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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Hi looking at people today on there phones got me thinking about teenage years when we meet up at the phone box and to make a call you needed a call card,so just wondering is there things today that young people would not believe we did or had to do..let's start reminding.. |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
Turn up on a date cause we had no phones at home to change or cancel it
Run across Dublin to get your last bus cause you dropped her to her last bus
Condoms could only be bought in England and smuggled into Ireland
Black and white TV ....with 2 channels
One I discussed yesterday with someone else .....my mother heating my dinner on a plate over a boiling pot of water that made everything too hard and inedible
No Internet
How feckin old am I
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Walking to school. No buses or parents cars.
Walking to school through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe.
Scr*ping the ice of the inside of the windows in the morning before you could see out.
Walking to a nearby farm for milk because of shortages in the shops.
*Sad that we can't even use the word scr aping
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"Walking to school. No buses or parents cars.
Walking to school through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe.
Scr*ping the ice of the inside of the windows in the morning before you could see out.
Walking to a nearby farm for milk because of shortages in the shops.
*Sad that we can't even use the word scr aping
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What can't you use the word scr aping? Should I feel tick or uneducated here? |
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"Walking to school. No buses or parents cars.
Walking to school through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe.
Scr*ping the ice of the inside of the windows in the morning before you could see out.
Walking to a nearby farm for milk because of shortages in the shops.
*Sad that we can't even use the word scr aping
What can't you use the word scr aping? Should I feel tick or uneducated here?"
Take the sc out of it and it becomes one of the words not allowed on the site |
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By *3nsesMan
over a year ago
Dublin |
"Walking to school. No buses or parents cars.
Walking to school through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe.
Scr*ping the ice of the inside of the windows in the morning before you could see out.
Walking to a nearby farm for milk because of shortages in the shops.
*Sad that we can't even use the word scr aping
What can't you use the word scr aping? Should I feel tick or uneducated here?"
Because it includes the word r*aping. The system blocks all words with that term.
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"Walking to school. No buses or parents cars.
Walking to school through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe.
Scr*ping the ice of the inside of the windows in the morning before you could see out.
Walking to a nearby farm for milk because of shortages in the shops.
*Sad that we can't even use the word scr aping
What can't you use the word scr aping? Should I feel tick or uneducated here?
Because it includes the word r*aping. The system blocks all words with that term.
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Ah ok. Did not know that. Cheers |
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If you missed the last bus, you were walking. End of.
Washing the milk bottles at night to put them out, then fighting over the cream on the top.
Someone drilled a hole in a 10p coin and we were able to use it over and over to make phone calls. |
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By *lameBoyMan
over a year ago
Enfield & Dublin |
Jumping on the back corner of the bus if I had the few pence to go to school without walking. The tan cord suspended from the ceiling through lots of brass eyes. Pull once to stop. The conductor would pull twice when everyone was on, ding ding! Off we go. Elderly folk would be told “go ahead” by the conductor as they came with the few shillings in hand. |
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"If you missed the last bus, you were walking. End of.
Washing the milk bottles at night to put them out, then fighting over the cream on the top.
Someone drilled a hole in a 10p coin and we were able to use it over and over to make phone calls. "
They installed an anti thread guard in vending machine coin mechanisms in the mid 80s to prevent this but it probably took the phone companies longer to catch up. |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in Co. Down |
There was one taxi in the local town so you either booked him early for a spin home and hoped he showed or you walked .
Using a rotary house phone.
Having to look up the encyclopedias in the library to get information to do homework.
Having lots of blankets on the bed before we got duvets and frost on the inside of the windows in the mornings.
Taping songs off the radio and hoping the DJ wouldn't talk over the end of them.
Having to push cars in the morning to get them to start. |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
If you wanted a cheap flight somewhere like london you had to book a month in advance and you had to stay on a Saturday night
You had to queue to go to the cinema or to buy a concert ticket
You could walk into croke park on all ireland final day and pay at the turnstiles |
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By *razy-CplCouple
over a year ago
and surrounding areas |
Going to shop and buying 1/2 penny sweets ,loved the chocolate toffee ones, and were put in brown paper bags , ud have to eat them quick before they would start sticking to the paper 
Mrs crazy  |
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Cons
- Atari with 2 rectangles and a ball graphic to play tennis against your mate with
- Walk to chip shop and menu was battered burger, sausage or snack box
- Dress up was what everyone did at Halloween (although the rumour was Mrs Murphy up the road wore french knickers and bra and she was 40!!!! Imagine... )
- Walk to Xtravision at loiter there on a Saturday evening at 6pm in the hope that your favourite new release had been returned
- Benny Hill Show was the height of open sexuality
Pros
- Live boxing, tennis and soccer matches on the tv (tv meant television then)
- Play great games outdoors (kick the can, knick-knocks, rounders)
- Everywhere was closed Sunday and family time
- Your mates word against yours as to who snogged who the night before (no pics or vids)
- "Snogging" or "a shif"t meant kissing   |
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Findus Crispy Pancakes for tea,
Getting hit with the wooden spoon so our Ma would not hurt her hand,
Going to mass and the Ma asking what the sermon was about when you got home,
Either the fan belt breaking, clutch cable snapping or the car engine overheating on every long summer drive we went on. |
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By *j47Man
over a year ago
limerick |
"Turn up on a date cause we had no phones at home to change or cancel it
Run across Dublin to get your last bus cause you dropped her to her last bus
Condoms could only be bought in England and smuggled into Ireland
Black and white TV ....with 2 channels
One I discussed yesterday with someone else .....my mother heating my dinner on a plate over a boiling pot of water that made everything too hard and inedible
No Internet
How feckin old am I
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Two fecking channels jayus i was nearly a auld fella when we got two channels |
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By *j47Man
over a year ago
limerick |
Things my kids would never believe
Tapping out a phone number on a pay phone
Those were the days
Knock a dolly
Knocking on a door pissing the house holder off till he gave u a chase
If u were bold enough getting a cow pad into a plastic bag putting a firelighter in to it lighting it and knocking on the door and leaving the ignited cowpad on the step
I can still see the white of his teeth as he stamped the fire out and realising he splated a cowshite over his best shoes |
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By *iktikiCouple
over a year ago
cork |
"If you missed the last bus, you were walking. End of.
Washing the milk bottles at night to put them out, then fighting over the cream on the top.
Someone drilled a hole in a 10p coin and we were able to use it over and over to make phone calls. "
Used to use a key to push the bar back in the coin slot and bang the front of phone to make it sound like you had put money in  |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
"Being sent to the shop with a note from your parents to get cigarettes "
Being sent to your mums best friend across the road with an empty brown bag and a note...the bag always had something in it on the way back but closed with sellotape |
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By *dfabMan
over a year ago
Dunboyne |
Chicken curry in the night club at midnight!
After which was the first slow set 
No timer on immersion, just on/off
Having a ch@ke out on car before trying to start it.
The sound of a 56k modem dial up or a cassette tape loading a game/program to a computer.
Green text on a black 10in screen, thinking it was the best thing ever |
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