When people say "its 2018 why is x thing happening"

robfosters said:
Why haven’t they still not invented a toaster that evenly cooks a whole slice of regular sliced bread all over?, it’s 2018!
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The should be a thread all on its own! I want a laser toaster that scans the toast and takes colour, heat and 'toastiness' into consideration before deciding to pop it.
 
Bassmansam said:
Then how does it make sense???
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It's been explained by several people, but one more time. It's not one person claiming to be alive for 2018 years. It's an exclamation based on the progress of society/species as a whole and because of this progress "Why is this [one simple thing] still happening?"

Do you also have issues with the saying "in this day and age"? For example, I can't believe people can be so wilfully ignorant of simple sayings in this day and age.
 
Clav said:
It's been explained by several people, but one more time. It's not one person claiming to be alive for 2018 years. It's an exclamation based on the progress of society/species as a whole and because of this progress "Why is this [one simple thing] still happening?"

Do you also have issues with the saying "in this day and age"? For example, I can't believe people can be so wilfully ignorant of simple sayings in this day and age.
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Hmm i do get equally bemused when people say things like “whats the world coming to” after reading bad news. It’s like, “read a history book!!” The world has always had ba people/ things happening.
 
Bassmansam said:
Hmm i do get equally bemused when people say things like “whats the world coming to” after reading bad news. It’s like, “read a history book!!” The world has always had ba people/ things happening.
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That does make me laugh. The thing that's different these days is 24 hour news coverage so your hear about everything that is happening. My granddad was a policeman in the 60s, he will tell you all the bad stuff was going on then too.
 
Bassmansam, I think you are perhaps treating life and it's associated expressions just a little too literally.

"It's 2018, why do we still not have gay marriage across the world?"

This sentence does not infer I have been alive for 2018 years (I'm not sure how you could reach that conclusion to be honest)

The sentence is saying "Wow, it's 2018, and after thousands of years of development and civilisation we still can't be modern and progressive enough to allow gay marriage across the world.
Luckily, thanks to something called "history", I did not need to experience these preceding thousands of years of social development myself, and have been able to formulate an idea of our progress all on my own by comparing multiple sources of historical information against my own experiences of the current world"

But it would take ages to say that, so we just say "Wow, it's 2018 and we still don't have gay marriage available all over the world?"
 
godinman said:
The should be a thread all on its own! I want a laser toaster that scans the toast and takes colour, heat and 'toastiness' into consideration before deciding to pop it.
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So what level of granularity are you looking for in the elements?

That's gonna be the problem as toasters just have one big element per side, you need lots of small ones so it can toast specific larts
 
Conscript said:
It's a comparative for when we're surprised that seemingly simple things haven't been achieved, despite how far we've come. For example, it's 2018, we've put men on the moon, I can talk to someone on the other side of the planet in real time right now, I could travel and meet them in less than a day, and I'm typing this from a device which allows me to access the entire Internet and can be stored in my pocket.

Yet has anyone invented an umbrella which can be opened in more than a stiff breeze? Have they ****. PRIORITIES.
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It's 2018, why are you even leaving the house?
 
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