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This is a normal post "For all the millenials"
Do young people not know or do anything at all nowadays beyond snapchatting their eyebrows and taking offence at absolutely everything?
(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 12:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post Business cards are still a thing
Mine are eggshell.
(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 12:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post Romalian type?

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This is a normal post Silian Rail

(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 12:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Excuse me, I have to return some video tapes.

(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 13:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post Don't bother, Nigel and Stef have written them off by now

(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 14:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post HOW DARE YOU

(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 14:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Paradoxically, it does seem that with the proliferation of the world wide Web into homes across the western world,
people have become thicker, rather than better informed.
Either that, or I've just become better informed about how fucking dense a massive margin of the population is.

My theory is that it has become so easy to find information, that nobody really bothers to learn or retain anything anymore. It's probably just me getting old, but yoofs/teenagers these days absolutely seem thicker/less cultured than they were 15/20 years ago.
(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 14:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post Definitely this

(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 14:39, , Reply)
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and this
(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 15:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post fewer

(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 15:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think that's just what all old people have thought about all younger people since the dawn of humanity.

(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 18:11, , Reply)
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^ so much
(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 18:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yup.
Socrates used to complain about teh yoof.
(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 21:14, , Reply)
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He was a very, very clever man, but he also thought the spread of reading and writing would forever destroy people's reasoning faculties. The language he used is almost identical to that which people use to describe the internet nowadays...

in fact, it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.
(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 22:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Narrated by Orson Welles. For educational purposes only.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2afuTvUzBQ
(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 23:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post You mean Plato says he said that?
We have no original writings from Socrates - and that monologue is either his own reason, or the excuse of his biographers.

Gosh aren't we all so highbrow! I'm off to write some haiku about Nietzsche
(, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 7:54, , Reply)
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Thanks for pointing that out. And since we're being patronisingly pedantic as well as highbrow, thias morning, that was part of a dialogue, not a monologue. He was quite famous for them, don'tchaknow.
(, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 10:39, , Reply)
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it was still a fair point
(, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 11:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post I wrote "monologue" because of the absence
- of any other voices in your extract. Of course it comes from a dialogue, but your quoted part is monological.
QED

/poking and pointing with his pipe
(, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 11:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well said Tarquin
That should put the oik in his place, what?
(, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 12:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post Quite so, Athelstan.
Now be a good chap and pass me another pauper, my glans is in need of a vigorous buffing.
(, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 14:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Twitter

(, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 22:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's a thick seam of thick amongst the old as the last three years have proved

(, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 20:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post It must be true, I just read it on an internet forum called beethreeta

(, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 0:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post What does "millenial" mean these days anyway?
Originally it was "people who turned 18 in the year 2000", then it was people born after 2000, now it seems to be anyone born in the last 20 years. If it could be anyone from 38 years old to zero, depending on who uses it, I'd say the term is worthless.
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This is a normal post obligatory xkcd cartoon

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