The 70's and 80's in Ireland

Count Down · 12-11-2018 3:16pm

fryup wrote: »

i got a sugar addiction from them....ended going to rebab

I remember a fool at school who used to graze on ketchup and beef dripping (Frytex) sandwiches, followed by a bottle of cold tea.:eek:

lord lucan · 13-11-2018 12:04am

Am I the only one that remembers The Highway Man,late 80s iirc.

https://youtu.be/4S43ASGEOuU

The Princess Bride · 13-11-2018 2:09am

Count Down wrote: »

I remember a fool at school who used to graze on ketchup and beef dripping (Frytex) sandwiches, followed by a bottle of cold tea.:eek:

That triggered a memory of Galtee cheese sandwiches and milk in a brown sauce bottle.
The milk was warm by lunchtime.

I think I had cheese sandwiches every single day for 13 years of school.

Count Down · 13-11-2018 8:54am

The Princess Bride wrote: »

That triggered a memory of Galtee cheese sandwiches and milk in a brown sauce bottle.
The milk was warm by lunchtime.

I think I had cheese sandwiches every single day for 13 years of school.

I too had Galtee cheese sandwiches and the disgusting Calvita 'cheese'. Put me off cheese for a long time because I thought that real cheese tasted like this.:o

PGE1970 · 13-11-2018 2:38pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8oeiVDcx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4C7vSByMM

So 1980s.

Rubberlegs · 13-11-2018 2:42pm

Hart to Hart, "Cause when they met, it was moider"

branie2 · 14-11-2018 12:28am

MacGyver, saving the day with everyday objects

Sardonicat · 14-11-2018 12:43am

branie2 wrote: »

MacGyver, saving the day with everyday objects

And lock of hair and a safety pin...

bodhrandude · 14-11-2018 12:54am

The Dukes of Hazzard.

One of Kurt Russell's early TV appearances in The Quest from 1976.

dieselbug · 14-11-2018 7:04pm

Not sure if someone has already mentioned it but.....

Hill Street Blue's A really good show

"be careful out there"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqH3qCxz2x0

Hotblack Desiato · 14-11-2018 10:27pm

Hill Street Blues is still my favourite TV show ever.

Veronica Hamel made me do something like this before it was invented:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z7Z6EWimoU

She turns 75 next week :eek:

And all those bedtime scenes were wasted on Frank Furillo because Daniel J. Travanti bats for the other team...

Feisar · 14-11-2018 10:35pm

Count Down wrote: »

I remember a fool at school who used to graze on ketchup and beef dripping (Frytex) sandwiches, followed by a bottle of cold tea.:eek:

That fool might not have much else to eat.

NewbridgeIR · 14-11-2018 10:54pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Hill Street Blues is still my favourite TV show ever.

One of my mine too.

I bought the region 1 DVD set a few years ago. Watched them one per week, every Monday night at around 11.00pm - same as I did with my Dad in the 1980s.

Clonmel1000 · 14-11-2018 10:56pm

dieselbug wrote: »

Not sure if someone has already mentioned it but.....

Hill Street Blue's A really good show

"be careful out there"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqH3qCxz2x0

When you see finding joy as an example of today’s tv it makes me weep in longing for HIll Street Blues.

AllForIt · 14-11-2018 11:04pm

Wibbs wrote: »

I was about to call shenanigans on your post about the church in the 80's, but then remembered there was quite the large gulf between rural and urban in this. Some parishes were run by the priests and the nuns and any dissension was treated as a major social no no. I heard of people, even families moving away because of the social pressures. In the cities it was significantly less of an issue, certainly by the 80's. The clergy couldn't control things nearly so much. Even if you were religious one priest pisses you off and you piss him off? Big deal, go to another church a couple of hundred yards away. Or don't go at all, beyond oulwans behind twitching curtains nobody would care.

Well yes. I used to love being in Dublin away from the country as a late teenager say on a weekend getaway which was rare. I would feel a sense of relief from the utter sense of conformity one felt in a small country town.

Some of priests were okay but most I seriously didn't like as they struck a very serious domineering demeanour at all times. As a kid I felt I was supposed to be scared of them and If I didn't I'd be showing lack of respect. Some of our school teachers were exactly the same and in certain classes would ditch the class lesson for a sermon on religion as if they were showing off what a wonderful staunch Catholic they were and we should aspire to be the same.

The funny thing is it didn't bother me at the time but it really bothers me now when I think about it as an adult. My comments might come across as unnecessary and unfair but I just think the way it was should be recognised and not forgotten. I have no problem with anyone being a Catholic but when still to this day some family member gives me the impression I'm failing in my duties as a Catholic (which I'm clearly not one off but they think I should be anyway as if it's something you can't ditch) that's enough to drive me insane.

branie2 · 15-11-2018 12:16am

Little House on the Prairie

I thought I might mention it as Katherine MacGregor, who played Mrs Olsen in the series, passed away yesterday.

Sardonicat · 15-11-2018 12:18am

branie2 wrote: »

Little House on the Prairie

I thought I might mention it as Katherine MacGregor, who played Mrs Olsen in the series, passed away yesterday.

Oh that's sad. She was a great comic character. Someone you loved to hate.

Hotblack Desiato · 15-11-2018 12:36am

I would have thought she would have gone 20 or 30 years ago but she played a character that was younger than she was (50, at the time, was OLD) and went into the 90+es. I hope she enjoyed every minute. Given family history with dementia etc. I'll be hoping for a pillow firmly over my face as soon as things turn seriously south. But hey, let's look on the bright side...

Duck Soup · 15-11-2018 1:02am

Chippers were good. Pubs were good. Eason's was good. It wasn't so bad.

AllForIt · 15-11-2018 1:06am

branie2 wrote: »

Little House on the Prairie

I thought I might mention it as Katherine MacGregor, who played Mrs Olsen in the series, passed away yesterday.

Happened to watch an episode not too long ago for nostalgia sake. Mrs Olsen was the central protagonist in that episode where she wouldn't hire a dwarf and prevented him getting a job anywhere else in the town. She was utterly brilliant in her portrayal as a completely prejudiced nasty human being. I never saw her in the media as herself, she was so good you'd think she must be the same in real life to be so convincing.

BoatMad · 15-11-2018 1:53am

Duck Soup wrote: »

Chippers were good. Pubs were good. Eason's was good. It wasn't so bad.

naw I lved in central Dublin in the 80s , it was a bombed out dead place.

branie2 · 15-11-2018 7:08pm

An Irish icon of the 60s, 70s and 80s, Sonny Knowles, passed away today.

Hotblack Desiato · 16-11-2018 1:06am

Ah c'mon, he was on the nostalgia / grab a granny circuit even then.

JupiterKid · 16-11-2018 1:16am

Count Down wrote: »

I remember a fool at school who used to graze on ketchup and beef dripping (Frytex) sandwiches, followed by a bottle of cold tea.:eek:

Sadly, that may have been all his parents could afford to feed him. Or possibly he had an alcoholic father who pissed all his wages or welfare down the pub. Real poverty was widespread in Ireland back in the 80s, and many children went hungry.*

*The OECD estimated that as recently as 1986, over 45% of children in Ireland lived in poverty.

Hotblack Desiato · 16-11-2018 2:15am

We used to get sandwiches (and buns one day a week) in primary school, as well as a 1/3 pint bottle of milk every day.

Was this just because I was in a poor area or did everyone get this?

JupiterKid · 16-11-2018 2:19am

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

We used to get sandwiches (and buns one day a week) in primary school, as well as a 1/3 pint bottle of milk every day.

Was this just because I was in a poor area or did everyone get this?

We got free milk in primary school in those little cartons. But we had to bring our own sambos, usually with easi singles manky processed cheese (vomit...) and picnic ham.

McDermotX · 16-11-2018 2:22am

Don't remember any sandwiches or buns, but there was a milk handout every day (paid for at the start of the yearly period though IIRC), with a little straw as well.

Only for the early years though. Looked on as a way to put youngsters on the right, healthy path.

Jokes on them though, little do they know about the man-sized wreck I've become.

AllForIt · 16-11-2018 3:25am

JupiterKid wrote: »

We got free milk in primary school in those little cartons. But we had to bring our own sambos, usually with easi singles manky processed cheese (vomit...) and picnic ham.

We had banana sambos for school lunch every day and in the later half of the 80's we upgraded to something called luncheon. I liked it at the time but couldn't stomach it now. Fake ham would be a better name for it. All washed down with Orange (squash)..........YUCK!

padd b1975 · 16-11-2018 5:07am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Why not just say Charlie Haughey?

I'm fairly sure it was Brian Lenihan Snr.

AndrewJRenko · 16-11-2018 10:02am

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Count Down wrote: »

I remember a fool at school who used to graze on ketchup and beef dripping (Frytex) sandwiches, followed by a bottle of cold tea.:eek:

That triggered a memory of Galtee cheese sandwiches and milk in a brown sauce bottle.
.

Was it hard to get the sandwiches into the milk bottle?

The 70's and 80's in Ireland

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