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Reeling in the years

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    #92
    Neeson
    Registered Users Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    Why?


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    #93
    Birroc
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    The reel got stuck in the projector.


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    #94
    kirving
    Registered Users Posts: 5,927 ✭✭✭kirving


    mango salsa wrote: »
    They substituted an episode of it with some crappy programme with Richard Corrigan last week

    Sorry, might have been the weeks before, but it was wrong beforehand too.


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    #95
    zcorpian88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭zcorpian88


    Chucken wrote: »
    He probably got a job. Thats what people did. Qualifications and skills?? You learnt on the job.

    Was the right way to have kept it, certainly would be a hell of a lot better than shyte FAS courses or that Jobbridge dirt that they are shelling out now.

    A reasonable wage and making the newbie feel like they are benefiting the business would be the best morale boost to keep people in whatever job, instead of keeping people out because they have no experience, how are they supposed to get it if bureaucratic employers won't give them a chance.

    Also I love Reeling In The Years myself, I still even watch the repeats. The tunes totally go with the scenes they use. Fave would probably be the use of The Police's song "Invisible Sun" in the 1981 episode, during the Hunger Strike scene I think it was.


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    #96
    Squeeonline
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    Someone might be able to answer this for me....

    I saw an episode recently, probably from the 70's and there was a section focussing on Enda Kenny. Back then, he was of minor importance as far as I understand. It made me think that they might have "updated" the episode to better reflect the current state of things.

    I don't think there's any electorate bending motive here whatever the answer.


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    #97
    zcorpian88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭zcorpian88


    Squeeonline wrote: »
    Someone might be able to answer this for me....

    I saw an episode recently, probably from the 70's and there was a section focussing on Enda Kenny. Back then, he was of minor importance as far as I understand. It made me think that they might have "updated" the episode to better reflect the current state of things.

    I don't think there's any electorate bending motive here whatever the answer.

    Think it was the episode where Enda got his father's seat in the Dail, I believe his father passed away and he just got his seat. Don't think they updated the episode, they just used the footage as Kenny is now another familiar face, probably used the footage to give people a laugh at Enda's Irish mid 70's hair!


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    #98
    dj jarvis
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    mango salsa wrote: »
    They substituted an episode of it with some crappy programme with Richard Corrigan last week

    yea , i noticed that , was there something in that episode that they did not want to show for some reason ?

    only big thing in the news that day was about Egypt , so cant see that having any affect on the showing of the program

    any one any ideas why they would just pull that one episode and replace it with a ****ty Irish "celeb" cookery rubbish ?


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    #99
    smellmepower
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    Like the 90's episodes myself,you can pretty much see the country slowly going to ****e.


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    #100
    Femme_Fatale
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    smellmepower wrote: »
    Like the 90's episodes myself,you can pretty much see the country slowly going to ****e.
    The opposite surely? Even if it was all an illusion...


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    #101
    .jacksparrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭.jacksparrow.


    Should make a part 2 of all the years, I'm sure there is other stuff that could be included.


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    #102
    Squeeonline
    Registered Users Posts: 2,555 ✭✭✭Squeeonline


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    The opposite surely? Even if it was all an illusion...


    Hindsight is a wonderful thing.


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    #103
    Annasopra
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    dj jarvis wrote: »
    yea , i noticed that , was there something in that episode that they did not want to show for some reason ?

    only big thing in the news that day was about Egypt , so cant see that having any affect on the showing of the program

    any one any ideas why they would just pull that one episode and replace it with a ****ty Irish "celeb" cookery rubbish ?

    No

    They showed the scheduled episode the next day

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #104
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,042 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Squeeonline wrote: »
    Someone might be able to answer this for me....

    I saw an episode recently, probably from the 70's and there was a section focussing on Enda Kenny. Back then, he was of minor importance as far as I understand. It made me think that they might have "updated" the episode to better reflect the current state of things.

    I don't think there's any electorate bending motive here whatever the answer.

    Not really - Winning a bye election was newsworthy

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #105
    nlgbbbblth
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    Squeeonline wrote: »
    Someone might be able to answer this for me....

    I saw an episode recently, probably from the 70's and there was a section focussing on Enda Kenny. Back then, he was of minor importance as far as I understand. It made me think that they might have "updated" the episode to better reflect the current state of things.

    I don't think there's any electorate bending motive here whatever the answer.

    1975.


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    #106
    OU812
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    I used to have the whole lot of these, went looking tonight & now can't find them !!!


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    #107
    herisson
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    Every time its on, i keep missing the year i was born. :/ Last time i got 1990 then missed 91 somehow and this year i missed and got 1992 :(


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    #108
    Caonima
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Caonima


    Any idea where I can see the most recent series dealing with the 2000s? Is it on RTE player...?


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    #109
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Seans_Username wrote: »
    The clip when the Lotto is launched they ask Charlie Haughey what he would do if he won it. His answer was something along the lines of "I'd spent most on helping a lot of community organisations, definitely on sports [blah blah blah].... I might keep a bit for myself haw haw"
    End of the episode. Brilliant. They use hindsight extremely well.

    I think this is the reason it's best to leave a significant enough amount of time before making new episodes. More significant and poignant stories and accompanying music can be selected, seeing as how this some people in the future will most easily learn about our recent history.


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    #110
    Andrewf20
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    Strange to think that in 25 years time some of us will be getting misty eyed over memories that havent even happened yet. Reeling in the years 2014. Wonder how it will look in 2039.

    Great show, love the mid 80s - early 90s especially.


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    #111
    padma
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    most of them are on youtube


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    #112
    Neeson
    Registered Users Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    Nipples on spice girls video.

    Tut tut


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    #113
    Neeson
    Registered Users Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    Jaysus Pat is a bastard. But when you look like Clark Kent you can have high standards.


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    #114
    Dave!
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    Outstanding show. Such a simple concept, yet so powerful and emotive. Best thing RTE has done.

    Hope they keep making it and never change the format.


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    #115
    Skid X
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    Dave! wrote: »
    Outstanding show. Such a simple concept, yet so powerful and emotive. Best thing RTE has done.

    Hope they keep making it and never change the format.

    It is a pure rip off of the old BBC series 'Rock n Roll Years', but RTE did it well. Long may it continue.



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    #116
    nlgbbbblth
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    They've been on so often now that it should be possible to record a full set onto a Sky box / DVD recorder with HDD.


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    #117
    Caonima
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Caonima


    Not sure if someone said this already, but that show should be on the Irish history syllabus.


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    #118
    MurdyWurdy
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    Was watching the 1996 one earlier and couldn't get over the divorce referendum and all the fuss around people who wanted to vote no. I just cannot get into the mindset of a person who thinks they should get to decide how others live their life because of their own personal religious beliefs and how they think that is justified. I didn't realise it passed by such a small amount (50.3%).

    It would be really interesting to see if the same people still had a problem with it 18 years later and if they think it has caused the breakdown of society that they thought it would. Did all the terrible things they predicted come to pass? Would 49.7% of voters still be against it? It has interesting parallels with the current marriage equality debate.


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    #119
    Caonima
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Caonima


    MurdyWurdy wrote: »
    I just cannot get into the mindset of a person who thinks they should get to decide how others live their life because of their own personal religious beliefs and how they think that is justified.

    Because it's not 'their own' religious beliefs; it's the herd mentality. What's good for the goose etc.

    Backwards neanderthal thinking


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    #120
    Chucken
    Registered Users Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    MurdyWurdy wrote: »
    Was watching the 1996 one earlier and couldn't get over the divorce referendum and all the fuss around people who wanted to vote no. I just cannot get into the mindset of a person who thinks they should get to decide how others live their life because of their own personal religious beliefs and how they think that is justified. I didn't realise it passed by such a small amount (50.3%).

    It would be really interesting to see if the same people still had a problem with it 18 years later and if they think it has caused the breakdown of society that they thought it would. Did all the terrible things they predicted come to pass? Would 49.7% of voters still be against it? It has interesting parallels with the current marriage equality debate.

    The fuss, as you call it, was about the wording of it. We already had a referendum in 1986 which was a disaster. People were worried, particularly women, that they would end up in poverty if they got divorced.
    It was a very alien idea at the time so you have to understand peoples worries.

    Btw..I campaigned and voted to remove the ban on divorce and was a very proud lady to be number 68 in this country to be granted one ;)


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    #121
    Omackeral
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    Charlie Haughey was always in a car it seems. Always getting out of Dodge, maybe the window cracked a little bit. Big Mr.Burns/Harry Redknapp scheming headon him.


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