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What did people talk about before 'what series are you watching?'

  • 04-10-2016 08:50PM
    #1
    BabyE
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 444 ✭✭


    Seems to be all everyone ever talks about is things, rather than personal situations, what happened to good old fashioned observational conversations? People just live vicariously through whatever the latest big Netflix show is.


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  • #2
    Tsipras
    Closed Accounts Posts: 493 ✭✭Tsipras


    People have always talked about tv, I remember people obsessing over Friends,X-Files,Simpsons ect. from when I was kid, Before that what was on the radio I guess??


  • #3
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Perhaps in your circle, not mine nor my kids' circle of friends either, as they are here and I asked them.


  • #4
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    It's fierce mild!


  • #5
    jackwigan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭jackwigan


    What's the deal with airplane peanuts?


  • #6
    Estrellita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Estrellita


    BabyE wrote: »
    Seems to be all everyone ever talks about is things, rather than personal situations, what happened to good old fashioned observational conversations? People just live vicariously through whatever the latest big Netflix show is.

    I don't know what this Netflix thing is you are talking about. But I heard Mikey Flannigans boy Eddie has been courtin' Frank Dennings daughter Annie. She has a few acres coming to her too.


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  • #7
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    The refuge of the terminally bland.


  • #8
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Archeron


    The weather. I don't watch any TV so I still talk about the weather
    It's fierce mild out tonight.


  • #9
    groucho marx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭groucho marx


    The price of turnips and insulating hot water tanks


  • #10
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Tsipras wrote: »
    People have always talked about tv, I remember people obsessing over Friends,X-Files,Simpsons ect. from when I was kid, Before that what was on the radio I guess??

    Ah, the good old days of Harbour Hotel...


  • #11
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    BabyE wrote: »
    Seems to be all everyone ever talks about is things, rather than personal situations, what happened to good old fashioned observational conversations? People just live vicariously through whatever the latest big Netflix show is.

    Have you though about finding more interesting people to converse with?


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  • #12
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    BabyE wrote: »
    Seems to be all everyone ever talks about is things, rather than personal situations, what happened to good old fashioned observational conversations? People just live vicariously through whatever the latest big Netflix show is.

    There's a "What book are you reading atm" thread right here in this forum ;)


  • #13
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Estrellita wrote: »
    I don't know what this Netflix thing is you are talking about. But I heard Mikey Flannigans boy Eddie has been courtin' Frank Dennings daughter Annie. She has a few acres coming to her too.
    So long as it's nothing to do with unfunny English comedian Micky Flanagan. He probably doesn't even have a stand-up show on Netflix!

    (Maybe he does...)


  • #14
    Estrellita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Estrellita


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    So long as it's nothing to do with unfunny English comedian Micky Flanagan. He probably doesn't even have a stand-up show on Netflix!

    (Maybe he does...)

    No, you are thinking of Derek and Josie's boy. I heard he's a bit, yano... Well he never married anyway. Terrible shame. I heard Derek's brother Dessies son is in line for the farm. Mickey Flannigan is off up to Dublin, no interest in the land. Josie doesn't know where she got him from, beside herself she is!


  • #15
    _Brian
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    I remember working in a place where football both homegrown and foreign was talked about at every break every day.
    It was like having the dentist slowly describe root canal without anaesthesia day after day :(


  • #16
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    It's not something I'd talk with my friends as none of my close friends would be into series on Netflix. We talk about other stuff. Judging other people, new clothes, ordering online vs buying in shops, makeup brushes, other people's Facebook statuses, etc etc. I could spend the day with them talking nonsense and can't think of much of what we talk about now that I think about it


  • #17
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    What did you listen to on the wireless yesterday?


  • #18
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    maudgonner wrote: »
    Ah, the good old days of Harbour Hotel...
    Boring series, although I heard it when I was a kid it was too boring .....to remember any episode at all.
    Now occupied by Ronan Collins slot.


  • #19
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Great minds discuss ideas
    Average minds discuss events
    Small minds discuss people.


  • #20
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    biko wrote: »
    Great minds discuss ideas
    Average minds discuss events
    Small minds discuss people.

    Very good!

    And mindless discuss series?


  • #21
    Capt'n Midnight
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    groucho marx wrote: »
    The price of turnips and insulating hot water tanks
    Weddings, christenings and funerals, especially if there was a big turn up.


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  • #22
    holy guacamole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭holy guacamole


    They didn't talk about anything.

    They just lit the fire, made the tay and sighed contentedly to themselves.


  • #23
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    I'd rather hear people discuss interesting TV series instead of the usual rigmarole of football (soccer) which consists of the same in depth analysis of overpaid players kicking an inflated bit of leather year in year out.


  • #24
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,785 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    We talked about 'Home and Away' because there were only a handful of channels and everybody watched that.


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