Things you could say in the 80s - Republic of Telly

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[@onedimensionaldave8147]

Dry toast and flat seven up is still quite prominent in our house even today

[@aodhanomalley8056]

one dimensional dave same haha

[@Tomas-br2uw]

Same 😊

[@fianthebeangaming8183]

same

[@darraghgregory5184]

When where sick Ye

[@cloda1232]

one dimensional dave mine too

[@jesusaurusrex7074]

"Father Brennan's babysitting. He's got so much time for the kids!" Hahahahaha good lord that's black humor.

[@brennancattermole3898]

Dude! Thats my name...😂😂

[@olivercuenca4109]

That and the Jim'll Fix It one. Holy smokes.

[@jasonjewel5937]

Dude

[@chrisscott8368]

There's a woman started in the office 😂👌

[@dmap9342]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Theguitarwhiz]

bridget wheres the remote? Nevermind he's here :')

[@JeevesReturns]

My mother used me as a walking stick with her hand on the top of my head to get up steps.

[@Theguitarwhiz]

JeevesReturns good thing to make use of your lack of height!

[@JeevesReturns]

Theguitarwhiz I served a useful function... so I got supper.

[@Spoons7414]

I laughed WAY harder than I should’ve! Hahaha

[@normannormiemates4844]

Hey! I was a remote once!

[@declanwallace8995]

"Using fire lighters... where do ye think we are, dynasty? Got any matches on yea?"

[@Crossdjinthemix]

Eh ya we all watched it like

[@declanwallace8995]

*coughs histerically from smoking * "Oh jesus mary im comin' down with a fierce cold"

[@midletonhole4528]

we're votin for that young fella bertie ahern,hes a real go getter

[@Chloe0Ella]

1:00 "go out an move the car fer me" Hahahaha this is so true, me when I was 10.

[@RibbonVintageGirl]

Chloe0Ella my dad did that to my younger brother, and I am not even Irish

[@Nikki-tx6kh]

My aunt couldn't parallel park for her life. She just left the car in the middle of the road, run to the door and called my cousin on the speaker to come down and park the car for her.

[@meeeorlagh2613]

They still do that

[@spleniuscervicis1734]

I did this for my dad so many times. Ironically, I never learned to actually drive a car. I'm 43 now.

[@johanvajse8410]

I learned how to drive by being the D.D. for my parents.

[@Dank455]

"So apparently somebody had sex with a monkey and now Freddy Mercury has it." That part broke me.

[@FromtheHerts81]

LOL time!!!

[@DeclanClinton]

*THE COLLINS HAVE A PHONE*

[@DeclanClinton]

BUT THE COLLINS HAVE A PHONE

[@uhyes5199]

awsomedeco1038 REALLY the Collins have a phone i had no idea 😱😱

[@KatarinaS.]

Didn't everyone have phones in the 80's in Ireland?

[@seancollins1690]

Declan Clinton yes we do problem?

[@Daisy-ct3nh]

Absolutely not. We had no car,no phone, no central heating in our estate growing up. No crime either, but with alot more poverty.

[@bluejhaygrl]

Australian here, dry toast and flat lemonade was always what mum gave us when sick, did us no harm, and i did the same for my kids. I love Bridget and Eamon, bloody hilarious show.

[@niallhcd1]

I agree, some of my favourite relatives almost made it to their next birthday and sure what would the doctor know anyway, he's from the big smoke

[@MEWMEWDENSETSU]

The second I saw that wooden spoon skit ... I think I got PTSD.

[@Harcix]

For me it was the Father Brennan bit.

[@nicolenibhailtuinogabhann3839]

Honest to god I get shivers when I look at wooden spoons now be to jaysus my mammy loved them when we were bold

[@davidian7787]

I hear you. I'm Scottish and my mum used to take the wooden spoon to me. Must be a Celtic thing. Probably the most accessible piece of wood to hand. Could be worse, could have been a rolling pin but I think that's for killing people.

[@dannydanny4755]

@@davidian7787 Or a poker ....

[@celticguy197531]

@@davidian7787 anything that my mum laid her hands on that the time from a slipper to a hairbrush lol both parents are from Scotland too

[@petertaylor6384]

This was hilarious. I was trying to explain to my kids the other day... The sheer level of change in how we relate to our kids now is just massive

[@gizzyguzzi]

Doesn't seem to be working, does it?

[@sophissad]

Omg dry toast and flat 7 -up 😂😂😂

[@sophissad]

That's still what mum does when anyone in the family's sick. the original miracle cure

[@denisepetrie635]

+Yolo Glasses same

[@mishymasher5025]

+Yolo Glasses same

[@sarahjones1868]

same

[@vadutimi1819]

+Sans Senpai h fçf.

[@Proteus6684]

'Father Brennan is baby sittin, he has so much time for the kids.' Lmfao

[@jackmurphy6864]

"G'out n' move the car" That was quite popular in our house lol. Kids of seven who couldn't even see over the steering wheel would be out repositioning the car so the father had an easy escape route to the pub.

[@mishymasher5025]

ireland is still like this

[@paullytle246]

Mishy Masher are you Paul the gay fellow

[@TheSeanoops]

Mishy Masher Don’t tease me.

[@paullytle246]

_ Seand102 yaaaaaaasssss queeeeeeen

[@ilikefood8075]

Don’t it we don’t hit children more common to see an Indiana person on the walking down the street we are not surprised when a woman is working

[@emer157]

And thanks be to jesus it's still the same

[@conjoe176]

"Sit up here between mammy and daddy you"ll the road better" ....ya....i have bounced my head off many a windscreen

[@eoghanbreathnach4921]

I remember doing that and I'm 16

[@KL89452]

Good man yerself! Sure how else do you expect to see the road?

[@boolah128]

Had an uncle that would let me sit on the floor and push the gas pedal while he drove. I was cruise control. It was the 70s

[@ileolai]

the way the mother spits out the cigarette to beat the kids is comedic genius honestly

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Err yes.......comedic.....

[@cristerowarrior1450]

When I was 5 I was the remote and when I was ten I always had to move the car and I was still the remote. Being poor in Chicago in the 80s & early 90s was just like this too except ha never knew ya were cause everyone ha knew lived the same way LOL

[@1210620]

Testify.

[@tweetiepie551]

When my mother got her first microwave she made everyone leave the kitchen in case we got radiation poisoning

[@gungagalunga9040]

That will always be true. Dont fooking stand there lookin into the microwave while it's running. A quick test to see if your organs are being fried everytime you heat up something: put your phone in the microwave, close the door and ring it. If it rings then your organs are fried and cancer is imminent.

[@baronesspdls-m]

My God, we used to worry about that, too. All of us cleared out into the garden - 4 weeks after Chernobyl 🤣

[@tweetiepie551]

@@gungagalunga9040 that is also a fabulous test to check if your IQ is below 75

[@gungagalunga9040]

@@tweetiepie551 You'll believe me when the doctor tells you you've stage 4 cancer.

[@tweetiepie551]

@@gungagalunga9040 dear..you are trolling the wrong person... Try a millennial not a gen x

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

"Remember when Daddy came in and hurt Mommy? That's how you were born." That hit uncomfortably close to home. (I was born in 1992).

[@zaydhamid4618]

I heard "worked"

[@KatarinaS.]

I couldn't figure out nearly half of what they said, & I'm usually pretty good with accents.

[@untidyecho9916]

Ye she said worked

[@jarrodanderson4825]

I thought she said "rootin' "

[@hurhurhur123]

You guys really are bad with accents, it's pretty clearly "Remember when you walked in and Daddy was hurtin' Mummy?"

[@fishflavoredicecream]

it's called a lazagny (lasagne) lol

[@darthkek1953]

@green fox I tink this one is called "Prawn's a Lad".

[@JohnnysHughiesPaddys]

"Stand up here between Mammy and Daddy, you'll see the road better" I did this all the time!

[@samharrison8723]

They called me the navigator.

[@RuariLoftussss]

I'm 15 and most of this stuff still happens and is said in my house , however I am from Mayo .

[@finnkdy]

still wondering why yer county's now, like garlic, become an essential ingredient.

[@moonlit6311]

I used to be my dad's remote once in a while. And I absolutely used to go to the front of the van to see the road better while my dad drove and my mom sat in the passenger seat. 😂

[@liamclarke5761]

Your definitely a yank by the way you put an o in mum

[@luisllorens70]

In the seventies you could still run down to the local mom and pop grocery store and pick up a six pack of beer and cigarettes for your old man as long as they knew you.

[@dantheman5222]

and give you tick as a 10 yo

[@jimbobjones369]

one of the best skits republic of telly has done in a long while

[@nicolenibhailtuinogabhann3839]

"I. TOLD. YA. NOT. TO. DO. THAT. TO. YER. SISTER!!" Ah jaysus the memories. Id be bet ahahah me and my sister were knackers with each other! 😂😂

[@lukoradulic5340]

80's Irish mom is hot!

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

Luko Radulic Jennifer Zamperalli is a fucking ride all right

[@hughmckendrick3018]

@@The_Republic_of_Ireland haven't heard that expression in years!

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

She's proper fit, that one.

[@twitch1986mp3]

aye she is

[@darthkek1953]

@@The_Republic_of_Ireland I widnae ride her intae battle. ^^ what Scotsmen say about ugly women ^^ This disnae apply to Jenny, obvs.

[@seanrh4294]

"Apparently someone had sex with a monkey and now Freddy Mercury has it." OMG..... lol.... I am going to hell for laughing that hard

[@fijonnen7743]

Oi "go out and move the car" is still a thing

[@lucyokeeffe6041]

“Have ya any matches on ya have ya”too relatable😂

[@tvfanatic67]

Never seen any Irish comedy now I know what my life's been missing ^_^

[@sugarrbearr9301]

Republic of Telly, love how ye perfectly sum up the 80s, into 3 minute clip. Ye should do a skit on "stations" in Ireland. Nothing like a good mass in the house

[@JONNOG88]

"Irish 80's Mum". Looks like Keri Russell's character in "The American's". Maybe that was the look. They were going for?? 🤔

[@Irishbeermonk]

They were the good old days. I miss them.

[@irishgandalf757]

"Have you seen the remote?... oh never mind here his is" I spat out my drink at that one!

[@90HP_Reviewsofficial]

“Bridget,Bridget, ya know who I saw on the street today,an Indian fella” -Eamon 1984

[@stevebloodymckenna]

I'm not even from Ireland and I can still relate to it. feckin' class!

[@SineadLeavy]

"Go out and move the car for me" Brilliant stuff

[@RingBoxGmod]

I'd love them to do a sketch on 'things you could say in the 20s' and include Michael Collins

[@michaelcollins8537]

Totally

[@cameronburke8002]

"Daddy there's a fella outside" *Father opens door* "What the fuck are ye doin in my garden" "My name's Michael Collins I need to hide somewhere" "Jaysus Collins you should have said, come on in there, ÁINE GET THE DINNER ON WE HAVE A GUEST!!"

[@Ben-cx5qp]

Dick

[@timfortune9]

I may have grown up in the 90s, but it's eerie how familiar a lot of this feels...

[@shonk3317]

So funny and true. I’m American and had identical experiences with my parents in the 80’s.🤣

[@TheSiobhan12]

The wooden spoon gave me nightmares when I was growing up!!! Love to know who ever told Mammy’s about the bleedin wooden spoon!!!!💪🏻👊🏻

[@saelaird]

I’m 31 and British, but much of this is true. Spoon slapping, moving the car for your dad and going up front with no seatbelt between your parents. So true.

[@NeilsidneejmasIreland]

They forgot bringing the bottles back to get money something they need to reintroduce works great in germany

[@pipm9644]

I didn't know they still had that in Germany

[@nlpnt]

It's state-by-state in America. In Vermont it's for beer and fizzy soft drinks only, the lobbies that want to expand it to everything and get rid of it entirely are evenly matched, so it covers the drinks people bought in bottles and cans in 1970 when it was first put in place. Bottled water was something you bought in gallon milk jugs if you had a bad well.

[@yuccatree4298]

yep. TK red lemonade 🍋🍋🍋

[@WowUsernameAvailable]

Oh, we did this in Russia up until the 90s, and Dad would let me have the coins!

[@WowUsernameAvailable]

@Soda King I don't remember exactly as I was, like, under 10 in those days but I'm pretty sure we didn't get 5 cents for a bottle or can) prices like that just didn't exist in Russia after the collapse of the USSR.

[@1997IrishGirl]

"I think I know him... Paul, the gay fella"

[@dearbhlafahy8478]

The flat seven up thing is so true

[@Ben-cx5qp]

Cures everything and anything

[@Kazza_8240]

Irn bru here in Scotland 😂 it's a well known hangover cure

[@deebee9151]

Back in March when lockdown started, top of my mother's shopping list was 7up in case any of us got covid

[@FromtheHerts81]

1:25 She's probably serving "lasagnie" because her son reads the Garfield cartoons in the paper. This rather reminds me of a series on the UK's Channel 4; "It Was Alright in the 1970's". They wanted me to cringe and feel ashamed. Instead, I screamed with laughter.

[@KingRoblox818]

"Bridget, where's the remote?"....the little kid comes over...."oh NM he's here"... DYING

[@Highland_Moo]

Reminds me of being a kid in the 80s right enough! I’m from the arse-end of nowhere in the Scottish highlands though, not Ireland. Last time I was there was in 2000 and it was Ulster - was at Queens University for the nursing course, ended up going to Stirling instead though. Last time I was in Eire was 1998 and it was brilliant craic - nicest folk I’ve ever met, proper warm and friendly and brilliant humour.

[@aoibhinmcdonnell9501]

Dry toast and flat 7-up is seriously still the substitute of actual medical attention in Ireland 2017

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Most modern medicine is actually derived from traditional folk medicine that has been used for 1,000's of years.

[@TwoSopranos]

Absolutely awesome. Was on rte once , forget what we were doing

[@sarafox2489]

The good ol’ wooden spoon 😂

[@mairead354]

"Jim will you..." "COULD YE! COULD YE!" Only just got the Jimmy Saville 'Jim'll Fix It' reference now xD

[@KieranMurray93]

The song at the start is by Simple Minds ... very appropriate.

[@avidnongetit8710]

LMAO. Love the song too! Had the sound track on cassette, wore it out! OMG my parents were those 2! Well those two were saints compared with mine..

[@alexcoyg3281]

This is gold!

[@Work_play_life]

Vote for Bertie, he is a real go getter - another classic!

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

A friend of mine was once chased around his front garden with the wooden spoon by his mother (and was never let forget about it!).

[@Pfitzgerald98]

most of this still happens

[@fergalquinn9772]

Reminds me of my hometown in 2014.

[@bubblegum4909]

very true 90s kid myself and my parents said alot of these....covers on the car seats brings back memories....!! jennifer is very good

[@johnmcevoy9322]

Bridget's s ride....I'm a child of Ireland in the eighties and these examples are so true..hshaa great stuff...

[@Zzsmuf]

Used to get the wooden spoon turned out great 😉

[@BrendenParker]

I was a teen in the 80's, in Australia. People dressed like that. Everyone smoked. Everyone drank drove. Casual racism, homophobia and sexism were the norm, to an extent, although it was becoming frowned upon. Everyone still hit the kids to discipline them, both at school and at home. Aaahhhh...the bad old days....

[@sandyparkes4027]

Oh the good ole days😂😂😂❤❤

[@fionamurphy7318]

Im 22 and I had the wooden spoon and the slaps..its the 2000's when they decided that shit wasnt on ha

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

Fiona Murphy Depends, I was a kid in the 1990s and was never touched with a wooden spoon, or indeed by hand. But then my parents were relatively young and didn't believe in that approach.

[@oisind1234]

TheLastAngryMan01 Kids need a good auld slap, spoon or no spoon. That's why there's so many little shithead kids these days. No real parenting going on anymore.

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

oisind1234 Praise Jeebus I didn't grow up in your household, then.

[@fionamurphy7318]

oisind1234 you can parent well without hitting kids thats a fact

[@DoctorTurdmidget]

Fiona Murphy Maybe, but it's nowhere near as fun as beating the shit out of them.

[@dubbud74]

Ahhh childhood memories.. especially the cigarette smoke in the face lol

[@FelisTerras]

Well, that stirred up some childhood memories...

[@Madman-bb2nc]

My father still kinda acts like this but he was 17 in 1985

[@stephenoneill2844]

I was a child of the 80's ,hands down the best time in history to be a child.

[@LauraSquirrel]

I agree with this 100%.

[@untidyecho9916]

Yes, pedos on the tv and shite hair metal. Mullets and misogyny. Ragin perverts in the church and the IRA. Football hooligans.

[@yuccatree4298]

I heartily agree, but hands up 🌻

[@Kingseye7]

Untidy Echo damn I miss those days

[@melchristensen8282]

Depends on how much money your family had. Mine had fuck all. I didn't know better as a child but looking back, we had nothing. My parents went through some shit because of the 80s recession in Ireland.

[@nigefal]

The pint glasses are wrong for a start. Wouldn't you think they would get the older style ones at least?

[@jackfahy2283]

“Dear Jim, will you fix it for me” anyone else get what they really mean 😂😂

[@whittney8955]

No

[@ifanmorgan8070]

1:06 Away and move the car for me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Sunspear45]

The wooden the spoon.. The dread of any child.

[@Alex462047]

It was the terror of many of my classmates, though my parents preferred the cane. That was old school even then.

[@keeganowens8949]

I got the metal one once...

[@Alex462047]

@@keeganowens8949 That would hurt.

[@keeganowens8949]

@@Alex462047 Yes...

[@Irish381]

Nothing till yer mamma gets Tupperware party spatula, yer arse will look like a map of the alps.😉😲

[@scotty101ire]

i miss that ireland so much

[@TheToolnut]

@Barry Kelly Better than the liberal, leftist hellhole that we have now.

[@cof808]

that'll last....true love Class!!

[@alal2192]

It's funny how I was born in the mid 90s but I still relate to everything

[@deletedchannel9100]

The 80s in ireland was like the 60s in usa

[@freepadz6241]

Most of the US is stlllike the 60s

[@stephenwright8824]

@@freepadz6241 I'd like to think not. At least in the Sixties (I was born at the end of the Summer of Blood, 1968), we didn't do anything so ridiculous as to elect a real estate tycoon who had two ex-wives, who cheated on his current wife, and who had been through at least two bankruptcies, to the White House

[@kryssyskloud]

Lmao!! "GO and move the car for me!" 😆😆

[@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6619]

Everywhere else this would be called " things you could say in the 60's". But not in Ireland HAHA ;)

[@sbbinahee]

Love it!!

[@Zak6959]

Oh man, I used to be a remote control back in the 70s, good times man good times. And we only had TFC.

[@Shay-nu7id]

I love the Irish!! Love from America 💙

[@Driftstarwarrior]

Off to Mosney!

[@stephenmcconnell1000]

Now go in and eat your crispy pancakes hahah

[@beanyboobee8824]

The wooden spoon thing is so true xD well- literally anything wooden you would get chased with

[@corraff12]

Lovin it!

[@dairyUA]

Brilliant!

[@patriciahall2223]

Incredibly funny so talented......Absolutely brilliant actors ...🇨🇦

[@fishyc150]

Very good!

[@Dorniles]

Brilliant!

[@johndavid84]

This is quality!

[@ricky267069]

That’s jist brilliant very Irish so funny ,think the Irish An us Scots ur the funniest people xxxxxx

[@msnevermead194]

"we're off to Mosney,".. 🤣🤣🤣.

[@barirwin8559]

Not a word about the Immersion

[@countsmyth]

Jeysus the slaps in the car, I remember it too well. It was always proceeded by the sentence "if I have to stop this car", that alone was enough to make us shut the fuck up!

[@zetor4711]

excellent

[@rosieloye]

We still light the fire that way!

[@gavinhurley3362]

Very good