Nostalgia is not what it use to be

[john m]

Imagine if Facebook was around in the 60ties or 70ties and a picture popped up reminding you of a post from 50 years ago .Its you standing bare arsed waiting for your turn to get into the bath .Your Da posted the picture because we were more innocent back then and never thought about child abuse or pedophiles .You shiver a bit remembering the cold bathroom how the two galvanized tin buckets and the big pot and the kettle were all filled with water and put on the Gas cooker to heat up no immersion ,showers or central heating not even a back boiler .You waited your turn Ma first then followed by the girls then the boys the Da must of been self cleaning you never seen him taking a bath or else they had baths in the pub .So a bath once a week and a sink wash during the week .I remember getting a clatter for being stupit from me Ma .I was washing meself with a face cloth bit of soap on the cloth wipe your arse then clean your Mickey then neck and face .She screamed at me for being stupit ."Why would you wipe your arse then wipe your face with the same cloth do it the other way around so I turned around and faced her and redid my arse Mickey neck and face .It was only after the second clatter I understood wipe your face first was what she meant anyway did we have different dirt years ago I remember your Ma would have to scrub the collars of your shirt with soap and a brush to get the dirt out before she put it in the twin tub with a cup full of Omo or Daz and after everybody got out of the bath there would be a ring of dirt around the bath that would be scubbed off with a cloth and some Vim .Moral of the story what you post on facebook today might come back to haunt you tomorrow or make you laugh .

[Shallowhal]

Just don't put your life out there John....but your fingers and brain are in disconnect...i'd say any prospective employer stalking your social meeja would get a laff seein your shit.

[john m]

Makes you think Hal who is watching you .Read about the sava or whatever its called app showing the US troops training .A lot of those Apple health wristwatches record your data and upload it .Im sure Apple will sell that info to insurance companies and when Mrs Hal decides to insure you and gets a loud laffff down the phone from the insurers or the doctor down the hospital decides you dont need that new knee because you dont walk much we will wonder where they got the information from .Not like years ago there were two or three old biddies knew your whole family history handed down from mother to daughter they even knew your great grand uncle was deported to van demons land for stealing rubarb .

[john m]

Just don't put your life out there John....but your fingers and brain are in disconnect...i'd say any prospective employer stalking your social meeja would get a laff seein your shit.

I hope they do check me socialmedia I applied for a job on the Pat Kenny Show on Tv3 as a freelance researcher .

[Shallowhal]

Which is why i don't put my life on show....except in the readers wives section of An Phoblacht.

[john m]

I have two personas the on line one and the real one .These forums serve a purpose transmit a smidgen of information but mainly let lads blow off steam or have a rant which is good for the head .I never take offence at anything thrown at me in here or on Roys .Bit like the old Squeeze song From bed to bar to bookie a lot of lads go from bed to car to bed to car .Here in wonderland you can meet Frankie Rodent Belker and the rest of the cast .Its more like a mental health clinic than a forum .Just read back over Kens problem with his motor he got good advice and a bollicing what more could you want .

[Shallowhal]

Nah John...ye don't have two personas,Ken on the other hand throws it all out there,he's had more handles than an Ikea kitchen.

[Tony]

Imagine if Facebook was around in the 60ties or 70ties and a picture popped up reminding you of a post from 50 years ago .Its you standing bare arsed waiting for your turn to get into the bath .Your Da posted the picture because we were more innocent back then and never thought about child abuse or pedophiles .You shiver a bit remembering the cold bathroom how the two galvanized tin buckets and the big pot and the kettle were all filled with water and put on the Gas cooker to heat up no immersion ,showers or central heating not even a back boiler .You waited your turn Ma first then followed by the girls then the boys the Da must of been self cleaning you never seen him taking a bath or else they had baths in the pub .So a bath once a week and a sink wash during the week .I remember getting a clatter for being stupit from me Ma .I was washing meself with a face cloth bit of soap on the cloth wipe your arse then clean your Mickey then neck and face .She screamed at me for being stupit ."Why would you wipe your arse then wipe your face with the same cloth do it the other way around so I turned around and faced her and redid my arse Mickey neck and face .It was only after the second clatter I understood wipe your face first was what she meant anyway did we have different dirt years ago I remember your Ma would have to scrub the collars of your shirt with soap and a brush to get the dirt out before she put it in the twin tub with a cup full of Omo or Daz and after everybody got out of the bath there would be a ring of dirt around the bath that would be scubbed off with a cloth and some Vim .Moral of the story what you post on facebook today might come back to haunt you tomorrow or make you laugh .

Laffin me bollix off

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

if you set up a Facebook page and plaster yourself all over it will you be able to see who's looking at it?

[Rat Catcher]

Gas? Luxury...

[john m]

Gas? Luxury...

A posh oulone down the road use to fill up the twin tub washing machine with cold water and heat it up them empty the water out into the bath .Her daughter always smelt of Omo.The daughters nickname was bubbles .

[Shallowhal]

Gas? Luxury...

A posh oulone down the road use to fill up the twin tub washing machine with cold water and heat it up them empty the water out into the bath .Her daughter always smelt of Omo.The daughters nickname was bubbles .

DeVere?

[Rat Catcher]

Watched Maze (staring Tom Vaughan Lawlor) on Showbox last night... not bad if you're feeling nostalgic.

[markmiwurdz]

How's it Behan Brendan??

[The Liffey Lip]

Which is why i don't put my life on show....except in the readers wives section of An Phoblacht.

  A bit harsh on John, Hal. He has the sense not to use his full name and keeps his posts just a tad in the "off-centre" mode...like meself. Best to let them think you're mad OR stupid, than confirm it by opening up by pouring your heart out and doing a Facebook special...hi-viz, crocodile tears and lit candles in the Pheeno at 4am. But, you're right they do scour the net for dirt and they always start with Facebook and Twitter. Never appealed to me or my alter ego(s).

That said, John is going through the male menopause like so many of us...prostate issues, inverted penis, grey pubes and, most probably, watching telly on his Sweeney in the garage whilst her indoors hoovers up Corrie and Towie as she continues her metamorphosis into a Red Hurley/Tina Turner hybrid in his eyes.