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What cultural phenomenon would you erase from history?

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    #62
    Malayalam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Malayalam


    Puberty-blocking pharmaceuticals for children.

    :mad:


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    #63
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »
    1980s pop music

    And awful 1980s fashion :mad:

    How the hell were punks, skins & heavy metal-heads etc of the 70s replaced by "New Romantics" in the 80s? I think most teenagers in the 1980s were somehow poisoned or hypnotised.

    Listen to Vienna by Ultravox and tell me 80’s music was bad.


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    #64
    Ragnar Lothbrok
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ragnar Lothbrok


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Listen to Vienna by Ultravox and tell me 80’s music was bad.

    There's always an exception to prove the rule :cool:


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    #65
    LirW
    Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Catholic influence on Irish schools.


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    #66
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »
    There's always an exception to prove the rule :cool:

    There was plenty of innovative music created in the 80s across multiple genres.


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    #67
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    The stock and financial markets and "maximisation of profit".
    It just built today's culture of pissing on the farmer, the manufacturer, retailer and the consumer.
    Just so that some fat guy in a suit in a glass and marble palace in London or New York can get the biggest possible slice for himself at the expense of all the above without actually contributing anything productive or useful.
    Everything for the shareholders at the expense of anyone else, governments or the planet, because profit is more important than smog in China, deforestation, poisoned rivers, billions of tons of rubbish or a gigantic plastic patch in the ocean. It's definitely more important than millions of starving children.
    It's pissing on the planet so a tiny amount of people can rake in billions for themselves, money which is removed from circulation, at the expense of schools, hospitals, education and social services.
    The planet can do without a tiny, tiny number of useless parasites that skim an obscene amount of momey from honest, hardworking people so they can live in obscene wealth while half the planet is starving.


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    #68
    Rory28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Rory28


    Teenagers. I dont know what the implications of this would be but it would make my day to day a lot better.


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    #69
    meep
    Registered Users Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭meep


    Vuvuzelas (sp?) at South African world cup.


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    #70
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    Men's rights weirdos.

    Male feminists and White Knights.

    Andy From Sligo starting sh*t threads.


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    #71
    w/s/p/c/
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭w/s/p/c/


    Hipsters


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    #72
    Ragnar Lothbrok
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ragnar Lothbrok


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    There was plenty of innovative music created in the 80s across multiple genres.

    Maybe so, but most of it was muck.


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    #73
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »
    Maybe so, but most of it was muck.

    There isn’t one 80s music sound.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_music


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    #74
    Huexotzingo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭Huexotzingo


    Superhero movies :(


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    #75
    Rory28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Rory28


    Huexotzingo wrote: »
    Superhero movies :(

    Blasphemy


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    #76
    Ragnar Lothbrok
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ragnar Lothbrok


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    There isn’t one 80s music sound.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_music

    Of course not. But your link does include this paragraph, which pretty much sums up why I think the 80s music scene should be erased from history:

    The 1980s are commonly remembered for an increase in the use of digital recording, associated with the usage of synthesisers, with synth-pop music and other electronic genres featuring non-traditional instruments increasing in popularity. Also during this decade, several major electronic genres were developed, including electro, techno, house, freestyle and Eurodance, rising in prominence during the 1990s and beyond. Throughout the decade, R&B, hip hop and urban genres were becoming commonplace, particularly in the inner-city areas of large, metropolitan cities; rap was especially successful in the latter part of the decade,[8] with the advent of the golden age of hip hop. These urban genres—particularly rap and hip hop—would continue their rise in popularity through the 1990s and 2000s.

    Ugh :mad:


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    #77
    Dufflecoat Fanny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭Dufflecoat Fanny


    Flash Mobs

    Id sent them all to furthest gulag if I had the power


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    #78
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,440 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Internet-enabled Smartphones.
    We should have kept the Internet on dialup when only geeks could figure out how to get online... plaintext boards here we come!

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



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    #79
    washiskin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭washiskin


    The Spice Girls
    X Factor
    Louis Walsh


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    #80
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,440 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    washiskin wrote: »
    The Spice Girls
    X Factor
    Louis Walsh

    It all comes back to this man... he is the evil Napoleon of the pop music business:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fuller

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



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    #81
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,089 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Snapchat filters.
    Grown adults using snapchat filters to look like a fcuking dog.


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    #82
    dude_abided
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭dude_abided


    Multiculturalism..

    Not natural migration that has happened through human history..but the wholesale importation of people.

    Still haven't found a good argument for it. Seems to be an issue before it happens with lots of ism's accusations it of you don't like it.

    And once it has happened it's a proverbial shoulder shrug and well they are here not mentality.


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    #83
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,307 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    "Reality" TV.
    Country music.
    Kanye West.


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    #84
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,655 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Greyling wrote: »
    For me it would be The Simpsons. I'm in my mid 30's so it has been there almost as long as I remember. I'm sick to jayses of hearing references to it brought up daily.

    Honourable mentions for Donald Trump and Father Ted.
    Eu


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    #85
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Communism
    National Socialism/Fascism


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    #86
    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,987 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Golf. Seriously. F*&%$ golf, a nice walk in the country spoiled by competitive gob****es in plaid pants.


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    #87
    tupenny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭tupenny


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Those gross looking big piercing holes in your earlobe. Eugh.

    Yes! Fkng disgusting. Sat behind a couple with them on the bus recently. Vile yet i couldnt keep my eyes off them long enough


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    #88
    FionnK86
    Registered Users Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭FionnK86


    The divide between rich and poor.

    Who decided that if youre ignorant or stupid, but born into a wealthy family gives you a better chamce in life. Whoever did, id like to kick them in the nuts


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    #89
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    After my rise to power through a violent revolution, all Kardashians, their friends, relatives, and Instagram accounts shall be erased from the face of the planet.

    Anyone who makes mention of them from that point onward shall be shot.


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    #90
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Duck face.


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    #91
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    FionnK86 wrote: »
    The divide between rich and poor.

    Who decided that if youre ignorant or stupid, but born into a wealthy family gives you a better chamce in life. Whoever did, id like to kick them in the nuts
    The hard work, good choices and high achievement of their ancestors decided it. They're part of a successful bloodline.


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