Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you

There is a whole generation that actively seeks out offence these days, so you do need warnings to avoid total meltdown.

At some point people will start wondering how we transitioned from the second world war to 1990, and where are all the audiovisual records from when film and TV was invented.

Then they will start to see their own past cancelled because there's been a change in terminology, and be perplexed because they are perfect so how can this happen?

"Conservative"?

I get offended on behalf of other people, regardless of whether they are offended.

Only the other day I watched something that didn't have a warning about flashing lights, and was offended on behalf of epileptics who didn't know one way or the other if it was safe to watch.

The complaints are both about moaning that attitudes and language of the past was not at all problematic, and the need for people who don't really like the 21st Century having yet another bogeyman.

Flight pricing. On BA's website, the same flight can cost £300 or £1300 depending on when your return flight is. And the return flight can cost £300 or £1300. Or the same flights can be £1000 and $400 if booked as two singles.

Or take a flight to somewhere completely different in another country and then fly back to London on that same flight, and the return leg can be £168. As long as there is a Saturday night between the two.

Is that regarding the Crossroads controversy? Must admit not read it, so probably gone off on a tangent.

It is an intriguing subject tho’ 🤔, is one passing judgement on a programme, or the audience that consumes the programme. For example is Alf Garnett to be understood as:-

a) a racist bigot that treats his wife appallingly

b) a carefully crafted character, designed to be the object of ridicule

c) a character that some viewers can identify with

Answer is could be all of the above, including c) unfortunately ( they probably watch GB news now 😝).

Always felt it was obviously b) (based on watching In Sickness And In Health at the time, I've never seen Til Death Us Do Part).

I always found Only Fools and Horses to be insulting to cockneys. And to horses.

There was some tweet doing the rounds: some old fart complaining that he didn't even recognise his own country anymore.

I don't remember this amount of bleating from my grandparents generation who had been through the Great Depression, WW2, the development of nuclear power and weapons, space flight, computers, jet flight.

I don't recognise the UK as the country I grew up in, in the 60's and 70's. Looking back that's probably a good thing!

It would be weird if nothing had changed in 60 years.

Musical discussions are not my strong point, but here's an opinion.

For a long time each older generation would consider the younger generation's music to be little more than noise. For example, jazz was noise to those bred on classical music. This then continued with the arrival of rock, metal, grunge, electronica etc.

I therefore realised I was officially old when I heard reggaeton.

The thing that intrigues me now is that what the kids listen to (Black Pink, Swift, BTS etc.) definitely sounds like music. It just sounds a bit dull to me. But then, generation Z do seem a bit cautious and less wild.

I'm not sure that after all those 'shocking' genres there are many more ways to outrage old people (other than reducing their pensions, obvs).

Shall we move this over to the music thread, or do you want to stay intrigued here?

In short, yes, ragtime was the precursor if jazz, when they got bored of four-square rhythms in marches and the suchlike, but the problem with constructing a straight-line 'story of music' is that it misses out nearly all popular musics and things that don't fit nicely into academic thinking.

Thanks. No need to move threads. It was an intriguing aside to my sweeping generalisation about gen Z music.