2000's Nostalgia

walrusgumble · 20-01-2007 01:45AM

pat kenny,- ya remind me what des bishop said about us slagging him off now (bring back gay byrne) and in ten years time when ryan turbidy takes over late late we will be calling back for pat

DublinWriter · 20-01-2007 07:54AM

I can't believe no one mentioned the dot-com crash or the big anti-climax that were most millenium celebrations.

Rb · 20-01-2007 08:25AM

Faith wrote:

I loved them!

iPods, definately.
Jade Goody.
Reality TV.
Ugg or slouchy boots.
Drainpipe jeans.
Cocaine.
GHDs.

Jade Goody?Not a chance! She'll disappear back to the rock she crawled out from sometime in the next few years, albeit a bit better off. Whats to remember?Her ugliness? Shes not exactly talented and I sure as hell won't be telling my child about the pig-human hybrid that made it onto the Z list in Britain for a few years. Jade Goody an icon?Lol.

Have no idea what could be classed as retro-cool in a few years, certainly not Bebo or Myspace or anything of that sort.

Emo may certainly come back a few years down the line, suppose time will tell on that one.

Playstation/PS2/Xbox perhaps.

20-01-2007 09:31AM

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dr.bollocko · 20-01-2007 09:57AM

walrusgumble wrote:

some or personal and some are more general

1.dermot morgan and fr ted (coping the phrases in school and other places, the money was resting in my account will hopefully be a handy phrase)
2.copying eric cantona when playing footie by having the collars turned up or doing jurgen klinsman dives or ian wright throwing jersey over your head after scoring a goal
3.being single, with no kids, and have hair (i am sure that be in my mind when i think back to these days in years ahead)
4.when people with some talent got record deals.
5.rep of ireland soccer glory days under charltan
6.the innocent days of school pre leaving cert and college exams (kick the can,conkers,footie,first kiss, first disco etc)
7. college drinking sessions throughout the year and particularily rag week with mates ya prob will never see again (thats in years later, bha to having boring responsibilites)
8.listening to the news about bill clinton's extra curriclums (go on the boyo, bar all the war stuff, a rock n' roll prez)
9. laughing/crying/rejoicing/applauding bono's next move of embarrasing himself
10.great comedy shows like fast show and only fools and horse (brilliant catch phrases like "suit u sir.... or making love to a beautful woman is like..., i'm a geezer abit of who a bit oh way i'll nick anything)
11. when sega were good, all remember the megadrive and its 16 bit console lol
12. battle of the bands blur v oasis (oasis oasis oasis) we need another media mad war between two bands, to keep things interesting
13. summer of 1995 and its heatwaves and constant sunny days (never know global warnig might give us that in months like january)
14.when everything was a bit cheaper,
15. christmas pressies like subteto, scielectrics,bmx bikes, shoot annuals (footies book)

But surely all this is nineties nostalgia?
Which is completely missing the point of the thread?
Or am I going completely totally mad?
I checked, and I'm not you know.

The (gag) noughties will be remembered for Spongebob Squarepants, bebo, and all those other internet fads designed to lower the target IQ of the whole world.
A series of unfunny cartoons mentioning Mohammad, the leaders of the so-called free world being shown up as the criminals and terrorists that they are, Lordi, non-voting students wearing tee-shirts with seemingly irreverent politically comedic statements to make a stand rather than, you know, doing anything. (Got bush?)
Oh yeah, and the re-election of George W. indicating that America is almost entirely populated by cruel jokers, morons and gun-toting one-tooth cloud shooters with a hatred for the whole world.
Also, the death of guitar music. When was the last time u saw a guitarist who could, you know, play guitar?

Someone said The rise of Hiphop / black music? Hiphop is dead, crushed under the weight of lamborghini Gallardos, Massive bottles of gin, and 14,000 fat-arsed girls getting naked in a video.

Oh, and the rise and rise of shows / books / articles / threads touting nostaliga to the oh so cynical masses to remind them of a time when space hoppers were cool and you were happy to play with a lump of plastic that pissed its pants for days on end without it having to have a 100baseT broadband connection attached to its hole.

Oh and hopefully the tragic and extreeemmeely painful and drawn out death of Bono. That ****.

Pigman II · 20-01-2007 11:02AM

The show Big Brother will be gone by the end of this decade (no matter what their current contract is) and I think people will be nostalgic for that (esp the first couple of years when it was still an interesting social experiement and not just another X-factor show).

CD's/DVD's will be a nostalgic memory too as the interweb coupled with solid state & harddisk become the universal way of dispensing and storing entertainment media.

Faith · 20-01-2007 01:16PM

rb_ie wrote:

Jade Goody?Not a chance! She'll disappear back to the rock she crawled out from sometime in the next few years, albeit a bit better off. Whats to remember?Her ugliness? Shes not exactly talented and I sure as hell won't be telling my child about the pig-human hybrid that made it onto the Z list in Britain for a few years. Jade Goody an icon?Lol.

I certainly won't be remembering her in a good way, as I doubt anybody else will. But I mean, in 20 years time, people reminiscing about the 00's will say things like "Remember that stupid idiot Jade what's-her-name? God, I hated her!".

Brian Capture · 20-01-2007 01:45PM

GPHD

Good Pubic Hair Day

singingstranger · 20-01-2007 04:19PM

- iPods
- an era where people still bought CDs and didn't just download music
- the explosion of text messaging
- the Nintendo Wii
- 3G mobiles
- the rise and fall of Big Brother
- Web 2.0 (Bebo, MySpace, Facebook etc...)
- The Dunphy Show

pickarooney · 20-01-2007 10:19PM

When there literally were still plenty of fish in the sea
Building/upgrading your own PC
Physical storage media
Serie A
The cult of the metrosexual
Snow
Gangsta Rap

walrusgumble · 21-01-2007 12:51AM

dr.bollocko wrote:

But surely all this is nineties nostalgia?
Which is completely missing the point of the thread?
Or am I going completely totally mad?
I checked, and I'm not you know.

The (gag) noughties will be remembered for Spongebob Squarepants, bebo, and all those other internet fads designed to lower the target IQ of the whole world.
A series of unfunny cartoons mentioning Mohammad, the leaders of the so-called free world being shown up as the criminals and terrorists that they are, Lordi, non-voting students wearing tee-shirts with seemingly irreverent politically comedic statements to make a stand rather than, you know, doing anything. (Got bush?)
Oh yeah, and the re-election of George W. indicating that America is almost entirely populated by cruel jokers, morons and gun-toting one-tooth cloud shooters with a hatred for the whole world.
Also, the death of guitar music. When was the last time u saw a guitarist who could, you know, play guitar?

Someone said The rise of Hiphop / black music? Hiphop is dead, crushed under the weight of lamborghini Gallardos, Massive bottles of gin, and 14,000 fat-arsed girls getting naked in a video.

Oh, and the rise and rise of shows / books / articles / threads touting nostaliga to the oh so cynical masses to remind them of a time when space hoppers were cool and you were happy to play with a lump of plastic that pissed its pants for days on end without it having to have a 100baseT broadband connection attached to its hole.

Oh and hopefully the tragic and extreeemmeely painful and drawn out death of Bono. That ****.

oh yeah sorry i did miss da point of op's thread. sorry. but then again the 7 years of the noughties have been really really bland. luckily i have made the best of a bad situation but the last 7 years has been totally uninspiring,boring and full of doom and gloom. although the 1990's was a bit of a rip off from the 1960's it was cool and exciting. and from an irish perspective it was good times for us as we had some money in our pockets

Rb · 21-01-2007 12:56AM

Faith wrote:

I certainly won't be remembering her in a good way, as I doubt anybody else will. But I mean, in 20 years time, people reminiscing about the 00's will say things like "Remember that stupid idiot Jade what's-her-name? God, I hated her!".

Lol, I thought you were one of her "fans"!

Will probably remember her alright, and she'll probably be brought up on some "Where are they now?" kind of show, 'cause theres only so much more media whoring a talentless, pig-faced nuisance like her can do(or at least I sincerely hope she'll be out of the picture in the near future).

walrusgumble · 21-01-2007 01:17AM

so an amendment of the 00''s whether it's good,bad or indifferent, in no particular order

1.eamon dunphy (love him or hate him "tired and emotional")
2. cd's (that keep skipping on ya if not looked after)
3. the fall of guitar music to whimsical nonsense of what is out now
4. snow in winter (ok did not have much but with global warming it prob will snow in march like in 2006)
5. proper music journalists like john peel (rip) (hard to find many, but they are around)
6. playstations/x box (great memories but their will prob be even better consoles out)
7. pope jp II for all ye religious folk ?????????
8. charles j haughey (i know he wont be missed by many, but remember how your blood boiled when ye heard all the evidence from all them tribunals, hopefully we will never see someone like him in this country again, corruption wise)
9. beckham hairstyles making front page news (white men trying to be as cool as black men)
10. michelle marsh and lucy pinder (will we have beautiful wholesome page 3 girls like them ever again, or will we be stuck with waifer thin paris ilton's?)
11. being young free and single lol (children of today, take your time)
12.alex ferguson (even a.b.u. fans will respect him and if not already be up there with the likes of paisley and shankly, hopefully man u will stop wnning lol)
13. combative and brave footballers like roy keane (no fun with all them divers
14. when it was fashionable for men to wear pink (cant wait to get the photo albums out to remind mates of their fashion horrors)
15. when immigration was used as a scaremonger gimmick by some people(hopefully in 20 years we will be saying, what was that all about?)

parsi · 21-01-2007 01:48AM

It will be remembered for Netwhizzkid...low cost airlines...full employment...dear houses..

Who is Jade Goody ?

sioda · 21-01-2007 01:52PM

Suprised only one person said the Wii and mass illegal downloads

brianthebard · 21-01-2007 02:34PM

The Scientist wrote:

Cool thread...
I was thinkin about this aswell recently... I remember the early 90's were remembered for Rave and dance music and childrens dummies!
I think the 00's will be remebered for Terrorism, youtube, bebo, iPods, mohawk haircuts and indie & alternative music.

Mohawks?? indie and alternative has been around since the eighties, I don't think people will be able to be nostalgic for that. plus there's no reason why it should die out atm.

21-01-2007 03:41PM

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1huge1 · 21-01-2007 08:41PM

making movies about the iraq war id say
ps2's and gamecubes etc

green day, U2

nobodythere · 21-01-2007 11:13PM

iPods, definately.
Jade Goody.
Reality TV.
Ugg or slouchy boots.
Drainpipe jeans.
Cocaine.
GHDs.

Oh my god it's been a bad decade.

andrew · 21-01-2007 11:19PM

IMO music this decade has been ****. with most other decades there was a defining band/movement, but not this decade (so far) and the 90's were nothing special. don't get we wrong, thare are alot of good bands out there, but nothin particularly special. i wish i was a 60's kid! (prefrably not living in ireland, since the place was a kip then)

walrusgumble · 21-01-2007 11:52PM

london baby yeah, the swinging sixities, all the cool bands, the hippies, the mods, sweets!. even studio 59 in NYC of the 1970's would have been a total trip.

god ireland in the 1960's.jesus.dev, horse n chart for transport (rural areas) the church stopping you from touching yourself and others, tb, BLOODY RUBBISH SHOWBANDS, the particpation of foreign sport was a sin (in rural areas), and of course he obvious of economy. yep a sh*&ty place alright

ah the noughties, BLAND.is there anyone out there to shake things up (hardly that idiot who sang "i wish i was a punk rocker" or druggie pete doherty, i doubt a second attempted to revive the 1980's would not go down well, as much as i like the nighties it was not original.who we goona look to in twenty years time for inspiration (either way some of us will be craggy old folk thinking its all rubbish and not like the way it use to be )

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