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The greatest thing you've lived to see in your lifetime

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Sporting wise, it has to be Istanbul.

    Apart from that, people getting fitted with hearing aids.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Large Hadron collider.
    Well worth a mention.

    I hope they find out some more good stuff .

    I am impatient and mad for new information.


  • Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Putin


    The first untethered spacewalk...

    On Feb. 7, 1984, two Challenger space shuttle astronauts, Capt. Bruce McCandless II and Col.l Robert L. Stewart, performed the first untethered spacewalk during the STS-41B mission. “Free of any lifeline and propelled into the dark void by tiny jets, they became, in effect, the first human satellites

    http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/feb-7-1984-nasa-astronauts-perform-first-untethered-spacewalk/?_r=0

    The pictures & footage still amaze me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    The incredible rise and then spectacular fall of...





    ...Sunny Delight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    The incredible rise and then spectacular fall of...





    ...Sunny Delight.
    And chicken tonight


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭ElvisChrist6


    blinding wrote: »
    A Black man being elected as President of the United States

    Will we see a Woman being elected as President ?

    Hopefully not this election considering the likely candidate would be Clinton. Bernie Sanders, as unlikely as it is, becoming president of the USA could be the most important president they have ever had after Lincoln. If he doesn't get the democratic candidacy I will be severely disappointed in that party.

    For the question though, the most important and not in a good way was how much this country changed mid-90's. I remember noticing so much Americanisation at the time and people got caught up in the Celtic Tiger. We have never been the same since; we lost a lot of what made us great. It was becoming, and still is, just another Anglophone country obsessed with wealth and assets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭molly09


    Technology but mobile phones especially and the impact this has on our lives

    Berlin Wall

    The different nationalalities emigrating to Ireland - the fact the Ireland was/is a crountry where people migrate too

    Female Irish presidents

    Queen coming to Ireland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Has to be marriage equality. I still can't believe it sometimes. I grew up in the Ireland that was governed as much by the church as the Dail. To see the country finally moving away from that kind of control is amazing, long may it continue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    molly09 wrote: »
    Technology but mobile phones especially and the impact this has on our lives

    Berlin Wall

    The different nationalalities emigrating to Ireland - the fact the Ireland was/is a crountry where people migrate too

    Female Irish presidents

    Queen coming to Ireland
    I was too young to remember but it looked like an amazing Slane


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    This



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,125 ✭✭✭trashcan


    I was too young to remember but it looked like an amazing Slane
    :D I salute you sir.

    Funny how many football/sporting ones have been mentioned. Mine is St Pats (finally) winning the blasted FAI cup last November. Was seriously beginning to doubt I would see it in my lifetime.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Fig roll.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    From an Irish point of view -

    Has to be the peace process up North.

    Very sad that it took over 3000 lives for both sides to accept what was on offer in the 1970's- basically the same power sharing executive!

    Same here


  • Registered Users Posts: 27 ciara_birch


    Having a friend who is always there for you


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭jonnny68


    Acid House..no other scene ever has or ever will come close.

    http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/23/acid-house-dawn-rave-new-world


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    A Saturday a few short weeks ago will take some beating


  • Registered Users Posts: 27 ciara_birch


    Ruu wrote: »
    Fig roll.
    hate them hahah


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭TheQuietFella


    The fall of communism in the Eastern Bloc' Countries & the Berlin Wall coming down.
    Really incredible scenes to watch & hard to believe it all happened so quickly.

    Manchester United winning the CL Final in 1999, I was at it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Comerman


    Seeing my wife and kids after waking up from a six and a half hour cancer op almost eight years ago now, that and Bruce Springsteen in Slane


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭SaveOurLyric


    Landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

    46 years ago and its been all down hill since then. 5 million years more and we will be back level with the chimpanzees.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Comerman wrote: »
    Seeing my wife and kids after waking up from a six and a half hour cancer op almost eight years ago now, that and Bruce Springsteen in Slane

    Good for you ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Free porn on your mobile.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    As a teenager, I thought I would never see Mandela freed and that war with the Soviet union was inevitable.

    So Nelson Mandela's release, the end of Apartheid and the fall of the Berlin Wall were probably the most amazing things I have seen.

    That and an drawing 2-2 with an Inter side that included Seedorf, Inzaghi, Kaka and Ronaldinho the season after winning the FA Cup.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,682 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Stuttgart, '88.

    Offaly v Limerick in '94.

    Italia '90.

    My Dad building our house.

    Barcelona, '99.

    My daughter's first actual smile (that wasn't just a reaction to wind)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    My daughter's first actual smile (that wasn't just a reaction to wind)

    Mine's a teenager. I can't remember the last time she smiled.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Things you people wouldn't believe.

    Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. That's right up there with C-Beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭downonthefarm


    Seeing the lolocaust being exposed


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭mynamejeff


    im still waiting for some thing worthy ,


    if it doesn't happen yet ill have to do it my bloody self


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,409 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I was standing 30ft away from bolivias president when he unveiled the new constitution to the republic. That happened by accident. I was wandering through a square when it happened.
    I've seen the sunrise from a 6000m mountain.
    I've wandered through the remains of a lost city deep in the jungle.
    I've lived in Baghdad and visited Babylon.


    On a current affairs note I've seen gay marriage become legal in Ireland. When I was 18 that was unthinkable.

    And as many people have said the internet was huge. And the next 40 years will probably account for twice the change again. It's entirely possible we'll have AI's soon. Once we have them everything will change. We are at the edge of what will probably be the biggest change humanity will ever see.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Hopefully not this election considering the likely candidate would be Clinton. Bernie Sanders, as unlikely as it is, becoming president of the USA could be the most important president they have ever had after Lincoln. If he doesn't get the democratic candidacy I will be severely disappointed in that party.

    For the question though, the most important and not in a good way was how much this country changed mid-90's. I remember noticing so much Americanisation at the time and people got caught up in the Celtic Tiger. We have never been the same since; we lost a lot of what made us great. It was becoming, and still is, just another Anglophone country obsessed with wealth and assets.

    We also lost a lot of stuff that made us a backwards, conservative hellish place for a lot of people too. I think the wealth and assets obsession was always there... It's just that all of a sudden we had wealth and assets to obsess about on a bigger scale.

    I don't feel Ireland has "americanised" on many issues its actually become a lot more like a Northern European country.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    In New Zealand scuba diving, playing american football (passing, not touchdowns) with a pufferfish that had blown itself up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    In New Zealand scuba diving, playing american football (passing, not touchdowns) with a pufferfish that had blown itself up.

    Wonder if the fish would give the same answer?


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,856 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Biggest political things I remember in my life (born mid 70's) that have shaped events since were easily fall of the Berlin wall and 9/11.

    Biggest advance has of course been the internet. I remember starting college and having never been online before (or knew too many people who had) and didn't know how to actually access any websites. Internet browsers were properly only released the year before with Netscape (or Mosaic as it was known at launch) so it's not surprising. Given how ubiquitous the internet has become since then it's amazing to think it's only just over 20 years ago when all this was just fields (so to speak).


  • Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Lyndsey3000


    I was standing on Aviation Boulevard in Los Angeles while the Space Shuttle Endeavour was being flown into LAX. it was amazing.. flew right over my head, i've cool pics and videos..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Wonder if the fish would give the same answer?

    Dunno, too busy doing cartwheel celebrations to notice


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Me and the lads storming the beaches of Normandy back in day #war#thosecutebattles#khakisaresostylish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Me and the lads storming the beaches of Normandy back in day #war#thosecutebattles#khakisaresostylish.

    #greatdayforthebeach


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭BraveDonut


    being able to order pizza from the couch when you are hungover without actually talking to anybody


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,994 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    This


    I enjoyed that the face of the two women beside the man ranting was priceless. Pat Kenny's awkward face and shuffling of the cue cards...class :)

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭SuperGrover


    Peanut Lion bars


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭KTR1C


    I saw the viticulture of the Earth from the top of the Austrian Alps, took my breath :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Regarding The Pat Kenny Out burst !

    Life is Very Funny !

    When the Nutcase is Right !

    Its blooming Hilarious !


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Roquentin


    blinding wrote: »
    Regarding The Pat Kenny Out burst !

    Life is Very Funny !

    When the Nutcase is Right !

    Its blooming Hilarious !

    i didnt agree with how he said it (although it was funny) but did agree with what he said


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭CJmasgrande


    Space shuttle from middle Ireland twice


  • Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭Seesee


    Free and fair elections in South Africa and the election of a black man as president of America.
    As a white woman I'm still waiting for a female president and a female Taoiseach.
    Dismantling of our own checkpoint Charlie before Newry fairly momentous too.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Seems perhaps facetious to mention a sporting moment but Ireland is pretty settled politically so maybe not that facetious.

    I was in Cardiff for the 2009 grand slam winning game and the atmosphere was unparalleled. The game was the epitome of drama and the sense of relief at the final whistle hoovered around the stadium. I remember high fiving complete strangers outside the stadium and the broad smiles on every Irish supporter. A special day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,447 ✭✭✭weemcd


    A naked woman, just before I got to put my dick in her for the first time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Italia '90


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Dolly the sheep.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    City winning the league in the last minute was special. Liverpool Milan was up there too, just pure madness.


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