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Paul Fairie
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Threads (Pre-order my new book, The Press Gallery!), politics, fun, Headline of the Year, Dr. Cronk, @DowntownCoreCA. Researcher, instructor, @UCalgary.
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Nov 8 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
A List of People and Things Blamed for Ruining America

🧵 Absence of whiskey Absence of Whiskey Is Ruining Nation, Says Aged Veteran By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Aug 10 - Declaring that the lack of whisky is breeding a “race of ping pong players,” Nathan Douchy, 91 year old champion of rum and tobacco, has spoken his mind about what this world’s coming to. –The San Angelo Daily Standard, 10 Aug 1925
Oct 9 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College

🧵 2024 High School Students Think They Are Ready for College. But They Aren’t --EducationWeek, 21 Feb 2024
Aug 27 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
A Brief History of Baseball is Dying

🧵 2022 Opinion Guest Essay Baseball Is Dying. The Government Should Take It Over. April 6, 2022 --New York Times, 6 Apr 2022
Aug 21 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
A List of Predictions of When America Will Have Its First Woman President

🧵 2017: "someday" Chelsea Clinton predicts woman president -- someday Chelsea Clinton mostly stuck to the subject of childhood obesity Friday at a Variety magazine event honoring prominent women and their charity work -- except for her last line. Responding to a pointed quip hours earlier from emcee Vanessa Bayer that none of the honorees' mothers was president, Clinton said that maybe not, "but someday, someone's (mother) will be." --Press Journal, 23 April 2017
Aug 7 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
A Brief History of Nobody Dresses Well Anymore

🧵 2022 "Attitudes have changed," she said, a bit wistfully. "People don't dress up much anymore. --Lincoln Journal Star, 12 September 2022
Jan 1 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
A List of Predictions Made in 1924 About 2024

🧵 Beds will automatically fling children out in the morning A Century Hence SCHOOL LIFE IN 2024 A.D. CRASH! My bed turns over automatically and I am deposited on the floor. It is eight o'clock and the switch, operating the above fiendish substitute for an alarm clock, is operated from school so that, at the moment, I am in the same predicament as the rest of the 450 scholars. After donning my one piece asbestos suit (washing being unnecessary under new atmospheric conditions) I partake of breakfast in tabloid form & step outside in time to catch the 8.10 aerobus & arrive at school two minutes later. The first lesson is English, and... the English ...
Dec 20, 2023 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
The 2023 Headline of the Year Nominees

🧵 2023 Headline of the Year nominee (January) Six-day illegal rave in Spanish village “magnificently organised” according to mayor --NME, 5 January 2023
Nov 30, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
A Brief History of Kids Today Are Lazy

🧵 2023 Majority of Parents Say Kids Are Dishonest, Disrespectful, and Lazy --Education Week, 24 January 2023
Oct 31, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
A Brief History of Women Today Dress Inappropriately

🧵 2019 Women dress too sexually I am deeply disturbed by the extremely sexualized clothing women are wearing -- the plunging necklines, the tight tops, the tight skirts. The female body is beautiful and artistic even under appropriate clothing gently surrounding the body. To wear extreme clothing that leaves nothing to the imagination is to invite male gawking and sexual desire. I am a feminist for sure, but our gender has succumbed to trends. --Tallahassee Democrat, 25 February 2019
Oct 17, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
A Brief History of We Are Raising a Generation of Wimps

🧵 2023 Arnold Schwarzenegger warns ‘over-babying’ can create ‘generation of wimps’ --Global News, 6 October 2023
Oct 2, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
A Brief History of America is in Decline Like The Roman Empire

🧵 2022 There are ominous signs -- politics, culture, national character -- that the U.S. might have embarked on the beginning of its end as a great empire, just as insane as Rome in its decline. --The Recorder, 2 July 2022
Sep 5, 2023 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom

🧵 2011 If kids want to stir up trouble, they can do so at any time of the day. The problem is, kids today have too much freedom. They come and go as they please. It is the responsibility of the parents to teach their children how to treat and respect others. --Philadelphia Daily News, 4 November 2011
Aug 28, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
A List of Things People Blamed for World War I

🧵 Potatoes Potatoes Blamed for War Potatoes are partly blamed for the Great War on the grounds that the introduction of the potato into northern Europe made a great increase in population possible. --The Tonkawa News, 2 March 1939
Jul 19, 2023 • 93 tweets • 19 min read
The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

🧵 2002 "I can't fill the jobs. It just seems kids don't like to work anymore." --The Post-Star, 12 April 2002
Jun 14, 2023 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
A Brief History of Things Were Better 50 Years Ago

🧵 2023 And when Americans reflect ...
May 15, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
A Brief History of Men and Women Are Trading Places

🧵 2011 With careers, men, women tr...
May 8, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts

🧵 Moldy shops Mini-skirts Blamed For 'Mol...
May 1, 2023 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers

🧵 The decline of the whale catching industry Flappers Blamed for Decline...
Apr 20, 2023 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
A List of Things People Blamed for Juvenile Delinquency

🧵 Making boys read poetry Teachers Blamed For Crime A...
Apr 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
📖BOOK UPDATE: 80% funded!

I'm writing a book diving into the newspaper archives to look at repeated arguments (Nobody Wants to Work Anymore!), endless blame (jazz! bicycles!) & more!

Pledge for your copy today!

unbound.com/books/thepress… It's being published by @unbounders in London (UK) -- 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).
Apr 17, 2023 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
A Brief History of Parents Today Are Controlled By Their Kids

🧵 2017 There is a commercial on TV...