Historical Underdosing:
To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen.
Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV
news broadcasts.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen.
Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV
news broadcasts.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Historical Overdosing:
To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.
Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines... - Historical Slumming:
The act of visiting locations such as diners,
smokestack industrial sites, rural villages - locations... - Ozmosis:
The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Vaccinated Time Travel:
To fantasize about traveling backward in time,
but only with proper vaccinations. -- Douglas Coupland... - Homeowner Envy:
Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the
disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Native Aping:
Pretending to be a native when visiting a foreign destination.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Poor Buoyancy:
The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Dumpster Clocking:
The tendency when looking at objects to guesstimate the amount
of time they will take to eventually decompose:
"Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be... - 2+2=5-ism:
Caving in to a target marketing strategy aimed at oneself
after holding out for a long period of time.
"Oh, all right, I'll buy your stupid cola. Now leave...
