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Pop Culture: Game Changers



fire&skill

Killer-Diller
Jan 17, 2009
4,296
Shoreham-by-Sea
Having seen this term used on 'Best 80s British Band' thread, what have been the turning points for culture and society across the ages? I'd like to nominate Bill Haley and the smartphone (not one of his better known bands). The former for the birth of rock 'n' roll (prepares to get flamed for that statement) and the latter for being the tool that has singlehandedly ruined the concept of arguing.
 

Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
8,458
Brighton
Watched 'Castles in the Sky' about the invention of radar. To think of all the things that have been invented in the last 100 years but that most have been made obsolete in the past 20 years by computers.
 


Baldseagull

Well-known member
Jan 26, 2012
10,859
Crawley
Fire.
Stone tools.
End of Ice age.
Farming.
etc.
 

Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
The internet. Can't even have a good argument these days with some **** looking it up on line and killing the argument stone dead.

Even the 1901 quizzes are full of cheats using their iphones :lolol:
 


Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
30,499
Reality TV, internet porn and chicken nuggets.
 


Trufflehound

Re-enfranchised
Aug 5, 2003
14,103
The democratic and free EU
Mr & Mrs Hitler having sex somewhere in Austria in 1888.

Whoever the person was who first thought of combining mashed potato with pork sausages and onion gravy.
 


1234andcounting

Well-known member
Mar 31, 2008
1,609
The coming of the railway. Created a national economy, made timekeeping essential in a way that it had never been before, allowed for the creation of a national media with the consequent destruction of local dialects over time, led to the development of the limited liability company as we know it now. Repeat globally.
 

Grombleton

Surrounded by <div>s
Dec 31, 2011
7,356
In my lifetime, then it'd be the growth of the Internet and global awareness brought about by 9/11.

It's hard to pinpoint one or two specifics, though - some have come about because of other things so it's hard to define. Even though I just did.
 


Herr Tubthumper

Well-known member
NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Jul 11, 2003
59,071
The Fatherland
Garlic bread
 

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