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Boards in 1939

  • 08-05-2021 09:53PM
    #1
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,360 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    It's the summer of 1939. What topics and views are being expressed on Boards.ie?


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  • #2
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 21,629 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Hitler.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #3
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,740 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The Brits and French should have gone to war with Germany over Munich

    Will there be a war

    What is Ireland doing to prepare for a European war... should we stay neutral

    Refighting the Spanish civil war

    Smoking in cinemas

    The price of a pint

    Motor cars v horses

    Partition

    Wtf is the internet.. how am I reading this? Am I drunk?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #4
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    Clark Gable reckless use of the word "damn"...


  • #5
    StevenToast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,153 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Travellers, the dole, social housing

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • #6
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,920 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Somehow it was all the Brits fault and dole scroungers won't go to war because they get more money on the dole.


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  • #7
    Smee_Again
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭Smee_Again


    A little skirmish in Poland, but it’ll be over by Christmas.


  • #8
    Halenvaneddie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭Halenvaneddie


    That Hiltler fella seems like a driven young go-getter


  • #9
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,114 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    de Valera was met by Benito Mussolini in Rome and they had lunch together, actually lunch was held in his honor.

    That would be a fun thread...


  • #10
    votecounts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,638 ✭✭✭votecounts


    Whats "The Emergency"?


  • #11
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    StevenToast wrote: »
    Travellers, the dole, social housing

    Travelers were an entirely different (even respected) thing back then.

    Stalin getting into bed with Hitler.


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  • #12
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,875 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    The World has gone to sh1te, everything was so much better in the 1910s.


  • #13
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,112 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Whinging about the Brits and hoping the Germans will whup them good, because the Germans can't be all that bad.

    Opinions on company keeping.

    Best priest for giving good Mass.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Indepth discussion on pro/con of car ownership vs horse

    I remember seeing a post war article highlighting how a horse was more econmical/practicable than a tractor for farming


  • #15
    0lddog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    It's the summer of 1939. What topics and views are being expressed on Boards.ie?


    I guess this thread is Froggies particular way of marking today, VE* Day.






    * - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day


  • #16
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Be guessing Father ##№№ sermon on Sunday and the price of Woodbines


  • #17
    Buddy Bubs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Buddy Bubs


    The 2 genders


  • #18
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,740 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    There'd be a certain cohort never missing an opportunity to praise Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and drop anti-semitic references and maybe anti-British ones too.
    A certain cohort praising Stalin and his 10 Year Plan.

    Questions about how much we should help refugees from Europe.

    Questions about how to and where to go if you are trying to emigrate to the US, UK.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "That McQuaid fellow would make a wonderful Archbishop, De Valera looks awful shook and needs someone of his stature to take the reins."


  • #20
    archer22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭archer22


    What should be done with unmarried mothers and girls who show too much interest in the opposite sex.


  • #21
    Shaun Hissing Vent
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Shaun Hissing Vent


    The 'Good' Witch of the North was the actual villain.


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  • #22
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity (again)."


  • #23
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Indepth discussion on pro/con of car ownership vs horse

    I remember seeing a post war article highlighting how a horse was more econmical/practicable than a tractor for farming

    Ferguson t20 wiped out the horse and a huge percentage of farm labour along with it, a few quid a diesel and a basic understanding of how to screw stuff on and off versus hay , farrier and vet fees


  • #24
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    People having inside loos


  • #25
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,112 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Would you marry a Protestant? Discuss.


  • #26
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Would you marry a Protestant? Discuss.

    20 years too early, aunt married a protestant she was hired to in the 40s, from what I've been told sh1tfest on both sides


  • #27
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,360 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Would you marry a Protestant? Discuss.

    Would you? You'll be ex-communicated.


  • #28
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,740 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Would you?

    Are you?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #29
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 223 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Someone would blame the annexation of the Sudetenland on "woke".


  • #30
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,875 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Anyone hear the song on 2RN by that fella Bing Crosby today, Christ it was an awful racket, how can young ones listen to such sh1te.


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  • #31
    Burt Renaults
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭Burt Renaults


    I know some people feel that Hitler goes a bit too far sometimes, but anyone who annoys the woke brigade as much as he does can't be all bad. Anyway, you can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs. History will be kind to him, mark my words.


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