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If 2020 was a song, this is what it’d be.

August 23, 2020 by Flynn & Tonic

“You say you want a revolution,” sang the Beatles back in 1968. “We all want to change the world.”

And indeed they did – surrounded by global social upheaval and in the shadow of the Vietnam War, it became an anthem for a generation frustrated by the status quo and hungry for change. But what the Beatles happened to do pretty darn well, is really what countless others had done before them: turn turmoil into inspiration; misery into a movement. After all, you couldn’t have had the Renaissance without the Dark Ages. Jazz may never have left New Orleans if not for the yearn for a new way of being post-WWI. And a jumpsuit-fancier named Elvis Presley wouldn’t have had a career without the winds of ’50s social change whipping up his bouffant.

Which brings me to the current day.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 2020, covid

Total Recoil: the risky business of socialising during a pandemic

August 9, 2020 by Flynn & Tonic

We Zoomed our way through lockdown. We House Partied more than we’d ever actually house partied. We pretended doing trivia in fancy hats over a computer wasn’t at all slightly strange and lame and probably more appropriate for your teenage brother hiding out in the basement circa 1999.

But while we all dreamed of post-pandemic socialising as being some sort of hedonistic affair that even Jay Gatsby would consider OTT, the reality is a little more sobering.

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Dad-shaming. Still a thing. Still kinda crazy.

August 2, 2020 by Flynn & Tonic

Along with a spike in the number of people who will never need to purchase toilet paper again for the rest of their natural lives, one of the many side effects of the pandemic are the re-emergence of the Dad Shamer.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: dad, dad shaming, dads, fathers, parenting

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