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By *easingTim OP   Man
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

Listening to grown ups when I was only a young fella

I swore that I'd never, ever, ever say...

"Do you remember the time when you could..."

Well guess what????

Have that need to...

So, anyone out there who'd like to reminisce about when you could do certain things that you can't do anymore

...Sure, it's a good way to annoy the 20-something Fabbers too on a Thrsday afternoon!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Could go out, get steaming, make a dick of yourself and not have video evidence on social media the next day

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Heavy petting in the back row of the cinema

Send letters to your girlfriend as neither of you had a phone

Make a mix tape for your girlfriend

Go to a concert without every fucker talking or holding up a camera phone

Think hairy fannies were normal

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

When you could get a chomp for 10p

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By *eminexWoman
over a year ago

some where in outer space

Dance in a club cause god knows if tht will happen again !

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By *eminexWoman
over a year ago

some where in outer space

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By *eminexWoman
over a year ago

some where in outer space


"When you could get a chomp for 10p"

I'll chomp u for free

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By *easingTim OP   Man
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

Go out on a night out...

Drink your ass off and dance to some great 90's tunes Good aul Coppers and Club 92!!!!

No cameras or video on the mobiles yet...

and it was your mates word against your about what crazy sh*t you did the night before

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Calling into someone’s house without phoning/txting ahead.....seems like madness now days

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere


"

Go out on a night out...

Drink your ass off and dance to some great 90's tunes Good aul Coppers and Club 92!!!!

No cameras or video on the mobiles yet...

and it was your mates word against your about what crazy sh*t you did the night before "

What's this club 92 shit....it'll always be Blinkers with a very fecking long d*unken walk out of the place

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork


"When you could get a chomp for 10p

I'll chomp u for free"

Now there’s an offer

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By *easingTim OP   Man
over a year ago

Loughlinstown


"

Go out on a night out...

Drink your ass off and dance to some great 90's tunes Good aul Coppers and Club 92!!!!

No cameras or video on the mobiles yet...

and it was your mates word against your about what crazy sh*t you did the night before

What's this club 92 shit....it'll always be Blinkers with a very fecking long d*unken walk out of the place "

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Yeah, that was one long assed driveway!!!

Good times!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you could get a chomp for 10p"

This.. My very favourite chocolate in the whole world

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By *exysam and StuartCouple
over a year ago

over the hills and far away

When you could go to the next county without the fear of a garda checkpoint to turn you back. #sickoflockdown

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

When you could only get condoms in The students union in Trinity

When looking at porn with your mates meant passing around a copy of readers wifes with some pages stuck together

When catching crabs meant you were gone fishing

When your girlfriend getting her period was the best news every month

When front opening bra's were a game changer

When Vanilla was an Ice Cream

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By *aid backMan
over a year ago

by a lake with my rod out

When you could go out ever night get an hour or twos sleep and work all day and repeat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When a girl saying "yes" to a dance actually meant "please stick your fingers in me big boy"

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork


"When you could get a chomp for 10p

This.. My very favourite chocolate in the whole world "

So , chomps and packs of tayto. I’m taking notes here.

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By *tevecabra7Man
over a year ago

cabra

When bumble bees where 20 pound in the 90s and went out every fri sat and sunday to the system night club or grouchos night club

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By *he English OneMan
over a year ago

west

As shocking as it sounds I used to be able to do a backflip

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford

When I could eat and drink whatever I wanted and still didn't have an ounce of fat on me

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By *andyrackkyMan
over a year ago

South

When Taz bars, fat frogs and postman pats were a real thing

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By *ireannCplCouple
over a year ago

Suburbs


"When you could go out ever night get an hour or twos sleep and work all day and repeat."

Absolutely this.. Gone are the days. A hangover now is as long as a week ...lol

EireCpl

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Could go out, get steaming, make a dick of yourself and not have video evidence on social media the next day"

This right here! My days of going out are usually grand, but so many of my mates always have a phone in hand , ready to record when I'm in the midst of a d*unk singalong

Quite annoying lol

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By *ineapple_PrincessWoman
over a year ago

in the waves

When you could meet someone in town for a just a drink, not having to plan every last detail and book a table/eat a meal.

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By *sLittleRedRidingHoodWoman
over a year ago

Magical Forrest

Go out have a good night,meet nice people... not wake up and feel like a trucks run over you...

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By *exydoctorsCouple
over a year ago

Galway/Clare


"When you could get a chomp for 10p"

Ah yes...I got in trouble for taking 50p out of my post office account but was worth it cos that was a whole bag load of goodies. A chomp, a macaroon, a mint crisp, a tenpenny bag, a time bar....

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By *lay2018Couple
over a year ago

westmeath & roscommon.


"Go out have a good night,meet nice people... not wake up and feel like a trucks run over you... "

It's the chemicals in the drink now. To much, leaves you in some state for a few days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Could go out, get steaming, make a dick of yourself and not have video evidence on social media the next day"

Had the luck of mobile phones being a thing in my early 20's, they even had cameras but the quality was so shit nobody bothered.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Looking at pics in daily sport happy days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you could go into any public building without a mask and actually breathe

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford

When logging onto your internet meant shitting yourself while wearing those shorts with the net inside

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork


"Go out have a good night,meet nice people... not wake up and feel like a trucks run over you... "

And it would only cost about a tenner.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When Taz bars, fat frogs and postman pats were a real thing "

Postman Pat's wowzer yum yums

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

...when you could go into a night club and hear real music

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere


"...when you could go into a night club and hear real music "

Or just go into a nightclub

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford

When most new movies weren't remakes or reboots of an already existing movie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That modem sound when you tried to go online and yer ma cutting you off cos she needed to use the landline for an actual phone conversation

Waiting a month for photos to come back only to find out you'd taken 23 (or 35, if you're minted) photos of what looked like the inside of an kit bag in a dark room and 1 of the sun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The slow sets at the disco in a hall in the country doing the squrel dance

Squrel dance onece around the floor and then out side to play with my nuts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The slow sets at the disco in a hall in the country doing the squrel dance

Squrel dance onece around the floor and then out side to play with my nuts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Going to the phone box to ring potential dates for the weekend

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you could get a chomp for 10p

Ah yes...I got in trouble for taking 50p out of my post office account but was worth it cos that was a whole bag load of goodies. A chomp, a macaroon, a mint crisp, a tenpenny bag, a time bar...."

Loved macaroons and mint crisp

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Leaving the camera roll into the shop to be developed after holidays wondering what would be on them. Be lucky if half them were anyway decent

When could go for a meal, pub and nightclub and hit the chipper on the way home.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere


"

When could go for a meal, pub and nightclub and hit the chipper on the way home.

"

And still have change from a 50 quid note

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

When could go for a meal, pub and nightclub and hit the chipper on the way home.

And still have change from a 50 quid note "

I use to come home with money woohoo

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By *cottybear74Man
over a year ago

kilkenny

I remember going to the shop with fifty pence,small can of ,marsbar packet of tayto and jellys.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Go to the shop with a note from you ma to get 20 major

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By *cottybear74Man
over a year ago

kilkenny


"Go to the shop with a note from you ma to get 20 major "

20 goldbond 84p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

When could go for a meal, pub and nightclub and hit the chipper on the way home.

And still have change from a 50 quid note "

When a 50 and 100 quid notes were that rare you reckoned royalty were the only ones to ever see one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do you still get a 16 pack of cigarettes in vending machines?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you could get a chomp for 10p

I'll chomp u for free"

And I'd chomp you

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast


"Do you still get a 16 pack of cigarettes in vending machines? "

They were done away with when the smoking ban came in and vending machines died a death a few years ago when Joe public weren't allowed direct access to them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When the air was blue in pubs from smoke

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By *j69funCouple
over a year ago

kildare

Racing up to the gate to get the bottles for fresh milk so you can get the cream from the top of the bottle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When peak summer was going barefoot and paddling in the lake, not airport stress

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Go to the shop with a note from you ma to get 20 major

20 goldbond 84p"

Wow and then greed took over

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

The Beano and Dandy were only 2p. And 2021 seemed so far away when watching Mad Max.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

going to your ma's best friend with am empty brown bag and a note from your ma and being told not to look in the full bag on the way back

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"going to your ma's best friend with am empty brown bag and a note from your ma and being told not to look in the full bag on the way back "

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan


"going to your ma's best friend with am empty brown bag and a note from your ma and being told not to look in the full bag on the way back "

Wait, what?

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan


"I remember going to the shop with fifty pence,small can of ,marsbar packet of tayto and jellys."

Why were you bringing all that stuff to the shop?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Slow sets and a nice snog

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

When you could smoke in aeroplanes

When you learnt about your familie's/friend's holiday abroad via a handwritten postcard with a lovely glossy touristic pic in the front.

When the release of a new album of your favourite band and buying it at the record store was the event of the year.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere


"going to your ma's best friend with am empty brown bag and a note from your ma and being told not to look in the full bag on the way back "

That went over too many people's heads

Nothing worse as a young boy being sent over for extra sanitary towels for your ma to her best friend

Still remember it

How fuckin old and working class was I compared to people on here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When the release of a new album of your favourite band and buying it at the record store was the event of the year. "

Oh yes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"going to your ma's best friend with am empty brown bag and a note from your ma and being told not to look in the full bag on the way back

That went over too many people's heads

Nothing worse as a young boy being sent over for extra sanitary towels for your ma to her best friend

Still remember it

How fuckin old and working class was I compared to people on here "

I.had a feeling it might be related to "women's problems" but my mother had a total hysterectomy the year after I was born

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan


"When you could smoke in aeroplanes

When you learnt about your familie's/friend's holiday abroad via a handwritten postcard with a lovely glossy touristic pic in the front.

When the release of a new album of your favourite band and buying it at the record store was the event of the year. "

On the holiday thing, you had often found out about the holiday from the person themselves as the postcard didn't arrive for at least a week after they had returned.

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of


"When you could smoke in aeroplanes

When you learnt about your familie's/friend's holiday abroad via a handwritten postcard with a lovely glossy touristic pic in the front.

When the release of a new album of your favourite band and buying it at the record store was the event of the year.

On the holiday thing, you had often found out about the holiday from the person themselves as the postcard didn't arrive for at least a week after they had returned. "

Lol, very true, I still have my postcard collection.

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

When used call cards were like currency around the play ground

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When used call cards were like currency around the play ground"

I still have my collection of them for my retirement fund along with my Millennium pound coins

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork


"When used call cards were like currency around the play ground

I still have my collection of them for my retirement fund along with my Millennium pound coins "

They’ll be like bit coin in another few years

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere


"When used call cards were like currency around the play ground

I still have my collection of them for my retirement fund along with my Millennium pound coins "

I don't remember the pound coins....think I still have a milk bottle in the attic

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford

Finding a pound note on the ground and you and your mate would be eating sweets for the day

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere


"Finding a pound note on the ground and you and your mate would be eating sweets for the day"

Or finding sweets on the ground and eating sweets all day

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Remember when you needed to use Traveller's cheques on holidays

Remember needing travel insurance ffs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Remember when you needed to use Traveller's cheques on holidays

Remember needing travel insurance ffs

"

Never use a Travellers cheque!

#madeofrubber

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast


"Remember when you needed to use Traveller's cheques on holidays

Remember needing travel insurance ffs

"

Remember traveling and holidays

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

I don't even remember being able to remember.

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By *rmrs1234Couple
over a year ago

Waterford

used to collect the scented paper or "fancy paper" as we called it and every school tour we would go into all the shops trying to find ones we didnt have. and i had a massive collection of trolls

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By *owerage75Man
over a year ago

Drogheda


"When you could smoke in aeroplanes

When you learnt about your familie's/friend's holiday abroad via a handwritten postcard with a lovely glossy touristic pic in the front.

When the release of a new album of your favourite band and buying it at the record store was the event of the year. "

Yes all this .

I remember at 12 having to thumb a lift 15 miles to nearest town to buy a LP on the day of its release.

No one would let a 12 year old out to thumb a lift now .

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Remember going up to Northern Ireland for the following

Halloween...fireworks

Christmas.....drink

All year ....Jonesborough market ....big boxes of washing powder

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford

Being 16 and 17 and going into The Roxy in Waterford before 9pm when the bouncers went on the door.

You had less chance of getting asked for ID once you were already in there.

The whole night depended on that moment. Such a relief when they walked past you.

Great times

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh when smoking 10 fags in a 15 minute school break was craic

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

When you could buy your own house at the age of 25

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By *NawtyCplCouple
over a year ago

Around and about

Butter vouchers

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By *NawtyCplCouple
over a year ago

Around and about

hanging out at the telephone box

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

The only phone a family had was a rotary dial phone and you didn't know who was calling before you answered.

Getting a fiver for you birthday and thinking you were rich.

No cameras or video phones recording anything we got up to.

Going to music gigs was easily affordable.

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford

When Snickers was Marathon and Starburst was Opal Fruits

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By *athie macMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Slow dance lol

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

Collecting Sammy stamps from the credit union.

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

When the world was in black and white and then someone invented a colour TV and the colours gradually escaped from the tube in the corner and turned the world to colour.

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast


"When the world was in black and white and then someone invented a colour TV and the colours gradually escaped from the tube in the corner and turned the world to colour. "

And no the tube in the corner wasn't me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Leaving work of a friday, going straight to the local, for a feed of pints still in work gear, and it was like Christmas inside, mixture of celtic tiger lavish spending and youth

RIP the public house and cash

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down


"When the world was in black and white and then someone invented a colour TV and the colours gradually escaped from the tube in the corner and turned the world to colour.

And no the tube in the corner wasn't me "

Darn was too slow to make the comment

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan


"Collecting Sammy stamps from the credit union. "

Speaking of stamps... Green shield stamps and the excitement when browsing through the catalogue.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Collecting Sammy stamps from the credit union.

Speaking of stamps... Green shield stamps and the excitement when browsing through the catalogue. "

Holy fook, and I thought I was old!

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere


"Collecting Sammy stamps from the credit union.

Speaking of stamps... Green shield stamps and the excitement when browsing through the catalogue.

Holy fook, and I thought I was old! "

You're only a young fella...the green shield stamps were stored in a warehouse in Ballymount

They left a pallet of them out by mistake one night

The good people of Walkinstown did well with the catalogue that week

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan


"Collecting Sammy stamps from the credit union.

Speaking of stamps... Green shield stamps and the excitement when browsing through the catalogue.

Holy fook, and I thought I was old! "

Oh but you are. Tragically, so am I.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan


"Collecting Sammy stamps from the credit union.

Speaking of stamps... Green shield stamps and the excitement when browsing through the catalogue.

Holy fook, and I thought I was old!

You're only a young fella...the green shield stamps were stored in a warehouse in Ballymount

They left a pallet of them out by mistake one night

The good people of Walkinstown did well with the catalogue that week

"

That operation eventually morphed into Argos, if I'm not mistaken.

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast


"Collecting Sammy stamps from the credit union.

Speaking of stamps... Green shield stamps and the excitement when browsing through the catalogue.

Holy fook, and I thought I was old!

You're only a young fella...the green shield stamps were stored in a warehouse in Ballymount

They left a pallet of them out by mistake one night

The good people of Walkinstown did well with the catalogue that week

"

Karma's a bitch though. Most of them suffered from glue poisoning. No self adhesive stamps in those days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hasn't stopped you Jay boy

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By *easingTim OP   Man
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

You'd here such sayings as...

"Your man's doing well for himself,

sure he has a job!"

...ah great film the Commitments

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