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    I wasn't sure what I was so I googled it the other day. Apparently im a xennial. S gray area between gen Gen X and millennials.

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    Oxford students vote to replace clapping with silent jazz hands

    Rosemary Bennett, Education Editor
    October 25 2019, 12:01am,
    The Times

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    Anxiety is avoided by the use of jazz hands

    It is a time-honoured custom signalling approval, acclamation and enthusiasm, but students at Oxford University are to replace clapping at student union events with “silent jazz hands” amid fears that applause could trigger anxiety.

    Officers at the student union argued that clapping, whooping and other loud noises presented an “access issue” for some disabled students who have “anxiety disorders, sensory sensitivity and those who use hearing aids”.

    They passed a motion to replace clapping with jazz hands this week at the first meeting of the Student Council of the new academic year. “Jazz hands” involves waving both hands by the sides of the body at about shoulder height. It is the British Sign Language expression for applause.

    Roisin McCallion, welfare and equal opportunity officer of the Oxford University Student Union, proposed the motion to make the union’s democratic events “more accessible and inclusive for all, including people who suffer from anxiety,” she said.

    Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent, said that “jazz hands” was yet more evidence that many young people traded on their vulnerabilities, rather than their strengths. “Cultivating and displaying vulnerability has become an integral part of the kind of identity that student activists celebrate,” he said.

    Clapping at student events was banned at the National Union of Students Women’s Conference in 2015 and adopted by the union at its national conference in 2017. Manchester University’s Students’ Union was one of the first university unions to adopt jazz hands instead of clapping last year.
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    you couldnt make this shite up if you tried.

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    OK, Boomer... maybe stop reading the Torygraph and Times and getting angry over meaningless articles you can’t understand


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    I reckon some other bunch of students are going to get triggered...

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    Boomers are the most useless pathetic arrogant cocksucker generation that has ever walked the earth. They are the first generation ever to have it better than their parents AND THEIR KIDS.
    (before every Boomer reds me- I don't buy into the theory that any generation's character is better or worse. The bashing only for the Boomers who bash millenials, gen X or Greatest gen)

    Last edited by Backspin; 10-11-2019 at 12:08 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPPR2 View Post
    Well kids nowadays are whiny sniveling social media twats. They are entitled because their "Boomer" parents worked all the time and the nanny raised them. Their retirement plan is "Leg it out until Dad and Mom die" and work as little as possible all the while complaining about every thing..
    Lol. To get rich and relatively well off, all Boomers had to do was show up. The Greatest Gens for crushed with 15-20% interest rates just at the time when Boomers started buying houses and assets Stocks, bonds, real estate. Any asset, really any asset, bottomed out in the 80's and has risen up up and up for the last 35 years since. The Boomers were the first in, in the greatest worldwide ponzi scheme of all humankind. And it hadn't even stopped yet. Stocks and bonds are still making all time highs, riding on the same trend that started 30+ years ago.

    If Boomers were hit with reality like the Greatest Gens were, they would have seen double digit interest rates 5 years ago. And they would have been cut down to size. And it would have given millennials or Zoomers a chance to get on the first rung of the ladder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    ^post#5

    i see that our "tech savvy" millennial hipster pussy whipped feminist worshipping artisan vegan beardos that set up this site still havent figured out how to allow photos to link correctly.

    strange that the drunken old goat dirty dog managed to do it all those years ago with nothing more than dial up, win 95 and a couple of transistors fizzing away in the background.

    well thats progress i suppose.


    aaaaah, the good old days.
    You Boomer swine. The fucking nonsense people keep attributing to Millenials is socio economic. It's got fuck all to do with generation.

    It's just as stupid as saying that the degeneracy of the Waimar German republic and the squalor was a character flaw in the generation of the day. Or for that matter, the conditions between the wars in every country. It was a time of monetary inflation and fuckery.

    Millenials today are 23 to 38 mother fucking years old. Most of the shit you see young people doing today are Zoomers. Not fucking millennials.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Hey Boomer swine. The fucking nonsense people keep attributing to Millenials is socio economic. It's got fuck all to do with generation.
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    Calm down mate and back off the Lao, you are starting to sound like Ant and that is never good, get fuk'd over by yer mum and dad too, nayer mind precious

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    Apparently im a xennial
    Had to google that as I thought it was the name of my phone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPPR2 View Post
    They are entitled because their "Boomer" parents worked all the time and the nanny raised them
    do you see the irony ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CSFFan View Post
    Shut up, pre-boomer
    Aptly said ...

    The Silent Generation is the demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. Demographers and researchers use mid-to-late 1920s as starting birth years and early-to-mid 1940s as ending birth years, with 1928 to 1945 a widely accepted definition

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Millenials today are 23 to 38 mother fucking years old. Most of the shit you see young people doing today are Zoomers. Not fucking millennials.
    Yeah you're right, the millennials did their shit when they were young and so did the boomers. What's your point?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    The bashing only for the Boomers who bash millenials, gen X or Greatest gen
    So basically this thread is on the favourite TD topic of all time, 'My (insert category here) is better than yours...Ner Ner Ne Ner Ner!!!'

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    Yeah you're right, the millennials did their shit when they were young and so did the boomers. What's your point?
    What. how could you not see the point.

    The point clearly is, that all of the stupidity you see YOUNG ppl (16 to 20 year olds) doing TODAY in 2019 is NOT actually millennial's. It is a different generation entirely. It is Zoomers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    So basically this thread is on the favourite TD topic of all time, 'My (insert category here) is better than yours...Ner Ner Ne Ner Ner!!!'
    No its not.The data and the facts clearly show this time, that one generation had it better than the one before (Greatest Gen) it and the one after.(Millenials) So Boomers should shut the fuck up. Im not making a character judgement on Boomers. But they are making a character judgement on us. Im just saying that they had it better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Boomers are the most useless pathetic arrogant cocksucker generation that has ever walked the earth. They are the first generation ever to have it better than their parents AND THEIR KIDS.(before every Boomer reds me- I don't buy into the theory that any generation's character is better or worse. The bashing only for the Boomers who bash millenials, gen X or Greatest gen)
    A whole day passes and none of these incredibly daft boomer cvnts has anything to say about my meme pack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    A whole day passes and none of these incredibly daft boomer cvnts has anything to say about my meme pack.
    We've moved on, maybe you should or seek help for your pain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    We've moved on, maybe you should or seek help for your pain.

    You think this is funny or not serious dont you.

    The first Boomer oligarchy vs Millennial and Zoomer have-nots war has broken out. In Hong Kong. Maybe you will be next.


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    Well mate you've fuk'd up the thread now. I can see you take this all very seriously, along with your Woke mate Ant - thanks for the Reds ladies. Now have we got something more pressing tp worry about?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot
    thanks for the Reds ladies
    My pleasure, Boomer.

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    Now have we got something more pressing tp worry about?
    Do you? Or is reds just the latest whinge about [insert topic here].

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    Well mate you've fuk'd up the thread now. I can see you take this all very seriously, along with your Woke mate Ant - thanks for the Reds ladies. Now have we got something more pressing tp worry about?



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    Har har millennials like the "sharing economy"

    Oh yes. We chose it.

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    Rebelling against your middle-class parents was sort of cute when you were a teen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    My pleasure, Boomer.

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