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Original thread: https://lemmy.world/post/27067506/15809869
The 70s and 80s were both 30yrs ago in my head
They represent the land before time for me.
Even after spending all this time in this thread and the original, I read your comment and literally thought, “but it is”… then I did the math. And I died.
This isn’t all millennial exclusive. I thought we all collectively agreed 2020-2022 didn’t count. Right? I’m not actually three years older than I think I am. Right?
I’m not actually three years older than I think I am.
No, probably not. You might be biologically older than that!
I hate that this is correct.
Minor correction - i believe the consensus on 2020 is that it was a decade, and the longest decade ever at that.
Otherwise yep checks out
Jeremy Bearimy
Gen X here.
Can confirm relative time concepts. All the films/TV series I love were made in the 1980s or 90s regardless of when they were actually produced.
Watched Ultimate Force (UK TV series) yesterday, made in the nineties but references 11 September 2001 and other events then in the future etc.
My dad was born 1948. That’s 40 years ago.
Well, given that 1970 was 30 years agod, this seems pretty reasonable.
Feels more like the 1930s
Absolutely correct!
Jesus this is so accurate it’s spooky.
These jokes got old 10 years ago.
Yer a hall of famer, 'Arry. Twice, to be precise. Well done!
But in the 1940s FDR had recovery projects which employed people and built infrastructure.