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Paul Fairie

The 2024 Headline of the Year Nominees

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Paul Fairie

2024 Headline of the Year nominee (September)

Zoo admits that their pandas are ‘painted dogs’ after backlash from visitors
‘That’s the Temu version of a panda,’ viewer says

Olivia Hebert
Los Angeles
--The Independent, 20 Sep 2024
Paul Fairie

Life really was better 50 years ago.

Here's proof.

A series of headlines from each decade in reverse order from the 2020s to the 1890s, each declaring that life was better 50 years ago.
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Andrés Monroy-Hernández

@paulisci the weird thing is that these days even young people agree 😅

cultdev

@paulisci what if they’re all right? maybe the 1840s were just out of this world incredible

Odradek

@paulisci "life was better in the 1940ies", that's dark; especially reading this in germany. when I'm under the impression "these are absurd times" I think: "compared to 1933-1945?"

though - and counterfactual nostalgia may be part of it - it's time to be afraid of exactly this time: it has happened so it can happen again.

lighter stuff : you know douglas adams' three rules of technology?

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Rusty Bertrand

@paulisci
Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded 16 tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said, "Well, a-bless my soul"
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion
Can't no high toned woman make me walk the line
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't get you
Then the left one will
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Merle Travis

@paulisci
Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded 16 tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said, "Well, a-bless my soul"

Twitter_expat ✅(Fedi Resident)

@paulisci

This is the carrot capitalism love to dingle in front of people

Nini

@paulisci Who keeps telling us about this predicted shortened work week length? Moreover, why hasn't these prognostications come to pass if they were so evident?

Paul Fairie

A Brief History of Nobody Dresses Well Anymore

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Sakshi 🌴🥥

I believe there are "kids, these days!" complaints found in papyrus scrolls from Ancient Egypt.

@paulisci

ShawnT 🐀

@paulisci
I sometimes think about a guy in #Austin we derisively called "Three-Piece" at the cafe because he had the gall to dress up in a suit every day, despite the climate. Sonofabitch, he had the audacity to keep the style conversation going; he brought his A-game. And here most of us are, in our cargo shorts and tees, sweating just as much but looking the slouch for it.

Raphael Lullis

@paulisci I feel like pretty soon we will be able to make "a brief history of reposts of a brief history of nobody dresses well anymore"

Paul Fairie

An anti-coffee ad that I will choose to interpret as a pro-coffee ad

[A coffee can with a concerned expression and also legs and also arms touches a guy in a suit]
When Coffee Gets You---

--Daily Kennebec Journal, 26 May 1914
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Joel VanderWerf

@paulisci "My good Sir -- Did you know your velocipede is invisible?"

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@paulisci I love it, is it pro coffee? Is it anti coffee? Who knows? It depends on your perspective!

Paul Fairie

Newspaper in 1924 writing to historians in 2024

If the historian of the year 2024 should consult the files of the daily press of 1924 he will not be to blame if he concludes that at this time our nation was governed by a venal cabinet; that all our politicians were grafters; that the heads of all our oil corporations were crooks, and that the leading industry of the United States was bootlegging.
--Casper Daily Tribune, 25 March 1924
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argv minus one

@paulisci He would also note that absolutely NOTHING has changed.

Rimi B. Chatterjee

@paulisci …and the world economy was in desperate recession after a global pandemic.

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