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JasonKelly

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 05:37:59 +1200

It feels so weird calling a man over 50yrs old, “Baby Boomer”

Sacha

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 10:57:25 +1300

It’s one thing I love about gatherings like Nethui or Foocamp – whole rooms full of people each of whom are reliably smarter than me about something.

linger

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:33:41 +1300

We shouldn’t feel superior as a result of the Dunning-Kruger effect. One reason it applies so universally is that everyone is “less competent” than others in some domain. Kruger & Dunning themselves (1998: 1132) even express some unease about possible meta-implications: Although we feel we have done a competent job […],…

Kumara Republic

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:15:24 +1300

Once again, would the targets of "OK Boomer" prefer to hear "OK Gammon"?

Simon Armstrong

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:42:57 +1300

I keep telling myself “chill boomer” – when your inner dialog reads public address – matariki is in the sky and on the rise.

Strypey

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:40:12 +1300

> Commercial cannabis and medicinal suicide here we come.

We can but hope. We're all aware of the plethora of prohibition-related harms that disappeared when alcohol was legalized and the market in it regulated, and no surprises that we've seen the same thing in jurisdictions that have legalized and regulated…

Simon Armstrong

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:58:40 +1300

Thanks John. With my new awareness of the Dunning-Kruger effect I feel even more superior but can't help thinking I should feel less.

John Farrell

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:26:49 +1300

Oh, I don't know, Simon....there's nothing new about stupidity. And then there's Dunning-Kruger.

Simon Armstrong

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:23:56 +1300

Fascinating how an ad hominem has won – a perverse celebration of the new power of stupidity. Commercial cannabis and medicinal suicide here we come.

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:33:34 +1300

Of course no two snowflakes are the same...
...while yer gammon or jambon is just dressed ham
– smallgoods on the buffet of intolerance.

Bill Hitchens

Sat, 04 Jan 2020 10:46:22 +1300

Boom Boomers.

Kumara Republic

Fri, 03 Jan 2020 23:05:19 +1300

Truly these are special individuals….
which makes the reverse epithet “snowflake” especially ironic.

Especially when enough snowflakes get together...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRhefOpkt4

linger

Fri, 03 Jan 2020 15:21:58 +1300

So, basically it’s now a term directed at those that
(a) have the highest degree of privilege (because of a combination of nationality, race, class, generation, and gender); and
(b) are largely oblivious to that fact: they have been surrounded by it their whole lives, and see it as normal;…

Paul Campbell

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 01:38:36 +1300

The Guardian explains "gammon" here and here

Kumara Republic

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 18:20:42 +1300

Where did gammon come from? Seen it in last few months.

It's a British term originally attributed to Charles Dickens, and started becoming common in the early 2010s. The Brexit hubbub saw it greatly increase in use, and not surprisingly it's a counter-response to labels like "cuck", "SJW" or "soy…

Sacha

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 10:44:11 +1300

Where did gammon come from? Seen it in last few months.

Kumara Republic

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:55:00 +1300

And to be fair, that's usually what it really means when it's used. It's about the blitheness of people who don't have to worry.

I'm comfortable with the young folk expressing their frustration in what is really a pretty light way.

I've taken to using "OK gammon" as a more…

linger

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 19:45:58 +1300

And yet “win-win” and “everybody wins” typically don’t refer to all parties sharing a common prize, merely everyone receiving some outcome beneficial to them.

Moz

Sat, 21 Dec 2019 21:35:15 +1300

the bushfires in Oz

There are a lot of angry people. Only now it's the green and some of the left displaying the sort of anger more commonly seen from right wing outrage media types. Also the welcome surge in attention to the opinions and thoughts of young women (rather…

Moz

Sat, 21 Dec 2019 21:28:20 +1300

Did I miss the change when "they both win" referred to each person individually winning a separate thing? In my day that referred to team efforts towards a single prize. #grumpyoldman

tussock

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 20:36:14 +1300

I wish it was Climate Emergency, that we were treating it like an emergency and governments of the Anglosphere were doing anything at all. Forbearance to the odd regional authority that's doing their best despite the high ups..

Then, I think, well, the bushfires in Oz, and how their PM…

Russell Brown

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:12:39 +1300

It is not about age or generational culture. It is about greed and capitalism.

And to be fair, that's usually what it really means when it's used. It's about the blitheness of people who don't have to worry.

I'm comfortable with the young folk expressing their frustration in what is…

Rob Stowell

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:12:38 +1300

It is not about age or generational culture. It is about greed and capitalism.
It's tough to have yr generation (well, mine anyway) tied to a meme about greed and capitalism.
Sadly, we've earned it.
I'm assuming most of us here didn't vote for any of the political bs (let's…

Bruce Thorpe

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:00:00 +1300

do not like the term its implications of age war.
I am way too old to be a boomer, but I guess my kids fit the bill.
It is so sweepingly inaccurate. Rachel Carson was author of book of the month when I was still at school.
It is not…

James Ting-Edwards

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:03:45 +1300

It means roughly... well you can read this Vox explainer but you might not get it.

I kid, I kid! (I millennial actually, which in my case means closer to 40 than 30).

Sacha

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 08:48:08 +1300

Just ask the nippers, John. #righto

John Farrell

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 08:44:00 +1300

Fine – but what does it mean? Confused of St Kilda.....

Public Address

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 08:44:00 +1300

Discussion from blog post.