There ain't no such thing as progress

[desperance]

Coming home from a free lunch, I passed a student couple; and she was giggling as he said, "I've literally just smoked a spliff, and--"

And I was privately amused, and thought, "Hell, they sound just like we used to..."

And then I thought, "Hell, that was thirty years ago! Aren't we supposed to have had Gen X and Gen Y since then? Shouldn't they, um, be sounding different...?"