The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 month agoI wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1842arrow-down111
arrow-up1831arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59arrow-down1·1 month agoIt’s fun fucking with boomers by calling 24 years ago “the turn of the century.”
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·1 month 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-up4·1 month agoCan we talk about the willenium now?
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·29 days 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-up6·1 month 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!