FabSwingers.com forum: What was a huge trend everyone has forgotten about

By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

From the lounge

Tamagotchi pets

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Fidget spinners

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Clackers

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Things you put on the heels of your shoe to make sparks

Cheese cloth shirts with denim waistcoats

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By *mmortalValkyrieWoman
over a year ago

From a galaxy far far away

Gentlemen in suits and hats…..

Ladies in dresses and nylons…..

Pinned up hair and red lipstick…..

Oh and Lolo-Balls

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By *ex0x28Man
over a year ago

the middle

Pogs…I use to have hundreds of them

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By *ed just RedWoman
over a year ago

Dublin City

Beanie babies

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The elasticated girdle and its famous predecessor, the whalebone corset.

Spats

Brogue shoes

Butterfly collars

Straw boaters

Bowler hats

Waxed moustaches

Brylcreem hair dressing

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

Trolls

Oh wait...

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

Be kind

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

Sky remotes

needs to be brought back

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By *ay_Gatsby_D4Man
over a year ago

Ballsbridge, City Centre

Those spinner things

Took over the world for a fortnight

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Covid threads

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

Catholicism.

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

Fanta spinners

As in the yoyo from the early 80s

Not the fidget spinner

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By *anther PurrrsWoman
over a year ago

the Shadows Purrring or Roaring

Cabbage patch kids

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By *r_Insatiable666Man
over a year ago

Cork

Bebo

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

Lolo balls.

Things they gave away free with certain amount of petrol tokens like maxols free a nipper

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By *ai18Man
over a year ago

Templemore

Rubix cubes

Elastic looms

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By *uperchampMan
over a year ago

dublin

Mixed tapes

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By *ewitched1Woman
over a year ago

Close to you

Loom bands

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

"Things you put on the heels of your shoe to make sparks

Cheese cloth shirts with denim waistcoats

Blakeys on shoes

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

Slow sets

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

Myspace

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By *egsandcurvesWoman
over a year ago

sexytown

Loom bands

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By *egsandcurvesWoman
over a year ago

sexytown

Yo yo

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By *egsandcurvesWoman
over a year ago

sexytown

Being polite

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

Toys in your box of Cornflakes

Tubberware party's

Being given 20 plastic shopping bags at the checkout

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By *uckoldDesiresMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Line Dancing

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By *umpkinnMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Buying ringtones. Does anyone care about their ringtone these days?

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By *ofusplusCouple
over a year ago

Limerick

Leg warmers

Luminous socks

Fingerless gloves

Sun-In

Blue eyeshadow

Back-combing

Perms

Stone-washed jeans

Parka jackets

Mullets

Aaaahh, bring back the 80's

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By *ungry CatCouple
over a year ago

Belfast

"Buying ringtones. Does anyone care about their ringtone these days?"

Hand on heart haven't changed my ringtone in at least a decade, just keep the original one every time I buy a new phone

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

"Leg warmers

Luminous socks

Fingerless gloves

Sun-In

Blue eyeshadow

Back-combing

Perms

Stone-washed jeans

Parka jackets

Mullets

Aaaahh, bring back the 80's

At least I avoided the luminous socks and leg warmers

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

Ann Summers parties

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

A sense of community with your neighbours in Ireland

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By *ofusplusCouple
over a year ago

Limerick

"Leg warmers

Luminous socks

Fingerless gloves

Sun-In

Blue eyeshadow

Back-combing

Perms

Stone-washed jeans

Parka jackets

Mullets

Aaaahh, bring back the 80's

At least I avoided the luminous socks and leg warmers

Guilty of all the rest so

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The 1950s propaganda about electricity generated by the new nuclear power plant at Calder Hall aka Windscale would be so cheap that they would literally be giving it away free of charge!

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

X Works

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By *antra MassageMan
over a year ago

city

Anti-Macassers.

Dont google!

You dont often see them these days, but they're used on aircraft.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Luminous shorts of lime and orange with an Italia 90 tshirt on every holiday in the 90's

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

CB radios

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

Top knots

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

"Leg warmers

Luminous socks

Fingerless gloves

Sun-In

Blue eyeshadow

Back-combing

Perms

Stone-washed jeans

Parka jackets

Mullets

Aaaahh, bring back the 80's

Mullets are back.

Hard to believe

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By *ob and Daisy 99Couple
over a year ago

roscommon

[Removed by poster at 07/04/22 19:37:14]

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

"Anti-Macassers.

Dont google!

You dont often see them these days, but they're used on aircraft. "

They were used to protect furniture from the macasser oil that people used to smear liberally on their hair; I remember seeing them used on sofas for that purpose, especially in country houses!

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The massive scaremongering campaign prior to 1st January y2k, that the world would literally end because on alleged problem with the date function on computers. It can to zero.

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By *on655Man
over a year ago

east suburbs

The livestrong wrist bands, used to see girls in school with them up to their elbows lol

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By *ohnFKMan
over a year ago

Where the Streets Have No Name

The ice bucket challenge

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The UK government's media campaign to encourage us all to drive diesel cars, seems to have been lost in the ether!

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By *antra MassageMan
over a year ago

city

"Anti-Macassers.

Dont google!

You dont often see them these days, but they're used on aircraft.

They were used to protect furniture from the macasser oil that people used to smear liberally on their hair; I remember seeing them used on sofas for that purpose, especially in country houses!"

You've earned a place on my hotlist, Jubal.

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

"Ann Summers parties"

I was a rep for Ann summers years ago, loved hosting the parties such a laugh

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By *B 4099Man
over a year ago

North West, Outer Letterkenny area

Words with friends

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By *t777Woman
over a year ago

close by

Manners

T-bag tops

Ra-ra skirts

House phones

Postcards and letters handwritten

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

Koni 2012

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By *p4luvinMan
over a year ago

Galway

Shaking hands

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

Xwork jeans and naff jackets.

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By *FFdubMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Nick knocking..

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By *addy36Man
over a year ago

Mayo

"Leg warmers

Luminous socks

Fingerless gloves

Sun-In

Blue eyeshadow

Back-combing

Perms

Stone-washed jeans

Parka jackets

Mullets

Aaaahh, bring back the 80's

Stand up collars !!

Skinny tie's

And everyone's favourite the black slip on shoes with white socks

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By *NawtyCplCouple
over a year ago

Around and about

Naked Eyeshadow Palette

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

"Naked Eyeshadow Palette "

Omg thats right

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By *NawtyCplCouple
over a year ago

Around and about

"Naked Eyeshadow Palette

Omg thats right "

thought the ladies would remember that one

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By *oguish1Man
over a year ago

Carrigrohane

Gray slip on shoes

Fingerless gloves

White socks ........ Ah the 80s good times

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By *on655Man
over a year ago

east suburbs

Glow sticks

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By *opdubcatMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Dogging????????

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

I remember this absolutely rediculous trend of wearing disco boppers ...basically a hairband with 2 red shiny balls on a coiled spring which bopped ....I begged my mother to buy me this and they were not cheap !!!!

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

Table manners!

Keep your mouth shut when you're chewing

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By *ilverjayMan
over a year ago

Meath

Renting movies.

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By *onny1969Man
over a year ago

local

Conversation

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

Monogamy

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

People posing with those fancy gin bowls. A cross between notions and posing

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

Fidelity

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

Collecting fancy paper

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By *on Draper2.0Man
over a year ago

Maynooth

Respecting others in the same way you would like to be respected. It didn't last more than a few centuries but has died back to very low levels over the last couple of decades.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Compulsory consumption of fish on Fridays.

Platform shoes

Sending white feathers to conscientious objectors: men who wisely refused to become cannon fodder in trench warfare in WW1, and other forms of insanity in the decades before that...colonial campaigns in Africa, Asia, America and the sub-continent of India.

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

"Respecting others in the same way you would like to be respected. It didn't last more than a few centuries but has died back to very low levels over the last couple of decades."

Did we ever really have this?

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By *abblingInDUBMan
over a year ago

Dublin

The internet. It has flash in the pan written all over it.

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

Eircom shares

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

"Be kind "
so ture,

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

"Respecting others in the same way you would like to be respected. It didn't last more than a few centuries but has died back to very low levels over the last couple of decades.

Did we ever really have this?"

No, it was just a front

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

"Fidelity

The Kinsey Reports In the 1950s found that around half of men and a quarter of women studied had committed adultery.

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By *on Draper2.0Man
over a year ago

Maynooth

"Respecting others in the same way you would like to be respected. It didn't last more than a few centuries but has died back to very low levels over the last couple of decades.

Did we ever really have this?"

I think we did in the past moreso than now.

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By *ouble Trouble 1000Couple
over a year ago

ireland

Tramp stamp tattoos

Belly button piercings

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By *ouble Trouble 1000Couple
over a year ago

ireland

Furbys

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary

Planking everywhere and anywhere..

Stacking plastic cups really fast to make a pyramid...

Really thin eyebrows...then mc donalds eyebrows...then thick eyebrows....

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

Eyebrow piercing

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By *ensualandslow321Man
over a year ago

Tullamore

Going to Mass

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