Nostalgia

FloatingVoter · 25-09-2014 01:07AM

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

Indeed, but other than the internet (as a means of transmission) how have any of those things effected say music or interior design? Also are novelty and innovation the same thing? Does Simon Cowel represent innovation in the music industry?

Cowell is just a throwback to the pop impressarios of the 50s and earlier. Nothing new to see there.
Only thing revolutionary since 1990 has been the web. Phone technology as well but that's part of the whole communications revolution. We can now disseminate crap at a faster and greater level than ever before.

sarkozy · 25-09-2014 01:11AM

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

Indeed, but other than the internet (as a means of transmission) how have any of those things effected say music or interior design? Also are novelty and innovation the same thing? Does Simon Cowel represent innovation in the music industry?

L'Enfer du Nord · 25-09-2014 01:18AM

The armchair seems to be stuck in a rut, repeating itself: anything new in this bunch

http://www.google.com/search?q=armchair&tbm=isch

L'Enfer du Nord · 25-09-2014 01:20AM

sarkozy wrote: »

Heath Robinson

Frosty McSnowballs · 25-09-2014 01:23AM

Nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia. It can keep you grounded and provide perspective on current things going on in your life. In turn could aid in your future professional and personal life.

Or some bollox like that. Long live the 80's.

House of Blaze · 25-09-2014 01:58AM

sarkozy wrote: »

Also, has the Boards nostalgia forum been shut down yet? Monstrosity of the highest order. Might as well call it the "Oh, and do you remember ...?" forum.

Here do ye remember that nostalgia forum on boards do ye?

Minjor · 25-09-2014 02:32AM

Heard a girl say once that the 80s were her favourite decade. But i think she was born in 1994? So there's me wondering if she's some sort of reverse mystic Meg.

FloatingVoter · 25-09-2014 02:38AM

Minjor wrote: »

Heard a girl say once that the 80s were her favourite decade. But i think she was born in 1994? So there's me wondering if she's some sort of reverse mystic Meg.

Believe me anybody who says the 80s were their favourite decade was born after the fact. Same as morons who love the style of the 1940s. Conveniently forgetting the blitz, the camps, the war, the rationing.
My favourite decade is the 2020s. I should be rich or dead by then. Either is an improvement.

WoollyRedHat · 25-09-2014 02:47AM

I remember the 90's, when kids used to play outside and dig for worms,and go to the shop and buy gummy worms, when they were dirt cheap mind, and watch Earthworm Jim who was brilliant with his lazor, pew pew. Oh and the worm dance, ah yes I remember it now the worm dance, those were the days...

krudler · 25-09-2014 05:04AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I don't take them seriously. Rather like posts 3-6 in the majority of AH threads, they tend to be shallow and quick written pieces designed to either get a few thanks or a few clicks.

My question is more about why people in their 30's are becoming so nostalgic? Did previous generations get this way, or has the Internet inspired a generation of people in their 30's to start posting silly videos and tired posts about a decade that really wasn't the May West?

Says the man with a tumblr page in his sig.

ivytwine · 25-09-2014 05:04AM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Believe me anybody who says the 80s were their favourite decade was born after the fact. Same as morons who love the style of the 1940s. Conveniently forgetting the blitz, the camps, the war, the rationing.
My favourite decade is the 2020s. I should be rich or dead by then. Either is an improvement.

There was a girl I know who did a 40s fashion shoot recently, she said on Facebook she wished she'd lived in the 40s :eek:

(Though the style in the 40s was fab).

I do be nostalgic for the 90s tho. Maybe I'm biased but it was a lovely time to grow up- the country was better off than in the 80s, world was largely peaceful, the Celtic Tiger awfulness was more 00s than 90s, and there wasn't all this technology and associated pressures that kids have now.

sarkozy · 25-09-2014 10:26AM

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

Heath Robinson

A bit.

jimgoose · 25-09-2014 10:31AM

I humbly submit that the nostalgia phenomenon has nothing to do with the '80s (or any other decade) per sé, and everything to do with the decade in which you were a kid/teenager. I further humbly submit that people on Ye Booke Of Faeces banging on about decades during which they either didn't exist or were too young to know their big-toe from a sausage are simply ****.

whisky_galore · 25-09-2014 11:59AM

The 80's were sh*t, bland food...'mate and schpuds', a public that could be fooled and kept amused by gombeen politicians, parlour tricks or mass hysteria, remember the moving statues? Bombs going off all over the place, emigration, the RCC being rammed down our throats, sh*t fashion and an ongoing grinding recession that made this one look like a laugh.

At least some of the music was half decent.

Nostalgia is like filling all the potholes on Memory Lane.

PizzamanIRL · 28-09-2014 05:18PM

Does anyone remember the sweets called Jolly Ranchers or am I imagining things? From the 90s

ceadaoin. · 28-09-2014 06:07PM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Does anyone remember the sweets called Jolly Ranchers or am I imagining things? From the 90s

Yes I used to like those when I was a kid. Except the green ones they were disgusting.

Adamantium · 28-09-2014 06:09PM

Nostalgia is heroin for old people - Dara O Briain

kingchess · 28-09-2014 06:22PM

ahh nostalgia -it is not what it used to be-

28-09-2014 07:44PM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Does anyone remember the sweets called Jolly Ranchers or am I imagining things? From the 90s

You can still get them. They're "american candy" so not available everywhere but available nonetheless. The watermelon ones are the most ridiculously delicious of things.

L'Enfer du Nord · 29-09-2014 08:07PM

To quote Ronnie Drew from this documentry (which is now nostalgic on two levels)

"Won't today be tomorrow's rare auld times?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3igWn3eIf0

So much so, that now 25 years later there's a replica of the featured pub less than a km from the original, which still looks the same. Reminds that there are at least two Van Gogh Yellow houses in Arles. The original having been hit by a bomb in in 1944. There'll be a replica of Copper Face Jacks on Windmill lane in 20 years time.

Tail Docker · 29-09-2014 09:28PM

I miss June. June was deadly. September just didn't have the same vibe.

Billy86 · 29-09-2014 09:42PM

Pumpkinseeds · 29-09-2014 10:07PM

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia. It can keep you grounded and provide perspective on current things going on in your life. In turn could aid in your future professional and personal life.

Or some bollox like that. Long live the 80's.

Funny you should say that. I was listening to Nirvana this afternoon on the bus, haven't listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit for years. I was thinking back to the when I first heard it when I was in my grunge phase. Now I'm middle-aged and respectable, well, mostly respectable.:)

Irish Guitarist · 29-09-2014 10:29PM

My father died years ago and I miss having him around. There's some nostalgia about late seventies/early eighties technology when I think about him. For instance he bought an Atari 2600 games console in the early eighties (it had already been around a few years at that stage) and every night for about a year would challenge me to a game of Pac-Man. After a while I got bored of it and one night told him I didn't want to play. What I wouldn't give to sit beside him playing a video game now.

However apart from how these things are tied in with memories of my father I don't really feel nostalgia for out of date technology just because it was around when I was a child. For instance I had a Commodore 64 when I was about twelve and I mainly played that on my own. Thinking about it doesn't invoke any strong emotions and my memories are mainly of the games being kind of crap and the computer breaking down a few months after I bought it.

I have some happy memories of my childhood and sometimes the technology, music or television of the day are tied in with that. What I don't get is people who weren't born until after the eighties being nostalgic about it. There are far more interesting periods.

anncoates · 29-09-2014 10:37PM

Adamantium wrote: »

Nostalgia is heroin for old people - Dara O Briain

Dara O Briain is heroin for retards - anncoates

Nostalgia

Comments