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Old 12-07-2008   #1 (Post Link)
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What era were you born into?

I was born 24th August 1967 in London and so the Hippy flower power
movement was at it's height

Summer of love and all that business... seems like decades ago

...hold on a minute, it IS decades ago
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Re: What era were you born into?

I was born 14th september 1977, so I suppose that makes it orange Flares, platform shoes and handlebar moustaches.

Quinn that makes you nearly exactly 10 years older than me.
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Quinn that makes you nearly exactly 10 years older than me.
Aye ... how time flies
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Born 7th june 1965 in Bolton lancs, my parents had a sweets & tobaconists until i was 12y old.......heaven
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Re: What era were you born into?

born in 1971, probably the latter stages of the hippie movement? one of my earliest memories is being in 1st year infants at school and the teacher telling us how much she loved the bay city rollers
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I'm shy !!! so not being too precise. Just say that I'm a Baby Boomer !
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1975 i arrived. How i miss the colour brown.....NOT
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Re: What era were you born into?

Another one for 1975, I think a pivotal moment for a kid is realising about time and calendars and dates and how it moves on. First time I actually remember acknowledging the moving on of time was in the Summer of 1983, I'd have been 7 years old and new it was 1983 when someone asked me. I think that's fairly defining as it shows when my social awreness started to kick in. So although born in the 70s I remember nothing from them and would say my early years were shaped by my experiences of the culture of the 80s.

Given a choice I'd have been born 15 years earlier so I could have lived to have seen Hendrix at the Isle of Wight, Phil Lynott front Thin Lizzy and see Zep live in their heyday.

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I arrived in 1933. I can only think of the 2.6 8C.
Quick warning that date of birth is an important and necessary item in stealing your identity.
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I'm 1/6/1988 so that would put me into a 90's kid I suppose. Nothing really happened then except for I was too late to get the celtic tiger boom bastards.
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I'm */*/**** so that would put me into a 90's kid I suppose. Nothing really happened then except for I was too late to get the celtic tiger boom bastards.
So Damien, you live in Cork I have most of your name and should be able to find your address details online and now I hve your DOB I'm off to get a credit card in your name
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Lol, go forth and buy I won't be paying for it
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So Damien, you live in Cork I have most of your name and should be able to find your address details online and now I hve your DOB I'm off to get a credit card in your name
Surely,it can't be that easy?
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ok...
25th July 1978 first things I can remember are salt and Peppers song "lets talk about sex" and George Michael in tight jeans before he came out
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1952 - just missed a King, waiting for a Queen - story of some peoples lives I guess (not mine).

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Surely,it can't be that easy?
It probably is you can make up the rest I would imagine.
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Shocking
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January 1970 I arrived. Remember around the age of four, being subjected to wearing brown nylon flares with tartan stripes. The full ensemble of course, being the skinny rib polo neck too. Yuck!
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June 1965,
What about posting some baby pics......
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Shocking
Sure you can find out anything you want on the net if you look hard enough.

Back on Topic, nothing happend that I remembered in IReland anyway
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1979 - so does that mean the punk era?

Don't suppose it made it as far as North Wales, anyway.

I was a true 80s brat, though
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1973, me dad apparently took me home in his sweeny bronze granny ghia with abba waterloo bellowing outa the 20watt speakers
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