This Decades Memories??

keefg

OK, when we think back about different decades all sorts of images spring to mind. Even if you weren't born in a certain decade, the media and popular culture "remind" us what that decade was like.

The 60's
Hippies
Vietnam
Summer of Love
JFK
Space Race
Cold War
Beatlemania
Swinging London (or insert any city here)
Mods v Rockers

The 70's
Heavy Metal / Rock Music
Disco
A bit more Cold War
Punk
The birth of summer blockbuster movies
Flared Trousers
Platform Shoes

The 80's
CJ Haughey
Thatcher
New Romantics
Men with earings & makeup that weren't gay
GREED
Yuppies
Huge "mobile phones"
Unemployment
Strikes
A bit more Cold War
Ireland winning Euro song contest all the time
Package holidays to Benidorm (still ongoing)

The 90's
Grunge
The end of the Cold War
Raves
The birth of the Internet (whoo hoo)
Celtic Tiger
Indy Music
River Bloody Dance

The 00's (so far)
911
Gulf / Iraq Wars
International / Extreamist Terrorists (on every corner if you believe the media)
Big Brother & other assorted reality "celebs" (grrr - Jade Goody :mad: )
Massive increase in Manufactured Pop Groups
Pop Idol / Your a Star
Phone in and Vote TV shows
Annoying Ringtone ads

So, it is just me or with just over 25 months of this decade left will The 00's or Noughties or whatever be remebered as a pretty crap decade?

Since the 60's and the birth of Pop culture & multi media, IMO this decade has not really given the world anything particularly good.

Over to you...........

Pherekydes

This decade's memories?

The total breakdown of society
The "I don't care" generation
The precipitous drop in grammar standards
The precipitous drop in spelling standards
The overuse/misuse/absence of punctuation, e.g. "This decades memories??"


And most of all in this decades [sic]:

In before lock.

KTRIC

I can't wait for the 20's . I can finally wear those spats I bought.

Lirange

keefg wrote: »

So, it is just me or with just over 25 months of this decade left will The 00's or Noughties or whatever be remebered as a pretty crap decade?

Crap? You're being too kind.

There are very few redeeming aspects of this decade. I've had some good things happen in my personal life. But generally in terms of pop culture and global events it has been one big vulgar sh*tstorm.

zuutroy

Slow coach wrote: »

The precipitous drop in grammar standards
The precipitous drop in spelling standards

You should of seen it coming

Pherekydes

zuutroy wrote: »

You should of seen it coming

I seen it comming back in the 80s. In fact, its bin one big downward slide since the 70s. Can't say boo to the kids, they'll get upset. :rolleyes:

Blisterman

Emo kids
iPods
Fantasy Movies.
Sustainability/Things being Carbon Neutral (Seriously. I never heard that word until about a year ago. Now I Hear it about 100 times a day.

Sea Sharp

I thought the phrase 'random' summed up the general feeling of this decade. That and teh whole Will and Grace generation.
And Dubyah. WHo will forget that gimp
Youtube
Social Networks

Dalfiatach

Yeah, the rise of manufactured pop bands and manufactured "reality" telly

The comeback tour of 80's GREED in a massive, vulgar, ugly way

The collapse of society and community values (side-effect of above really)

In Ireland, the Great Property Bubble and all the negative effects of it we'll be living with for the next 30 years

And the neo-con endless War For Oil

Irredeemably CRAP decade, and there's still another couple of years to run!

Dudess

Ireland winning the Eurovision all the time was the nineties.

Breakdown of society this decade? Society wasn't exactly a bed of roses in the 90s, 80s, 70s...

Yep, this decade is horrible, as was the 90s.

What else? A good aspect: Tons of massive American TV shows (Sopranos, Desperate Housewives, Lost etc).

TV shows that encourage people to be horrible to each other: Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen whatnot, The Weakest Link, Big Brother.

The troubled starlet: Lindsay, Britney, Paris etc.

Gossip mags - there are so many of the damn things!

Chav culture.

LadyE

The Tsumani was in this decade - a huge disaster

How could you forget that one?

Jade Goody got a mention but not the thousands of people who died!:eek:

Id also mention Shell suits int he 90's...:D

Fratton Fred

Podge and Rodge.

That's about it really:rolleyes:

kraggy

00's

Ipod
Internet becoming an integral part of nearly everyone's life
Drugs crossing the classes to mass consumption
The arrival of China
Tsunami
The tragedy of September 11, 2001; the injustice that followed

matrim

IPod's \ MP3 players
Internet coming to the masses (and associated thing e.g. social networking)

Rob_l

the 90's should also surely have a mention for the end of apartheid in S africa eh?

and the internet was not born in the 90's :eek::eek:

ScumLord

Peace in the north that looks like it might actually stick.

matrim

kraggy wrote: »

Ipod
Internet becoming an integral part of nearly everyone's life

you got in there just before me

kraggy wrote: »

Drugs crossing the classes to mass consumption

I would have though that started in the 60's (and then moved on with each decade) i.e.
60's = Marajuana, LSD
70's = continuation of same
80's = Coke
90's = Extacy
00's = Coke back in fashion

Rob_l

matrim wrote: »

you got in there just before me


I would have though that started in the 60's (and then moved on with each decade) i.e.
60's = Marajuana, LSD
70's = continuation of same
80's = Coke
90's = Extacy
00's = Coke back in fashion

or lets go back further to englands obsession with opium

drugs taking your lives away

Dudess

70s - speed; coke becoming popular at the end of the decade (well in New York - very much the drug of Disco).

cance

00's

From the techy aspect:
lolcat's
google's rise
starwars kid
social acceptance of mmo's
social networking (bebo, myspace blah blah blah who gives a shíte)
Blogs ( sigh )
broadband
tbc.

Wacker

Wow, some major rose tinted glasses being worn here. Every point about the breakdown of society, the death of good manners, the 'I don't care generation', etc. could equally be applied to every decade in human history. Aristotle wrote books about it, and that was two thousand years ago.
Now, while the sixties had cool music emerging in the USA, I'll remind you that black people had to sit at the back of the bus! Also, Ireland was a total sh*thole back then. I'm not going to bother entertaining the dozens of people who say that it is worse now; get some persepective folks. The decline of the Catholic Church has been one of the biggest features of Irish society over the last few decades; that should probably feature on the list.

Red Hand

Hmmm...I'd have to go with Trafalgor. Our fate lies in the hands of Admiral Nelson.

keefg

LadyE wrote: »

The Tsumani was in this decade - a huge disaster

How could you forget that one?

Jade Goody got a mention but not the thousands of people who died!:eek:

Id also mention Shell suits int he 90's...:D

Yep, good point. I forgot to mention the whole "global warming, we're all gonna die soon, think of the children" media coverage.

Also, I am fairly sure that Piggy Goody got more media coverage in the 00's than the big Tsunami.

ScumLord

Wacker wrote: »

Wow, some major rose tinted glasses being worn here. Every point about the breakdown of society, the death of good manners, the 'I don't care generation', etc. could equally be applied to every decade in human history. Aristotle wrote books about it, and that was two thousand years ago.
Now, while the sixties had cool music emerging in the USA, I'll remind you that black people had to sit at the back of the bus! Also, Ireland was a total sh*thole back then. I'm not going to bother entertaining the dozens of people who say that it is worse now; get some persepective folks. The decline of the Catholic Church has been one of the biggest features of Irish society over the last few decades; that should probably feature on the list.

that's all very true and there's no doubt that the individual is much better off today in terms of health, services and rights but society is on a downward spiral, although I suppose we never really got the hang of it. The loss of community is the biggest problem today and i my opinion is the cause of the levels of crime and poverty (in rich country).

beans

The Christmas massacre 2007

(polishes rifle and attaches harness)

Idbatterim

the low cost, mass travel revolution, most of it only really kicked off in the early 00's, Ryanair only launched their website in 2000, link http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/about.php?page=About&pos=HEAD

Fratton Fred

Rob_l wrote: »

or lets go back further to englands obsession with opium

drugs taking your lives away

China had the obsession with Opium, the British (Or East India company to be more precise) just sold it to them.

pd101

9/11
Three huge threats to world peace ( Saddam, Osama & Bush )
Tsunami
Euro
Bertiegate
Wicklow winning the Tommy Murphy Cup

.....and still to come
North Korea
Bertiegate II
Wicklow - All Ireland Champions

L31mr0d

The noughties:

Instability (social, economic, environmental)

Rob_l

Fratton Fred wrote: »

China had the obsession with Opium, the British (Or East India company to be more precise) just sold it to them.

I think you will alos find the british had quite an obsession using it for health and recreational uses in the 1800's
Givign it to children for minor ailments being one use

A-Trak

What about boobs.

I feel they have evolved throughout the decades.