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You may have your own favourites, but 1989 was OK as far as
I was concerned. Perhaps wiser heads will pick a different
year, but I'm just putting 1989 out there as a candidate.
Now, it's pretty clear that the world is in a less than great
state at the moment. Global financial warming, climate
crisis, war in Syria (if you're reading this today; substitute as
appropriate if you're reading this next week), the rise in
managerialism - all sorts seem to be going to pot. Plus the
weather in the UK has been lousy this year.
So, I propose that we re-run 1989 while we get our breath
back.
The term can also be used pejoratively as in the definition of a management caste
http://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Managerialism
The term can be used disparagingly to describe organisations perceived to have a preponderance or excess of managerial techniques, solutions, rules and personnel, especially if these seem to run counter to the common sense of observers [normzone, Jun 19 2012]
Survivor Type
http://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Survivor_Type
lady fingers they taste like lady fingers [calum, Jun 22 2012]
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I distinctly remember being in a zoo that year. Let's do it. |
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Let's see...'89...I was 23 years younger, riding horses and motorcycles, measuring machined parts...I guess it would do, but unless I get the 23 year younger bones I'm not going to like it much. |
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Ugh, no thanks. Elementary school was traumatic
enough the first time around. Granted, it'd probably
be considerably easier now academically, but I don't
think I'd fit in the desks. |
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What would those of us who weren't alive do? Sit around all day? |
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//You may have your own… get our breath back.// |
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Sp: “Get off my lawn, you damn kids!” |
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Was rock and roll better in your day, too? |
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Actually 1989 was great for me too [+] |
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Not a year i'd particularly want to repeat as it involved losing my
virginity, having a horrible relationship and getting kidnapped
plus nineteen-hour days. I generally cleave to the thought that
all years after the Orwellian one are just fabrications and that
this is an unusually long December. |
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//What would those of us who weren't alive do?// |
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You get a year's holiday. |
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It was all the rage back then. |
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Yes, technically i was kidnapped. I used to say "abducted" but i
used that word to people once and they started acting all
peculiar towards me until it was borne in upon me that they
thought i meant by aliens, so now i say kidnapped, which is what
the bloke who did it was charged with. It's not as spectacular as
it sounds, but it is as traumatic. |
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That sounds pretty bad, [19thly]. [Max], you could add "...except for being kidnapped" to the idea. |
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That was a good sex year, but the music was shit. |
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Pi was smaller back then. |
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I think I was playing marbles and enjoying the
original Thundercats and Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles cartoons. I also baked a cake that looked like
a full English breakfast. |
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Zx spectrum's, The London Boys, Black Box, Girls and high
school discos. Staying up all night playing Gauntlet 2 and
Robocop, watching The Last Crusade at the Cinema.
Fighting behind the school gym, getting smashed at rubgy
and smashing others at Rugby. High old times indeed - gets
my vote! |
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I got divorced in 1989, as I recall. Not a bad year at
all. |
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Don't worry [Simpleton]. Have some of my marbles. |
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At least you've still got yours. I lost most of mine in
the early 2000s, I think. |
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No problem. They're only marbles... |
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//going to pot//
2012 sees the best medical pot being grown since the great homegrown pot of the 1970's!! |
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And getting better every day. Thanks, Jorge. |
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1989 was the year of the Twin Terrible Twos. If we repeat it, I'm just going to catch up on all the sleep I missed that year. |
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OK, so I'm not getting universal approval for 1989. I
could go a few years later if it suits more people,
but no later than 1993. |
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In theory we ought to consult the rest of the world,
but I think it's fair to say that we are cross
sectionable people here. |
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Hollow Cross Section, I would suggest. |
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Sorry, I'm not up on the latest Britishisms. I assume
that's rhyming slang for “questionable”? |
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I thought it was an observation we'd be a
representative sample. I doubt there are enough of
us here for that. |
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//representative sample// like the skeleton at the front of the basic anatomy class - it only takes one. And that one only has to be mistaken for a volunteer once. |
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If 1989 was better, then 989 must've been way better. Other than the
Hagia Sophia getting damaged in that earthquake. To avoid that we
could skip October and have two Augusts. Who's with me? |
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Terri, when I want your advice, I’ll give you the special signal. Which is me being sectioned under the Mental Health Act. |
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Wow - a few shocking anecdotes here - each of which makes me realise that while I've been through a few tricky situations myself, pretty much all of them were very much of my own making. Puts things into perspective, stuff like that. |
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As to 1989, I don't think I'd mind holidaying there, but how exactly does this work. Do I have to pretend to be my 15-year old self, and go to school all over again? And do my actions whilst on holiday permeate back to today, or have I got free-reign to do what I like? |
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//Do I have to pretend to be my 15-year old
self...?// |
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Fraid so. At least as far as any financial transactions
and employment go. Probably also for water
consumption and carbon emissions... |
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It'd be good to go back and live 'eighty-nine differently to see
what would happen, but that would be rather dwelling on the
past. 'Ninety-three is better, as the worst thing that happened
that year was getting stranded in the desert with newly pregnant
[grayure] and living off sachets of sugar for four days. |
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And that count's as a good year in the [19thly]
household? Boy, are you going to enjoy retirement. |
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No i'm not, i'll have to eat my thumbs or something. |
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Probably better than having to eat someone else's |
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I have a recipe for lady's fingers soup, somewhere in
one of my unfinished writing projects. |
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So the next Heisenberg Halfcon is in 1989 then? |
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