A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers

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The decline of the whale catching industry
Forest fires
Making American women ugly
Eye disease in men
Unemployment
Britain's troubles
Ruining the audio quality of radio broadcasts
Physical misfits during World War II
A decline in public transportation revenue
An auto collision
A decline in weddings
Ruining napkins and glass at soda fountains
A barber strike
Farmers' woe
A shortage of overshoes
Ruining the ribbon business
Ruining America
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@paulisci My grandmother was a flapper, and later involved in the sly grog trade during prohibition. I am proud of her contributions to the decline of civilisation, as evidenced by this thread. I shall seek out some of your other work.

@paulisci

With both whaling and forest fores, I think we can declare flappers ecologically neutral.

@paulisci wow, I never realised how busy flappers were!

@paulisci Thanks to reverse-chronological timelines & mstdn.ca's "collapse replies" option, I get to scroll through the list of ruined things & guess what modern social ill might be the cause.

I, uh, didn't guess this time!

@AmeliasBrain @paulisci
So much like all the things Millennials supposedly ruined, huh?
@Rozzychan @AmeliasBrain @paulisci I'm sensing a pattern. Making a note here not to blame the problems in my dotage on the stupid sexy youths and their kooky dances
@AmeliasBrain Hah, yes. I do think Mastodon adds an element of mystery to these threads :)

@paulisci @3wombats

I'm pretty sure Nana was one of the *good* flappers. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚