The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 5 months agoI wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s"lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1878arrow-down114
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minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·5 months agoBack in my day, we joked about “not having done x since the last millenium” or some such shit. “Millenium” is just so much grander. And still factual.
minus-squareMystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoCan we talk about the willenium now?
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThat was a fun joke for at least a year (depending on whether your friends subscribed to “2000 is the first year of the millennium” or “2001 is the first year of the millennium” or both)
Back in my day, we joked about “not having done x since the last millenium” or some such shit.
“Millenium” is just so much grander. And still factual.
Can we talk about the willenium now?
That was a fun joke for at least a year (depending on whether your friends subscribed to “2000 is the first year of the millennium” or “2001 is the first year of the millennium” or both)