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Apr 17 • 24 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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A Brief History of Parents Today Are Controlled By Their Kids

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2017 There is a commercial on TV...
2004 "If I had to narrow it...
1999 Music, video games and tele...
1989 "This is the first gen...
1971 "It starts with self a...
1966 "A lot of children are...
1956 Sir Basil Henriques, Englis...
1944 "Juvenile delinquency ...
1941 READERS' VIEWS PARENTS RUL...
1935 In this topsy-turvy age whe...
1931 MODERN CHILDREN Should The...
1923 "But 20 years ago you ...
1916 It was the idea of the spea...
1912 "There's just as much ...
1907 SAYS CHILDREN RULE PARENTS ...
1897 LARRIKINISM TO THE EDITOR ...
1895 Children of Today Too Often...
1883 Boys are mighty smart now-a...
1873 On last Friday an old gentl...
1867 Indeed we have heard it rem...
1850 WHEN I WAS YOUNG BY BISHOP...
1845 That such a state of things...
If you enjoy these threads, you might also enjoy pledging for a copy of my new book, The Press Gallery. Dozens of themes, 500+ clippings with fun essays about kids these days, why everything bad is the fault of bicycles and jazz, and more!

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Apr 13
A List of Things People Blamed on Halley’s Comet

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Apr 12
📖BOOK UPDATE: 65% funded!

I'm writing a book showcasing my best finds from the newspaper archives looking at repeated arguments (Nobody Wants to Work Anymore!), endless blame (jazz! bicycles!) & things I find amusing.

Pledge for your copy today!

unbound.com/books/thepress…
It's being published by @unbounders in London (England) -- they use a crowdfunding model to cover some initial costs, and early backers pledge to receive various rewards (and books!). At 100% (and when it's done!) the book will also be available in the usual places (shops, etc).
Many of the topics will be similar to the threads I've shared over the past 10 months -- but with 500+ clippings & essays offering more context to each of the themes. I'm currently writing the bicycle chapter which is ultimately about 1890s feminism.

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Apr 3
📷BOOK UPDATE: 50% funded!

I'm writing a book for @Unbounders presenting my best finds from the newspaper archives looking at repeated arguments (Nobody Wants to Work Anymore!), endless blame & things I find amusing.

Pledge for your copy today!

unbound.com/books/thepress…
Unbound is a crowdfunding publisher based in London (England) -- they take pledges in advance of publication to cover some initial costs, early backers get various rewards (and books!), and then the book will also be available in all the usual places (shops, etc.).
The book will have a few dozen themed collections, feat. 500+ clippings about our repeated claims about things like 'kids today are too soft' or 'men today are too feminine'. Our blaming of everything bad on anything new -- jazz, bicycles, bobbed hair.
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Mar 29
A Brief History of Kids Today Have It Easy

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2022 Most parents agree kids have it "too easy" these d
2011 I don't think I'd want to be a kid today. Kids have it too e
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Mar 28
You know how Twitter often turns into a contest about who can make the best joke about the Main Character of the Day?

Newspapers used to be like that, too.

Here they are reacting to the news that 26 women in Kansas were teaming up to write a novel: Twenty-six Kansas women have undertaken to collaborate the gTwenty-Six Kansas women have banded together to write a noveIt is said that twenty-six Kansas women have banded togetherTwenty-six Kansas women have banded together to write a nove
Relatively lazy topical jokes were not a genre invented by late night show writers.
Sadly, I cannot find any evidence that this novel was ever published.
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Mar 27
A List of Predictions Made in the 1890s about the 1990s

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Women will complain that men are too masculine In 1995 Miss Hystrung -- "I can't bear that young Mr.
Teeth will no longer be necessary TEETH A CENTURY HENCE Human teeth will not be any stronger
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