Knee-Jerk Irony:
The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive
matter of course in everyday conversation.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive
matter of course in everyday conversation.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Derision Preemption:
A life-style tactic; the refusal to go out on any sort of
emotional limb so as to avoid mockery from peers.
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Douglas Coupland, Generation... - O'propriation:
The inclusion of advertising, packaging,
and entertainment jargon from earlier eras in everyday... - Option Paralysis:
The tendency, when given unlimited choices,
to make none. [Often experienced when asked what kind... - Personal Tabu:
A small rule for living, bordering on a superstition,
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The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail,
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Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
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Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Tele-parablizing:
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-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation...
