What was it like in the 90s?

Not sure but I do know that if you make a capacitor out of it, and inject 1.4 gigawatts of electricity (plutonium or lightning will suffice) time travel is possible.

Are you really in the wrong thread...or in the right thread... or both at a specific moment in time?

 

Only under protest

 

Actually, the author is Irish and so are the characters

 

It is often the case where what is defined as a decade in terms what was happening socially may have started before the iconic date or after. You have highlighted the arrival of the Stone Roses in late 1989 which marked a change in the music scene with the return of guitar based music bands, In football the 90s started a bit later with the birth of the PL. In politics it started with the downfall of the "loveable" or otherwise of MT. And in 1991 or 1992 we had the arrival or the mobile bricks!! Did the noughites start with the Tony Blair Government?

 

What is a man from Co Kildare doing supporting Chelsea? I thought all true Irishmen supported one of the two greats of European football - Barcelona or Real Madrid. The deluded look to Manchester United, Arsenal or Liverpool but Chelsea?? That is a really strange choice!!

 

Luv the variety of accents in Lancashire! The Scouse one is almost unique (a blend of Dublin, Irish, Welsh and maybe some Lancastrian but to my ear bears little resemblance to those of the nearest Lancastrian towns like St Helens or Wigan. The Manchester one bears little resemblance to that of Bolton, Rochdale or Oldham, Oldham's is more like that of Blackburn than its near neighbour.

 

Back to a previous post, best thing musically about the 80s IMO was the jazz funk that came out of London with Beggar and Co, Incognito et al. and to a lesser extent the refined ska sound of the Specials, the Beat and so on. Liverpool also made a fantastic contribution with alternative music in that period with groups like OMD and a Flock of Seagulls,

 

It's a bit of a quirky one T.I.O.M. We got our first colour t.v. on the morning of the 1970 Cup Final. I had a great love of football but no affinity to any one team. I said i would go with the team in Blue considering we now had colour ! Lucky i did as if not i would now be a Leeds supporter......!!!

 

All you northerners sound the same to me

 

Yes boss.

 

People from Cheshire don't have any accent at all. They speak English exactly the same as God and Jeebus do when they're playing the "how many beers" game watching girls go by.

Everyone else has accents.

 

And the people they cohabited in the city with, the ones with the "old fashioned" Liverpool accent weren't Irish.

 

"A Scouse accent is instantly recognisable, marking out the speaker’s origin in the same way that a Geordie or Cockney is immediately obvious. But where did the accent come from and what does the future hold as society becomes more and more homogenized? Will there even be Scouse accent in fifty years time?

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Dockers had their own language

Speaking with a Scouse accent is a fairly recent trend, up until the mid 19th century Liverpudlians spoke pretty much the same as their Lancastrian neighbours, and traces of the warm Lancashire sound can still be heard in the accent of older residents. The Scouse accent like much else in the city owes its roots to Liverpool’s position as a port. The melting pot created by the influx of people from far and wide was the foundation of the distinctive Scouse sound.

The major influence comes from the influx of Irish and Welsh into the city. The mixing of these different accents and dialects, joining with words and sayings picked up from global maritime arrivals, all fused together to create the unique Scouse sound. Every tide brought ashore a new imported verb and many stuck becoming part of everyday language".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2005/01/11/voices_liverpoolaccent_feature.shtml

 

Yeah, well, my arse is bigger than yours, so there!

There were a lot of Itays as well, and my granddad was Greek Stayed in port after WW I. Shotgun wedding with my Irish grandma in fact She had a lot of brothers!

 

You never forget they your first 20:20. Kiwi was a personal favourite.

 

It's in Merseyside. I know about ****ing Aigburth. I've watched cricket there

 

Lancs play home cricket matches there its still part of the Duchy of Lancashire just like Old Trafford.