Girls Toilet
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Topic: Girls Toilet
Posted By: frog princess
Subject: Girls Toilet
Date Posted: 15-May-2006 at 11:29
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Why was it we girls used to spend so much time in those grotty toilets?!!! Of course, it was a refuge during the slow set, when you knew some ug was going to ask you up so that he could swallow your entire head (shudder). It was also of course pretty handy for hiding from the bouncers if you were a bit, uhm, worse for wear. Unless of course it was raided which was often enough. It was also a scene of much desperation when you really needed the loo - some even used to try and convince those in front they were more entitled as they were pregnant - all 7 stone of them. We were wise to their ways though It was also the scene of girls badly applying white makeup and purple lips - we could have done with a helping hand from Ruby & Millie! Very much a trial and error process. It was particularly difficult if a Dolly Mixture (complete with left over shampoo) or a couple of cans of ritz had been consumed in Saint Annes park!!
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Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 15-May-2006 at 11:42
Hi Frog Princess welcome aboard  Know what you mean about the loos we also used to use them to consume any alcohol we managed to sneak in and also to talk about the "boys" who were our particular favourites that week ------------- Blondie I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it ! |
Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 15-May-2006 at 13:33
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[QUOTE=frog princess] Hi FP, Welcome on board. I remember we used to hang out outside the girls loo in the "old" Grove. Usually a good vantage point for spying on possible female targets ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: frog princess
Date Posted: 16-May-2006 at 05:56
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I remember one particular instance being in the loo with about 4 other girls who were drinking - I wasn't, for some odd reason - anyway, the bouncers raided the loo, pushed the door in, resulting in a cut below my eyebrow. Of course not wanting the old pair to know, I let them patch me up and back out into the hall...they wouldn't get away with it in this day and age!!!
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Posted By: frog princess
Date Posted: 16-May-2006 at 06:05
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BTW, thanks for the welcome! Something else to distract me in work! |
Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 16-May-2006 at 06:14
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A ha thats where all the girls hid.. If you though the girls tiolets were bad just try and think what the guys toilet were like. Sick and Pee on the seats floor walls handles... Sorry thats a bit too graphic.. It use to be amazing standing on the packed floor of The Grove and then all of a sudden a mass exodus of girls out of the doors when first song of the slow set came on... Oh welcome to the Forum ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 16-May-2006 at 06:17
LMAO Distraction for work.... In my job I do very little and its quite boring. Only for my posting here I be out in Portrane swinging back and fro in my chair(Like Arthur in Eastenders).. You will see my quite a lot in here and I am not being sad it just a distracting from the thumb twiddling..  Sometinh else to distract you in work ??? What else is distarcting you in work ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
frog princess wrote:Posted By: Kay Fagan
Date Posted: 16-May-2006 at 08:30
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Ye I remember the Toilets in the Grove They were so small and we all jammed in.My sister got her drink taken off her in there She left it on the Window where all the bouncers could see it.She hadn't a clue
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Welcome aboard Frog Princess......Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 16-May-2006 at 10:27
Does the last part of your message run in your family Kay ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Posted By: Kay Fagan
Date Posted: 16-May-2006 at 10:38
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What do you mean......... ------------- Kay Fagan |
Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 16-May-2006 at 11:15
Does it run in the family ??? ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Posted By: Kay Fagan
Date Posted: 16-May-2006 at 11:46
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http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSYYYYYYYYNL"> ------------- Kay Fagan |
http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSYYYYYYYYNL - That we don't have a cluePosted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 03:31
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...It looks that way now... You hadn't got a clue what I was referring to .. See Froggy or Princess(Which would you prefer to be called for short ?) Topic subjects in here kind of slightly drift of the original topic ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Posted By: frog princess
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 06:23
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So I noticed!!! Princess sounds a bit high maintenance, froggy is fine Where did everyone go after finishing in the Grove. I started going to McGonagles which was great too... |
Posted By: Noodles
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 06:35
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Hello Frog Princess ( I just can't bring myself to call you Froggy ) and welcome to the nuthouse. From your description of the application of the white make up and the purple lippy,I gather your Grove Era was late eighties,early nineties. I actually went to McGonagles before I ever went to the Grove, as a kid I was well up on the local music scene and used go to McGonagles to see bands like The Atrix, DC Nein and The New Versions . This would have been around 1980. After the Grove finished for us,( 1985 ) 'fraid it was straight to the boozer. A few of them on here went to the Cricket Club or out to Saints in Howth. Noodles. |
Posted By: Sharon
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 07:17
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Saints god be the days 99p night was great( tuesday i think) i wonder is there anywhere now that does a cheapie night.
I use to hate when i went to the grove with my pal Liz 1st stop for her was always the loos so she could do hair and makeup ild be standing outside like a gobsh*te waiting for her, even to this day i cant stand the girlies putting on their makeup i just leave them to it Anyway ild never have a bag big enough with me to hold all the makeup....bag big enough for cigs fone and money what more do u need Welcome to the forum Frog princess Sharon ------------- All I wanted was chips!! |
Posted By: frog princess
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 07:17
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Yes indeed I was an 88 - 90 girl alright. I was determined that I would never end up going to the Cricket as there was a girl across the road whose father used to insist on accompanying her. The horror!!!! Is it just me or has Cecil been taking taking magic anti-aging pills? I saw him at the Christmas bash and he hasn't changed a bit!!! |
Posted By: Sharon
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 07:20
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Wish he'ld share them with us frog princess...lol Hitting the big 40 this year god knows i need them or maybe ill just buy a big bag of makeup!!..lol Shar ------------- All I wanted was chips!! |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 07:36
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Here lads, wonder was that Xgh ? Hopefully she won't see this when she comes back from Spain or else I'm Rolo. |
.Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 08:16
 ... Oh I am really dead now in a few weeks time
As for where did I go after the Grove well I left went to the Criket and then back to the Grove back to the Cricket back to the Grove.. Went to Fibbers and McGonagles. (Hey Rolo saw Ozzy Osbourne play there in 199-91 warm up gig for World tour) I was the oldest out of our Grove gang lol
During the above time I also went out to the trendier clubs in town with my brother and mates I was the yougest and went to Tamangos, Saints(Charlies), Flamingoes, but always went back to the Grove ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 08:29
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Pete, when I was a ( wait for this ) student, we had our Freshers thingy in McGonagles and a band called Sweet Savage were the headline. Who should join them on stage for three numbers only Philo. Would have been 1982. Great night altogether. Rolo. |
Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 08:43
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Sweet Savage heard don't think I know any of their stuff.
There is a website called megaloads.com where we could put up and share music amoung ourselves but there re some very important rules to be ahered to If people are interested leave it with me and I look into ??? ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Posted By: Sharon
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 09:39
you have overstepped that line Peter u best watch your back...front..everywhere on the 7th...You will so be getting that wallop ------------- All I wanted was chips!! |
Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 09:41
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Hey before I posted that I was a dead man anyway so Imight aswell go the whole hog.... ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Posted By: Sharon
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 09:57
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In for a penny in for a pound...lol or should that be in for a cent in for a euro.....lol Ah Pete we love ur sl*gging it keeps us young...lol Shar ------------- All I wanted was chips!! |
Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 10:01
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Only sl*gging ya all cause you are all so OLD... Hey Froggy hope we are not scaring you off just yet... There will be plenty of time before we start giving you grief ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 10:13
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Went to the Cricket, the summit, the waterfront, midnight at the olympia, leeson st, tamangoes, saints, sardis, joey's... 99p night Shar - used to go to them all - saints one night, tamangoes the next - only stayed in one night a week, tis no wonder me liver is fecked........ Are we going dancing on the 7th after the pub!!! ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 17:31
Hey guys....we also went on to the cricket club and McGonagles when we left the grove....must of been the thing to do when we out grew the grove...the only thing we stuck to was drinking in "The Nep"/Flowing Tided...we never out grew that until many many years later  ------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 17-May-2006 at 19:07
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We never outgrewthe Grove If we did we wouldn't be going to the reunions now would we ???
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Posted By: xgrovehead
Date Posted: 20-May-2006 at 17:57
Not see it? Not read back on all the posts I missed? Some hope!! And if you'd been paying attention several hundred pages ago on some thread or other - you'd have noticed that I never went to the Cricket and I'm bloody proud of it too! I considered it selling out. McGonagles, Fibbers and the pub for me. (ok there were one or two nites in Hollywood sh*tes but that was peer pressure and I didn't enjoy it) And welcome to Froggy! ------------- We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. -Ancient Proverb. |
Posted By: diver
Date Posted: 23-September-2006 at 00:25
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God I remember the toilets alright, I used to have my vodka and cans on the way up and I used to sneak a coke bottle full of mixture in with me. J esus the thoughts of what was in that and I used to think it was lovely, come to think of it so did alot of the girls, people used ask me to bring them a bottle and they'd buy it off me the next week!! Everything from the drink cupboard went into it vodka, whiskey, gin, pernod, schnapps, brandy and whatever I could find.... my god how did we ever drink that crap??????? |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 23-September-2006 at 00:31
did you take the drink from the bottles and leave them as is or did you (like me) put a little water back into the bottles to make them look sorta the same...I had a bad experience when a friend of my parents (who dont drink) came around and asked for a whiskey and commented on the watery nature of the whiskey..me =  ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: diver
Date Posted: 23-September-2006 at 11:36
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No then it would have been pure water by the time I got to the end, my parents used to mark the bottles with a tiny nick with their nail along the sticker so I used to re nick it, the just thought it was my older brothers and sisters(who knew to nick the sticker wheb they were finished). He He He how did my parents not think they were alco's? |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 23-September-2006 at 13:36
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The toilets!!! yuck they were the most disgusting things about the grove. Little sink with masses of hair in it..... alas... I have to say, I have this one friend at home and guess how I met her, we both drank too much and were throwing up into the sink together..... sad or what..... yes we have been friends ever since. In the midst of it all we stopped for a mo to introduce ourselves...she was on mad women back then. ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 05-October-2006 at 23:47
If those walls in the toilets could talk !!!!! Shame they didn't show
them in the documentary....would of bringing back some memories for
most of us girls....the conversations and the drinking and the throwing
up that went on in there was priceless.....reckon a good book could
come out of it 
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 11-October-2006 at 22:40
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Anyone out there from the forum with there kids goin to St Paul's
school...just wondering what it would be like to go in there for a
parent/teachers meeting and act very responsible when a few years ago
you were hanging out there been anything but responsible !!!
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 12-October-2006 at 09:02
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Yeah Bluebell, my fella is in 2nd year so we've been in the school quite a bit over the last year or so. Cecil's right, very little has changed. Thing that struck me most was how small the hall was. My memories were of this huge cavern, packed to the rafters with millions of sweaty teenagers bouncing up and down ( to the music of course ). The first time we went in for the open day,it was real strange all right. That was before I went to a Reunion or came on here. |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 12-October-2006 at 13:13
Rolo.....I would love to go back into the hall and just stand in the
place where we stood for all those years shaking our brain cells to
death.....Next time they have an open day, let us all know....we could
all grab Cecil , run down to the hall and have a unplanned grove
reunion...can you just imagine all the teacher faces  ....although come to think of it, some of the teachers probably went to the grove with us 
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 12-October-2006 at 13:16
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Rolo you mentioned Sweet Savage up there somewhere. Well when I went to see the stones years ago - I thought the line up was Rose Tatoo and Sweet Savage, it was either the stones or Thin Lizzy - memory fading fast.... ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 12-October-2006 at 13:21
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Nice thought Bluebell, but from the ones I've seen,they're either too old,too young or from such far flung parts of the country that they wouldn't be able to pronounce the word " Grove " properly. Yeah T, Sweet Savage would've been on the circuit around that time all right. Rose Tattoo, Aussie band, haven't heard that name in a long time. One night in McGonagles,Sweet Savage played at the NIHE ( DCU ) Freshers Ball, and Philo got up on stage with them and did " Don't Believe a Word " and " Are You Ready ". We were right at the front of the stage. Great thrill to be so close to the great man. Would've been November 1982. Feck, just realised I'd posted this already,sorry folks. |
Posted By: xgrovehead
Date Posted: 13-October-2006 at 13:40
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Bluebell - keep an eye out for a Crafts fair around Christmas in the St Pauls school hall. I went last year and was transported back to the good days. It was a good 15 mins before I was able to look at teh crafts on sale which incidentally were very good - did a good bit of the chrimbo shopping that day. I'll post when I see it advertised. ------------- We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. -Ancient Proverb. |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 13-October-2006 at 22:24
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Thanks X....that would be brilliant, get some xmas presents and a trip down memory lane too.
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: IanL
Date Posted: 13-October-2006 at 23:11
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I hope they aren't selling "toileteries" in the ladys
toilets  ------------- Ian - Grover '81-'84 Exiled to Mayo since 2005 |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 17-October-2006 at 22:04
I hope they are Ian...
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |