How will the 2010s be remembered??

SharpshooterTom · 09-03-2019 5:16pm #1

So we're coming the end of the 2010s, how will be remembered? What is its legacy? Some good social movements, but a decade blighted by a very poor economy for large parts too.

I've got a list of political, cultural and social events which I think define this decade along with some other buzzwords. Just a brainstorm:

- Effects of the 08/09 economic crash (biggest since the great depression)
- Obama
- Trump
- Austerity
- Afghanistan War
- Brexit
- Selfies
- Fake News
- The rise of the alt-right
- Grenfell
- Migrant crisis
- ISIS
- Japanese tsunami
- #metoo
- LGBT rights
- Repeal the 8th
- 'Woke' politics
- Irish emgiration
- Social media
- Superhero films
- London 2012/Rio 2016
- Memes
- Arab Spring
- Syrian Civil War
- Game of Thrones
- Smartphones
- Scottish Referendum
- Tattoos
- Gangnum style

Anything else? How do you think it overall will be remembered in years to come?

mickdw · 09-03-2019 5:23pm

The decade when the nutters took over.
Too much PC nonsense,
Too much green nonsense.

wobatkicker23 · 09-03-2019 5:24pm

The Musk Era.

All hail.

wobatkicker23 · 09-03-2019 5:25pm

Also in the 2020s will we be able to refer to them as the 20s? Or the second 20s?

TheValeyard · 09-03-2019 5:28pm

wobatkicker23 wrote: »

Also in the 2020s will we be able to refer to them as the 20s? Or the second 20s?

The 20s, part two subsection 19.

Oh boy I wonder how 2029 will go this time!

TheValeyard · 09-03-2019 5:30pm

- man falls on ice, January 2010

SharpshooterTom · 09-03-2019 5:32pm

sugarman wrote: »

How can you have the Olympics there and not World Cup/Euros?

2014 World Cup was probably one the best in tournaments in its history.

2012 & 2016 Euros for Ireland, for 2 very different reasons.

I live in the north so I'm exposed to the UK media more and London 2012 was a big thing here with the 29 gold medals. Probably not obviously in the south, you're probably right, I probably should've omitted it here.

However I must say 2014 was not one of the best WC's ever IMO. Great group stage, crap knockout stage. The final stank too. 2018 final was much better.

DopeTech · 09-03-2019 5:57pm

The years when people started taking reality tv stars views seriously.

The Satanist · 09-03-2019 5:59pm

A load of virtue signaling geebags choosing to be offended by everything.

Ten of Swords · 09-03-2019 6:00pm

Ireland
First half: Recession
Second half: Homelessness

LessOutragePlz · 09-03-2019 6:02pm

The permanently outraged taking over the internet and being offended by everything.

Sardonicat · 09-03-2019 6:05pm

As the uneasy calm before carnage.

greencap · 09-03-2019 7:08pm

#me too.

lol.

afghanistan war.

japanese tsunami.

a fat jew jerked off in front of me.

arab spring.

grenfell.

TheValeyard · 09-03-2019 7:11pm

greencap wrote: »

a fat jew jerked off in front of me.

And how much did you pay for this?

Seriously though, this story needs to be told.

Church on Tuesday · 09-03-2019 7:17pm

Economic misery and scaremongering by certain politicians with a whole load of empty promises.

greencap · 09-03-2019 7:23pm

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

And how much did you pay for this?

Seriously though, this story needs to be told.

2018 was the year the world discovered that some men seek positions of power, not just out of a great work ethic, ... but as part of a plan to fck lots of women.

astrofool · 09-03-2019 7:28pm

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Ireland
First half: STOP BUILDING, WE HAVE TOO MANY HOUSES, FIRE ALL DEVELOPERS, FROM CANNONS!
Second half: Homelessness

FYP

bodhrandude · 09-03-2019 7:32pm

Leftfield came out of retirement and played both Rockness festival in Scotland and Electric Picnic in 2010, I also got to see Aphex Twin for the first time in 2010.

09-03-2019 7:55pm

Badly Drunk Boy · 09-03-2019 8:07pm

wobatkicker23 wrote: »

Also in the 2020s will we be able to refer to them as the 20s? Or the second 20s?

Apparently they had the 20s in the 19th century too. Napoleon died, the 'typowriter' was invented, Beethoven composed his 9th Symphony (The Choral), and Daniel O'Connell was elected to parliament for the first time.

Nobody liked jazz.

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

- man falls on ice, January 2010

He just barely slipped into the start of the decade! :pac:

Odhinn · 09-03-2019 8:08pm

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

So we're coming the end of the 2010s, how will be remembered?

Wearily.

Jimbob1977 · 09-03-2019 8:09pm

MoMo

Barack Obama

Donald Trump

Social media

Another barren decade for Liverpool in the league

People being outraged by the most obscure things

DopeTech · 09-03-2019 8:23pm

The decade boards.ie died a slow death?

JupiterKid · 10-03-2019 8:13am

The decline of Internet message boards
The prevalence of social media (responsible for the former)
The smartphone (and people glued to them)
Beards being hugely in fashion for men, especially young men
Skinny jeans for men
Mainstreaming of the hipster culture
Utterly crap music
The cult of the non entity “celebrity”
Nostalgia for the 1990s
Brexit
Trump
Virtue signaling, the SWJs and the Alt Right
The printed newspaper beginning to enter its death throes

Dr Turk Turkelton · 10-03-2019 9:05am

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Ireland
First half: Recession
Second half: Homelessness

I'd say your great craic at a party.

10-03-2019 9:07am

Sir Dosser wrote: »

The decade boards.ie died a slow death?

Maybe. Although I was online the other day and noticed there were something like 1,500 registered users online, and about 3,000 in total. Can't check current stats as I'm on my phone.

That's still pretty decent.

But that's not the main reason I'm posting here. I had a dream last night that I was down home in the countryside and Donald Trump was hiding in an outhouse on our farm (the Border Fox did this in the 1980s). For some reason I was trying to help him, bringing him boiled eggs from the breakfast table. But he kept moving from shed to shed, and there was a hen following me trying to snatch the eggs. I kept trying to frighten her off by pretending to grab her, but she wasn't intimidated.

The hen must be a metaphor for the American public trying to reclaim their democracy (eggs), and I am the unwitting accomplice (the fools who vote for Donald) in the hope he might bring them some personal fortune.

Maybe that's how we'll remember the 2010s. I have found myself to be terribly psychic in the past.

Frank O. Pinion · 10-03-2019 10:14am

Nobody mentioned Tinder? Definitely a "social event". In generations to come, think of all the couples telling their grandchildren how they met on Tinder.

Yer Da sells Avon · 10-03-2019 10:46am

Probably as 'the good old days'. Not (necessarily) because the 2020s will be objectively worse, but because we'll all be that little bit closer to decrepitude and death and will view the past through rose-tinted glasses.

Happy Sunday, everyone.

kowloon · 10-03-2019 11:11am

Ask the question again in December.

SharpshooterTom · 10-03-2019 5:40pm

kowloon wrote: »

Ask the question again in December.

Is its legacy going to change that dramatically in 10 months?

Ten of Swords · 10-03-2019 5:47pm

I'd say pretty dramatically in the next couple of weeks

OldMrBrennan83 · 10-03-2019 5:48pm

When everyone disappeared up their own holes in a cloud of hashtags.

ToddyDoody · 10-03-2019 6:16pm

The main difference between this decade and the last would seem to be the infiltration of the smart phone with mobile / wireless Interwebs.

Purple Mountain · 10-03-2019 6:21pm

Storms Darwin and Ophelia.

10-03-2019 6:23pm

The decade that western globalisation (in the business sense) peaked.

igCorcaigh · 10-03-2019 6:27pm

Nobody mentioned turmeric lattes?

Smartphones and Internet culture
Food wars and food fads
Identify politics and populism

Rosie Rant · 10-03-2019 6:55pm

"Healthy" diet cleanses,
People recording tragedies on their phones instead of helping/ being respectful,
Kardashian worship.

wakka12 · 10-03-2019 7:01pm

Mass tourism

Migration to city centres, and the reversal of suburban sprawl

Celebrity and social influencer worship

Obsession with physical appearance

Complete abandonment of religion

Fad diet , supplements, super foods, trying everything and anything to be healthy (without the efforrt of doing the actual healthy things like just regular exercise and eating normal healthy foods)

Globalisation and the erasure of characteristics which used to differentiate cultures/countries/ethnic groups

Ignorance and disregard for the welfare of a dying planet that we are knowingly killing because of greed and convenience, other generations did that but we are the first to continue do so while being so accutely aware of the consequences of our actions

AMKC · 10-03-2019 7:19pm

For disruptive internet TV IE: Netfliks, Amazon, Hulu etc.

but also for some great TV.

For climate change,

For fake news unfortunatly,

For the rise of online shopping and the fall of bricks and mortar retailers unfortunately.

For the rise of the SUV and the decline of the saloon unfortunately,

For the rise of diesel cars unfortunately, but hopefully the next decade will fix that.

For some great movies in the cinema's

DS86DS · 10-03-2019 7:38pm

mickdw wrote: »

The decade when the nutters took over.
Too much PC nonsense,
Too much green nonsense.

It will probably get worse the more powerful Leftists get. They and their Globalist overlords aren't going anywhere in the 2020s

Ipso · 10-03-2019 7:39pm

DS86DS wrote: »

It will probably get worse the more powerful Leftists get. They and their Globalist overlords aren't going anywhere in the 2020s

George Soros has been made aware of your free thoughts.

The rise of conspiracy theories.

branie2 · 10-03-2019 7:39pm

Water protests, legitimate and, "protests" at meter installations
Tuam
Donald Trump
Pope Benedict's abdication
Pope Francis visit to Ireland
La La winning Best Picture by mistake