I used to be with it

david75 · 13-01-2018 08:42PM

Two little scrotes came up to me last week and said ‘mister have you got a light?’
I proceeded to try tell them in a big brother friendly kinda way lads you’re too young to be smoking and I caught myself just as they did

Officially no longer with it. Probably happened ages ago and I didn’t even realise
They called me mister ffs

Roger Hassenforder · 13-01-2018 08:53PM

Over on the beautiful women trend, i havent heard of half of them.

Some of them are referred to as instagrammers, which seems to be a euphemism for pointing your arse at yourself in the mirror, and taking a photo.

_Brian · 13-01-2018 08:53PM

I’ve never bothered even trying to understand what “it” was, didn’t make me part of the popular crowd at school, but then i see some of those now that life has moved past them and they are fairly lost looking.
I’m just plodding among living my own life not caring about “it” or any shiite like that.

People spend far too much time worrying about measuring their self worth against some social standard when they just need to get on and live their lives in a way that makes them happy themselves. Facebook has built a mega corporation on this one shallow fact of life.

Conor Bourke · 13-01-2018 09:09PM

Omackeral wrote: »

How many did you stab?

I forget, was so mad ouvit

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 13-01-2018 09:29PM

Local, personal level, when my younger brother told me "Spud got into the mont" like I should know what the **** he was on about. (Edit: His friend Patrick "Spud" Killehan got into the Claremont Hotel despite being underage.)

More generally, I dunno. Some point between when I gave up arguing with people why Marvel movies were shíte and Snapchat becoming a thing. Oh and seeing "Lol remember this old retro stuff" listicles about the mid 2000s

branie2 · 13-01-2018 09:33PM

It! that word I cannot say!

splinter65 · 13-01-2018 09:37PM

I used to drive a moped around Dublin city centre (20+ years ago when chung fellas sold newspapers at traffic lights). The chung fellas used to say “herald or press young wan” then they started substituting “missus” for “chung wan” and it was all over for me

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 13-01-2018 09:39PM

splinter65 wrote: »

I used to drive a moped around Dublin city centre (20+ years ago when chung fellas sold newspapers at traffic lights). The chung fellas used to say “herald or press young wan” then they started substituting “missus” for “chung wan” and it was all over for me

It might have been on here or somewhere else, but I heard or read a woman telling the story of when she got a flat tyre and had no spare. Stranded on the side of the road and a young man in his early twenties stopped and helped her and when she thanked him he said "Oh it's no problem, I'd like to think someone would do the same for my mother" :pac:

13-01-2018 09:47PM

Omackeral wrote: »

But how do you not understand the appeal of a selfie with a doggy ear filter on it? It's the future... but now.

Back in my day, Snapchat didn't have filters

Billy86 · 13-01-2018 09:47PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Thinking that the kids born in the year 2000 will be 18 this year and can go to pub drinking/etc.

In that case I guess we're due for the next 'generation label' as Millenials were born from 1982-2000. Time for the millennials to give out about the ...post...lennials?... ruining the world. Being born in 1986 I've been feckin' waiting for this for a while now!! :pac:

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 13-01-2018 10:03PM

Billy86 wrote: »

In that case I guess we're due for the next 'generation label' as Millenials were born from 1982-2000. Time for the millennials to give out about the ...post...lennials?... ruining the world. Being born in 1986 I've been feckin' waiting for this for a while now!! :pac:

Oh god can you imagine the name feckin millennials will come up with though. It's going to actually be an emoji not a word.

Permabear · 14-01-2018 12:00AM

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Irish Guitarist · 14-01-2018 01:28AM

When people started referring to these things as either headphones or earbuds.

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Headphones are speaker-like things you place on your head and if they're any good they stay there. The things in the picture above are earphones and fall out every few minutes and sound like absolute shite. Earbuds sounds like you're talking about a cotton bud you're going to use to scrape wax from your ears with. And fuck off calling earphones 'in ear headphones'. If they don't have a band that attaches them to your head they're not headphones.

Another thing I don't get is using headphones as a fashion statement. There was a thread here a while back about how Beats headphones used to be great but then everyone started wearing them. Who gives a shit? Headphones are for listening to music through, not for other people to look at. If looks are really that important to you, most people aren't looking at you thinking how cool you look. They think you look like a fucking clown.

Purple Mountain · 14-01-2018 01:33AM

When I told my nine year old to go into the sitting room and put on a video..
The look of confusion spoke volumes...

Agricola · 14-01-2018 02:17AM

I was never with it, even when I should have been. So it's really nothing to worry about now!

Rubberchikken · 14-01-2018 02:20AM

I used to be ' with it'. Only now i cant remember what 'it' was.

endacl · 14-01-2018 02:53AM

Last year for me. I teach some modules on a Plc Music course. Last year was the first time I ever came across an aspiring ‘professional musician’ who had never heard of the Beatles, and who had never paid for music. Not a cd. Not a streaming subscription. Not even a download of a single track.

Wonder where she was going to get paid from in her ‘professional musician’ career...

Atoms for Peace · 14-01-2018 02:54AM

I want to be like Clint Eastwood in gran Torino, sitting out on the porch with a few cans scowling at the young wans but as this is Ireland I don't have a porch and anyway the weather is ****.

Ray Donovan · 14-01-2018 03:27AM

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

I want to be like Clint Eastwood in gran Torino, sitting out on the porch with a few cans scowling at the young wans but as this is Ireland I don't have a porch and anyway the weather is ****.

Jesus, the snowflakes would have a stroke if you scowled at young wans!

Ray Donovan · 14-01-2018 03:28AM

Ray Donovan wrote: »

Jesus, the snowflakes would have a stroke if you scowled at young wans!

In fact they’ve probably had a stroke because I mentioned Jesus in a post.

14-01-2018 04:06AM

Deleted User wrote: »

When I went back to college at 35. I mentioned one day the Christmas Eve storm in 1997, and a classmate replied "Mam and dad still talk about that too."

On top of this I recall another incident in college at 35; Biology lecture, and I brought up the death of Leah Betts, which happened when I was a teenager. My lecturer asked what year, and I estimated at 1995, and she said "I was making my first holy communion then".

At age 31 I was very excited to be going to see my favourite band live (again), the Manic Street Preachers. My friends had never heard of them. I mentioned If You Tolerate This, and one friend recognised it. The other didn't. I said "It was a huge hit in 1998?" and he replied "I was five."

Boscoirl · 14-01-2018 04:54AM

When the DJs/presenters on Spin South West talks about “back in the day”/“Old School” and In fact they mean 2010

quickbeam · 14-01-2018 10:44AM

I was never "with it" either.

I don't even remember the Christmas Eve storm of 1997 you're talking about. Not because I was too young, I was well into adulthood. But I've no memory of it.

I do wonder about the "where were you when" a significant event happened that there are adults alive too young to remember 9/11, and will soon be adults alive who weren't even alive during 9/11.

shaunr68 · 14-01-2018 10:54AM

Thinking of former colleagues back when I first started work and realising that most of them will be dead now...

FionnK86 · 14-01-2018 02:24PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Thinking that the kids born in the year 2000 will be 18 this year and can go to pub drinking/etc.

If it's any consolation, they were probably knacker drinking in a field in 2016.

Agricola · 14-01-2018 06:51PM

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

I want to be like Clint Eastwood in gran Torino, sitting out on the porch with a few cans scowling at the young wans but as this is Ireland I don't have a porch and anyway the weather is ****.

He was actually scowling at Koreans I think. You definitely can't do that.

He also had a shotgun that he liked to wave around. DEFINITELY don't do that.

banie01 · 14-01-2018 06:55PM

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

I think the first time I began to realise I wasn't with "it" anymore was the rise of Snapchat.

Is it not actually SnatchChat?
No wonder I could never find the app or see random snatch!

davidk1394 · 14-01-2018 08:07PM

When lads my age are either daddies,in jail, coke heads or dead.... I think I'm not in with "it" and hope to keep it that way.

LadyMacBeth_ · 15-01-2018 08:51PM

I think I stopped understanding what was going on when I was about 21 and everyone started wearing skinny jeans, from then on it just got progressively worse. Though I've never really been with it, I hated nightclubs in my teens, I usually do my own thing, not to be alternative or stand out, it's just I enjoy what I enjoy, whether it's in or out of fashion is irrelevant to me. (aside from the fact that it might make things more difficult to buy, like I was glad when the big earmuff-like headphones came into fashion because those little ones that go in your ears drive me mad and always fall out.) I've never used instagram but I gather it's just about pictures? I tried snapchat and hated it. I'm not even entirely sure what pinterest is, I'm definitely losing the battle with technology and social media, and I'm 29 ffs.

freshpopcorn · 15-01-2018 09:03PM

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

I think I stopped understanding what was going on when I was about 21 and everyone started wearing skinny jeans, from then on it just got progressively worse.

I was always fine with skinny jeans but they weren't for me but the one thing I never got was this whole no sock thing and guys going around with their ankles especially tracksuits!

I used to be with it

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