It really did suck being an 80s/90s kid didn't it?

V.W.L 11 wrote: »

I'm glad I was an 80's/90's child dammit I would love to turn the clock back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51NAFhGDIYw

Mister Vain wrote: »

Plus in the old days you could walk up to kids and play with them. You can't do that now because of all the paedophilia hysteria. I know some people who won't even let their kids out the door.

I think you are right, but this epitomises the usual Oirish over-reaction.

Ironically the streets are much safer for kids now I'd reckon, because people are more aware.

Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »

Yeh it's totally just an Irish phenomenon and not in numerous other countries at all (what's this "oirish" thing about)?

Not just an Irish phenomenon, but seems to me the Irish are particularly adept at performing 180 degree U-turns, moving from one extreme to the other and ignoring the elephant in the room (in this case, insitutional paedophilia) until, all of a sudden, they decided to pay attention to it.

Seeing a Taoiseach who was a public figure since the mid 1970s suddenly put the boot into the Church (and I'm no fan of the church) in 2009 and get plaudits for it struck me as laughably absurd.

A lot of now elderly and middle-aged Irish people turned a blind eye to child abuse, before they decided to stop turning a blind eye and to jump on the anti-child abuse bandwagon.

You see it too in changing attitudes to Europe, fact is majority of electorate voted in pro-European direction in referendums throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (because they thought there was something in it for them, mainly) but these days everyone likes to pose as eurosceptic. The electorate voted for European currency union in 1992. Everything that has happened in the economy since was entirely predictable, and indeed, predicted.

Good bands always existed. But in the eighties and some extent nineties they actually made it onto the airwaves. Nowadays they're still there but you have to go looking for them. Whats easily on offer through radio and charts etc is 99% utter cr@p. I mean bands were always about cool kids with crazy hairdos doing stuff that seemed silly and outrageous to the parents generation, but at least in the eighties these were real kids who were actually into their music. Most of todays bands it seems aren't even real bands but fabricated by Sony or whatshisname oh ye and x fkn factor. Rock is almost dead.

Every decade had its big teenage music thing. The next big thing thingy. 50ies had blues and rock n roll, 60ies had beat and soul, 70ies had disco and ROCK, 80ies had punk and wave, 90ies grunge, techno and trance but since then radio silence. x factor I guess. Meh.

As for cartoons I don't know when I zap into kids programs these days all I see is hyper paced super crazy stuff. I wonder will todays kids suffer from overstimulation as between cartoons and shows and games its all bling bling whack whack flash flash at a pace you'd have to put an epilepsy warning on it if any adult watched it for more than 10 seconds. No wonder every second kid has some sort of anxiety or attention or whatnot disorder.

Did our programs seem the same to our dads back in the eighties?

Probably. Just getting old I suppose. Or maybe not?

Johngoose wrote: »

Oasis were a great 90's band.Proper rock n' roll.

I think it was called Brit Pop. Proper Rock n Roll is Chuck Berry or Black Sabbath depends where you come from, but certainly not Oasis.