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The Naughties was the FarceBook era, and the Tennies looks like the Twatter decade.
Neither of them encourage excellence, in favour of wide-band mediocracy.
No real surprise that other valid cultural elements decline when it's easier to just change your status to "it's complicated" instead of pen an angst-filled teen anthem because she dumped you... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I was not best friend with Twitter at the beginning, but I reckon some people have very good one-liners (Anna Kendrick, Olivia Wild, Ellen Degeneres, ...).
I am big imgur.com fan, not much for the pictures, but for the top comments, which are often excellent puns or one-liners.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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00' Daft Punk, Trance,
10' Obama, Selfie
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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These things require a bit of a gap to allow the signal to emerge from the noise. If you actually look at the charts from the 60s there was an awful lot of chaff.
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Culture moved mediums. It's a massive and fundamental shift.
00's - Facebook, Twitter.
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Chris Maunder wrote: 00's - MySpace, Facebook, Twitter.
FTFY
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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00's - Debt Economy Blues, Credit Default Swap Collapse, Facebook, Twitter, Arab Spring
10's - Sovereign Debt Meltdowns, Socialism (Obamacare), Alternative Currencies / Economies, Crowdfunding, Arab Fall
Marc
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Well if history repeats itself July 28th will be a very interesting day.
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I don't think it will be. Our current problem is a revanchist totalitarian state; a parallel to the sequel.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Blue Waffle wrote: 90's Oasis, Blur, Geri and the UJ Dress, Rave culture.
Just on that Rave Culture - for those of a D&B position, check out this linky:
DJ Hype and Stevie Hyper D[^]
Both legends!
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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The decades as [b]I[/b] remember them:
70's - Global cooling
80's - Acid rain
90's - The ozone layer
00's - Global warming
10's - Climate change
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...Bubonic plague, Leprosy, swine flu, bird flu, SARS, and Ebola.
Or a "cold" as she refers to it.
Why is it, when she has it she:
1) Insists on sharing it with me.
2) Curls up on the sofa for three days under a mountain of paper tissues and blankets, with hots drinks and a TV to swear at.
But when she successfully passes the baton I have to do the washing, shopping, cooking, cat litter try emptying, ... because it's "just a cold"? 
Berhabs I should learn to dype wid a dold so I ged some symbaddy?
No, didn't think that would happen. Hey-ho, back to work I go....
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why is it, when she...
It's called love!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I'm not loving it!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It's meaningless, as long as she loves it... (and who don't love a few days off duty?)
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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It's probably your fault she had it in the first place, am I right?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Hey-ho, back to work I go....
Guess you look like THIS[^] then! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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No, my hair is longer (and his nose doesn't resemble a Hagfish in full flow) 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Glad I'm not the only one who has a Mrs like this!
OMG, when she is ill the whole world must look after her - she doesn't stop moaning about it.
When I'm ill, I go to work and get on with it.
Tsk - women.
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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That's why I don't understand where this Man Flu thing comes from.
In my experience when men have a cold they just carry on as normal, my missus doesn't even know I have a cold half the time, when she has one everyone knows about it and she is over emotional to go with the coughing, sneezing, and general whining about being ill.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Agreed!
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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Yeah - and the annoying thing is that I know it is the same bug - because she passed it to me (in an act breaching the Geneva Convention on use of Biological Weapons)
So at a guess, I'm feeling much as she did, just I'm not curled up on the sofa boosting Kleenex profits.
And I have to say, little comments like "do your teeth hurt yet?" do help much either. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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This is why at the first sign of a sniffle I kick her out to sleep in the shed.
As if, she's been down unwell pretty constantly the whole of February. I have a good constitution and have remained Strong Like Ox / Drunk Like Lord.
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I think alcohol helps: it kills the bugs, and if you consume enough it keeps people (who might have nasty diseases) at a good distance as well.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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