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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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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
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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?!
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By (user no longer on site)
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"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. "
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 |
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)
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"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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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 *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
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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 *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
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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)
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"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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Id send postcards from holidays in Ireland, and bring back a stick of rock |
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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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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
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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 *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 (user no longer on site)
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"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
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"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 (user no longer on site)
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"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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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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"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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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 *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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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 *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
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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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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 (user no longer on site)
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"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."
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
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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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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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"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.
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Impossible, that's exactly why they spoke over the end, to stop you recording the full thing |
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"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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