irony from days gone by ...

u_c_thesecond

Hubby and i were chatting about when we 1st started living together...

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

These days even though theres more of a recession now than then, we spend more on shopping...

ironic???

what from your days gone by do you find ironic??

EDIT- our rent in 2005 was more than our morgage is now

4zn76tysfajdxp

I remember telling someone in 1975 that there'll never be AIDS. Boy, how wrong was I...

Chuck Stone

I'm not sure that's irony.

im invisible

Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you when you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when you think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up in your face

MrJoeSoap

In before the Alanis.

3rdDegree

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I'm not sure that's irony.

Agree, I think it's called "inflation".

scudzilla

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

Hubby and i were chatting about when we 1st started living together...

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

These days even though theres more of a recession now than then, we spend more on shopping...

ironic???

what from your days gone by do you find ironic??

EDIT- our rent in 2005 was more than our morgage is now

35cent for a tin of Tuna, sure it wasn't goldfish?

token101

scudzilla wrote: »

35cent for a tin of Tuna, sure it wasn't goldfish?

Or plankton?

cruais

token101 wrote: »

Or plankton?

It was flipper

Rented Mule

Ahhhhh.....2005. Those were the good old days.

1ZRed

token101 wrote: »

Or plankton?

Nah, pretty sure it's fungie

kneemos

It's ironic that you lived on such a miserable diet during the biggest boom we ever had.

squirestarter

Thinly veiled "I'd a crap diet and now i eat well" thread

efb

there was very little iron-y in you diet it seems...

trodsky

I remember laughing at older colleagues back in the 90s saying I ll never wear a track suit to work.

Well here I am at work... In a tracksuit

policarp

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

Hubby and i were chatting about when we 1st started living together...

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

These days even though theres more of a recession now than then, we spend more on shopping...

ironic???

what from your days gone by do you find ironic??

EDIT- our rent in 2005 was more than our morgage is now

6 pack of cheap beer hasn't increased much. . .

Where To

My careers guidance counselor said I was a useless waste of space who'd never amount to anything. . . .










. . . . oh wait

policarp

Where To wrote: »

My careers guidance counselor said I was a useless waste of space who'd never amount to anything. . . .










. . . . oh wait

So.
Where to now?

Armin_Tamzarian

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

Hubby and i were chatting about when we 1st started living together...

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

These days even though theres more of a recession now than then, we spend more on shopping...

ironic???

No, to answer your question, there is nothing ironic about that.

Also, where were you doing your shopping in 2005?

dave3004

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

Hubby and i were chatting about when we 1st started living together...

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

These days even though theres more of a recession now than then, we spend more on shopping...

ironic???

what from your days gone by do you find ironic??

EDIT- our rent in 2005 was more than our morgage is now

Started living together in 2005.

Conversations about product prices by 2012.

Already looking into the past with rose-tinted glasses

My verdict: Wont last ! :pac:

up for anything

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

2005.... we lived on 10e-15e shopping a week... (consisted of 10c noodles.. (about 2e worth), pasta(was 30ish cent), pasta sauce(30cent), tuna(35ish cent) cheap cornflakes (1e)- milk (60 c) , some chocolate/crisps/nuts (for all it was 2-3 ish for the really cheap stuff)... and a 6 pack of really cheap beer (under 5 quid as i recall).. and we were happy out

To echo others, where were you doing your shopping in 2005. I don't recall any of those products being that price anywhere except perhaps out at the car boot sale in Cuffesgrange where they flog gone out of date goods.


Irony

Is it irony that I screwed up the link first time round! 99% say No, 1% says Yes, final verdict, Maybe:D

efb

I was at this wedding once, the weather was awful, where the bride and groom were about to cut the cake but there was only desert cutlery left! The groom was a complete ride to boot!

syklops

efb wrote: »

I was at this wedding once, the weather was awful, where the bride and groom were about to cut the cake but there was only desert cutlery left! The groom was a complete ride to boot!

That sums it up.

I was once sent to the shop to buy a knife and I came back with 10,000 spoons. It's ironic, don't you think?

Sofiztikated

Isn't it ironic that noone knows how the word irony should actually be applied?

Or am I getting that wrong as well?

kneemos

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Isn't it ironic that noone knows how the word irony should actually be applied?

Or am I getting that wrong as well?

I wouldn't say noone knows.

Sofiztikated

kneemos wrote: »

I wouldn't say noone knows.

The irony!

:pac:

9959

trodsky wrote: »

I remember laughing at older colleagues back in the 90s saying I ll never wear a track suit to work.

Well here I am at work... In a tracksuit

If your name's Trapattoni then hopefully you won't be there for much longer.

bigneacy

trodsky wrote: »

I remember laughing at older colleagues back in the 90s saying I ll never wear a track suit to work.

Well here I am at work... In a tracksuit

Are you a PE teacher? Or Jimmy Saville?

kneemos

bigneacy wrote: »

Are you a PE teacher? Or Jimmy Saville?

If he's a fashion correspondent he could wear it ironically.

Piliger

My first full time summer job in a cash'n carry, in or around 1973 - I was paid €5 a week and my Mum insisted I pay €2 a week toward the household .....

ejmaztec

I stopped reading after "hubby".

CavanCrew

I drink Karpackie .........................JUDGE ME

kneemos

CavanCrew wrote: »

I drink Karpackie .........................JUDGE ME

Unemployed,wears tracksuits and white runners,numerous tattos and children,eats crap food and smokes the odd spliff.

padd b1975

kneemos wrote: »

If he's a fashion correspondent he could wear it ironically.

Hipster alert!!

kneemos

It's ironic that so many people spent years building houses but can't afford to buy one.

Calibos

As far as I'm concerned one shouldn't be allowed use the term "From days Gone by" to refer to any date within 10 years of the present. 2005 was yesterday FFS.

To put it another way. Its not "From Days gone by" if you are still driving the same car as you were then

CavanCrew

kneemos wrote: »

Unemployed,wears tracksuits and white runners,numerous tattos and children,eats crap food and smokes the odd spliff.

No, just Polish.

jessiejam

Good god... if ye were eating that crap in the boom what in the name of jaysus are ye feeding on now?...
Recession is great for weight loss I find..:o

Kev_2012

Well I tell ya, I was in a fierce ironic traffic jam the other day!

Sorcha16

I really hate the influx of Alanis Morisette references the minute anyone mentions the word 'irony'

kneemos

Sorcha16 wrote: »

I really hate the influx of Alanis Morisette references the minute anyone mentions the word 'irony'

Which is ironic considering none of her lyrics were.

Pace2008

im invisible wrote: »

Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you when you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when you think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up in your face

Sounds kinda like tax and social welfare, respectively.

Armin_Tamzarian

Irony is clearly a very misunderstood thing.

luckyfrank

trodsky wrote: »

I remember laughing at older colleagues back in the 90s saying I ll never wear a track suit to work.

Well here I am at work... In a tracksuit

didnt think they had a dress code for selling the big issue

Capt'n Midnight

kneemos wrote: »

Which is ironic considering none of her lyrics were.

Wasn't that the whole point ?