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Does anybody else feel like they were born in the wrong era?

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  • #62
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    amkin25 wrote: »
    not sure about less and less centralised control of the narrative seems the complete opposite to me.

    Less and less people trust the mainstream media for their news imo.

    Back in the day what was said on the news was gospel (in more ways than one).


  • #63
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    feargale wrote: »
    I was born at a time when, to change the volume on the television, you had to walk all the way over to the set, turn a knob, and walk all the way back to the sofa again. Try telling that to the young people today - they wouldn't believe you!

    In fairness now, you didn't have to walk back again.


  • #64
    amkin25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭amkin25


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    Less and less people trust the mainstream media for their news imo.

    Back in the day what was said on the news was gospel (in more ways than one).

    Possibly true to a point,but i think people were never more like sheep than now if u ask me,everybody herded in one place on facebook.


  • #65
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    amkin25 wrote: »
    Possibly true to a point,but i think people were never more like sheep than now if u ask me,everybody herded in one place on facebook.

    Social media played a huge part in the Arab Spring.


  • #66
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    The price is any ****ing dope can be a "journalist" and post agenda-pushing tripe and trolling and it will get a following (and that's just the online Sunday Independent :p)... but I still prefer it to traditional journalism where there wasn't the scope for debating what was being reported.


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  • #67
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    the Arab Spring.

    Whatever did happen to that.


  • #68
    amkin25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭amkin25


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    Social media played a huge part in the Arab Spring.

    That's the arab spring where half the muslim world has descended into permanent chaos is that the one your talking about?
    I think it's a bit naive to think there wasn't more sinister goings on behind the arab spring anyway and who really was the driving force.


  • #69
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    amkin25 wrote: »
    That's the arab spring where half the muslim world has descended into permanent chaos is that the one your talking about?

    What do you have against Muslims?


  • #70
    amkin25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭amkin25


    Seriously are u joking me or what?Where did i say anything against muslims?
    Some people spout rubbish like yourself and then what, because i said muslims in
    a sentence you call me racist go to bed you had too much to drink already.


  • #71
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    amkin25 wrote: »
    Seriously are u joking me or what?Where did i say anything against muslims?
    Some people spout rubbish like yourself and then what, because i said muslims in
    a sentence you call me racist go to bed you had too much to drink already.

    I did not call you a racist. I'm just asking why you hate Muslims.


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  • #72
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Reiketsu wrote: »
    I wish people still dressed like they did in the 40s :(

    Men wearing hats especially, people won't wear a trilby these days for fear of being labelled a hipster. With a snazzy 3 piece the look can still be pulled off. no skinny jeans etc.


  • #73
    ryan101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭ryan101


    creolebelle wrote: »
    Sometimes I feel like I don't belong in this time period.

    I feel like that every single day.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE5aolML1fQ


  • #74
    ryan101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭ryan101


    My parents generation went to school in their bare feet, had no electricity, no cars, no mains water, and no inside toilet.

    They seem much happier, more rounded and much nicer people than I see all around me today.

    Here am I today, reading threads like this one on a computer : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057206544

    Some 'progress'


  • #75
    Scruffy74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭Scruffy74


    Flippyfloppy wrote: »
    I think you were born in the wrong timezone

    I def was born in the wrong time zone


  • #76
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,734 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    i wish i was a teenager in the 90s instead of a kid


  • #77
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Magaggie wrote: »
    Talkin' 'bout my parents' generation:

    In California, New York, London... not so much Ireland though. :D
    ah youd be surprised

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #78
    karaokeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    No.


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