Ever wonder what boards.ie would look like in 1950

eth0 · 24-03-2012 1:11am #1

There probably wasn't a single computer in Ireland at the time but if people did have them what would they be posting on here?

"Devil phonebooth... blasphemers, how dare they!"

"Sex... tape... whats that all about?"

"Worst punishment imposed by your parents: beaten to pulp with a very big stick, but shure thats normal these days!"

"Streaker punishment not harsh enough. Offending good catholics like meself, I'll spend the day in confession over what I've seen"

sunflower27 · 24-03-2012 1:14am

Where would people have posted? Church newsletter?

sonic85 · 24-03-2012 1:16am

not really

ColeTrain · 24-03-2012 1:16am

Yore Ma bakes lovely bread.

antodeco · 24-03-2012 1:19am

Poll: Do you think man will ever land on the moon?

'Does my horse need an NCT?'

'Tiddlywinks: Post your high scores here'

'Heres a horse I saw today'

'My friend is 21 and still not married. I think she might be gay'

There would also be a priest forum and the TV forum would be very boring

northernpower · 24-03-2012 1:19am

Thank god for fianna fail

AnonoBoy · 24-03-2012 1:21am

TELEVISION???? We don't need that here? Copying the feckin' British.

Also - Has anyone read the novel Lolita? Fr. Mahon recommended it to me there the other day. He said he was getting a copy specially in off the boat from Thailand.

JerryHandbag · 24-03-2012 1:23am

Boards has gone really slow as I tried to reply to this thread....so it got me thinking, I suppose we'd actually have to "post" our replies, with a stamp etc.

WoollyRedHat · 24-03-2012 1:23am

I'm getting the **** out of this country

Hmmm, no much has changed really

Rowanvella199 · 24-03-2012 1:23am

A notice board with pieces of paper and a pen!

Latchy · 24-03-2012 1:24am

Where can I send his highness Archbishop McQuade a birthday cake ...will it arrive unbroken ?

patwicklow · 24-03-2012 1:26am

Iv sent my answer on a post card!

senorwipesalot · 24-03-2012 1:28am

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I'm getting the **** out of this country

Off with ya on your high nellie.

Father Damo · 24-03-2012 1:28am

Unlike the trendy sh1te people post here today about a near dead compleyely impotent institution, anti catholic church rants would actually be relevant.

antodeco · 24-03-2012 1:29am

'Are you going to pay the window tax?'

ColeTrain · 24-03-2012 1:30am

Father Damo wrote: »

Unlike the trendy sh1te people post here today about a near dead compleyely impotent institution, anti catholic church rants would actually be relevant.

Aye if you wanted to be strung up.

cloptrop · 24-03-2012 1:31am

Frank mcCourt would have wrote a novel on it.

Big Johnson · 24-03-2012 1:32am

'what does cow sh!t taste like?'

keano_afc · 24-03-2012 1:34am

mike65 would still have 60,000+ posts.

efb · 24-03-2012 1:34am

Fr Mooney gave a great mass today 1 hour and 47 minutes all in Latin. Then I went home and beat me wife cos the roast was overcooked

LETHAL LADY · 24-03-2012 1:41am

Does anyone remember the toilet paper in primary school with oifig an tsolathair in braille on it? I wonder was that greaseproof paper type stuff being used in the 50s.

ColeTrain · 24-03-2012 1:44am

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Does anyone remember the toilet paper in primary school with oifig an tsolathair in braille on it? I wonder was that greaseproof paper type stuff being used in the 50s.

We were issued with standard velvet whites. Did you go to the Ghaeltacht?

LETHAL LADY · 24-03-2012 1:45am

ColeTrain wrote: »

We were issued with standard velvet whites. Did you go to the Ghaeltacht?

No just the 80s.

efb · 24-03-2012 1:46am

Fr Mooney went up to the industrial school after. He spends alot of time with those lads. I hope he's putting some good into them, the little bollixes

starbelgrade · 24-03-2012 1:46am

It would have closed at 11.30 pm

Babybuff · 24-03-2012 1:47am

we got one of those new telly things, they're great craic altogether.

dark crystal · 24-03-2012 1:49am

Boards would only have a catholics forum, a filum forum, a wireless forum, a book forum, a politics forum and a pioneers forum.

Maybe a dressmaking forum for the wimminz who were allowed a spare few minutes after the childers were in bed and the washing was done.

JerryHandbag · 24-03-2012 1:52am

efb wrote: »

Fr Mooney went up to the industrial school after. He spends alot of time with those lads. I hope he's putting some good into them, the little bollixes

Oh I'd say he's doin a lot with their little bollixes

senorwipesalot · 24-03-2012 1:53am

Post on the Lords day and face eternal damnation.(except the holy hour)

dark crystal · 24-03-2012 1:54am

starbelgrade wrote: »

It would have closed at 11.30 pm

And all day Sunday.

darlett · 24-03-2012 1:57am

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Does anyone remember the toilet paper in primary school with oifig an tsolathair in braille on it? I wonder was that greaseproof paper type stuff being used in the 50s.

Was this the handy fun sized tracing paper sheets that came in little blue and white cardboard boxes which had perforated edges so you could perforate the heck out of your hands after doing the deed. God bless Granny for letting me give them a go!

starbelgrade wrote: »

It would have closed at 11.30 pm

Aye but surely we could of at least purchased a bottle til that time, and drink drive the donkey all the way home. In many ways they were far ahead of us!

44leto · 24-03-2012 1:57am

All the text would be in long hand, joined writing and written with the right hand.

ColeTrain · 24-03-2012 2:03am

Little Alex wrote: »

In 50 or 60 years time they'll be looking back on us with the same derision.

Doubt it, right now the internet is like the wild west. Wait till they bring in the cyber police and they start backtracing stuff. They'll look back and say we were lucky.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 24-03-2012 2:10am

"Pulled the plum off meself today. Just wondering when the blindness kicks in?"

JONJO THE MISER · 24-03-2012 2:16am

Big crowd in the village today, there was talk of some yank who wants to bid on the Bulls field when it goes to auction.

some random drunk · 24-03-2012 2:22am

"Describe your first Holy Communion using MS paint"

ToddyDoody · 24-03-2012 2:28am

I'm sure it would be moderated by priests from the catholic church with only them having the ability to start threads.. Most people would suck up to same and it might actually seem quite pleasant, if a bit repressed. I'd like it if it were liberal and high minded with more of a sense of humour.. The more gross / cynical stuff is expendable in my humble opinion

John Doe1 · 24-03-2012 2:28am

"A priest didnt touch me, I feel offended"

"Is jazz the devils music?"

"Ever seen a black fella?"

MadsL · 24-03-2012 2:36am

Ireland Off-line: when are the blasted ESB putting in our lines??? :mad:
DIY: Converting that old Crossley car into a money-saving septic tank
Afterhours: Did I leave the immersion on?
Parenting: Our Seamus, does he want to be a priest? Spends at lot of time late at the Parish House.
Travel: Will I get the boat?
Rip-Off Ireland: Would you look at the price of butter!
Banking, Insurance and Pensions: Putting my money offshore as the bank told me.
LGBT(Q): Lord Give Blessings to our Troubled Queers
Politics: Bring back DeV!!!

LETHAL LADY · 24-03-2012 2:37am

Peig Sayers would be a pin-up.

Where To · 24-03-2012 2:39am

(MOD)
EXCOMMUNICATED.

Dostoevsky · 24-03-2012 2:45am

Most people on the website would be trying to fix friends/friends of friends (that's everybody, in this tiny country) up with jobs and accommodation when they arrive in New York etc.

* In the 1950s there was a common belief that the Irish "race" was about to die because emigration was so enormous.