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By *rRios OP Man
7 weeks ago

dublin

The price of a pint. Getting change from a fiver was a thing, I was charged €8.50 at a recent social

What is significantly different these days than back in your day?

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By *eekyNerdMan
7 weeks ago

Portarlington

The amount of hair on my head....

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By *illow and FionnCouple
7 weeks ago

Cork

I remember going for a night out with 10 pounds and having my share for the taxi at the end of the night

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By *exyScientistsCouple
7 weeks ago

Castlebar

My ability to tolerate....

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By *electableicecreamMan
7 weeks ago

The West

10p Tayto's

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By *og-ManMan
7 weeks ago

somewhere

When I started working as a lounge boy the pint was

35 pence

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By *og-ManMan
7 weeks ago

somewhere

Things that people going to England on the boat

( never a plane )

Had to bring home condoms and porn mags

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By *eckme70Man
7 weeks ago

Strabane

"I remember going for a night out with 10 pounds and having my share for the taxi at the end of the night "

A tenner 🤭 what decade would that have been lol only joking sorry

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By *leasurer77Man
7 weeks ago

Athlone

My first permanent job paid 19 quid a day and I was fcuking made up!

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By *ot so needyMan
7 weeks ago

Galway

No mobile phones and the ability to disappear for a few days

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By *nA101Couple
7 weeks ago

limerick

"No mobile phones and the ability to disappear for a few days"

🙊🙊

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By *eard and BoobsCouple
6 weeks ago

Portstewart

I can remember when the pints changed to 3 quid a pint and the uproar that came with it, can also remember that Stella was an extra quid a pint because of its strength and most of the bar staff would limit how many you could buy per night

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By *leasurer77Man
6 weeks ago

Athlone

"I can remember when the pints changed to 3 quid a pint and the uproar that came with it, can also remember that Stella was an extra quid a pint because of its strength and most of the bar staff would limit how many you could buy per night "

That's just what they told you..

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By *ionycusMan
6 weeks ago

Babylon

Men were men , and sheep were nervous

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By *rRios OP Man
6 weeks ago

dublin

"Men were men , and sheep were nervous "

Are sheep ok with being rammed now? This joke might go ovis (ar)hies head

Sorry

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By *tovenWoman
6 weeks ago

Somewhere

Fuller perkier breasts 😉

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By *eckme70Man
6 weeks ago

Strabane

£17.50 a week ahhhh those were the days 🙈🤣

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By *og-ManMan
6 weeks ago

somewhere

In the old days you met someone went into town to the pictures and ran for the bus home after dropping her to her bus stop

You'd made your arrangements for your next date

If something happened you couldn't get in touch because no one had a phone

That's why people got stood up under Clerys clock

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By *ubguy777Man
6 weeks ago

"The price of a pint. Getting change from a fiver was a thing, I was charged €8.50 at a recent social

What is significantly different these days than back in your day?

Morning Glory,....

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By *rRios OP Man
6 weeks ago

dublin

"In the old days you met someone went into town to the pictures and ran for the bus home after dropping her to her bus stop

You'd made your arrangements for your next date

If something happened you couldn't get in touch because no one had a phone

That's why people got stood up under Clerys clock "

I was talking to someone about before phones in houses and they were telling me, there was a phone box, people used to ring it hoping some would answer and know down to the house of the person they wanted to talk to. That’s how my folks dated. No Snapchat then. Ps I hate Snapchat!

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By *og-ManMan
6 weeks ago

somewhere

"In the old days you met someone went into town to the pictures and ran for the bus home after dropping her to her bus stop

You'd made your arrangements for your next date

If something happened you couldn't get in touch because no one had a phone

That's why people got stood up under Clerys clock

Then if you got a home phone in and rang her you had to hang up after a few minutes in case they missed an important call

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By *leasurer77Man
6 weeks ago

Athlone

"In the old days you met someone went into town to the pictures and ran for the bus home after dropping her to her bus stop

You'd made your arrangements for your next date

If something happened you couldn't get in touch because no one had a phone

That's why people got stood up under Clerys clock

Then if you got a home phone in and rang her you had to hang up after a few minutes in case they missed an important call

Ok Hyacinth!!!

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By *og-ManMan
6 weeks ago

somewhere

"In the old days you met someone went into town to the pictures and ran for the bus home after dropping her to her bus stop

You'd made your arrangements for your next date

If something happened you couldn't get in touch because no one had a phone

That's why people got stood up under Clerys clock

Then if you got a home phone in and rang her you had to hang up after a few minutes in case they missed an important call

Ok Hyacinth!!!"

You knew her mother

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By *ack1971Man
6 weeks ago

Cork

For 3 quid I could get a pint of Guinness, 10 john player blue and a 20p phone call home to tell Ma to get Da to collect me, as I had no bus fare home which I think was 45p in Dublin. Mother's always seemed to answer the phones only back then.

1989.

I stopped smoking, still have a pint, and just as broke.

2024 True story

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By *ezoMan
6 weeks ago

The Kingdom

I remember the one punt note.

Black and white television.

3p packet of crisps.

Getting a glass bottle of mineral in the cinema.

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By *mmortalbMan
6 weeks ago

kildare

1 cent/p for a jelly or chewing gum. 20cent mixup was loads, and a macaroone bar for like 10cent. And those small fizzy orange drinks, forget the name, but we're in every goody bag you got at a party.

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By *eanbegMan
6 weeks ago

Tuam

My first pint of Guinness was 16p. Can't say I enjoyed it but I soldiered on!

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By *eeking_sensuality77Woman
6 weeks ago

Athlone

"1 cent/p for a jelly or chewing gum. 20cent mixup was loads, and a macaroone bar for like 10cent. And those small fizzy orange drinks, forget the name, but we're in every goody bag you got at a party. "

Cadet?!!

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
6 weeks ago

East / North, Cork

At uni I used to have lunch at a pub where you could get a full premium pint and a large topped jacket potato for £1.

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By *chochamberWoman
6 weeks ago

Munster

We used to look after our friends video player while they were on holidays, in case their house was broken into. They lived 30 miles from us. We ld collect it and have it for two weeks.

The howls of laughter, making people go backwards (rewinding) or fast forwarding.

Renting videos from the smelly video store, and having to return them the next day.

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By *ealitybitesMan
6 weeks ago

Belfast

Only 2 of our neighbours had house phones and everyone knew the numbers so if someone was stuck somewhere or in an accident or worse, those neighbours were the ones getting the 2am phonecalls and having to go knocking doors to inform the parents.

There was a public phone box that made suspicious sounds when you picked up the handset because it was obviously tapped due to it's location in the middle of the most highly fortified area in Europe.

Walking through that twice a day on the way to and from school and either getting your schoolbag searched or asked by the soldiers to get them sweets or biscuits in the local shop and you could keep the change.

The scraper on the windowsill to scrape the ice off the inside of the window so you could look out in the morning.

Getting the milk bottles in before the birds pecked the foil top off to get the cream.

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By *TinyDelight-Woman
6 weeks ago

City Centre

The slide was hotter than the surface of the sun in the summer. 🛝

Mix tapes. You knew he was into you if you got one of those.

Getting photos developed after a night out. Out of the 24 prints, 7 would be blurry, 3 would be obscured with a hand and the rest would make you question your choices for the rest of your life.

Bacardi Breezers. I can't look at one. 🤢🤕

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By *og-ManMan
6 weeks ago

somewhere

My dad had a small ford car with pvc seats

4 of us on the back seat with no seat belts sliding all over the place

In the summer the seat would burn your legs

In the winter the seat would give you frost bite

Dinner was once a day

He ate what you were given or you got no dinner

When microwaves came in you managed to reheat your dinner at a different time

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By *eckme70Man
6 weeks ago

Strabane

"The slide was hotter than the surface of the sun in the summer. 🛝

Mix tapes. You knew he was into you if you got one of those.

Getting photos developed after a night out. Out of the 24 prints, 7 would be blurry, 3 would be obscured with a hand and the rest would make you question your choices for the rest of your life.

Bacardi Breezers. I can't look at one. 🤢🤕"

And it took about a fortnight for the photos to cum back lol and a chippy was only when your decided to decorate a room 🙈

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By *otorman20021Man
6 weeks ago

East Cork

"We used to look after our friends video player while they were on holidays, in case their house was broken into. They lived 30 miles from us. We ld collect it and have it for two weeks.

The howls of laughter, making people go backwards (rewinding) or fast forwarding.

Renting videos from the smelly video store, and having to return them the next day. "

I used to live in the countryside and we actually had a “video man” call every Friday evening in his van and you could hire videos from him for the week 😂. The parents then would ask him if he had any “special” videos, the bonus ball was when you located their hiding place and got to watch those special videos! You had to make sure to rewind it back to the spot that it stopped at last time before hiding it again 😂

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By *ouble Trouble 1000Couple
6 weeks ago

ireland

Kids played outside all day everyday and only came in when they where hungry ,rarely see kids playing outdoors now which is sad !

Life was just much simpler,summers where much warmer (dam climate change )and everything tasted much sweeter !

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By (user no longer on site)
6 weeks ago

"Fuller perkier breasts 😉"

Ah gowanouttathat... theyre gorgeous!!

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By *in44Man
6 weeks ago

Cavan

"Fuller perkier breasts 😉"

Your breasts still look amazing 😋

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By *ipstick KissesWoman
6 weeks ago

South Down

"The slide was hotter than the surface of the sun in the summer. 🛝

Mix tapes. You knew he was into you if you got one of those.

Getting photos developed after a night out. Out of the 24 prints, 7 would be blurry, 3 would be obscured with a hand and the rest would make you question your choices for the rest of your life.

Bacardi Breezers. I can't look at one. 🤢🤕

And it took about a fortnight for the photos to cum back lol and a chippy was only when your decided to decorate a room 🙈"

Speaking of decorating, when you were doing up one of the rooms in your house you'd put old newspaper up over the window so no-one could see in. I heard on the radio a couple of weeks ago why that was but damned if I can remember

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By *lutterFlyWoman
6 weeks ago

Near Belfast

I lived in the country. Nearest village was 3 miles away and most of the time I walked there and back to get groceries for my Mum or neighbours so I could get sweets with the bus fare lol.

Also worked in the village chippy and in the summer holidays and weekends and though nothing of walking home, in the dark, after the chippy closed, when I was 14 or 15.

Some Sat nights, I used to wrap a fish supper in 5 or 6 layers of newspaper to keep it warm for my Mum and she used to walk in and meet me and we would eat it on the last bit of the walk home.

The ones in school who were allowed out at lunchtime, used to get lots of orders for 10p of Midget Gems or Sports Mixture.

Those were the days lol

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By *ipstick KissesWoman
6 weeks ago

South Down

The closest thing you had to fizzy drinks was Creamola Foam.

Your whites got washed in a Burco Boiler and it only went on once a week

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By *ouble Trouble 1000Couple
6 weeks ago

ireland

"The closest thing you had to fizzy drinks was Creamola Foam.

Your whites got washed in a Burco Boiler and it only went on once a week"

Oh loved Creamola Foam !

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By *ipstick KissesWoman
6 weeks ago

South Down

"The closest thing you had to fizzy drinks was Creamola Foam.

Your whites got washed in a Burco Boiler and it only went on once a week

Oh loved Creamola Foam !"

Apparently it's been back a few years now although I've not seen it anywhere

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By (user no longer on site)
6 weeks ago

City girl here and as soon as the weather went fine, we use to climb the telegraph poles on the side of the footpath and loop rope 10 feet up and make swings. Between splinter,rope burns and whiplash probably the best fun ever had lol.

The could be 3 swings on a pole at one time,we'd twist the swings around each other to get more whip action lol. Google it lol

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By *eckme70Man
6 weeks ago

Strabane

"City girl here and as soon as the weather went fine, we use to climb the telegraph poles on the side of the footpath and loop rope 10 feet up and make swings. Between splinter,rope burns and whiplash probably the best fun ever had lol.

The could be 3 swings on a pole at one time,we'd twist the swings around each other to get more whip action lol. Google it lol"

So was this your 1st taste at swinging lol sorry couldn't resist that want 🙈

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By *eckme70Man
6 weeks ago

Strabane

Mother's putting Nappies on lines competing with the neighbours for the Whitest one's

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By *og-ManMan
6 weeks ago

somewhere

The ZX Spectrum

The Atari 8000

The C64

The Sega Megadrive

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By *ofusplusCouple
6 weeks ago

Limerick

I remember going into the shop and asking how much the penny sweets were.

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By *eckme70Man
6 weeks ago

Strabane

Chopper bikes and tiny skateboard's

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By *eckme70Man
6 weeks ago

Strabane

"I remember going into the shop and asking how much the penny sweets were."

🤣🤣 same 🙈

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By *oxminxCouple
6 weeks ago

NaughtyVille *×* Laois

Thinking back to when dogging couples were in abundance 7 nights a week at a Dublin spot. Fun times were a plenty. Bloody Internet.

It's handing for moaning though 😆

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By *amsevenMan
6 weeks ago

cork

Dog shite was white

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By (user no longer on site)
6 weeks ago

The could be 3 swings on a pole at one time,we'd twist the swings around each other to get more whip action lol. Google it lol

So was this your 1st taste at swinging lol sorry couldn't resist that want 🙈"

Hahahahahah probably . My legs were always open then too

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By *eckme70Man
6 weeks ago

Strabane

The could be 3 swings on a pole at one time,we'd twist the swings around each other to get more whip action lol. Google it lol

So was this your 1st taste at swinging lol sorry couldn't resist that want 🙈

Hahahahahah probably . My legs were always open then too"

Well in the air 🫦 lol

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By (user no longer on site)
6 weeks ago

The could be 3 swings on a pole at one time,we'd twist the swings around each other to get more whip action lol. Google it lol

So was this your 1st taste at swinging lol sorry couldn't resist that want 🙈

Hahahahahah probably . My legs were always open then too

Well in the air 🫦 lol"

You'd like to know........

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By *eckme70Man
6 weeks ago

Strabane

The could be 3 swings on a pole at one time,we'd twist the swings around each other to get more whip action lol. Google it lol

So was this your 1st taste at swinging lol sorry couldn't resist that want 🙈

Hahahahahah probably . My legs were always open then too

Well in the air 🫦 lol

You'd like to know........

Of course I would I might be 54 don't mean I'm blind 😍🫦

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By *ouble Trouble 1000Couple
6 weeks ago

ireland

"The closest thing you had to fizzy drinks was Creamola Foam.

Your whites got washed in a Burco Boiler and it only went on once a week

Oh loved Creamola Foam !

Apparently it's been back a few years now although I've not seen it anywhere "

I have seen it somewhere ,just can't remember where 🙄

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By *rRios OP Man
6 weeks ago

dublin

Sugar sandwiches

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By *eard and BoobsCouple
6 weeks ago

Portstewart

That's just what they told you.."

That's not what was told to me as I was a bar manager then and was instructed by higher management to limit sales of Stella and instruct my staff to do the same

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By *inky grandadMan
6 weeks ago

Spain

10 Woodbine cigarettes were 1 shilling and 6 pence, bar of chocolate small 1 was 3D bigger 1 was 6D. Our currency was LSD and the £ had 240 pennies in it

20 shilling

10 florens

8 half crowns

4 crowns

2 ten bob notes

A shilling had 12 pennies

2 tanners

4 trupenny bits

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By *asuallyChilledMan
6 weeks ago

Drogheda

"The price of a pint. Getting change from a fiver was a thing, I was charged €8.50 at a recent social

What is significantly different these days than back in your day?

I remember paying £1.82 for a pint of stout.

In UCD when I was there you could get 8 pints for £12.

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By *eekyNerdMan
6 weeks ago

Portarlington

"Sugar sandwiches "

Miss those. And a decent crisp sandwich at the pub...

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By *insBadMan
5 weeks ago

& around

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By *TinyDelight-Woman
5 weeks ago

City Centre

The size of a Wagon Wheel (biscuit) in my tiny hand. 🥰

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By *eckme70Man
5 weeks ago

Strabane

"The size of a Wagon Wheel (biscuit) in my tiny hand. 🥰"

But it all about how you nibble your wagon wheel 🫦 especially the one's with the jam in the middle 😋

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By (user no longer on site)
5 weeks ago

The cost of going into the local disco..£1.50..money well spent ...great times & great tunes .🎶🎵🎼 & Painted on jeans , they definitely jumped off the wardrobe to get into them 🤣🤣

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By *mmortalbMan
5 weeks ago

kildare

Cadet?!!"

Haha that's the one

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