Back in my day...

branie2

Milk in a carton with a straw at school

bonzodog2

Milk in a 1/3 pint glass bottle with a straw at school

branie2

Battlestar Galactica on a Sunday afternoon in the late 80s

Marhay70

Picking fruit in Scott's fruit farm in Balgriffin, it was just about where Fingal Cemetery is now. Strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, loganberries etc. You were given a bucket to fill and at the end of the day the bucket was weighed and you were paid by the weight, on a good day you might fill two or three buckets but it was hard work. You might make about 5/- if you really worked at it and provided you had an honest weighmaster, some of the fcukers would stand with the toe of their boot under the scales to reduce the reading. You could eat as much as you liked but after the first hour you never wanted to see another strawberry or raspberry

md23040

In the 1970s it was obligatory for all Irish people to bring a hardened useless donkey home from Spain. The plane would be rammed with 100’s of the damned things.

Capt'n Midnight

ShatterAlan wrote: »

Monkey and The Tube.

In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the Sun and the Moon all worked upon a certain rock old as creation, and it magically became fertile. That first egg was named Thought. Tatagatha Buddha, the father Buddha said "With our thoughts, we make the world." Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey... The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!

Capt'n Midnight

branie2 wrote: »

Dangermouse
The Wind in the Willows
Count Duckula

These shows had characters voiced by Sir David Jason

Remember Terry and June ? Totally forgettable sit com.

But Terry surpassed himself as Penfold.

Edgware

Wilfred Bramell and Harry H Corbett as Steptoe and Son. Absolute classic British comedy.

Edgware

Anyone remember Harry Worth? He used do this trick at shop windows spreading out his arms and legs. Could be hillarious
Not forgetting Stephen Lewis as Blakey in On the Buses.
A lot of these comedians had serious acting experience and knew how to use timing and facial gestures to maximum effect.

SuperGrover

Edgware wrote: »

Anyone remember Harry Worth? He used do this trick at shop windows spreading out his arms and legs. Could be hillarious
Not forgetting Stephen Lewis as Blakey in On the Buses.
A lot of these comedians had serious acting experience and knew how to use timing and facial gestures to maximum effect.

I used to watch Harry Worth with my da when I was a kid. Preferred Dick Emery, though.

branie2

Edgware wrote: »

Wilfred Bramell and Harry H Corbett as Steptoe and Son. Absolute classic British comedy.

You dirty old man!

vriesmays

Brambell was from Dublin but is now a suspected former child molester.

Edgware

vriesmays wrote: »

Brambell was from Dublin but is now a suspected former child molester.

He was convicted of loitering around public toilets and of course was a BBC star along with Jimmy Saville and the gang so nothing surprises me

That's a quantum leap - from cottaging to pedophilia in one easy step...

Fogmatic

StevieHardesty wrote: »

That's a quantum leap - from cottaging to pedophilia in one easy step...

Well said. There have always been plenty of gays who are firmly non-predatory/not practicing at all. Like no doubt many 'confirmed bachelors'. E.g. one gay friend of my mother's who was a doctor. He wanted to specialise in helping children, but couldn't bring himself to hurt them with injections (he became a pioneering researcher into ways of relieving pain instead).

As wardrobe mistress for a London show in 1968 I got to know Brambell quite well, and he was one of the sweetest people I've known. Confusing actors with their characters is easily done, and that Dirty Old Man character was just the most famous one in a long career in mostly serious productions (not that it makes Steptoe any less a classic!).

Just to confuse things though, I did hear from a horse's mouth that the xenophobic, anti-youth ranter Alf Garnett in Death do us Part was Warren Mitchell just being himself!

Fogmatic

Fogmatic wrote: »

Just to confuse things though, I did hear from a horse's mouth that the xenophobic, anti-youth ranter Alf Garnett in Death do us Part was Warren Mitchell just being himself!

Interesting, He always went out of his way to distance himself in public from Alf Garnett when fans used to applaud him on this racists rants.


But then again, he was a good actor.

Marhay70

SuperGrover wrote: »

I used to watch Harry Worth with my da when I was a kid. Preferred Dick Emery, though.

Harry Worth was a bit irritating, even to my young mind. I remember thinking "How could anybody be so fcuking thick" I loved Dick Emery with all the different characters, this was a good one.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVMRw3mBo_o

branie2

Harry Worth was in a comedy TV series called How's Your Father

ohnonotgmail

Marhay70 wrote: »

Harry Worth was a bit irritating, even to my young mind. I remember thinking "How could anybody be so fcuking thick" I loved Dick Emery with all the different characters, this was a good one.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVMRw3mBo_o

who is that sitting next to dicky emery on the bench at the start? i recognise the face but cant think of his name

iamstop

All screws were manually done. No electric screwdrivers.
Drills had 2 speeds. On or off.
A ratchet spanner was a big deal.
Coffee jars full of all sorts or screws, bolts, nuts, washers etc of all sizes. You could search for ages and still not find the what you needed.

iamstop

iamstop wrote: »

All screws were manually done. No electric screwdrivers.
Drills had 2 speeds. On or off.
A ratchet spanner was a big deal.
Coffee jars full of all sorts or screws, bolts, nuts, washers etc of all sizes. You could search for ages and still not find the what you needed.

Nothing was metric - unless you brought it home after the war!

Marhay70

Deleted User wrote: »

Nothing was metric - unless you brought it home after the war!

Worked in an engineering stores in the early sixties, it was a nightmare trying to keep track of the bolts, screws weren't too bad you mostly had no.4 through no.12 and all cross head but with bolts you had BSF, BSW,UNF, UNC, AF, Whitworth etc. Stocktaking was an ordeal as inevitably people such as fitters just threw bolts they didn't need into the nearest parts bin,and as the junior I was given the task of marrying up all the bolts and nuts and putting them back in place before the count. I think that's were I gained my large vocabulary of swear words.

marina24

branie2 wrote: »

Milk in a carton with a straw at school

I remember the milk! Small milk and big milk. Looked with envy at those cool enough to deliver the milk. My turn came in 6th class. You’d be hoping the milkman would only deliver as school started and then take as long as possible to prepare a tray for each classroom.

Someone would always remind teacher to let us have the milk while it was still cold. The noise of everyone getting to the bottom of the carton. You’d see the hunger in the eyes of those who didn’t buy the milk. By golly those hands went up quick for the coveted prize when someone was absent that normally got milk!

Fann Linn

Buns on a Wednesday and horrible jam sandwiches on a Thursday.

Oldies will know what I mean!

ohnonotgmail

branie2 wrote: »

Milk in a carton with a straw at school

Milk in a tiny glass bottle with cream on the top.

Marhay70

Fann Linn wrote: »

Buns on a Wednesday and horrible jam sandwiches on a Thursday.

Oldies will know what I mean!

The way I remember was;
Monday=Cheese
Tuesday=Corned Beef
Wednesday=Buns
Thursday=Corned Beef (again)
Friday=Jam

There were lots of kids for whom that might be the most substantial meal of the day and the teacher used to put a ration away in her press for them. The rest of us didn't realise what was going on and used to tease them as "teacher's pets". If only we had known, kids can be very cruel.

ohnonotgmail

I dont remember getting sandwiches in school at all. I used to love corned beef sandwiches. I'm jealous that other kids were getting them twice a week

Marhay70

I remember we got them up until second class. after that you could starve.:)

Sleepy

I was an odd kid, I used to bring in a tupperware bowl of corn flakes to add the school milk to for my lunch.

PommieBast

Sleepy wrote: »

I was an odd kid, I used to bring in a tupperware bowl of corn flakes to add the school milk to for my lunch.

That's not far off what I was doing in my office not that long ago..

Sleepy

I remember getting great slagging for it at first but by the end of the year about a third of the class were at it.

the purple tin

The Spraoi, Sugradh and Siamsa Christmas annuals.
You used to get them on the last day of school before the holidays, comics, dot to dot, colouring in, quizzes etc.
I used to be so super-duper excited to get a new annual, try explaining that to the kids now, they would think you are cracked.:rolleyes:

iamstop

In secondary we had a 'tuck shop' where you could get the usual sweets, crisps, soft drinks etc but you could get hot water for 5p too.
I used to bring in a either a pot noodle or a cuppa soup and some bread.
That was mostly 1st and second year.
3rd year I would either cycle home for lunch or scrape enough money to go to the chipper. The potato cakes were the best!

iamwhoiam

the purple tin wrote: »

The Spraoi, Sugradh and Siamsa Christmas annuals.
You used to get them on the last day of school before the holidays, comics, dot to dot, colouring in, quizzes etc.
I used to be so super-duper excited to get a new annual, try explaining that to the kids now, they would think you are cracked.:rolleyes:

Would you believe the kids still get them in school

auspicious

...people had better health as they didn't eat the meat from sickly animals raised in intensive, industrialised, factory farm conditions.

iamstop

auspicious wrote: »

...people had better health as they didn't eat the meat from sickly animals raised in intensive, industrialised, factory farm conditions.

I dunno about that. I'm veggie so I I'm not in any way for the industrialized factory farms.

Check this out:
https://www.boredpanda.com/past-young-people-look-older/

the purple tin

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Would you believe the kids still get them in school

Really! I thought they stopped them years ago.
Would the kids still get really excited about them or was I just a strange child?:o

auspicious

iamstop wrote: »

I dunno about that. I'm veggie so I I'm not in any way for the industrialized factory farms.

Check this out:
https://www.boredpanda.com/past-young-people-look-older/

That's a good page alright lol. Looks to me like mostly Americans. Factory farms did originate over there, firstly as a result of WW2 efforts then more substantially in the '60s. Not here until much recently though.
Those photos could be down to genetics and such but of course if you put a moustache on anyone they'll always look older. Including Liz Taylor

Edgware

the purple tin wrote: »

Really! I thought they stopped them years ago.
Would the kids still get really excited about them or was I just a strange child?:o

Probably just a strange child

Marhay70

in the 1950s lots of people were virtually vegetarian but not by choice,meat was a luxury. Sunday lunch in my house would normally be a cheap cut of mutton or bacon or else liver and onions or maybe a brisket. No pork or beef or chicken, in fact it amazes me how cheap these things are today. Truth is though, we didn't miss them once we had a full belly.
Growing up close to the sea, fish was a big part of our diet, either we bought it from travelling vendors or we caught it ourselves, fishing off the pier at Howth or the beach in Sutton, mackerel was the main variety but now and again we'd get a sea bass or a pollock. The main white fish like whiting or cod were deep sea varieties but in winter you might be lucky off the Bailey.
Beef cattle was mostly exported, they used to run the cattle down the N.C. Rd from the markets at Hanlon's Corner to holding pens near the Point, from where they'd be loaded on the B&I ferry to Liverpool.It would be like a scene from the old Wild West on market day with handlers on bicycles or just running alongside to keep them on the right road.

IAMAMORON

Chipsticks and penny golf ball chewing gums.

10 penny bags.

Hankeys that you washed, that is correct, reusable handkerchiefs.

Reusable nappies. I can't remember wearing one but I changed a few when I was a teenager. Babies shat proper loads then, big runny and colourful.

Plastic soccer balls, for street kicking. Get one for a few quid in Lifestyle.

When you played a 3 or a 5 wood the actual head on the club was wooden. True story.

Mr Freezes.

Walkey Talkies.

I still remember when you'd randomly have people standing on the roof of their 2 storey terraced house, after climbing across nearly all the roofs, shouting down to someone in the garden "is that it?!" whilst randomly shaking the TV ariel about the place and "No nothing yet" being echoed back up to them by someone in the garden, staring at the TV in through the window.


Never see that anymore.

Fogmatic

PommieBast wrote: »

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

Think I missed that one! But yes, the command for saving to floppy was like a Save button; did it regularly in case of power cuts, something working loose etc. That AT (with 5 1/4" drive) finally became unusable in 2000. But only because the monitor died, so before dismantling the system I was able to print out my latest drafts etc and save them to floppy with a series of (extra carefully typed!) Dos commands. The motherboard was obviously still ok and I managed to save it from landfill by giving it to a printing firm whose AT-based system was still going strong, And the floppy and a spare went to the British Library's digital conservation department! (Well, when I turned on its Windows 98SE replacement with a modem, it did feel like time travel). Still using the case as a shelf somewhere.

That was my second computer; first was a Sinclair QL, whose only save command was direct to a miniature tape cassette called a microdrive. (I named our male Siamese kitten Mic, because his growl was just like writing to/reading from it).

It's wonderful that IT devices can now be used by anyone straight away, but back then it was great discovering programming (using as few bytes as possible, of course!).

Edgware

Marhay70 wrote: »

in the 1950s lots of people were virtually vegetarian but not by choice,meat was a luxury. Sunday lunch in my house would normally be a cheap cut of mutton or bacon or else liver and onions or maybe a brisket. No pork or beef or chicken, in fact it amazes me how cheap these things are today. Truth is though, we didn't miss them once we had a full belly.
Growing up close to the sea, fish was a big part of our diet, either we bought it from travelling vendors or we caught it ourselves, fishing off the pier at Howth or the beach in Sutton, mackerel was the main variety but now and again we'd get a sea bass or a pollock. The main white fish like whiting or cod were deep sea varieties but in winter you might be lucky off the Bailey.
Beef cattle was mostly exported, they used to run the cattle down the N.C. Rd from the markets at Hanlon's Corner to holding pens near the Point, from where they'd be loaded on the B&I ferry to Liverpool.It would be like a scene from the old Wild West on market day with handlers on bicycles or just running alongside to keep them on the right road.

There were local Dublin lads from Sheriff St/North Wall who got part time jobs as
1. "Hooshters" i.e. they used hoosh the cattle on to the ships
2. "Breasters" The dockers wouldnt allow any lorry on to the docks unless there was a drivers mate on the lorry so the "breasters" would wait at the entrance to the port and the lorry drivers would pick them up, pay them five or ten pounds, to be in the cab of the lorryas they entered the port to pick up or unload cargo.

branie2

Mr Perri crisps

Littlehorny

branie2 wrote: »

Mr Perri crisps

Yeah Perri crisps are gone alright. Also, Sam Spuds, used to be made up in Donegal.:)

Strumms

Can you still get nic nacks and French fries ?

iamstop

Can ye still get Rancheros?

Can definitely get rancheros and nik nacks, though the latter aren’t nearly what they used to be. They’re more light and puffy now.

Littlehorny

Can you still get mini sticks?