Ok It's not over yet but we can atleast round up 95% of it.

Fashion - those silly Charity rubber wrist bands everyone used to wear around 2004.

Gadget - has to be the ipod and wii

Music - Nothing particular stands out. Brit Pop 2.0 maybe on The Bowie front I guess you have Heathen and Reality and....err thats it.

perhaps even the invent of myspace and illegal downloading.

World wide events (where were you when .... happened) 9/11, 7/7 and Michael Jackson's death.

TV event - 9/11 and Jackson's funeral ceremony.

cultural change - ha ha turned into lol. and the iconic

people have "friends" on network sites.

Scandal - more jackson allegations, Ross and Brand being naughty on radio.

any more things you would like to add?

The MPs expenses scandal, and the fact that politicians of all parties have been proved to be a load of lying, corrupt, and totally untrustworthy bastards.

As if we didn't already know.

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true and actually lets not forget the global recession

<< true and actually lets not forget the global recession >>

You know what I'm increasingly thinking this recession thing is a load of old cobblers and just an excuse for employers to jump on the band wagon so they can cut jobs more easily and not give pay rises.

Royal Mail for example have announced they are not giving it's workers a pay rise this year despite announcing a 350 million pound profit! and despite the fact we got pay rises when we were losing a million pound a day at one time? they are also in the process of slashing jobs to the bone at the inevitable expense to quality of service which in some cases can amount to a pay cut of over 100 quid a week! for some staff. Go figure!

Also have you noticed when you go to the Tescos or wherever, luxury goods like TVs etc are still flying off the shelves everywhere. My idea of a true recession is where the majority of people can barely afford to eat let alone buy the luxuries in life.

Of course there are people who are genuinely struggling because they have lost their jobs for whatever reason, and my heart felt sympathy goes out to those people who are genuinely struggling to make ends meet, but I'm increasingly of the opinion that this whole recession thing is being blown out of all proportion just to suit corrupt business and politicians agendas.

Edit.... Of coure this decade will be remembered as the decade David Bowie retired and a truly individual and unique artist ( far more of a loss than Michael Jackson ) is lost to us forever, the like of which we won't see again for a very long time.
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The lies around WMD.

My views have changed over the past few years - I was hood-winked (like a lot of others). The image of Bush and Blair makes me feel ill.

in scotland it will be the first decade of devolution, and the scottish government.

Memorable things that happened the noughties - 2000-2009:


9/11
7/7 London bombings
The massive shift of resources towards the war on terrorism.


Ipod MP3 revolution (I started using them last decade as I was a bit of a mac expert)

Music becoming almost free, concert costs spiraling

Online networking boom Myspace, Bebo, Facebook, Twitter, etc..

Digital cameras killing off film cameras.


The global recession at the end of the decade

The popularisation of competitiveness and celebrities as entertainment. Pop Idol, Dancing On Ice, Britain's Got Talent. X Factor, The Apprentice, etc..

Also people allowing T.V. exposure to influence their record buying decisions, nearly all of the biggest UK singles are by TV talent show winners (Will Young, Gareth Gates, Shane Ward, etc..)

The Cult of the instant celebrity with no particular talent - Big brother contestants, Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham etc..

118-188. Got your number.

Roger Federer

The excellent 2002 World Cup

The boom of YouTube

Harry bloomin' Potter - books & movies.

Jacko's death & boom in popularity in 2009.

President Obama

Regional accents in modern music (& on Big Brother, wye-aye, man), .whereas before they were suppressed. - The Streets, Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash, Lilly Allen.

The Lord Of The RIngs

Coldplay
U2 continue their global dominance
Eminem
Amy Whinehouse
Usher
50 Cent
Girls Aloud
Take That have a massive comeback, probably bigger than they were before.

The noughties - Wassup!

Coldplay??? pffff

Actually Alan, if you sit back and think about it (on a lunch break) there's a hell of alot to go by!

only one thing "Regional accents in modern music" didn't Oasis start the trend in the 90's?

Reality TV is definitely a biggy.

on Technology front - The death of Analogue fromats caompact cassette and VHS. Even DVD has taken a beating with Blu-Ray.

Television is heading towards on demand TV.

The mobile phone is becoming like a digital Swiss army knife and can do many things.

Buzz words
Carbon Footprint
to Google something
Facebook me
Metrosexual
rom-com (romantic comedy)


Coldplay were big though, you can't deny that.

> President Obama

Indeed. The first black U.S. President.

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Paris Hilton becoming a "celebrity", not because she's rich but because she was videoed sucking cock.

Perez Hilton becoming a "celebrity", not because he's got any talent, but because he's a bitch.

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Peaches Geldolf being a spoilt little brat.

Sharon and Kelly Osbourne being more famous than Ozzy. Yet not really having any talent

its the decade David Bowie retired

twitter and most 'social networking sites'

How Clover's diet failed and he got bigger'n'bigger till he POPPED!



adios sexton splint

TV Comedy -
The Office -a whole new genre
Ali G
peep Show

it's all good. Not sure about American comedy Family Guy Maybe. Though that's probably something that started in the 90's

the music comeback of the decade has to be Pink Floyd or led Zep. Even if they were one offs

I've forgotten most of this crap already and the stuff I haven't I do wish I'd forgotten.

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God darn it, you know... You're right, Doc Ock.

Thinking about it, the noughties have been pretty pants.

There haven't really been any new musical genres emerging either. Which is why I mentioned the regional dialects trend.

The decade when one could abandon human-to-human contact and still have something resembling a life.

The return of the Thing Under The Bed; this time wearing a beard and a burnoose.

The days when celebrity culture took over everything.

...no, we were always afraid of our food.

You never know the real story.

"There haven't really been any new musical genres emerging either" well not new but there was a remergence of the singer/songwriter genre. the downside of that is james Blunt also Take That jumped that sound.

also as new genres - there's Electro-Clash, Mash-ups (though Norman Cook did this in the 90's)

Good point about Mashups, they have become really popular in the last decade. Go Home Production's Papa Was A Clock being my favourite outcome.

I think it was david Gray and Dido who re-ignited the appeal of the singer songwriter. White Ladder and No Angel were massive albums released in '99, I think.


Bowie released some very decent music this decade, just didn't do enough of it
Heathen, half of Reality & all those wonderful b-sides/ non album tracks. Wood Jackson, Conversation Piece, Fly, Nature Boy, Your Turn To Drive, You've Got A Habit....

And of course, Chubby Little Loser, the last new composition we ever got from Bowie!

There's also been a big rise in Novelty Cover bands

Novelle Vague - 80's New Wave songs into Bossanova and Reggae
Easy All Stars - Concept albums into Reggae
Hayseed Dixie - Rok/pop songs into Country Music
Senor Coconuts - electro and rock/pop into Brazilian Music
Pipinni Sisters - Rock/Pop into Old Wartime style music
Johnny Cash - Alternative into Country Music
Richard Cheese - Pop/Rock and Alternative to Lounge Music

just to name a few

"Fashion - those silly Charity rubber wrist bands everyone used to wear around 2004."

Yeah, like Help for Heroes I am wearing now. 9 UK soldiers died in the last week in Afghanistan...178 since 2001.

£14.5m raised by Dec 08 from many activities including those silly CHarity wrist bands.....


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I smile and go off waving
(Amiably) - for that's my way

http://www.helden.org.uk

This is the worst decade for bowie fans

The first half was great, loads of great songs & I saw Bowie 5 times between 2002-2003.

Wait till the next decade if you thought this one was bad!

Sorry 10 dead - 179 so far......

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Baal

I smile and go off waving
(Amiably) - for that's my way

http://www.helden.org.uk

I'd rather just give money to the charity than wear one of those.

5 more British soldiers have died in Afghanistan, bringing to 8 the total killed over 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence has said.

The 5, from the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, were killed in 2 separate blasts while on foot patrol on Friday. Next of kin have been informed.

Their deaths take the number of troops killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to 184 and higher than the 179 killed in Iraq.


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I smile and go off waving
(Amiably) - for that's my way

http://www.helden.org.uk

The return of Dr Who and the emergence of Captain Jack.

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memorable that a far right conservative bigot president is elected then succeded by a far left liberal who believes in black superiority

9/11 and war on terror

michael jackson dies/ child molestation allegations

lebron james, michael phelps

Super hero movies, Matrix series and Pirates of the Carribeans

High Definition Televisions, HD game consoles, motion detection consoles, blu-ray, HD broadcasts

recession (maybe a depression, we still have time)

gay rights activists gone wild

Nu-Rave
Chill Out (ok continued from late 90's)
Nu-Metal
Nu-Jazz

basically anything that has come back again has Nu at the start.

oh yeah and anything old now is Old Skool.

and Vicky Pollard is a role model to millions of young single mums in housing estates everywhere

MILF is an expression used but the politer term is yummy mummies (i hate that term)

One of the worst decades in the history of the USA.

The rise of China.

and India - all the best to them theyve worked hard to make it into the world of technology