Things that have occured and transpired since last time.
Jan 15, 2014 18:48:33 GMT
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Post by bigdirtym on Jan 15, 2014 18:48:33 GMT
The board is back (hooray!) and in some ways, its reappearance feels both nostalgic and archaic. It's a funny feeling; this is the first board since Embrace's last time in the spotlight and so it will feel for many like a sort of time-capsule. Friendships from the past will begin afresh and for others, it will be like picking up right where we left off.
In short period of time in between boards, a great deal has happened in the world, both for our personal selves and the world at large. I've bought a house (gasp!) with my boyfriend (smaller gasp) and I'm working to put a spanner in Gove's ideological machine through small missiles of educational goodness and PDFs. Lots of chuffing policy PDFs.
We've witnessed the rise of practically universal, open-access social networking. What was once a "geeky" habit of using the Internet to talk to others has, through Facebook and smartphones, lost its stigma. Now almost everybody does it themselves or knows someone who uses it. I can have a conversation with my aunt or a PR for Jaffa Cakes on Twitter if the idea takes me and this is considered normal.
Thatcher died.
Oasis broke up.
We've allowed a coalition government to form and put social spending back forty years.
Will.I.Am achieved status as a human.
Baking has become "the new rock-and-roll".
Partridge finally made it to the big screen (so-so).
The Louis Theroux documentary on Saville became a lot harder to watch.
And so on.
What else would you say has changed for the better (or worse) in the time since the old board and this one?
In short period of time in between boards, a great deal has happened in the world, both for our personal selves and the world at large. I've bought a house (gasp!) with my boyfriend (smaller gasp) and I'm working to put a spanner in Gove's ideological machine through small missiles of educational goodness and PDFs. Lots of chuffing policy PDFs.
We've witnessed the rise of practically universal, open-access social networking. What was once a "geeky" habit of using the Internet to talk to others has, through Facebook and smartphones, lost its stigma. Now almost everybody does it themselves or knows someone who uses it. I can have a conversation with my aunt or a PR for Jaffa Cakes on Twitter if the idea takes me and this is considered normal.
Thatcher died.
Oasis broke up.
We've allowed a coalition government to form and put social spending back forty years.
Will.I.Am achieved status as a human.
Baking has become "the new rock-and-roll".
Partridge finally made it to the big screen (so-so).
The Louis Theroux documentary on Saville became a lot harder to watch.
And so on.
What else would you say has changed for the better (or worse) in the time since the old board and this one?
