What will you tell your grandchildren about these times ?

Rabidlamb · 23-04-2012 08:12AM #1

"May you live in interesting times".
When your grandkids or even your kids ask you about these times 30 years from now what will you tell them.
Will you recount the great recession of the late noughties, the fall of the Catholic Church, the corruption of politicians, 9/11, rise of the internet or just jumbo breakfast rolls.
What will be the one major defining thing of our time that you will recount ?.

danniemcq · 23-04-2012 08:47AM

Tell them that the place on their maps thats called Nuclear Wasteland used to be called the middle east

Krispie · 23-04-2012 08:56AM

Tell then I used to work in a Multi National corp that left Ireland but, hey, It was the best thing ever because after the unions agreed a non sustainable and ridiculous redundancy package I had to sign on the dole, whereby the Government proceeded to give me a free house, medical care, waivers to all new ill thought out stealth taxes and loads of other additional benifits that basically meant that going back to work was not an option and that my grandson, is why you live in this 5 bed mansion in Foxrock with the ultra modern 10 seater people carrier car, state funded:D:D:D

AskMyChocolate · 23-04-2012 08:57AM

No idea, but it will almost certainly be by Skype.:(

Bipolar Joe · 23-04-2012 09:00AM

How George Lucas became a bastard.

golden lane · 23-04-2012 09:02AM

Krispie wrote: »

Tell then I used to work in a Multi National corp that left Ireland but, hey, It was the best thing ever because after the unions agreed a non sustainable and ridiculous redundancy package I had to sign on the dole, whereby the Government proceeded to give me a free house, medical care, waivers to all new ill thought out stealth taxes and loads of other additional benifits that basically meant that going back to work was not an option and that my grandson, is why you live in this 5 bed mansion in Foxrock with the ultra modern 10 seater people carrier car, state funded:D:D:D

i will tell them....about the time when we only had a thousand television programmes to watch, footballers only got a measly hundred grand a match.....and the imf was not a high street bank.....

ejmaztec · 23-04-2012 09:02AM

I'll tell them about how we tried to get in the Guinness book of records by seeing how many water meters we could cram up our local FG TD's arse.

golden lane · 23-04-2012 09:05AM

ejmaztec wrote: »

I'll tell them about how we tried to get in the Guinness book of records by seeing how many water meters we could cram up our local FG TD's arse.

wre they the self regulating type......

Susie_Q · 23-04-2012 09:09AM

That it rained in the morning, and cleared up in the afternoon. I nearly remembered something else there, but it's gone.

Mr Benevolent · 23-04-2012 09:11AM

Why is political corruption so noteworthy? It'll still be around in when my grandkids are born. I'd be mentioning Fukushima, Chernobyl, the rise and fall of the US etc.

zenno · 23-04-2012 09:14AM

Will tell them the reason why Ireland was destroyed was because the dumb Irish people kept voting for austerity and this is why your country today is so banjaxed. Back then Irish people loved austerity and couldn't help themselves but to constantly vote for it as they were the slaves of germany.

When brussels spoke, the Irish people hid in their little houses and were very afraid to come out until brussels forced more austerity onto them and when it quietened down they came back out to vote more austerity for themselves and this is why you are only 3 stone now as we can't feed you anymore. and on it goes son as we love austerity and do nothing to protest about it. And now it's you're turn son to go out there and work hard to pay off the german banks and enjoy all the austerity you can get and in time you can tell you're grandchildren to enjoy the same.

Turtyturd · 23-04-2012 09:17AM

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Red Alert · 23-04-2012 09:24AM

I'll tell them that we had a weak taoiseach who was more interested in pleasing Europe than sorting out the best deal for Ireland. I'll tell them that his ministers repeatedly told lies. I'll tell them that we had a weak opposition that couldn't hold the government to account.

AboutTwoFiddy · 23-04-2012 09:28AM

I'll tell them about a poster that once posted on boards who was so subtle in trolling that he brought a tear to my eye.

The Snipe · 23-04-2012 09:38AM

I'll read them the bedtime story; The collapse of the free world (wide web) a tale documenting the life of Sean Sherlock as a junior minister.

golden lane · 23-04-2012 09:43AM

tell them about the time...when you could buy sweets from a shop, with having to show that you were not allergic to anything.......

about the times when you could run around playgrounds........

jimthemental · 23-04-2012 09:58AM

I'll tell them of the times when the Gardaí were an unarmed police force instead of an oppressive wing of the IMF. I'll also tell them that the only reason they are around is because I was unable to afford condoms in the recession.

twinQuins · 23-04-2012 10:01AM

zenno wrote: »

Will tell them the reason why Ireland was destroyed was because the dumb Irish people kept voting for austerity and this is why your country today is so banjaxed. Back then Irish people loved austerity and couldn't help themselves but to constantly vote for it as they were the slaves of germany.

When brussels spoke, the Irish people hid in their little houses and were very afraid to come out until brussels forced more austerity onto them and when it quietened down they came back out to vote more austerity for themselves and this is why you are only 3 stone now as we can't feed you anymore. and on it goes son as we love austerity and do nothing to protest about it. And now it's you're turn son to go out there and work hard to pay off the german banks and enjoy all the austerity you can get and in time you can tell you're grandchildren to enjoy the same.

You'll want to make sure they're old enough to understand satire, first.

token101 · 23-04-2012 10:05AM

jimthemental wrote: »

I'll tell them of the times when the Gardaí were an unarmed police force instead of an oppressive wing of the IMF

But then they'd open a history book or old newspaper and realise that grandad was full of sh*t.

Statistician · 23-04-2012 10:16AM

Turtyturd wrote: »

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

No. It was just the worst of times.
They got a revolution.

ejmaztec · 23-04-2012 10:16AM

I'll tell them that young people used to think that old grandads stank of piss, and could they please confirm that nothing has changed.

Bruce7 · 23-04-2012 10:28AM

zenno wrote: »

Will tell them the reason why Ireland was destroyed was because the dumb Irish people kept voting for austerity and this is why your country today is so banjaxed. Back then Irish people loved austerity and couldn't help themselves but to constantly vote for it as they were the slaves of germany.

When brussels spoke, the Irish people hid in their little houses and were very afraid to come out until brussels forced more austerity onto them and when it quietened down they came back out to vote more austerity for themselves and this is why you are only 3 stone now as we can't feed you anymore. and on it goes son as we love austerity and do nothing to protest about it. And now it's you're turn son to go out there and work hard to pay off the german banks and enjoy all the austerity you can get and in time you can tell you're grandchildren to enjoy the same.

Yes, well said. I for one have had enough of AUSTERITY, and think it's time for some PROSPERITY. That's what I'm going to vote for from now on. On reflection, it was silly to vote for austerity when a better alternative was freely available, and could be brought into existence with the stroke of a pen. I won't make that mistake again.

Hopefully I'll be able to tell my grandchildren about this schoolboy error that so many of us made, and advise them to always vote Prosperity.

Benny_Cake · 23-04-2012 10:33AM

I'll be boring them with stories of how Soylent Green tasted better before they added people to the recipe.

Duggy747 · 23-04-2012 10:34AM

That I may be old but I'll fùckin' kick their arses in Super Mario Kart on the SNES.

Immaculate Pasta · 23-04-2012 10:35AM

How reality tv and social media killed music for good :cool:

Kolido · 23-04-2012 10:49AM

Man Utd were a decent team

davet82 · 23-04-2012 11:49AM

That in my day we had respect, ya little fcukers...

:P

Plumpynutt · 23-04-2012 11:53AM

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

How reality tv and social media killed music for good :cool:

It's not dead, you're just looking for it in the wrong places

azezil · 23-04-2012 11:54AM

Skynet became aware.

saa · 23-04-2012 12:00PM

Well seeing as I'm 21 I'll tell my grandkids that on 9/11 I was doing my homework in the library, they wheeled out a tv everyone was crowded around in and people coming in off the streets to see what was going on, my friend asked me to go see what the fuss was about, I saw a reporter near the towers walked back to the desk and told my friend it was just some fire somewhere in America, no biggie and finished my homework.

Oh and of course I'll tell them about this thing we used to have called the dole!

Old Tom · 23-04-2012 12:04PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

What will be the one major defining thing of our time that you will recount ?.

"Uuuh, back then we didn't have to pay the breathing tax..."

What will you tell your grandchildren about these times ?

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