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By *og-ManMan 15 weeks ago
somewhere |
No condoms apart from Trinity college students union and the back page of The Sunday world
Sharing porn mags with mates and the pages being stuck together sometimes
Learning to open a bra
Erections at the most awkward time
Dirty movies on channel 4 with a warning triangle
Porn tapes under the counter in your local video club
The first time you felt another person's body
Coronation street
The Thorn Birds
Going to the pictures and not having to book a seat in advance
Roller disco's
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By *eturning MGMan 15 weeks ago
mayo galway roscommon sligo....West Of Ireland |
Chatting a person up in person. Actually goin out on a limb and relying on your ability to go solo and pull. That you have enough game to do well for yourself.Not hoping your verification get you a meet. Too many on fab think 100 verifications mean they are gorgeous. Bring it all down to old school and if you were in a pub before social media how would you do??? |
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Proper dating and the guy/s actually picking you up at your house and bringing you safely home afterwards.
Sam Spudz smokey bacon, they were my favourite crisps of all time!!
Creme eggs used to be gorgeous then they added the sugar and I've never ate them since!
When the landline phone number used to be 2 digits!!
Slow sets at disco's/nightclubs!!
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By *INTMan 15 weeks ago
Minutes from Somewhere Else |
"Chatting a person up in person. Actually goin out on a limb and relying on your ability to go solo and pull. That you have enough game to do well for yourself."
This is still a thing. I continue to have better luck in the vanilla world than I do on Fab.
Thus far, anyway. Only around 2 months in as yet. |
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By *ezoMan 15 weeks ago
The Kingdom |
"Colourful Fujifilm camera's in the handbag
No eyebrows
Peace and pout poses 😆"
I was notorious for bringing those disposable cameras on night outs.
Captured some nice pictures,  , with permission of course. |
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By *og-ManMan 15 weeks ago
somewhere |
When you had to use a phone box to ring someone or when someone answered ask them to call to the house beside the phone box and tell the girl she was wanted on the phone
Going out with 20 quid and having a few drinks and a bag of chips on the way home
Getting on a plane for the first time at the age of 21
Going to the nude beach in PDI at the age of 22 and not being able to stand because you couldn't stop your erection
Dirt ads in The Hot Press Magazine
Remembering phone numbers and getting a girls number
Real music at the disco's
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By *INTMan 15 weeks ago
Minutes from Somewhere Else |
"When you had to use a phone box to ring someone "
Aaah! Reminds me of the good ol' days of analogue exchanges where you could dial numbers for free simply by tapping the cradle at the right frequency. |
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Wind up car windows
Waiting for your jam to play on the radio (long wave radio Atlantic 252 springs to mind) and being ready to hit the play and record button together.
Having to rewind a vhs that you got from the video shop when you brought it home. |
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Cotton candy lippy by Constance Carroll
Electric blue mascara
Bags of broken biscuits
Reverse charge phonecalls
Rainbow stripe roller blades with stoppers
Plain crisps with blue salt bags
Ra-ra skirts
Tukka boots
Top 10 recorded on the clunkiest tape recorder |
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Thumbing a lift at Newlands Cross to get down the country.
Fish and chips in newspaper.
Dance halls with no alcohol.
4711, Brut aftershave.
Spring show in RDS for us young culchies.
Drapery shops in every town.
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By *og-ManMan 15 weeks ago
somewhere |
Queuing to buy tickets for concerts especially Michael Jackson in Cork
Being taught how to french kiss by her friend
Giving lifts to total strangers
PVC seats in cars so in the summer you got burnt by them and in the winter you were frozen by them |
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Having to end it in person with someone you were seeing 
Asking someone you fancied out for a drink or a cinema date wasn't seen as some sort of red flag 🚩
Getting ready to go out without constantly updating each other on your progress
Little gifts in cereal packets
The sheer excitement when you got a takeaway from the only Chinese within a 15 mile radius
Spaghetti Bolognese was exotic rather than a weekday staple
Borrowing £10 from mum for a whole night out
Picking spuds for pocket money and the excitement of going to Belfast to spend it, getting a whole outfit - with accessories! - from Top Shop for the £16 you made from 2 weeks hard labour
Boxer boots
Pastel eyeshadow
Perms
Tudor crisps
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By *og-ManMan 15 weeks ago
somewhere |
Toasted ham and cheese sandwiches in a plastic bag in the pub meant they did food
Tayto pub crisps and TK red lemonade on a sunday afternoon in the pub with your parents
Dinner was eat or don't eat ....no choice in the matter
You left your house in the morning and came home when it got dark |
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Double denim and white runners on a night out in the pub. Chinos and smart shirt on a night out in Tomangoes... (Assuming you got past Bren the little bollix on the door)! The manky burger and chips covered in gravy that they had to serve...which was gorgeous when you were d*unk but ran through you the next morning!! Pubs and nightclubs thick with smoke before the ban came in. And having to walk home because you could never get a taxi!! And the best bit?? Making plans for the following weekend because mobile phones weren't around. We all knew on a Saturday what we were doing the following weekend...you just rocked up at the agreed time and had a laugh!!  |
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Waiting by the phone box for a call.
Using your last 3 pound on a Johnny machine in the pub that didn't work , but you were to embrassed to complain ( think it was a scam)
The real Banshee Bones with the flavours that have since been banned in 20 country's
Desperste Dan bars that kept dentists in business in the 80s
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Only one house in the estate with a phone so when someone died in hospital or a nursing home all calls went to that house day and night and it was up to them to go knocking doors to pass on the news.
There was a phone box but it was 100 yards from one of the largest army bases in Western Europe so nobody used it. There were multiple clicks and noises on the line if you did use it for a taxi.
Local shop where I was often left in charge aged 9 or 10 while the owner nipped into her house for lunch or if no-one was available you just took what you needed and wrote it in the book and settled up later.
No own brand products and only one size and type of each cereal, washing powder etc.
Nobody had a new bike ever. When one kid got too big for the old one, it was left in a central area for anyone to use it or given to the neighbours kids. One man repaired all the bikes foc and we were riding bikes that were 30 and 40 years old.
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By *og-ManMan 15 weeks ago
somewhere |
"MMF
MM
FF
FFM
MFM
We didn't have a clue what any of them meant
We all knew what WWF meant !!!"
World Wildlife Fund
The only wrestlers I knew were
Big Daddy
Giant Haystacks
Mick McManus
Kendo Nagasaki
Some aul dear with her handbag and umbrella trying to hit them through the ropes |
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"MMF
MM
FF
FFM
MFM
We didn't have a clue what any of them meant
We all knew what WWF meant !!!
World Wildlife Fund
The only wrestlers I knew were
Big Daddy
Giant Haystacks
Mick McManus
Kendo Nagasaki
Some aul dear with her handbag and umbrella trying to hit them through the ropes "
LOL you knew 3 more than me , lost me after Giant Haystacks @! |
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By *licat.2Woman 15 weeks ago
Not Belfast but NI |
Working in the village chippy till 10pm then walking the 3 miles home on country roads. Bringing a fish supper with me for my Mum when she met me half way home.
Walking everywhere so you could spend the bus fare. You always got a lift and even though you didn't know them, they knew your family.
Picking potatoes & bringing in the hay. The farmers wife would arrive in the tractor with an enormous saucepan filled with stew and hunks of bread or doorstep sandwiches.....fantastic memories😁
Bog, MFM, MMF etc I only learned about since I joined Fab. 😂🤣
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By *SydneyMan 15 weeks ago
Dublin/London |
Call Cards
‘Ibiza Uncovered’ on Sky 1 or ‘Eurotrash’ on Channel 4 would give you an erection you couldn’t get rid of unless you took care of it
6 cans for £€5 or round of drinks cost 10
Hand over bra ‘topping’ with the girl you fancied was the epitome of cool
Mr Freeze Pops
Trying to get it back in your pants and your fly up when you heard her Dads footsteps coming up the stairs 🤦🏻♂️🤣
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By *astello OP Woman 15 weeks ago
Far far away |
Omg l absolutely love this stuff..so many memories...giving my BF a mix tape recorded off the radio.
Call cards
Black Jack's and fruit salad sweets.
Multi coloured laces and neon lights in the disco...white bras and dandruff were no nos |
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By *oo32Man 15 weeks ago
tipperary |
The leaving
Pubs being busy
Sunday sessions and praying for rain on Monday
Holy hours 2-4,you'd to be in by 2
Burning cds(porn) when dvd's first came out
Thumbing
People going to a gig and listening instead of recording everything for insta
No mobile phones
Flip mobile phones
Disposable cameras
Yellow brand dunnes
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By *licat.2Woman 15 weeks ago
Not Belfast but NI |
"Going to other people's houses to pray..... 5 decades of the rosary or something and then sandwiches, cake and buns afterwards and tea or coffee! I hated it but had no choice in it.   "
The 5 of us had to kneel beside the sofa or chair every night and say the rosary. Knees used to be aching
Don't know if toothpaste ever hid love bites though. I had very few in my time but my Mum always knew. I must have a guilty look about me lol  |
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"Going to other people's houses to pray..... 5 decades of the rosary or something and then sandwiches, cake and buns afterwards and tea or coffee! I hated it but had no choice in it.
The 5 of us had to kneel beside the sofa or chair every night and say the rosary. Knees used to be aching
Don't know if toothpaste ever hid love bites though. I had very few in my time but my Mum always knew. I must have a guilty look about me lol "
Yeah, we had to kneel down the whole time, think it was a monthly thing! |
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Your Dads Old Spice
TVs with a remote control that has a cable
Cars with no radio
Rugby club discos and getting a slow dance/mooch.
Finding a bag of cans and a porn mag in a bush.
Getting a talking to from your dates auld fella about his daughter.
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By *licat.2Woman 15 weeks ago
Not Belfast but NI |
"Trying to hide love bites using toothpaste
We used combs to comb it out to break down the blood "
One time my bro in law held me down and his mate sucked my neck soo hard blood came through the skin. It was really sore.
My bf wasn't impressed 🤣😂
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By *og-ManMan 15 weeks ago
somewhere |
"Having to get up off the sofa to turn out the TV as there was no such thing as a TV remote back in the day!! Only having 2/3 stations!!
Turn on the TV rather!!"
What about waiting in it to heat up to come on or go off
And it was in Black and White |
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"Having to get up off the sofa to turn out the TV as there was no such thing as a TV remote back in the day!! Only having 2/3 stations!!
Turn on the TV rather!!
What about waiting in it to heat up to come on or go off
And it was in Black and White "
Yeah B/W TV!! |
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By (user no longer on site) 15 weeks ago
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Sunflowers perfume
Now that’s what I call music
School around the corner
Mr frosty
Petit 990 typewriter (and the ad music)
Clark’s shoes- the one with the key in the sole(and the ad)
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By (user no longer on site) 15 weeks ago
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"I think we all pushing on a bit .. we couldn’t swing when the Black & White telly was warming up !"
I don’t remember having a B&W TV, but I have a terrible memory! |
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By *og-ManMan 15 weeks ago
somewhere |
Getting new clothes at Christmas
All other clothes hand me downs from older brothers and cousins
Feeding the dog with whatever was left on the plates after dinner
Not having central heating in the house so frost on the inside of the window in the winter
Dad paying the mortgage and feeding a family of six on a wage as a bus driver ( but he might have taken a go ahead as it was a single decker ) |
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By *og-ManMan 15 weeks ago
somewhere |
"Wanderly Wagon
Bosco
Magic roundabout (loved it at the time!!!!) 🙂 ❤️
Any one ever go to the lamberts theatre on school tour ?
You got to meet them all !!"
Brought the kids there once
They couldn't believe I got to talk to Judge and Mr crow and nearly cried
They were bored  |
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By *habMan 15 weeks ago
Boomtown |
"Going to other people's houses to pray..... 5 decades of the rosary or something and then sandwiches, cake and buns afterwards and tea or coffee! I hated it but had no choice in it.
The 5 of us had to kneel beside the sofa or chair every night and say the rosary. Knees used to be aching
Don't know if toothpaste ever hid love bites though. I had very few in my time but my Mum always knew. I must have a guilty look about me lol "
Only 5, my grandmother would insist on 15, then pray for the conversion of China and Russia
Leo Sayer and Gilbert O Sullivan
Platform Shoes and Flares Girls in their Bay City Roller pants
Raquel Welsh in the Cinema, the original wet dream |
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Smash hits
Bushing
Piking small bales
September Sundays
Who said mass
Grunge or boy bands
Silk cut purple
Thumbing home from collage
Blue movies
Scalextrix
Zetor
Slow sets
Jimmy Barry Murphy
Tribunals
Istabraq
Ceasefires
Pull out the cho.ke
Adidas predators or coppa munidals
White dog shit
Going to the creamery
Creamy milk straight from the tank
Pamela Anderson
Politicians giving speeches after mass on the back of a truck
Timofte versus Bonner
7 square yorkies
Belgium army jackets
The parlour
Stations
The double and teddy mac
Flies on the windscreen
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By *ettaManMan 15 weeks ago
Based in Kerry, work in Cork. |
"Longwave Radio Atlantic 252
I used love that"
When I first discovered it, I thought I had stumbled across some obscure pirate radio station broadcasting from somewhere in the Atlantic ocean. |
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By *dfabMan 15 weeks ago
Dunboyne |
"Longwave Radio Atlantic 252
I used love that
When I first discovered it, I thought I had stumbled across some obscure pirate radio station broadcasting from somewhere in the Atlantic ocean."
Summerhill. An exotic place in Meath but sure we have loads of them here
Just a few miles away but I think the mast was dismantled in the past year or two. |
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