Facebook nostalgia isn’t what it used to be – 17 takedowns of its rose-tinted bilge
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Growing up in the 80s
1. Miserable old people didn't make up lists of rubbish to put on the internet. They just didn't give you your ball back if it went in their garden. https://t.co/nSaII7a45S— Chris Kehoe – Private Intellectual (@MrKehoe79) August 22, 2023
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I do t know why this is the one that made me take the bait but: GREEN TEA IS LITERALLY THE SAME PLANT AS BLACK TEA FFS https://t.co/zIfCWTPqL8
— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) August 20, 2023
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Aside from anything else, accuracy etc…. it just sounds shit.
"Yeah we ate gruel and we fuckin' loved it. 'Member? 'Member when we ate gruel and binmen were 'ard and infant mortality was 7 times higher than it is now? Those were proper times. Not like now." https://t.co/xhk21RqpNQ
— Incapable Hans – @whatevil.bsky.social (@WhatEvil) August 21, 2023
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British people in the 1950s were basically medieval peasants https://t.co/f2fysKIG63
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) August 20, 2023
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It all went wrong when that Walter Raleigh came back with them potatoes. American, they are.
I said it then and I'll say it now, a true Englishman does not eat foreign muck!
They come over here with their bloody bananas and oranges and so-called wine. Makes me sick it does. https://t.co/fSLz01EfXa
— Peejay Adams (@peejay_adams) August 21, 2023
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Sounds dull as fuck. https://t.co/dOFx7IJMQi
— That Baratheon Girl 🇪🇺 🏴 🌹 (@baratheongirl) August 20, 2023
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Every country has its own variety of frothing-mouthed elderly reactionaries, but the British version are particularly deranged.
You don't see cranky old Canadians running around saying "Actually, fuck pizza! Death to foods with flavours!" https://t.co/wqhfojX7vX
— Matthew Claxton (@ouranosaurus) August 21, 2023
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Ah I see someone has finally found what Brexit means.. https://t.co/8qoU95xpio
— Scarsey Twit ter (@silly_old_sod) August 20, 2023
This would certainly put quite a few people off serving ‘curry’.
Boomer memes about the lack of curry in British diets of the 50s and 60s can be explained not just by racism, but also by their trauma-erased memories of what passed for 'curry' when they were growing up. Recipe for 'An Indian Curry' – Northern Weekly Gazette, 21 April 1923. https://t.co/GAcUqqJu3e pic.twitter.com/lLEirYmbN6
— Tabitha McIntosh (@TabitaSurge) August 22, 2023
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This store owner trolling young people’s work attitude got entirely the responses they deserved
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