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Old 04-12-2014, 02:03 AM   #81 (permalink)
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Three things that make me feel old:

1. I haven't bought a new Harry Potter book for 7 years.
2. The fact that the "personalised" Facebook advertisements are suggesting IVF treatments and nappies.
3. The original Power Rangers made their television debut 20 years ago. I had a pink ranger costume.
OMG I'm jelly, I really want a pink Power Range costume, where did you get it? I loved that show.
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Old 04-12-2014, 02:11 AM   #82 (permalink)
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OMG I'm jelly, I really want a pink Power Range costume, where did you get it? I loved that show.
No idea, it's long gone now! Also... the original yellow ranger died in a car accident!
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Old 04-12-2014, 02:12 AM   #83 (permalink)
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No idea, it's long gone now! Also... the original yellow ranger died in a car accident!
WTF! I had no idea. Poor guy.
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Old 04-12-2014, 02:35 AM   #84 (permalink)
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WTF! I had no idea. Poor guy.
It was a chick! Geeeeez, Vanilla New Zealand was obviously behind with the times in Power Ranger knowledge! I loved that it was the 90s and she was a Vietnamese actor on a popular kids' show

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Old 04-12-2014, 04:50 AM   #85 (permalink)
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Can and will.

There's nobody of my generation who would have said that. Maybe I should have said the celeb generation but whatever, it's all the same. People don't know their history and would rather just read the latest crappy ****e about celebs than make themselves aware. I guarantee, that girl did nothing to find out who the Mark Antony I was talking about was...
You are romanticising the past to a ridiculous degree. I guarantee there are people your age that don't know who Mark Antony is - and how is that considered a requisite for intelligence? It's so pretentious to base your judgement of an entire age group on their knowledge of a minor historical figure, cause you can bet your ass we all know who Cleopatra is. You can keep Mark Antony because I'm safe in the knowledge that our generation will be furthering technology, medicine, and art in ways yours never even dreamed of.
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You are romanticising the past to a ridiculous degree. I guarantee there are people your age that don't know who Mark Antony is - and how is that considered a requisite for intelligence? It's so pretentious to base your judgement of an entire age group on their knowledge of a minor historical figure, cause you can bet your ass we all know who Cleopatra is. You can keep Mark Antony because I'm safe in the knowledge that our generation will be furthering technology, medicine, and art in ways yours never even dreamed of.
Man you get upset very easily don't you? It wasn't meant to be taken that seriously, just a sly dig at how a younger generation see things differently and the worry that unimportant things take over from the more important ones.

Go and have a cup of tea willya? I'm not trying to fight with anyone. I doubt there are people my age who don't know who MA is but of course I can't prove that, but I lived in an era before the internet had a stranglehold on people and we had to find things out by ourselves, often through asking people older than us or (shock horror) paying attention in class.

I'm not trying to romanticise the past but in twenty-odd years I have seen such a slide in the standards of both spelling and grammar, as well as a shocking lack of historical knowledge or even interest, adn you can't tell me that it's just coincidence that the rise of Facebook, Twitter et al has been happening at the same time?

Also, I'm old. Leave me alone you young whippersnapper! Things were better in my day. Windows were things you opened to let in air, a mouse was something the cat chased and a PC was a police officer...
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Man you get upset very easily don't you?
The definition of irony, ladies and gentlemen.
And while grammar and spelling may have slipped, bear in mind illiteracy rates have also slipped and a lot of disadvantaged people back in the good old days didn't know what spelling and grammar even was.
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The definition of irony, ladies and gentlemen.
I was gonna post the same thing.
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**** you both!

Seriously, I only get annoyed when people annoy me. I don't take meanings out of context as you seem to be doing here. If I think these times are less caring then that's my privilege and there's really no call to be using words like ridiculous, which is just (ahem) annoying, particularly when I didn't address the comment at anyone specific.

But whatever: think what you like. I'm not here to fight. If you want to consider me someone who gets upset easily, fair enough but bear in mind that the things I get upset over are usually things that matter to me and do get on my nerves. Also, this is the Bitch Box isn't it? Woops! No it isn't. Well anyway.
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I'd just like to point out that neither the pot nor the kettle is black. Fail.
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