After Hours 1992

JupiterKid · 2017-07-24 00:31:25

So imagine being in a time warp back 25 years (is it really that long??!!) to 1992. What would have been the threads on AH if Boards had been around back then? Here's a few that I think might have been around... Will there ever be peace up North? Italia '90 - A one-off or have we joined the big lads? Should gay sex be…

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#32 24-07-2017 06:56AM

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I was 8. When I think of that year the first thing I think of is Home and Away and Vanilla Ice

There would probably be threads on Sinead O'Connor ripping up the picture of the pope and Lynda Martin's Eurovision win. The Crying Game was released that year too.

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#33 24-07-2017 07:01AM

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You could buy a house for £45k with a £3k first time buyer grant, for a £100 deposit in south Dublin.

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#34 24-07-2017 07:08AM

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1992 is a great year to choose for a thread like this. It probably has the maximum capacity out of all years to surprise people by reminders of what life was really like then!

It was much more of the 80s than the 90s. People still mostly went to mass. Most people were hard up for money, not having ever known anything else, with the 90s boom yet to happen. Politics was all about post Berlin-Wall Europe, the Maastricht treaty, George Bush sr. was president and Clinton hadn't been elected yet, post Soviet Union. The Simpsons was hugely popular. America and American cultural still had the power to entrance us. Life was slower in Ireland, fewer cars on the road, roads in poor conditions, few motorways, people ate out much less, etc. Very different world

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#35 24-07-2017 07:13AM

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I'm 11, wheres the tits?

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#36 24-07-2017 07:33AM

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jamesbere wrote: »

Denmark will win the euros, call me crazy but I'll be right

They haven't even qualified. It'll take civil war to break out in Yugoslavia for Denmark to even be let in. Their players are probably on a beach in Spain anyway.

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#37 24-07-2017 07:41AM

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When did most shops start opening on Sundays?

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#38 24-07-2017 07:44AM

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dan1895 wrote: »

They haven't even qualified. It'll take civil war to break out in Yugoslavia for Denmark to even be let in. Their players are probably on a beach in Spain anyway.

Could ye just imagine bein picked and refusin to go cos ye think ye havent a snowballs chance in hell of winnin!!! Id only be mortified

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#39 24-07-2017 08:02AM

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larchielads wrote: »

Could ye just imagine bein picked and refusin to go cos ye think ye havent a snowballs chance in hell of winnin!!! Id only be mortified

Kinda like Michael Laudrup..left during the qualifiers and wouldn't come back

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#40 24-07-2017 08:28AM

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Is Charlie haughey tapping my phone?

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#41 24-07-2017 08:47AM

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How often do you take a bath? (not everyone had showers then!)

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#42 24-07-2017 08:52AM

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Lorelli! wrote: »

When did most shops start opening on Sundays?

Good question! It must have been later than 1992 as I remember my folks having to schlepp all the way over to the supermarket on Friday Griffin Rd on Galway to do the shopping on Sundays because Dunnes & Quinnsworth stores closer to us were closed.
Learner drivers would practise their driving in shopping centre car parks. The wide open spaces.

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#43 24-07-2017 09:34AM

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ceadaoin. wrote: »

A mobile phone in 1988? Was it one of those huge things that came in a suitcase?!

Motorola "Brick". Huge thing compared to today.

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#44 24-07-2017 09:36AM

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Junkyard Tom wrote: »

you had to buy a camera and a roll of film to take snaps and then take the roll of film to the chemist and wait to see how they turned out a week-or-two later.

Was only thinking to myself that it's a long time since I got a photo printed, you sorata miss the excitement of getting the photos from the chemist after a holiday or weekend away, none of this ah delete that photo, I look a state in it.

Back to 1992 thoughts, is IT or electronics worth studying, I see there seems to be an increase in jobs in this area.

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#45 24-07-2017 09:40AM

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Sharon Curley is up the pole. Did you hear? They're making a film about it.

Ah heour

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#46 24-07-2017 10:26AM

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I made my confirmation in 1992

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#47 24-07-2017 10:28AM

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OMG hope I've got on alright in the Leaving! But off to Feile in the next few days and I can't wait. Looking forward to the Trip to Tipp.

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#48 24-07-2017 11:40AM

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Not exactly 1992 but I found the After Hours front page from 2004 using the Wayback Machine!
November 1st 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20041101075426/http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Its just a pity that you cant actually click on the forum posts...

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#49 24-07-2017 11:48AM

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gnarbarian wrote: »

Not exactly 1992 but I found the After Hours front page from 2004 using the Wayback Machine!
November 1st 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20041101075426/http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Its just a pity that you cant actually click on the forum posts...

jeez only 7 pages of threads in AH. those were the days.

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#50 24-07-2017 11:52AM

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I'm off picking bulbs in Holland for the summer and bagged a dirt cheap fare of IR£358 (return!!) down at USIT. Few other lads from the RTC going too.

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#51 24-07-2017 12:00PM

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Can't post as I don't know what the internet is.

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#52 24-07-2017 12:07PM

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Who is a better childrens entertainer, Jimmy Saville or Rolf Harris?

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#53 24-07-2017 12:09PM

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After Hours 2017 -

Donald Trump said something on Twitter

€390k for a 2 bed apartment - bargain

Love Island qualifies as entertainment

Paddy Losty

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#54 24-07-2017 12:13PM

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gnarbarian wrote: »

Not exactly 1992 but I found the After Hours front page from 2004 using the Wayback Machine!
November 1st 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20041101075426/http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Its just a pity that you cant actually click on the forum posts...

Pink Panther for €70.... Oh and xtra-vision

if it was 1992 consumer issues would be full of threads about tapes not rewinded

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#55 24-07-2017 12:35PM

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I hear Gary Glitter is playing in Dublin. There's something odd about him; I can't put my finger on it.

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#56 24-07-2017 01:13PM

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You guys are so old.

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#57 24-07-2017 01:21PM

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We know :-D

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#58 24-07-2017 01:47PM

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Poll: Have you ever used a condom?

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#59 24-07-2017 01:55PM

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This 'internet' and 'information superhighway' lark I hear about will never catch on.

I am going to set up a bottled mineral water company.

Can a disk get smaller than 3.5 inches? Hardly!

Liverpool won't win another title in the next quarter of a century

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#60 24-07-2017 01:57PM

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JupiterKid wrote: »

Are you thinking of emigrating?

Some things never change...

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#61 24-07-2017 02:24PM

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Do you also keep forgetting to rewind the videos before returning them?
What's your biggest xtravision fine?

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