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May you live in interesting times...1981

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  • 31-08-2017 7:20pm
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    Nettle Soup
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    Watching Reeling in the Years, I was reminded how much happened during 1981 both in Ireland and abroad. I was only a young fella but I remember it distinctly.

    For example;
    • Hunger Strikers dying in NI - Bobby Sands the 1st of 10 to die.
    • Offaly in both All Ireland finals (winning the hurling)
    • Iran releases the US hostages
    • Pope shot
    • Reagan shot
    • Sadat shot and killed
    • Stardust
    • 1981 coalition FG/Lab government lasts just 8 months
    • 1st London marathon
    • 1st Space Shuttle flight
    • Hijack of Aer Lingus flight
    • Raiders of the Lost Ark in cinema
    • 1st woman in US Supreme Court
    • MTV launched
    • Simon & Garfunkel perform free Concert in Central Park
    • Indonesian passenger ship Tamponas capsizes, killing 580
    • Bucks Fizz wins European song content
    • 1st De Lorean car produced
    • Mark Chapman sentenced for 20 years
    Sky News wouldn't have been able to cope!

    What year did you find profound during your lifetime?


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    Galwayguy35
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    1990

    We all had a great time watching the soccer.

    Fook you Schillaci you killed the dream.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    1946. War ended in Europe.


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    Ipso
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    Nettle Soup wrote: »
    Watching Reeling in the Years, I was reminded how much happened during 1981 both in Ireland and abroad. I was only a young fella but I remember it distinctly.

    For example;
    • Hunger Strikers dying in NI - Bobby Sands the 1st of 10 to die.
    • Offaly in both All Ireland finals (winning the hurling)
    • Iran releases the US hostages
    • Pope shot
    • Reagan shot
    • Sadat shot and killed
    • Stardust
    • 1981 coalition FG/Lab government lasts just 8 months
    • 1st London marathon
    • 1st Space Shuttle flight
    • Hijack of Aer Lingus flight
    • Raiders of the Lost Ark in cinema
    • 1st woman in US Supreme Court
    • MTV launched
    • Simon & Garfunkel perform free Concert in Central Park
    • Indonesian passenger ship Tamponas capsizes, killing 580
    • Bucks Fizz wins European song content
    • 1st De Lorean car produced
    • Mark Chapman sentenced for 20 years
    Sky News wouldn't have been able to cope!

    What year did you find profound during your lifetime?

    How did 1981 manage without twitter?


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    [Deleted User]
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    1993 - Lorena Bobbitt cut off John Wayne Bobbitt's penis and every male went "Ooof".

    But other than that 1981 was a good year for news. And watching Ultravox's "Vienna" miss out in No. 1...which is still hard to figure.


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    Ipso
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    1993 - Lorena Bobbitt cut off John Wayne Bobbitt's penis and every male went "Ooof".

    But other than that 1981 was a good year for news. And watching Ultravox's "Vienna" miss out in No. 1...which is still hard to figure.

    A scandal that she wasn't jailed, too bad the evidence didn't stand up in court.


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    DrumSteve
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    Ipso wrote: »
    A scandal that she wasn't jailed, too bad the evidence didn't stand up in court.

    She should have done hard time


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    Ipso
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    Poor guy was shafted.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Still, led to one of the great jokes, about the old man and his grandchild in the car behind her...


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    freshpopcorn
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    The world seems like a scary place to a lot of people now because of news on demand.

    Take my father for example. He's always saying there was no road accidents when he was growing up compared to now a days. He hadn't much interest in the news/it wasn't reported as much. He refuses to believe there were more deaths.


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    odyssey06
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    I still remember the footage of the incidents, which really brought one era to a close \ started another and sent out ripples which we are still living with today.

    1989 ... Fall of the Berlin Wall
    2001 ... September 11th

    (I wasn't around for the end of World War II, Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of JFK, or Apollo moon mission or start of the Troubles)

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    stimpson
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    Nettle Soup wrote: »
    [*]Iran releases the US hostages

    That was their best album.


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    Rubberlegs
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    1993 - Lorena Bobbitt cut off John Wayne Bobbitt's penis and every male went "Ooof".

    But other than that 1981 was a good year for news. And watching Ultravox's "Vienna" miss out in No. 1...which is still hard to figure.

    Very hard to figure since it was kept from the No 1 spot by Joe Dolce's Shaddap you Face. A travesty !!


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    Beechwoodspark
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    stimpson wrote: »
    That was their best album.

    Khomeini was some front man in fairness


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    AllGunsBlazing
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    73Cat wrote: »
    Very hard to figure since it was kept from the No 1 spot by Joe Dolce's Shaddap you Face. A travesty !!

    Hey! What's a matter you?


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    Ipso
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    stimpson wrote: »
    That was their best album.

    Sharia don't like it.


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    Esel
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    1993 - Lorena Bobbitt cut off John Wayne Bobbitt's penis and every male went "Ooof".

    At one time, he was rumoured to be starring in a film with Bruce Willis called
























    Die, Hard-on

    Not your ornery onager



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    Beasty
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    1999.

    Missed the FA Cup semi final replay at Villa Park as we took delivery of our first (to be adopted) child.

    Then missed the final league game of the season when Beckam and Cole scored to clinch the first leg of the treble as I had to head off to a family event.

    Was at Wembley a week later and Barcelona the Wednesday after that though. 6 incredible weeks in an incredible year


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Khomeini was some front man in fairness
    The Ayatollah of Rock n' Rolla :cool:


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Zion Faint Workbench wrote: »
    1946. War ended in Europe.
    1946 ?
    Partisans fought on in the Eastern European countries and the Greeks were fighting until '49.


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    mezzz
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    1990

    We all had a great time watching the soccer.

    Fook you Schillaci you killed the dream.

    Donatoni


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    branie2
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    I was 2 in 1981


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    baylah17
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    Zion Faint Workbench wrote: »
    1946. War ended in Europe.
    Tell that one to the people of the Balkan States!


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    valoren
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    I seem to recall that there was a certain big wedding that year.


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    valoren
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    stimpson wrote: »
    That was their best album.
    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Khomeini was some front man in fairness

    I loved their second single

    How did it go again?..."And Iran....Iran so far away....couldn't get away"

    Those hair styles really caught on :cool:


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    Grayson
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    Ipso wrote: »
    Sharia don't like it.

    they can't see the sunni side.


    (I'll leave now)


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    Winterlong
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    1981 will go down in history, and be forever remembered, as the year Santy brought me a Stretch Armstrong.


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    branie2
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    Ipso wrote: »
    Sharia don't like it.

    Rock the Kasbah! Rock the Kasbah!


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    McMurphy
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    Ipso wrote: »
    A scandal that she wasn't jailed, too bad the evidence didn't stand up in court.

    I see what you did there :D


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    pickarooney
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    valoren wrote: »
    I loved their second single

    How did it go again?..."And Iran....Iran so far away....couldn't get away"

    Those hair styles really caught on :cool:

    I preferred them when they were called Persia.


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