What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[Dragon Soldier]

It appears that personnel are now a resource to use rather than a person.

An all too rare instance of honesty in terminology.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Any time a company starts euphemizing its employees -- excuse me, "associates," -- that's when they should start looking for the knife in their back.

 

[dh66]

It appears that personnel are now a resource to use rather than a person.

Sadly, this is neither a modern problem nor one that is going away any time soon.


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[Widebrim]

Any time a company starts euphemizing its employees -- excuse me, "associates," -- that's when they should start looking for the knife in their back.

And when businesses start calling customers "guests." No, I didn't come to the bank to rent a room for the night...

 

[jamespowers]

Then again, I AM with the government.

As long as you don't follow that with "and I am here to help you." I grab for my wallet when I hear that as it usually means they are here to help themselves to my money.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The name of one of the taxing bodies here in California is the Board of Equalization. How Orwellian can you get??? :eeek:

 

[jamespowers]

The name of one of the taxing bodies here in California is the Board of Equalization. How Orwellian can you get??? :eeek:

Orwell is one thing. Stalin is another.

 

[Guttersnipe]

I thought politics were verboden on the Lounge?

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

I thought politics were verboden on the Lounge?

Not in the threads that deal with the evil modern world. Oh, and if you don't like the thread why don't you skip it and just not read it? Eh?

 

[HudsonHawk]

Backpacks. A pox on the inconsiderate oafs who wear them.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The word "synergy."

People who try to smuggle beer into a show in a backpack and get all offended when you tell them they can't bring it in.

People who consider every form of public entertainment an excuse to get hammered.

The phrase "get hammered."

Modern adaptations of Shakespeare that depend on the gimmick of the setting more than on the play itself.

Bud Selig.

People who call The Wall "The Green Monster."

Black Friday.

Compulsory disclosure forms printed in type so small and faint that they're illegible to anyone over forty.

Internet listings of the "100 best of all time" that include nothing of substance before 1990.

People who care about Miley Cyrus's sex life.

Miley Cyrus.

The phrase "game-changer."

Fancy bread with big seeds in it that make you choke.

Sports fans who celebrate victories with rampages of aimless, stupid vandalism or violence.

Unimaginative teenagers with spray cans who think they're Banksy.

Banksy.

Leaf-peeping tours.

"Life Coaches."

Gendered products that should have no gender (such as pink tools for delicate little ladies.)

Disney Princesses.

Grown women who act like Disney Princesses.

Credits at the end of the movie instead of the beginning.

The word "jeggings."

 

[rjb1]

Lizzie: I have never heard of "Banksy" and "jeggings". Definitions? (I could be properly diligent and look them up myself, but I think Lizzie's definitions/comments will be both more enlightening and entertaining. I think from the capitalization that Banksy may be a person, but not one that I have ever heard of.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

Lizzie: I have never heard of "Banksy" and "jeggings". Definitions? (I could be properly diligent and look them up myself, but I think Lizzie's definitions/comments will be both more enlightening and entertaining. I think from the capitalization that Banksy may be a person, but not one that I have ever heard of.)

Banksy is a mysterious European grafitti artist who has taken the Art Establishment by storm, and is now a cult figure among a certain type of middle-class white person who wants everyone to think they're smarter than they are. I actually don't mind Banksy himself half so much as I mind the cult of pretentious twits that's grown up around him.

"Jeggings" are skin-tight spandex pants made to look like denim. They're worn by people who really ought to know better.

 

[Feraud]

"Jeggings" are skin-tight spandex pants made to look like denim. They're worn by people who really ought to know better.

We must update the Devil's Dictionary with this!

 

[LizzieMaine]

We must update the Devil's Dictionary with this!

Ambrose Bierce, where are you now that we need you?

 

[Feraud]

Rolling over in his grave at having been born too early to miss this Idiocracy we call "progress".
Bierce would have had a field day.

 

[CharleneC]

Not in the threads that deal with the evil modern world. Oh, and if you don't like the thread why don't you skip it and just not read it? Eh?

The question is not implying that Guttersnipe does not like the thread. It is a good question about acceptable limits. The answer would be helpful to all.

 

[scrawlysteve]

Lizzie ---as an English chap I would claim Banksy as one of us rather than the glamorous sounding "mysterious European". I have to admit that I have never heard of this Bud Selig person featured on your blacklist but Mr Google tells me he has something to do with baseball (or rounders as we call it over here ).... and ignorant as I may be of Green Monsters and such it is nevertheless clear you are a woman of fine discernment and I think I love you.

 

[rjb1]

I knew Lizzie's explanations would be better than anything I would find on the Internet, but do want to express some reservations about her use of the words "graffiti" and "artist" adjacent to each other.

 

[vitanola]

it is nevertheless clear you are a woman of fine discernment and I think I love you.

Get in line, son.



It's a long one, I suspect.