Old fellas on ancient black bikes cycling around the country.
Old lads bringing their milk to the Creamery with a donkey and cart.
Steam trains.
Cavan winning Ulsters and All Ireland's.....
Juice lorries delivering round houses.
Being at a concert and everyone living for the moment instead of filming it.
When beating Derry actually made your week, nay... it made your summer.
Parish Bazaars.
Man marking.
People having a centrist political view instead of everything being extreme left/right!
Old fellas pulling up a chair and sitting outside the house on the street just to chat to anyone that came by.
Quote from: RedHand88 on March 30, 2019, 07:25:44 PM
Juice lorries delivering round houses.
Being at a concert and everyone living for the moment instead of filming it.
When beating Derry actually made your week, nay... it made your summer.
Parish Bazaars.
Man marking.
People having a centrist political view instead of everything being extreme left/right!
Is this the same as the minerl men?
TV closedown
Money back bottles
Straight knockout championship
White dogshit
Watching big games on grassy banks (still exists in Louth and Meath).
Lads selling runny ice cream tubs and getting in the way just as the ball arrives in the square.
Full Churches.
Offaly giving all the small Counties hope.
Crepe hats in the rain in Croke Park
5% interest
Sports programmes that lasted Saturday afternoon on RTÉ/BBC and covered everything
When the top English soccer division only had UK and Irish players
waiting for the breadman to arrive !!
Heading out to the telephone box to ring someone.
Similarly, waiting around because someone couldn't ring you on the mobile to tell you they were going to be late.
Quote from: Jim Bob on March 31, 2019, 01:24:25 PM
waiting for the breadman to arrive !!
Good call.
But remember the Peppa Pig thread. Should it not be breadperson? ;D
GAA paper hats
Car starting handles.
Saturday afternoon gun battles.
Quote from: Jim Bob on March 31, 2019, 01:24:25 PM
waiting for the breadman to arrive !!
And the big long drawers full of cakes and buns. My dad was one of the last retail breadmen. I covered for him when he was on holidays.
Quote from: armaghniac on March 31, 2019, 03:55:52 PM
GAA paper hats
Car starting handles.
Saturday afternoon gun battles.
Jasus what age are you?
Watching or listening to a broadcast at a very specific time of the week to find out who is Number 1 in the music charts.
Swimmin in Lough Neagh
Going over the village to a neighbour's house at a specific time of week to receive a phone call from overseas
15 amp plugs
Lace-up footballs.
Cars with 4 forward gears & manual chokes
Meath never being bet until the game is over.
Quote from: armaghniac on April 01, 2019, 01:17:01 AM
15 amp plugs
With round pins!
I remember the Breadman who would have been the worse for wear on a Saturday afternoon ;) if he'd called into a few hostelies on his round.
Also the Braid and Maine lemonade carts called on a Saturday afternoon with the big glass bottles you got money back on the following week.
Remember the glass milk bottles in the blue crates and the cream sitting on the top of them. We needed to put a bit of ply wood on the top of ours to stop the birds pecking holes in the silver lids.
10 p money back on glass mineral bottles. There was an old boy who owned our local shop and if he was in it on his own we used to sneak the bottles that we had already got 10p back on and re-present them and get double our money!!!
RTE having a live old first division game on a Saturday.
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 01, 2019, 11:25:22 AM
10 p money back on glass mineral bottles. There was an old boy who owned our local shop and if he was in it on his own we used to sneak the bottles that we had already got 10p back on and re-present them and get double our money!!!
My youngest brother was called 'Boccles' because he went into the factory next door every day looking for bottles to get the money back on. :) :)
It was his sole source of income for years.
The old Sunday Game theme.
Cornerboys/men.
Quote from: BennyCake on April 01, 2019, 11:33:50 AM
The old Sunday Game theme.
I was at a game last sunday where the boy beside me had that as a ring tone. Hadn't heard it in years.
Orange foil paper on the Luzocade bottles.
Sweety cigarettes.
Not this candy sticks bollix.
Chopper bicycle
Men wearing trouser braces
Digging peat with a spade
Bottles of Guinness
Mothers pride bread
Racist Strawberry jam
Going on the Wren on St Stephens Day
Honda 50s
RTE 1 the only channel available
Watching Top of the Pops on a Thursday evening to see which song was number 1
People giving up drink for the Holy Souls
Dempsey's Den
Quote from: whitey on April 01, 2019, 04:37:03 PM
Going on the Wren on St Stephens Day
Honda 50s
RTE 1 the only channel available
Watching Top of the Pops on a Thursday evening to see which song was number 1
People giving up drink for the Holy Souls
How true but sponsored Honda 50 runs are a big draw here on Sundays.
Tele boys selling the Belfast Telegraph on the street shouting "Tele!"
Great thread!
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 01, 2019, 11:25:22 AM
10 p money back on glass mineral bottles. There was an old boy who owned our local shop and if he was in it on his own we used to sneak the bottles that we had already got 10p back on and re-present them and get double our money!!!
Mineral bottles with the glass a bit scuffed on the outside because they've been re-used so many times.
Everybody coming into school talking about a great film they'd seen on TV the night before.
Being all excited about the TV line-up over Christmas because you'd get to see good films.
Getting the Guinness Book of Records for Christmas
Having to go to the library and look up encyclopedia Brittanica in order to research a topic
Not wearing seatbelts in cars....front or back
1st years being allowed to smoke on school property
Going on a package holiday and having no idea what the hotel was going to be like or look like.
Parents investing in the set of 24 'World Books' for the youngsters' education
Listening to the match on the wireless
Quote from: north_antrim_hound on April 01, 2019, 01:02:22 PM
Chopper bicycle
Chopper, Grifter, Burner ... kids getting excited about any brand of recreational kid-specific bicycle that becomes the must-have fashion item.
the wrestling at 4 o clock on a saturday
Making hay and the curlew.
MacGyver
The A-Team
Ah those were the days!
Quote from: BennyCake on April 02, 2019, 09:17:32 PM
MacGyver
The A-Team
Ah those were the days!
Yup, TV shows like The Fall Guy, Knight Rider, etc.. Glen A Larson produced some great work.
Fully operational cow tail pumps for water and not ornamental display
Old cow milk churns set out at the road for collection and nobody touched them
Austin cars ( in fairness pure junk)
Hillman Hunters.
6d bits.
Brits casually walking up through your garden/road/street
Quote from: armaghniac on April 03, 2019, 09:15:24 AM
Hillman Hunters.
6d bits.
Learned how to drive in one of these. In a barley field that had just been cut. Took out a few stooks of bales in the process.
Quote from: Jim Bob on April 01, 2019, 06:57:09 PM
Parents investing in the set of 24 'World Books' for the youngsters' education
Mammy BC used to sell these in the evenings along with the Child Craft books. I still have a few of them about the....we had the premium set...many a school project was completed off the back of them!
Quote from: general_lee on April 03, 2019, 09:42:42 AM
Brits casually walking up through your garden/road/street
Or helicopters casually landing in the field next to the school! Never forget the day a Chinook landed in the school yard, was only in P1. The whop whop of the twin blades was deafening!!!
Quote from: general_lee on April 03, 2019, 09:42:42 AM
Brits casually walking up through your garden/road/street..drinking your milk!!!
Many a time as a kid opening the door and a Brit sitting in your front garden / yard. Walking past him..ahh mornin..
Finding out what kind of eejit you made of yourself on a Saturday night down the back of 12.30 Mass of a Sunday :-[ much preferable to the current young ones finding out on social media ;D
Community Water Pumps, now just folksy decorations for Tidy Towns, but I remember having to go to one when staying in my grannies to get buckets of water every day.
Outside toilets.
Quote from: Sportacus on April 02, 2019, 09:02:48 PM
Making hay and the curlew.
Haven't heard the curlew since the 80s. Apparently skylarks, who you'd hear every day above the meadows and bogs, are getting scarce too.
Irish countryside is being fucked by modern farming practices.
Pump screwdrivers, a bastard of an invention.
Quote from: pbat on April 01, 2019, 11:27:59 AM
RTE having a live old first division game on a Saturday.
Checking teletext for the other results.
Quote from: Farrandeelin on April 04, 2019, 07:35:17 AM
Quote from: pbat on April 01, 2019, 11:27:59 AM
RTE having a live old first division game on a Saturday.
Checking teletext for the other results.
Watching a game 'live' on Aertel
Glass bottle of multi-vitamins with a ball of cotton wool set in to keep them fresh
Mobile homes in fields around the countryside for people who were saving money to build a house
Adoption
Young and middle aged nuns
Quote from: BennyCake on April 02, 2019, 09:17:32 PM
MacGyver
The A-Team
Ah those were the days!
The Dukes of Hazard :)
Quote from: GetOverTheBar on April 04, 2019, 10:40:10 AM
Quote from: BennyCake on April 02, 2019, 09:17:32 PM
MacGyver
The A-Team
Ah those were the days!
The Dukes of Hazard :)
Used to watch it every week to see Daisy Duke :) :)
Quote from: thebuzz on April 04, 2019, 10:58:23 AM
Quote from: GetOverTheBar on April 04, 2019, 10:40:10 AM
Quote from: BennyCake on April 02, 2019, 09:17:32 PM
MacGyver
The A-Team
Ah those were the days!
The Dukes of Hazard :)
Used to watch it every week to see Daisy Duke :) :)
Anyone remember the six million dollar man. That was a lot of money back then but it wouldn't buy a division 3 goalkeeper now.
airwolf
Quote from: north_antrim_hound on April 04, 2019, 11:56:44 AM
Quote from: thebuzz on April 04, 2019, 10:58:23 AM
Quote from: GetOverTheBar on April 04, 2019, 10:40:10 AM
Quote from: BennyCake on April 02, 2019, 09:17:32 PM
MacGyver
The A-Team
Ah those were the days!
The Dukes of Hazard :)
Used to watch it every week to see Daisy Duke :) :)
Anyone remember the six million dollar man. That was a lot of money back then but it wouldn't buy a division 3 goalkeeper now.
The Fall Guy
TJ Hooker
Buck Rogers....Beedly Beedly!
There was a sci-fi program from the late 70's early 80's and it freaked me out....it's bugging me as I can't remember it!!!
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 04, 2019, 12:29:50 PM
Quote from: north_antrim_hound on April 04, 2019, 11:56:44 AM
Quote from: thebuzz on April 04, 2019, 10:58:23 AM
Quote from: GetOverTheBar on April 04, 2019, 10:40:10 AM
Quote from: BennyCake on April 02, 2019, 09:17:32 PM
MacGyver
The A-Team
Ah those were the days!
The Dukes of Hazard :)
Used to watch it every week to see Daisy Duke :) :)
Anyone remember the six million dollar man. That was a lot of money back then but it wouldn't buy a division 3 goalkeeper now.
The Fall Guy
TJ Hooker
Buck Rogers....Beedly Beedly!
There was a sci-fi program from the late 70's early 80's and it freaked me out....it's bugging me as I can't remember it!!!
Give us a clue was it the "twilight zone"
You could have any cheese you wanted as long as it was cheddar
Quote from: north_antrim_hound on April 04, 2019, 12:37:49 PM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 04, 2019, 12:29:50 PM
Quote from: north_antrim_hound on April 04, 2019, 11:56:44 AM
Quote from: thebuzz on April 04, 2019, 10:58:23 AM
Quote from: GetOverTheBar on April 04, 2019, 10:40:10 AM
Quote from: BennyCake on April 02, 2019, 09:17:32 PM
MacGyver
The A-Team
Ah those were the days!
The Dukes of Hazard :)
Used to watch it every week to see Daisy Duke :) :)
Anyone remember the six million dollar man. That was a lot of money back then but it wouldn't buy a division 3 goalkeeper now.
The Fall Guy
TJ Hooker
Buck Rogers....Beedly Beedly!
There was a sci-fi program from the late 70's early 80's and it freaked me out....it's bugging me as I can't remember it!!!
Give us a clue was it the "twilight zone"
Blake 7....that was it....Tales of the Unexpected was one that freaked me too!
Quote from: seafoid on April 04, 2019, 12:43:43 PM
You could have any cheese you wanted as long as it was cheddar
Unfortunately I was plagued with the old Dairylea Triangles in the school lunchbox.
Bad times.
Sportsnight on BBC, to watch the midweek Premier League games.
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 04, 2019, 12:58:36 PM
Quote from: north_antrim_hound on April 04, 2019, 12:37:49 PM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 04, 2019, 12:29:50 PM
Quote from: north_antrim_hound on April 04, 2019, 11:56:44 AM
Quote from: thebuzz on April 04, 2019, 10:58:23 AM
Quote from: GetOverTheBar on April 04, 2019, 10:40:10 AM
Quote from: BennyCake on April 02, 2019, 09:17:32 PM
MacGyver
The A-Team
Ah those were the days!
The Dukes of Hazard :)
Used to watch it every week to see Daisy Duke :) :)
Anyone remember the six million dollar man. That was a lot of money back then but it wouldn't buy a division 3 goalkeeper now.
The Fall Guy
TJ Hooker
Buck Rogers....Beedly Beedly!
There was a sci-fi program from the late 70's early 80's and it freaked me out....it's bugging me as I can't remember it!!!
Give us a clue was it the "twilight zone"
Blake 7....that was it....Tales of the Unexpected was one that freaked me too!
Thunderbirds reruns freaked me out altogether as did the opening music of Tales of the Unexpected, still sends a chill down the spine.
Worzel Gummidge
Cremola Foam
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 04, 2019, 12:58:36 PM
Blake 7....that was it....Tales of the Unexpected was one that freaked me too!
Sure it wasn't Doctor Who? That was far more scary than Blakes 7 IMO.
But nothing scared the crap out of me more than The Boy From Space, from the educational English show Look and Read. I think it was a BBC production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIbEoGRt-Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIbEoGRt-Q)
Imagine showing that to a room of 7-year-olds. There was some screaming and crying done!
Wellworths. Stewarts. Crazy Prices.
Roll your trolley up to the till. Start stacking your groceries on the wee sheet of plywood that stuck out. The checkout girl (it was always a teenage girl gossiping with her mate at the other till) would pick each one up, look for the price tag, punch in the price, and set it down, I think on a holding area behind her till. Then you moved your stuff from that holding area into the empty trolly that was left behind in front of you. It was nearly all cash, only the big shots used a chequebook. Credit cards were called American Express and only appeared in magazine ads.
She gave you a stack of big plastic carrier bags, and you rolled the trolley over to the packing bench where you put it all in bags or into the cardboard boxes that were left underneath the bench. In the car park there would be trolleys all over the place because there was no deposit system yet, and no incentive for people to bring them back.
When the trolley deposit system started they had to pay a pair of lads to sit there for the first couple of days showing people how to use it.
Stewarts in Lurgan was the most advanced shop in the town because it had a door that opened automatically when you approached it. It was a wonder of the modern age.
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on April 04, 2019, 05:51:27 PM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 04, 2019, 12:58:36 PM
Blake 7....that was it....Tales of the Unexpected was one that freaked me too!
Sure it wasn't Doctor Who? That was far more scary than Blakes 7 IMO.
But nothing scared the crap out of me more than The Boy From Space, from the educational English show Look and Read. I think it was a BBC production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIbEoGRt-Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIbEoGRt-Q)
Imagine showing that to a room of 7-year-olds. There was some screaming and crying done!
Definitely was Blake 7. Hated Dr Who....sorry @ziggysego!!!
Agree wholeheartedly about The Boy from Space!!!
Moon base Alpha
Perrie cheese and onion
Micky Marley's roundabout
Beechnut chewing gum
Dicky Davis on sport , can't remember what that Saturday show was on ITV
Rope swings around trees or lamposts
Celtic park
Disney time
Would all key holders please return to...
Being searched going into town and shops
Getting through Castle Street without getting tapped.
Kribby
That's enought for now.
Quote from: Square Ball on April 04, 2019, 06:53:34 PM
Dicky Davis on sport , can't remember what that Saturday show was on ITV
World of Sport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkPr0bCmjE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkPr0bCmjE)
"Lets get an update on the c**k sucker......er cup soccer"
(Cant be arsed gettin the youtube clip of her)
superstars usedta love it
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 04, 2019, 06:37:02 PM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on April 04, 2019, 05:51:27 PM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 04, 2019, 12:58:36 PM
Blake 7....that was it....Tales of the Unexpected was one that freaked me too!
Sure it wasn't Doctor Who? That was far more scary than Blakes 7 IMO.
But nothing scared the crap out of me more than The Boy From Space, from the educational English show Look and Read. I think it was a BBC production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIbEoGRt-Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIbEoGRt-Q)
Imagine showing that to a room of 7-year-olds. There was some screaming and crying done!
Definitely was Blake 7. Hated Dr Who....sorry @ziggysego!!!
Agree wholeheartedly about The Boy from Space!!!
Anyone remember through the dragon's eye?? Freaked me out a bit.
I watched one of those tales of the unexpected when I was a kid. It was about someone in prison who hatched a plan to escape with the undertaker who would bury her with the dead body then dig her out. She got in with the dead body and it was the undertaker so she was buried alive. Don't think I have recovered yet from it!
Quote from: imtommygunn on April 04, 2019, 09:10:01 PM
I watched one of those tales of the unexpected when I was a kid. It was about someone in prison who hatched a plan to escape with the undertaker who would bury her with the dead body then dig her out. She got in with the dead body and it was the undertaker so she was buried alive. Don't think I have recovered yet from it!
Yeah that one was good.
Quote from: shyted on April 04, 2019, 08:52:48 PM
superstars usedta love it
Brian Jacks on the parallel bars
Quote from: Jim Bob on April 04, 2019, 11:48:43 PM
Quote from: shyted on April 04, 2019, 08:52:48 PM
superstars usedta love it
Brian Jacks on the parallel bars
Keegan coming off his bike was some craic too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDe8EsBBfm0
Was Gerry Loftus the animal pressup guy.? I think he was an army man.
Quote from: michaelg on April 05, 2019, 07:17:29 AM
Quote from: Jim Bob on April 04, 2019, 11:48:43 PM
Quote from: shyted on April 04, 2019, 08:52:48 PM
superstars usedta love it
Brian Jacks on the parallel bars
Keegan coming off his bike was some craic too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDe8EsBBfm0
You can't talk Superstars without referencing the legend....
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pZ9ZodmRwPU/maxresdefault.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZUJ_bV2eHk
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 05, 2019, 09:06:44 AM
Quote from: michaelg on April 05, 2019, 07:17:29 AM
Quote from: Jim Bob on April 04, 2019, 11:48:43 PM
Quote from: shyted on April 04, 2019, 08:52:48 PM
superstars usedta love it
Brian Jacks on the parallel bars
Keegan coming off his bike was some craic too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDe8EsBBfm0
You can't talk Superstars without referencing the legend....
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pZ9ZodmRwPU/maxresdefault.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZUJ_bV2eHk
What a ligind
Syferus lecturing everyone about what to be outraged about and how outraged to be.
Quote from: clarshack on April 04, 2019, 11:33:27 PM
Quote from: imtommygunn on April 04, 2019, 09:10:01 PM
I watched one of those tales of the unexpected when I was a kid. It was about someone in prison who hatched a plan to escape with the undertaker who would bury her with the dead body then dig her out. She got in with the dead body and it was the undertaker so she was buried alive. Don't think I have recovered yet from it!
Yeah that one was good.
Tales of the Unexpected was a real freaky show, never realised it was Roald Dahl that wrote them.
Thon boy must have been on something.
I think Irvine Welsh must have been a big fan.
Tudor Gammon and Pineapple crisps.
They were awesome.
Secret chocolate bars.
Anyone remember Manimal?
Quote from: Franko on April 05, 2019, 12:37:39 PM
Tudor Gammon and Pineapple crisps.
They were awesome.
They really were.
Never heard of manimal. Secrets were good too.
Quote from: Square Ball on April 05, 2019, 04:42:37 PM
Anyone remember Manimal?
The special effects were amazing at the time, but they haven't aged that well.
Quote from: Square Ball on April 05, 2019, 04:42:37 PM
Anyone remember Manimal?
Oh I remember that. The man who could turn into an animal
Don't think it was in for too long though
Magnum PI
When Fianna Fáil were the biggest party
And the SDLP was bigger than SF
Northern Ireland at the World Cup
Offaly winning all Irelands
Ulster county teams in all Ireland hurling semi finals.
A 10p mix-up
Knock na moe . The GAA , night out in Omagh
Wanderly wagon
Lost in space.
B&W TV (405 line)
Putting a camera up against your face when taking a picture.
I remember the first digital camera I used that had a screen. It also had an old-fashioned viewfinder. I used the old fashioned viewfinder because I felt ridiculous not holding it up to me face.