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How will the current decade be remembeered?

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  • 03-07-2009 2:58pm
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    hacx
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭


    As the decade reaches its end, I was thinking.
    How will people remember the naughties? What major earth shattering events have taken place in the last 9 1/2 years? What will be the stereotypical "00's style"? What will be the decades cultural legacy?


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    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Y2K, 9/11, Afghanistan, iPod, iRaq, Saddam Hussein, Youtube, Face****, 2girls1cup, Kilkenny winning the hurling again, recession, depression, Britney Spears, Obama, Wacko Jacko. We didn't start the fire it was always burning since the world's been turning.....


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    markok84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 857 ✭✭✭markok84


    reggae reggae sauce.


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    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Spose we'll have to wait...does it not just seem like "the 90's continued"? A few memorable events...

    - Millenium 2000 (Millenium Bug, remember that?)
    - CELTAAAAC TIGGGGER WOOOOHOOO
    - Growth of mobile phones
    - Growth of internet
    - Growth of computers
    - 9/11 and related events
    - Invasion of Middle East
    - Russia and Georgia conflict
    - North Korea's continued unsettlement
    - Ireland see's relative peace in the North
    - Ireland and the Nice Treaty, Lisbon Treaty
    - The Tsunami in Sri Lanka and surrounding areas
    - Ireland winning Grand Slam and Triple Crown in rugby
    - The late 2000's recession
    - Inauguration of first black US president
    - H1N1 swine flu scare (first pandemic in 50 years)
    - The Ryan Report
    - Death of Michael Jackson

    That's about all that I can quickly recall


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    Rhyme
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 8,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rhyme


    The internet exploded, leaving a sticky mess on everything.


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    eddiehead
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    javaboy wrote: »
    2girls1cup

    I've never seen this:confused:


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    toiletduck
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    War, death, destruction, economic ruin and High School Musical.


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    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Boards.ie's domination of Irish media


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    [Deleted User]
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    Looking forward to Friday pints I take it OP?


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    K4t
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    9/11, Obama and Recession are the three I will remember most vividly.

    Musically, it was the ****test decade ever and it's getting worse.


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    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    K4t wrote: »
    9/11, Obama and Recession are the three I will remember most vividly.

    Musically, it was the ****test decade ever and it's getting worse.
    I agree, only like 10 songs out of an entire decade I can think of worth remembering. Pop culture **** is well and truly in control now, and online downloading is causing this kinda mass-production of fast selling music.


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    ScumLord
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    I remember going into the bar ordering my first pint of Jameson but it's a bit hazy after that.


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    Wazdakka
    Registered Users Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    White headphones..

    Seriously...
    Imagine you were shown a photo of somebody and asked to pick when it was from..

    Flares and mad shirts = 70's
    Insaine hair or a suit with a power tie = 80's
    slightly different outdated clothing (Possibly involving Xworks) = 90's
    White headphones=00's

    Say what you want about apple but WOW thats impressive :eek:


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    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    eddiehead wrote: »
    I've never seen this:confused:

    It's scat porn. NSFW.


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    admiralofthefleet
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    massive worldwide economic boom followed by apocolyptic collapse


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    Lushed1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭Lushed1


    The Birth and Death (thank fück) of Big Brother


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    Klim
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭Klim


    javaboy wrote: »
    It's scat porn. NSFW.


    NSFW? Its not safe for the undead eyes of Lucifer himself.


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    gandhi123
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    It'd have to be death of the most influential persons to have ever lived... His presence will always be felt and his existence never forgotten.. Never was man so missed as the day he passed.














    R.I.P Mr. Miyagi :(


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    dsmythy
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    They'll probably look back at the reality tv of the noughties and react to them with the same bemusement we do with many things from the 80's.


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    Klim
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭Klim


    Its funny how musical trends go too. At the start of this decade, anything 90s was considered so naff. Now, look at all the 90s bands etc making comebacks. We moan about the music nowadays, but it'll probably come full circle too.


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    #21
    speedboatchase
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    9/11
    Iraq War
    Simon Cowell
    Lost
    YouTube
    Superhero Movies
    1st U.S Black President
    Big Brother
    Abramovich buys Chelsea
    Hair Straighteners
    Cristiano Ronaldo
    "Metrosexuals"
    Hurricane Katrina
    Kanye West
    Fox News
    Britney goes insane
    Lord of the Rings films
    Recession
    Greece somehow win Euro 2004
    George Bush
    Hip Hop becomes Pop
    Bebo/Facebook/Twitter
    iPod
    The Simpsons stops being funny
    Nintendo Wii
    MJ dies


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    -El-Nino-
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    The creation of The Sub of the Day... oooh Meatball Marinara;)


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    mike65
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    Possibly something that hasn't yet happened! :eek:


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    K4t
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Possibly something that hasn't yet happened! :eek:
    The fall of Capitalism and the rise of Socialism. That would be quite funny.


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    dsmythy
    Registered Users Posts: 10,510 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    K4t wrote: »
    The fall of Capitalism and the rise of Socialism. That would be quite funny.

    Speak for yourself! :eek:


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    gandhi123
    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭gandhi123


    mike65 wrote: »
    Possibly something that hasn't yet happened! :eek:

    Never even tot of it like that...

    This music is appropriate for that post:pac:


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    mobius42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭mobius42


    9/11
    iPods
    Internet goes mainstream
    Recession
    Obama


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    #28
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    reality tv......shudder

    Dubya
    Tony Blair
    Katrina
    7/7 London Bombings
    9/11
    Obama
    Indian Ocean Tsunami
    Chelski
    Michael Phelps - record haul
    Usain Bolt - 2 WR 1 Olympics
    Global Warming
    Social Networking
    Hip Hop
    Grand Theft Auto
    Wii

    erm

    erm


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    #29
    well horse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭well horse


    One thing I'd add is this massive increase in the number of atheists, partly due to the efforts of dawkins and others I would imagine.
    Just reading these boards seems to show how few and far between believers are these days; progress being made in my opinion!

    Other things this decade will be remembered for in Ireland;
    Vastly improved relations with the North
    Bill Clinton visit in 2000
    Foot and mouth disease
    Introduction of Euro
    Miraculous (and eventually squandered) economic growth until the end of 2007
    World cup 2002 and the Roy Keane story
    Bertie Ahern
    Brian Cowen
    Economic Crisis towards the end of the decade due to mismanagement of boom-time wealth
    Wet summers of '07 and '08
    Oxegen music festivals
    Massive level of inward migration leading to much greater racial diversity
    Countrys youth becomes more "americanised" (a bad development in my opinion...also become more expectant and ungrateful)
    Lads hairstyles start off short, start getting longer around 2006


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    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Remembeering things gets more difficult the longer the decade goes on. Its a good thing I spent all that lotto money on Marks and Spencers beer 9 years ago.


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    #31
    ChocolateSauce
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    On a personal level, it will be the decade I grew to adulthood in.

    In history, it will be the decade where the west started a long and terminal decline in power after over 200 years on top.


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