Back in my day...

branie2

Not in my bungalow

Poor Uncle Tom

branie2 wrote: »

Not in my bungalow

denial is not just a river, you know!

Marhay70

iamstop wrote: »

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

Jay-zuus, still gives me nightmares just thinking about it. I hated wallpapering especially at the time when you used a border and had to trim the edges off the paper. My father in law was a dab hand at it and I was expected to live up to standard but that was never going to happen. I used to come up with all sorts of excuses to put it off but eventually the Mrs would throw a wobbly and I'd have to do it.

branie2

Wallpaper was also used as covers for school books

mountai

Me Ma used to unpick the collars on me Das shirts and turn them around . Peddling like Fcuk on that auld Singer .

chooseusername

Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

A cup ' COLD tea.

Without milk or sugar.

OR tea!

In a filthy, cracked cup.

maudgonner

Recreating the Dublin Horse Show in the front garden with whatever blocks and poles could be scavenged from around the farm.


I didn't have a horse, but that was just a minor inconvenience that in no way lessened my triumph in the puissance and Aga Khan.


The poor neighbours must have thought I was daft :pac:

branie2

Rocky ice lollies
Zig and Zag crisps

branie2

chooseusername wrote: »

Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

A cup ' COLD tea.

Without milk or sugar.

OR tea!

In a filthy, cracked cup.

Ee, I'd have loved t'have cups!

chooseusername

branie2 wrote: »

Ee, I'd have loved t'have cups!

We had to suck on an old damp rag.

Sleepy

maudgonner wrote: »

Recreating the Dublin Horse Show in the front garden with whatever blocks and poles could be scavenged from around the farm.


I didn't have a horse, but that was just a minor inconvenience that in no way lessened my triumph in the puissance and Aga Khan.


The poor neighbours must have thought I was daft :pac:

Kids still play like that when they're denied access to their electronics for a few hours and turfed out the door to play. At least mine do...

Cee-Jay-Cee

iamstop wrote: »

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

And the same paper was used to cover your copybooks for school...if you were posh. If not then brown paper bags were used.

branie2

RTE would sometimes show the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth

the purple tin

in weather like this you would suck and chew on an ice cube.

10pennymixup

iamstop wrote: »

We used to get '10 penny bags'. 10p and you got a little white bag with ten random sweets in it.
Jellies, chocolate mic, black jacks, apple jacks, postman pats, fruit salads, those chocolate discs with the little hundreds and thousands on then, flogs.

We called them a 10 penny mix up!

Ipso

10pennymixup wrote: »

We called them a 10 penny mix up!

I remember getting a quarter pound of hard sweets for 25p. No wonder I have a root canal and a mouth full of silver.

branie2

Hart to Hart. When they met, it was moider!

Diddley Squat

branie2 wrote: »

We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

But it took 5 minutes to heat up before the picture expanded from a small dot in the centre.



We had a Black and White portable tv with the rabbits ears ariel -

Atlantic Dawn

A pair of Doc Martens cost 15 hours minimum wage, they still do now.

Purple Mountain

Diddley Squat wrote: »

But it took 5 minutes to heat up before the picture expanded from a small dot in the centre.

I can attest to this.

Mugser

Anything Goes on Saturday mornings.

Sports Stadium. .. up to the point they started showing stupid horse racing... BORING!!!

Cartoons on to fill gaps.

Mork & Mindy, Matlock, Bring 'em back Alive, Magnium PI, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, ... to name but a few...

Who shot JR?

Thank you very much Mr. Eastwood.

News Flashes!! ( The one that still sticks in my mind was the morning after the Stardust disaster)

Roy of the Rovers

Taping songs off the pirate radio station.

Raleigh Chopper.

Denis Taylor's glasses.... That 1985 final and being allowed stay up to watch it.

branie2

Murder She Wrote - Jessica Fletcher must have been the most hated figure in Cabot Cove every time a killing took place there.

old_aussie

Back in my day I had to cover my school books with brown paper before I was allowed into class.

Marhay70

On warm summer days half of our street would decamp to Dollymount. A caravan of mothers with high prams and older kids snaking out through Fairview Park and along the promenade in Clontarf. Lighting a fire in the dunes and heating water in a big teapot while we sat around shaking with cold from hours in the water. Eating tomato or banana sandwiches encased in blown sand. with maybe buttered marietta biscuits to follow. The tea was left to stew all day, you could trot mice on it. Never had any trouble sleeping in those days

appledrop

old_aussie wrote: »

Back in my day I had to cover my school books with brown paper before I was allowed into class.

Ah you were very fancy in your house . We also had to cover our books but why pay for brown paper when you could cover them in leftover wallpaper!

That's what happened in my house.

old_aussie

Back in my day, love thy neighbour was a huge hit.

branie2

Reading Anne and Barry books at school

old_aussie

appledrop wrote: »

Ah you were very fancy in your house . We also had to cover our books but why pay for brown paper when you could cover them in leftover wallpaper!

That's what happened in my house.

Very Classy

Neames

There were two wrestlers Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy.

Neames

Brunch was an ice cream not a made up meal for layabouts that got up late, missed breakfast and were so "starving" they couldn't wait for lunch.

branie2

It was coated in biscuit crumbs

Marhay70

old_aussie wrote: »

Back in my day, love thy neighbour was a huge hit.

Can't see it getting within a mile of a TV studio today, there'd be riots. I think I saw the black guy on one of the soaps recently, his wife in the show was a real stunner, or am I allowed to say that?

branie2

Marhay70 wrote: »

Can't see it getting within a mile of a TV studio today, there'd be riots. I think I saw the black guy on one of the soaps recently, his wife in the show was a real stunner, or am I allowed to say that?

It would be the same for Till Death Do Us Part. A 21st century version of Alf Garnett wouldn't go down too well.

the purple tin

Power cuts were a regular occurence especially in wintertime. One a week or more.

bnt

I just learned that Jackass premiered on MTV exactly twenty years ago today. This was bleeding-edge stuff back in my day ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WU2N2IbFv4

PS: a 4th Jackass movie is in development i.e. they're not all dead yet.

the purple tin

the purple tin wrote: »

Power cuts were a regular occurence especially in wintertime. One a week or more.

and always know when it was milking time as the screen on the telly got smaller.

nuac

Graces7 wrote: »

In my day people were far kinder to each other..

Sorry; I sit here weeping after yet another personal attack and need to sign off boards as I dread coming here now.. Just atop of all else and my worsening\ health is all too much. Longing for peace ..

Need to close down. Sorry .. be happy and be KIND. As I know so many are.

Graces7,
Sorry about the personal attack

. Keep calm, ignore them and carry on

beauf

Fizzle Sticks

nuac

nuac wrote: »

Graces7,
Sorry about the personal attack

. Keep calm, ignore them and carry on

It’s a thing they do regularly, I wouldn’t take it seriously.

branie2

No list of allergens

Marhay70

Marhay70 wrote: »

On warm summer days half of our street would decamp to Dollymount. A caravan of mothers with high prams and older kids snaking out through Fairview Park and along the promenade in Clontarf. Lighting a fire in the dunes and heating water in a big teapot while we sat around shaking with cold from hours in the water. Eating tomato or banana sandwiches encased in blown sand. with maybe buttered marietta biscuits to follow. The tea was left to stew all day, you could trot mice on it. Never had any trouble sleeping in those days

Being on south side typical outings might be to Seapoint for swimming at high tide but for a proper family day out it would be Killiney beach. Not good for kiddies swimming, but scenic and the great prize was to get a pot of tea from the famous beach house there. My mother or neighbour (when she would take us all) would bring along Gateaux Genoa cake which would go very well with the tea.

branie2

The first James Bond movie I saw was For Your Eyes Only, and it was on TV

nuac

nuac wrote: »

Graces7,
Sorry about the personal attack

. Keep calm, ignore them and carry on

She's not been active on boards for almost 4 weeks, hope she's OK.

chooseusername

Deleted User wrote: »

She's not been active on boards for almost 4 weeks, hope she's OK.

She is still posting on her blog;
https://islandanchorhold.blogspot.com/
as poetic as ever.
At least I assume it's her, it sounds very like her style.

jimmycrackcorm

iamstop wrote: »

... there was two settings for climate control in the car.
Windows closed and windows open.

Choke off = car didn't go.
Pull Choke = it did.

chooseusername

headlamp dimmer switch on the floor next to the clutch.

chooseusername

chooseusername wrote: »

headlamp dimmer switch on the floor next to the clutch.

combined with the manual windscreen washer pump.

Vita nova

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Choke off = car didn't go.
Pull Choke = it did.

Also, had to remember to press it in again when the engine warmed up or you'd waste a lot of fuel.

nigeldaniel

Not that I am that old but back in my day [1980's] people were more diplomatic, nowadays they just spoiling for a scrap of any kind.

It BeeMee

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Choke off = car didn't go.
Pull Choke = it did.

The car had only 4 forward gears