The Glenroe Feeling

zuutroy

A) Anyone know what I mean?

I think you'd have to be 22+.

Have you got it now?

Karoma

A) No.
No.

Now, WTFAYBOA?

Silverfish

Yes, normally kicks in around now.

Also accompanied with 'Have I done my homework?!' despite the fact I have not had homework for 12 years.

Scraggs

A= Nostalgia?

B= Well Holy God

zuutroy

Karoma wrote:

Now, WTFAYBOA?

Give it another minute or two....

Winters

#care ?

Nordie

muletide

with you all the way - I used to dread the end credits. I normally dont get it until I am on my way up the stairs

zuutroy

Silverfish wrote:

Yes, normally kicks in around now.

Also accompanied with 'Have I done my homework?!' despite the fact I have not had homework for 12 years.

Exactly..for those who haven't a clue what I'm on about, it's that feeling you used to get on a Sunday night, knowing that the weekend is finished and there's another gruelling week of school ahead. It officially set in with the first few bars of the Glenroe theme on a Sunday night while yer ma was ironing yer shirts for the week. A terrible thing.

muletide

zuutroy wrote:

Exactly..for those who haven't a clue what I'm on about, it's that feeling you used to get on a Sunday night, knowing that the weekend is finished and there's another gruelling week of school ahead. It officially set in with the first few bars of the Glenroe theme on a Sunday night while yer ma was ironing yer shirts for the week. A terrible thing.

This is too freaky - are you me ma or did you hide in the corner of my living room as I grew up

Nordie

gotcha now, but I don't have that feeling:D

zuutroy

Nordie wrote:

gotcha now, but I don't have that feeling:D

I normally don't but just had a 4 day weekend, and even though I like work, I'm just not in the mood!

tallus

OP: Thanks for the reminder.

mike65

All Things Retro tbh!

Twas The Riordans in my day.

Mike.

Ruu_Old

Yep, "ah bolleex, school tomorrow".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC4le3NPrr8

Irish Wolf

Ruu wrote:

Yep, "ah bolleex, school tomorrow".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC4le3NPrr8

:eek: THE RECTOR'S WIFE FINDS A JOB!!!!!!!

zuutroy

mike65 wrote:

All Things Retro tbh!

The feeling's not retro...I have it now!

As for that vid from Ruu...Why is that on youtube!?

WindSock

Yeah, I know the feeling exactly. The smell of dinner still lingering in the air twinned with the ironing smell and the dreaded ive got school tomorrow and cant even remember how much homework i had to do feeling. Then the first few bars #dee de dee de deh dee dee de diddly de# ''ahh Moiley, yeh didn't''

Beans_On

yeah --"where in the world" then bath ,"glenroe" and bed.

then school for the week.,

Ruu_Old

zuutroy wrote:

The feeling's not retro...I have it now!

As for that vid from Ruu...Why is that on youtube!?

No idea, there is a collection of the different RTE clocks over the years as well..strange goings on..odd people..ahem. *shuffles off*

Pigman II

Yeah I know the feeling. The weird thing is that it's never a positive feeling like "ooh! something really good/enjoyable is coming up this monday" ie it only ever hits me when I'm working in a ****ty job, but never when I'm in a good one.

I guess I really just hated school.

Devon

Yeah *now* I know the feeling you're talking about and it has to be the best way of describing it I've ever heard.

Kazooie

Yep, remember that feeling all to well.

tribulus

The fact I understand what the OP and others are feeling is a sure sign I'm getting old....

faceman

the only reason i was allowed to stay up till 9pm on a sunday was cos of the show!

Mossy Monk

Glenroe was always a highlight. Never doom and gloom.

Mrs. MacGyver

I remember it too. used to look forward to it each week in the same way as i dod for Dallas on Saturday nights. Hated when 9 oclock came around and another school week beginning. Used to love George (before he met Shirley).

Pigman II

faceman wrote:

the only reason i was allowed to stay up till 9pm on a sunday was cos of the show!

I think given that choice I'd have just gone to bed.

Sam Vimes

zuutroy wrote:

Exactly..for those who haven't a clue what I'm on about, it's that feeling you used to get on a Sunday night, knowing that the weekend is finished and there's another gruelling week of school ahead. It officially set in with the first few bars of the Glenroe theme on a Sunday night while yer ma was ironing yer shirts for the week. A terrible thing.

i'm doing my last exam tomorrow and then i'm going on the piss for the week. is that the glenroe feeling?

Ballerina

zuutroy wrote:

I think you'd have to be 22+.

im only 18 and know exactly what your talking about.used to watch it though,a bit of mother-daughter time!the smell of tea,fresh bread and dad whistling the theme tune hahah that sound awful sad :eek:

woop

18 aswell and remember it, jaysus forgotten how ****e rte was euro song 94? followed by some other crappy crap, no wonder glenroe was so popular, ah remember glenroe,good stuff, the molly malone et al, the farm is still open as a petting zoo

actually bit off topic but does anyone remeber the magic mushies storyline or was that just a figment of my imagination?

Zebra3

I remember it well! :mad:

But, I'm off work tomorrow.

"Heh heh, losers!"

GhostInTheRuins

zuutroy wrote:

Exactly..for those who haven't a clue what I'm on about, it's that feeling you used to get on a Sunday night, knowing that the weekend is finished and there's another gruelling week of school ahead. It officially set in with the first few bars of the Glenroe theme on a Sunday night while yer ma was ironing yer shirts for the week. A terrible thing.

Wow thats weird, you just described my childhood. :eek:

faceman wrote:

the only reason i was allowed to stay up till 9pm on a sunday was cos of the show!

Ditto

nlgbbbblth

Murphy's Micro Quiz-M and Glenroe both started in September 1983 and will forever be associated with the 'end of the weekend feeling' for me.

Dallas on Saturday night was good. Used have a bath beforehand and watch it while drying my hair in front of the fire. Anyone else do this?

Dudess

Oh I know that feeling so, so well - no explanation was required in my case.

Mike, great find. But it seems so eighties. God, I thought things had moved on a bit here by 1994.

Here are some RTE clocks *shudders*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVOcyQvvnts, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WAAQrqb7k

Kernel

Ruu wrote:

No idea, there is a collection of the different RTE clocks over the years as well..strange goings on..odd people..ahem. *shuffles off*

You're an expert of both youtube and boards Ruu, so perhaps you can help me out. A user here recently had a link to 'the best song ever' or something to that effect, and it was some dire Eurovision song... do you know the song??

And on topic... I hate sunday evenings - luckily Lost is on, but once it's over you know there's a full week ahead. And Bullseye, watching that on satellite always reminds me of boring Sunday afternoons as a kid. Full of food and half asleep!

zuutroy

Dudess wrote:

Here are some RTE clocks *shudders*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVOcyQvvnts, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WAAQrqb7k

I remember them talking about the launch of the first one on The Den, when Network 2 was first introduced.

Dudess

And this one which weirdly features a punk track and the continuity announcement is from the BBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRkpSQy_tCA

nlgbbbblth

Plenty old RTE idents here

Dudess

Dallas on Saturday night was good. Used have a bath beforehand and watch it while drying my hair in front of the fire. Anyone else do this?

Oh pffft! You may as well be describing my childhood!

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Murphy's Micro Quiz-M?

Loved that show. Took for granted the '-M' bit at the time. Anyone know what it meant?

Oh wow, those RTE idents are fantastic!

nlgbbbblth

Dudess wrote:

Oh pffft! You may as well be describing my childhood!

Dudess wrote:

Loved that show. Took for granted the '-M' bit at the time. Anyone know what it meant?

Oh wow, those RTE idents are fantastic!

M = not sure if it stood for anything. My friend and his parents / brother appeared on the show in 1986. He still has the videotape which he's never showed to anybody. Someday I'll persuade him it should be digitised for posterity.

The idents are deadly. They make me sad too. Reminders of a time when life was simpler and we had very little worries.

mike65

The M in Microquiz-M was a lame play on the word microcosm.

Mike.

RVD420

That was a bad feeling, even though Glenroe was quality viewing. I believe Dick Byrne was the only person to EVER get away with something dodgy in a soap. If memory serves correct I remember he torched his factory with a cigar and no one ever copped it.....nice.:cool:

Dudess

mike65 wrote:

The M in Microquiz-M was a lame play on the work microcosm.

Mike.

Ah, I see. Lame indeed.

Yep, I know what you mean, nlgbbbblth. I always get a lump in my throat when I watch Reeling in the Years - moreso the nineties ones than the eighties ones because I was a teenager in the nineties and have such mixed memories of that decade. Whereas, the eighties just makes me smile about when I was a small kid.

phantom_lord

zuutroy wrote:

Exactly..for those who haven't a clue what I'm on about, it's that feeling you used to get on a Sunday night, knowing that the weekend is finished and there's another gruelling week of school ahead. It officially set in with the first few bars of the Glenroe theme on a Sunday night while yer ma was ironing yer shirts for the week. A terrible thing.

lol. how very true!

mike65

(Holy) God its sad is'nt it? This pathetic lamenting of a lost youth from oh, 10-15 years back!

Mike.

OPENROAD

Sunday nights were all about Londons Burning and Spitting Image for me, then that sick feeling that the weekend was over and back to school on Monday.

Alter-Ego

I'm 18 and i know the glenroe feeling, AND the Londons Burning feeling. We alternated in the ego household.

When i was younger that "school around the corner" show was on earlier in the evening. That brought on the dread on a sunday evening.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Alter-Ego wrote:

When i was younger that "school around the corner" show was on earlier in the evening. That brought on the dread on a sunday evening.

Eurgh, yes... that's actually worse than Glenroe :eek:

Blush_01

woop wrote:

actually bit off topic but does anyone remeber the magic mushies storyline or was that just a figment of my imagination?

I remember it well. Poor auld Mary. And then they gave her a box of Black Magic as an apology... shure wasn't she only scandalised! Black Magic chocolates, of all things! Terrible!

So many good memories. Like Biddy's car crash. What ever happened to Biddy and Miley's kids? Did they give up the "acting" and get on with being children?

Blackie Connors was my favourite. *swoon*

I totally get the Glenroe feeling thing... I really don't want it to be tonight already!

simu

The Glenroe Feeling - I get it! Great description!

It was my favourite programme when I was in 4th class, imagine!