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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 days ago

Reading that just broke my hip.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I suddenly feel like the crypt keeper

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago

We can't possibly be that old! I feel you've made a grave mistake

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

OOoooooOOOOOoooOOO time keeps moving FOOOooooOOOooOOORWARD!

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[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Isn't this an actual thing? Pretty sure I was told by some instructor not to use references older than a decade or two. Unless the subject is very elementary older sources are more likely to be obsolete

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Depends on the subject. Historians use a lot older materials more regularly for obvious reasons.

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[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TTT... no matter how much we don't like to admit it.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone left me a reply just yesterday with that date format. At first I was going to reply back that they must have made a typo, but then realized they weren't wrong. Ouch.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I started a sentence in my class with “When I was born”. A student instantly chimed in and said “What in the 19’s?” And I thought in my head, of course you idiot, everybody is born in the 19’s. It still haunts me

It still feels wrong to me, to see it written out, but spoken its different.

I feel like it works to go with say, the 1600's, which I read naturally as the 16 hundreds. But when I see 1900 I read that as the nineteen naughts, (aughts?) because so often when people are referring to periods in the 19 hundreds, its down to the decade because so much changed between each one. Or maybe I just felt that way because I'm so old now.

Maybe in another 25 years, it'll be far enough away that 1900's becomes 19 hundreds in my head.

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[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago

We will never* stop seeing accounts milking this same joke for more attention points

  • at least not until 2050 when they’ll change it to “early 2000s”
[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

I just pulled my back and broke my hips reading this, it made me feel so old 👴🏻

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago
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