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| #4831 | | Occupational Slumming:
Taking a job well beneath one's skill or education level
as a means of retreat from adult responsibilities and/or avoiding
failure in one's true occupation.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4832 | | Anti-Victim Device:
A small fashion accessory worn on an otherwise
conservative outfit which announces to the world that one still has a
spark of individuality burning inside: 1940s retro ties and earrings
(on men), feminist buttons, noserings (women), and the now almost
completely extinct teeny weeny "rattail" haircut (both sexes).
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4833 | | Nutritional Slumming:
Food whose enjoyment stems not from flavor but from a
complex mixture of class connotations, nostalgia signals, and
packaging semiotics: Katie and I bought this tub of Multi-Whip instead
of real whip cream because we thought petroleum distillate whip
topping seemed like the sort of food that air force wives stationed in
Pensacola back in the early sixties would feed their husbands to
celebrate a career promotion.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4834 | | Tele-Parabilizing:
Morals used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plots:
"That's just like the episode where Jan loses her glasses!"
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4835 | | QFD:
Quelle fucking drag. "Jamie got stuck at Rome airport for
thirty-six hours and it was, like, totally QFD."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4836 | | QFM:
Quelle fashion mistake. "It was really QFM. I mean painter
pants? That's 1979 beyond belief."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4837 | | Me-ism:
A search by an individual, in the absence of training in
traditional religious tenets, to formulate a personally tailored
religion by himself. Most frequently a mishmash of reincarnation,
personal dialogue with a nebulously defined god figure, naturalism,
and karmic eye-for-eye attitudes.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4838 | | Paper Rabies:
Hypersensitivity to littering.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4839 | | Bradyism:
A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in
large families. A rarity in those born after approximately 1965,
symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional
withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a
well-defined personal space.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4840 | | Black Holes:
An X generation subgroup best known for their possession of
almost entirely black wardrobes.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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