FabSwingers.com forum: Retro lookback..

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

Bebo and myspace were the future of social media...

Aertel was a great way to source information (remember following football scores live waiting on the screen to update

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Buying call cards to use public phone boxes to call people

Using the yellow pages to find a number for someone..

Renting a video out of Xtravision was something really exciting..

You had to put a deposit on a shopping trolly to force you return it before the coin unlock system (£10, might have just been a rough neighbourhood i was in)

Crazy Prices was grocery chain and KVI was the cheap brand...

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

You had to take the cassette out of the player and turn it around to hear the other side.

That one really cracks my kids up.

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

Putting 10p in the back of the tv that my parents rented before they could afford to buy one

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

Dial phones, I would always forget the last number I’d inputted and than have to start over! But I loved the sound!

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

"Putting 10p in the back of the tv that my parents rented before they could afford to buy one"

Ha yeah we rented our family TV for years. Madness when you look back on it now when most people have massive tvs in every room these days.

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

"Dial phones, I would always forget the last number I’d inputted and than have to start over! But I loved the sound!"

this. Knowing by heart several phone numbers of friends and family was part of it...

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By *ordjeffMan
over a year ago

around and about ,as travel.

"You had to take the cassette out of the player and turn it around to hear the other side.

That one really cracks my kids up."

And using a pen to wind the tape back up

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

"You had to take the cassette out of the player and turn it around to hear the other side.

That one really cracks my kids up.

And using a pen to wind the tape back up"

Hahaha yes

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By *unnitoesWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

The 'For mash get smash' advert

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By *kcoupleCouple
over a year ago

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I was flooring our loft over the last few weeks and in one of my treasure (junk) boxes I found my old Sony hard disc walkman. This was the future of music storage...for about three months

It took me two weeks to find software and convert it all back to mp3 from Sony's own software which one can't use anymore but I know have all my old music stored on my phone and a ish key for my car. I love Spotify and streaming but this was a blast from my stone age past

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

"The 'For mash get smash' advert

I'll go one better - Birds Angel Delight,my childhood was blighted by never getting some

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By *ouble Trouble 1000Couple
over a year ago

ireland

Vinyl records and the cracking that came with them,still have a box full and bought a retro record player a few months back to play them on -great memories !

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

"The 'For mash get smash' advert

I'll go one better - Birds Angel Delight,my childhood was blighted by never getting some"

You didn’t miss out! What was it meant to be?

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By *unnitoesWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

"The 'For mash get smash' advert

I'll go one better - Birds Angel Delight,my childhood was blighted by never getting some"

Hahaha!! My mum could never mix it properly so we used to have to drink it!! Soooo funny looking back lol.....remember cremola foam?

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

"The 'For mash get smash' advert

I'll go one better - Birds Angel Delight,my childhood was blighted by never getting some

You didn’t miss out! What was it meant to be?"

No idea whatsoever,but such is the power of advertising

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By *unnitoesWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

"The 'For mash get smash' advert

I'll go one better - Birds Angel Delight,my childhood was blighted by never getting some

You didn’t miss out! What was it meant to be?"

A light fluffy mousse!!

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

"The 'For mash get smash' advert

I'll go one better - Birds Angel Delight,my childhood was blighted by never getting some

You didn’t miss out! What was it meant to be?"

Small packs of diabetes aimed at children looking back at it now...

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside

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

"Vinyl records and the cracking that came with them,still have a box full and bought a retro record player a few months back to play them on -great memories !"

My friend used to DJ so we had many a happy evening with the vinyls

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By *unnitoesWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside"

So true! The chicken and bacon ones disappeared off the market...doubt there was either chicken or bacon in them!

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

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside"

I loved the curry ones. Wonder how many people ended up with first degree burns to tongue by Findus products...

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

For mash get Smash

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

Vesta dehydrated curries

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

"For mash get Smash

Oops - must read thread first in future

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

For some reason the Waltons and little house on the Prairie where always on in the background...

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

The old Hovis adverts, music is Dvorak; New World, boy on bike struggling up cobbled street. Advert done by no less than famous film director Ridley Scott ,!

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

Proper Maynards wine gums - now lost forever

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

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside"

I was just about to post that! The mince ones, minced what I have no idea but straight outta the fryer with chips - yum!

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By *unnitoesWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

"Vesta dehydrated curries"

Dried up shit looking back but was good for rations on hikes

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

"Vinyl records and the cracking that came with them,still have a box full and bought a retro record player a few months back to play them on -great memories !"

Anything by The Kooks in that box of vinyl?

And on topic having to take a film to the chemist to get it developed before seeing if any of your photos were of any use.

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside

So true! The chicken and bacon ones disappeared off the market...doubt there was either chicken or bacon in them!

I didn’t know they came in different flavours, we only had the mince ones.

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside

I was just about to post that! The mince ones, minced what I have no idea but straight outta the fryer with chips - yum!"

Yeah delicious when they cooled down.

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By *unnitoesWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside

So true! The chicken and bacon ones disappeared off the market...doubt there was either chicken or bacon in them!

I didn’t know they came in different flavours, we only had the mince ones. "

Ah no! Maybe the chiken and bacon ones ran out and Cork had never heard of curry back then lol!!

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

I still love angel delight

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

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside

So true! The chicken and bacon ones disappeared off the market...doubt there was either chicken or bacon in them!

I didn’t know they came in different flavours, we only had the mince ones.

Ah no! Maybe the chiken and bacon ones ran out and Cork had never heard of curry back then lol!!

Oh god I loved those minced ( something) ones

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside

So true! The chicken and bacon ones disappeared off the market...doubt there was either chicken or bacon in them!

I didn’t know they came in different flavours, we only had the mince ones.

Ah no! Maybe the chiken and bacon ones ran out and Cork had never heard of curry back then lol!!

We missed out on a lot of things in Cork but at least we have Tanora

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

Wagon wheels the size of a wagon wheel and not the size of a cotton reel

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By *unnitoesWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside

So true! The chicken and bacon ones disappeared off the market...doubt there was either chicken or bacon in them!

I didn’t know they came in different flavours, we only had the mince ones.

Ah no! Maybe the chiken and bacon ones ran out and Cork had never heard of curry back then lol!!

We missed out on a lot of things in Cork but at least we have Tanora

By 1995 Cork had become much more metropolitan but what is tanora?

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

Telly without a remote control

Cock pics back then were taken with a Polaroid cameras

Any ideas what was used for size comparison?

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By *unnitoesWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

"Wagon wheels the size of a wagon wheel and not the size of a cotton reel"

There's a song about that

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside

So true! The chicken and bacon ones disappeared off the market...doubt there was either chicken or bacon in them!

I didn’t know they came in different flavours, we only had the mince ones.

Ah no! Maybe the chiken and bacon ones ran out and Cork had never heard of curry back then lol!!

We missed out on a lot of things in Cork but at least we have Tanora

By 1995 Cork had become much more metropolitan but what is tanora?

A tangerine flavoured drink, mainly sold in Cork.

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

"Telly without a remote control

Cock pics back then were taken with a Polaroid cameras

Any ideas what was used for size comparison? "

A curly wurly ?

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

"Telly without a remote control

Cock pics back then were taken with a Polaroid cameras

Any ideas what was used for size comparison? "

Marathon Bars

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By *unnitoesWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside

So true! The chicken and bacon ones disappeared off the market...doubt there was either chicken or bacon in them!

I didn’t know they came in different flavours, we only had the mince ones.

Ah no! Maybe the chiken and bacon ones ran out and Cork had never heard of curry back then lol!!

We missed out on a lot of things in Cork but at least we have Tanora

By 1995 Cork had become much more metropolitan but what is tanora?

A tangerine flavoured drink, mainly sold in Cork. "

Ohhhh! Sounds tangy!!

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside

So true! The chicken and bacon ones disappeared off the market...doubt there was either chicken or bacon in them!

I didn’t know they came in different flavours, we only had the mince ones.

Ah no! Maybe the chiken and bacon ones ran out and Cork had never heard of curry back then lol!!

We missed out on a lot of things in Cork but at least we have Tanora

By 1995 Cork had become much more metropolitan but what is tanora?

A tangerine flavoured drink, mainly sold in Cork.

Ohhhh! Sounds tangy!!"

A nice chilled can on a hot day, can’t beat it.

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By *easingTimMan
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

- We had a total of 6 channels on tv

yet our cousins in the country only had RTE1 & 2

- Bought my first vinyl album called

Now That's What I Call Music 1

- My best mates mum

used to wear leg warmers

and did aerobics (she was hot too ...not as much these days though)

- Holidays were to the carivan park in Courtown

- Sodastream was all the rage as well as a ZX Spectrum (which took 10 bolldy minutes to load a game)

- You never missed a show like THE A-TEAM, MACGYVER & KNIGHT RIDER as few had a video recorder...

- Bosco sold more records than U2 one year too!

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford

The incredibly baggy clothes of the mid 90's. Petro Motion jeans with the back pockets almost behind your knees.

The American sports teams gear, again, baggy as fuck.

I still have a San Jose Sharks top that I got in '93 and it's even way too big for me today

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

Mosney was the place to go for madness hats, ears pierced and first kisses behind a chalet

Wham bars were really sour and fizzy

And The Sullivan’s was on daily at lunchtime. Saturday nights we all watched The Generation Game and HiDiHi together as a family and no mobile phones or devices in sight.

Madness Ub40 and Bob Marley we’re legends and lads carried around lumps of Lino and ghetto blasters

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By *ubberNumbersCouple
over a year ago

dublin

"You do the shake n vac and put the freshness back, do the the shake n vac and put the freshness back"

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

Anyone remember "could you show me a metre"

P S That's not an invitation for cock pics, lads.

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

"You had to take the cassette out of the player and turn it around to hear the other side.

That one really cracks my kids up."

True and also the a pencil and a cassette

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

"Anyone remember "could you show me a metre"

P S That's not an invitation for cock pics, lads."

Damn a meter of cock would defo be too much, even for me.

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By *etmebeurfantasyWoman
over a year ago

My town

My daughter wants a record player. I told her I remember waiting for a single to come out and nearly running home to play it.

Back in the day...

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By *etmebeurfantasyWoman
over a year ago

My town

Being given lucozade in the orange foil over the bottle whenever I was ill. I got bloody lucozade I still hate the stuff and my kids love it .

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

We loved getting cidona drink ahhh happy days lol

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By *hoknows82Man
over a year ago

Nenagh / South Dublin

Making mix tapes for my mates and girls I liked.

I miss those days.

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

"Making mix tapes for my mates and girls I liked.

I miss those days.

Mix tapes were awesome

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

When seat belts didnt exist

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

When families had only one car

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

When en-suite bathrooms were for people with notions

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

"When families had only one car"

When families had a car !!

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

"Making mix tapes for my mates and girls I liked.

I miss those days.

Sigh, nobody ever offered me a mix tape

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By *he English OneMan
over a year ago

west

"Bebo and myspace were the future of social media...

Aertel was a great way to source information (remember following football scores live waiting on the screen to update

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Buying call cards to use public phone boxes to call people

Using the yellow pages to find a number for someone..

Renting a video out of Xtravision was something really exciting..

You had to put a deposit on a shopping trolly to force you return it before the coin unlock system (£10, might have just been a rough neighbourhood i was in)

Crazy Prices was grocery chain and KVI was the cheap brand...

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well remember when the pokemon craze went on not one person I saw that didn't like Pokémon weather it was the cards or the games or just watching the show and it was easy to get into girls good books if you had a pikachu card you get popular very quick lol

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

When you didnt go to Dublin without sandwiches and a flask of tea to have on the way

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

When petrol pumps were on the pavement

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

"Bebo and myspace were the future of social media...

Aertel was a great way to source information (remember following football scores live waiting on the screen to update

)

Buying call cards to use public phone boxes to call people

Using the yellow pages to find a number for someone..

Renting a video out of Xtravision was something really exciting..

You had to put a deposit on a shopping trolly to force you return it before the coin unlock system (£10, might have just been a rough neighbourhood i was in)

Crazy Prices was grocery chain and KVI was the cheap brand...

Anymore to add

well remember when the pokemon craze went on not one person I saw that didn't like Pokémon weather it was the cards or the games or just watching the show and it was easy to get into girls good books if you had a pikachu card you get popular very quick lol "

When the Honky Tonk Man was Cool, Cocky and Bad

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By *he English OneMan
over a year ago

west

"Bebo and myspace were the future of social media...

Aertel was a great way to source information (remember following football scores live waiting on the screen to update

)

Buying call cards to use public phone boxes to call people

Using the yellow pages to find a number for someone..

Renting a video out of Xtravision was something really exciting..

You had to put a deposit on a shopping trolly to force you return it before the coin unlock system (£10, might have just been a rough neighbourhood i was in)

Crazy Prices was grocery chain and KVI was the cheap brand...

Anymore to add

When the Honky Tonk Man was Cool, Cocky and Bad

Lol or when everyone has a price for the million dollar man haha lol honky still cool

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

"Bebo and myspace were the future of social media...

Aertel was a great way to source information (remember following football scores live waiting on the screen to update

)

Buying call cards to use public phone boxes to call people

Using the yellow pages to find a number for someone..

Renting a video out of Xtravision was something really exciting..

You had to put a deposit on a shopping trolly to force you return it before the coin unlock system (£10, might have just been a rough neighbourhood i was in)

Crazy Prices was grocery chain and KVI was the cheap brand...

Anymore to add

When the Honky Tonk Man was Cool, Cocky and Bad

Lol or when everyone has a price for the million dollar man haha lol honky still cool

You cannot kill what's already dead

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

Evel knievel bike and track stunt wind up toy thingy.....used to make mine do the most outrageous stunts lol

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

When you had to do something notable to become a celebrity

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

When you had to go into a call box to make a call when you were out and about

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

Made my first sex tape on a Betamax machine with a big camera on a cable and tripod. Wish I still had the tape.

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

""You do the shake n vac and put the freshness back, do the the shake n vac and put the freshness back""

She was a MILF. Always thought she was getting rid of sex aromas before her hubby got back from work.

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

"When you had to go into a call box to make a call when you were out and about"

Finding 50p in the phone box was like winning the Lotto

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

"When you had to go into a call box to make a call when you were out and about

Finding 50p in the phone box was like winning the Lotto

Jamming a lollipop stick up the B part and calling back later to gather your winnings

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By *hoknows82Man
over a year ago

Nenagh / South Dublin

"Making mix tapes for my mates and girls I liked.

I miss those days.

Sigh, nobody ever offered me a mix tape

C'mon! I find that hard to believe!

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

Sigh, nobody ever offered me a mix tape

C'mon! I find that hard to believe!"

It’s true not that it matters as I’m not a music buff or anything but I think it is a very sweet idea!

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By *icey55Man
over a year ago

Dublin /Meath

Taping songs off the radio !

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

"Taping songs off the radio !"

Hoping that the DJ wouldn't do a voice over!

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By *icey55Man
over a year ago

Dublin /Meath

"Taping songs off the radio !

Hoping that the DJ wouldn't do a voice over!

Getting ready to stop just in case dj ruined it lol

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By *hoknows82Man
over a year ago

Nenagh / South Dublin

Sigh, nobody ever offered me a mix tape

C'mon! I find that hard to believe!

It’s true not that it matters as I’m not a music buff or anything but I think it is a very sweet idea!"

Now I'll have to make a playlist for you!

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

When the remote control for the Betamax was attached by a wire , lol .

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

Sigh, nobody ever offered me a mix tape

C'mon! I find that hard to believe!

It’s true not that it matters as I’m not a music buff or anything but I think it is a very sweet idea!

Now I'll have to make a playlist for you!

Awwwh, thank you

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By *icey55Man
over a year ago

Dublin /Meath

Sigh, nobody ever offered me a mix tape

C'mon! I find that hard to believe!

It’s true not that it matters as I’m not a music buff or anything but I think it is a very sweet idea!

Now I'll have to make a playlist for you!

Awwwh, thank you

Think you'll now get hundreds of tapes in the post Mrs B x

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

When your favourite music play list was a tape recorded from the radio!!!with bits of advertising and news thrown in lol

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

"When your favourite music play list was a tape recorded from the radio!!!with bits of advertising and news thrown in lol"

Now that is retro

Kaizer used to create his own adverts

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

A head wrecker when the song was cut short

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford

Beat on the Street with Electric Eddie

"8 till late"

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

I once had a tape with some music , and Radio Nova getting raided by the cops live on air . Ah , the good old days , lol

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

"Beat on the Street with Electric Eddie

"8 till late""

Noisy Mothers

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

"When you had to go into a call box to make a call when you were out and about

Finding 50p in the phone box was like winning the Lotto

Anybody do the 3 rings when you were ready to be collected by your parents. Use the call box to ring home, let the phone ring 3 times and hang up. Didn’t cost a penny.

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By *ilbearniMan
over a year ago

peninsula

Tiswas or Swap shop?

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By *ugarandspice101Couple
over a year ago

Belfast

"Findus crispy pancakes. Crispy on the outside, molten lava on the inside"

I actually have tears of laughter at this one

But so true

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By *eanbelfastMan
over a year ago

Belfast

What about champion the wonder horse and the flashing blade on a Saturday morning

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

"Putting 10p in the back of the tv that my parents rented before they could afford to buy one"
10p that was cheap. 50p here.

I miss putting adds in the sex magazine's. And having to have a po box

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

I miss when you got a new pair of “branded” trainers and when you wore them out for the first time you did it nonchalantly but secretly hoping your mates would notice and say how magnificent they were and how much they cost whilst you had a peek to make sure yours were better than theirs. And god forbid the day you got a bit of mud on them !!!

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

I miss doing all night what it now takes me all night do

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By *yintotryCouple
over a year ago

Belfast

Liverpool winning the league

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

Taking turns holding the rabbits ears in a certain direction so you could get a signal on the rented Telly

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

Being sick off primary school and watching Mr Benn on TV at lunch time

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

Wishing ur mom would buy some Special K cos uve seen it on telly, eaten by a milf, but was always “too expensive son”

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By *ickirishallsortsMan
over a year ago

Lickie Manor

FIZZLE STICKS

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

"Liverpool winning the league"
tell me about it every year I put a £5 on Liverpool. And we need a miracle to win this year

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

Adjusting the aerial of the black and white rented TV with one station and huge rotary dial for volume, RTE and the day we could get HTV wow!!

Our first owned black and white TV and the way we had to use cardboard to hold the channel buttons in a certain position to get the the best reception.

Our orange and cream record player and the day my sister bought her first single which she played all day.

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By *ickirishallsortsMan
over a year ago

Lickie Manor

"Adjusting the aerial of the black and white rented TV with one station and huge rotary dial for volume, RTE and the day we could get HTV wow!!

Our first owned black and white TV and the way we had to use cardboard to hold the channel buttons in a certain position to get the the best reception.

Our orange and cream record player and the day my sister bought her first single which she played all day.

Ditto, I was there, I love a trip down memory lane, good times, keep in touch, it’s what makes us...

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

When tv didn't kick off til six in the evening , and all the ads were read by the same posh bloke , lol . What a thrill when breakfast tv came along , esp Selina Scott , Raaawr !! lol

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

When there were only 3 TV channels and they finished at about 1030 pm with the test card - some schoolgirl looking into your eyes as she did her sums on a blackboard - what was that all about ?

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

Remembering the night when it was late; Tv had finished .... the test card was about to come on the screen.... it was a black and white tiny portable tv on a chair next to my teenage bed ( what a luxury - I had the second tv !!) , the screen was blank ..... the TV announcer was saying “and that concludes our programmes for tonight.....oh- and we have just received the news that the King is dead. Elvis Presley has died . Goodnight.” . Cue test card on screen and that was that . What did he just say ?. Elvis was dead - WTF ?. No 24 hr news. No Internet - just a quick throwaway mention before the blackboard girl faced ya

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

Wham bars , meanies,

Desperate Dans,

Fat frogs, wheelies,

Super cans,

DipDab, double dips,

What about mint crisps ?

Paper rounds, climbing trees,

Bumpy heads and bloody knees,

A carefree life, no adult strife,

No arsehole husband or nagging wife,

Each generation with rose tinted glasses,

Boys were boys and lasses were lasses,

So as the world turns and life becomes stranger,

Once upon a time you were the danger,

While it's nice to look back,

To look back in the past,

Live life in the moment

Or life passes fast.

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford

Liverpool winning the league

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

Thinking Ready Brek gave you super powers. Walking everywhere. Coca Cola yoyos

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