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malthaussen

(17,175 posts) Tue Oct 29, 2019, 11:36 AM Oct 2019

I preferred when it was hip to be contemptuous of authority...

... not the default state.

-- Mal

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I preferred when it was hip to be contemptuous of authority... (Original Post) malthaussen Oct 2019 OP

To Me RobinA Oct 2019 #1

"Never trust anyone over 30." edbermac Oct 2019 #2

Hope I die before I get old, um...um...um...wait a minute... WHO? NNadir Oct 2019 #3

RobinA

(9,886 posts)

1. To Me

Reply to malthaussen (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 12:15 PM

Oct 2019

the problem these days is it's just knee jerk,

Authority, "The Earth is round."

Snidely R. Contempt, "What do you know, Authority? You can't be right, Authority never is."

Actual conversation:

Mother to Millennial Daughter, "Did you have a separate section on genetics in biology class?"

MD, "I don't know, I don't remember."

Aunt, "How can you not remember, it was so interesting."

MD, "Maybe we did, but I wouldn't have believed any of it anyway."

????

edbermac

(15,933 posts)

2. "Never trust anyone over 30."

Reply to malthaussen (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 03:31 PM

Oct 2019

I heard that over 40 years ago as a teenager and I still believe it. I, uh....huh?

NNadir

(33,477 posts)

3. Hope I die before I get old, um...um...um...wait a minute... WHO?

Reply to edbermac (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:02 PM

Oct 2019

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