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If someone from 1981 suddenly woke up in 2023....
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"The smoking ban in pubs"
After the obvious like technology, I think the smoking and drinking would be the biggest change!
Pubs in the 80s were hopping and full of smoke, people hadn't a bob! Off-licence were very rare, you just went to the pub and drove home, not a bother! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cost of a freddo, amount of people sleeping on the streets,people with head stuck in a smartphone instead of actually talking to people, amount of supermarkets everywhere instead of the small local shops |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The bit where you cant say anything now and your deemed to insult them...
I find that insulting  "
I find your use of the word “them” repugnant , you are now cancelled and I’m telling on you  |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
Not having to buy Hot Press Magazine to see the sex ads and the hook ups
Xtra-Vison closed and no one remembers VHS tapes that you had to rewind or get fined
Porn is now online ... everywhere, and everyone does Anal and swallows
No one has pubic hair but the porn is still as fake as ever and filmed from the male perspective
On a brighter note they get to sit down and watch Back To The Future for the first time |
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1981 was the year of the second hunger strike in Long Kesh and was a dramatic and traumatic year in Irish history. Political turmoil south of the border as well with two general elections in the one year.
I think anyone waking now having fallen asleep then would be amazed to realise that the troubles ended and you can now drive from Dublin to Belfast without seeing a British soldier or checkpoint.
Also surprising would be that FF and FG finally admitted that they're one and the same and went into government together.
Finding out that Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness had worked together to lead an executive in the north and both are now dead.
The whole Diana Spencer /Charlie Windsor thing.
SF being the largest party in local government in the north and the most popular party in polls south of the border would be fairly surprising.
Also surprising would be that the great Leitrim U21 team of '77 never went on to achieve Connacht or All Ireland glory as seniors in subsequent years. |
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"The fall from grace -or more realistically, power- of the Catholic Church, the legalisation of divorce and abortion, the low level of unemployment "
The collapse of the church in this country through the late 90s and early 00s can't be understated. |
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"The fall from grace -or more realistically, power- of the Catholic Church, the legalisation of divorce and abortion, the low level of unemployment
The collapse of the church in this country through the late 90s and early 00s can't be understated. "
who collape it doent people still get married in churches |
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"The fall from grace -or more realistically, power- of the Catholic Church, the legalisation of divorce and abortion, the low level of unemployment
The collapse of the church in this country through the late 90s and early 00s can't be understated. who collape it doent people still get married in churches "
It was a complete collapse! For the majority of people (like myself), traditions are kept on just to keep the older generation sweet, and they know it too.
Weddings, christening, communions, conformations, etc. are all just family get-togethers now. It's become a tradition, not a religion!
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"The fall from grace -or more realistically, power- of the Catholic Church, the legalisation of divorce and abortion, the low level of unemployment
The collapse of the church in this country through the late 90s and early 00s can't be understated. who collape it doent people still get married in churches
It was a complete collapse! For the majority of people (like myself), traditions are kept on just to keep the older generation sweet, and they know it too.
Weddings, christening, communions, conformations, etc. are all just family get-togethers now. It's become a tradition, not a religion!
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would you or ye not be better off keeping out of the church im sure ye can take pics outside the grounds it is premitted |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
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"Why the hell is everyone walking down the street looking at their calculators "
Remember being told in school....no you can't use a calculator in your maths tests...you won't have a calculator with you all the time outside |
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"So people have sex for the craic and condoms can be bought in Tesco "
Next you'll be claiming that unmarried people are allowed access to contraception!! |
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"So people have sex for the craic and condoms can be bought in Tesco
Next you'll be claiming that unmarried people are allowed access to contraception!!"
im not married so why would i everyone to their own |
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"So people have sex for the craic and condoms can be bought in Tesco
Next you'll be claiming that unmarried people are allowed access to contraception!!"
i just had a look at your couple profile and ye arent verified and ye are straight as stated |
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"So people have sex for the craic and condoms can be bought in Tesco
What the hell is Tesco
Wasn't it 3 guys back in the day?
In 81 it was Quinnsworth and crazy prices I think."
have you ever dealth with quinn |
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"So people have sex for the craic and condoms can be bought in Tesco
Next you'll be claiming that unmarried people are allowed access to contraception!!"
Since when??..and I trying to feed 12 kids! FML |
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"1981 was the year of the second hunger strike in Long Kesh and was a dramatic and traumatic year in Irish history. Political turmoil south of the border as well with two general elections in the one year.
I think anyone waking now having fallen asleep then would be amazed to realise that the troubles ended and you can now drive from Dublin to Belfast without seeing a British soldier or checkpoint.
Also surprising would be that FF and FG finally admitted that they're one and the same and went into government together.
Finding out that Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness had worked together to lead an executive in the north and both are now dead.
The whole Diana Spencer /Charlie Windsor thing.
SF being the largest party in local government in the north and the most popular party in polls south of the border would be fairly surprising.
Also surprising would be that the great Leitrim U21 team of '77 never went on to achieve Connacht or All Ireland glory as seniors in subsequent years. "
Last bit... brilliant |
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By *ub_TMan
over a year ago
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I’d ask to stay in the 80-90’s forever, because everything is a shit show, politics , the planet , political correctness, and ensl@ved to the euro currency and killer Irish taxes. Sure it’s all good 
Rant over |
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"I’d ask to stay in the 80-90’s forever, because everything is a shit show, politics , the planet , political correctness, and ensl@ved to the euro currency and killer Irish taxes. Sure it’s all good
Rant over "
I'm guessing with a comment like that, you don't remember the 80s. 
Politicians and taxes are in the little leagues now compared to what went on back then
As for the euro, yeah, it reduces our ability to control inflation and such but it also got rid of the absolute riidin we got when we exchanged currencies. The fuckers didn't even use lube on us, just drove it in dry and raw.
A journalist in the 1990s took 100 punts and changed it into sterling. Then he took that and exchanged it for francs, and on and on until he had been around the then 15 EU countries. He then changed it back into punts and he had the grand total of £2 left, and that was without buying anything  |
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"I’d ask to stay in the 80-90’s forever, because everything is a shit show, politics , the planet , political correctness, and ensl@ved to the euro currency and killer Irish taxes. Sure it’s all good
Rant over
I'm guessing with a comment like that, you don't remember the 80s.
Politicians and taxes are in the little leagues now compared to what went on back then
As for the euro, yeah, it reduces our ability to control inflation and such but it also got rid of the absolute riidin we got when we exchanged currencies. The fuckers didn't even use lube on us, just drove it in dry and raw.
A journalist in the 1990s took 100 punts and changed it into sterling. Then he took that and exchanged it for francs, and on and on until he had been around the then 15 EU countries. He then changed it back into punts and he had the grand total of £2 left, and that was without buying anything "
He sounds like a piss poor journalist tbf |
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"Harrison Ford is still making Indiana Jones Movies, Ozzy and Keith Richards are still alive, and The Beatles are releasing new music."
Also, Shane McGowan is still alive. How in hell did he manage that? Man must have an iron constitution! |
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