irony from days gone by ...

u_c_thesecond · 15-10-2012 02:19AM #1

Hubby and i were chatting about when we 1st started living together...

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

These days even though theres more of a recession now than then, we spend more on shopping...

ironic???

what from your days gone by do you find ironic??

EDIT- our rent in 2005 was more than our morgage is now

4zn76tysfajdxp · 15-10-2012 02:20AM

I remember telling someone in 1975 that there'll never be AIDS. Boy, how wrong was I...

Chuck Stone · 15-10-2012 02:23AM

I'm not sure that's irony.

im invisible · 15-10-2012 02:24AM

Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you when you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when you think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up in your face

MrJoeSoap · 15-10-2012 02:25AM

In before the Alanis.

3rdDegree · 15-10-2012 02:26AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I'm not sure that's irony.

Agree, I think it's called "inflation".

scudzilla · 15-10-2012 02:27AM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

Hubby and i were chatting about when we 1st started living together...

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

These days even though theres more of a recession now than then, we spend more on shopping...

ironic???

what from your days gone by do you find ironic??

EDIT- our rent in 2005 was more than our morgage is now

35cent for a tin of Tuna, sure it wasn't goldfish?

token101 · 15-10-2012 02:34AM

scudzilla wrote: »

35cent for a tin of Tuna, sure it wasn't goldfish?

Or plankton?

cruais · 15-10-2012 02:39AM

token101 wrote: »

Or plankton?

It was flipper

Rented Mule · 15-10-2012 02:59AM

Ahhhhh.....2005. Those were the good old days.

1ZRed · 15-10-2012 03:03AM

token101 wrote: »

Or plankton?

Nah, pretty sure it's fungie

kneemos · 15-10-2012 03:04AM

It's ironic that you lived on such a miserable diet during the biggest boom we ever had.

squirestarter · 15-10-2012 03:46AM

Thinly veiled "I'd a crap diet and now i eat well" thread

efb · 15-10-2012 03:59AM

there was very little iron-y in you diet it seems...

trodsky · 15-10-2012 04:04AM

I remember laughing at older colleagues back in the 90s saying I ll never wear a track suit to work.

Well here I am at work... In a tracksuit

policarp · 15-10-2012 04:17AM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

Hubby and i were chatting about when we 1st started living together...

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

These days even though theres more of a recession now than then, we spend more on shopping...

ironic???

what from your days gone by do you find ironic??

EDIT- our rent in 2005 was more than our morgage is now

6 pack of cheap beer hasn't increased much. . .

Where To · 15-10-2012 04:23AM

My careers guidance counselor said I was a useless waste of space who'd never amount to anything. . . .

. . . . oh wait

policarp · 15-10-2012 04:36AM

Where To wrote: »

My careers guidance counselor said I was a useless waste of space who'd never amount to anything. . . .

. . . . oh wait

So.
Where to now?

Armin_Tamzarian · 15-10-2012 04:43AM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

Hubby and i were chatting about when we 1st started living together...

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

These days even though theres more of a recession now than then, we spend more on shopping...

ironic???

No, to answer your question, there is nothing ironic about that.

Also, where were you doing your shopping in 2005?

dave3004 · 15-10-2012 05:29AM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

Hubby and i were chatting about when we 1st started living together...

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

These days even though theres more of a recession now than then, we spend more on shopping...

ironic???

what from your days gone by do you find ironic??

EDIT- our rent in 2005 was more than our morgage is now

Started living together in 2005.

Conversations about product prices by 2012.

Already looking into the past with rose-tinted glasses

My verdict: Wont last ! :pac:

up for anything · 15-10-2012 07:16AM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

To echo others, where were you doing your shopping in 2005. I don't recall any of those products being that price anywhere except perhaps out at the car boot sale in Cuffesgrange where they flog gone out of date goods.

Irony

Is it irony that I screwed up the link first time round! 99% say No, 1% says Yes, final verdict, Maybe:D

efb · 15-10-2012 08:25AM

I was at this wedding once, the weather was awful, where the bride and groom were about to cut the cake but there was only desert cutlery left! The groom was a complete ride to boot!

syklops · 15-10-2012 08:32AM

efb wrote: »

I was at this wedding once, the weather was awful, where the bride and groom were about to cut the cake but there was only desert cutlery left! The groom was a complete ride to boot!

That sums it up.

15-10-2012 09:54AM

I was once sent to the shop to buy a knife and I came back with 10,000 spoons. It's ironic, don't you think?

Sofiztikated · 15-10-2012 09:57AM

Isn't it ironic that noone knows how the word irony should actually be applied?

Or am I getting that wrong as well?

kneemos · 15-10-2012 10:02AM

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Isn't it ironic that noone knows how the word irony should actually be applied?

Or am I getting that wrong as well?

I wouldn't say noone knows.

Sofiztikated · 15-10-2012 10:03AM

kneemos wrote: »

I wouldn't say noone knows.

The irony!

:pac:

15-10-2012 10:06AM

trodsky wrote: »

I remember laughing at older colleagues back in the 90s saying I ll never wear a track suit to work.

Well here I am at work... In a tracksuit

If your name's Trapattoni then hopefully you won't be there for much longer.

bigneacy · 15-10-2012 10:21AM

trodsky wrote: »

I remember laughing at older colleagues back in the 90s saying I ll never wear a track suit to work.

Well here I am at work... In a tracksuit

Are you a PE teacher? Or Jimmy Saville?

kneemos · 15-10-2012 03:13PM

bigneacy wrote: »

Are you a PE teacher? Or Jimmy Saville?

If he's a fashion correspondent he could wear it ironically.

Piliger · 15-10-2012 03:25PM

My first full time summer job in a cash'n carry, in or around 1973 - I was paid €5 a week and my Mum insisted I pay €2 a week toward the household .....

irony from days gone by ...

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