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    I'm Increasingly Resistant to New Things

    probably, but perhaps it would also be a bit boring for them and everyone else if they weren't criticized by elders. it's that galvanizing touch we must bestow as a rite of passage.
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    I'm Increasingly Resistant to New Things

    they've really had to double down on the pre-emptive defense tactice of labelling every criticism against them as out of touch. They dared to explicitise this move with the "ok boomer" thing.
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    I'm Increasingly Resistant to New Things

    it's hard to be objective about
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    I'm Increasingly Resistant to New Things

    I get that every generation sneers when seeing their own ways superceded as de facto youth culture but hoenstly it's just a complete wasteland now, it has to be way worse than any direction my generation or those before ever took
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    I'm Increasingly Resistant to New Things

    time to cultivate an interest in jazz?
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    I'm Increasingly Resistant to New Things

    talking about teenage mainstream culture
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    I'm Increasingly Resistant to New Things

    i'm only 26 and up until now getting older has been the sense of youth culture moving in different directions along familiar parametres where you still understand the units of expression but happen to move on another level of intensity. but for the first time ever i'm now feeling more of a...
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    satire: more harm than good?

    a hypocrisy waiting to be exposed
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    satire: more harm than good?

    a posture with no room for decency because that can only serve as a weak point
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    satire: more harm than good?

    maybe it's the 20 years of mass satire that's made the right adapt to a posture that's unmoved by such attacks
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    satire: more harm than good?

    maybe, i don't know. people around me seem to like him.
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    satire: more harm than good?

    Jon Stewart and his impersonators. This smug, snarky attitude applied from behind an audience of your own cheerleaders. I don't like it. I think it has secured a program for mass sublimation of liberal narcissism. I think it's very unhealthy for everyone involved.
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    Can You Eat like a Civilized Human Being?

    yes girlfriend's half japanese so i've had to learn. i still can't bring myself to put the bowl to the mouth and push the food into my mouth with the chopsticks like they do. they also slurp very noisily.
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    Can You Eat like a Civilized Human Being?

    it turns out Americans put down the knife and switch the fork to the right hand whenever they take a bite
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    Can You Eat like a Civilized Human Being?

    wait, brits pile food on the outwards curve of the fork?
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    Roiling football blather

    is that Cruyff by the way, your avatar?
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    Roiling football blather

    Yes 180 degree change of mentality with that injection of spirit and disciplin. But my arm chair psychologising predicted no less from such a coach, ask anyone.
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    Can You Eat like a Civilized Human Being?

    I have the obnoxious habit of going "ahh" after the first sip of a beer. Don't know what to do at this point.
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    Can You Eat like a Civilized Human Being?

    when version licks the salt from the crisps off his fingers, he goes "mmhmm version likey"
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    Roiling football blather

    Still early days but very very excited about this new Barca. The Celta game is the most inspired I've seen that team in 5 years and that's not hyperbole.
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