Things sure have changed over the years. Snowflakes and feminists beware.

Some items here are a bit cringe-worthy.

Vintage Ads That Would Never Be Allowed Today

 

Those are mostly jokes, some maybe crude.
They are fished from many hundreds of others published every month, and more importantly stripped from their historical context.
That people are triggered and "it wouldn't never be allowed today" shows how intolerant and ideology-driven we are, not they.
Then people didn't say stupid things to women simply because they were guided by something called "good manners", not because some Rube Goldberg ideology said so.

 

A personal favourite.
I believe it's real as my mum says she can remember it...
(Mind you, she does talk to squirrels, and that price seems rather steep.)

 

Can you imagine?

 

Digressing a little here, but I learnt something new today when I looked up the new definition of snowflake and discovered it also had a WW2 connection Urban Dictionary: Snowflake

Another aside, Scots have over 400 words for snow Whiteout: new Scottish thesaurus has 421 words for snow

 

The person who wrote that definition of snowflake is clinically insane.
And actually Yiannopoulos is a very nice, intelligent person. A Jew, and a gay to boot.
Not to mention urbandictionary is one of the filthiest cesspools you can imagine.

 

I believe this is the definition A-58 had in mind:
Generation Snowflake - Wikipedia

 

Thanks Mcoffee, I did read too about the Millennial definition. I was just taken with the WW2 connection offered up by the urbandictionary (a website I don't frequent, in fact, until today I don't believe I've ever read anything by them, but that's Google for ya).

Sorry wm. but using the term nice with the name Yiannopoulos is way beyond me. Had you used your term cesspool along side his name, then I may have been in agreement with you. And thanks for the heads up on urbandictionary, I shall never ever visit it again.. I do admire though your need to defend the undefendable.

Sorry about your thread being hijacked A-58, I'm due you a cake.

 

The term 'snowflake' in the political arena, appears to be a cheap retort by those who could not argue their way out a paper bag.

 

That WW2/KL 'snowflake' thing was formulated by a small group of fantasists on Twatter. Watched it grow and spread one afternoon.
Also watched it puzzle/annoy some rather better-informed historians of the holocaust.
It really is nonsense. Those who made it up during an online 'culture war' needed a good head-wobble. They used lying about something deeply grave in an attempt to score points in a facile flame war.

'Snowflake' itself is just another light throwaway piss-take/passing dismissal that's been around forever, basically offending nobody in a serious way, that one day the internet and politics picked up and polished into a bright shiny ball of overblown nonsense. A semantic storm in the tiniest of dolls-house teacups...

 

Term now used to deliberately wind people up winds people up.
S'only the internet...

Back to the matter in hand:
Smoking doctors:

 

My favourite ad from about ten years ago was for a former haunt of mine in Edinburgh. They had the idea of a midweek night out for younger folks, and you could prepay entry and get a rubber wrist band to wear to prove it.
Then they spoiled it all by calling the bands "slappers", and printed posters with two young models and the slogan- "come early and pick up a slapper."
You know what happened next.

 

It's to be sure the proper tools are available when she orders him to wash the dishes and clean the house.

 

In Comment sections on news and propaganda articles:

I have seen that.
But word is often used to describe a Liberal who denies facts even when they are well documented, and even more often a Liberal who makes a personal attack on another poster or mean spirited comments. I have not seen any one word for a Conservative who makes a personal attack or mean spirited comments.

Thought of three words regularly words used by Libs "Racist", "Fascist", "Nazi"
I usually give less credence to the comments of any poster who uses them or "Snowflake" to try to discredit another poster

 

Many Click-bait ads on todays internet are no better.


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