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Voices: I’m a millennial – and I want nightclubs shut down

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Millennials like me have a reputation for being boring, and there’s some truth to that. I sometimes call us the “crochet generation”, because for some reason in university everybody I knew took up really twee hobbies and got into long-term relationships instead of making life-altering mistakes that would follow us forever.

I have a theory that it’s because we already knew back then that the dying economy would to being full-blow adults with secure jobs and mortgages, so we focused our energy and wistful imaginings of what our youth could have been – name a more iconic duo.

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