The Picard Maneuver to Lord of the [email protected]English • 3 months agoI wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s"imagemessage-square47arrow-up1875arrow-down113
arrow-up1862arrow-down1imageI wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s"The Picard Maneuver to Lord of the [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square47
minus-squareCaptain AggravatedlinkfedilinkEnglish59•3 months agoIt’s fun fucking with boomers by calling 24 years ago “the turn of the century.”
minus-square@DasuslinkEnglish29•3 months agoBack in my day, we joked about “not having done x since the last millenium” or some such shit. “Millenium” is just so much grander. And still factual.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoThat was a fun joke for at least a year (depending on whether your friends subscribed to “2000 is the first year of the millennium” or “2001 is the first year of the millennium” or both)
It’s fun fucking with boomers by calling 24 years ago “the turn of the century.”
Back in my day, we joked about “not having done x since the last millenium” or some such shit.
“Millenium” is just so much grander. And still factual.
Can we talk about the willenium now?
That was a fun joke for at least a year (depending on whether your friends subscribed to “2000 is the first year of the millennium” or “2001 is the first year of the millennium” or both)
I’m not even a boomer and that hurts.