Back in my day...

Deja Boo

Deja Boo wrote: »

and may the skinny jean trend pass quickly!

Feels like I have been waiting 10 years for this skinny jeans trend to pass. It is a lost generation for jeans.

wexandproud

when you went to the butcher's to buy meat , if parents could afford it
hunting rabbits at weekend's . if we got 1 or 2 we had rabbit for a day or two . If we had more the neighbours were given a couple and a favour would be returned at some stage
green grocer for veg ,
small shop or two on every street ,
''no bottles no milk'' slogans in shop windows everything stuffed into paper bags . then came the eighties and we were told we cant keep using paper bags or glass bottles we have to change to plastic, its the saviour of the world

branie2

The Holy hour on Sunday, when the pubs closed for a little while

Princess Calla

branie2 wrote: »

The Holy hour on Sunday, when the pubs closed for a little while

That was dinner time in my house.

sbsquarepants

Omackeral wrote: »

These little bolloxes in your bubble bath.

I bought 2 bottles only last week "for my kids":D - i had no idea they were still making it!

cj maxx

wexandproud wrote: »

when you went to the butcher's to buy meat , if parents could afford it
hunting rabbits at weekend's . if we got 1 or 2 we had rabbit for a day or two . If we had more the neighbours were given a couple and a favour would be returned at some stage
green grocer for veg ,


That bit I remember. Making and setting snares. Awful thing. They'd chew a leg off to get away. I'd sell them to a local man

Dtp1979

Back in my day, mars bars were THIS big

wexandproud

cjmc wrote: »

wexandproud wrote: »

when you went to the butcher's to buy meat , if parents could afford it
hunting rabbits at weekend's . if we got 1 or 2 we had rabbit for a day or two . If we had more the neighbours were given a couple and a favour would be returned at some stage
green grocer for veg ,


That bit I remember. Making and setting snares. Awful thing. They'd chew a leg off to get away. I'd sell them to a local man

never used snares . .22 rifle . father would go mad if a wounded one got away and we'd have to spend ages looking for it . pigeons during the autumn/winter ,they were nice if they weren't feeding on ivy berries , jaysus they were horrible then . We had also had a local guy who bought pigeons, rabbits,ducks etc .
He bought blackberries as well , hard earned pocket money

Fireball81

...there were no 'influencers' or bull **** platforms that give extremists on both sides a voice to peddle their nonsense (facebook and Twitter being the worst offenders).

Shellzzz

branie2 wrote:

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

We had a telly on a high cupboard and the remote control was the brush handle.

Dravokivich

branie2 wrote: »

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

I was explaining to my kid the other week that, when "i was a kid," TVs came in a box and I didn't mean the packaging!

Lucky you changing channels with a knob, I had to tune channels with a matchstick :cool:

Ger Roe

As toddlers we were sent over to other peoples houses if there was a case of measles, mumps or chicken pox. The logic being that it was best to catch them early and get them done before school going age. The call would go out across the neighbourhood and impromptu juvenile contagion gatherings were organised by the mammies. Totally alien concept since the introduction of vaccines, and particularly over the past few days when strict isolation has become the focus of national attention.

Also, rays of light passing overhead at the cinema.... a rainbow of colour would emerge from the projection room behind you and burst into glorious technicolour images on the screen in front. The 'effect' was caused by the smoke haze hanging in the air from the cigarettes being smoked in the enclosed space. Even for a kids movie, the adults present with their little darlings would light up to pass the time.

Looking at both examples, it's a wonder that we ever survived.

IAMAMORON

You rented videos from a shop.

Mr freezes were a treat, or shertbert liqourice dip. Wham bars. Big ted little ted. Dogtantian. Cars with chokes. Playing squares on the road, or curbs, or soccer till dark in the summer, miwadi. Bus conductors. A g , a g r , a g r o , AGRO.

Dravokivich

We chanted "hero."

pjdarcy

branie2 wrote: »

Quinnsworth before it became Tescos

Yellow pack stout was the probably cheapest and worst thing I drank as a student. Horrendous stuff

Ger Roe

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Back in my day, mars bars were THIS big

And Yorkie bars - 'Good rich and thick, a milk chocolate brick' ... not like the wimpish impersonation that we have these days.

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

miamee

When 'pub grub' consisted of a ham sandwich, a cheese sandwich or a ham and cheese sandwich

sbsquarepants

IAMAMORON wrote: »

You rented videos from a shop.

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Ooh spot the posho!:D

We had a bloke came around in a battered nissan sunny with a load of dodgy copies in the boot - the whole road would rush out to greet him like he was handing out free bags of money in a vain attempt to get something decent.

evil_seed

The travelling shop. Fruit n veg, tea bags and mint crisps in the back

Ruby Ring

"Apples, minerals and chocolate" sellers at GAA matches

Doctors room ghost

Ruby Ring wrote: »

"Apples, minerals and chocolate" sellers at GAA matches

That’s how bill Cullen got started

tayto lover

Picking blackberries and adding a little water and small stones to the can to make it weigh more when you went to the buyer’s yard to sell them.

whisky_galore

miamee wrote: »

When 'pub grub' consisted of a ham sandwich, a cheese sandwich or a ham and cheese sandwich

There was one oul fella pub where we were offered free Taytos from behind the bar, but every one of us refused them because they were well out of date.

BENDYBINN

We had the dinner in the middle of the day and eat the tae in the evening...

WestWicklow1

Who remembers Bang Bang?

tayto lover

Going to county GAA championship matches and wearing the crepe paper hats with your county colours. When it rained the dye ran down your face.

tayto lover

BENDYBINN wrote: »

We had the dinner in the middle of the day and eat the tae in the evening...

Jackie Healy-Rae ???

wexandproud

tayto lover wrote: »

Picking blackberries and adding a little water and small stones to the can to make it weigh more when you went to the buyer’s yard to sell them.

ha ha , that's right . Until fella's got greedy and over did it with the water and ruined id

Doctors room ghost

BENDYBINN wrote: »

We had the dinner in the middle of the day and eat the tae in the evening...

Dead right.breakfast dinner tea in that order.
There’s parts of Yorkshire and pub dinners are served from 11am onwards and finish around 1pm.

CarrickMcJoe

anewme wrote: »

You could win a set of saucepans on Murphys Micro Quiz- m.

Each answer was worth 2 pence on Bunny Carr's Quicksilver...

iamstop

Long before Napster you'd borrow a tape of your mate and record it with 'hi-speed dubbing' and save about 45 minutes from a 90 minute tape.
You sometimes sit there listening to the radio waiting for your song to come on so you can record it. You'd pray the disc jockey would not talk over it or cut it short.
D60s, D90s. Metal tapes. Save the stickers in case you decide to record over something. Making mix tapes

chinwag

When a starting handle was included in the kit of a car. It could be so handy when a car battery might be a bit low or completely flat......back in the days when cars were less complex.

cj maxx

Going through British army checkpoints to the late mass.

branie2

Where In the World? First presented by Marty Whelan, then Theresa Lowe

anewme

miamee wrote: »

When 'pub grub' consisted of a ham sandwich, a cheese sandwich or a ham and cheese sandwich

Or a toasted ham sandwich, or a toasted ham and cheese sandwich from a sandwich toaster ...wow! We used to get that with "a dressed orange" - club orange with cream on the top and an umbrella with a cherry stuck to it.

Sleepy

A storm warning meant you absolutely *had* to get down to high tide at Blackrock for waves that could make the jump from the top 3 metres higher or 3 metres lower but you wouldn't know which until you had a lung full of the Atlantic.

Actually, just summers at the diving tower in Blackrock in general: there'd be 10 or 12 of us from our estate traipsing down for high tide, going a few hours before it so we could hit the bottom when we jumped off or swimming underneath the tower itself when the tide was right in. We could have been down there since 7am and wouldn't be back home until dinner time after which there'd be a kick-around on the green until it got too dark to see the ball.

I can't imagine a gang of 10 to 14 year olds being given that level of freedom nowadays. My own young lad would be grounded for a month if I caught him at half the dangerous ****e we used to get up to back then!

Sleepy

Oh another one: playing on building sites and the thrill of coming across a nail gun a builder hadn't locked away before he fecked off to the pub on a Friday afternoon. I remember building a set of goalposts out of some 3x2 we fleeced from the same site and our parents actually being proud of our woodwork rather than giving us a bollocking for the theft of the materials used!

nthclare

Sleepy wrote: »

Oh another one: playing on building sites and the thrill of coming across a nail gun a builder hadn't locked away before he fecked off to the pub on a Friday afternoon. I remember building a set of goalposts out of some 3x2 we fleeced from the same site and our parents actually being proud of our woodwork rather than giving us a bollocking for the theft of the materials used!

I remember myself and my two friends were playing around a building site and were held hostage by a gang from Shannon...

Evil bastard the ring leader Kevin was threatening to hang one of the lads off the rafters and he was held in the execution chamber, the jax I think...
The bastard was always threatening to kill us, it was like living on a live set of stand by me.....

We were eventually released from the lair, prick got his cummopunce years later outside of a nightclub in Shannon.

Hey are you Kevin C.....?

Yeah what about it?

Lights out, crutches and good karma

He salutes me now and I helped him give up the sauce, the irony

The execution chamber and nightclub was never spoken about over cups of coffee and me listening to his fears trials and tribulations...

harry Bailey esq

iamstop wrote: »

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

Usually closed regardless of season. 6 kids in the back fighting while mammy and daddy sat in the front smoking like troopers..

greencoat

we could build a ramp using 3 cement blocks and some wood beside the ole dears house,come down the hill as fast as we could pedal and take flight,did not need no helmet then either..lol

illdoit2morrow

The transition from blankets to a duvet/continental quilt and in the process becoming a true European.

Parents feckin' off to the pub of a Saturday night for a few hours and not having a babysitter.

'Tales of the unexpected' intro song...nuff said

illdoit2morrow

greencoat wrote: »

we could build a ramp using 3 cement blocks and some wood beside the ole dears house,come down the hill as fast as we could pedal and take flight,did not need no helmet then either..lol

On a Raleigh Burner with mag wheels?

greencoat

illdoit2morrow wrote: »

On a Raleigh Burner with mag wheels?

no a grifter,my mate had the raleigh burner,and yeah he had the full face moto x helmet,jealousy was high...lol

harry Bailey esq

nthclare wrote: »

I remember myself and my two friends were playing around a building site and were held hostage by a gang from Shannon...

Evil bastard the ring leader Kevin was threatening to hang one of the lads off the rafters and he was held in the execution chamber, the jax I think...
The bastard was always threatening to kill us, it was like living on a live set of stand by me.....

We were eventually released from the lair, prick got his cummopunce years later outside of a nightclub in Shannon.

Hey are you Kevin C.....?

Yeah what about it?

Lights out, crutches and good karma

He salutes me now and I helped him give up the sauce, the irony

The execution chamber and nightclub was never spoken about over cups of coffee and me listening to his fears trials and tribulations...

This friends, is why nobody should ever,ever go to an AA meeting.

EmmetSpiceland

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Usually closed regardless of season. 6 kids in the back fighting while mammy and daddy sat in the front smoking like troopers..

An arm swinging back from the driver’s side, every now and then, to keep someone “in line”.

harry Bailey esq

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

An arm swinging back from the driver’s side, every now and then, to keep someone “in line”.

That would have been the daddy, the mammy didn't drive back in my day, even if daddy had a good few scoops in him!

greencoat

heading on up the fields for the whole day,the ole dear would not have a a worry in the world,gone from dusk till dawn.up to climb the trees and act the maggot.

iamstop

greencoat wrote: »

no a grifter,my mate had the raleigh burner,and yeah he had the full face moto x helmet,jealousy was high...lol

I had a handmedown Grifter meself. Black and Red. Three gears that you changed with the twist of the handle. Heavy beast she was!

greencoat

iamstop wrote: »

I had a handmedown Grifter meself. Black and Red. Three gears that you changed with the twist of the handle. Heavy beast she was!

pmsl yeah same as that,mine was a hand me down,ahh a beast was right,stil lasted me years..lol.

IAMAMORON

Slow sets at Discos.