The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 5 months agoI wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1881arrow-down114
arrow-up1867arrow-down1imageI wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s"lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squareCaptain AggravatedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60arrow-down2·5 months agoIt’s fun fucking with boomers by calling 24 years ago “the turn of the century.”
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·5 months agoBack in my day, we joked about “not having done x since the last millenium” or some such shit. “Millenium” is just so much grander. And still factual.
minus-squareMystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoCan we talk about the willenium now?
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThat was a fun joke for at least a year (depending on whether your friends subscribed to “2000 is the first year of the millennium” or “2001 is the first year of the millennium” or both)
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoI’m not even a boomer and that hurts.
It’s fun fucking with boomers by calling 24 years ago “the turn of the century.”
Back in my day, we joked about “not having done x since the last millenium” or some such shit.
“Millenium” is just so much grander. And still factual.
Can we talk about the willenium now?
That was a fun joke for at least a year (depending on whether your friends subscribed to “2000 is the first year of the millennium” or “2001 is the first year of the millennium” or both)
I’m not even a boomer and that hurts.
Like leaves we touch!