@tek said in Random funny:
@surreality I've always found the melty-perfume-fat-cone theory to be suspect. It just sounds GROSS and not something you would want at a dinner party.
Well, you kinda need to calibrate "gross" by the standards of period hygiene.
(Like, "the ammonia in human urine makes it an excellent detergent and mouthwash!" levels of calibration.)
@Rinel Well, I don't think GenX is a bad one. It's using the letter deliberately to indicate an absence of definition or strong association.
Millennial is better, but it also just seems... like, we were Generation Y for a bit, but that sucked, so around 2001 we needed a real generation name and it was like, fuck it, it's a new millennium you're the millennials. Not the generation born at the turn of the millennium, the generation we needed to name then.
And yeah, since we took the name GenZ should've had, they just get the no-effort letter.
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My idea was "Wars and Terrorists and Pretty Much The Same As Every Other Decade Only FASTER." But the committee said no.
Bit of a mouthful, I have to say.
@Tinuviel It could be the zeroth decade, and that would be only marginally more godawful than the "aughts."
I mean, "the naughties." People suggested that shit with a straight face. We've had almost exactly twenty years and no one's come up with a name for the decade that isn't just shit.
...and between that and "zoomers" I feel like whoever picks these names just stopped giving a shit around the time they figured out GenX.
@Tinuviel Fine:
Nineteen ninety-one is in the nineties because there's a fucking ninety in the tens digit.
...and if we are gonna talk about culture, I think we had to be in the 90s by 1993, latest. You had Free Willy, Power Rangers, X-Files, Jurassic Park and Korn.
And anyway, that's the sort of decade-bookend argument you can't really have until it's been over for a while.
@Tinuviel Yes, yes, cultural zeitgeists don't match up perfectly with the tens digit of our arbitrary measurements of time. I'm still not going to dignify "nineteen ninety-one was in the eighties" with a rebuttal.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@insomniac7809 said in [Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.]> but if they're wrong isn't 2020 the year they should see clearly?
Well played.
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@insomniac7809
I feel like these assholes were not nearly so vocal in 2010 as they were in 2000 (oh, my youth) or now. Maybe even numbers empower them, idk.
Well, in 2000 they were technically correct (pretend I put the Fururama gif here) in that the twenty-first century goes from 2001-2100.
But as was pointed out,
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Every year is the start of a new decade, depending on where you're measuring from.
And while you could count decades that way, I'd assume that anyone who called 2011-2020 "the two hundred and second decade" instead of "the teens" is a serial killer, and I would be correct. 2020 is the start of the twenties.
People who insist that 2020 isn't the start of a new decade.
Being pedantic and obnoxious is one thing; I generally approve of it. Being pedantic and obnoxious and wrong because you learned a pedantic obnoxious fact twenty years ago and are trying to trot it out where it doesn't apply is inexcusable.
@Carex You're really not. Jumping from "keep fifteen-year-olds from being groomed by grown-ass adults" to "butterfly is trying to protect their kids from anything sexual" is just such a bad-faith leap.
@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
And I am definitely not going to get into the theology of that tangled relationship. Hoo boy.
"You got your Platonism in my Messianic monotheism!"
@Rinel That may be nominally true, but the War on Christmas isn't going as well as conservative opinion hosts would have you believe. Advent can be considered entirely Christmas territory, and has been for some time; Thanksgiving remains nominally independent, but in practice, it and its entire month of November are operating under the Yuletide sphere of influence.
At this point, I think we need to consider Halloween occupied territory; I saw Christmas trees going up at the mall where I work by October 29.
Hallelujah is not a Christmas song, really, but fuck it--it's a good song, and I'll take the break from hearing Jingle Bell Rock as interpreted by every warm body that ever stumbled into a recording studio.
When you feel the need to replace the lyrics with some twee Nativity stuff I take issue.
Or he was hoping for enough money to buy bread, or something, which can last more than one meal.
Or shoes, a coat, a bedroll. Fare to go wherever he's sleeping. I've talked to a lot of people who panhandle; they're usually not actively starving, but that doesn't mean they aren't saving up for a necessity.
There are a lot of things people need on a daily basis. Food is only one of them.
@Ganymede Market theory has its usual issues with assuming that people are able to go elsewhere when they're homeless.
I'm not insisting that anyone give to panhandlers; that's your own business. But objecting to the poors existing at people in public places is disgusting.
