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| #4828 | | Squirming:
Discomfort inflicted on young people by old people who see no
irony in their gestures. "Karen died a thousand deaths as her father
made a big show of tasting a recently manufactured bottle of wine
before allowing it to be poured as the family sat in Steak Hut.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4829 | | Recreational Slumming:
The practice of participating in recreational activities
of a class one perceives as lower than one's own: "Karen! Donald!
Let's go bowling tonight! And don't worry about shoes ... apparently
you can rent them."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4830 | | Conversational Slumming:
The self-conscious enjoyment of a given conversation
precisely for its lack of intellectual rigor. A major spin-off
activity of Recreational Slumming.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4831 | | Occupational Slumming:
Taking a job well beneath one's skill or education level
as a means of retreat from adult responsibilities and/or avoiding
failure in one's true occupation.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4832 | | Anti-Victim Device:
A small fashion accessory worn on an otherwise
conservative outfit which announces to the world that one still has a
spark of individuality burning inside: 1940s retro ties and earrings
(on men), feminist buttons, noserings (women), and the now almost
completely extinct teeny weeny "rattail" haircut (both sexes).
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4833 | | Nutritional Slumming:
Food whose enjoyment stems not from flavor but from a
complex mixture of class connotations, nostalgia signals, and
packaging semiotics: Katie and I bought this tub of Multi-Whip instead
of real whip cream because we thought petroleum distillate whip
topping seemed like the sort of food that air force wives stationed in
Pensacola back in the early sixties would feed their husbands to
celebrate a career promotion.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4834 | | Tele-Parabilizing:
Morals used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plots:
"That's just like the episode where Jan loses her glasses!"
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4835 | | QFD:
Quelle fucking drag. "Jamie got stuck at Rome airport for
thirty-six hours and it was, like, totally QFD."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4836 | | QFM:
Quelle fashion mistake. "It was really QFM. I mean painter
pants? That's 1979 beyond belief."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4837 | | Me-ism:
A search by an individual, in the absence of training in
traditional religious tenets, to formulate a personally tailored
religion by himself. Most frequently a mishmash of reincarnation,
personal dialogue with a nebulously defined god figure, naturalism,
and karmic eye-for-eye attitudes.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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