"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?
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Business cards are still a thing
Mine are eggshell.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 12:42,
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Excuse me, I have to return some video tapes.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 13:55,
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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)
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)
Yup.
Socrates used to complain about teh yoof.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 29 Jun 2019, 21:14,
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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.
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FridgeBadger, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 22:32,
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Narrated by Orson Welles. For educational purposes only.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2afuTvUzBQ
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 23:54,
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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
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 7:54,
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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.
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FridgeBadger, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 10:39,
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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
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 11:46,
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Well said Tarquin
That should put the oik in his place, what?
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 12:13,
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Quite so, Athelstan.
Now be a good chap and pass me another pauper, my glans is in need of a vigorous buffing.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 14:53,
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There's a thick seam of thick amongst the old as the last three years have proved
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It must be true, I just read it on an internet forum called beethreeta
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 0:54,
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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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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 17:15,
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classic, ive not seen that before
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 3:08,
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