The Picard Maneuver to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish • 1 year agoI wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageI wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s"lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareCaptain AggravatedlinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoIt’s fun fucking with boomers by calling 24 years ago “the turn of the century.”
minus-square@Dasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year 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-square@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoCan we talk about the willenium now?
minus-square@psud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year 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)
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.
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)