Pick a decade to be a teenager in Ireland

gobnaitolunacy

1920's...I can throw stones at Black & Tans and learn the Charleston.

Geomy

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

People are forgetting thatland was not America during earlier decades, and the likes of rock and roll, and the swinging sixties were alien to vast swaths of the country. Such liberalism would only have been seen in pockets in Dublin, perhaps around Trinity and UCD.

Ireland was and still is to a certain extent a very conservative country. In terms of prosperity the best decade to have been born in would have been the early to mid eighties. You would have seen free third level introduced, probably have parents who could find work and most likely would have been young enough to avoid getting caught up in the property mania. Maybe would havee been able to secure a good job after uni too without being forced to emigrate if you didn't want to.

That's not true at all.
My dad grew up in Kerry and there was rock and roll every weekend, not just on the wireless and you could shop in Abbeyfeale or Killarney get the latest trendy clothing, shoes and haircuts. ..

Your post is typical of someone who thinks the world revolved around Trinity, UCD during the 60s

I think back in those days there was more fun outside Dublin than you thought. ...

homerjay2005

Jester252 wrote: »

Perfect if you turned ten in 1995. You have no problem getting a summer job in the early 2000 and college would be must better due to the money flowing all over the place. Finish in 2006 (21-22) to get a full time job. Yet no enough time to buy a house before the market goes tits up. Hindsight is the best.

2006 was the worst possible time to buy a house as prices were over inflated by about 50% and why on earth would anybody buy a house at 22? somebody at 22 should not be getting into the "market", if for any reason they were buying a house it should be a home and not an investment. homes have nothing to do with the market as in most cases, people who buy homes dont need to sell unless they run into trouble.

with this type of mentality, no wonder the country went f*cked

to answer the original point, 2006 to 2013 is the best time to be a teenager, as long as the parents kept their feet on the ground before that.

BraziliaNZ

I was just thinking that people around my age could also be royally f*cked due to the property boom. A lot of my friends in their 30s now are attached to 3 or 400k gafs for life that are worth half that now. Luckily I was too hapless to ever have savings to buy a gaf.

BeerWolf

No 30s or 40s options ? That's discrimination right there! :mad:

Mr Benevolent

Mariasofia wrote: »

The swingin' 60's would have been great craic I'd say.

Not in Ireland. We were a decade behind.

My niece has picked the 2020s to be a teenager, and I'm sure she'll enjoy it. This categorising of decades is silly.

BraziliaNZ

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

Not in Ireland. We were a decade behind.

My niece has picked the 2020s to be a teenager, and I'm sure she'll enjoy it. This categorising of decades is silly.

Water wars, overpopulation, apocalyptic horror

Mr Benevolent

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Water wars, overpopulation, apocalyptic horror

And Boardsies exaggerating everything like mad, same as the 2010s.

SEPT 23 1989

1990's

Definitely the 90s or the 1970s.

Jester252

homerjay2005 wrote: »

2006 was the worst possible time to buy a house as prices were over inflated by about 50% and why on earth would anybody buy a house at 22? somebody at 22 should not be getting into the "market", if for any reason they were buying a house it should be a home and not an investment. homes have nothing to do with the market as in most cases, people who buy homes dont need to sell unless they run into trouble.

with this type of mentality, no wonder the country went f*cked

to answer the original point, 2006 to 2013 is the best time to be a teenager, as long as the parents kept their feet on the ground before that.

I forgot the to put a t in the not. As in once I finished college I could still get a job but not enough time to buy a house

OneArt

The next 60s when we'll all be given giant mecs to fight in the war against the Ant People.

mitosis

Decade from what century? This one, last one (which is a popular choice with posters), next one?

I pick 3320s. Hover everything, free energy, futurerock concerts on Mars and limited time travel

Mrmoe

I would love to be a teenager now. All that porn , I'd probably go blind.

Sunglasses Ron

Late eighties to mid nineties. I get hairs on the back of my neck watching docus about the Madchester scene, the rave culture that exploded in the summer of 89, all that. Apart from dance music the hip hop and Britpop scenes at the time were on another level too.

Nearly feel sorry for the kids today. 20 years ago young lads raved to the finest in house, trance, techno, and every month brought another classic hip hop release. These days the kids put up with Dubstep and mumbling nonsense like Lil Wayne or pretentious rubbish like Kanye West. Every genertion probably says it but I am adamant that if I was 17 today I would be completely unable to listen to this crap no matter how many of my mates were.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

00s, I liked being a teenager then.

Mobile phones that had picture messages not made up of %#*+} ect.

Lots of shops about the place - I guess it was during the boom when everyone had money and shops were everywhere. My first job at the weekends was in the shoe dept of a massive dept store, and it was the best job I've ever had. I have a warm fuzzy feeling when I think about a job surrounded by shoes all day, trying pretty ones on and getting to put my size on the new ones away, so I could buy them that weekend.

Always something to do - if it was shopping on a Saturday, or deciding on a Tuesday morning you weren't going to school, you could get a train to Dublin and spend the day up there wandering around. Having the aforementioned phone meant it was easier to stay one step ahead of my mother, as communication was key in not being caught.

Relations - my favourite cousin turned 18 in the 00s, which meant I was always sorted for a few snakey bottles of wkd, I'd have been proper stuck had I been in the 90s.

Fashion - (or lack thereof) pointy toe and spikey heeled shoes, stringy pants and very baggy jeans pink hair too many piercings and those long key chains with no keys at the end of em dangling from your pockets.

I want a do over.

Geomy

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

Late eighties to mid nineties. I get hairs on the back of my neck watching docus about the Madchester scene, the rave culture that exploded in the summer of 89, all that. Apart from dance music the hip hop and Britpop scenestat the time were on another level too.

Nearly feel sorry for the kids today. 20 years ago young lads raved to the finest in house, trance, techno, and every month brought another classic hip hop release. These days the kids put up with Dubstep and mumbling nonsense like Lil Wayne or pretentious rubbish like Kanye West. Every genertion probably says it but I am adamant that if I was 17 today I would be completely unable to listen to this crap no matter how many of my mates were.

I remember at 18 telling my parents I was going camping to Lahinch, ended up sharing a car off over to Manchester to the Hacienda lol
Whata road trip :-)

Sunglasses Ron

LexieOnRale wrote: »

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Fashion - (or lack thereof) pointy toe and spikey heeled shoes, stringy pants and very baggy jeans pink hair too many piercings and those long key chains with no keys at the end of em dangling from your pockets.

I want a do over.

The rockers still wear this type of stuff, no?

The only uniquely 00s fashion never to return I can think of was those cheese charity wristbands people wore. Most of them were market knock offs.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

The rockers still wear this type of stuff, no?

The only uniquely 00s fashion never to return I can think of was those cheese charity wristbands people wore. Most of them were market knock offs.

Do they? Lol. I used to wear those when I was like 15/16, I think I would die (from laughing) if I saw someone dressed up like that now.

Looking back though its mad how much a person can change their look fashion wise. I used to be mad on piercings as a young one, now I don't even have my ears pierced. Would live in those baggy jeans and keychains and 'ironic' tops, now I wear jeans maybe once a month if I'm too lazy to shave my legs. And it's not even ten years ago!

P. Breathnach

K-9 wrote: »

From all I've read 60's Ireland was pretty grim, nothing like England and the Beatles, the Kinks etc....

The 60s that people speak of as a great decade didn't really start until about 1964 or 1965. It was a magic time. The greatest thing about it is that it was a time of emancipation and almost unbounded optimism.

I look back on it and see how much opportunity I wasted (happily, not every opportunity: I did have a good time).

markomuscle

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

These days the kids put up with Dubstep and mumbling nonsense like Lil Wayne or pretentious rubbish like Kanye West.

The metal scene is still good though.

Leftist

the 70s look interesting. New found freedom to a degree. Would have to be in or around Dublin obviously. Otherwise you're probably at the mercy of some priests.

80s would be dreary as hell.

90s I know, they weren't great.

Anything after that is horrific. I feel sorry for teenagers now. They are completely manipulated and they are scumbags to eachother.

Sunglasses Ron

markomuscle wrote: »

The metal scene is still good though.

Would not be my scene at all.

P. Breathnach wrote: »

The 60s that people speak of as a great decade didn't really start until about 1964 or 1965. It was a magic time. The greatest thing about it is that it was a time of emancipation and almost unbounded optimism.

I look back on it and see how much opportunity I wasted (happily, not every opportunity: I did have a good time).

Was there actually a whole acid and weed scene going on among the average young Joe at the level of London and the US? My old man and a few uncles would be from this age and I really can't imagine them associating themselves with it.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

I'm going to pick early to mid noughties.

I (we) grew up with technology. The Gameboy and Super Nintendo were unbelievable, nothing was like them before, Sega had it's place. PCs started becoming beasts of machines, big shout out to Championship Manager. Games consoles grew up with us, PlayStation 1,2 and 3 matured as we were, compare original GTA with GTA 3. Even now, not many teenagers are going to be able to buy a PS 4, but we can.

Smartphones and Youtube came along at the perfect time for us to buy and use. Netflix and the like would have been wasted on us if they had come out any earlier.

As a kid in the 90's we could see old Ireland and appreciate where new Ireland wanted to go, the church hanging around thinking it was still all powerful and mighty but it wasn't, Paddy hats, divorce becoming legal, man pubs, condoms going non prescription, people thinking mobile phones were for business people, the pound instead of the Euro.

We can remember watching channel 18 (the German channel), we remember finding a porno mag in the bushes and bringing the stuck together pictures home (it's the rain that has stuck them together :rolleyes:). We remember the start of internet porn and can see the transformation it has made to what it is now. Internet porn grew with us.

We remember when there was 2 channels on tv and they only broadcast when they felt like it. Ah, never fear, as we reached our teens Sky digital came along with better picture quality and hundreds of channels for us to peruse and scour.

I sent my first email when I was 12 and I had my first phone the same year. Nobody aged 12 even a couple of years previous had sent an email, had internet access or their own mobile phone. Fast forward to today and this is still about the same age children/teenagers reach these milestones.

Drink and fags were not the demon they are now perceived to be. You could walk into an off license and buy 10 John Player Blue and 6 Dutch Gold without ID. You could drink and smoke in a pub then. How many 15 year old's can do that now?
Hash was plentiful and weed became easier to get (weed was no longer a treat). Pills were better than they are now. Cocaine wasn't as expensive and mixed down as much as it is now. This drugs point is probably a negative looking back but at the time it wasn't.

We were the right age to join Bebo and then migrate to Facebook, some people today go on it too young. We missed all the Ask.fm and online bullying thing that's happening now.

We can remember Walkmans, we remember taping off the radio, we remember spending 20 pounds on an album that we ended up not liking, but by the time we were in our mid teens we could download any song or album we wanted for free onto a cd or digitally.

Spending on education was never higher as we went through school, we got paid large grants to go to college for free.

Nobody in my age bracket bought a house at boom prices.

Then again, many of us have had to emigrate or are unemployed or are working for free or are in the public service working the same amount of hours as others for a reduced salary.

Swings and roundabouts.

P. Breathnach

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

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Was there actually a whole acid and weed scene going on among the average young Joe at the level of London and the US? My old man and a few uncles would be from this age and I really can't imagine them associating themselves with it.

Acid distorts perception. Possibly the greatest distortion of perception is what the drug culture of the 1960s was like - even in London and the US.

My experience is that the large majority of young people did not use hallucinogens, and most of those who did used them only a little. Yes, weed was used, but I think much less than in more recent decades. We didn't drink as much, either, because we had less money.

Free love (another of the late 60s images) happened for other people, never for us.

But we had great shirts.

Sunglasses Ron

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

We can remember watching channel 18 (the German channel), we remember finding a porno mag in the bushes and bringing the stuck together pictures home (it's the rain that has stuck them together :rolleyes:). We remember the start of internet porn and can see the transformation it has made to what it is now. Internet porn grew with us.

Finding free porn was actually harder back then, every site seemed to be protected with age verification systems where one would have to buy an online ID. The porn was out there but finding it was alot harder than now, where it is all grouped together handily on the tube sites or whatnot (I am still confused as to who the hell buys porn)

We remember when there was 2 channels on tv and they only broadcast when they felt like it. Ah, never fear, as we reached our teens Sky digital came along with better picture quality and hundreds of channels for us to peruse and scour.

The hourly 10 minute freeview and late night episodes of that porn soap opera called Passion Cove on Living :pac::pac: Reasonably sure they were actually shagging, you just did not see it slide in

Hash was plentiful and weed became easier to get (weed was no longer a treat). Pills were better than they are now. Cocaine wasn't as expensive and mixed down as much as it is now. This drugs point is probably a negative looking back but at the time it wasn't.

I never got the appeal of coke, for the price of it the quality of the average stuff available was rubbish. Pills all the way

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

The hourly 10 minute freeview and late night episodes of that porn soap opera called Passion Cove on Living :pac::pac: Reasonably sure they were actually shagging, you just did not see it slide in

I forgot to mention Bravo too, but the point was that I remember when I started to fap it could have been off a sexy picture or a 30 second clip of boob on the tv, by the time I was 19 you could find pretty much what you can find now with online porn. Millions and millions of videos of everything and anything.

I hate coke as it turns people into tossers and it costs a fortune. Pills were definitely a better way to give yourself mild yet permanent brain damage.

SilverScreen

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

The rockers still wear this type of stuff, no?

The only uniquely 00s fashion never to return I can think of was those cheese charity wristbands people wore. Most of them were market knock offs.

Can't recall seeing many people wearing baggy jeans or cords in the past few years compared to a decade ago. Baggy cords were the most comfortable thing ever but they look a bit silly nowadays. They used to get soaked at the bottom of your legs when it was raining though. I used to love skate shoes as well.

I remember those rubber 'charity' wristbands as well, found a couple of them cleaning out my room the other day. They were a short-lived fad.

Sunglasses Ron

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I forgot to mention Bravo too, but the point was that I remember when I started to fap it could have been off a sexy picture or a 30 second clip of boob on the tv, by the time I was 19 you could find pretty much what you can find now with online porn. Millions and millions of videos of everything and anything.

I hate coke as it turns people into tossers and it costs a fortune. Pills were definitely a better way to give yourself mild yet permanent brain damage.

The stuff passing for coke here always reminded me of the guy in the Simpsons explaining the poor potency of the bargain basement hair restorer Homer considered buying

"I must warn you that any cocaine like effects you may feel while snorting this substance are purely coincidental". Buzz my arse, all I ever got was stiff gums off the rubbish. Bag of yokes is yer only man

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

The stuff passing for coke here always reminded me of the guy in the Simpsons explaining the poor potency of the bargain basement hair restorer Homer considered buying

"I must warn you that any cocaine like effects you may feel while snorting this substance are purely coincidental". Buzz my arse, all I ever got was stiff gums off the rubbish. Bag of yokes is yer only man

Drugs are bad m'kay.

Not the biggest fan of Family Guy but I always love this clip about internet porn, it shows where we were and where we are now kinda thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nrFIgFNB4