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Threads (Pre-order my new book, The Press Gallery!), politics, fun, Headline of the Year, Dr. Cronk, @DowntownCoreCA . Researcher, instructor, @UCalgary .

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Paul Fairie
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I'm writing a book diving into the newspaper archives to look at arguments we can't stop repeating (Nobody Wants to Work Anymore!), things we can't stop blaming (jazz! bicycles!) & more (Cronk!)! Pre-order your copy here (release date TBD):
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A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵
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A Brief History of Men Today Are Too Feminine and Women Too Masculine 🧵
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A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz 🧵
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A Brief History of Kids Today Are Spoiled 🧵
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A List of Predictions Made in 1923 About 2023 🧵
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"Stay at home or this is where the swab goes" might motivate anybody else who isn't already socially distancing.
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This is how far back we have to put the swab to test you for #COVID19 . You might want to follow medical recommendations and #StayHome .
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A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Soft 🧵
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Whenever I'm tempted to think that a new thing seems too complicated, I read newspaper articles about pizza from the early 1950s.
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The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵
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"Please stop protecting us from COVID, it's killing business" followed by "we're having operational difficulties due to too many employees having COVID" until we get lucky, I guess.
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The work day will be four hours long
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A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Rude 🧵
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Imagine having enough money to buy a small detached house in Toronto and you blow it all acquiring Twitter.
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A List of Things People Blamed on Bicycles 🧵
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A Brief History of People Have Lost Their Sense of Humour 🧵
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2022
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2006
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1981
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2014
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People will communicate using watch-size radio telephones
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1922
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A List of Predictions Made in 1924 About 2024 🧵
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A List of Things People Blamed on Women 🧵
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A Brief History of Kids Today Have No Respect 🧵
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Women will blacken their teeth and shave their heads
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In 1883, a drink called "Cronk" started advertising in the Calgary Herald. See if you can spot their ads.
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If this can be a salad, you can be anything.
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A shortage of farm labour
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oh no the innocent boys are being vamped by flappers to engage in snuggle pupping
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All people will be beautiful
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The US will have a population of 300 million
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To retire by 65: By age 35, you should have 30 Bitcoin saved for retirement. By age 45, you should have 15 Bitcoin saved for retirement. By age 55, you should have 330,000 Bitcoin saved for retirement. By age 64, you should have 6 Bitcoin saved for retirement.
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The 2022 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵
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Men will curl their hair
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Everything
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Warts on the feet
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Life expectancy will be 100 years
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Radio will replace gasoline
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Dull pupils
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Hi to everyone following this account from this thread 👋 Mostly expect silly jokes, jokes about politics because something is stressing me out because that is my coping mechanism, old newspaper clippings, and then we finish off the year with a Headline of the Year contest.
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Girls leaving home
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A Brief History of Things Were Better 50 Years Ago 🧵
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Flights from Chicago to Hamburg will only take 18 hours
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Newspapers will have been out of business for 50 years
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Court rules that RTs = endorsements.
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US Office of Special Counsel concludes Nikki Haley violated the Hatch Act by RTing Trump's endorsement of candidate
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Life expectancy will be 300 years
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Imagine how boring @JoeBiden 's tweets are going to be. It'll be great.
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Why does "learning to live with COVID" never seem to involve any learning?
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Bad teeth
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War will be wireless and we might have telepathy
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Small families
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People will wear kidney cosies
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An increase in heart failures
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Utensils will be made of pulp
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A Brief History of America is in Decline Like The Roman Empire 🧵
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A List of Things People Blamed on Radio 🧵
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1932
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New dentist in town
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Cancer will be eradicated
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Blockbuster CEO says diversifying revenues away from video rentals is a long-term 'luxury'
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Alberta finance minister says diversifying revenues away from oil and gas is a long-term 'luxury'
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2022 Headline of the Year nominee (March)
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Elephantine ears
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Canada will have a population of 100 million
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Ruined legs
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I wonder if Canada is ready for the fact that unlimited amounts of untraceable money from outside of the country can now very openly flow into our country to achieve any end that it desires.
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The increasing tendency toward divorce and ruined marital happiness
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Difficulty recruiting college athletes
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Private kitchens will disappear
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Indigestion
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A Brief History of We Are Raising a Generation of Wimps 🧵
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2022 Headline of the Year nominee (April)
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1977
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The best thing about Canadian Christmas is that on December 25 a Supreme Court justice breaks into your house and leaves you a gift.
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2022 Headline of the Year nominee (September)
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2020
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A List of Things People Blamed for the High Cost of Living 🧵
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2022 Headline of the Year nominee (August)
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In 1902, a new fad swept Chicago: bathing in the morning dew.
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1984
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A decline in marriages
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1997
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