FabSwingers.com forum: Nostalgia from the 80s/90s/00s

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

What's something from your childhood that was completely normal but today wouldn't even be imagined?

I'll start, a whole football team bailed into the back of a transit van, no seats or seat belts and driving at break neck speed round the country, ( I was one of the players, not driving ha)

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

There is a really steep hill in my home town. Ironically it ram past the graveyard.

On a snowy or frosty day we would rip down it on an old car bonnet.

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By *otownkid1967Man
over a year ago

Portlaoise

Getting big bottles of lucozade when I was in hospital back in the day. Or bringing flowers into a hospital for sick relations

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

Making go carts from pallets, pram wheels, and old twine for steering in the early 80's. Racing it down the road with a push from your mates, overshooting a busy crossroads, seeing your life flash before your eyes in the shiny chrome hubcaps of a passing Ford Escort, screeching to a halt eventually, both you and the car, heart thumping in your chest and ears, listening to said owner of Ford Escort bollock you out of it, then proceeding to fix your wonky wheel, still bollocking you out of it...And you do it all again the next day.

Dublin in the rare oul times

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By *isspafWoman
over a year ago

Dublin

"Making go carts from pallets, pram wheels, and old twine for steering in the early 80's. Racing it down the road with a push from your mates, overshooting a busy crossroads, seeing your life flash before your eyes in the shiny chrome hubcaps of a passing Ford Escort, screeching to a halt eventually, both you and the car, heart thumping in your chest and ears, listening to said owner of Ford Escort bollock you out of it, then proceeding to fix your wonky wheel, still bollocking you out of it...And you do it all again the next day.

Dublin in the rare oul times

Are you describing my childhood?!

This post wins.

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

Dublin in the rare oul times

Are you describing my childhood?!

This post wins.

The best childhood. Plasters went on your mouth to quieten you by your mother and not on a cut back then

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By *isspafWoman
over a year ago

Dublin

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

Playing kerbs as the bord na mona lorries drove by

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By *isspafWoman
over a year ago

Dublin

Being allowed to stay out in the estate until dark. Even at 11pm during the summer.

Buying 20 Benson and hedges for your Ma and Da cos they were too lazy to go to the shop.

Buying matches.

Filling up a 2 litre bottle with petrol for the lawnmower instead of a proper gas cannister.

Basically any game that doesn't involve a console.

Hopscotch

Tip The Can

Red Rover

Rounders

Kiss Chase

Musical Statues

Stuck in the Mud

Skipping

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

"Being allowed to stay out in the estate until dark. Even at 11pm during the summer.

Buying 20 Benson and hedges for your Ma and Da cos they were too lazy to go to the shop.

Buying matches.

Filling up a 2 litre bottle with petrol for the lawnmower instead of a proper gas cannister.

Basically any game that doesn't involve a console.

Hopscotch

Tip The Can

Red Rover

Rounders

Kiss Chase

Musical Statues

Stuck in the Mud

Skipping

Ah kiss chase. Did we ever grow out of it

Knowing to go home when the street lights came on.

Robbing apples from the local orchard for my mother to make apple tarts for everyone on the street.

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

Getting 10 cigarettes, box of matches, small bottle of lemonade and a few penny sweets for a pound.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Packed churches full of devout worshippers, dressed in their Sunday best and being instructed about how to live their lives, by a single unmarried guy, and based on a mythical man,who had lived in the desert thousands of years ago.

And people actually paid for the experience when a wooden place was passed around for donations!

People had caught on to their hypocritical crap.

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

Lighting the fire in the morning cos its cold. or the superseyer if there was gas in it.

No shopping on Sundays!

Phone calls made, and received in a phone box around the corner....

Going to the library to find out stuff you wanted to know about.

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

As u approach Shannon airport just at the end of the dual carrige way theres a hill that during the summer when the grass is really dry u can get a big carboard box out of the skips at one of the factories across the road and it became a huge slide straight down on to the main airport road thankfully there wasnt many cars back then

Counting the busses going into Shannon industrial estate 64 single deckers and 70 double deckers the greens would have loved it every one on the busses as noone had cars

Rounders on the green

Tag ur it

Kiss chase

Kerbs

We were lucky shannon devolopment built a playground with swings,roundabout,sesawsand a coumunity hall where a young band Horslips used practice my first memory of a live gig

Life was simple then

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

"As u approach Shannon airport just at the end of the dual carrige way theres a hill that during the summer when the grass is really dry u can get a big carboard box out of the skips at one of the factories across the road and it became a huge slide straight down on to the main airport road thankfully there wasnt many cars back then

Counting the busses going into Shannon industrial estate 64 single deckers and 70 double deckers the greens would have loved it every one on the busses as noone had cars

Rounders on the green

Tag ur it

Kiss chase

Kerbs

We were lucky shannon devolopment built a playground with swings,roundabout,sesawsand a coumunity hall where a young band Horslips used practice my first memory of a live gig

Life was simple then

May be earlier than the 80's just a tad late sixties seventys

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By *eardedvillainMan
over a year ago

Bangor N.Ireland

My foot slipping of those sharp teeth on my bmx pedals and taking the skin of my wee shins, christ I still fell that pain

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By *OCONO5Couple
over a year ago

Sensual Center

The pub closing for the holy hour on a Sunday....

Red lemonade

Flagons of bulmers cider ...

Always bringing back empty glass bottle for the 5p

Collectioning bottle caps to see what sticker on the inside

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

Going out with a football at 9am and not coming home till evening and nobody was worried where you were.

Plus playing Kick the Can and thinking it was great knocking on somebodies door and running off those,were the days.

Have a Great Weekend All

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Going on foreign holidays so..

Getting a passport

Buying travellers cheques

Buying fluorescent shorts and tshirts in pennys

Learning the phone code for ireland to ring home to say you'd arrived.

Buying sun cream

Sending postcards home that arrived the week after you got home

Buying presents for everyone

Filling your suitcase with cigarettes and spirits

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

Driving a forklift at a job aged 13

Yep I did it

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

Waking up to ice on the inside of the windows, no hot water because the immersion was too expensive - and people think there's an energy crisis now.

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

"Going on foreign holidays so..

Getting a passport

Buying travellers cheques

Buying fluorescent shorts and tshirts in pennys

Learning the phone code for ireland to ring home to say you'd arrived.

Buying sun cream

Sending postcards home that arrived the week after you got home

Buying presents for everyone

Filling your suitcase with cigarettes and spirits

Id send postcards from holidays in Ireland, and bring back a stick of rock

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

The whole family sat around a tiny 18” black and white tv. But the size didn’t matter because the only thing worse than the picture was the sound.

Having only two channels to watch and there was none of these fancy buttons like today you had to turn a dial and search for it.

And who could forget aertel

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary

Step haircuts

Holy hour

Pilgrimages to knock

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By *acob12369Man
over a year ago

URPANTS

Walking was a mode of transport and not exercise

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

"Walking was a mode of transport and not exercise"

People got the irony of driving to the gym

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary

Thumbing....everywhere

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

Knowing everyones phone number.

Vanishing for the day with mates exploring the local woods, quarries etc and no search party out.

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

Getting up to change channels on the TV

Milk delivered to your door in glass bottles and the Saturday treat when you got a carton of Sukie Suncap too

The mineral man

Calling round to your friends' houses to see if they wanted to come out to play

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

The neighbours coming to your house to use the phone to call the hospital to check on a relative, and leaving 5p for the cost of the call

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Sending a letter or a postal order

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

Video/sweet van.

Spending an hour picking videos in a video shop on a Friday night.

The bag of Mini-pizzas that everyone had in their freezer.

Dial up modem sounds.

Disappearing down the fields after breakfast and not returning till supper.

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

8 bit graphics. Hearing wakka wakka would bring a smile to your face

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By *ensualandslow321Man
over a year ago

Tullamore

On the annual shopping trip to Dublin having a rosary on the way up and another on the return journey

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"The neighbours coming to your house to use the phone to call the hospital to check on a relative, and leaving 5p for the cost of the call"

We were the poor neighbours that used to leave the 5p

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By *ofusplusCouple
over a year ago

Limerick

Answering the phone to the operator greeting you by name and telling you there's a call for your dad from so-and-so

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

"The neighbours coming to your house to use the phone to call the hospital to check on a relative, and leaving 5p for the cost of the call

We were the poor neighbours that used to leave the 5p "

Thanks for the college fund

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"The neighbours coming to your house to use the phone to call the hospital to check on a relative, and leaving 5p for the cost of the call

We were the poor neighbours that used to leave the 5p

Thanks for the college fund

How many sick relatives had your neighbours got

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Queuing for concert tickets ...no internet...no service charge ...Michael Jackson in Cork cost 14.50 a ticket

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

"The neighbours coming to your house to use the phone to call the hospital to check on a relative, and leaving 5p for the cost of the call

We were the poor neighbours that used to leave the 5p

Thanks for the college fund

How many sick relatives had your neighbours got

Back then every 5p counted!!

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By *rmrs1234Couple
over a year ago

Waterford

Shell tracksuits.

Then gettin nope, nafnaf, eclipse xworx clothes from route66 in town i miss that shop

Troll collection. I think i had around 40 of em. My egg donor gave them all away. My favourite one was a sherlock holmes one

Fancy paper

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By *rmrs1234Couple
over a year ago

Waterford

"Shell tracksuits.

Then gettin nope, nafnaf, eclipse xworx clothes from route66 in town i miss that shop

Troll collection. I think i had around 40 of em. My egg donor gave them all away. My favourite one was a sherlock holmes one

Fancy paper

Going down to the beach first thing in the morning and staying all day and the only communication was a note left sayin where ud gone

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

White dog crap. Where has it gone?

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By *ezoMan
over a year ago

The Kingdom

Playing outside.

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By *rmrs1234Couple
over a year ago

Waterford

"White dog crap. Where has it gone?"

Its still around

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

"White dog crap. Where has it gone?

Its still around"

I haven't seen it for about 30 years.

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

"White dog crap. Where has it gone?"

Dogs don’t get bones anymore

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

"Waking up to ice on the inside of the windows, no hot water because the immersion was too expensive - and people think there's an energy crisis now. "

The dew on top of the bed covers

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

Building forts out of hay bales in the feilds and hoping one of the local girls would give u the shift in one

8track cassetts

CB radio in my first car

Breaker breaker 19 does anyone copy

The pair of super oscars on the front of the car they cost me a weeks wages but I was cock of the walk with em

When I had a full head of hair awe the good olde days

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By *ouble Trouble 1000Couple
over a year ago

ireland

Walking to and from school

Getting a treat of fish and chips every other week on a Friday night .Going to the shop for my mum to get a quarter of her fave sweets and eating most of them on the way home !

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

Your dinner dried out in the oven if you were late

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

"Walking to and from school

Getting a treat of fish and chips every other week on a Friday night .Going to the shop for my mum to get a quarter of her fave sweets and eating most of them on the way home !"

Greedy girl isnt a resent devolopment then

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

The Circuit of Ireland car rally in the late 70s and into the 80s. Proper rallying over 5 days and it had night stages too. Great fun following it about the country with my older brother and his mates.

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

"The Circuit of Ireland car rally in the late 70s and into the 80s. Proper rallying over 5 days and it had night stages too. Great fun following it about the country with my older brother and his mates."

Easter weekend sorted

going rallying

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By *j47Man
over a year ago

limerick

When penny sweets were a hapenny

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

The World Snooker Final being a must see event.

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By *hilipaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Middle bit

Wearing my mother's clothes

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

"Wearing my mother's clothes"

My mother making my clothes - the mortification

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By *ensualandslow321Man
over a year ago

Tullamore

"Your dinner dried out in the oven if you were late"

That's not too bad, mine used to be in the dog if I was late

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

Getting hand-me-downs from older cousins, when vintage was a necessity not a trend.

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

"Your dinner dried out in the oven if you were late

That's not too bad, mine used to be in the dog if I was late

You guys must have been rich to give the dogs anything but scraps

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By *hilipaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Middle bit

Sitting alone in my dad's Cortina in the high street so the RUC/army don't think it's unattended and perform a controlled explosion on it.

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

'shifting' in the 'slow set'

those were the days

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

Dinner at the disco

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

Hunting for the little toys in corn flakes box and your mother giving out to for spilling them everywhere. Also cutting out the games in the back of the box

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

Fighting with the brothers on who gets to ride in the boot of an estate car

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

Did Marshall at quite a few night stages for the circuit

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

Airwolf

Watching wrestling on a Saturday with my dad

He used to go to a factory for work every few weeks, we were allowed stand in the back of the van and hold on while he drove the long windy entrance we be flying around the back.

The 5p pack of chewing gum

Never played kiss chase

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

Recording your favourite songs from the radio onto cassette tapes and trying to time it so you don’t get the dj talking over it.

Likewise recording tv programs onto vhs and being terrified to speak in case your voice was picked up on the recording

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By *ofusplusCouple
over a year ago

Limerick

"Recording your favourite songs from the radio onto cassette tapes and trying to time it so you don’t get the dj talking over it.

Impossible, that's exactly why they spoke over the end, to stop you recording the full thing

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

"Recording your favourite songs from the radio onto cassette tapes and trying to time it so you don’t get the dj talking over it.

Impossible, that's exactly why they spoke over the end, to stop you recording the full thing

Those sneaky feckers

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By *ibbw2022Woman
over a year ago

Co.Kildare

"'shifting' in the 'slow set'

those were the days

Omg yes the slow sets!!

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

Going to the video shop on Friday to rent for the whole weekend.

No mobile phone which was the best!

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

Oh and baywatch, nightrider and wrestling on Saturday afternoon

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

Sitting by radio waiting to click play and record together when your song comes on.

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