Do you know where you were on 7th December 2000?

21-04-2017 3:16pm

I would either have been studying or at work up to 11pm, maybe I was out actually as it was a Thursday.

Impossible to say really, I'm only relying on what Id normally have been doing on thursday's back then.

21-04-2017 3:36pm

This is a neat idea for a thread. I'm not sure what exactly I was doing but I know my whereabouts. I was 14 so I was away at school. The next day would have been my twin sisters' birthdays so I guess I'd have gone gift shopping on Friday evening in Dublin before getting the bus home.

I have some dairies from back then but if I entered anything in that day, I was probably just writing truly awful song lyrics about a girl I was in love with, or moaning about my geography homework.

That December I smoked my first cigarette. I remember it was so strong I had to sit on the riverbank where I was smoking with another boy, hidden from the road beside our school. I had to stop smoking it half way through. It must also have been that month when my Dad caught me smoking his pipe. How gauche!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-04-2017 3:46pm

Most likely playing Smackdown 2 'Know Your Role' on PS1 which was released here on the 1st December 2000.

I spent that Autumn saving up for it. Played it for hours on end.

ToddyDoody · 21-04-2017 3:47pm

I would probably have been doing homework. It was junior cert year.

freshpopcorn · 21-04-2017 4:01pm

Most people who'd have being at school were probably looking for to having the next day off.

CelticRambler · 21-04-2017 4:13pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

I was more curious to see how many people would be able to account for their wherebouts on a distant date in the past.

Several times over the last year or so I've thought of posting a similar question, always as a reaction to some detective drama where they hoik some unfortunate suspect into the interview room and ask him or her what they were doing on the nth of the month last year.

I've no idea what I was doing, other than (probably) at work, and (probably) thinking about how to celebrate my second daughter's first Christmas. I wasn't in Ireland then, so none of the potential memory triggers apply to me.

Maybe it'd be worth running a second poll with a different, random date earlier in the year to see if as many people know what they were up to then.

C Montgomery Gurns II · 21-04-2017 5:14pm

RayM wrote: »

I was 18, probably at home watching TV. I can't remember what I was watching, but I've attached a pdf of everything that was on that night.

Come to think of it we had just got Sky in (it had went down from something like 500 quid to free installation around that stage) so with our new found amount of channels I would not have been near most of those channels :pac: Interesting to see The Sopranos in its first TV run- I'm fairly sure I properly caught it a few weeks after this when E4 did a late night binge showing of three or four in a row for a few nights.

Where are these old papers coming from? It is bizarrely nostalgic reading old TV listings.

odyssey06 · 21-04-2017 6:37pm

CelticRambler wrote: »

Maybe it'd be worth running a second poll with a different, random date earlier in the year to see if as many people know what they were up to then.

That's a very good idea... I think let's let this one play out and then feel free to fire ahead and maybe pop a link on that thread back to this one. I suspect not nearly as many will be able to place their exact whereabouts on a random date in that year.

dan1895 · 21-04-2017 6:53pm

Don't remember what I was doing the Thursday. Probably at home as I would have had college the next day. Remember being at the Bohs Shels match the next night. B*stards had us on the terrace with no roof and myself and the da got absolutely drenched but it was worth it for Richie Foran's 1st minute goal. Think the taxis came back that night actually.

21-04-2017 7:25pm

At home playing the playstation, dreaming of the game boy colour I'd be getting a few weeks later.

Beechwoodspark · 21-04-2017 7:27pm

At home in carlow. School the next day.

freshpopcorn · 21-04-2017 7:33pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

At home in carlow. School the next day.

Did you have school on the 8th of December?

21-04-2017 7:44pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Did you have school on the 8th of December?

we used to get the day off in primary school, but didn't that holiday lose its status by 2000?

freshpopcorn · 21-04-2017 7:55pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

we used to get the day off in primary school, but didn't that holiday lose its status by 2000?

I've never heard of a school being open on the 8th of December but I suppose some do now.
I think it was in the early to mid 2000's the government started setting holidays/etc. They set the Easter/Christmas holidays now and you can't take a extra day(Schools have a few days to mess around with) to extend the holiday but you can for a religious reason so this is why a lot of schools still take the 6th of January.
I could be wrong tough about schools being opened/closed on the 8th back then!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 21-04-2017 8:36pm

I have no difficultly knowing roughly where I was at any time over the years, as I keep a diary. It's very handy at times when a discussion revolves around when something happened or when we were somewhere or doing something.

jamesbere · 21-04-2017 8:42pm

Was 15 at the time, was probably at home. It was a fairly low point in our family at that time as my father passed away at few months previously from cancer.

rainbow kirby · 21-04-2017 8:44pm

Studying for 5th year Christmas exams or training for my black belt grading in karate.

Lia_lia · 22-04-2017 12:07pm

I was 11. So I've no idea! Probably outside playing tip the can or something..

Do you know where you were on 7th December 2000?

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