Back in my day...

Manc_Red

We got a small bottle of Coke for 70p

branie2

Rufeo wrote: »

Is that....mick jagger. Le shock.

With the beard?

branie2

maudgonner wrote: »

Was it Monday they used to have the pensioners' day on Live at Three? You'd come home from school and there would be Sony Knowles or Anne O'Dwyer crooning away to a crowd of aul' wans :mad:

I think every day was pensioners' day on the show

the purple tin

The shopping trolleys were small little yokes. You could maybe fit more in the wheelie baskets nowadays.

Marhay70

Sandwiches and a little bottle of milk for lunch every day at school, and this was when the country was really broke.

bottlebrush

Marhay70 wrote: »

Sandwiches and a little bottle of milk for lunch every day at school, and this was when the country was really broke.

Two slices of home made buttered white soda bread for school lunch. The luckier ones had jam on theirs! Anyone remember a drink called 'Invite' . It was a vitamin c powder made up with water. We took it to school in empty brandy bottles if all things. Nobody batted an eyelid. Our grandfather lived with us and liked his sup of brandy. Everybody else had the same bottles with milk or water or Ribena. I can see them now lined up in the window sill in the porch in the school with our names on the bottles. None your fancy flasks back then!

Manc_Red

088 phone with the Garda coming through on it lol

branie2

Garda Patrol, the forerunner of Crimecall

IAMAMORON

The parade was the army band followed by about 50 trucks with people in costumes waving at you from out the back of them, dressed up like Snow White ( why? ) or the seven dwarfs.

It was raining.

The buses were orange. ( sorry a mild tangerine say )

partyguinness

bottlebrush wrote: »

Two slices of home made buttered white soda bread for school lunch.

Jaysus the only lads who had that in my national school were the children of poor farmers.

Bobblehats

partyguinness wrote: »

Jaysus the only lads who had that in my national school were the children of poor farmers.

But they churned real butter!...so much plastic cheese coming out from between my cream crackers I don’t think I ever ate lunch

bottlebrush

partyguinness wrote: »

Jaysus the only lads who had that in my national school were the children of poor farmers.

But that's the thing none of us were poor. We got good healthy dinners at home after school but every child brought in the same very basic lunch, no biscuits, crisps, sweets etc.

Marhay70

Thick crusty slices of loaf bread, hot from Johnston Mooney and O'Brien on Jones' Road, with the butter running through your fingers and maybe if you were lucky, Lemon Curd or Raspberry Jam. My Cardiac Consultant would be having nightmares.
Joe, the fishmonger pushing his handcart through the street on a a Friday morning shouting "Fresh Whitening" and all the mothers gathering around him to get the Whiting or Plaice or Ray, fresh from Howth, no such thing as vacuum packed fillets. I can remember having to gut the fish out in the scullery, skinning it, washing it and bringing it into the Ma in the kitchen where she'd whip up the flour and milk into batter and dip the fish in it before dropping it into the chip pan, lard was the preferred frying medium. The anticipation of a feed of fish and chips would have you on your best behaviour for at least half an hour

the purple tin

Don Conroy and Tony Harte on the TV. I don't think there's anyone like that now showing the snappers how to do art.
The less said about a certain bearded ozzie artist the better.

branie2

The A-Team

In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... the A-Team.

partyguinness

bottlebrush wrote: »

But that's the thing none of us were poor. We got good healthy dinners at home after school but every child brought in the same very basic lunch, no biscuits, crisps, sweets etc.

But that's the thing. Sad to say but the few lads I have in mind did not go home to a healthy hearty dinner in my locality anyway. Farmers with bad land and minimal income drawing the dole. One particular area was called 'Hungry Hill' (a common nickname around Ireland) due to the impoverished inhabitants and this was the 1980s and not the 1880s.

Marhay70

branie2 wrote: »

The A-Team

In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... the A-Team.

Can they sort out this fcuking Coronavirus and let us all get outside the door?

bottlebrush

Marhay70 wrote: »

Can they sort out this fcuking Coronavirus and let us all get outside the door?

Need Bodie and Doyle for that - CI5

Marhay70

bottlebrush wrote: »

Need Bodie and Doyle for that - CI5

Was never a big fan of The Professionals, too sullen for my liking. Hannibal, Murdock, Face and Mr T on the other hand, were great crack. Pure escapism.

Marhay70

Marhay70 wrote: »

Can they sort out this fcuking Coronavirus and let us all get outside the door?

No, for that you need MacGyver. :P

afro man

[Deleted User] wrote: »

No, for that you need MacGyver. :P

Chuck norris the only man to sort it

partyguinness

Ah MacGyver. Saturday evening at 8.

Do RTE still do those language programmes on a Sunday morning?

iamstop

Are street parties still a thing?
We lived on a cu de sac and I remember there being at leave two years when we had a street party where the whole road was turned in a party venue. That may have been the first time I heard a big sound system outdoors.

Mam of 4

partyguinness wrote: »

But that's the thing. Sad to say but the few lads I have in mind did not go home to a healthy hearty dinner in my locality anyway. Farmers with bad land and minimal income drawing the dole. One particular area was called 'Hungry Hill' (a common nickname around Ireland) due to the impoverished inhabitants and this was the 1980s and not the 1880s.

There was "Hungry Hill " in town here too ..

branie2

Play the Game - RTE's version of the English Charades game show Give Us a Clue

partyguinness

..Altavista and Netscape rules the internet.

Marhay70

IAMAMORON wrote: »

The parade was the army band followed by about 50 trucks with people in costumes waving at you from out the back of them, dressed up like Snow White ( why? ) or the seven dwarfs.

It was raining.

The buses were orange. ( sorry a mild tangerine say )

The parade represented Irish industrial success, none of this Yankee Corporate crap and pizazz.
Buses when I was a sprog were green, except for the GNR buses which were blue and cream and only really operated to North East Dublin, Howth, Portmarnock , Raheny etc, The GNR also ran the trains out off Amiens Street, big blue engines heading for Belfast and little twin carriage units to Howth which I think were petrol driven.

branie2

Thunderbirds are go!

partyguinness

branie2 wrote: »

Play the Game - RTE's version of the English Charades game show Give Us a Clue

Twink and Ronan Collins. Every Friday evening at my grandmothers.


Who remembers "Where in the World" with Theresa Lowe on a Sunday night?

branie2

I do. Good quiz

iamstop

I remember when The Square opened. People from all over Ireland came to see it. I was a scout and we were from Old Bawn, about 20 minutes walk from The Square.
Anytime we were off down the country hiking and got talking to the locals and we said we were from Tallaght, they instantly mentioned The Square.

"Everywhere where we go-o
People always ask us
Who we are
And where do we come from
And we always tell them
We're from Old Bawn
Mighty mighty Old Bawn
And if they can hear us
WE SHOUT A LITTLE LOUDER"
(repeat)

the purple tin

afro man wrote: »

Chuck norris the only man to sort it

Quincy, M.E. will take care of it.

Leg End Reject

the purple tin wrote: »

Quincy, M.E. will take care of it.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

branie2

Dr McCoy from Star Trek

iamstop

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Also the Flying Doctor

iamwhoiam

iamstop wrote: »

I remember when The Square opened. People from all over Ireland came to see it. I was a scout and we were from Old Bawn, about 20 minutes walk from The Square.
Anytime we were off down the country hiking and got talking to the locals and we said we were from Tallaght, they instantly mentioned The Square.

"Everywhere where we go-o
People always ask us
Who we are
And where do we come from
And we always tell them
We're from Old Bawn
Mighty mighty Old Bawn
And if they can hear us
WE SHOUT A LITTLE LOUDER"
(repeat)

I remember when Old Bawn didn’t exist . We had a hiking group in school and would hike up the Old Bawn road to the bridge at Bridget Burkes ! It was a country lane with no houses at all once we passed the Dominican Priory

Marhay70

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I remember when Old Bawn didn’t exist . We had a hiking group in school and would hike up the Old Bawn road to the bridge at Bridget Burkes ! It was a country lane with no houses at all once we passed the Dominican Priory

Friends of ours actually had a holiday cabin next to Bridget Burkes or Kennedy's as it was then. We visited a few times and played pitch and putt on a little course beside the river. 49a bus ran about three times a day, real deep country.

LaFuton

was it The End? used to be on network2 late some night, had sean moncreif and barry murphy?

anyone?

ceadaoin.

Marhay70 wrote: »

Friends of ours actually had a holiday cabin next to Bridget Burkes or Kennedy's as it was then. We visited a few times and played pitch and putt on a little course beside the river. 49a bus ran about three times a day, real deep country.

I think I can picture bridget burke's with its white building and black cart wheels around it more easily than the old mill which is there now. I've been drinking the mill so many times and was only a kid when it was bbs, weird

Leg End Reject

The mention of Sean Moncrieff reminded me of Don't Feed the Gondolas.

Night Hawks with Shay Healy was earlier than that.

Quazzie

Secrets with Gerry Ryan

NSAman

Back in my day you coughed to cover up the socially unacceptable fart. Now you fart to cover up a cough, as it is socially more acceptable.

Marhay70

ceadaoin. wrote: »

I think I can picture bridget burke's with its white building and black cart wheels around it more easily than the old mill which is there now. I've been drinking the mill so many times and was only a kid when it was bbs, weird

i used to have an odd drink there in the 1970s when it had become Bridget Burke's.It was still an old style country pub at the front and the music lounge at the back. Had an extended licence on Fridays and Saturdays until 12.30. wasn't supposed to apply to the front part but we were never turfed out, only snag was the walk home afterwards, I had to call into Marios in the village and buy burger and chips for the missus as a peace offering.

branie2

Blackboard Jungle - another great quiz

partyguinness

branie2 wrote: »

Blackboard Jungle - another great quiz

Ah to be fair was a bit ****e. Even I thought it was ****e when I was on the show with my school in 1993.

Everyone picked "Sport" as their specialist topic.

Sleepy

Bringing your lunch to school in one of these:



Mine was a grey version of the one in the picture (still in a cupboard in my mother's house somewhere with my old matchbox cars in it). I can remember most of my class having variants of the same lunchbox / flask set with artwork from their favourite show on it.

ohnonotgmail

China was always referred to as Red China.

lapua20grain

Duvets were called continental quilts

Leg End Reject

Sleepy wrote: »

Bringing your lunch to school in one of these:



Mine was a grey version of the one in the picture (still in a cupboard in my mother's house somewhere with my old matchbox cars in it). I can remember most of my class having variants of the same lunchbox / flask set with artwork from their favourite show on it.

Being warned not to break the inner part in older flasks. Was it a type of glass?

Bobblehats

I remember those flasks not being as robust as advertised