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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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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...
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"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
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"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"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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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
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"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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"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)
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"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 (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"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 (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"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
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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
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"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 (user no longer on site)
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"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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"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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"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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"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 (user no longer on site)
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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- 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
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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
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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 (user no longer on site)
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"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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"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 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"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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"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 "
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)
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"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
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
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""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 *oserMan
over a year ago
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"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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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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 *hoknows82Man
over a year ago
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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)
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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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Awwwh, thank you |
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By *icey55Man
over a year ago
Dublin /Meath |
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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)
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"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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"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 (user no longer on site)
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"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)
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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 (user no longer on site)
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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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"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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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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