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I would say it's common to use the phrase "It's <current_year> and..." when describing something that one finds appalling in modern society.
by becausewat 9y ago
I would say it's common to use the phrase "It's <current_year> and..." when describing something that one finds appalling in modern society.
- xname2 9y agoBut how about "It's 2017 and 1+1 is still 2?"?
- PeterisP 9y agoThe message is quite different. I read your comment as saying essentially "ok, it's business as usual, and hasn't yet changed", i.e., acknowledging a fact, and possibly acknowledging that it's likely to continue in the future (which is true). I read their message as saying the same as you say, but also stating a value judgment - i.e. that it should be considered weird that hasn't changed, that it should have been changed ages ago (definitely before 2017), and that it should be considered unacceptable if it continues in the future. Which is quite a different story about the same facts, and this part of the story is efficiently implied by the short prefix "It's 2017 but..".