Boards in 1939

breezy1985 · 15-05-2021 9:42am

Pandiculation wrote: »

“The instant gratification of the telegraph destroys the art of letter writing!”

People keep shortening words and sentences too on that bloody thing. Peoples whole vocabulary will be acronyms soon

passatman86 · 15-05-2021 10:00am

Bohs won the leinster senior cup
And the league of ireland shield

Badly Drunk Boy · 15-05-2021 12:12pm

branie2 wrote: »

Or it could get smaller and easier to use

We need more computers and bigger ones too! Much bigger!!

saabsaab · 15-05-2021 12:52pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

People keep shortening words and sentences too on that bloody thing. Peoples whole vocabulary will be acronyms soon

OK?

saabsaab · 15-05-2021 12:53pm

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

We need more computers and bigger ones too! Much bigger!!

What's a computer? Some kind of mechanical adding machine.

RandomViewer · 15-05-2021 12:55pm

saabsaab wrote: »

What's a computer? Some kind of mechanical adding machine.

Electric Abacus

Pandiculation · 15-05-2021 1:06pm

1939 is way too early for computers to have been even on the sci-fi agenda. They only became a thing in the 1950s and really only started appearing in industry in the 60s. First computer installed in Ireland was at the Irish Sugar Company in 1957 to calculate payments to beet farmers.

https://techarchives.irish/irelands-first-computers-1956-69/

badabing106 · 15-05-2021 2:13pm

Who is the hottest woman on Earth?

Veronica lake

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Rita Haworth

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Ava Gardner

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Lauren Mcall

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branie2 · 15-05-2021 3:37pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

People keep shortening words and sentences too on that bloody thing. Peoples whole vocabulary will be acronyms soon

Sounds like something from a science-fiction novel that could be set 45 years from now in the future

saabsaab · 15-05-2021 3:47pm

badabing106 wrote: »

Who is the hottest woman on Earth?

Veronica lake

Rita Haworth

Ava Gardner

Lauren Mcall

Occasions of sin!

breezy1985 · 15-05-2021 3:56pm

badabing106 wrote: »

Who is the hottest woman on Earth?

Veronica lake

Rita Haworth

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Ava Gardner

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Lauren Mcall

Bacall by a long distance. Her photo looks so much more modern I bet it wouldn't be out of place in 2020

saabsaab · 15-05-2021 4:26pm

They can have our beef and butter but they can't have our sons!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 15-05-2021 4:45pm

Rumours Euro '40 is going to be put back a year if war breaks out. Its just a small skirmish - massive overreaction. Just keep the ones who are vulnerable to bullets indoors.

breezy1985 · 15-05-2021 4:58pm

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Rumours Euro '40 is going to be put back a year if war breaks out. Its just a small skirmish - massive overreaction. Just keep the ones who are vulnerable to bullets indoors.

What's that some sort of athletics thing or like the world's fair ?

saabsaab · 15-05-2021 4:58pm

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Rumours Euro '40 is going to be put back a year if war breaks out. Its just a small skirmish - massive overreaction. Just keep the ones who are vulnerable to bullets indoors.

True enough. Hitler isn't as mad as he's painted. Besides he's a Catholic and no harm him giving the English a bloody nose after the Auxies and the Black and Tans.

odyssey06 · 15-05-2021 5:02pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Bacall by a long distance. Her photo looks so much more modern I bet it wouldn't be out of place in 2020

Good job it's 1939 though ... in 2020 you might get arrested for that kind of thing

saabsaab · 15-05-2021 5:10pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Good job it's 1939 though ... in 2020 you might get arrested for that kind of thing

No need to worry. I very much doubt that any of us will still be alive by then!

odyssey06 · 15-05-2021 5:11pm

saabsaab wrote: »

No need to worry. I very much doubt that any of us will still be alive by then!

With the advances in medical science a lot more of us could be living until 100!

saabsaab · 15-05-2021 5:15pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

With the advances in medical science a lot more of us could be living until 100!

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

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 15-05-2021 5:51pm

saabsaab wrote: »

True enough. Hitler isn't as mad as he's painted. Besides he's a Catholic and no harm him giving the English a bloody nose after the Auxies and the Black and Tans.

He also spoke German - no one who spoke German could be truly evil.

breezy1985 wrote: »

What's that some sort of athletics thing or like the world's fair ?

European, fair. Clue is in the name!

RandomViewer · 15-05-2021 6:01pm

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 · 15-05-2021 6:02pm

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

branie2 · 15-05-2021 6:28pm

Any news on Eoin O'Duffy these days?

Pandiculation · 15-05-2021 6:29pm

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

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

branie2 · 15-05-2021 6:44pm

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 · 15-05-2021 6:44pm

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 · 15-05-2021 6:58pm

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 · 15-05-2021 6:58pm

I'l be safe at home

odyssey06 · 15-05-2021 7:06pm

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 · 15-05-2021 7:13pm

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 · 15-05-2021 7:28pm

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 · 15-05-2021 7:30pm

saabsaab wrote: »

Occasions of sin!

That's nothing compared to pictures in catalogues!

saabsaab · 15-05-2021 7:31pm

branie2 wrote: »

I think it might be in certain parts of the country

Absolutely. It will spread from the Capital outwards.

Ash.J.Williams · 15-05-2021 7:33pm

Feckin hell ballinahown co Wicklow is gone

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

saabsaab · 15-05-2021 9:30pm

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

odyssey06 · 15-05-2021 9:31pm

branie2 wrote: »

That's nothing compared to pictures in catalogues!

Greed lust and envy!

Ash.J.Williams · 15-05-2021 9:48pm

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

Charles Babbage · 15-05-2021 9:50pm

Note the Schuko plug, no English electricity here!

Charles Babbage · 15-05-2021 9:58pm

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

odyssey06 · 15-05-2021 10:02pm

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 · 15-05-2021 11:17pm

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 · 15-05-2021 11:21pm

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

Kermit.de.frog · 15-05-2021 11:25pm

<snip>. State of them.

Cerveza · 15-05-2021 11:31pm

Is there a pup payment for the next world war?

saabsaab · 15-05-2021 11:35pm

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 · 15-05-2021 11:37pm

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 · 15-05-2021 11:45pm

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 · 15-05-2021 11:45pm

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 · 15-05-2021 11:48pm

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 · 15-05-2021 11:49pm

I wrote a letter to Douglas Hyde to introduce free housing for the unemployed, discuss.

Boards in 1939

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