The ’90s called, they want their phones back.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454

• Gen Z’s nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.

• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.

• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z’s love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.

    • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      10•9 months ago

      It’s more recent. Just the euphemism treadmill in action.

      Basically, some people are clinically unintelligent out of no fault of their own, and we’d rather they not get caught in the crossfire when insults are being hurtled. The approach to that has been to try and avoid unintelligence-based insults, but it hasn’t worked, because it actually is just better to be smarter.

      I don’t really have a better suggestion, though.

    • TheMonkeyLord
      7•9 months ago

      You could at least act ignorant rather than trying to logic your hatefulness

    • Gaywallet (they/it)
      5•9 months ago

      Stop arguing about what slurs are okay to use. The only rule around here is to be nice. If someone asks you to not use a word because it hurts them, the nice thing to do is to listen.

    • @Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Because language is fluid and changes with societal use. We don’t all defer to linguistic norms from hundreds or even thousands of years ago when literally everything about life would be alien to us now.

      I’m sure you didn’t intend to post such a nice comment (based on the historical definition of the word)…