Are we heading back to the 80's?

Caoimhín · 22-11-2008 05:32PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

My family used to send food, money, clothes and toys, from England to Ireland in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. :P

How flippin old are you?

TPD · 22-11-2008 05:44PM

Caoimhín wrote: »

How flippin old are you?

Over 9000?

ejmaztec · 22-11-2008 05:47PM

Caoimhín wrote: »

How flippin old are you?

My family's been around a lot longer than I have, otherwise I wouldn't have been here in the first place.

iPlop · 22-11-2008 05:50PM

graciegrace wrote: »

in your dreams were going to the 80's no jobs, smelly smoky pubs, everything grey, margaret thatcher, poll tax in england, no jobs, dole queues,

yellow packs margarine sandwiches,
strikes,
no buses, strikes,
no jobs

forget it!:rolleyes:

sounds like today ,apart from yellow pack larger that was fcukin muck 23p a can

An Fear Aniar · 22-11-2008 06:04PM

I don't think so. We have a much more educated and skilled workforce and an entrepreneurial culture, a lot less begrudgery and higher aspirations.

The national inferiority complex we had on the '80's is no longer. If the economy goes down we now correctly blame global influences rather than ourselves.

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Caoimhín · 22-11-2008 06:08PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

My family's been around a lot longer than I have, otherwise I wouldn't have been here in the first place.

Deep.

ejmaztec · 22-11-2008 06:18PM

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

I don't think so. We have a much more educated and skilled workforce and an entrepreneurial culture, a lot less begrudgery and higher aspirations.

The national inferiority complex we had on the '80's is no longer. If the economy goes down we now correctly blame global influences rather than ourselves.

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So you're in London. :pac:

Orange69 · 22-11-2008 06:23PM

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

I don't think so. We have a much more educated and skilled workforce and an entrepreneurial culture, a lot less begrudgery and higher aspirations.

The national inferiority complex we had on the '80's is no longer. If the economy goes down we now correctly blame global influences rather than ourselves.

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I lolled.. :rolleyes:

Wertz · 22-11-2008 06:47PM

S' funny....just been reading my local rag and they run a piece every week about what was happening 10, 20, and 30 years ago in the area...this week the one for 20 years back was on about the hoardes of shoppers from the south heading up North to do their xmas shopping...trains and buses being stopped and boarded by customs, valuable items seized for duty evasion, along with pictures.
On the previous page there was a news piece about the effects of people shopping in the North in the present day, how something must be done, business and jobs will suffer etc. Thought it was an interesting correlation...20 yrs on, f*ck all has really changed except that there's now a load of shiny new motorways to get us up and back faster. Oh and there's no customs...

But there's no way in hell I could ever wear a mullet again...

22-11-2008 06:53PM

There really is only one way to celebrate.

SV · 22-11-2008 07:03PM

00112984 wrote: »

There really is only one way to celebrate.

:mad:

ejmaztec · 22-11-2008 07:15PM

Wertz wrote: »

S' funny....just been reading my local rag and they run a piece every week about what was happening 10, 20, and 30 years ago in the area...this week the one for 20 years back was on about the hoardes of shoppers from the south heading up North to do their xmas shopping...trains and buses being stopped and boarded by customs, valuable items seized for duty evasion, along with pictures.
On the previous page there was a news piece about the effects of people shopping in the North in the present day, how something must be done, business and jobs will suffer etc. Thought it was an interesting correlation...20 yrs on, f*ck all has really changed except that there's now a load of shiny new motorways to get us up and back faster. Oh and there's no customs...

But there's no way in hell I could ever wear a mullet again...

Mullets are going to be made compulsory, along with a Mullet Tax.

InkSlinger67 · 22-11-2008 07:19PM

If we are heading back to the 80's we better bring enough plutonium with us to come back. We don't want to be in a situation where we have to rely on a freak bolt of lightening to power the flux capacitor in order to get away from our mothers who want to have sex with us!

Marty McFly: "Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a Cinquecento?"
Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?

Wertz · 22-11-2008 07:22PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Mullets are going to be made compulsory, along with a Mullet Tax.

I feel a sudden bout of alopecia coming on...

22-11-2008 07:33PM

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

If we are heading back to the 80's we better bring enough plutonium with us to come back. We don't want to be in a situation where we have to rely on a freak bolt of lightening to power the flux capacitor in order to get away from our mothers who want to have sex with us!

Marty McFly: "Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a Cinquecento?"
Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?

You could always get shot like DI alex drake from Ashes to Ashes if you want another option. Wake up to Ultravox "This means nothingg to meee!!! OHHHH VIENNNNA!!!!!"

ejmaztec · 22-11-2008 07:38PM

Domo230 wrote: »

Im part of generation Y

We live for consumerism and instant gratification.
We cant survive a recession.

You can all keep yer crappy music and beef sandwhiches, overpriced coffee and subway FTW.
If we sit here and pretend theres no recession and continue to do as we do then everything will be fine.(Me hopes so anyway :P)

You're goin' down man, down, down, down. :eek:

Húrin · 22-11-2008 07:44PM

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

So great you named it twice.

It might be great thinking of the good old 80's but imho (i luvs txt speak) the 80's isn't gonna be a patch on what we are going to experience. If I were you I'd be worrying about how they lived during the crash in the 20's, because all factors taken into consideration thats the epic fall that we are about to have,

Njoy
Ktnxbai

Hate to rain on the parade but due to the impending arrival of rocketing oil prices caused by peak oil, and the ever-deteriorating climate affecting crop yields and other economic activity, it will probably be worse than the great depression.

ejmaztec · 22-11-2008 07:58PM

Húrin wrote: »

Hate to rain on the parade but due to the impending arrival of rocketing oil prices caused by peak oil, and the ever-deteriorating climate affecting crop yields and other economic activity, it will probably be worse than the great depression.

On the upside, there will be a surprising superfluity of sh1t for crops, because we're all going to be up to our eye-balls in it. :eek:

auditek923 · 22-11-2008 07:58PM

petrol is down to 99 cent in my town

marcsignal · 22-11-2008 08:00PM

Zaph wrote: »

Yep, and it wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs. I left school in 1984 and I'd say half my class had left the country by 1986. Some of the music was better though.

ditto

An Fear Aniar · 22-11-2008 08:05PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

So you're in London. :pac:

Oh yeah, forgot about that. The one thing I can't stand about Ireland is it's full of Irish people.

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ejmaztec · 22-11-2008 08:06PM

auditek923 wrote: »

petrol is down to 99 cent in my town

At least the fall in oil prices will mean more dole money to spend on other luxuries like food. :pac:

ejmaztec · 22-11-2008 08:08PM

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

Oh yeah, forgot about that. The one thing I can't stand about Ireland is it's full of Irish people.

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A least you managed to get a place on one of the life-boats when Ireland started sinking.

An Fear Aniar · 22-11-2008 08:13PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

A least you managed to get a place on one of the life-boats when Ireland started sinking.

I've been here since 1991, so yeah... was there for the first one.

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Húrin · 22-11-2008 08:28PM

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

I don't think so. We have a much more educated and skilled workforce and an entrepreneurial culture, a lot less begrudgery and higher aspirations.

I always wonder at people who talk about how supposedly skilled and resourceful our young people are. Half of them can't even so much as cook for themselves, let alone practice more advanced skills.

An Fear Aniar · 22-11-2008 09:33PM

Húrin wrote: »

I always wonder at people who talk about how supposedly skilled and resourceful our young people are. Half of them can't even so much as cook for themselves, let alone practice more advanced skills.

I said workforce, not young people. The skills bank in Ireland is a lot better than what it was.

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Rowley Birkin QC · 22-11-2008 09:36PM

Húrin wrote: »

let alone practice more advanced skills.

Such as protesting against a job-creating development in the already banjaxxed, West of Ireland perhaps??

Recession isn't going to hit those wasters camped out in Rossport anyway.

InkSlinger67 · 22-11-2008 09:49PM

Deleted User wrote: »

You could always get shot like DI alex drake from Ashes to Ashes if you want another option. Wake up to Ultravox "This means nothingg to meee!!! OHHHH VIENNNNA!!!!!"

Karm down there bosco! I understand my attempt at Komedy was badly done but it had to be done at the time!

....Just killing the minutes until 09:00 Monday morning!

the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning 'round

....applies to both of us I'm afraid! For now!

nlgbbbblth · 22-11-2008 10:17PM

The 1980s were great.

In the early part of the decade I was taught by Christian Brothers. One of the Brothers was big into corporal punishment. He had two implements - a leather and a drumstick.

On a couple of occasions he hit people across the face with the leather.

One guy complained to his father who stormed into the school to confront the Brother.

The Brother ended up hitting the parent in the corridor outside the class. Mysteriously he didn't want to press charges or take the matter further.

ejmaztec · 22-11-2008 10:27PM

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

The 1980s were great.

In the early part of the decade I was taught by Christian Brothers. One of the Brothers was big into corporal punishment. He had two implements - a leather and a drumstick.

On a couple of occasions he hit people across the face with the leather.

One guy complained to his father who stormed into the school to confront the Brother.

The Brother ended up hitting the parent in the corridor outside the class. Mysteriously he didn't want to press charges or take the matter further.

School-days - happiest days of your life, if you're a masochist.

Are we heading back to the 80's?

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