|
Try the Facebook Beta version. I am using it since few months and it is working fine.
|
|
|
|
|
I just love the level of sympathy and understanding you got from the community, I get the impression this bunch of geeks do not consider facebook a positive thing.
And no I do not have the problem, you mean there is a facebook mobile thingy!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
|
|
|
|
|
Every decade seems to have been very defined culturally apart from the current one and the last one.
60's Beatles, Stones, Georgie Best etc.
70's Flares, Flower Power, Prog Rock etc.
80's New Romance, Punk, Maggie Thatcher.
90's Oasis, Blur, Geri and the UJ Dress, Rave culture.
00's ???, ???, x-factor?
10's ???
Can anyone help me fill in the blanks?
|
|
|
|
|
No, we gave up on culture in the late 90s when regular people started discovering the Interwebz. Why spend time and effort making music and art, when you could be watching pron looking at pictures of kittehs and pretending to be a Farmer? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
|
|
|
|
|
That's what people here (younger ones than me) tell me. They say the naughties is defined by the internet. I argue that that is not culture.
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: The 1950s invented rock and roll and be-bop. The 1960s invented modern rock, blues rock, jazz rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, soul, hard-bop and free jazz. The 1970s create stadium rock, disco, funk and punk. The 1980s created the music video and many metal-related genres. The 1990s had grunge, Britpop, boy/girl bands and hip-hop. So what’s our decade’s claim to fame?
The one new style of music that could be called original is danceable rock and roll. I have yet to hear it given a proper name but what I am referring to is the current guitar bands that incorporate elements of dance and rave music. Examples would be Franz Ferdinand, The Klaxons, The Killers, Hot Hot Heat, Kasabian, and the Kaiser Chiefs. These bands wear their influences on their sleeve but have managed to create something relatively new. You can hear everything from the Bee Gees to The Jam and Joy Division up to Pearl Jam and The Stone Roses. I don’t necessarily like all these bands — I thoroughly dislike the Klaxons — but at least they are doing something slightly original.
The one element of the 2000’s that will be remembered is the utilization of the internet. Online music communities are forming without any influence from the corporate music world. That is a truly exciting occurrence in new music.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
|
|
|
|
|
That's what I wanted to write, they have summed it up much better. Killers I probably agree with as being the sort of music the naughties are associated with. But the thing with the other decades is you knew at the time what it was about. You wasn't still talking 4 years after the decade had finished what would represent it.
|
|
|
|
|
Blue Waffle wrote: 80's New Romance, Punk, Maggie Thatcher.
Punk was 70s.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
|
|
|
|
|
Punk was mid 70's through to the early 80's but let's not get into a date fight.
I think by the 90's there were so many left over genres that people started picking their own culture and the days of a single hegemonic youth culture is done.
|
|
|
|
|
Nagy Vilmos wrote: Punk was mid 70's through to the early 80's but let's not get into a date fight.
I would say that by the time they 1980s came around punk was long dead but many other genres that had spawned from it had a good few years left in them.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
|
|
|
|
|
Indeed, apparently the 80s punk groups are now referred to as "post-punk". 
This space intentionally left blank.
|
|
|
|
|
Not in my head it wasn't.
I distinctly remember being a Toddler in the early 80's and there was a girl with spikey hair at the Bus Stop. My Mother was telling me not to point and laugh. That was the punk era for me.
Seriously though, I know they say Punk was 70's but that was only for a few 'very hip' people in London. By the time it was mainstream in the rest of the Country it was early 80's (I'm talking hairstyles, Sex Pistols etc)
|
|
|
|
|
Blue Waffle wrote: By the time it was mainstream in the rest of the Country it was early 80's (I'm talking hairstyles, Sex Pistols etc)
Sex Pistols had split up, and Sid was dead, before the 80s arrived.
I'm much too young to remember the 70s, but a mate of mine who isn't has been heavily into punk since the 70s, his reasoning all that other tedious shite around like ABBA and bloody Led Zeppelin. I think he makes a good point.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
|
|
|
|
|
chriselst wrote: Sex Pistols had split up, and Sid was dead, before the 80s arrived.
Really. OK my positioning of it is a bit off then. I thought I remebered the Grundy incident on TV in the early 80's but after a bit of googling it turns out I wasn't even alive then.
|
|
|
|
|
I think you can add Eminem to the Naughties. From the perspective of a middle class white boy in the Midlands he seemed to be everywhere then.
I think part of the problem is that you (and we) have simply grown up and there is so much of everything everywhere now.
My parents listened to music from the 60s, I was born in the 70s, I went to school in the 80s, I started going to gigs and went to university in the 90s, I started working in 2000.
I don't listen to music radio, if I want to get hold of music then I seek out other stuff by people I already like, I don't have friends or do anything to meet people who will introduce me to new stuff like when I was at school or university.
New music ended when I started working.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
|
|
|
|
|
chriselst wrote: My parents listened to music from the 60s, I was born in the 70s, I went to school in the 80s, I started going to gigs and went to university in the 90s, I started working in 2000.
How old are you ? We must be about the same age (35), and I thought you were older than that ?!
~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
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
For the 00's, how about manufactured music and reality TV?
|
|
|
|
|
Exactly. Not exactly great though is it.
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
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 – ∞)
|
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
