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Headlines that would make no sense twenty years ago

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  • #62
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,833 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    glaswegian wrote: »
    Man takes photograph with telephone.

    And goes to prison for taking NSFW ones.


  • #63
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Students spend too much time on Facetime!


  • #64
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,543 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    "It's 50 years since the Moon landing"


  • #65
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,703 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Australia wins Eurovision


  • #66
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,704 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Anything relating to the recession

    20 years ago the sky was the limit!!! Possibly also before the original dot com bubble too (not sure!)

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



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  • #67
    Autecher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Autecher


    Demi Lazy Backstroke wrote: »
    "Brand new mint condition kettle gets absolutely rammed by HUGE red toaster"

    "Filthy extension board takes FIVE plugs at once!"

    I’ve been giggling about this one since I read it. I love when that happens in life! I’m just back from a walk and four different times I walked by people fighting the urge to laugh so they wouldn’t think I was laughing at them or that I was a loony. :D It didn’t work, it never does, laughter cannot be suppressed.


  • #68
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    People peppering their tv and radio speech and their newspaper columns with the word "fcuk"


  • #69
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Offaly hurlers relegated to the third "division" in both league and championship.


  • #70
    Sheridan81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Sheridan81


    230 school shootings in America since Columbine


  • #71
    Laphroaig52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Laphroaig52


    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    Humanity has been crossed
    That still doesn't make sense.


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  • #72
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    And goes to prison for taking NSFW ones.

    or given the sack


  • #73
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,926 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    branie2 wrote: »
    A country leaving the European Union, or at least trying to leave
    Both Algeria and Greenland have left the EU.


  • #74
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭MOH


    "<anything> influencer <anything>"


  • #75
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,051 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    "Sorry bud no smoking "


    'What do you mean ? This is a pub isn't it?'


  • #76
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    POLITICIAN HAS NO COMMENT ON DICK PICK.


  • #77
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    POLITICIAN HAS NO COMMENT ON DICK PICK.

    That extra K really makes it.


  • #78
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    That extra K really makes it.

    Dick Spring!


  • #79
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,168 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Blaizes wrote: »
    10,000 homeless in Ireland

    This isn't even the worst housing crisis we've had (yet). 60s one had people importing touring caravans to live in along roads in to Dublin, trailer parks as a thing and even longer queues for rental viewings. Just nobody was keeping count to the same extent as now


  • #80
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Twitter outage causes disruption for millions of users


  • #81
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    And here's your host Ryan Tubridy.


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  • #82
    branie2
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    foxy farmer wrote: »
    And here's your host Ryan Tubridy.

    Who's Ryan Tubridy?

    A lot of people would have been thinking that 20 years ago


  • #83
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,168 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    branie2 wrote: »
    Who's Ryan Tubridy?

    A lot of people would have been thinking that 20 years ago

    Tubridy was already on Radio 1 20 years ago


    This thread is full of people who seem to think that 35 years ago is 20 years ago. It isn't. We're all ancient.


  • #84
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Aska wrote: »
    Galway are Leinster champions

    Dublin aiming for five in a row


  • #85
    jim salter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭jim salter


    eviltimeban wrote: »
    I remember being on Usenet groups (rec.music.beatles was a favourite) in 1992, pre-Netscape / browsers. It was all done over a DOS prompt. I use to print the discussions out on a dot matrix printer.

    I still use Usenet


  • #86
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    Demi Lazy Backstroke wrote: »
    The talk of people with hundreds of thousands of followers probably would have been pretty alarming.

    Jesus the Influencer?


  • #87
    Standman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    Tell me how wrote: »
    Is this taking the mick?


    Remember, you could be talking to someone who was born after Facebook was founded. I know, ouch...


  • #88
    PinotNero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭PinotNero


    Manchester City win back to back Premier Leagues :(


  • #89
    LordBasil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭LordBasil


    'British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn blasts government's Brexit strategy'


  • #90
    goose2005
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    Sheridan81 wrote: »
    230 school shootings in America since Columbine

    only if you use the most incredibly broad definition (Janitor shoots himself in his car in the carpark? School shooting. Gangland shooting, a stray bullet falls in a playground? School shooting.)


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  • #91
    Sheridan81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Sheridan81


    What is your definition of a school shooting? I didn't make the headline up.


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