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The 70's and 80's in Ireland

Kermit.de.frog

What was it like in the 1980's in Ireland?

I have seen pictures, video and my god it looked like a depressing place. :eek:

Grey, delapidated, hopeless.

What was it like? How did you get by without internets, wheelie bins, toilets...?

Would you go back if you could??

*Might as well throw in the 70's too for people of that vintage.

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Hotblack Desiato

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

It wasn't shown on UK TV until 2003.
Did RTE show it in the '80s?
Have a vague recollection they might have.

No chance. It was still officially banned here in the mid 90s when I saw it in the IFI.

mikemac2

Commodore 64

You loaded your game and it could take 10 minutes or more. If there were multiple games on the cassette you rewound to the start and reset the counter and fast forwarded to the correct location
Games cost 3 to 4 punts so quite cheap. A cartridge which could load instantly cost maybe 15 punts. An Amiga which was a step up used floppy disks but I didn't have that so it was cassettes and loading times for me

There were some great games. I was particular fans of the Dizzy series. Think of an egg with a face and arms and legs and you took him on platform adventures

However the best game of all was Flimbos Quest. The music is still so catchy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiCxXMquPKs

[Deleted User]

Raheem Euro wrote: »

I watched it on the tv when I was a kid (80s Dublin)
That was reasonably mild. The ultra violent banned stuff was around on pirate video tapes and could be seen, if you were that way inclined.

It wasn't shown on UK TV until 2003.
Did RTE show it in the '80s?
Have a vague recollection they might have.

I watched a pre-cert VHS copy in 1987.

There was one video library in New Ross that rented out all the nasties and pre-cert tapes until the end of the decade.

[Deleted User]

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

was that actual dialog from the movie??? :eek:

From 12:23

Ruraldweller56

Bobtheman wrote: »

I moved back to Ireland as a child in the 1980s. Seemed pretty backwards. All white Catholics. Big fuss made over contraception and divorce.
Chronically high unemployment
I'm glad though we had no Facebook or any of that social media ****e. We didn't all dash to gyms like rats either
Plus no harm we didn't have wall to wall pornography but would have been nice if young ones put out a bit more!!
Wish we had a thatcher. Our politicians were even worse back then.

Ya that sounds like hell on earth mate. Thank god these pesky white Catholics are dying out.

Bobtheman

I moved back to Ireland as a child in the 1980s. Seemed pretty backwards. All white Catholics. Big fuss made over contraception and divorce.
Chronically high unemployment
I'm glad though we had no Facebook or any of that social media ****e. We didn't all dash to gyms like rats either
Plus no harm we didn't have wall to wall pornography but would have been nice if young ones put out a bit more!!
Wish we had a thatcher. Our politicians were even worse back then.

Kat1170

That's a grand cake Nora.

Charles Babbage

I even kept a picture of my first phone

the batteries last for years, though.

Raheem Euro

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

That wouldn't have been seen in Ireland in the 70s or 80s, it was banned.

I watched it on the tv when I was a kid (80s Dublin)
That was reasonably mild. The ultra violent banned stuff was around on pirate video tapes and could be seen, if you were that way inclined.

Hotblack Desiato

Raheem Euro wrote: »

Straw Dogs (1971) with its controversial rape scene. Director Sam Peckinpah was accused of glamorising and eroticising rape.

That wouldn't have been seen in Ireland in the 70s or 80s, it was banned.

Ruraldweller56

Raheem Euro wrote: »

Straw Dogs (1971) with its controversial rape scene. Director Sam Peckinpah was accused of glamorising and eroticising rape.

Seen that film years ago. Good show.

mikemac2

Gerry Ryan rapping about the dangers of drugs

Hypocrite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVWtLx8ax9k

Raheem Euro

Straw Dogs (1971) with its controversial rape scene. Director Sam Peckinpah was accused of glamorising and eroticising rape.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

was that actual dialog from the movie??? :eek:

[Deleted User]

Frenzy is brilliant

Solicitor in Pub: We were just talking about the tie murderer, Maisie. You'd better watch out.
Maisie, Barmaid: [salaciously] He rapes them first, doesn't he?
Solicitor in Pub: Yes, I believe he does.
Doctor in Pub: Well I suppose it's nice to know that every cloud has a silver lining.

branie2

Alfred Hitchcock's last 2 films, Frenzy and Family Plot came out in the 70s.

Ruraldweller56

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What was it like in the 1980's in Ireland?

I have seen pictures, video and my god it looked like a depressing place. :eek:

Grey, delapidated, hopeless.

What was it like? How did you get by without internets, wheelie bins, toilets...?

Would you go back if you could??

*Might as well throw in the 70's too for people of that vintage.

Yes. The photos from that era were taken on inferior and sometimes black and white cameras.

whitey1

There was close to zero drinking done at home in the 79’s and 80’s. If you did you would have been regarded as the biggest alcoholic in town

Both you could fire back fifteen pints down the pub and no one would bat an eye lid

whitey1

FanadMan wrote: »

No doubt that was in Dublin or some other city. Out here in the sticks, you walked. And 10 miles wasn't far when you had a gang with you.

Very true. And many’s a prank was played on the way home too. No vandalism.....stupid innocent stuff.

Sardonicat

FanadMan wrote: »

Billy86 wrote:

No doubt that was in Dublin or some other city. Out here in the sticks, you walked. And 10 miles wasn't far when you had a gang with you.

Try it in kitten heeled winkle pinkers. I did and shortly thereafter invested in a pair of DMs

FanadMan

Billy86 wrote:

That was still going on on into the early 2000s or whenever they deregulated the taxis - with the icing on the cake of seeing well over a dozen taxis with their lights on pass you by and not pay any notice.

Billy86 wrote:

Nowadays it's sometimes hard to stand at the traffic lights/bus stop/etc in Dublin without having a taxi driver flash their lights at you.

No doubt that was in Dublin or some other city. Out here in the sticks, you walked. And 10 miles wasn't far when you had a gang with you.

Grandeeod

fryup wrote: »

yep, not to mention online bullying...back in day if you were picked on in school at least come the end of the school day that would be the end of it....but nowadays its there 24/7 for the whole world to see, i reckon there's a lot of kids out there under severe distress

The online bullying worries me the most and that's probably why I'm teaching my daughter total and absolute cynicism towards social media and all those that live by it. I even use MTV's Catfish as an example of what can be fooked up in the world. I'm lucky in that me and Mrs G are tech savvy, but I fear for the parents that only discovered the internet on a new smart phone. Their kids could be in real trouble.

fryup

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I bet it will lead to a spike in mental illness in this generation.

It seems like everyone under the age of 25 lives every detail of their life through a phone screen.

It's not healthy.

yep, not to mention online bullying...back in day if you were picked on in school at least come the end of the school day that would be the end of it....but nowadays its there 24/7 for the whole world to see, i reckon there's a lot of kids out there under severe distress

Vinculus

Nice one Grandeeod, I really appreciate it!
I can remember being about eleven years old and watching that movie that night with my Dad, and my Mum being not at all happy about it as she wanted to go the local for a drink.

Grandeeod

Bambi wrote: »

Grew up in the 80s and early 90s, it was ****ing tough but tbh I'd rather have grown up then than now, not only did we get great music and genres we also got to jump on the internet while it was all a brave new frontier.

The world has gone to absolute **** in the last 3 years and it's mostly down to the prevalence of social media monopolies and smart phones

The early days of the internet were wonderful. Less dopes.

Floppybits wrote: »

Smart phones are the devil. I agree the last few years have really gone to sh1t. Everyone so vain and needy and having meltdowns if they dont get enough likes or if something negative is said.

Everyone wants to be some sort of celeb. Bloggers, Vloggers, Influencers. Fooking arseholes.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I bet it will lead to a spike in mental illness in this generation.

It seems like everyone under the age of 25 lives every detail of their life through a phone screen.

It's not healthy.

Under 25? Probably the majority, but the age groups are very varied up to the 40s I'd say.

Grandeeod

Vinculus wrote: »

Around this time last year, somebody created a thread dedicated to a complete commercial break on RTE1 ( During the film Escape To Victory) the week before Christmas in 1984/5.
By any chance does anybody happen to know where to find it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6YIDsOedxw

The Crowman

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

...and he got nailed to the pool table in The General as well and fecked a rubbish bin through Georgie Burgess's window in The Snapper.

I like how they got Bob Geldof to appear in thst ad saying "Phone wreckers are idiots". Bob was probably the coolest guy in Ireland back then so they believed his message would carry weight. How times change...

I remember Bob even being featured in the Siamsa (or Sonas?) annual for 1985 with a really bad artists impression of him.

Vinculus

Around this time last year, somebody created a thread dedicated to a complete commercial break on RTE1 ( During the film Escape To Victory) the week before Christmas in 1984/5.
By any chance does anybody happen to know where to find it?

branie2

Snickers was known as Marathon

James Brown

Bambi wrote: »

Grew up in the 80s and early 90s, it was ****ing tough but tbh I'd rather have grown up then than now, not only did we get great music and genres we also got to jump on the internet while it was all a brave new frontier.

The world has gone to absolute **** in the last 3 years and it's mostly down to the prevalence of social media monopolies and smart phones

Music is not the same. I don't mean quality just that it's so instant it comes and goes. No getting told about an album or borrowing one or being introduced to some band on verbal hearsay.