Originally Posted by davidmcn:
“More popular recently but not a new term - "You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake" is from Fight Club (which takes us back to 1999).”
Originally Posted by stoatie:
“Indeed. 1996, though... the line's in the Palahniuk novel.”
How are some people only just discovering this? This has been going online for so many years now. I can only assume it is because the media has picked up on it. So much for their first for breaking news.
Originally Posted by el_bardos:
“Labels, the lazy way to try and shut down any sort of actual debate. You can fairly much bet that certain people on either side of any debate will try it, though.”
There has to be a debate? Is life about political scoring, seriously? There are people out there that cannot handle real life. I don't like the term but it is what it is.
Bad things happen, mean things happen and people talking about you behind your back. There are so many issues in life that are so simple that people cannot seem to handle. Even criticism or somebody saying, stop doing that.
Originally Posted by mushymanrob:
“the snowflake generation aka millennials born 1981-1997, grew up being taught 'non competitive sports' , 'everyones opinion is of equal worth', and not to say anything that might offend.
it taught people wrongly that they cannot lose, instead of how to handle losing.
it taught people that everyones opinion is of equal worth, even when its utter crap, giving the mutterings of an idiot the same worthiness of a well constructed, intellectually sound opinion.
it taught people not to offend, by teaching them to be offended instead of how to handle the offence . what ever happened to 'sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me'?
we, the older boomers and gen x's are responsible for wrapping our kids up in cotton wool, protecting them against anything that might hurt them instead of teaching them how to handle all the unpleasant, nasty knocks the world will throw at them.
hence the hysterics at the referendum.
hence that lack of great new experimental music or comedy being produced by the snowflakes.
ironically the snowflakes themselves are a prime source of comedy, all it would take is a skilled writer, but thatll need to be someone over 35! lol”
I've never understood this millennial thing. How can someone born before the millenium be a millenial? I thought you had to have been born from 2000 onwards. After all it was the turn of the millennium.
So glad I have fallen out of that bracket to not have that label. 1980.