Britain's decision to leave has rocked the bloc it joined 43 years ago, and thrown decades of European integration into reverse.
But with more travellers taking to the skies than ever before, airport hotels have started wooing fliers by throwing decades-old expectations out the window.
Microsoft threw away decades of colorful history with its Windows 10 logo and replaced it with something deeply bland.
Mr. Hu Chiao-mu, China's leading "theoretician,' has thrown out decades of Communist theory by stating that "the proletariat can and must learn from the bourgeoisie".
He told her he had just thrown several decades' worth of old photos, family business records and even camera lenses into a Dumpster.
When the Supreme Court cavalierly threw aside decades of controls to let corporations and unions flood federal elections with unlimited campaign funds, the alternative the court suggested was a mandatory dose of transparency.
Culture occasionally throws up decades of astonishing creativity - the 1920s in literature written in English, the 1970s in American cinema - and the 1990s were an equivalent spell for small-screen stories from New York and Los Angeles.
The scene conjures visions of the parties Plimpton threw for decades at his East River town house (then also the home of The Paris Review), where countless young (and old) poets, journalists and novelists trod his zebra rug, ate his canapés and whetted their irony.
In an essay for the New York Times Magazine on remodelling her flat, Cusk describes how she gutted the rooms and threw away "decades' worth of clutter," but then missed the abandon sanctioned by shabbiness, in which no one had to worry about defiling a pristine sofa or scratching the floor.
It sounded like Microsoft was asking them to throw away decades of experience and switch to HTML5.
Depending on your outlook, that either saw them throw four decades of traditional flamboyance and flair out of the window or, alternatively, belatedly wake up to what it takes to go the distance in a modern-day major tournament.
