**** things about the 70s,80s,90s...that don't happen now!

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122056940#Comment_122056940

or the Lyon’s tea labels to enter a draw for a car

Lewis_Benson

Statoil Premium Club.

I.am.Putins.raging.bile.duct

The bags of Nenagh milk tokens we'd save all year to get something nice from the catalogue

yagan

Green shield saving stamps.

Rented tv and couch.

standardg60

Drinks promos in pubs, where you could win free pints or merchandise, sadly killed off by the PC brigade.

Anyone remember the 1p pints of Guinness they had on some anniversary of the brewery?

Edit, you got a scratch card and paid whatever the cost of the pint was in the year you revealed.

Rice Krispie Buns!

These were a major feature of all of my childhood parties, school events, any event at all really just get a big bar of cooking chocolate, melt it and mix in the Rice Krispies …

That and over diluted orange squash.

flazio

Female Gardaí officially referred to as "Bán Garda" or WPC if they were serving in the North or Britain. Edit: corporal punishment handed out by clergy with celibacy frustration, hospitals staffed by nuns and monks who had taken a vow of poverty and probably saved the government health coffers millions but didn’t do much in way of actually caring.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122057154#Comment_122057154

 Capital punishment handed out by clergy with celibacy frustration

Even back then, the Church didn't have the power to carry out capital punishment. I think you meant corporal punishment.😉

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122057154#Comment_122057154

I think it was more a business than charity when you consider their baby export model.

Trigger Happy

Bedsits. And for those of us that were particularly skint - sharing a bedsit designed for 1 person with 2 or 3 others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedsit

iamstop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122055763#Comment_122055763

Gone are the days of going to the pub or club and coming back absolutely drenched in the stank of other peoples 2nd hand smoke, thanks be to Jaysus.

miamee

When the only choice for food in a pub was a bag of crisps, peanuts or bacon fries. If you were really lucky they'd do a ham sandwich, a cheese sandwich or a ham & cheese sandwich 😂

black & white

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122057311#Comment_122057311

The Crossroads Bar in Shannon, Co Clare in the early '80's. One non regular asked for a bag of peanuts and was told, What the f*ck do you think this is, a restaurant ?

miamee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122057393#Comment_122057393

🤣🤣 it's pub crisps or nothing!

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122057475#Comment_122057475

That's another one, pub crisps, literally said pub crisps on the bag. Always thought they had extra flavour.

ruth...less

Extended family or friends just arriving at the door and you'd be expected to entertain them..no notice or nothing.

If you were lucky that you did have a phone... neighbours would call round looking to use it and run up your bill!

Soda streams...overrated novelty muck.

ceadaoin.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122057710#Comment_122057710

I have soda stream! Handy for making sparkling water, don't bother with the syrups and flavours. I always wanted one as a kid, the idea of being able to make my own coke was intriguing even though I'm sure it tasted like crap. childhood dream realised 😄

blade1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122053873#Comment_122053873

80s as well.

The guy that lived next door drank loads of Guinness.

Me and a few friends used to take his empties and bring them to the local pub and exchange them for 20 fags.

We were in primary school at the time.

ruth...less

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122057772#Comment_122057772

I didn't know you could make sparkling water from them but I don't like it. All I remember is my friends mam giving it to me and thinking it was horrible.

pjordan

2 bar electric heaters or later the gas heater in the bathroom for the Saturday eve shower before central heating.

Actual penny sweets.

Fear of priests and Church authority

Fear of the rule of law (with some exceptions – see below) and Gardai authority

10 kids packed into the van to go somewhere for sports event with no seatbelts

Cineclub on RTE 2 on Tues eve's where you might see some “exotic” films with bare flesh if you were lucky!

Fri night blagging your way into over 15 or Over 18 films as a 13 year old for the same reason!

Getting scratches on your new 45 single or 33 album that deemed it practically useless

Recording off the radio and making compilation casettes (and forgetting to knock out the tabs)

Alternatively taping over a Pink Floyd casette tab so I could use it to record off the radio!

Pirate radio being daring and exotic! (When in reality some of them were actually run by perverted paedos!)

Being temporarily famous in school after having a request played on Radio Luxembourg

Public service safety announcements about water safety, farm safety, TB, Hoose and Winter scours, railway level crossings (With Michael O Hehir) and fire safety (flammible night dresses and putting the cat out)

Girls not having a clue how to apply make up and the occasional lad that was excellent at it!

Cars with no seat belts and tractors with no roll bars / safety cabs

Burning rubbish and throwing tin cans under the hedge

Toasted ham and cheese sandwiches (and soup if you were lucky) being the main “pub grub”

Neighbours without a phone calling to use yours

The local traveller lady who lived in camp by the railway track (and who we were terrified of) coming to my mother for her to read her letters from her sister in UK and getting her to write a reply back.

House swaps with the cousins constituting a summer holiday and being jealous of friends who owned a caravan and really jealous of anyone who actually went abroad for a holiday.

Thumbing and wearing armbands on dark roads while you stood for ages hoping for a lift out of the pi$$ing rain!

Ted222

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122056870#Comment_122056870

Yeah it was 10.00 closing on Sundays. We’d sometimes go to a nightclub (okay, disco) and sit around the tables waiting for the bar to open again at midnight.

You could use the cloakroom ticket you got on the way in to have a dodgy chicken curry while you were waiting.

Comhrá

Buying new bell-bottom trousers and a pair of wet look zip-up boots and feeling so cool.

yagan

Clearing out the mother in laws house recently and we found the little coin box for when nieghbours needed to use her phone, and also a roll of fly tape with "made in West Germany".

hoodie6029

One I used to see regularly to the early 00’s in Dublin but no more. On a sunny day bringing the couch out onto the front lawn to get a bit of sun with your mates.

PP Lee

Hitch hikers on country roads, I haven’t seen one since the late 90’s.

RTE ending transmission at around 11.30pm, closing out with the national anthem.

Brown clothing everywhere and people in their 30’s looking and dressing like how a 50+ year old would look now.

Penneys Y fronts being the underwear of choice for most men

The last bus out of town being at 5.50pm

Fruit and Vegetables being sold around the neighbourhood from the back of a van. The van would open up and an army of snot noses little gurriers would jump out and go door to door knocking and asking people did they want to buy anything.

The saddest thing I can remember however was pulling up a sackful of puppy bones out of the local stream

martingriff

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047729#Comment_122047729

Not been able to prerecord shows unless your VCR had the ability to input the code in the tv guide which often would not work correctly

ednwireland

driving out to get a flight to work in London at 4am and seeing guys staggering home from the night club.

OscarMIlde

During the 90's I remember at primary school everyone having to hand in the receipts from some supermarket, think it may have been Quinnsworth's, in the hope we would have enough for a computer. It seemed to go on for months, and the teachers used to quiz kids on why they didn't have receipts and would be very disapproving if it was because parents chose to shop elsewhere. I don't know I imagined this part but in my memory they needed 10,000 pounds worth of receipts to get a computer.

kowloon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122056950#Comment_122056950

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF1tWzItnvM

Those "Black & White Minstrel" tokens probably wouldn't fly today. Of course, I've always drunk Barry's because I'm not a godless savage.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122058177#Comment_122058177

Lyon’s was all I knew growing up I’m afraid - I’ve since been educated 😀