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Do you think about how lucky you are to be living now and here?

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  • #32
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    maybe the debate would be better put as ''when do you wish you were born'' for instance the baby boomer generation born in the late 40's early 50's.

    the types who bought semis in Santry or Sandymount in 1979 then sold them in the 00's for something ridiculous, also ( if in the right job ) pensioned up to the eyeballs in a way nobody today could imagine.


  • #33
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Yeah we are extremely fortunate. Ok more of us have to shop at Aldi, drop our health insurance, or cant buy a car for the forseeable future. But neither do any of us live in grinding poverty where we have to wonder about how we're going to feed and cloth ourselves.


  • #34
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Well I know the OH is happy not to have lived 100+ years ago as she probably would have pushed out between 10 and 20 kids by now with no end in sight with Lando about.
    Unlike today where the burden of childcare is spread around the parents and grandparents she would have to graft on her own as I like most fathers would have been disconnected from my off spring bringing home the bread and drinking myself to an early grave.


  • #35
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    Unlike today where the burden of childcare is spread around the parents and grandparents
    Childcare has been spread around the parents and grandparents (and neighbours) since humans were around, it's one of the defining characteristics of human social behaviour.

    It's likely ye would have stayed close to home as traveling wasn't as easy, if ye did move it would have been a permanent move but with no TV to distract ye and regular social activity around sunday mass it's likely ye would have known your neighbours quite well.


  • #36
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    there are very few people who have the same life as other people........

    but, whatever it is.....enjoy it the best you can......it will not be repeated....


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  • #37
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    to progress from here another cold war space race is needed.NOW!


  • #38
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    I came across this list online of the happiest countries for 2012:

    1 Costa Rica
    2 Vietnam
    3 Colombia
    4 Belize
    5 El Salvador
    6 Jamaica
    7 Panama
    8 Nicaragua
    9 Venezuela
    10 Guatemala

    You can see the rest here:

    http://www.nowpublic.com/world/happiest-countries-world-2012-happy-nations-complete-list-2946693.html

    Ireland is 73. I've no idea how they come up with these statistics.


  • #39
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    im invisible wrote: »
    i'd rather be living back in the day when there were dragons and sh!t...

    https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZHQFzynV9_XZiXfCeptroryqUbfaQ_VVslLb75hW5ZKPKKYLv


  • #40
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,187 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Modern medicine and refrigeration are entirely responsible for my continued survival. Come the zombocalypse I'm screwed.


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