Back in my day...

SuperGrover

Can you still get google?

Edgware

Buying fags one at a time from the local small shop.
Not forgetting a six penny wafer. A slice of ice cream between two wafers

the purple tin

Female teachers were terrifying old battleaxes/nuns for the most part.
Teachers now are all much younger and much more attractive. If I was in school now I would never be able to concentrate, or stand up

Marhay70

Edgware wrote: »

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.

Another pick up point was Annesley Bridge, my brother used to get casual work as a breaster. He worked as a helper on the Esso tankers which operated out of Alexandra Basin and usually they were laid off at age 18 as they would have had to pay them more but he got to know a lot of the inside tricks of the docks. I'd be very surprised if they were paid £10 though, my father only earned slightly more than that for a week and he was a top tradesman.
I used to go down regularly to the notorious "Stack R" to pick up special orders arriving from the UK for my boss and the extortion that was in evidence from the dockers had to be seen to be believed. I was always given money to pay off the guy who brought out our goods, if you didn't give them a few bob your company name was put on a blacklist and you might have to wait all day or even come back a second day so it was cheaper to pay them off. One definite no-no was to be seen talking, however innocently, to the Harbour Police, that could get you blackballed for life.

branie2

the purple tin wrote: »

Female teachers were terrifying old battleaxes/nuns for the most part.
Teachers now are all much younger and much more attractive. If I was in school now I would never be able to concentrate, or stand up

Not all nuns, though

Manc_Red

Virgin on Aston Quay looking at condoms and laughing as a child.

branie2

HMV, where I bought the most of my Blu-rays and DVDs

Edgware

Marhay70 wrote: »

Another pick up point was Annesley Bridge, my brother used to get casual work as a breaster. He worked as a helper on the Esso tankers which operated out of Alexandra Basin and usually they were laid off at age 18 as they would have had to pay them more but he got to know a lot of the inside tricks of the docks. I'd be very surprised if they were paid £10 though, my father only earned slightly more than that for a week and he was a top tradesman.
I used to go down regularly to the notorious "Stack R" to pick up special orders arriving from the UK for my boss and the extortion that was in evidence from the dockers had to be seen to be believed. I was always given money to pay off the guy who brought out our goods, if you didn't give them a few bob your company name was put on a blacklist and you might have to wait all day or even come back a second day so it was cheaper to pay them off. One definite no-no was to be seen talking, however innocently, to the Harbour Police, that could get you blackballed for life.

The only way to get a container of badly needed building materials etc was to "sort" the foreman who would then get the crane driver to hoist the container out.

One of the unions had control of the slot machines on the ferries. When the English 50 p and the Irish 50p were the same size whoever was emptying the machines swopped English 50 p coins for Irish one and making 10% on the transaction in the bank.
The tricks going on down the docks were legendary.
One lad was known as a diesel fitter
"Thes'ill fit Mary thes'ill fit Tommy"

Manc_Red

We went the pub

iamstop

Manc_Red wrote: »

We went the pub

6 tins o' Scrumpy Jack for a 5er and a bag of Manhattan popcorn down in Kenilworth before stumbling over to Bective disco to enjoy the music selection and try to get your hole.
Rinse and repeat next week.

branie2

The Lone Ranger cartoon on during the week at teatime

Conall Cernach

branie2 wrote: »

The Lone Ranger cartoon on during the week at teatime

The Lone Ranger, Champion the Wonder Horse, Zorro and Flash Gordon on TV in the morning during Summer holidays.

Marhay70

branie2 wrote: »

The Lone Ranger cartoon on during the week at teatime

We used to watch the live version on BBC, the only TV station at that time.We had a 17" black and white Bush Tv from Drages store on Grafton Street, paid for on the drip over three years. The final price was £202, a small fortune. The Da had also rigged up a short wave aerial that looked for all the world like a sweeps's brush, which meant we could tune into AFN, the U.S. Forces Radio network. This allowed us to listen to the original radio series plus Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy and Dragnet and the great comedy shows featuring Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante etc. The Yanks really had radio variety off to a tee, it was like you were there.
It always seemed to be Winter, maybe because they had a season or maybe just foggy memories but I recall sitting around the fire with my brothers, totally absorbed in the goodies ridding the world of the baddies, how times have changed.

Sleepy

Edgware wrote: »

The only way to get a container of badly needed building materials etc was to "sort" the foreman who would then get the crane driver to hoist the container out.

One of the unions had control of the slot machines on the ferries. When the English 50 p and the Irish 50p were the same size whoever was emptying the machines swopped English 50 p coins for Irish one and making 10% on the transaction in the bank.
The tricks going on down the docks were legendary.
One lad was known as a diesel fitter
"Thes'ill fit Mary thes'ill fit Tommy"

My father-in-law is a retired docker and the tricks were still going well into the 90's if not beyond. The speakeasy they had going in one of the containers was only shut after one of the lads drove a tug off the dock. Despite being drunk on the job and destroying an extremely expensive piece of kit he wasn't fired: the union wouldn't have it! The stuff they got up to down there made the lads in the second season of The Wire look like rank amateurs!

iamstop

Ha'penny sweets.

They were mingin' as far as I recall. lol

branie2

The Wuzzles

iamstop

The Snorks!

branie2

The Care Bears

harry Bailey esq

Supergran

js35

Banana man

branie2

Danger Bay

iamstop

Captain Caveman!

branie2

Captain Planet and the Planeteers. The power is yours!

the purple tin

You got your haircut at home by ma. You only got to go to the barbers for your confirmation.

iamstop

the purple tin wrote: »

You got your haircut at home by ma. You only got to go to the barbers for your confirmation.

Yup. Then in 2nd year I got my brother to cut it. He gave me a blade 1 all over. I got suspended for a week.

Hand me downs. I have two older brothers so I always got the dregs. Add to that two older male cousins and you can imagine I rarely went clothes shopping. Maybe that's why I never really liked clothes shopping

branie2

Good Afternoon with Thelma Mansfield

iamstop

I remember when the frozen Goodfellas pizzas came out. Game changer! Prior to that you had the pizza delis at the supermarkets or regular crust frozen pizzas but Goodfellas stepped it up a few notches.

branie2

Some time back in the 80s, Don Conroy presented a TV series on the life of Jesus, with his own drawings

the purple tin

branie2 wrote: »

Good Afternoon with Thelma Mansfield

Please, this is not the place to brag about your sex-life :pac:

chooseusername

Skipping off down the road to neighbours house to watch 1966 World Cup.
Black and white t.v.
Pele, Beckenbaur, Eusabio.

branie2

We only had our birthday parties at home, not at play centres

Ultrflat

iamstop wrote: »

I remember when the frozen Goodfellas pizzas came out. Game changer! Prior to that you had the pizza delis at the supermarkets or regular crust frozen pizzas but Goodfellas stepped it up a few notches.

And the Cheese Supreme, not being cheese apposed a substance close to molten lava.

The amount of times those pizzas burnt my mouth is just not worth remembering.

DelBoy Trotter

iamstop wrote: »

I remember when the frozen Goodfellas pizzas came out. Game changer! Prior to that you had the pizza delis at the supermarkets or regular crust frozen pizzas but Goodfellas stepped it up a few notches.

I used to love those pizzas

Bobblehats

DelBoy Trotter wrote: »

I used to love those pizzas

Used to get the San Marco pizza slices there was good tang off the sauce.

Would they still taste the same....

Bobblehats

Bobblehats wrote: »

Would they still taste the same....

Probably, but your tastebuds will have changed since then.

branie2

They were delicious!

branie2

Cornetto ads set in Venice

Open the door
Throw down the keys!

iamstop

90s and 00s fashions

Xworx, Petro Motion and Eclipse Jeans
Naff Naff jackets
Umbro jumpers
Blue Nike air Max
Tear off tracksuit trousers
Lads with undercuts and curtain fringes
Rattails
Shaved heads and a really long fringe slicked back.
The bang o Brylcreem. The red one.
Tommy Hilfiger

cj maxx

Back in my day we shook hands . Went to bars where you would try to get very close to women.

branie2

Budget Travel Brochures with the bikini ladies

I Am Nobody

We didn't have a indoor toilet until the 80's.

jmreire

I Am Nobody wrote: »

We didn't have a indoor toilet until the 80's.

And rolls of toilet paper had not yet made an appearance for most of the population either !!! And they could be very draughty places too, especially in winter...not the place to overstay your time !!! :eek:

Marhay70

jmreire wrote: »

And rolls of toilet paper had not yet made an appearance for most of the population either !!! And they could be very draughty places too, especially in winter...not the place to overstay your time !!! :eek:

Yep, the only reason you'd bring a newspaper to the jacks was to wipe your ar*e

the purple tin

jmreire wrote: »

And rolls of toilet paper had not yet made an appearance for most of the population either !!! And they could be very draughty places too, especially in winter...not the place to overstay your time !!! :eek:

The biggest spiders going always lived in there too.

jmreire

jmreire wrote: »

And rolls of toilet paper had not yet made an appearance for most of the population either !!! And they could be very draughty places too, especially in winter...not the place to overstay your time !!! :eek:

In the schools it used to be shiny, urgh!
You used to be able to use it as tracing paper.

the purple tin

Deleted User wrote: »

In the schools it used to be shiny, urgh!
You used to be able to use it as tracing paper.

John Wayne toilet paper.

the purple tin

I Am Nobody wrote: »

We didn't have a indoor toilet until the 80's.

Was it in avocado when you got thr inside bathroom? Very big in the 80's.

Ultrflat

the purple tin wrote: »

Was it in avocado when you got thr inside bathroom? Very big in the 80's.

Who didn't have an avacado bathroom

iamstop

Wallpaper in every. Single. Room.
On. Every. Single. Wall.

Poor Uncle Tom

Ultrflat wrote: »

Who didn't have an avacado bathroom

Every bungalow had a lavender room, the entire house got a migrane every time the door to that room was opened.