older kids throwing French bangers into them. That was as crazy as it got in 80s Castleknock...:D

Did you see the goings on from the view of your mansion towards West Glasnevin back then?

sabat

Ooh "French bangers" lah dee dah. We had to make our own with a roll of caps, a pin, and some sellotape.

Hotblack Desiato

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Back in 1983, someone on our road threw a full orange gas cylinder into a bonfire. It had been stolen from a local shop (remember they used to kept outside?)

Everyone legged it as it exploded up in the air and disintegrated, showering bits everywhere.

It's supposed to vent off the gas instead of exploding, like this:

https://youtu.be/adwvwrTnF48?t=336

The Crowman

Did anyone else play snapapple at Halloween in the 70's and 80's or was it dying out by then?

kittensmittens

I would like to apologies in advance for recalling the trauma for all that suffered from the gruesome injuries these "toys" inflicted

Wibbs

sabat wrote: »

Ooh "French bangers" lah dee dah. We had to make our own with a roll of caps, a pin, and some sellotape.

Jaysus now there's a few decaying braincells firing again. French bangers. For some reason such fireworks were considered French. I presume because a large shipment came in from there under the customs radar at some point? You could buy fireworks over the counter in the rest of Europe, here feckin sparklers were your lot. Sparklers.

tabby aspreme

The Crowman wrote: »

Did anyone else play snapapple at Halloween in the 70's and 80's or was it dying out by then?

Yes, and ducking for coins in a basin

mikemac2

Six children in the back seat of a fiesta
Adults didn’t wear seatbelts
Hanging off the back of tractors for a lift
Dodging tree branches on top of trailers full of hay

Ah health and safety, nobody gave a damn

We did however have graphic and shocking TV ads showing people in accidents. Like climbing ESB pylons and getting electrocuted or playing by a river and drowning

eviltimeban

Benwell bangers. They were rubbish. Snap bangers were all we were "allowed" but we managed to get the other ones.

Yes, played the apple on a string game, plus the apple in the basin of water. Which was kind of gross when you reflect on it, especially after a few people goes!

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kittensmittens wrote: »

I would like to apologies in advance for recalling the trauma for all that suffered from the gruesome injuries these "toys" inflicted

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Lolo balls. I had one, wasnt to enthused by it.

branie2

Star Trekkin, across the universe!
On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk

NasserShammaz

eviltimeban wrote: »

Benwell bangers. They were rubbish. Snap bangers were all we were "allowed" but we managed to get the other ones.

Yes, played the apple on a string game, plus the apple in the basin of water. Which was kind of gross when you reflect on it, especially after a few people goes!

killer when it bounced off your front teeth

Electric Sheep

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Back in 1983, someone on our road threw a full orange gas cylinder into a bonfire. It had been stolen from a local shop (remember they used to kept outside?)

Everyone legged it as it exploded up in the air and disintegrated, showering bits everywhere.

I guess that proves that ignorant jerks existed long before the year 2000.

Sardonicat

branie2 wrote: »

Star Trekkin, across the universe!
On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk

Slowly going forward
Cos we can't find reverse.

Where are the Klingons now?

Heroditas

Sardonicat wrote: »

Slowly going forward
Cos we can't find reverse.

Where are the Klingons now?

F**kers, both of you. I have that song stuck in my head now.

tringle

branie2 wrote: »

Star Trekkin, across the universe!
On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk

There's Klingons on the starboard bow, the starboard bow, the starboard bow...
There's Klingons on the Starboard bow the starboard bow now Jim.

It's life Jim but not as we know it
Not as we know it
Not as.we know it Jim

tringle

Knock knock
Open wide
See what's on the other side

Knock knock
Any more
Come with me
Through the magic door...

branie2

tringle wrote: »

Knock knock
Open wide
See what's on the other side

Knock knock
Any more
Come with me
Through the magic door...

Tidy up!
Goodbye! Goodbye!

branie2

one of the best mini-series that came out in the 1970s was Jesus of Nazareth.

MonkieSocks

branie2 wrote: »

one of the best mini-series that came out in the 1970s was Jesus of Nazareth.

Remember that one, it was very good with Robert Powell as Jesus.


Great cast, Larry Oliver ect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IiF1rTTGQ



Around the same time there was another mini-series about Moses, Burt Lancaster played the lead.


I'll remember one scene when he is preaching to a crowd of onlookers.


He said" My Name is..........................Moses" then just flashed thosed teeth as he smiled at all around him

bodhrandude

Remember the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man as well, Falconetti the baddie was like another Jack Palance or Lee Van Cleeth and the Jordache brothers, one played by a young Nick Nolte. Also Roots (also a miniseries) , who could ever forget the story of Roots.