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There is a generation that has not grown up with .......

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    JimmyVik wrote: »

    As a child, I always found that label and the cartoon deer very appealing!
    :D

    Blue Nun was another wine brand around back then.

    As kids we were allowed a small glass of wine with Christmas dinner, it never appealed to me until much later on in college when I discovered Jacobs Creek (obligatory Father Jack reference) and Blossom Hill chardonnay! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    branie2 wrote: »
    Goods on Hire Purchase

    The words give the wrong impression to the modern consumer who is quite happy to tie themselves into a phone contract for a couple of years so they get a "free" phone.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,536 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    As a child, I always found that label and the cartoon deer very appealing!
    :D

    Blue Nun was another wine brand around back then.

    As kids we were allowed a small glass of wine with Christmas dinner, it never appealed to me until much later on in college when I discovered Jacobs Creek (obligatory Father Jack reference) and Blossom Hill chardonnay! :D

    I remember my older brother buying a bottle of Goldener Oktober one christmas as he though he was very sophisticated. I tried it and it was like drinking turps.


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


    The Carry On films


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Payphones


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 61 ✭✭whysobecause


    Payphones

    A payphone that wasn't covered in graffiti on the inside.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Nits and lice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,253 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Army escorts for cash deliveries to banks


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    Collecting Telecom Eireann callcards and bartering them in a pub:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Nits and lice.

    Don't think they have gone :mad: Only last year neighbors kids had a note sent home to watch out for them as they had been spotted in the school.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,530 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    People who gawped at concrete holy statues expecting them to move.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Payphones

    And by extension, Phone Cards. Some people used to collect them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    People who gawped at concrete holy statues expecting them to move.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    That must have been Fr Stone's parish :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭Whestsidestory


    People calling to the door unannounced at all hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Army escorts for cash deliveries to banks

    That only stopped a few years ago, banks were told they would have to pay for the service rather than the people paying


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Don't think they have gone :mad: Only last year neighbors kids had a note sent home to watch out for them as they had been spotted in the school.

    Letter used to come from the school late September when my daughter was in National school so 2018


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭The Continental Op



    Not many left with the round florescent lights set up as halos.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,592 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    That only stopped a few years ago, banks were told they would have to pay for the service rather than the people paying

    The volume of cash has also collapsed; as well as the destructive tech that makes it pointless stealing what is there.


    As well as the general reduction in cash in use, the in-store ATMs that are reloaded by the shop owner from the till made a huge impact in the amount of cash moving through bank branches and their on-site ATMs.
    branie2 wrote: »
    Goods on Hire Purchase

    PCP cars are just that.

    We also had FlexiRent here until a few years ago; that was good old fashioned hire purchase.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    This generation has not grown up with the Height of technology that was a record player that could also fit (charge free) in an over-head locker.

    That record player looked like a modern day (airline, carry on)small case, but when you opened the latches on that "strange/other" case......MUSIC was the only travel available.. if you had a record.

    Music to your tastes or offensive to your tastes! Still, it was music.

    To be more precise, a box that could accommodate any taste! The box (Today's equivalent/size, of a little case) was something to behold, and also anticipate(on opening),if you had a record handy, more delight's ! .


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    One lad in the class who had been on an aeroplane for hols. Him telling us and the teacher about it during class. You would think we were listening to a talk from an astronaut just back from space :o


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


    He-Man and the Masters of the Universe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Lucy8080 wrote: »
    This generation has not grown up with the Height of technology that was a record player that could also fit (charge free) in an over-head locker.

    That record player looked like a modern day (airline, carry on)small case, but when you opened the latches on that "strange/other" case......MUSIC was the only travel available.. if you had a record.

    Music to your tastes or offensive to your tastes! Still, it was music.

    To be more precise, a box that could accommodate any taste! The box (Today's equivalent/size, of a little case) was something to behold, and also anticipate(on opening),if you had a record handy, more delight's ! .

    Kind of like this, my aunt had one back in the early seventies, I remember us playing singles in Bundoran beach and the wind causing the needle to skip :)

    0556633900049_045_b?$xlarge$=&fit=constrain&fmt=webp&qlt=80&wid=683

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,977 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    I have a portable turntable I use when going to record fairs.

    Particularly when abroad, you'll see lots of records that look like they might be good / interesting

    https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/576742296017181180/


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


    I don't think a lot of people owned them, but laserdisc players and laserdiscs


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,840 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    That only stopped a few years ago, banks were told they would have to pay for the service rather than the people paying

    Nice for a change


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,834 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    The Shannon stopover...

    So you are located in the east of the country. You save several hundred pounds to enable yourself to purchase a ticket to fly from Dublin to New York, to see family or just to go on a holiday or both or indeed a work trip.

    That price you are paying is influenced by the fact that people in political and local community circles in are demanding that on the way there, you stop, about 20 minutes after taking off from Dublin into an 8 hour flight, for no other reason than to top the aircraft up with fuel it doesn’t need and go shopping.

    Like something that would only be heard of in cold war eastern bloc locations and was only phased out 13 or so years ago.

    For the privilege of landing somewhere 20 minutes into an 8 hour flight, for a wander and a bit of shopping, the customer is paying for in their tickets...

    EXTRA.....

    Landing charges

    Parking fees

    Handling fees

    Fuel

    Maintenance..

    and more besides... no fair minded governance would agree to that... 100% scumbaggary.... “if the Shannon area can’t sustain itself or make itself attractive to visitors or enough visitors, I know let’s make it illegal for planes NOT to stop there !” That’s basically thuggish behavior. Bullying. Like something out of Cold War Russia.

    If on the way back, the US said... “ok, 25 minutes after takeoff from jfk, you’ll land at Buffalo international where you’ll be forced off the plane, herded through loads of shops and restaurants, even though you are tired... after 90 minutes you’ll get back on and recommence your journey home.... and in the price of the ticket... handling fees, additional fuel, landing charges etc...”

    Like something out of a communist graveyard backwater.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    spurious wrote: »
    "Air hostesses" bringing around sweets before take off.

    Air hostesses bringing around full Irish breakfasts on the early morning flights to London. Barely enough time to wolf the fry down before they had to snatch the plates back off you to land at Heathrow.

    It was an expected service, but very impractical in the short time that was available between leveling off on take off from Dublin and then descending again on approach to London.

    I bet the cabin crew hated being on the 'fling a fry' shift.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    branie2 wrote: »
    I don't think a lot of people owned them, but laserdisc players and laserdiscs

    I never saw either in reality. I do recall ads for bands' 'video albums' in Smash Hits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,834 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Ger Roe wrote: »
    Air hostesses bringing around full Irish breakfasts on the early morning flights to London. Barely enough time to wolf the fry down before they had to snatch the plates back off you to land at Heathrow.

    It was an expected service, but very impractical in the short time that was available between leveling off on take off from Dublin and then descending again on approach to London.

    I bet the cabin crew hated being on the 'fling a fry' shift.

    It was a pretty good fry too compared to the measly effort that ended up on the bia menu... think the last time I ordered it there was two small sausages, once I just got one, one slice of bacon, a big tomato that was designed to make the dish seem full, pudding and potatoes and bread for 10 euros...

    09.-Aer-Lingus-Economy-Class-Irish-Breakfast-Bia-Menu-Hot-Dish.jpg

    Rubbish basically....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    branie2 wrote: »
    He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

    Probably for the best


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


    The original Battlestar Galactica


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    branie2 wrote: »
    The original Battlestar Galactica

    Forces TV repeat it, The Equalizer, Buck Roger's and Space 1999 on a loop every few months


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 RLF71


    Wholesome values and hard work. Everything is handed to them now and excuses for when things don't go their way.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    The old one pound/punt note.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Ounces and expressions that go with ounces!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    Forces TV repeat it, The Equalizer, Buck Roger's and Space 1999 on a loop every few months

    And UFO - Gerry Anderson's first live action TV series where he put real people into the type of sets and vehicles that his legendary puppets would have been associated with.

    UFO was a much darker story and one that is crying out for a big budget film remake - Just keep Jonathan Frakes and any American influence away from it - they destroyed the live action Thunderbirds Film in 2004.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,274 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Celebrities who were famous for a reason.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    Kind of like this, my aunt had one back in the early seventies, I remember us playing singles in Bundoran beach and the wind causing the needle to skip :)

    0556633900049_045_b?$xlarge$=&fit=constrain&fmt=webp&qlt=80&wid=683

    Jeez, now that brings back memories. Ours was red , but exactly the same size(not sure about the make).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Ger Roe wrote: »
    And UFO - Gerry Anderson's first live action TV series where he put real people into the type of sets and vehicles that his legendary puppets would have been associated with.

    UFO was a much darker story and one that is crying out for a big budget film remake - Just keep Jonathan Frakes and any American influence away from it - they destroyed the live action Thunderbirds Film in 2004.

    Think what killed UFO was they depended on American money, the later Space 1999 had to have each script vetted by the American backers,


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Lucy8080 wrote: »
    Jeez, now that brings back memories. Ours was red , but exactly the same size(not sure about the make).

    I was just doing some random googling really, that would be a modern version alright with blue tooth technology that can be hooked into most audio systems. Yeah my aunts one was red too, she had bought it in the US when she lived there.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,536 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Think what killed UFO was they depended on American money, the later Space 1999 had to have each script vetted by the American backers,

    the second season of Space 1999 is so much worse than the first because they made it more action oriented to suit the americans.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    the second season of Space 1999 is so much worse than the first because they made it more action oriented to suit the americans.

    And half the cast were changed with no explanation


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    The Avengers.

    I refer of course to John Steed and Mrs Peel, not a bunch of pumped up twerps in lycra :P


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


    Letter used to come from the school late September when my daughter was in National school so 2018
    Don't think they have gone :mad: Only last year neighbors kids had a note sent home to watch out for them as they had been spotted in the school.
    Nits and lice.

    We were lined up in the school hallway and the public health nurse checked us like an assembly line. If you needed "sheep dip" shampoo you got a note to take home.

    Having grown up on a farm that shampoo did indeed smell just like sheep dip!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Watching the Republic of Ireland play in a World Cup.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    Celebrities who were famous for a reason.
    Such as having big tits?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Such as having big tits?

    Lolo Ferrari?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Tapioca pudding.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    I know this always comes around in nostalgia threads but wasn't this one of the best chocolates in the world. :)

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    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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