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    #32
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »
    "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

    Socrates, about 400BC

    :rolleyes:

    https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/


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    #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Housing is expensive

    Youve to work your way up to the nice jobs

    The world isnt particularly your friend, as a rule


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    #34
    volchitsa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭volchitsa


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    People seem to think Christmas is more consumerist than ever but I’ve heard that since I was young.

    I think Christmas has been for a long time (though my parents’ generation got like a single orange or something) but what’s definitely changed since I was a child is Halloween - we only ever had at best a sheet to dress up as a ghost and the neighbours gave us fruits and nuts, almost never sweets. Though we did used to bake apple tart with a coin in it which was better fun than sweets and chocolates TBF.


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    #35
    Blud
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭Blud


    crooked cockney villain wrote: »
    There's simply nothing practical left to invent. In terms of widespread public buy in in Ireland

    1940's to 60's- electricity, cookers, fridges
    60's- TV's, car ownership increasing
    70's to 80's- home telephone
    80's- VCR, microwaves, CD plyers
    90's to 2000's- multichannel TV, mobiles, DVD, home PC's/ internet access, digital music players

    In the last circa 25 years the only significant invention to take up universal public adoption has been the internet, the smart phone and portable digital music players.

    Between 1960 and the late 80's the average Irish home probably acquired itself eight new pieces of tech.

    5 years ago it was claimed that driverless cars would be widespread by 2021. A year or so ago one of the main CEO's conceded it probably wouldn't be feasible within our lifetimes.

    Which CEO said that?

    There are driverless cars running right now as taxis between McCarron and downtown Vegas. With the tech owned by an Irish company.


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    #36
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Blud wrote: »
    Which CEO said that?

    There are driverless cars running right now as taxis between McCarron and downtown Vegas. With the tech owned by an Irish company.

    I've seen plenty of driverless cars around Mountain View in California when I was there two years ago.


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    #37
    Citroen2cv
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭Citroen2cv


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    “The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.”

    ― Abraham Lincoln 1864

    I think you will find Abe said that in 1867.


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    #38
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Citroen2cv wrote: »
    I think you will find Abe said that in 1867.

    I've the YouTube footage of it here somewhere. Give me a chance to look for it. :D


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    #39
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Oh, video gaming is corrupting the youth.
    Before games it was "video nasties", before that it was the television, the telephone and books!

    Loads of people here, who really should know better, still think this.


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    #40
    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    Not everyone can afford to buy a house where they want to live.


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    #41
    Stihl waters
    Registered Users Posts: 715 ✭✭✭Stihl waters


    McGinniesta wrote: »
    **** still causes blindness.

    I still **** and haven't gone blind yet. I'm 44. Take that granny.

    *Pictures granny waiting patiently with her hands out


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