#21

That factoid about the distance between the stegosaurus becoming extinct and the tyranosaur existing being massively bigger than the gap between dinosaurs being extinct and now always freaks my nut a bit. Dinosaurs were about for ages!

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#22

A fact that dinosaur period dramas rarely acknowledge

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#23

the meddling of the woke brigade no doubt

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#24

The haircuts always give it away

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#25

The first Slipknot album came out 22 years ago.

#26

There’s a good Mark Kermode thing on iPlayer about British period films through the years and how they reflect the time they’re made in, was really interesting.

#27

yeah same for me, not strictly 2000 as i was 11 then, but my brain still exists in the 00s generally so any event of the 60s is ‘around 40 years ago roughly’. freaks me out that 20 years ago isn’t the 80s anymore but is 2001

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#28

if they made Grease now they’d all be listening to The Vines

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#29

Freaks my nut out to this day

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#30

One positive of the last year is that I’ve realised that it doesn’t really matter. Just live in the moment because I don’t have a clue what month we’re in anyway. Same goes for these sort of daft milestones you have in your head - ‘by 30 I must…’

Doesn’t matter, does it?

Obviously other people will already have realised these things but it was a revelation for me.

#31

Oh now I get what @Mert_Aksac profile picture is

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#32

Yeah, anything from before you were born is weird, because although it happened, it didn’t really happen.

Like I know, logically, that the 1970s happened, it would have been too much effort to make them up. But at the same time, it’s just a load of stuff on TV and books. It’s not actually real. So the distance between two real points (eg 2000 and 2020) is different from a real and invented point in time (eg 1973 to 1993).

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#33

such a banger

#34

But what if it didn’t…

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#35

Oh I like this

The hypothesis has never attracted any support from historians

Pffft, historians are no fun.

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#36

Historians believing history exists, quelle surprise.

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#37

Edit : I misunderstood the joke

#38

I’m never quite sure if it was ‘popular culture’ (more so music) that stalled 20 years ago or I did. It appears to me that there aren’t the very specific cultures/movements in the music charts like there were when I was growing up. I was born in 1967 and got into music at a fairly early age so had first-hand experience of glam, heavy metal, punk, new romantic, techno, house, rap, grunge, brit-pop etc. Just doesn’t seem to be the genre shifts these days that there were between 1970 and 2000. If anything, the advent of music being ‘on-demand’, the ability to instantly access pretty much any track from any era, has meant that the overriding ‘movement’ of the past 20 years has been nostalgia.
Or, I might just be old and out of touch.

#39

This lyric (well, almost) also available from The Magnetic Fields:

#40

As a historian, I concur

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