THERE are many, many reason why the last decade can go piss up a rope, but here’s seven for starters…
Staring at your smartphone
The 2010s were absolutely the decade for staring blankly at a screen full of fun things like job-losing tweets, dead celebrities and Brexit. Young or old, woman or man, everybody was crazy for sitting on opposite ends of the sofa not speaking, unable to disconnect.
Everybody dying in 2016
The year of Trump and Brexit was also a magical parade of celebrity deaths. No matter whether you loved Prince, Bowie, Muhammed Ali or Victoria Wood, your phone buzzed with delightful news. Even on Christmas f**king Day. We’ll never forget you, 2016.
Losing your job for a tweet
Ten years ago, social media was boring old baby photos. Now it’s a thrilling ride of forgetting you posted a sh*t joke in 2011 and being hounded by incensed online mobs looking for your employer’s contact details.
Brexit
Brexit was also a three-and-a-half year blast on an airhorn, drowning everything else out and making it impossible to concentrate without screaming. Also, ‘Brexit’ is one of those pathetic hybrid words that the last decade has vomited into the public consciousness.
Nation-states buying football clubs
Russian oligarchs are so over. Now you need to have a football club owned by an oil-rich nation competing against yours, which is owned by a bloke whose Midlands light engineering firm did reasonably well.
Banging on about some bullsh*t on TV
In 1979, 43 per cent of the population watched To The Manor Born. Nowadays, only tiny percentages of us watch Breaking Bad or The Crown so we all connect culturally by talking about our favourite shows constantly to people who aren’t interested.
Millennials
Whether they’re attending Glastonbury, going to Bali or driving around in yellow Fiat 500s, millennials never forget to remind the world they can’t buy houses and it’s the world’s fault. But you’re not allowed to mock them because they say it’s wrong.
