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Things we will be telling the Grandkids about 'our day'

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  • #32
    Frisbee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,587 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    Back in the day me and your mother had to do with a car each! A Car Each!!

    Your mother used to have to load the washing machine by hand! Look at her face, she doesn't remember what a washing machine is!!

    thankyou peter kay....


  • #33
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    In my day son, music was performed by people.


  • #34
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    In my day son, music was performed by people.

    I am so stealing that one. Thank you Magic Marker!


  • #35
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,574 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    "There used to be a party called Fianna Fáil..."

    (Hopefully)


  • #36
    LouOB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭LouOB


    In my day you came out of the hospital sicker than you went in
    You could only get alcohol before 11.30pm
    You had to wait 3mths for a marraige certificate
    Our cars were the most taxed in the world and your insurance cost you more than the car


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  • #37
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    We believed in global warming.


  • #38
    Flashraziel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 220 ✭✭Flashraziel


    Back in my day, We couldn't even talk about certain companies on certain message boards or we'd be banished.


  • #39
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Grandkids? Not fcuking likely!


  • #40
    MarchDub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭MarchDub


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    In my day, we were so poor we had to eat babies to survive.

    Come on now...you borrowed that one from Dean Swift!


  • #41
    ninty9er
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    In my day, the old people were narky bastards and retirement was at 66 instead of 80:(, what had they to be narky about.....looking back.................................................................zzzzzzz


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  • #42
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Nevermind grandkids, I've a six year old nephew who'll never play a tape, he'll be lucky to know what cds are at this rate.

    By next year he'll think terrestrial tele was some kind of alien. He already doesn't know what a world without the internet of mobile phones would be like.

    Hopefully global warming, peak oil and a global economy crash will hit soon so for the first time in history the old people will have had all the cool **** and the next generation will have to walk to school barefoot.


  • #43
    Ass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 995 ✭✭✭Ass


    When I was a boy, kids swam to school.


  • #44
    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    Ass Face wrote: »
    When I was a boy, kids swam to school.

    "When I was young, we had to actually go to the school building for classes and we had to stay there from 9AM until 4PM, and we had to concentrate and try to learn stuff, there was none of this telepathic neural network embedding technology or whatever ye call it that meant that by the time you've brushed your teeth, all the knowledge has been transplanted into yer head, Jasus no there was none of that when I was a nipper!!!"

    "An we had to carry round stuff called cash to buy stuff as well, there was no such thing as havin' a chip in your arm that the shop talked to and took money from automatically for what you bought, and there used to be shop assistants and by jasus some of them were crackers, if you saw one you liked, you'd ask her out and she might go out for a drink with you and you might hit it off with her...!!!! A lot of them were foreign back then..."

    Seriously folks, it seems like yesterday that my Nana was telling me stories about a man she used to call Billy who would come out in the evening's with a gadget on the end of a long pole, to light the gas street lamps down in Hanlon's Corner in Phibsborough...


  • #45
    Tha Gopher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Tha Gopher


    Toiletroll wrote: »
    That weed was illegal... How stupid are we to spend so much money on a war we will never win? Stupid Irish giovernemnt clowns.. They really do put on a circus :)

    More realistically:

    "When I was 15 we all smoked hash from dusk til dawn. Then around 2006 it began getting harder to get. Not impossible by any means, but droughts became more commonplace and even when it was around you had to break your bollix to find it rather than the old days when it was easier to get than beer. By 2020 the Moroccans had done a good job at all but wiping it out, and it became so expensive to obtain from far off places like Afghanistan that people didnt bother anymore. There was always Irish grown grass around, but it was so mixed down for profit eventually nobody trusted it, and that industry died a death."

    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    In my day we didn't have stamps with LOL Cats on them.

    Brilliant :pac:


  • #46
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    in my day we used our hands to do that, not your fancy groinal attachment


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