Stuff Twenty-Somethings Talk About

This topic began as a tongue-in-cheek conversation during a walk to a friend's party in which "real" adults were going to be present.
It is being posted now as the other pieces I've been working on (with photos!) will have to wait until after exams and a trip to Africa.


1. Post-modernism
a. What it is (highly debatable)
b. How we're actually modernists (using self-felating pretentious rhetoric referring to the "Enlightenment agenda")

2. "Europe"
a. Also, "that time we were backpacking"/"when we got lost in _____"/"these Australians we met"

3. T9 Ambiguity and potential symbolic meaning that can be derived thereof
a. Go ahead – enter a word on your cell phone and hit the “+” key...I dare you

4. People who are older than us
a. 30 is the new 25...but only because we are becoming dangerously close to 25, or have in fact passed 25 entirely

5. Homework
a. How it sucks, yet has value by creating the discursive space for teenage rhetoric, ie. giving us a reason to use words like "sucks," "bogus," and "lamesies" as eloquent and multi-syllabic descriptors

6. Parents
a. This topic is both justified and humorous, with the added benefit of basically writing itself

7. Dating outside of our decade
a. '70s or '90s? Always an interesting and worthwhile debate
b. How dating outside of our decade situates ourselves clearly in our own decade - the '80s...enough said.

8. Drinking
a. How much we can drink (distinct accomplishments, ex. "I drank a two-six of vodka out of a water bottle mixed with V8 Splash then chased it with 4 Colt 45s and didn't even puke!" becomes analogous to "I just finished my third Iron Man with my most competitive time yet.")
b. The last time we drank
c. How we might still be drunk
d. When we next plan to drink
e. Foolish/irresponsible things we have done while drinking
f. Not remembering things because we were drinking/"The Black-Out"
g. How all of the above are positive and work to construct social status in the hierarchy of twenty-somethings (as opposed to being embarassing and indicative of a lack of maturity and why our credit card limits are so low)
h. *BONUS* How we will "never drink again" - the most recurring falsehood in the twenty-something's lifeworld



Happy procrastination, Hilary-love!