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Back in my day...

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Gangsta rap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, which was my introduction to science fiction


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    Growing up in Mexico, it was quite poverish. And we couldn't afford driving into town a lot. We had a Jerusalem donkey we named Pablo. And he took us to town many a day with no complaints. He was 28 years old when he died.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,717 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    back when pasta was known as spaghetti


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,325 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    My mam would scream at me to get off the internet as she wanted to use the phone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Every second car had a clothes hanger as an aerial.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    rob316 wrote: »
    My mam would scream at me to get off the internet as she wanted to use the phone.
    My line was often engaged, people complained I never answered the phone!
    They never called when I wasn't online!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    back when pasta was known as spaghetti
    and came in a tin , quiet often as hoop's

    coffee was maxwell house Granuel's [strong] or powder [weak] . you didn't need a two page menu to order a cup of coffee


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,711 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    and came in a tin , quiet often as hoop's

    coffee was maxwell house Granuel's [strong] or powder [weak] . you didn't need a two page menu to order a cup of coffee

    Alphabet spaghetti with toast. Those were indeed the days.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    Alphabet spaghetti with toast. Those were indeed the days.
    trying to spell your name , war would break out if you took a letter off siblings plate . Ma would intervene with the back of her hand to bring a cease fire..
    jaysus when ya think we had nothing


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Chocolate cigarettes, hook em young

    Harp Larger everywhere


    Yorkie bars, not for girls. That packaging wouldn’t be acceptable with outraged twitter users these days

    504870.jpeg


  • Registered Users Posts: 8 Shellzzz


    My mothers cure all,😶 Milk of Magnesium,the blood still drains out of me to this day when I spot the big blue bottle in the chemist


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Chocolate cigarettes, hook em young

    Harp Larger everywhere


    Yorkie bars, not for girls. That packaging wouldn’t be acceptable with outraged twitter users these days

    504870.jpeg

    I'm in no means a feminazi but I stopped eating yorkies after that campaign. Up to that point I'd eaten them fairly regularly.

    Figured if they didn't want my money fair enough, plenty of other chocolate on the market.

    I still don't understand why a business would deliberately alienate 50% of its market.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 958 ✭✭✭mountai


    That you opened with a handle.*



    *winder or whatever you'd call it.

    I opened mine by pulling on a little glass block .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 332 ✭✭deathbomber


    Jacobs goldgrain. Gone but not forgotten!

    Honourable mention to crossfire


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,197 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    Marietta biscuits.

    There used to be colouring competitions in the Sunday press, I think we cut tokens from the biscuit wrappers and sent them off with our efforts. I Never won. But I do distinctly remember getting markers from Santa and doing my colouring up on the landing on bloody Sunday january 1972. The radio was on downstairs and every so often another death was announced. It seemed like it went all day but I think all the shootings were carried out within an hour. Whenever I smell the ink in colouring markers it brings me right back to that day I on the landing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    and came in a tin , quiet often as hoop's

    coffee was maxwell house Granuel's [strong] or powder [weak] . you didn't need a two page menu to order a cup of coffee
    Alphabet spaghetti with toast. Those were indeed the days.

    Some of those came with extra apostrophes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Little plastic toys in the Cornflakes , I remember collecting a set of dogs and vague memories of a plastic airplane landing in my bowl


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭Consey


    Holy Duck wrote: »
    Still is on my Tv

    Teletext Soccer...

    Page 302 on Ceefax. If you couldn't get BBC Radio, you'd be there from 4:40pm on a Sat, waiting as the page continually refreshed until it got to Full Time. The stress!

    Also, all weekend matches were at 3pm on a Sat, with one match featured in Match of the Day.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Little plastic toys in the Cornflakes , I remember collecting a set of dogs and vague memories of a plastic airplane landing in my bowl

    They also had plastic boats you put baking soda or similar into and then the boat into water. The soda would fizz propelling the boat.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭Consey


    Consey wrote: »
    Teletext Soccer...

    Page 302 on Ceefax. If you couldn't get BBC Radio, you'd be there from 4:40pm on a Sat, waiting as the page continually refreshed until it got to Full Time. The stress!

    Also, all weekend matches were at 3pm on a Sat, with one match featured in Match of the Day.......

    .... And Aertel (RTE teletext) was notoriously unreliable for scores. If either team's score was updated you had to double check on Ceefax (BBC), as they would often show the score to the wrong team.

    Of course, for GAA updates, there was only Aertel, so the score updates were pretty random. In Aertel world, Waterford could be beating Kerry in football.......


  • Registered Users Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Esho


    The "rush hour" started at 815


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    We played The Witcher 3 on the PC, not on the Nintendo Switch like the kids have it today.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    You could get out of bed in the morning, switch on TV and watch an old black and white Hollywood movie. Most of these are not out on DVD and are forgotten. Now today's generation think Little Women is original.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,002 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Consey wrote: »
    Teletext Soccer...

    Page 302 on Ceefax. If you couldn't get BBC Radio, you'd be there from 4:40pm on a Sat, waiting as the page continually refreshed until it got to Full Time. The stress!

    Also, all weekend matches were at 3pm on a Sat, with one match featured in Match of the Day.......

    This !!! I think it was 222 on aertel for the live score but ceefax 302 was miles faster, by about 10 minutes a goal :pac: still 222 was good for the Irish goals as you could get them nowhere else although it seemed to be about 40 minutes between goal and updates.

    Ohhh and the overall teletext football experience ...If your team had only been winning 1-0 you’d be changing page and back again franticly hoping that no equalizer was forthcoming, looking at the clock as you did it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,669 ✭✭✭✭namenotavailablE


    Mowing the lawn with a engineless lawnmower.
    We had a pretty sizable lawn and I was the champion arm wrestler in 1st class :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    This thread makes me think of my cousin's three-year old son. He talks like an ould lad- everytime I show him a picture of somewhere I've been he's always 'oh yeah I was there when I was a baby' :D

    As for me, I remember when all of this were just fields


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭Fireball81


    Researching school projects using big heavy encyclopedia Britannia books and photocopying he required pages at the library.

    Now the kids can just ask Alexa or google it...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Rufeo


    Fireball81 wrote: »
    Researching school projects using big heavy encyclopedia Britannia books and photocopying he required pages at the library.

    Now the kids can just ask Alexa or google it...

    And doing maths homework with the theory in the maths book alone! Ugh. Always failed, cos the homework questions were a lot harder than the ones in the book. Urgh, if only we had access to internet back then.


  • Registered Users Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Esho


    Space Invaders in the chipper


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Kids with behavioural or disciplinary problems weren't diagnosed with made-up nonsense like ADHD - they got sent to boarding schools.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,643 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Kids with behavioural or disciplinary problems weren't diagnosed with made-up nonsense like ADHD - they got sent to boarding schools.

    Nowadays if they have a “D” they gets lots of things free.
    It pays to have a D i.e. ADHD, ADD etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,002 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Kids with behavioural or disciplinary problems weren't diagnosed with made-up nonsense like ADHD - they got sent to boarding schools.

    My mother frequently says the same... “feck all this adhd, they are just being bold, the PlayStation would be relocated to the attic till they wanted to behave themselves”.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,652 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Kids with behavioural or disciplinary problems weren't diagnosed with made-up nonsense like ADHD - they got sent to boarding schools.

    They got a couple of clatters and manners put on them, in school and at home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭Ruby Ring


    Every Summer we set up a tennis court in the backyard (inspired by Wimbledon)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    7 years of age and I got two buses each way to school. Used to forgo the shorter bus journey some days and spend the penny bus fare on a Captain Spearmint bar for the walk home.

    Not too many years later, a fiver would get you a bus to the disco and back, entry in, a nagan of smirnoff and 10 Rothmans. Sorted.


  • Registered Users Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Esho


    7 years of age and I got two buses each way to school. Used to forgo the shorter bus journey some days and spend the penny bus fare on a Captain Spearmint bar for the walk home.

    Not too many years later, a fiver would get you a bus to the disco and back, entry in, a nagan of smirnoff and 10 Rothmans. Sorted.

    Rothmans!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,652 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Esho wrote: »
    Rothmans!

    Major and Woodbines too for the serious smoker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Kids with behavioural or disciplinary problems weren't diagnosed with made-up nonsense like ADHD - they got sent to boarding schools.

    Or even Reform School. One of the threats brandished at disruptive kids in my time was they would end up in Artane or Daingean.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Not too many years later, a fiver would get you a bus to the disco and back, entry in, a nagan of smirnoff and 10 Rothmans. Sorted.

    2 litre of cider an 10 john player blue for a fiver

    a cheap nights entertainment


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Kids with behavioural or disciplinary problems weren't diagnosed with made-up nonsense like ADHD - they got sent to boarding schools.

    Joe Duffy show has a regular caller complaining his little angle is suspended from school or banned from school tours due to punching other students

    He has ODD

    Oppositional Defiant Disorder


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Joe Duffy show has a regular caller complaining his little angle is suspended from school or banned from school tours due to punching other students

    He has ODD

    Oppositional Defiant Disorder

    I would smack that caller in the mouth and tell him to shut up and discipline his kid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Most videos were rented out as opposed to bought.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Snails pace


    Only got chips as a treat and fizzy drinks were only in the house for special occasions. We played outside and got a boot up the arsé if I did something wrong. I was raised to respect my parents and others unlike children of today. There was also no bullshít about anxiety in children either.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    A VCR cost upwards of 400 punts which was a weekly wage for many a working man. Big money

    So many dials and options that most never figured out how these works. Adjust tracking :confused::confused:

    When our parish won the intermediate county final local people came to our home to watch the recording. We were one of the few with a VCR. That tape got passed around home to home.

    These days it'd be up on youtube or twitter before the players got showered
    branie2 wrote: »
    Most videos were rented out as opposed to bought.

    Xtravision threatened to fine you if you didn't rewind the tape for the next person :eek:

    I think that fine was never applied but they certainly had late fees, fair ´nuff


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    we didn't know what hand sanetizer was...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    The idea of buying bottled water would be laughed at.... Except Ballygowan spring water.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    we didn't know what hand sanetizer was...

    We had no anti bacterial wipes or sprays yet we were seldom sick . Yes we got mumps etc but not these viruses and gastro bugs etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    Before broadband existed people used to rent out adult film,s
    from a video rental store,
    xtravision only had 18 rated film,s . but other rental stores had them behind the counter.
    people used to rent out video games on cartridge from xtravision nintendo, snes .
    Now people buy games in gamestop or buy them online.
    When vcrs were popular most people never worked out out to use the timer,
    they would just press record just before the program started .
    A vcr would be the most valuable item in the house.
    one of the reasons the PS2 console was a big hit was it played dvds,
    dvd players were 2-300 euro when they were first avaidable to buy .


  • Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Are there still physical copies of video games?


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