Sunday, 5 June 2016

A brief history of... err... bollocks?

Let's talk five decades of humanity through the eyes of someone who's been around for a little over two. It's needless to say that opinions expressed here are purely personal, and if you see the name of a girl anywhere, that's the girl who I have a huge crush on....

For convenience sake, I'll start with the 70s because
a) that saves you from the gibberish I have to talk about the 60(about which I anyway know little about except for the Indo-China war, the whole hippie movement and a bit about Woodstock, about which, again, I just know that The Beetles and Bob Dylan didn't turn up for. And that there was a lot of drugs and sex there too.)
b) As I said, I know little about the 60 (actually, even about the 70s, 80s, 90s and even for that matter the 2000s.)
And so, about the 70s.. Oh shit! I don't know anything about the 70 except that Godfather, Sholay, Rocky, Star Wars, Golmaal, Taxi Driver and many more awesome movies came along in this decade. 

So lets get to the 80s where a lot happened... err like my parents must have graduated and things, 1984 went whizzing by and all of George Orwell's predictions got postponed for another 60 years. However, Mr. Steven Jobs leveraged the idea behind Orwell's dystopian book and sold to many the Macintosh, which was just a fancy desktop computer that no one really wanted, but bought anyway(As with most things Apple sells). The drugs must have worn off or something, everyone getting off the hangover. What that did was give people no other choice but to twerk to disco music, goodness that atrocious thing! Why didn't the Terminator come along and take out Bappi Lahiri and the Bling-gang? We could have gotten rid of the 90s altogether! But then, the inevitable 90s came.

With the onset of the 90s, the Gen-X population started getting threatened by their successors, the toddlers that were going to be quite unimaginatively called Gen-Y. Us basically. Cranky, pesky choice-riddled brats who saw more of the world through a screen than through their own eyes. Very strange. What LSD and pot was to the 60s and 70s, it's Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter for us now. We're the gang who take pride in saying things like....
The sad bit? I know Jiggly Puff is responsible for this facial graffiti. That still doesn't make me awesome. 
 I'd say....

The worst are the little retards that go about singing the 90s....

And about yours truly....
Yes, I do realize I might run into a few copyright issues. But who gives a shit?

I'm just petrified about our population that's come into existence after the 2000s. What do they say? Oh! I was born with a cell-phone up my arse and my speech bubble looks like...

And are these kids called Gen-Z by any chance? If so, what are we going to call the next generation? And why were Gen-A-through-W so lost in obscurity?

2 comments:

  1. O man! Hari Menon has grown old. Tch! Tch!

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    1. Bhai saahab, Kodaikanal chalte hain saala

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