The Noughties.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by shakermaker

I will comment that my coming of age seemed to take place in a truly uninspiring time in terms of art and music compared to that of most of you lot.

Totally agree.

Culturally the decade has been very disappointing.

No new music. (Okay, sort of newish bands, but all very retro.)

No new youth movements, unless you count tucking your trackie bottoms in your socks.

Little new theatre.

No new art movements.

No literary revolutions.

No riots, unless you count the biggest demonstration of the decade, the tweed and pearls pro-countryside/pro-hunting march.

Even Top of the Pops ended.

[MargaretR]

The noughties has meant nothing good for me too.
Things will 'pick up' by 2012

[shillelagh]

what have i done in the noughties ... learned to drive and then lost my licence ..twice, got rid of the kidsitting duties that i had .. because they're now teenagers, turned into my mums carer until she died, got a part time job, got t'internet and found accyweb, stood for election and lost ... twice, bought the house, epilepsy came back, think ive had a busy decade ....

and spug!!!!

[webglynne]

I will remember the noughties as the time I received a death threat on the boards of a carers charity by someone who turned out to be the owner of a hate site about which the charity did nothing. Apart from that is giving help and support to this person and banning me for speaking out about that.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by shakermaker

I was 11 when we rang in the millennium, and will be 22 when we welcome the tens (tens? that doesn't sound right). All the usual adolescent nonsense packed in the middle, so shan't bore. But I will comment that my coming of age seemed to take place in a truly uninspiring time in terms of art and music compared to that of most of you lot.

I suppose the eighties were my similar 'growing up' decade. From Lancashire schoolboy to cosmopolitan fashion 'ho, via stints at college and art school.

The begining of the decade was still touched by the excitment of punk, but the mid-eighties were dire.

I remember being in the supposed hippest club in London in 1985, and thinking my clubbing days were now over, because the music was rubbish. No way was I, could I, ever dance to Bryan Adams and Foreigner. Then in 1987 House music came over from a few black and gay clubs in Chicago, and it all kicked off again in the most fabulous fashion.

A-cidddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

The noughties has meant nothing good for me too.
Things will 'pick up' by 2012

in't that the year Nostradamus predicted the end of the World Margaret

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

Well there is that as well.

Come on cashy Accy Web wouldn't be the same without the nodding Dog