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WCDT 15-19 August 2011 (1991-95)
SirDudley:
Today I started my elementary school.
And this week started off with sleep deprivation hijinks. I second DSL's idea and vote for the return of the Vulcan Boob Squish. Except we are going to need a double dose for Marigold and Hanners.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Akima on 15 Aug 2011, 15:37 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 15 Aug 2011, 10:08 ---Also, thanks for not calling it Generation Y, I hate that.
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The whole "Generation <whatever>" thing is a load of classist, culturally myopic, lazy-minded bullshit. It is essentially a bunch of educated, middle-class white people in rich countries nattering on about younger people from exactly the same background. About socially disadvantaged people or ethnic minorities in their own society, not to mention the millions growing up in countries outside their golden circle, they have nothing to say, beyond implying by omission that they do not matter.
--- Quote from: DSL on 15 Aug 2011, 07:26 ---Also, movie night with Hanners and Marigold: "50 First Dates" and "Groundhog Day."
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Win!
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In all fairness, "Millennials" covers everyone regardless of ethnicity or social status who happened to be coming of age around the turn of the millennium. Also, that's only half win (the second half).
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Akima on 15 Aug 2011, 15:37 ---The whole "Generation <whatever>" thing is a load of classist, culturally myopic, lazy-minded bullshit.
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These terms have all passed me by; I have no idea who they are supposed to refer to*, and what implications they are supposed to carry. Somewhat unusually, I suspect I will lose absolutely nothing by keeping it this way.
* If asked, I might mumble something about the theme of some naff films.
Tova:
I quite like the terms, as when I see them in an article headline, they send a clear signal to me that I need not bother reading on.
musicalsoul:
--- Quote from: Akima on 15 Aug 2011, 03:08 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 14 Aug 2011, 14:03 ---And here we go into the 90's. Trivia: Wednesday is the year I first hit the 'net running.
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And when I started high-school. Hanners and Marigold, the skipping records of QC. Come to think of it, I'm trying to remember if I've even heard a skipping record except in films etc. How long will it be before the metaphor loses any meaning?
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I dunno, vinyl records started becoming popular again around the time I was a senior in High School ('05). I also have friends who love to listen to more old school music on record players. So maybe it'll be a while before the metaphor loses all meaning. I've only ever heard a record actually skip twice in my whole life.... once when I was like six and I was trying to play something on my mom's old record player and once when I was in band in high school and my teacher was playing us a song we were learning.
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