The 70's and 80's in Ireland

Samsgirl · 23-09-2018 8:44am

Pod123 wrote: »

The late late show had a quiz it wouldbe to send the answer in on a post card.no texting in the answer.
The same show carried a lot of weight with it.

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iamwhoiam · 23-09-2018 10:08am

Big adventure driving from Dublin to Cork .It took all day with a stop midway with a picnic . We passed through every town and village in Kildare and Tipperary and Cork .Through Cork city to get out onto the Western Rd and out to West Cork .

We drove to Cork last week in 2 hours 15 minutes !

Electric Sheep · 23-09-2018 10:21am

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Where were you? I used to go out 4 nights a week during the 80's and head off on weekends and plenty more did likewise. I didn't have a great paying job either, partying was a lot cheaper back then. Towns full of pubs that always were full of people, the same towns today have most of those pubs derelict or converted to something else. Drive through those towns at midnight any weekend and they look deserted compared to the 80's. Anyone that weren't fortunate enough to have a job emigrated

It certainly was **** if you wanted more from life than a pub. Anyone who had ever lived or even visited any other countries knew how completely **** it was.

up for anything · 23-09-2018 10:22am

Deusexmachina wrote: »

1972 America = 1989 Ireland

Today it's 2018 Ireland = Return to 1950s America only with a longer wall.

:D

In boarding school in 1978 waylaying a 4-5 year old walking home from school (on his own) and giving him money to go to the shop near the school to buy us cigarettes. He only charged us a 1/2p. He was a good wee chap.

Never once in the 70s being refused entry or service in pubs, dances and discos despite being 15 when I started going. Actually, I tell a lie. In 1971 when I was ten we lived near Dunmore East and my class was in a school concert taking place in the theatre in Waterford. My mother arranged to meet me and my friend in the Maryland pub after the concert as it would be too crowded around the theatre and she might miss us. Granted she used to own a boutique next door to the pub so they knew the family reasonably well. She told me to order drinks and tell the barman that she'd pay when she'd get there. I asked him for a Coke for my friend and a Babycham for me and I couldn't understand why he said he couldn't give me one and I'd have to wait till my Mum arrived. When she turned up I got my Babycham.

I didn't realise for years about the 18 law. I'd always be allowed a drink when out with my parents and Santa used to bring me a four pack each of Babycham and Snowball from when I was 12. Good times. :pac:

orangerhyme · 23-09-2018 10:34am

Wibbs wrote: »

By whose definition is this "proper" and "modern"? One only hopes we don't suffer the major downsides of that like every other European nation that has run this social experiment. Just because some guy or gal serving you in a pub may be quaint and makes us feel so progressive doesn't change that.

Hahahahahaha.... oh wait, you're serious? You do realise that international finance depends on such a cycle to make bank? If anything boom bust cycles are increasing over time. Locally? You think Irish people have learned from past mistakes? Sure, mortgages have been curtailed, but where there's a will, or daftness there's a way and home improvement loans and car financing has never been higher, all on borrowed money. Elsewhere sub prime loans by any other name are still very much in the mix. But this time is different... In the Boom™ I recall similar over confidence, and in these pages of Boards too. I recall some thread or other(IIRC in AH) where some guy was going on about how brilliant it all was and how Ireland was a great place for business and the future was bright. And I and a couple of others disagreed and suggested caution. And were rounded upon for it. The future was bright. Right before it wasn't and we had the bail out and the IMF walking almost smugly through our streets.

More wishful thinking.

And pigs might fly. Using fossil fuels to do so.

I actually admire your optimism. I really do. It's what made the old style modernism great, but there's a huge dose of natn that mix. Human nature hasn't changed one iota, certainly not in the last decade, and the mistakes we make will be just as daft, just slightly different ones. Nostalgia doesn't just run backward.

I'm not going to bother replying to this with the immature tone. Get an education and learn to counterargue properly.

Wibbs · 23-09-2018 10:41am

orangerhyme wrote: »

Get an education and learn to counterargument properly.

That "sentence" is one of the most concise packages of irony I've read in a long time. :pac:

Edgware · 23-09-2018 10:55am

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Hmm, so your standards have risen since?

He's into the more mature barmaid now like Liz McDonnell in Corrie. ( not that theres anything wrong with Leggy Liz)

branie2 · 23-09-2018 11:49am

Edgware wrote: »

He's into the more mature barmaid now like Liz McDonnell in Corrie. ( not that theres anything wrong with Leggy Liz)

Or Raquel

branie2 · 23-09-2018 11:54am

I vaguely remember it, but I was a big fan of The Incredible Hulk TV series in the 80s.

ToddyDoody · 23-09-2018 4:05pm

I was very young but remember Bullseye on a Sunday evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-f2hu4opWI

Statistically, you were more likely to kill yourself when Bullseye was on than at any other time during the week. (or at least that's what I've heard)

Edgware · 23-09-2018 5:54pm

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I was very young but remember Bullseye on a Sunday evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-f2hu4opWI

Statistically, you were more likely to kill yourself when Bullseye was on than at any other time during the week. (or at least that's what I've heard)

Stay out of the black
Stay in the red
You get nothing in this game for two in a bed.

Super prizes too
The hostess trolley
His and her toaster
The Mickley Mouse phone
and
A bendy Bully.

Plenty of Geordie Scousers and Yorkies

branie2 · 23-09-2018 11:36pm

My favourite comic in the 80s was the Dandy

Deusexmachina · 24-09-2018 7:44am

Proper bush. Seemed to go out of fashion around the turn of the century. Needs to be brought back.
Nothing more disappointing than the let down of no bush.

fryup · 24-09-2018 8:16am

Nowadays we've become better looking as a nation ...back in the day we were a dog ugly lot (men & women)...in my school of 500 + students there was probably 2/3 half decent looking girls in the whole place.

the influx of immigrants has really helped matters and long may it continue

Masala · 24-09-2018 8:37am

Who remembers eating Smash??... due to the shortage of potatoes???

And a special treat on Sundays was Angel Delight for dessert.

We never seen rice .....

Plopsu · 24-09-2018 10:37am

bodhrandude wrote: »

Prairie chocolate bars.

I don't know what the green goo in one type was but it was f*&^*ing lovely and probably not based on anything naturally occurring.

iamwhoiam · 24-09-2018 10:43am

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I was very young but remember Bullseye on a Sunday evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-f2hu4opWI

Statistically, you were more likely to kill yourself when Bullseye was on than at any other time during the week. (or at least that's what I've heard)

Would you believe its showing the old Bullseye on Challenge every evening !

Sgt Hartman · 24-09-2018 11:09am

Supergran used to be shown on a Saturday evening, I think it was on BBC1. It was a kids show about an old granny with super powers.

I think the reason Popeye was shown so often on RTE is because the Popeye character is in the public domain. This meant that anyone can show a Popeye cartoon or even come up with their own Popeye cartoon without fear of paying royalties or being sued.

I also remember a cartoon on RTE called Walter Kitty about a cat who had crazy adventures. I think it came from Canada.

Also, I remember Rolf Harris and Jim'l fix it on Saturday evenings. I shudder to think about it now but I used to love watching those 2 creeps when I was a kid

Loves_lorries · 24-09-2018 11:09am

Lots of macaroon chocolate bars after mass on Sunday.

Loves_lorries · 24-09-2018 11:11am

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Supergran used to be shown on a Saturday evening, I think it was on BBC1. It was a kids show about an old granny with super powers.

I think the reason Popeye was shown so often on RTE is because the Popeye character is in the public domain. This meant that anyone can show a Popeye cartoon or even come up with their own Popeye cartoon without fear of paying royalties or being sued.

I also remember a cartoon on RTE called Walter Kitty about a cat who had crazy adventures. I think it came from Canada.

Also, I remember Rolf Harris and Jim'l fix it on Saturday evenings. I shudder to think about it now but I used to love watching those 2 creeps when I was a kid

Loved supergran, it was on itv, Billy connolly was in it on and off, incredibly Scottish show, I'm talking rab c nesbitt stuff.

The Crowman · 24-09-2018 11:20am

some 80's memories here. Tastee Nastee, "Heavy 0n The Miracle Harry" and Birds Dream Topping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJbvoAO4GwA

Count Down · 24-09-2018 11:45am

Loves_lorries wrote: »

Loved supergran, it was on itv, Billy connolly was in it on and off, incredibly Scottish show, I'm talking rab c nesbitt stuff.

The Adventures Of Waldo Kitty - based on Walter Mitty.

Badly Drunk Boy · 24-09-2018 1:12pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

Prairie chocolate bars.

Plopsu wrote: »

I don't know what the green goo in one type was but it was f*&^*ing lovely and probably not based on anything naturally occurring.

For years, I've been trying to remember the name of a chocolate bar with green goo from when I was a kid, and I had nearly convinced myself that I imagined them. I thought they had something to do with cowboys, so that would fit in with the 'Prairie' name.

Grayson · 24-09-2018 1:21pm

Ever see SuperTed in Irish? I think it was spotty that had the deepest voice you could imagine. It was quite scary. And inspector Gadget in Irish too. I still remember the theme tune for that.

JupiterKid · 24-09-2018 1:25pm

Grayson wrote: »

Ever see SuperTed in Irish? I think it was spotty that had the deepest voice you could imagine. It was quite scary. And inspector Gadget in Irish too. I still remember the theme tune for that.

Never bothered watching the toons As Gaeilge when I could just switch over to BBC or UTV and watch them in English...

Plopsu · 24-09-2018 2:14pm

Inspector Gadget. How did they slip that title past whoever looks at these things before they go on telly?

The Crowman · 24-09-2018 5:15pm

Big Ed Loves Mona.

Grayson · 24-09-2018 5:27pm

Plopsu wrote: »

Inspector Gadget. How did they slip that title past whoever looks at these things before they go on telly?

In Mullingar, in the 80's when I was a kid, there was a take away called double d's.

bodhrandude · 24-09-2018 6:06pm

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

For years, I've been trying to remember the name of a chocolate bar with green goo from when I was a kid, and I had nearly convinced myself that I imagined them. I thought they had something to do with cowboys, so that would fit in with the 'Prairie' name.

The bar was thinner than Fry's but the same idea, the fruit centred Fry's chocolate bar would be the nearest to Prairie bar and yes you are correct it had pictures of Red Indians and cowboys on the wrapper, although I think Fry's was always a darker chocolate. The green goo you are referring to I think was lime centre, I think Two & Two bars had lime centres too.

Sgt Hartman · 24-09-2018 6:45pm

Speaking of gooey chocolate bars does anyone remember the small Masters of the Universe bars for 5p? They were molded in the shape of various He Man characters and had a gooey centre. They were disgusting however

Oversweetened cheap chocolate and that gooey centre was revolting.

JupiterKid · 24-09-2018 7:28pm

Monster Munch (which was orange back then, I was addicted to it and my mum thought it was responsible for giving me migraines as a kid).

Loop the Loop ice pops
Time bars - choc coated very hard toffee that would rip yer teeth off!
Wham bars - pink with fizzy bits
Refresher bars - lemon and sherbet delight!
Birds Ice Magic - you poured the choc sauce - mint and orange flavoured - on ice cream &it instantly hardened.
Penny sweets - fruit salads and blackjacks.

Thankfully most of the above are still on the market!

bodhrandude · 24-09-2018 7:39pm

Remembered this one from the 70s I think it was called Cracker Bar, a bit like Cadbury's Golden Crisp except thinner and instead of honeycomb it was mint.

NasserShammaz · 24-09-2018 7:46pm

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I was very young but remember Bullseye on a Sunday evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-f2hu4opWI

Statistically, you were more likely to kill yourself when Bullseye was on than at any other time during the week. (or at least that's what I've heard)

or just after if you lived on the 17th floor of a tower block in Hull and had won a Speedboat and not a Ford Fiesta:eek:

Speedsie · 24-09-2018 8:23pm

The coin operated gas geyser in the shared bathroom in my first bedsit. Shared with two others, and it was a bath, not a shower. Needed cleaning before & after use.

Late 80s Dublin.

bodhrandude · 24-09-2018 8:30pm

NasserShammaz · 24-09-2018 9:07pm

The Crowman · 24-09-2018 9:15pm

"My name is Rashers, see?"

Remember that annoying gobshyte? He's on here at the minute and a half mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3w3MVfSB2g

NewbridgeIR · 24-09-2018 9:19pm

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Supergran used to be shown on a Saturday evening, I think it was on BBC1. It was a kids show about an old granny with super powers.

Children's ITV

Tyne Tees region

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0dmY5m-Ew

username2013 · 24-09-2018 9:25pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

There was no mass on Good Friday. The service started at 3.00pm and they had the long gospel that was also done on Passion Sunday. No communion either and sometimes you would have to kiss the cross afterwards.
I remember being told it wasn't a holy day of obligation but we always went.

Yeah, church was awful at Easter. At least the mass at Christmas was at midnight and you knew you were getting presents after! But Easter, jaysus a wet miserable time of year with loads of boring masses (or church services) that went on for hours. Horrendous. I still hate Easter to this day due to all the ****e church things we had to go to.

newspower · 24-09-2018 9:30pm

Two & Two bars and Mosney......

4ensic15 · 24-09-2018 9:32pm

The 1970's saw the ending (twice) of the penny toffee.

whisky_galore · 24-09-2018 9:52pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

Never bothered watching the toons As Gaeilge when I could just switch over to BBC or UTV and watch them in English...

Lame effort by rte to get kids into Irish. Never watched them either!

whisky_galore · 24-09-2018 9:58pm

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Supergran used to be shown on a Saturday evening, I think it was on BBC1. It was a kids show about an old granny with super powers.

I think the reason Popeye was shown so often on RTE is because the Popeye character is in the public domain. This meant that anyone can show a Popeye cartoon or even come up with their own Popeye cartoon without fear of paying royalties or being sued.

I also remember a cartoon on RTE called Walter Kitty about a cat who had crazy adventures. I think it came from Canada.

Also, I remember Rolf Harris and Jim'l fix it on Saturday evenings. I shudder to think about it now but I used to love watching those 2 creeps when I was a kid

No. Popeye was still under copyright at the time. Copyright in Europe expired in 2009 and protected in the US until 2024.

Rte more likely bought them in as they were old and cheap.

branie2 · 24-09-2018 10:28pm

username2013 wrote: »

Yeah, church was awful at Easter. At least the mass at Christmas was at midnight and you knew you were getting presents after! But Easter, jaysus a wet miserable time of year with loads of boring masses (or church services) that went on for hours. Horrendous. I still hate Easter to this day due to all the ****e church things we had to go to.

You weren't looking forward to the Easter eggs 2 days later?

branie2 · 24-09-2018 10:36pm

The Medjugorje apparitions started in the early 80s, and still going strong to this day.

Purple Mountain · 24-09-2018 10:39pm

Getting my letter read out on Mail Bag by Arthur Murphy when I was circa 10 years old.
My mother was in the bathroom helping my little brother have his weekly bath before mass and I ran in shouting that my letter was read out and they were like WTF are you saying because I was hysterically excited!

Badly Drunk Boy · 24-09-2018 10:40pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Getting my letter read out on Mail Bag by Arthur Murphy when I was circa 10 years old.

What was it about?

branie2 · 24-09-2018 10:42pm

My name was read out on Anything Goes on the birthday list one day.

Mam of 4 · 24-09-2018 10:44pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

Even better when you could tap the number to ring someone when skint, not that I ever did that

Purple Mountain · 24-09-2018 10:45pm

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

What was it about?

I can't remember the specifics but it was something about a kids programme that had two hosts. It was a quiz show on the weekday afternoons.
Mary Kingston was one host and the other host was male and for some reason I think he looks like Simon Delaney but obviously it wasn't him.

The 70's and 80's in Ireland

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