flake99please
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I see this on my Facebook news feed from some Americans I know through my business. I think she covers what makes a 'snowflake' a 'snowflake'.
Modern terminology, i.e. What is a 'Snowflake?' etc.
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GrumpyGregry
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"I'm special, me. I'm unique. Just like everybody else."
Honestly who cares. There's alot of derogatory terminology floating around aimed at "millennials" and the whole concept of hating on someone just because of their birth year or group is extremely distasteful to me.
Once heard a wise man say something like .. "people who look down on a generation for their problems only have themselves to thank."
Once heard a wise man say something like .. "people who look down on a generation for their problems only have themselves to thank."
lutonloony
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I always wonder how these things pass me by, equally, sometimes ( usually) I'm glad they do
raleighnut
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View: https://youtu.be/qrmcHwhUPH0
Been happening for centuries....................every generation.
View: https://youtu.be/gb1poMQXoiw
This version has the lyrics just for the young uns.
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Gosh, she's lovely isn't she. Not. If that video turned up on my Facebook newsfeed I'd think really carefully about who I was Friends with. Funny, I'd occasionally heard the term used in the sense that @Tin Pot suggests - to mean someone who is a bit 'precious'. I'm not sure I'd realised quite how much vitriol it carries for some.
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Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
In 1980 my uncle, then an NCO in the Scots Guards was bemoaning the quality of recruits he had to work with in basic training. He complained they weren't as fit, strong or capable of enduring hardships the way his generation had been in the 60s. He felt the army was going soft. Two years later some of the recruits he was so disparaging about force marched across the Falklands in winter, fought hand to hand against troops in prepared defensive positions and won.
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jefmcg
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She's a piece of work. And doesn't she think she's special?
For those that didn't watch, let me paraphrase:
A snowflake is someone who thinks Trump isn't the legitimate President because of Russian interference.
A patriot is someone who thought that Obama wasn't the legitimate President because he was a different race than you.
A snowflake is someone who melts down when they hear "Happy Christmas"
A patriot is someone who melts down when they hear "Happy Holidays"
I assume everyone understands the difference now.
Drago
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The SAS are examining the possibility of lowering the physical recruitment standards. Clearly they'll be issued with lighter weapons, and the enemy will kindly oblige by not chasing them as far as the men.
jefmcg
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[QUOTE 5091481, member: 9609"]indeed i do, up until last night I thought 'Generation X' was something to do with the great Billy Idol.. But I have since narrowed it down and apparently I am from 'Generation Jones' and a think this wiki link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones
sums my experience of it up quite well, when I was at school there was never any thought of no job, kids would leave school one week and go into heavy industry the following week, pits / ship building / steel works- thats the way it was. Then all of a sudden it all changed and the plug was pulled on heavy industry, we were all in the same boat, kicked out of the door at 15½ and told its £20 a week board and with no work to go to - you had to be resourceful, barrow sea coal off the beach and sell scrap metal, you had to come up with the money
There was no sitting in a warm bedroom playing with an i-phone until you get discovered by the x-factor.[/QUOTE]
You're a boomer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones
sums my experience of it up quite well, when I was at school there was never any thought of no job, kids would leave school one week and go into heavy industry the following week, pits / ship building / steel works- thats the way it was. Then all of a sudden it all changed and the plug was pulled on heavy industry, we were all in the same boat, kicked out of the door at 15½ and told its £20 a week board and with no work to go to - you had to be resourceful, barrow sea coal off the beach and sell scrap metal, you had to come up with the money
There was no sitting in a warm bedroom playing with an i-phone until you get discovered by the x-factor.[/QUOTE]
You're a boomer.
Drago
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User9609 said:
Oh, I didn't realist there was a great Billiy Idol as well!
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Snowflake- Spending an hour on Christmas morning trying to get a £100 speaker to switch on a £30 light bulb.
