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What cultural phenomenon would you erase from history?

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  • 03-05-2018 12:28am
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    Greyling
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    For me it would be The Simpsons. I'm in my mid 30's so it has been there almost as long as I remember. I'm sick to jayses of hearing references to it brought up daily.

    Honourable mentions for Donald Trump and Father Ted.


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    lc180
    Registered Users Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭lc180


    'Artisan' Donut shops


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    #3
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Line dancing, twin cams


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    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    Diana, Princess of Wales


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    Doltanian
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Doltanian


    Communism


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    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,479 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    twitter


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    #7
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    The internet


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    #8
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,317 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Sport, constant and never ending. Especially team sports. Only team sports actually.


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    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,714 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Satellite/multi channel TV.


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    frag420
    Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    The internet

    Irony....


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    Greyling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭Greyling


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Sport, constant and never ending. Especially team sports. Only team sports actually.

    The lads would be in bad shape if there was no sports to talk about. Most of my relationships with other men depend on the inane dissection of what happened in a field in Liverpool or Ballsbridge at the weekend.


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    MikeyTaylor
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    The Trump presidential campaign.
    The X-Factor. (In fact any "reality" show!)


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,166 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Social influencers.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #14
    Mutant z
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Mutant z


    Hillary Clinton.


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    #15
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    The cult of competitiveness, and the paradoxical way children's education is approached atm.


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    A Pint of Goo
    Site Banned Posts: 218 ✭✭A Pint of Goo


    Western liberals hatred of free speech.


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    endacl
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    The suffix -ery for things that don't end in -ery. As in 'eatery'. It's not an eatery. It's a cafe with notions. You knob.

    If you open an 'eatery', you'd better have the jacks marked as the ****tery. You'd still be a knob, but at least you'd be a consistent knob.


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,249 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    A Pint of Goo wrote: »
    Western liberals hatred of free speech.
    Oh yeah! That's a good one!

    The importation of US TV's over-simplistic and reductionist binary view of nuanced topics! People with a juvenile black-and-white worldview who use the word 'liberal' to describe people who respond to their over-simplistic and reductionist binary view of nuanced topics with nuance.


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    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    endacl wrote: »
    The suffix -ery for things that don't end in -ery. As in 'eatery'. It's not an eatery. It's a cafe with notions. You knob.

    If you open an 'eatery', you'd better have the jacks marked as the ****tery. You'd still be a knob, but at least you'd be a consistent knob.

    Absolute knobbery, that's what it is.


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    pleas advice
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    memes, in their original definition.


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    Outlaw Pete
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    Probiotics.


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    #22
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    Facebook


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    #23
    Ipso
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    Conspiracy theories.


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    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Fair City.


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    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭worded


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    The internet

    It’s Tinternet


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    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭worded


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    Probiotics.

    With lactose added

    I farted non stop for 3 days


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    Minderbinder
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    Mountainsandh wrote: »
    The cult of competitiveness, and the paradoxical way children's education is approached atm.

    Please elaborate on your point.

    I don’t think competitiveness is a phenomenon or a cult. It’s a natural thing and essential to our survival.


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    worded
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    Minderbinder wrote: »
    Please elaborate on your point.

    I don’t think competitiveness is a phenomenon or a cult. It’s a natural thing and essential to our survival.

    I remember as kids myself and my sisters laughed at how competitive we were, the sibling rivalry..... but I laughed longer


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    AllForIt
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    endacl wrote: »
    Oh yeah! That's a good one!

    The importation of US TV's over-simplistic and reductionist binary view of nuanced topics! People with a juvenile black-and-white worldview who use the word 'liberal' to describe people who respond to their over-simplistic and reductionist binary view of nuanced topics with nuance.

    That's exactly what I was just thinking.


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    Sam Quentin
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    Slavery.


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    Wanderer78
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    Minderbinder wrote:
    I don’t think competitiveness is a phenomenon or a cult. It’s a natural thing and essential to our survival.

    Competitiveness is indeed natural, but the type of competition that is most common nowadays can only be described as 'hyper-competitiveness', this is in fact man-made, and in fact is highly destructive for the survivability of all species including humans


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