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user-inactivated  ·  3331 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: White, middle-aged Americans are unique amongst the developed world: Their life expectancy is *DROPPING.*

Bit surprising. But then, I had to explain to someone why ABBA isn't 'oldies' today. The wikipedia page is wrong. The term oldies has nothing to do with time interval, and everything to do with a type of music popular in the '50s and '60s which no longer exists. It is physically impossible to call Nirvana or Taylor Swift oldies.

She did not believe me.