Back in my day...

ShatterAlan

Whenever there was any bit of gound dug up around the estate we would have muckball wars. Hitting the ground near an opponent and having the muckball explode grenade-like and showering him with muck "shrapnel" was considered preferable to a direct hit.

IAMAMORON

Playing Spin the Bottle.

iamstop

Blockbusters after school.
My sister got the board game one year for Christmas.
Going for Gold was another classic.

Anyone remember the game show where they answered questions to play a higher/lower card game? The cards were like 2ft tall.

storker

iamstop wrote: »

Blockbusters after school.
My sister got the board game one year for Christmas.
Going for Gold was another classic.

Anyone remember the game show where they answered questions to play a higher/lower card game? The cards were like 2ft tall.

Play Your Cards Right

iamstop

Nice to see you!
To see you nice!

ShatterAlan

sbsquarepants wrote: »

When you went to a nightclub you got a voucher at the door for a meal, usually some supernaturally delicious chips and cocktail sausages or something along those lines. Hit the spot nicely at 1:00 am or so after a feed of pints!

Wasn't that the workaround to get a late license? It had to be classified as a "restaurant" so usually the fare was like you said sausages and chips or curry.

branie2

iamstop wrote: »

Nice to see you!
To see you nice!

Good game! Good game!

branie2

Baywatch for the bikini babes

lapua20grain

ShatterAlan wrote: »

Wasn't that the workaround to get a late license? It had to be classified as a "restaurant" so usually the fare was like you said sausages and chips or curry.

That's exactly what it's was, I remember zeniths in Howth you used to get roast chicken potatoes peas and gravy bleedin gorgeous, Tamangoes used to give you whatever the wedding had that day. Great stuff after a heap of pints

ShatterAlan

Everything was repaired, not casually replaced or thrown away. If your bike got a puncture it was repaired. My dad used to do it until he demonstrated to me the technique. Wheel was taken off, tyre was worked off and inner tube taken out. I remember staring at the inner tube. It had more patches than a tramp's trousers. Some rectangular, some oval, some round, some overlapping each other. I filled the kitchen basin for the puncture location test. He pumped the tube and we both fed it around under water until the bubbles appeared. Then the offending area was dried, sandpapered, glued and patched. Another test to ensure a good seal..then the annoying task of prising the tyre back on with a table spoon handle. Wheel pumped back up, reattached and you were King of the Road again.


Shoes were taken to Mister Minit when the heels were worn down. Socks were darned, trousers knees were patched. My Granny was a whiz at this. She'd patch them on the inside and shape the worn out area into an even shape. Looked good. If the zipper was fcuked and new one was put in.



You didn't bin burnt toast you scraped it with a knife and slathered on extra butter to disguise the bitter charcoal taste...was grand.


Tea was in a pot with loose teal leaves which were reused for the second pot.....it just had to "draw" a little longer or you add half a fresh teaspoon.


On Saturday night I was sometimes allowed to stay up late when the old lad came in from the pub on the proviso that I made him tea and sandwiches.



There was always a "tough" girl in the neighbourhood a few years older...maybe 12 or 13 who wore jeans, a wrangler jacket and Docs or monkey boots, long greasy hair and a chipped tooth. She would swagger by and say something derogatory to you and you'd go crimson because she was the woman of your dreams.

iamstop

Don't forget to flake chalk on the new patch to make the glue excess not sticky. You don't want the tube getting stuck to the inside of the tire now do you!

Scrapping toast! Now there's a memory.

We used to sprinkle sugar on toast after the butter. Yuck now. Yummy back then.

Marhay70

We used to make toast on a toasting fork in front of the open fire, often times it would catch fire and we'd scrape them with a knife. We only toasted on one side and then cut them as though we were making soldiers but we wouldn't cut all the way trough the crust. Then we'd smother them in butter which would seep into the cuts. Delicious, I still prefer my toast a little burnt to this day.
I remember going down to Custom House Quay to watch the Guinness boats loading and unloading, we'd sit on the parapet at Butt Bridge to see the barges coming down from Victoria Quay with the barrels to load. They used to lower the funnels so they could pass under the bridge and the smoke would be everywhere. They'd leave the barrels at either Custom House or City Quay and pick up the empties. It was funny sometimes because there was often a crowd of dipsos who came to drink the dregs of the casks coming in from England and there'd be a row between them and the barge crew trying to pick them up. Sometimes, if we were lucky, the crew of whichever "Lady" was docking would have exotic sweets like Mars bars or Opal Fruits which weren't available in Ireland at the time and they'd share them out among us.
Happy days.

the purple tin

There used to be some excellent shows on on a Saturday
The A-Team
The Incredible Hulk
Airwolf
Streethawk

Knightrider

the purple tin

the purple tin wrote: »

There used to be some excellent shows on on a Saturday
The A-Team
The Incredible Hulk
Airwolf
Streethawk

Knightrider

And in later years on a Saturday night, Gladiators,Bad Boys and First Dates and then head into town for a night out. I used to love Dont forget your Toothbrush also and Streetmate with Davinia.

IAMAMORON

Phones had a dial which you had to swivel your finger around in. You could spend hours in the evening mimicking at your siblings to " get off the phucking thing" while pointing at your wrist if you were waiting for a call from a bird or waiting to ring her. Total arguments carried out like a game of charades.

the purple tin

Deleted User wrote: »

And in later years on a Saturday night, Gladiators,Bad Boys and First Dates and then head into town for a night out. I used to love Dont forget your Toothbrush also and Streetmate with Davinia.

And TGI Friday too. Remember when Chris Evans was a major star? Going out with Billy Piper on the lash all the time.

iamstop

I used to love watching The Big Breakfast with Johnny Vaugh and Kelly Brook before school. I forget the name of the blonde girl before Kelly Brook. Also hot.

The pun down was class.

the purple tin

iamstop wrote: »

I used to love watching The Big Breakfast with Johnny Vaugh and Kelly Brook before school. I forget the name of the blonde girl before Kelly Brook. Also hot.

The pun down was class.

Gaby Roslin? She did it with Chris Evans.

IAMAMORON

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Phones had a dial which you had to swivel your finger around in. You could spend hours in the evening mimicking at your siblings to " get off the phucking thing" while pointing at your wrist if you were waiting for a call from a bird or waiting to ring her. Total arguments carried out like a game of charades.

How many on here can't use one?

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

iamstop

the purple tin wrote: »

Gaby Roslin? She did it with Chris Evans.

No, I was thinking of Denis Van Outen

Marhay70

Deleted User wrote: »

How many on here can't use one?

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

We didn't have a phone at home, that was for the rich people, we used the kiosk around the corner, My sister went away to England to train as a nurse and she used to write a letter and say she would ring on a certain day at a certain time, My brothers and I would be sent around 15 mins before to occupy the phone box until the Ma came around, we formed a queue outside and went in one at a time so that none of the other people waiting could complain at any one of us staying too long.
Certain phones you could "tap", you could tap out the phone number in sequence on the cradle and it rang the number, worked most of the time.

Bobblehats

the purple tin wrote: »

Gaby Roslin? She did it with Chris Evans

Reminds me of gabby logan. She did it with alan shearer

Marhay70

Marhay70 wrote: »

We didn't have a phone at home, that was for the rich people, we used the kiosk around the corner, My sister went away to England to train as a nurse and she used to write a letter and say she would ring on a certain day at a certain time, My brothers and I would be sent around 15 mins before to occupy the phone box until the Ma came around, we formed a queue outside and went in one at a time so that none of the other people waiting could complain at any one of us staying too long.
Certain phones you could "tap", you could tap out the phone number in sequence on the cradle and it rang the number, worked most of the time.

We used to go into the phone boxes and press the refund button hoping someone forgot to take their change.

Marhay70

Deleted User wrote: »

We used to go into the phone boxes and press the refund button hoping someone forgot to take their change.

Some unscrupulous people, nobody I knew personally of course :rolleyes:, would stuff paper in the return slot so that if anyone pressed the refund button the money would get stuck. All that was needed then was to go in and remove the paper and the cash would come out. This went on for years yet very few people copped on. Those that did were probably those who used the trick themselves.

Fogmatic

When I was a child in postwar London, the grownups were very courteous. They looked as neat and clean as they could when out and about, and gloves were just about universal. They were very courteous and patient, going to great lengths to avoid jostling one another, and all having a hankie ready to whip out in time to shield others from a cough or sneeze.

Those were the......oh, wait a minute......

Fogmatic

Fogmatic wrote: »

When I was a child in postwar London, the grownups were very courteous. They looked as neat and clean as they could when out and about, and gloves were just about universal. They were very courteous and patient, going to great lengths to avoid jostling one another, and all having a hankie ready to whip out in time to shield others from a cough or sneeze.

Those were the......oh, wait a minute......

....and then you woke up! :pac:

Quazzie

Anyone remember this classic?

branie2

Sister Stevie was a hot nun

Manc_Red

Sunday dinner was at 3pm on the dot....

Fogmatic

[Deleted User] wrote: »

....and then you woke up! :pac:

Well, from what I've read about some of my fellow Oldies not taking the current advice seriously, anything that might help is to be encouraged (including nostalgia!).

branie2

I used to get the Dandy comic every Friday when I was a boy

Pherekydes

MS DOS.

5¼" floppies. :pac::pac:

Fogmatic

Pherekydes wrote: »

MS DOS.

5¼" floppies. :pac::pac:

Still find it handy sometimes (the MsDos, that is!).
My postwar make-do-and-mend upbringing comes into play as well. I find 5 1/2 " floppy cases with 1 side cut open and floppy removed work quite well as re-usable pockets on notepads (and their cryptic labels like 'DBase III copy' can sometimes start interesting conversations)!

Marhay70

branie2 wrote: »

I used to get the Dandy comic every Friday when I was a boy

Beano for me, 3d a copy. Still get the annuals for the grandkids at Christmas and laugh my head of at The Bash Street Kids and Dennis. My sister used to send me all sorts of comics which were to be thrown out from the hospital where she worked, Dandy, Beezer, Topper, Wizard, Dell Comics with Superman, Marvel Man and Plastic Man, Sixty-fourers featuring the likes of Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill, War comics with pictures of terrified German soldiers shouting Achtung or Gott in Himmel as they fled in the face of the all conquering Brits and Yanks. I can't remember there ever having been a time when the Germans won, which is just as well as they were always ugly, cruel buggers.
I would read them several times and then put a bundle under my arm and do a tour of the neighbourhood kids looking for "swops"

ShatterAlan

Marhay70 wrote: »

Beano for me, 3d a copy. Still get the annuals for the grandkids at Christmas and laugh my head of at The Bash Street Kids and Dennis. My sister used to send me all sorts of comics which were to be thrown out from the hospital where she worked, Dandy, Beezer, Topper, Wizard, Dell Comics with Superman, Marvel Man and Plastic Man, Sixty-fourers featuring the likes of Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill, War comics with pictures of terrified German soldiers shouting Achtung or Gott in Himmel as they fled in the face of the all conquering Brits and Yanks. I can't remember there ever having been a time when the Germans won, which is just as well as they were always ugly, cruel buggers.
I would read them several times and then put a bundle under my arm and do a tour of the neighbourhood kids looking for "swops"

There was a comic called Action too. It was fcuking terrifying in its violence and was actually banned for a while. It had Hellman Of The Hammer Force, a panzer commander, Hook Jaw, Spin Ball if I remember correctly.

vriesmays

I remember Hookjaw, some guy went in to the sea in a cage thinking he was safe from Hookjaw but baby sharks ate him alive. Snowflakes would get that comic banned now.

Marhay70

ShatterAlan wrote: »

There was a comic called Action too. It was fcuking terrifying in its violence and was actually banned for a while. It had Hellman Of The Hammer Force, a panzer commander, Hook Jaw, Spin Ball if I remember correctly.

Must have been after my time, I remember comics like the Victor and the Hotspur which dealt a lot with war stories but they weren't really violent by today's standards. Violence is subjective of course and some snowflakes would probably swoon at the sight of Dennis' Dad administering summary justice with his slipper.

PommieBast

Pherekydes wrote: »

MS DOS.

5¼" floppies. :pac::pac:

One picture doing the rounds not that long ago was the 3.5" floppy with the tagline "daddy 3D-printed the save icon"

Vita nova

As children we learned that there were 9 planets in our Solar System, namely Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, however, Pluto lost its planet status in 2006, so now there are only 8 known planets in the Solar System.

Vita nova

Pherekydes wrote: »

MS DOS.

5¼" floppies. :pac::pac:

From 8" to 5.25" to 3.5" floppies and now people have tiny dongles.

Capt'n Midnight

BENDYBINN wrote: »

What about duffle coats......everyone had one back in the day!

And they soaked up rain.

Primary school. All the radiators covered in them. Heading home they were lovely and warm. For five minutes.

Then they got very very cold because they were still saturated :mad:



Then they were replaced with the snorkel coats that were even less waterproof.

branie2

And kids got head colds as a result, I imagine

Wtf ?

Anyone remember Alf Tupper ? His leg sometimes gave him gyp !

Littlehorny

Showed my 25 year old son images of a Boxer bike the other day as it was the daddy of the BMX i think.
He couldn't believe it, but was really blown away when I showed him the Chopper, first question out of his mouth was "whats the lever in the middle for?" Told him, he loved the fact it had a long seat for two people.

iamstop

Marhay70 wrote: »

Still get the annuals for the grandkids at Christmas and laugh my head of at The Bash Street Kids and Dennis.

Used to love the annuals! Later on there would be more and more colour pages. Puzzles and stuff too. Great fun before video games and only one TV in the gaff. If the folk were watching something you had two choices, watch it too or feck off and do something else. Lol.

the purple tin

Great old sci-fi shows like
Original Star Trek
Lost in Space
Fantastic Voyage
Planet of the Apes
Land of the Giants
Blekes 7
UFO
V
Sapphire and Steel

branie2

Wtf ? wrote: »

Anyone remember Alf Tupper ? His leg sometimes gave him gyp !

He was in the Victor comic

Wtf ?

branie2 wrote: »

He was in the Victor comic

Correct, Tough of the track ! Take a bow sir !

Edgware

Young Sid the Coppers kid. Can't remember which comic it was possibly The Beezer.

One of the lads in school was nicknamed Sid because the father was a Garda.

branie2

Edgware wrote: »

Young Sid the Coppers kid. Can't remember which comic it was possibly The Beezer.

One of the lads in school was nicknamed Sid because the father was a Garda.

Yes, it was the Beezer.