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Boards in 1939

Kermit.de.frog

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

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saabsaab wrote: »

Tosh. Next thing you'll be saying that we'll be going into space!

Going by the Flash Gordon serials at the cinema you wouldn't want to be going there

Charles Babbage

I heard they were building one of them double roads out on the Bray road, sure we'll be like America.

branie2

Any news on Eoin O'Duffy these days?

Pandiculation

You get a genuine insight into the aspirations of pre WWII Ireland in the ESB archives:

https://esbarchives.ie/shannon-scheme-pamphlets/

branie2

Punting 365 wrote: »

Well boys what's the plan for the summer? I've two weeks booked in Warsaw starting the last week of August. Can't wait, gonna be some session.

It will be very memorable, but for all the wrong reasons.

saabsaab

Pandiculation wrote: »

You get a genuine insight into the aspirations of pre WWII Ireland in the ESB archives:

https://esbarchives.ie/shannon-scheme-pamphlets/

Sure what would women do with all that spare time? Anyway it probably won't get far outside cities and towns as it would be too expensive to provide it to the countryside.

breezy1985

RandomViewer wrote: »

Going by the Flash Gordon serials at the cinema you wouldn't want to be going there

Ya but the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one they say

branie2

I'l be safe at home

odyssey06

I predict by the end of the century, everyone will be using Esperanto as a second language for global communication.
"La vojo de la estonteco."

saabsaab

odyssey06 wrote: »

I predict by the end of the century, everyone will be using Esperanto as a second language for global communication.
"La vojo de la estonteco."

Gaelic will be spoken throughout Ireland as the first language anyway.

branie2

saabsaab wrote: »

Gaelic will be spoken throughout Ireland as the first language anyway.

I think it might be in certain parts of the country

branie2

saabsaab wrote: »

Occasions of sin!

That's nothing compared to pictures in catalogues!

saabsaab

branie2 wrote: »

I think it might be in certain parts of the country

Absolutely. It will spread from the Capital outwards.

Ash.J.Williams

Feckin hell ballinahown co Wicklow is gone

https://www.townlands.ie/wicklow/lower-talbotstown/boystown/lackan/ballinahown/

saabsaab

We be paying a shilling a pint before the year is over. I'll give it up if it crosses that.

odyssey06

branie2 wrote: »

That's nothing compared to pictures in catalogues!

Greed lust and envy!

Ash.J.Williams

User ashjwilliams banned for life for taking the lords name in vein , bishop has been informed

Charles Babbage

Note the Schuko plug, no English electricity here!

Charles Babbage

I hear that Dun Laoghaire is getting the automatic phone, shocking that the northsiders had it first.

odyssey06

Charles Babbage wrote: »

I hear that Dun Laoghaire is getting the automatic phone, shocking that the northsiders had it first.

It will always be Kingstown to me.
At least most people could spell that.
If they could spell.

Ash.J.Williams

Conspiracy theory:

I’m starting to think the farm the esb took from me for a shilling in blessington has nothing to do with electricity and is in fact to supply the bleedin dubs with water

Strumms

Women wearing next to nothing and embarrassing Fr O’Neill.. BRAZEN !

Kermit.de.frog

<snip>. State of them.

Cerveza

Is there a pup payment for the next world war?

saabsaab

Cerveza wrote: »

Is there a pup payment for the next world war?

Payments! What madness, we already spent nearly one and a quarter million pounds on unemployment in 1939!

Pandiculation

Charles Babbage wrote: »

Note the Schuko plug, no English electricity here!

To be fair, I doubt that was a snub to the English. They didn’t have a standard to adopt.
At that time there was no UK standard plug. They’d umpteen different round pin plugs of various sizes and other designs that were all mutually incompatible and also had different voltages in different regions of the UK 200 - 250V AC some DC, only standardising completely in the case 1970s about 50 years after the ESB.

All these things were just products of private companies.

If anything, Ireland was more internationally focused and just adopted things that made most sense at the time - in that case we landed on 220V 50Hz and Schuko which would become the modern European standard after WWII. Adopting the weird British plugs later could yet be problematic post Brexit if you can’t get a CE approved mobile charger or WiFi plug that fits an Irish wall socket.

We weren’t as inward looking on technical things as we might have been on conservative social issues.

Cerveza

Punting 365 wrote: »

Would you doomers ever lay off with the 'hurr duer war with Germany is inevitable' crap? What are the Germans gonna do? Invade France? Ever heard of the Maginot Line?

Good man Francie.

saabsaab

Punting 365 wrote: »

Would you doomers ever lay off with the 'hurr duer war with Germany is inevitable' crap? What are the Germans gonna do? Invade France? Ever heard of the Maginot Line?

You're right miles and miles of concrete bunkers and big guns no one will get through that alive. That and the French army is the biggest and most modern in the world.

Kermit.de.frog

Punting 365 wrote: »

Would you doomers ever lay off with the 'hurr duer war with Germany is inevitable' crap? What are the Germans gonna do? Invade France? Ever heard of the Maginot Line?

There's a rumour they didn't bother finishing it.

Cerveza

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