i would bet more people in america know the konami code than the name of the speaker of the house
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
^facebook that plz
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
To cardamom's makeover pic: yes, that's EXACTLY how it works. Wear less expensive clothing and you can just paint instead of working.
― the minor fall, the lemon lift (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 November 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
kids of today ironically far far better informed about popular culture before they were born than kids of, say, thirty years ago ever were.
perhaps. but growing up in the decade of the 1960s (ages 5 through 15) television was jamcrammed with cartoons and movies from the 1930s and 40s, so that as an 8 year old I could easily identify oldster celebrities like Jimmy Durante, Jerry Colona, Bing Crosby, Boris Karloff, Rudy Vallee, or the Marx Brothers. At age 10 I'd seen such outdated fare as Wild Boys of the Road, I Was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, or Boys Town.
― Aimless, Monday, 23 November 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
Personally, I'm uncertain how to address cultural literacy with children, because there is JUST. SO. MUCH. CULTURE. I try to resist the urge to oversteep them in things that happened to be important to ME in my antediluvian childhood.
http://www.theonion.com/article/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-h-26132
My own personal parents hit me over the head repeatedly with the cultural signifiers of their upbringing, to the exclusion of the many fine things that came before, things that came after, and things they didn't happen to dig. So, like many of my contemporaries, I knew as much about the Beatles as the most ardent Beatlemaniac - but I needed to go out of my way to specifically seek out knowledge of Brahms, Billie Holiday, the Clash.
If I wish to present a diverse spectrum of culture to my children, I feel some responsibility to avoid over-representing the ephemeral 80s culture that formed my worldview, but also avoid leaving out those ephemera entirely.
― the minor fall, the lemon lift (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 November 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/11888099_942670152467451_5327522948042574807_n.png?oh=934ac66961c5894293d642af5db42991&oe=56B00880
― nickn, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 01:45 (eight years ago) link
Tanya Markul, Executive Vice President of the Sparkle Marketing Council
― Aimless, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
http://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12299224_10153305365291139_6705558648637670678_n.jpg?oh=572dafc9b95e381931af459c1f90fa2a&oe=56E5D222
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
True enough.
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
That's quite clever, tbh
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
i lold
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
Another funny one.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12299349_10205576641155735_7782712964251153490_n.jpg?oh=e87990f2d003741d7921e865d0dd4855&oe=56DFC710
― nickn, Thursday, 26 November 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/C0K1qlm.jpg
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:05 (eight years ago) link
You know God is serious it when he uses all caps.
― jmm, Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:16 (eight years ago) link
*it
― jmm, Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
Seems an omniscient god would be better at knowing people's gender
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link
this Job reboot started out with such potential, wonder what went wrong
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 November 2015 05:58 (eight years ago) link
3:)
― niels, Thursday, 26 November 2015 07:15 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12250056_10156206690700335_5744854420821210632_n.png?oh=75bda60e0b41787e82ceb1dd97095892&oe=56AC629A
― cardamon, Thursday, 26 November 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
I don't
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 November 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
man why can't people spend the holiday season doing something loving and traditional with family, like terrorizing strangers outside best buy?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 November 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11221897_10153232322015756_289926922657883689_n.jpg
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 26 November 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
https://40.media.tumblr.com/550c9422d01ff5a51bab72e54fa73486/tumblr_nyfvu8iwGZ1sy67obo1_500.jpg
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 26 November 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
...black ops?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 November 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
euphemism for scat
― when's international me day? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 November 2015 00:48 (eight years ago) link
Are crowns the new fedora or something.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Friday, 27 November 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link
"I'm a nice guy, but women only want the bad boys."
― nickn, Friday, 27 November 2015 07:52 (eight years ago) link
some men like to see you smile!
http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/2015/11/kilgrave_2.png
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 November 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
Was expecting that image to be broadcitysmile.gif but I like the idea of purple mansplainer being a sjw meme
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 November 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
you and me, forks. we can make this happen!
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 28 November 2015 06:15 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/12039269_917042935057142_5307795173293550690_n.jpg?oh=da18eeca976312591ebf9e7bee31ae4c&oe=56F89246
― chimiraquai (how's life), Saturday, 28 November 2015 10:59 (eight years ago) link
who's the guy?
― niels, Saturday, 28 November 2015 11:14 (eight years ago) link
I believe he may be an early 20th century hair pomade magnate or something. Shamefully I don't know who he is, even though I do recognize Cher.
― how's life, Saturday, 28 November 2015 11:19 (eight years ago) link
ISIS: couldn't pick Nicolai Tesla out of a crowd
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 28 November 2015 12:19 (eight years ago) link
Why is it always Nikola Tesla in these things? Like nobody would recognise Ernest Rutherford or HG Wells either.
― a hastily-observed cruet (seandalai), Saturday, 28 November 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
(assuming that is Tesla, I have no idea tbh)
― a hastily-observed cruet (seandalai), Saturday, 28 November 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
What's the point in recognizing scientists? Isn't it more important to know what they did?
― Frederik B, Saturday, 28 November 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
Like, congrats, you're a sentient being with an internet connection, who haven't ever googled 'Nikola Tesla'. Take a good fucking look at yourself.
Like, I know who the fuck Nikola Tesla is. I've seen The Prestige. And played Red Alert.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 28 November 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
Tesla may be the darling of a certain kind of technophile, but holding a bunch of patents and being something of a maniac hardly places one in the same category as a Dmitri Mendeleev or a James Clerk Maxwell.
― Aimless, Saturday, 28 November 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
oliver heaviside ftw imho. his biography matches or bests tesla's too for that matter.
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Saturday, 28 November 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
I wouldn't get too hung up on the identification of Tesla via picture aspect, as I'd imagine the creator of that image would argue the point still stands even if each photograph was captioned with the corresponding names.
― Evan, Saturday, 28 November 2015 17:51 (eight years ago) link
As we've seen on trenchant social commentary thread, there is a common tendency for trenchants to believe that one is to be blamed, personally, for not knowing what one doesn't know
― cardamon, Sunday, 29 November 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRafTnIUwAE0xhl.jpg
how the fuck is a hoverboard not experiencing life
― qualx, Sunday, 29 November 2015 07:10 (eight years ago) link
That's a cheap trip to Europe.
― AlanSmithee, Sunday, 29 November 2015 08:07 (eight years ago) link
immateriality of memory is a bold clam
― Noodle Vape (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 November 2015 10:12 (eight years ago) link
$600 = Round trip to Britain in freezing grey February, maybe
― kinder, Sunday, 29 November 2015 10:19 (eight years ago) link
best to experience us at our realest
― Noodle Vape (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 November 2015 10:22 (eight years ago) link
If u haven't been without food or lodging in Feb in Sheffield then how can u bear to have amazing life-enriching technology
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 November 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link
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do i get to meet any members of def leppard?
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 November 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
I spose it depends on the hostel you get into
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 November 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link