The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 3 months agoI wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1873arrow-down114
arrow-up1859arrow-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 · 3 months agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61arrow-down2·3 months agoIt’s fun fucking with boomers by calling 24 years ago “the turn of the century.”
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoI’m not even a boomer and that hurts.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·3 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-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 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-squareMystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoCan we talk about the willenium now?
It’s fun fucking with boomers by calling 24 years ago “the turn of the century.”
I’m not even a boomer and that hurts.
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.
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)
Can we talk about the willenium now?
Like leaves we touch!