MatildaMar 27

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/116300799324105148

I think the whole "young people are baffling" thing is a lot less there now than it used to be

When I still drank the odd young person got "lectures" about this - including one poor young punk (With an ace mohawk) in a bar in Glasgow that got an extended rant about why him liking the pixies and other bands I had been into when they were new wasn't good enough ;-) poor chap

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@junklight: It would be baffling to me if kids *didn’t* bring changed vocabularies to the laboratory of vernacular, or allude to familiarity with spheres of music and culture I hadn’t noticed (not being a parent due to a decision my wife and I made a decade ago about not raising children in the ever-more dystopian States).
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@scrypt there is definitely less of gap now!! (saw a teenage lad wearing a denim jacket with iron maiden across the back this morning!!!) - yes language changes but I guess being on social media it seems less unfamiliar

(We wouldn't have had children if we didn't have them when we did - as you say state of the world. I still feel a bad about what they are going to have to face in years to come)

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@junklight: I wouldn’t humble-condemn anyone for having children at any stage of the world’s implosion, so apologies if what I said sounded that way.

But being in the states, I’ve *often* had to explain why I don’t have children. People feel entitled to ask, for some (Christian police state) reason, as though my not having sired legions of heteronormative Caucasoids is a baffling puzzle I’m obliged to help them solve!