It is time to fill-in here some non-USA cultural literacy.



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Would be beyond shocked if that's even close to true.

I just learned this about 60 seconds ago. Could have identified the statue by name, but never thought about who David is.

WTF LOL no. It is David Hasslehof.

I wonder if the extent of these cultural gaps will increase along with bandwidth. I suspect without knowing, for example, that there are many more musical artists out there than there were in the 1960s, making it harder to keep track of a fixed percentage of them.

Same for me.

This makes sense. If you wanted to listen to music in the 60s, you were limited to the record store, what was played on the radio, and anything live. Now, you have a crazy amount of options.

I think this applies to almost all forms of entertainment. In some ways, there are less shared experiences now. Instead of five channels on TV, you have infinite options on Nextflix. Look at how many people watched the last episode of MASH/Seinfeld/Cheers etc. I think some shows will come close to the numbers they generated(Game of Thrones for example) but it may be difficult to generate overwhelming popularity.

But to even things out, its also way easier to share information now. If you didn't see GoT when it aired, you can tape it(lol), DVR it, purchase the DVDs later, watch it online somewhere, etc. So if something is popular, its way easier to share and can spread faster.

It's actually really sick that you could re-write those cassette tapes to replay whatever was on television.

I bet there are a ton of 16 year olds who wouldn't know a Madonna song if they heard it.

They're like a virgin.

I'm not sure I would know a Madonna song, if it was recorded in the last 20 years.

Does she even release new material any more? I have no idea.

Yes (for some value of "any more"). She even did the Super Bowl halftime show like two or three years ago.

Madonna has been on a holiday.

I know this guy that think its the Berenstein bears, lol

Ray of Light JUST qualifies. 1998.

It's actually a very decent album. One take on the album is that it's the one where she realised that pouring herself into an artistically viable collection of songs is not her optimal route to happiness. This is not just some snide comment - this sense of abandonment really does transmit in the songs on that album.

It seems she decided that churning the money making machine and using the profits to promote causes that she believes in (see www.rayoflight.org/) was her solution. It's a shame that she sees it as a dichotomy (I think she has the capacity to resonate via pop music if she applies herself) but I can relate to this sort of pragmatism. And she's older than me too.

What it Feels Like for a Girl (Above & Beyond remix) tho...

At my grandmother's house recently and my niece wanted to know what that thing hanging on the kitchen wall was. Old wall phone with the really long cord so you can walk all over the house while you conversate. Good chance the handset of that phone hasn't been picked up in 10 years or more, yet there it still hangs.

3 of my cousins who are normal, well educated, well adjusted, college aged males, had never even heard of Howard Stern.

While in college, I once convinced a girl in a bar that I fought in Vietnam, even after she asked me how old I was and I told her my age correctly. I told her I just got back. This was in 1985.

It was a mildly cruel thing to do and I have felt bad about it since. Wherever you are, girl, I'm sorry and I hope you've led a good life.

She prob thought you were a complete psycho and was just too polite to say anything.

LOL well ya, he was a huge radio host which is a small niche in itself and then you throw being in an obsolete market on top of that and a 20 year old is like "Joe Rogan is the ****!!! Who the **** is this Howard guy?"

Quite possibly she was from a parallel universe where the Vietnam war was still ongoing and was suffering from the mandela effect.

How is that cruel to her?

Did you have an imaginary flashback and call her Charlie?




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I still have no effing clue what a "Blac Chyna" is, but it's all over my news feed for some reason.