The 1990s is a long time ago

Sorry? I am waiting for you to tell me me who are the robotic over lords. You see I think you don't really know what you are talking about and are using other peoples' words to describe a world that does not exist. What do you do for a living that is so repetative a robot can do? Jerking motion is easy for a robot indeed.

What absolute BS. Paying for products is a robot telling you to do something??? Name a business where they closed it down and replaced it with robot workers in another country!!!

You are resorting to cheap sci fi tropes without any evidence but ridiculous claims easily provable as non factual. Nothing you said is true.

Does anyone feel like the last couple of decades since 1990s have all blurred into one from a fashion/visual/music/lifestyle perspective. I remember the 50s, 60s, 70s and finally the 80s having really distinct looks and defined period feels and you'd watch archive footage on TV of musicians, TV shows , news clips etc and know exactly what decade it was. In the 80s I remember laughing at footage of people wearing flared trousers in the 70s that was only less than 10 years earlier or watching music videos from the 80s in the 90s and going on about how 80s and dated they looked even if the video was only 6 or 7 years old. Even The Wonder Years TV show that came out in the late 80s but set in the late 60s seemed like a lifetime earlier. That would be like a nostalgia show now being set in 2002 which doesn't seem that different at all from 2022.

I come across music videos now from the late 90s or early 00s and they look like they were made today. The fashions or hairstyles and even video quality look the same or haven't changed dramatically. The only giveaways might be the mobile phones or non flatscreen TV sets.

Or does each generation feel the same? Do 20 year olds think 2009 as ancient history and that everything was/looked so different then even if I as a 1970s child don't?

It's the timeless tale of a younglad trying not to ride his hot young ma.

Was in secondary school in the 1990's. It seemed to bright, flashy and progressive compared to the 1980's but it was still very backward and very corrupt.

Hard to believe it in 1990 you could only get condoms with a prescription, seems like yesterday. It was the year IFPA got convicted for selling condoms in the Virgin Megastore Dublin. They got fined £400 and when appealed the judge increased it to £500 and warned them the next time would involve imprisonment. Fair play to U2 for paying the fine. It was 1993 that condoms were available without prescription.

1999 was the year RTE aired States of Fear which lead to the setting up of the Commission to Inquire into Child abuse.

Do you actually understand what you are saying? You claimed automated shopping machines are robotic overlords and now saying it is one less job for a person. You do understand they are not the same thing and the closer description is the robot is our slave.

Very muddled understanding of the words and concepts you are talking about. While information is tracked who and how is it being accessed to track an individual? You do understand no one group can pull the information together without a warrant and that is one group who have to abide by other rules?

Basically all the things you are claiming aren't true. You could of course provide proof this is happening in the western world.

1993 a condom dispenser in. Students union was taken down as it was unlawful. I thought it was about 94 that you could get outside a chemist. At that time if I recall you could get in a chemist without prescription. Anyway the details aren’t important, it was the general Change happening at the time. For me it was leaving cert 1990, college after that and full time work ever since. I still think of myself as an 80s or 90s person. Great times and nearly everyone I met had a shared experience. Certainly very few airs and graces or pomposity about material goods etc. seemed more social cohesion in my opinion, maybe because other worlds were seen through tv and radio only. Anyway great times the 1990s. Mid to late 90’s at annual review, here’s your 15% pay rise and at the same time tax cuts etc.

The sale of contraceptives were not properly relaxed until 1993 – as business magnate Richard Branson, who faced court proceedings after allowing the Irish Family Planning Association to sell condoms in his Dublin Virgin Megastore in 1990 - recalled in a blog post this week where he discussed his worries over women’s rights in modern Ireland.

LOL, "your memory is failing you". Good morning to you Ray Palmer. Just checked the amendment to the act. the 1979 "Irish solution to an Irish Problem" act was repealed in 1992. It then allowed sale to 17 years and older rather than 18 in listed places, as allowed from 1985 (another amendment to Charlies 1979 act) over 18 didn't need a prescription. Since Student Unions clubs had before 1992 then allowed 17 years old into the toilets it was not legal to sell them in those places. Remember as we hadn't transition year at the time, many and me included went to university at 17 years old. So that act was amended 1992.

Evidence to support that outlandish statement?

All true music lovers know that popular music, with a very few notable exceptions, died around about 1980. Back when Adam and the Ants became the year's popular sensation!!!! With a very few honourable exceptions, it's all been pretty crap since then.

Seriously. Adam and the Ants were huge. But how many of you STILL listen to Ant Music or watch the Prince Charming video? (And if you haven't; DON'T!)

You want the best year for popular music, you've got to go back a further 20 years. 1971 was when it peaked.

That's not an opinion. IT'S FACT!!!!!

Hard to believe that divorce wasn't available until 1995 and being gay was illegal until 1993..

It took Ireland a long time to catch up to other, more tolerant societies. It was still a rigid, judgemental society in many respects in the 90's.

It was still pretty rigid in the early 90's. Most people went to mass still and I had college friends who were as wild as hell at a party etc. who went to mass on the first Friday and each Sunday, couldn't believe this as I never heard of the first Friday of the month before that time. Stayed in a few friends houses over those years from down the country and with a hang over on the Sunday morning, up and off to mass the lot of us to keep his Mammy happy. As recently as 1989 I remember a religious education class where a visiting De La Salle brother was explaining the rhythm method to us and only if we ever got married, this was because God loved us apparently. I remember some Bishop had a baby and it was shocking for the majority of the country, so they still held sway for the older population. In saying all this your average 20 year old in the 1990 period wasn't thinking about this, just out enjoying themselves. New cars were rare for anyone under 30 for sure, no easy access to credit at all for that. A young professional might buy a VW Polo on terrible interest terms, the odd Starlet etc. But many changes were happening fast. I remember standing in Temple bar once dropping in CV to a recruitment firm and all about me was cranes. Before then you had Crown Alley, seemed I was in a foreign country, by 1996 I was with my boss surveying some buildings in Dame St. where he was to convert into Pub hotel, unthinkable a few years earlier. Most folks with businesses in Dublin who had the Merc were borrowed up to their eyes since the 80's as matter of course, so looked like they had money but a quick check and they had nothing.

I think 1990 was more to 1980 than 2000 was to 1990 if you follow. The internet, liberalization, the 20 and 30 somethings (who stayed behind) of the 80's setting up pubs and nightclubs and businesses etc. The sense when you collected your bothers and sisters at the Airport at Christmas was possibly failing, in the 80's it was off the boat, 90's off the plane, 00's it was collecting them for the third time that year from Holidays.

And sexually abusing children didn't become socially unacceptable until 1994. Crazy, and shameful, stuff.

Do you think their sheep are happy?

I know I'm from an older generation and we had our sartorial catastrophes as well but one thing I NEVER got was young men wearing raincoats indoors. Especially in a music venue.

What was that boy on????

Hip hop - shite.

Techno - shite.

Grunge and indie - derivative. Nothing that hadn't been done before (and usually better) in the early days of hard rock (grunge) and punk/new wave (indie).

As for the eighties, you are of course right but then so is anyone with a brain and a set of ears.

I'm old and grumpy and things really WERE better in my day. Or at least, musical things were.

Harrumph!!!

You know that "indie" is a shorthand for "independent", as in labels that are independent from major companies? It's not a style of music.

I do, thank you. And it is also a feature that many of the punk bands of the 1970s prided themselves on. Two fingers to the establishment, which included the major record labels.

However both punk and indie were also synonymous (with some latitude, granted) of a style of music. And a fairly similar one too.