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© Iain Stirling 2018
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Source ISBN: 9780008288006
Ebook Edition © May 2019 ISBN: 9780008288020
Version: 2019-05-22
To my mum Alison, my dad Rodger and my sister Kirsten. This book isn’t for you, it’s because of you. I love you.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I ONCE TOLD AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD TO GO FUCK HIMSELF
CHAPTER 1
Mollycoddled
CHAPTER 2
‘The Best Days of Your Life …’
CHAPTER 3
The Years BW (Before Wi-fi )
CHAPTER 4
The Power of Love … Island
CHAPTER 5
We’re All Fake Happy
CHAPTER 6
What a Way to Make a Living (Apparently)
CHAPTER 7
A Generation that Likes to (Political) Party Hard
CHAPTER 8
Here Comes the Science Bit …
CONCLUSION
THE INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH MOMENT
A TREAT FOR THOSE WHO’VE SKIPPED TO THE BACK
‘The Millennial Circle’
adulting
NOUN
informal
The practice of behaving in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially the accomplishment of mundane but necessary tasks.
However, the entire time you are carrying out said tasks you are uncomfortably aware that you have no idea what the hell you are doing, you will fuck it up and eventually be found out.
‘Fucking
