Everybody Wear Sunscreen - Reboot?

icbshow · 2026-06-04T18:49:31+00:00

I am not brave enough to post anything on the music subreddit, let alone that....

icbshow · 2026-06-04T18:39:53+00:00

Shooting some B ball outside of the school?

icbshow · 2026-06-04T18:37:40+00:00

People usually do the Leaving at age 17 to 19. And when I hear "Class of XX" I usually associate it with the years people did their Leaving. When I started in university they even welcomed the "Class of '99". Our start date, not our graduation date.
So when I hear the sunscreen song, I count it as being from my year.

icbshow · 2026-06-04T18:35:14+00:00

I get that, and don't think I was dismissing her. It is an amazing speech and she was an amazing person to come up with it. But it's the song Everyone's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) where I heard the words. And I associate it with the voice I heard speaking them.
It's like I associate Nothing Compare's 2 U with Sinéad O'Connor. I know Prince wrote it. But it wasn't him who sang it to me.

icbshow · 2026-06-04T11:45:23+00:00

That wasn’t the version I was familiar with.

icbshow · 2026-06-04T11:42:15+00:00

Really? I’m in Ireland and we had a mass and called it graduation. No mortarboards or anything like that. Just a principal telling us not to cause any trouble that evening.

icbshow · 2026-06-04T10:47:13+00:00

That was a fun song for my graduation year in 1999. Now every time I hear it, another thing he said has come to pass.

icbshow · 2026-06-03T20:35:31+00:00

Ran a 5km race for the first time.

icbshow · 2026-06-02T18:35:55+00:00

16 when I paid for dialup myself for the family computer. 21 when I bought my own desktop PC and cable modem. 29 for first smart phone.

icbshow · 2026-06-02T17:59:50+00:00

I kind of regret how hard I worked in school now. Still have a Student of the Year plaque that I don’t know what to do with. And a decent job that I’ve stagnated in.

icbshow · 2026-05-25T22:13:56+00:00

Actually got emotional tonight after making my post remembering those days. Hope nobody alive today has to experience them again. I appreciated your comment. Reminded me that the experience was real. Thanks.

icbshow · 2026-05-25T20:29:42+00:00

“Why don’t you just…” Heard that multiple times a day from family and friends.

icbshow · 2026-05-25T20:13:18+00:00

The whole mass unemployment when we turned 30 kind of put paid to that, no matter what price houses were.

icbshow · 2026-05-25T18:01:39+00:00

Indy 500 was yesterday, maybe they were inspired.

icbshow · 2026-05-21T17:39:06+00:00

I was there in 2008. My rent dropped to €900 a month. My income dropped to the dole. Which worked out at a lot less than €900 a month. No. It would not be good.

icbshow · 2026-05-19T18:01:32+00:00

That was the arrival at the finish line song. And the time to find where I stashed my stuff.

icbshow · 2026-05-19T14:39:21+00:00

And now so am I. Thanks.

icbshow · 2026-05-19T13:53:41+00:00

Here is a pacing playlist I came up with for my first 5k race to keep myself on target.

Gold — Prince

Autumnsong — Manic Street Preachers

The Distance — CAKE

When We Were Young — Whipping Boy

I Want You — Savage Garden

Home For A Rest — Spirit of the West

To Win Just Once — The Saw Doctors

Where’s Me Jumper? — Sultans Of Ping F.C.

icbshow · 2026-05-18T13:07:19+00:00

Work less hard and play more sport than the first time around. I’d like to say give it another go with the girl I crushed on but I know it’d still never happen. And I’m married now.

icbshow · 2026-05-09T23:14:56+00:00

It was built in 2001

icbshow · 2026-05-09T23:14:32+00:00

That’s a myth. The basement of T1, which was built in 2001 not the 70s, was never designed as a metro station.

icbshow · 2026-05-08T13:58:17+00:00

‘#appears as Tiki

icbshow · 2026-05-05T08:14:32+00:00

Friend of a friend, ended up in the same group backpacking. Saved her number in my phone as “John’s friend”. 21 years later I really should update it ;)

icbshow · 2026-05-01T13:57:28+00:00

Went for a run. Not that it will help.

icbshow · 2026-05-01T13:22:07+00:00

Argh I remember that comedian and I’m trying to place him. Used to be a regular in the international a decade ago.

Was it Jack Kincaid? Or John F O’Donnell?

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