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

Hi looking at people today on there phones got me thinking about teenage years when we meet up at the phone box and to make a call you needed a call card,so just wondering is there things today that young people would not believe we did or had to do..let's start reminding..

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Turn up on a date cause we had no phones at home to change or cancel it

Run across Dublin to get your last bus cause you dropped her to her last bus

Condoms could only be bought in England and smuggled into Ireland

Black and white TV ....with 2 channels

One I discussed yesterday with someone else .....my mother heating my dinner on a plate over a boiling pot of water that made everything too hard and inedible

No Internet

How feckin old am I

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

Having to go to the library reference section to trawl through books for information for school projects

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

Getting up to change the TV channel

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

Mo that standard,get trips on grandfather donkey car..

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By *illiwontiCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Having no pause on TV or a remote and having to rush back before add break was over

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Walking to school. No buses or parents cars.

Walking to school through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe.

Scr*ping the ice of the inside of the windows in the morning before you could see out.

Walking to a nearby farm for milk because of shortages in the shops.

*Sad that we can't even use the word scr aping

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

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By *antra MassageMan
over a year ago

South Side.

Buying evening newspapers.

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By *mmmm300Woman
over a year ago

cork

"Walking to school. No buses or parents cars.

Walking to school through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe.

Scr*ping the ice of the inside of the windows in the morning before you could see out.

Walking to a nearby farm for milk because of shortages in the shops.

*Sad that we can't even use the word scr aping

What can't you use the word scr aping? Should I feel tick or uneducated here?

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

"Walking to school. No buses or parents cars.

Walking to school through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe.

Scr*ping the ice of the inside of the windows in the morning before you could see out.

Walking to a nearby farm for milk because of shortages in the shops.

*Sad that we can't even use the word scr aping

What can't you use the word scr aping? Should I feel tick or uneducated here?"

Take the sc out of it and it becomes one of the words not allowed on the site

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

The only takeaways were chip shops

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By *3nsesMan
over a year ago

Dublin

"Walking to school. No buses or parents cars.

Walking to school through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe.

Scr*ping the ice of the inside of the windows in the morning before you could see out.

Walking to a nearby farm for milk because of shortages in the shops.

*Sad that we can't even use the word scr aping

What can't you use the word scr aping? Should I feel tick or uneducated here?"

Because it includes the word r*aping. The system blocks all words with that term.

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By *mmmm300Woman
over a year ago

cork

"Walking to school. No buses or parents cars.

Walking to school through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe.

Scr*ping the ice of the inside of the windows in the morning before you could see out.

Walking to a nearby farm for milk because of shortages in the shops.

*Sad that we can't even use the word scr aping

What can't you use the word scr aping? Should I feel tick or uneducated here?

Because it includes the word r*aping. The system blocks all words with that term.

Ah ok. Did not know that. Cheers

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By *ed just RedWoman
over a year ago

Dublin City

If you missed the last bus, you were walking. End of.

Washing the milk bottles at night to put them out, then fighting over the cream on the top.

Someone drilled a hole in a 10p coin and we were able to use it over and over to make phone calls.

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By *lameBoyMan
over a year ago

Enfield & Dublin

Jumping on the back corner of the bus if I had the few pence to go to school without walking. The tan cord suspended from the ceiling through lots of brass eyes. Pull once to stop. The conductor would pull twice when everyone was on, ding ding! Off we go. Elderly folk would be told “go ahead” by the conductor as they came with the few shillings in hand.

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

"If you missed the last bus, you were walking. End of.

Washing the milk bottles at night to put them out, then fighting over the cream on the top.

Someone drilled a hole in a 10p coin and we were able to use it over and over to make phone calls. "

They installed an anti thread guard in vending machine coin mechanisms in the mid 80s to prevent this but it probably took the phone companies longer to catch up.

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By *mmmm300Woman
over a year ago

cork

Tapping the old style telephones when parents put a lock on it to stop us using it so much and running up the bill

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

There was one taxi in the local town so you either booked him early for a spin home and hoped he showed or you walked .

Using a rotary house phone.

Having to look up the encyclopedias in the library to get information to do homework.

Having lots of blankets on the bed before we got duvets and frost on the inside of the windows in the mornings.

Taping songs off the radio and hoping the DJ wouldn't talk over the end of them.

Having to push cars in the morning to get them to start.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

If you wanted a cheap flight somewhere like london you had to book a month in advance and you had to stay on a Saturday night

You had to queue to go to the cinema or to buy a concert ticket

You could walk into croke park on all ireland final day and pay at the turnstiles

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By *cottybear74Man
over a year ago

kilkenny

"Getting up to change the TV channel"

Moving the rabbit ears antenna to get different picture quality.

The street lights coming on was your cur to go home

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

Making trams of hay..who else did that one..

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By *unner4funMan
over a year ago

Belfast-Coleraine

Recording your favourite songs from the top 40 on Sunday evenings on cassette

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By *razy-CplCouple
over a year ago

and surrounding areas

Going to shop and buying 1/2 penny sweets ,loved the chocolate toffee ones, and were put in brown paper bags , ud have to eat them quick before they would start sticking to the paper

Mrs crazy

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By *unner4funMan
over a year ago

Belfast-Coleraine

Going to xtra vision to rest the latest movies

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By *easingTimMan
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

Cons

- Atari with 2 rectangles and a ball graphic to play tennis against your mate with

- Walk to chip shop and menu was battered burger, sausage or snack box

- Dress up was what everyone did at Halloween

(although the rumour was Mrs Murphy up the road wore french knickers and bra and she was 40!!!! Imagine... )

- Walk to Xtravision at loiter there on a Saturday evening at 6pm in the hope that your favourite new release had been returned

- Benny Hill Show was the height of open sexuality

Pros

- Live boxing, tennis and soccer matches on the tv (tv meant television then)

- Play great games outdoors (kick the can, knick-knocks, rounders)

- Everywhere was closed Sunday and family time

- Your mates word against yours as to who snogged who the night before (no pics or vids)

- "Snogging" or "a shif"t meant kissing

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By *icklowbiguyMan
over a year ago

Wicklow

Findus Crispy Pancakes for tea,

Getting hit with the wooden spoon so our Ma would not hurt her hand,

Going to mass and the Ma asking what the sermon was about when you got home,

Either the fan belt breaking, clutch cable snapping or the car engine overheating on every long summer drive we went on.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Getting free stuff in the corn flakes packet

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By *icklowbiguyMan
over a year ago

Wicklow

Kaliber was the only non alcohol beer available, no wonder we all stayed on the hard stuff.

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

Waiting till noon or lunch for the TV channels to start board casting.

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By *ka ..Agent k ..Man
over a year ago

Collecting and saving up those Embassy Red tokens in my parents Cigarette packets.

Actually I think the tokens were green

Once a year we were aloud to spend them.

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

"Getting up to change the TV channel"

You had more than one channel?

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

"Turn up on a date cause we had no phones at home to change or cancel it

Run across Dublin to get your last bus cause you dropped her to her last bus

Condoms could only be bought in England and smuggled into Ireland

Black and white TV ....with 2 channels

One I discussed yesterday with someone else .....my mother heating my dinner on a plate over a boiling pot of water that made everything too hard and inedible

No Internet

How feckin old am I

Two fecking channels jayus i was nearly a auld fella when we got two channels

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

Things my kids would never believe

Tapping out a phone number on a pay phone

Those were the days

Knock a dolly

Knocking on a door pissing the house holder off till he gave u a chase

If u were bold enough getting a cow pad into a plastic bag putting a firelighter in to it lighting it and knocking on the door and leaving the ignited cowpad on the step

I can still see the white of his teeth as he stamped the fire out and realising he splated a cowshite over his best shoes

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Cj....a burning shite....brilliant..never heard that one before

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By *iktikiCouple
over a year ago

cork

"If you missed the last bus, you were walking. End of.

Washing the milk bottles at night to put them out, then fighting over the cream on the top.

Someone drilled a hole in a 10p coin and we were able to use it over and over to make phone calls. "

Used to use a key to push the bar back in the coin slot and bang the front of phone to make it sound like you had put money in

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

Being sent to the shop with a note from your parents to get cigarettes

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

"Getting up to change the TV channel

You had more than one channel?

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what ye had a tv

lol

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"Being sent to the shop with a note from your parents to get cigarettes "

Being sent to your mums best friend across the road with an empty brown bag and a note...the bag always had something in it on the way back but closed with sellotape

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By *eepixieWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

Donkey kong

Running to the phone at the end of the street to answer it, hoping it was my b/f, but finding it was my neighbours g/f.

Double Dinging a bus ticket

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

Chicken curry in the night club at midnight!

After which was the first slow set

No timer on immersion, just on/off

Having a ch@ke out on car before trying to start it.

The sound of a 56k modem dial up or a cassette tape loading a game/program to a computer.

Green text on a black 10in screen, thinking it was the best thing ever

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