Things that make you go What the F**k?

[Hoof Hearted]

Some craic reading this
I didn't do the student life and sometimes I think I missed out but I'm not so sure !!

[Milltown Row2]

Some craic reading this
I didn't do the student life and sometimes I think I missed out but I'm not so sure !!

I didn't do the student life, I worked and partied in the Holylands most nights. As the lads were saying they were a complete tip, falling asleep was a hazardous and came with a health warning, the country lads were unreal, let off the lead and partied hard.

Its funny bumping into these lads 30 years down the road, business men, high up in the Civil service or teachers and while they would maybe struggle to remember me I always have a chuckle at them now and what they got up to. Its a great thing we didn't have social media back in the day or phones!

[Franko]

Some craic reading this
I didn't do the student life and sometimes I think I missed out but I'm not so sure !!

I didn't do the student life, I worked and partied in the Holylands most nights. As the lads were saying they were a complete tip, falling asleep was a hazardous and came with a health warning, the country lads were unreal, let off the lead and partied hard.

Its funny bumping into these lads 30 years down the road, business men, high up in the Civil service or teachers and while they would maybe struggle to remember me I always have a chuckle at them now and what they got up to. Its a great thing we didn't have social media back in the day or phones!

Amen to that! 

[johnnycool]

Thankfully we never stayed in any real dungeons. Halls in 1st year then Stranmillis and Holylands after that. The worst I ever was in was on Tate's Avenue that lads in the class were in. The tank in the loft flooded over Xmas and when they can came it was soaked, all the plaster came off the walls and the house looked like it was ready for demolition. The landlord refused to fix it as he blamed them. It wasn't fit for human habitation. We used to sit drinking in their living room dressed for outdoors and they eventually burnt the mantlepiece and stair rods and banister in the fire to keep warm.

They weren't from Ballycastle by any chance? 

[johnnycool]

Some craic reading this
I didn't do the student life and sometimes I think I missed out but I'm not so sure !!

great craic alright, but as an asthmatic I ended up with loads of chest infections and pleurisy at one point.

Also fucked a landlord out of a house in Jesus street as he'd refused to fix the damp in the gable house we were in so we stopped paying the rent and he came on a big heavy handed with one of the other lads in the house as I walked through the door.

He threatened me with the law as he was going backwards at a rate of noughts through the same front door and it wasn't exactly a clean exit.

[Hoof Hearted]

Some craic reading this
I didn't do the student life and sometimes I think I missed out but I'm not so sure !!

great craic alright, but as an asthmatic I ended up with loads of chest infections and pleurisy at one point.

Also fucked a landlord out of a house in Jesus street as he'd refused to fix the damp in the gable house we were in so we stopped paying the rent and he came on a big heavy handed with one of the other lads in the house as I walked through the door.

He threatened me with the law as he was going backwards at a rate of noughts through the same front door and it wasn't exactly a clean exit.

Class 

[GetOverTheBar]

Ah the landlords were great men for the law until the Belfast Council and Spotlight came round one year with the cameras and the measuring tape, Declan Boyle was nailed over a load of conversions, so much so he actually entered politics shortly after if I remember correctly.

[johnnycool]

Ah the landlords were great men for the law until the Belfast Council and Spotlight came round one year with the cameras and the measuring tape, Declan Boyle was nailed over a load of conversions, so much so he actually entered politics shortly after if I remember correctly.

Thought he'd left the SDLP although the brother is still hanging in there!

[tbrick18]

Some craic reading this
I didn't do the student life and sometimes I think I missed out but I'm not so sure !!

I didn't do the student life, I worked and partied in the Holylands most nights. As the lads were saying they were a complete tip, falling asleep was a hazardous and came with a health warning, the country lads were unreal, let off the lead and partied hard.

Its funny bumping into these lads 30 years down the road, business men, high up in the Civil service or teachers and while they would maybe struggle to remember me I always have a chuckle at them now and what they got up to. Its a great thing we didn't have social media back in the day or phones!

Yep!
God forbid the things our kids would find out about us if there was.
You have to feel sorry for the younger ones now who will never really have that sense of privacy again. I mean, how could they keep a girl at home for the weekends and one at uni during the week without being caught out on social media?
The world is couped.

[Tony Baloney]

Thankfully we never stayed in any real dungeons. Halls in 1st year then Stranmillis and Holylands after that. The worst I ever was in was on Tate's Avenue that lads in the class were in. The tank in the loft flooded over Xmas and when they can came it was soaked, all the plaster came off the walls and the house looked like it was ready for demolition. The landlord refused to fix it as he blamed them. It wasn't fit for human habitation. We used to sit drinking in their living room dressed for outdoors and they eventually burnt the mantlepiece and stair rods and banister in the fire to keep warm.

They weren't from Ballycastle by any chance? 

It was a gatherup house full of Prods but safe to say there wasn't much church going out of them! Youll have to name names on these Ballycastle hallions.

[TabClear]

Thankfully we never stayed in any real dungeons. Halls in 1st year then Stranmillis and Holylands after that. The worst I ever was in was on Tate's Avenue that lads in the class were in. The tank in the loft flooded over Xmas and when they can came it was soaked, all the plaster came off the walls and the house looked like it was ready for demolition. The landlord refused to fix it as he blamed them. It wasn't fit for human habitation. We used to sit drinking in their living room dressed for outdoors and they eventually burnt the mantlepiece and stair rods and banister in the fire to keep warm.

They weren't from Ballycastle by any chance? 

It was a gatherup house full of Prods but safe to say there wasn't much church going out of them! Youll have to name names on these Ballycastle hallions.

I'm feeling nostalgic for the Mucksavages thread (may it RIP). 

Anyone know how long ago that it was accessible? One of the Board's all time highlights in my time on here. In those days the Board was blocked by my employers firewall, mobile phones were either too fiddly or slow to upload (or crippling from a data perspective) so it used to be home from work and straight onto the laptop to see what gems had been added.

[Never beat the deeler]

Thankfully we never stayed in any real dungeons. Halls in 1st year then Stranmillis and Holylands after that. The worst I ever was in was on Tate's Avenue that lads in the class were in. The tank in the loft flooded over Xmas and when they can came it was soaked, all the plaster came off the walls and the house looked like it was ready for demolition. The landlord refused to fix it as he blamed them. It wasn't fit for human habitation. We used to sit drinking in their living room dressed for outdoors and they eventually burnt the mantlepiece and stair rods and banister in the fire to keep warm.

They weren't from Ballycastle by any chance? 

It was a gatherup house full of Prods but safe to say there wasn't much church going out of them! Youll have to name names on these Ballycastle hallions.

I'm feeling nostalgic for the Mucksavages thread (may it RIP). 

Anyone know how long ago that it was accessible? One of the Board's all time highlights in my time on here. In those days the Board was blocked by my employers firewall, mobile phones were either too fiddly or slow to upload (or crippling from a data perspective) so it used to be home from work and straight onto the laptop to see what gems had been added.

This was linked here a few years ago

https://takkischitt.com/stuff/eejits/mucksavages/mucksavages.pdf

[brokencrossbar1]

Reading through that last few pages really brings me back to the shit holes that I lived in/stayed in on nights out back in the day. Did the Halls the first year, stayed in Shaftesbury, the woman at the time stayed in one of the towers. Jeez they were some mess!

When I got my long trousers and moved to a house we did Wellesley Ave and then Wolsley Street. It may as well have been South Armagh, East Tyrone and South Derry with the wee posh Down f**kers sprinkled around. On Wolsley street there were 3 houses from Cross and surrounding area, 2 from Tyrone and 1 Down. I remember one night the Tyrone house went on fire....some craic! 

The free for all in 'Shaws, always a f**king queue but Tommy on the door let us in if we bunked it!  Place full of jersey huggers and hallions. Some nights drinking with Bellaghy and Errigal Ciaran boys after Ulster championship games!  Then down to Hatfield for out of date beers at half price on Carry out at 3am

[Tony Baloney]

You wouldn't have kept a Jack Russell in some of the kips on Wellesley Ave.

[brokencrossbar1]

You wouldn't have kept a Jack Russell in some of the kips on Wellesley Ave.

We were actually really lucky. Right down the Lisburn road end beside the 4 in Hand....was a grand spot. Used to play 45 with a few old boys in the pub until one of the lads landed in with his gear bag....was 'advised' not to come back