Reason #7552312 we need to get together more often to drink

[aquaphase]

How the Me-Generation Ruined Modern Conversation

[roach]

drinking cures my sadness.

[monet2u]

that article cut into my drinking time... = saddness

[Capricorndog]

my wife and i have lately been into italian sparkling wines.

bubbles =

[ifihadahifi]

Damn. I was about to send out a bulletin that I put a new blog up on myspace.

Way to take the wind out of my lonely sails.

[Irock]

Hifi, I started to read your blog, but when I realized it wasn't about me, I lost interest. I'm pretty sure the author of that book was on TAL once, though. Maybe the quiz show edition, I'm not sure... I just remember that tag line.

We Quit Listening and Instead Began Waiting for Our Turn to Speak

Yeah, that's totally new with the internet. And people being insanely self-involved? That just started in the 60s.

Truthfully, I have very little patience for people who argue that our society is quickly losing / gaining some vital / horrifying attribute. Half the time, these theories are made up because someone wants to feel as if they're saying something important so that people will listen to them (Pot? Black). Then they come up with ridic "evidence" to support their theory - just because this guy has nothing better to do than walk around the mall with some chick who bored him to death with her rambling about cats and some other (the same?) chick dating a married man doesn't mean the rest of us can't carry on a conversation; sounds to me like he needs to get more interesting (and perhaps less whorey) friends.

Some (I'd argue many) people never knew how to carry on an interesting conversation in the first place, and they never would have.

But yeah, good read. Let's go drinkin.

[Dogatron]

the guy says he blames the internet but I'm not so sure. The tail end of the hippie generation didn't have the net and they still paved the way for the self obsessed 80's generation. I see whats going on now as similar to what the early hippie movement was all about. As I see it social conscience is higher than it was just 10 years ago and I think it's due to broadband catching up with tv. People don't have to just be passive from 5 until midnight anymore. Now the gateway to their passions is just a click away. Want to watch your favourite bands videos? log onto youtube. Want to talk about them? log onto the bands' websites. Want to find more than 2 angles on politics and social issues? log onto blogs and indie media...........I was gonna say more and hit submit an hour ago but Dalya phoned but I see irock said what I wanted anyway.

[KathrynTheGreat]

Mmhm.