Reeling in the Noughties: 2000

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 10-02-2010 12:33am

May as well start at the beginning

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+millenium+bug:+don't+let+it+bite+you.-a021127380

This is an article on the 'impending' threat of the millenium bug

Edit - Apologies, I now see this should be below

Ruu_Old · 10-02-2010 2:15am

The little half smirk at the end of the show, cheeky cow!

WindSock · 10-02-2010 5:13pm

Joliegood wrote: »

U2 play on the top of the Clarence. I remember the look on the tourist's faces aboard an open-top bus. Was class.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_f2A0whTF7Xc/R6uwo_yEO2I/AAAAAAAABkI/NTErlL2IRpw/u2-totp-clarence-01.jpg

I remember I bunked off college to go in, I was fairly disappointed now I have to say

Thought it'd be like The Beatles

Who Wants to be a Millionaire presented by Gay Byrne airs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Wants_to_Be_a_Millionaire%3F_(Irish_game_show

WindSock · 10-02-2010 5:18pm

WindSock · 10-02-2010 5:19pm

lord lucan wrote: »

Lol @ the ads. G G G G G Galway. Great stuff. And cars priced in punts!!:D

Didn't think I would see that ad again.

lord lucan · 10-02-2010 5:23pm

Who are you,who who,who who? CSI airs for the first time.

Blisterman · 16-03-2010 12:41pm

I remember queuing up to buy this:

Ostrom · 22-03-2010 1:17am

Zombie nation, sandstorm and freestyler in the charts!

Quality · 06-05-2010 4:17pm

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And getting caught riding in the car by the garda... I put me trousers on back to front!!

WindSock · 06-05-2010 4:37pm

What's the pic of?

Quality · 06-05-2010 4:39pm

WindSock wrote: »

What's the pic of?

the millenium candle, they were givin out in 99 for the year 2000

wobblyknees · 06-05-2010 5:26pm

The delayed spire and o'connell street redevelopment.....

Magic Eight Ball · 10-05-2010 3:45pm

Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit Vietnam.
Millennium Dome closes.

StormWarrior · 11-05-2010 3:10pm

My enduring memory of the new millenium is of starting it in misery, I just cried millenium night away, because I was desperate to go to the Manics' millenium show in Cardiff and my mum wouldn't let me go as she thought that at 16, I was too young.

kiwi123 · 17-05-2010 9:08pm

StormWarrior wrote: »

My enduring memory of the new millenium is of starting it in misery, I just cried millenium night away, because I was desperate to go to the Manics' millenium show in Cardiff and my mum wouldn't let me go as she thought that at 16, I was too young.

Eh slept through the countdown. My Mam woke me up at quarter past twelve to say happy new year. Disappointing!

MadPatrick · 30-05-2010 12:35pm

Thoroughly disappointed at the lack of any difference after the massive build up, I threw an empty pint glass at the TV in the pub. Seemed like a good idea at the time!!

Good year on the whole.

Caoimhín · 30-05-2010 10:59pm

WindSock wrote: »

January - Dr Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients, although there were more than 250 deaths that may have been ascribed to him.

WHAT A GUY!!

komodosp · 09-06-2010 1:20am

Well-known phrase, "Last ~ of the millenium" is replaced with brand new phrase, "First ~ of the millenium"

Elmo · 18-06-2010 12:29pm

lord lucan wrote: »

Weren't these handed out in 1999.

lord lucan · 18-06-2010 2:04pm

Elmo wrote: »

Weren't these handed out in 1999.

Yeah but they were to be lit at sundown on 31/12/99 to burn through the last night of the millenium and into the morning of the next. So the candle actually spanned 1999 and 2000.:pac:

Thomas828 · 18-06-2010 4:35pm

Pokémon, the animé, the manga the cards, the games, the plushies, the figurines, and the 150 creatures called Pocket Monsters, not to mention Ash, Misty, Brock, Gary, Jesse and James and Meowth, Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle...

Blisterman · 23-06-2010 4:29pm

Every computer in the world fails..

No wait actually, they don't.

Elmo · 06-08-2010 10:38am

The term the Noughties is introduced because people could get their heads around the fact that we had just left the 90s, its the bloody 2 thousands.

Later the Noughties was joined by YoYos, both terms last until about 2003 when people discovered that both terms made them sound like complete idiots.

wobblyknees · 06-08-2010 10:41am

Elmo wrote: »

The term the Noughties is introduced because people could get their heads around the fact that we had just left the 90s, its the bloody 2 thousands.

Later the Noughties was joined by YoYos, both terms last until about 2003 when people discovered that both terms made them sound like complete idiots.

The word pedantic continues to be used by internet nerds, furiously rubbing the space between their eyebrows though.

Elmo · 06-08-2010 10:44am

wobblyknees wrote: »

The word pedantic continues to be used by internet nerds, furiously rubbing the space between their eyebrows though.

I just don't like people sounding stupid

It's in everyones interest. "The Noughties" FFS.

WindSock · 06-08-2010 11:09am

Elmo wrote: »

I just don't like people sounding stupid.

Me neither. Have you anything worthwhile to contribute to the thread, or are you just stirring?

Elmo · 06-08-2010 11:19am

WindSock wrote: »

Me neither. Have you anything worthwhile to contribute to the thread, or are you just stirring?

I actually think the use of both words in the early 2000s is fairly important, prob isn't end up on the show as a major event but I have contributed to the thread in other posts. Kind of like Y2K. They should have called the decade the 2Ks or Mm.

Not really string just giving my point of view. I wasn't being overly serious.

Blisterman · 06-08-2010 11:29am

Calling it the 2000's is awkward, cause people aren't sure whether you're referring to the period 2000-2099, 2000-2999 etc.
But anyway, 2000, the Five Nations, becomes the Six Nations

WindSock · 06-08-2010 11:31am

Elmo wrote: »

Not really string just giving my point of view. I wasn't being overly serious.

Fair enough. I just picked the Noughties for the title as it sounds like the easiest option to describe that particular decade. Let me know your view of 'Reeling in the Tensies' in 2020

Nerdkiller1991 · 06-08-2010 3:34pm

And a generation of s*it TV begins.

Elmo · 06-08-2010 5:09pm

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

And a generation of s*it TV begins.

In fairness the summer of 2000 brought worse

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Nerdkiller1991 · 06-08-2010 5:20pm

Elmo wrote: »

In fairness the summer of 2000 brought worse

But at least thats coming to an end. Thank almighty Zeus!

Don't know the whole story? Then here.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Big-Brother-To-Be-Axed-After-One-More-Series-Channel-4-Confirms/Article/200908415368877?lpos=Showbiz_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15368877_Big_Brother_To_Be_Axed_After_One_More_Series%2C_Channel_4_Confirms

Elmo · 06-08-2010 7:02pm

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

But at least thats coming to an end. Thank almighty Zeus!

Don't know the whole story? Then here.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Big-Brother-To-Be-Axed-After-One-More-Series-Channel-4-Confirms/Article/200908415368877?lpos=Showbiz_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15368877_Big_Brother_To_Be_Axed_After_One_More_Series%2C_Channel_4_Confirms

I know but it might return sometime on a different channel

mrmemoriesman · 19-08-2010 3:48pm

Some other things that happened in 2000 were:

- The IFA blockaded meat processing plants around the country in January to protest about something or other. Meat became scarce in shops for a few days

- The government was forced into an embarassing climbdown by withdrawing formar Justice Hugh O'Flaherty's nomination as Director of the European Investment Bank (EIB)

- The Abbeylara siege, in which John Carty was shot dead by the Garda ERU in Co. Longford

- A year of turbulence in the transport sector. The newly formed Irish Locomotive Drivers' Association (ILDA) trade union forces a lengthy train strike affecting the west coast in particular at the height of the summer tourist season. Its leader Brendan Ogle becomes a national hate figure.

-Taxi drivers withdraw their services in December after a deregulation programme is announced by Minister Bobby Molloy

- Road hauliers stage nationwide protests against fuel price hikes

- RTE's version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" launches in the Autumn. In the first episode, a school teacher from Bray gets £16,000 and a cleaner from Mullingar pockets £8,000.
A smug pensioner from Howth runs home with £250,000.

- The Elian Gonzales saga. A Cuban orphan is involved in a tug of love between his extended family in Miami and his father in Cuba. The child is seized by US authorities and reunited with his father in Cuba.