Stuff that 'was cool' back in the day
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Topic: Stuff that 'was cool' back in the day
Posted By: Trap junior
Subject: Stuff that 'was cool' back in the day
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 9:11pm
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Lads who used to wear their runners without tying the laces so they were loose like a pair of slippers. What was that about? Walking around and your shoes almost falling off. Kick a ball and their shoe went 20 yds into somebody's back garden. ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
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Posted By: horsebox
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 9:13pm
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Going outside without looking like an extra in an Altern 8 video. ------------- It was far across the sea, When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 9:26pm
 remember that
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Trap junior wrote:Posted By: Paulie
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:06pm
There's a mate of mine that still wears his runners like that. 
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Posted By: The White Cafu
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:07pm
| Could never understand that, got called loops for years because I actually tied my laces |
Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:37pm
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I got my left ear pierced when I was 10, as was the style at the time. ------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:42pm
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Lads used to get that 'undercut' haircut and wear them NAFFCO 54 jackets  ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:48pm
Also, tying an onion to one's belt ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: Green Cockade
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:50pm
| Long hair, beards, tank tops, loon pants, denim jackets, prog rock, pretending to think that drugs are fashionable, demos for whatever. If the lockdown lasts long enough, we'll be back in the 70s without noticing. |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:54pm
Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: Trigboy 10
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 11:00pm
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Posted By: t_rAndy
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 11:08pm
| remember those Adidas button tracksuit bottoms? The ‘IN’ thing for one year about 20 years ago |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 11:16pm
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Remember those kicker shoes people wore to school Had a green bit on the side and sole of one and red on the other
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 11:22pm
Don't remember them but LA Lights were all the rage in 1992 ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: t_rAndy
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 11:50pm
Yeah remember kickers were a huge thing going into secondary school. All of us cool kids had them
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Posted By: nordlingen
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 12:16am
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Walking down the main street with Tubular Bells album under yer oxter...........
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Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 12:24am
| Those mad jeans with big loops hanging out of them with the stupid names..xworx or something. |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 12:26am
| Step Cuts |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 12:29am
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bit after my time but lads thinking they were Tony Montana by shaving a line through their eyebrow ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: JUICEBOMB
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 12:30am
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drinking southern comfort and reds.... ------------- hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 12:40am
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Posted By: t_rAndy
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 12:49am
Blonde hair dye. Hands up who rocked that one summer 
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Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 12:54am
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Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 1:04am
Had the bleached hair as well. Bald now  ------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 1:07am
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 1:25am
Plus Wan ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 8:05am
------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 8:06am
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Tucking the ends of tracksuit bottoms into socks. ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 8:17am
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Thinking about what i wore in the 70s , hummmm better leave that unsaid . ------------- Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days . |
Posted By: horsebox
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 8:59am
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The brown adidas torsion runners from 1990 ------------- It was far across the sea, When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
Posted By: horsebox
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 9:00am
Was reading on social media that some guys nickname is spider, because he went into town and bought 4 pairs of jeans. ------------- It was far across the sea, When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
Posted By: Zinedine Kilbane 110
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 9:11am
Growing up in Dundalk in the 80’s.... A local woman used to make tracksuits at home and sell them to the neighbours. Horrible but everybody had them! ------------- |
Posted By: Gaz
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 9:13am
------------- I dont email the count anymore, its been 9 months : ( He even sent me a YBIG scarf for my Birthday |
Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 10:19am
I remember when i came back from Travelling in Asia and just about everyone in the UK were wearing Shell suits . I did wonder what the hell was going on . ------------- Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days . |
Posted By: Lostandfound
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 10:46am
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Fingerless gloves. Most impractical.
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Posted By: FREEWHEELER
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 11:26am
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Wearing PLO scarves in school. ------------- We'll never die, we'll never die, we'll keep the Green Flag flying high......Shamrock Rovers will never die, we'll keep the Green Flag Flying high. 19 Leagues and 25 Cups..... |
Posted By: Shoco
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 11:28am
Never got it bleached but always got the hi-lights in. -------------  YOUR 3 IN A ROW LEAGUE CHAMPIONS |
Posted By: Paulie
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 12:18pm
| George Webbs. |
Posted By: theheff1989
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 1:18pm
Guilty
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Posted By: Baldrick
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 1:49pm
------------- AKA pedantic kunt |
Posted By: reddladd
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 2:34pm
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And loafers ------------- I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong. |
Posted By: Lostandfound
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 2:40pm
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Leather ties. |
Posted By: foggy.nelson
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 2:41pm
| Canterbury Tracksuit bottoms during the early to mid 2000's |
Posted By: Il Principe
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 2:45pm
we had them for italia 90
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Posted By: Neil Armstrong
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 3:43pm
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only changing me boxers on Fridays so I would be fresh for the weekend ------------- Ulster Champions 2020 our 40th Title. Take that all ye Moanaghan ***ts! |
Posted By: Deane
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 6:49pm
| Only using 1 strap of the schoolbag |
Posted By: Zinedine Kilbane 110
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 6:53pm
One must never double strap. Double strap is just code for kick me please. ------------- |
Posted By: ringerbell
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 7:00pm
I've been drinking it during lockdown so definitely still a thing but is harder to get red lemonade these days could only get it in Super Value last few times ------------- the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4 |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 7:01pm
True ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 7:18pm
| those stretchable keyring yokes. Everyone had their locker key on one in school, usually a bright colour too. |
Posted By: t_rAndy
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 7:27pm
And it had to be on the right shoulder or something didn’t it? |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 7:28pm
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Having football boots with a big overhanging tongue ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 7:37pm
------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 7:45pm
Went back to college in my late 20's, couldn't believe it that two-strapping had replaced the one-strap. You'd have been considered an absolute loser in school if you had two-strapped in the mid 00's. ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 7:53pm
I remember Noel Gallagher arrived back from an Oasis disaster tour of the US and on the news they showed him walking through the airport double strapping a schoolbag type bag on his back shocked that he would do such a thing. ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Shedite
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 8:18pm
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Posted By: Paulie
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 9:42pm
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BMX bikes (I had a Raleigh Bomber myself. Brilliant bike) Those American high school jackets with the black body and white arms. Zombie movies (Slow zombies, not the quick ones) The entire works of Arnold Schwarzenegger Cola cubes Slush puppies |
Posted By: Gary McKay
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 10:01pm
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Double strapping meant you could be dragged down from behind and battered. In Dublin anyway.
------------- "Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex |
Posted By: drog addict
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 10:34pm
| One lad in our school made it cool to double strap your bag on to your back. Then everyone did it |
Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 10:37pm
Yeah the khaki yokes All the hippy lads had them along with the matching jacket with the German flag on the arm ------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 10:39pm
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Remember yo-yos were cool in school for a while Coca-Cola and fanta ones
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Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 10:39pm
And skittle wans ------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 10:52pm
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Pepe Jeans Them shoes with the buckle on the front instead of laces Eskimo jackets (late 80's) Coca Cola pencil case after a trip to the coca cola factory ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 10:55pm
Give that boy a can of coke  ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 11:08pm
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lethal weapon ------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 11:34pm
| Gary Glitter |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 11:43pm
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Marital rape ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: Trigboy 10
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 11:46pm
| A trip to the Coca-Cola factory! Give that man a can of Coke! |
Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2020 at 11:54pm
| Editing every post. |
Posted By: Trigboy 10
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 12:23am
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Posted By: Cabra Hoop
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 12:57am
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Shoes from Simon Hart - Loafers, Suede Slip-ons, Shoes with sideways laces all worn with with pristine white towel socks. Spent many a Saturday evening with steam from the kettle getting a shine on the suede slip-ons before a night in The Harp or Rainbows. Chunky knit jumpers in pastel colours worn inside your jeans. And not forgetting the stone or snow washed jeans. Mullets, pencil moustaches and hoop earrings. Thin leather ties and button down shirts, mock tweed sports jackets and navy blazers, and full length wool coats. Pints of Furstenberg and Steiger, Pernod and Black, Malibu and Pineapple. 12 inch picture disc singles and ting the charts off the Radio.. ------------- " BFC always gives me a laugh........ " |
Posted By: t_rAndy
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 1:11am
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Posted By: Paulie
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 1:14am
That made for some pretty grim reading
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Posted By: Sham157
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 1:23am
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Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 2:14am
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Is there any player to have 1 cap and 1 goal to his name for us? ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 7:52am
Remember them alright. Remember 2 people promoting the yo-yo's showing up to our primary school teaching us how to do the tricks. Pogs are another. Everyone having a bumbag full of them. ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: ShamtheRam
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 8:20am
Maybe in the Premier League on their carpeted pitches but any amatuer goalie worth his salt should still be using a towel. ------------- YBIG NPF founder and CEO |
Posted By: Gaz
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 10:19am
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Conkers Marbles Pogs Premier League sticker albums Top Trumps ------------- I dont email the count anymore, its been 9 months : ( He even sent me a YBIG scarf for my Birthday |
Posted By: Flanno7hi
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 10:55am
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Those tracksuit pants with the poppers on the side. Some **** would always get them ripped off. Reebok pump shoes. WWF during the attitude era. ------------- Our City. Our Community. Our Club IG @flanno_7hi |
Posted By: Trap junior
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 11:35am
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Sitting up the front = nerd Getting on a bus you had to go down the back. Upper deck front seat = a bating ------------- Pied Piper to: Baldrick, Brendan 88, 9Fingers, Borussia and more... 97.6% chance this post will be replied to by Baldrick (source: PWC) |
Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 11:40am
------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: Gaz
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 11:48am
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LA Gear lights shoes ------------- I dont email the count anymore, its been 9 months : ( He even sent me a YBIG scarf for my Birthday |
Posted By: FREEWHEELER
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 12:36pm
Most of this. , old mate of mine used to manage Simon Hart on Talbot Street so always got a few pound off the oul loafers/George Webbs......chunky knit jumpers also from Talbot Street and the white socks, Jaysus we were the biz. Said no young wan ever. ------------- We'll never die, we'll never die, we'll keep the Green Flag flying high......Shamrock Rovers will never die, we'll keep the Green Flag Flying high. 19 Leagues and 25 Cups..... |
Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 3:34pm
Lads Dyeing your hair or even worse getting highlights was never cool FFS ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: Zinedine Kilbane 110
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 3:43pm
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Who was that sh1te band that tried to make wearing jeans back to front cool? ------------- |
Posted By: Green Devil
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 3:55pm
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Limewire ------------- "He drives two Ferraris; I think he's a very lucky lad to have 50 caps for Ireland," Eamonn Dunphy on Glenn Whelan |
Posted By: Drumcondra 69er
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 3:56pm
Kriss Kross. Again though, never remotely cool. ------------- Blog: http://afalsefirstxi.blogspot.ie/" rel="nofollow - A False First XI Twitter: @afalsefirstxi Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/afalsefirstxi/" rel="nofollow - A False First XI |
Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 4:57pm
------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: Paulie
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 6:37pm
I saw them live  They played support to Michael Jackson in Lansdowne in the early 90's. I've no idea which year specifically. I think it was the Dangerous tour.
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Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 8:58pm
Easy , he did have hair once well a very long time ago ------------- Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days . |
Posted By: Het-field
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 9:25pm
| Harp Lager |
Posted By: Green Cockade
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 9:32pm
| Some of us still drink it. Still popular in the north. |
Posted By: deco911
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 9:34pm
| and it parts of south west too. Would murder a cold pint of it now |
Posted By: Het-field
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 9:36pm
So do I, when I can find it!
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Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 10:15pm
I know what isn’t Murph is right though I don’t trouble the barbers these days and you didn’t get highlights/hair dye at the barbers ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 10:20pm
Had a pint in Derry a couple of years ago- a blast from the past decent pint Tbf ordinary harp not the harp ice muck Would of been a pint bottle of harp man as my local was a bass pub and had tennents on draft and sure you wouldn’t wash your feet in tennents ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: Saint Tom
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 10:44pm
Some line up of sh*te beer up north ------------- My destination inchicore my next stop being kilmainham Where patriots and super saints are the topics of conversation |
Posted By: sid waddell
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 10:48pm
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Liverpool winning the league It went out for a while, but like all the coolest things, it's come back, baby ------------- Edited by Trigboy 10 at 10:03pm |
Posted By: Gary McKay
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 11:43pm
------------- "Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex |
Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 8:42am
------------- Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days . |