A rival topic:
For us lads born in the mid to late 60s I give you: The 70s
1. a single tv channel - open from 4.30 to 12.
2. Amrhan na bhFiann with the running waters at 12 pre-shutdown
3. Black and white tv with the white dot when she was turned off
4. 7 days and the Tiede Herema kidnap
5. The North gone mental/The Miami/too many to list
6. Peggy's Leg
7. Crisps were 2p a packet
8. Horslips
9. Corporal punishment in schools (I got slogged with a tinwhistle once)
10. The Cigaire
11. The Missions coming ("You'll burn in hell")
12. Petrol shortages/Sheik Yamani
13. Long greasy hair
14. Kerry Dublin
15. The Spike
16. The Pope in Dublin - I was bollixed after my trip to the Phoenix Park
17. People said the rosary
18. Got 5p on mineral bottles
19. Awful teeth
20. Corpus Christie processions
I could add more - feel free to elaborate. I reckon only O'Neill, Fearon, Billys Boots, Hardy and Laureleye could possibly feel the same.
Hand me down clothes (Trousers had to be 6 inches up your leg before you moved them on)
Fashion didn't exist until you were 13
Teachers sending kids to the shop for staff room bickies
Space invaders
Quote from: theskull1 on November 24, 2007, 12:24:45 AM
Hand me down clothes (Trousers had to be 6 inches up your leg before you moved them on)
Fashion didn't exist until you were 13
Teachers sending kids to the shop for staff room bickies
Space invaders
That sounds familiar. Sure you aren't getting mixed up with the 80s? ;)
Maybe in the South/East Sperrins Ziggy...god luv yus
By then we'd moved on to our own duds, chocolate digestives and Asteroids where I was at anyway :)
Bay city roller trousers
Hillman avengers
Talbot sunbeams
Vauxhall Magnums
9 foot fibreglass aerials
Kerryman jokes
Platform shoes
wedges
Boot boys in Doc Martins
leather brogues with steel heel tips
Flares and parallels
The Deerhunter
The Godfather
The Exorcist
Jaws
C.B radio's
The Towering inferno
R.S 2000's
Ford Anglia's
Removable cogs on the Gola football boots
Adidas Rom's
The Ham Fair in Claremorris..Andy Creighton would stick a ham in his window and there would be bar extensions for the week.
Mayo not winning a Connaught title
The Boomtown Rats, Sex Pistols, The Clash, U2, The Undertones
Bank robberies everyday, it was like the wild west in some areas.
Using your neighbours phone as most people could not afford one.
Jack Lynch, Liam Cosgrave and the country starting to go to shit...
Quicksilver with Bunny Carr and the 2 penny questions
Super Leeds United
Man United going down to division 2
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on November 24, 2007, 12:03:27 AM
A rival topic:
For us lads born in the mid to late 60s I give you: The 70s
1. a single tv channel - open from 4.30 to 12.
2. Amrhan na bhFiann with the running waters at 12 pre-shutdown
3. Black and white tv with the white dot when she was turned off
4. 7 days and the Tiede Herema kidnap
5. The North gone mental/The Miami/too many to list
6. Peggy's Leg
7. Crisps were 2p a packet
8. Horslips
9. Corporal punishment in schools (I got slogged with a tinwhistle once)
10. The Cigaire
11. The Missions coming ("You'll burn in hell")
12. Petrol shortages/Sheik Yamani
13. Long greasy hair
14. Kerry Dublin
15. The Spike
16. The Pope in Dublin - I was bollixed after my trip to the Phoenix Park
17. People said the rosary
18. Got 5p on mineral bottles
19. Awful teeth
20. Corpus Christie processions
I could add more - feel free to elaborate. I reckon only O'Neill, Fearon, Billys Boots, Hardy and Laureleye could possibly feel the same.
Some great stuff there SS, jaysus we're getting old :'(
The 4 of us having to take turns at answering the phone when we first got her in :D
Grease - the movie
Star Wars
Pong
Yard Darts - Now Illegal
8 track tapes disappearing for cassettes
beta vision video player
first remote control tv- now the parents didnt have to tell me to turn the channel for them
looking at a Playboy magazine ;D
hot wheels race track
microwave - "dont stand to close it could do something to ya"
Happy Days
Archie Bunker- All in the Family
Tuna Casarole(sp) still cant stand it
Martin O'Neill hitting the big time at Forest and then winning the European Cup Final
Watching from the bedroom window as bombs went off
The brothers and sisters heading off to the dances in the Marian Hall
The AIF on BBC 2, providing the preliminary round of some non-descript cricket cup in England finished on time.
Curly Wurlys
Texan bars
The Beano and Dandy
Shoot
Scoop (shite compared to Shoot as it was full of all kinds of crap)
Ipswich beat WBA 7-0
Ipswich beat a Brady/Irish-inspired Arsenal 1-0 to win the FA cup
Ipswich nearly won the league...again
Arsenal beating United in the '79 FA Cup final (what a game)
Santa existed
Halloween parties
Austin Allegros (one of the worst ever cars...a total heap of shite if ever there was one)
Hillman Avengers (pre-Iranian production days)
The demise of the Morris Oxford
The excitement of the Holy Father coming to Ireland...and the sadness that he couldn't visit the whole of the country because of threats
Playing on Glen Maghera's auld pitch with the cowshite everywhere...ditto, Swatragh's pitch (sheep shite)
Following Kilrea Rovers FC in the Coleraine and District League.
Kilrea GFC opening its new pitch.
Oops...
that should have been Hillman Hunters, not Avengers
Vauxhall Chevette hatchbacks
VW Polos and Derbys
Getting introduced to hurling.
The parcels coming from America and the asteroids video game
Charles Mitchell reading the news
ESB strikes
CIE strikes
Bank strikes
P&T strikes
5 years waiting for a phone - then it's a operator only one
Using sterling as legal currency Dine Site
Pubs closing when the Dubs went on tour in the league
Radio Luxembourg
£30 to join a 10 tape video library
Betamax videos
H&E magazine :o
Sweet Afton and Players No 6 cigarettes
Double Diamond beer
4F pub grub (i.e. oxtail soup)
Oxtail soup
The decade that taste forgot but they were great crack to live through all the same..
Deputy Dawg.
Paralells halfway up yer leg.
Mk. 3 Cortinas.
Brits searching your schoolbag.
Slade.
Laker Airways.
Pubs closing in the afternoons.
Baader Mienhoff.
Respect for priests.
The Sweeney.
Monkey Boots.
Gilbert jumpers.
Spanish Gold.
Veitnam.
3 T.V. channels.
Nightly gun battles and my wee Granny hiding in 'cubby hole'.
Vauxhall Victors and Vivas.
Ulster Workers (ie. UDA ) Strike. No lecky or gas, cooking on open fires in the street.
Brit curfews.
The birth of Punk, a personal highlight..
ELO
Slade
T Rex
Magpie (TV Show)
Why Don't You
Swap Shop
Top of the Pops - 7.20 - Thursday Evening
New Top 40 announced on Tuesday lunch time
U.F.O. - Ed Bishop
The Big Match
Malcom Allison
Burnley in 1st Division
British Championship
Wonderful wonderful World Cups
Great South American footballers who you didn't know
West Indies in cricket
Kerry Packer
Tony Greig
Texan Bars
Nutty Bars
Pirri Crisps
Quenchers
Frosties
Space Dust (allegedly killed dozens of people in Japan - don't try it)
Troubles
Army saracens with desert camouflage
Army helicopter pilots that flew like maniacs over built up areas
Electricity Board
Civil Rights
flares
Bay City Roller trousers
Bay City Rollers
Snow in the winter
Doc Martens
Striker footballs
Captain footballs
Choppers
Chopper Sprints
Nightmare journies to Dublin, through Drogheda and Dundalk
No need for seatbelts
Subbutteo
FA Cup was great, including replay after replay after replay
Winter of discontent
Sundays that were dead
Jim'll Fix It
Haps win Grange Tournament
SPANGLES, but not the ones that were the same colour as a dose of the scour
:D :D :D
ah jaysus MacHinery you nailed it. What flavour were them brown putrid things supposed to be anyway?
Hi Karate aftershave...be careful how you use it...
"this man is on the scent...of the Cookstown sizzle", then he goes into the kitchen and there's the daughter grinning as she shoves a big sausage into her gub...bit suggestive I reckon. That would explain alot of things about Tyrone wans
The Ballynure Grousebeaters and McEwans Lager...sum han'lin
Dickie Davies
Doug Mountjoy
Alex Higgins
Mary Peters
Ford Zephyrs
£1 got 2 gallons of fuel...
Quote from: Aerlik on November 24, 2007, 02:58:52 PM
"this man is on the scent...of the Cookstown sizzle", then he goes into the kitchen and there's the daughter grinning as she shoves a big sausage into her gub...bit suggestive I reckon. That would explain alot of things about Tyrone wans
Was that not the reason you were put on a boat to Australia? :P
Quote from: Aerlik on November 24, 2007, 02:58:52 PM
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Hi Karate aftershave...be careful how you use it...
Jez you cannot forget the smell of Brut aftershave everywhere at the weekend.
Mart day in the town and every farmer in the pub afterwards loaded and then proceding to drive the tractor home.
I regularly wear brut - I loved it as a kid because my granda wore it - now Im back at it again.
Quote from: Puckoon on November 24, 2007, 03:48:13 PM
I regularly wear brut - I loved it as a kid because my granda wore it - now Im back at it again.
Why not just wear Old Spice, same bad smell different bottle :D
Long hot summers
Charlies Angels
Starsky and Hutch
The Incredible Hulk
De Valera's Funeral
Getting a day off cos President Childers popped his clogs
The voting page in the paper for the Eurovision
Colm CT Wilkinson
The Irish Press if you were a FF voter, the Indo if you were FG
No PDs, No Greens
No heat in the school in the winter
Cowjack on Mart and Market
Hoola Hoops (the yoke for the waist, not the snack)
Horse drawn caravans in West Cork
The Whiddy Island explosion
Concrete Cooney and Frank Stagg
The 1977 General election - £5 car tax
Wavin hurls
The eleven plus
Elvis songs
Cliff Richard songs
England getting beat in every major football tournament
Paisley spouting off on TV
Match of the Day on a Saturday night
Question of sport
AAH those were the days!!!!!
Quote from: DrinkingHarp on November 24, 2007, 09:47:29 PM
Quote from: Puckoon on November 24, 2007, 03:48:13 PM
I regularly wear brut - I loved it as a kid because my granda wore it - now Im back at it again.
Why not just wear Old Spice, same bad smell different bottle :D
Maybe im strange - I dont think it smells that bad. That or old spice! Clean and crisp. Cheap as chips too.
QuoteChoppers
had a grifter myself
This is like that Billy Joel song when he lists everything as he grew up... we didn't light the fire.!
Now then..
Tomahawk and Chopper Bikes..
Cadet Cola adverts on Tv
Wearing Sunday Best to Mass - ie shirt and elasticated tie
Cartoons on RTE from Poland and Czechslovakia
Cap guns
Everybody smoking..
Priests visiting the house
Rusty cars
The Brady Bunch
The Beverley HillbilliES
Knitting
PS - Grifters and all forms of video games were all 1980s
Ivor the engine - pissshtakoomp, pissshtakoomp, pissshtakoomp
Captain Pugwash with Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy
Sir Lancelot
The Magic Roundabout with Dylan and Ermitrude, Florence, Dougal and Zebedee
Hector's House
Crystal Tips and Alistair
Hartley Hare (effing hated that damned hare)
The Bionic Man (if it hasn't been mentioned before)
Valley Of The Dinosaurs
The Banana bunch...altogether now...na na naaa, nanee na na, na na naa na nanee na na
Swap Shop (I've a soccer ball and I want to swap it for a motorbike...)
The Generation Game, nice to see you, to see you nice...And Anthea Turner. Now we're talkin.
It's A Knockout
European It's A Knockout
Ron Ely as Tarzan on Sunday afternoons
The Welsh rugby team.
Ha, resurrected this thread from 10 years ago to post this. If you're my age it'll all make sense otherwise it won't :)
https://youtu.be/HeEWtNaW6KE
Quote from: Boycey on December 07, 2017, 09:32:13 PM
Ha, resurrected this thread from 10 years ago to post this. If you're my age it'll all make sense otherwise it won't :)
https://youtu.be/HeEWtNaW6KE
Brilliant... some memories there.
Quote from: cville on November 25, 2007, 06:43:06 PM
This is like that Billy Joel song when he lists everything as he grew up... we didn't light the fire.!
Now then..
Tomahawk and Chopper Bikes..
Cadet Cola adverts on Tv
Wearing Sunday Best to Mass - ie shirt and elasticated tie
Cartoons on RTE from Poland and Czechslovakia
Cap guns
Everybody smoking..
Priests visiting the house
Rusty cars
The Brady Bunch
The Beverley HillbilliES
Knitting
PS - Grifters and all forms of video games were all 1980s
Did anyone else try to sing the list to billy joel. Just me?!
Jeysus some memories brought back there, did anyone ever work out one of the clues on 321, loved bullseye too!!
Raleigh Choppers
Long hot summers
Holidays in Bray
LPs
Bank holiday trips to Warrenpoint
Chokes and flooded engines
Roller skate discos
Quote from: theskull1 on November 24, 2007, 12:24:45 AM
Hand me down clothes (Trousers had to be 6 inches up your leg before you moved them on)
Fashion didn't exist until you were 13
Teachers sending kids to the shop for staff room bickies
Space invaders
When I was in P3, I went home for my lunch every day. The teacher got me to bring her back 20 Embassy Regal cigarettes from the local shop. 26 pence a packet.
I used to be sent over the road to the newsagent across from our National School, for an Old Holburn tobacco pouch. Our teacher used to roll his own. He'd give me a penny change and tell me not to spend it all in the one shop.
Quote from: cville on November 25, 2007, 06:43:06 PM
This is like that Billy Joel song when he lists everything as he grew up... we didn't light the fire.!
Now then..
Tomahawk and Chopper Bikes..
Cadet Cola adverts on Tv
Wearing Sunday Best to Mass - ie shirt and elasticated tie
Cartoons on RTE from Poland and Czechslovakia
Cap guns
Everybody smoking..
Priests visiting the house
Rusty cars
The Brady Bunch
The Beverley HillbilliES
Knitting
PS - Grifters and all forms of video games were all 1980s
I used to love the magic Pencil
RTE not coming on until 5 and then having one hour of childerns programs so if you didnt like that one . no TV that day i still remeber the disappointment when youd hear Seame street was over for the summer and the 'Electric Company ' was replacing it or when disney was coming on and you hope for a cartoon but instead you get a program about a stupid bear hibernating for the winter , Ive hated Wildlife ever since
After I got home back from school, watching Star Trek reruns on RTE.
Halls Pictorial Weekly.
Adjusting the tv aerial in the hope of a better reception.
And nordies had it tough
(http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/a55584b277a343829e5616f4f21da7c3/slum-housing-in-donegal-place-londonderry-13th-july-1968-pictured-et4ked.jpg)
Invisible ink
xray glasses
Hospital passes
V long masses
Angel Delight
Ford Capri
Press Button A
Flares
Saturday afternoon gun battles.
Quote from: Orior on December 08, 2017, 12:28:43 AM
Raleigh Choppers
Long hot summers
Holidays in Bray
LPs
Bank holiday trips to Warrenpoint
Chokes and flooded engines
Roller skate discos
I feel for you. Spend a couple of hours there in summer. What a shithole. Can't imagine what it was like back in the 70's!
Gloves tied with string which passed through your coat sleeves.
8 track tapes
fibre glass car aeriels
club carnivals
swing boats
Boxing at sports days
Fighting with siblings to get the turkey wishbone. Cannot remember what I wished for.