2002 was a decade ago.
My mother in law is one of those 'everything was better in the old days' people.
To be honest, I recon in the 70s and 80s she moaned about how shit it was compared to the 60s, and if she was around in the 60s I recon she'd do the same.
Chart music is aesthetically offensive, no exaggeration. You ever heard of nicky minge and katy perry?! Fuck me that hurts my ears! I will say however, that the non-main-stream-music-with-instruments stuff is present and I'v heard some cracking bands recently, and always will.
So she gave me this 'modern music is terrible' lecture, which is painfully monotonous. Defending my generation I argued that on the contrary, I know a shit load of contemporary bands, which deserve artistic merit. The white stripes and the strokes are classic, raw and just fucking quality.
No, that was ten years ago.
The white stripes 'elephant' came out A DECADE AGO!
2002, was a DECADE AGO.
In two years, it will have been a decade since 'Friends' finished.
Topshop have a '90s' range, which is considered 'retro'
The other day I was telling my cousin how Trafalgar square was full of pigions which you could hold and feed, she looked at me in awe.
We are not in the naughties, we are in the teens.
In ten years we will refer to our decade as 'THE TWENTIES'
In ten years, when I ask my kid to 'wind the window up' in the car she will say 'what the fuck you talking about??'
(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 19:26, 7 replies)

The teens?
I will gladly bet actual money that this decade will wind up being called the "twentennies" or something equally clunky and stupid.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 20:02, closed)

Topshop have a '90s' range, which is considered 'retro'
Is it all a knock off of Joe Blogs jeans and Eclipse jackets?

Or even... Shell suits!
(xaer0mancer, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 22:34, closed)

nononono
Grunge chic, also have you noticed how black rappers now dress like badly dressed white nerds from the nineties? Literally ANYTHING can come into fashion over time, have you noticed stereotypical nerd clothes are fashionable now? Thick glasses and ironically bad hair cuts? Fucking mad! I think the next thing is 'Chav chic'
(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 23:15, closed)

Eric Morecambe glasses with no lenses.
What the chuffing hell is that about?
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 0:41, closed)

The last one I'm not so sure about
We still 'dial' numbers on the phone, the 'save' icons on computer software is still usually a little picture of a floppy disc, and railroad crossing signs still have little pictures of steam trains on them. I reckon some things just become so widely used that they gain wider iconic meanings, completely divorced from their literal original ones.
( Zoroastermouse thinks therefore he am, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 0:00, closed)

You're right,
cause all words are dead metaphors.
(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Fri 8 Jun 2012, 12:19, closed)

Dead Metaphors?
I think I saw them in Brixton once
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 11 Jun 2012, 12:39, closed)