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Apparently I am 39, which seems ridiculous to me.
The started working in 2000 might throw people off a bit, I went straight to uni from school, got thrown out asked not to go back after a year, bummed around with various jobs for a couple of years, went back to university and completed a 4 year course, graduating in June 2000.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: which seems ridiculous to me
~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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Blue Waffle wrote: 90's Oasis, Blur, Geri and the UJ Dress, Rave culture.
Add the Dropkick Murphys to that list.
Blue Waffle wrote: 00's ???, ???, x-factor?
The Gaslight Anthem, Chuck Ragan, Jenny Owen Youngs, Barack Osama, CodeProject and Open Source becoming popular [even though some of them are not known to a big public, yet]
The scariest moment is always just before the Start - Stephen King Die Frauen warten auf die Liebe, und die Männer warten auf die Frauen - Wolf Wondratschek
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Marco Bertschi wrote: Add the Dropkick Murphys to that list
No. The Dropdead Murphys never have and never will be on that list.
Marco Bertschi wrote: The Gaslight Anthem, Chuck Ragan, Jenny Owen Youngs,
No these are more Americans and these do not define an era.
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For the 00's, how about manufactured music and reality TV?
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Exactly. Not exactly great though is it.
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Member 10112720 wrote: For the 00's, how about manufactured music and reality TV?
Biggest selling songs of the 00s in the UK;
Will Young - Reality TV
Gareth Gates - Reality TV
Tony Christie and Peter Kay - Comedian
Shaggy - Proper Artist (albeit with something of a novelty single)
Alexandra Burke - Reality TV
Band Aid 20 - Charity Ensemble
Kylie Minogue - Singing Midget
Shayne Ward - Reality TV
Hear'Say - Reality TV
Bob The Builder - Kids Cartoon Character
Leona Lewis - Reality TV
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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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 ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- 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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