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| 08-24-09 09:36am - 5599 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Khan (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,737 Registered: Jan 05, '07 Location: USA |
Reading some of the remarks here about a "Generation gap" (including the recent thread of that name) reminded me of the Beloit Midset List®. For a number of years, the Beloit College has published a mindset list who's aim is to help professors better communicate and relate to the incoming students. For those not familiar with the list, the concept is to frame the "world" the new students grew up in and be aware of how some of YOUR phrases and ideas might be totally lost on the new generation. For several years, I've reminded folks in the adult industry about the list because the 18 yr olds it's written about are the same 18 yr olds who are now the newest potential customers for our adult sites ... and as it happens ... the youngest PU's. So, without further ado ... Beloit College's Mindset List® for the class of 2013 Anyhoo .. I always find it an interesting read. It's also fun to read some of the previous years since I'm too old to get some of the things the current list referrs to. Of course to those of us getting up in years, the lists can make you feel very old. Former PornUsers Senior Administrator Now at: MyPorn.com "To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."-John Henry Patterson | |
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| 08-24-09 10:40am - 5599 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Is this college trying to brainwash their incoming students into false thinking? From the Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013: "8. Tattoos have always been very chic and highly visible." I strongly disagree that tattoos are chic. They might be highly visible, but I don't like to see them. | |
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| 08-24-09 11:06am - 5599 days | #3 | |
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Khan (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,737 Registered: Jan 05, '07 Location: USA |
I think you miss the point. They're not saying that to *everyone* tat's are chic, but for those just turning 18 (the majority) think they're chic and always have been. To those of us much older, we recall a time when getting a tat was not the "in" thing for everyone to do. The point of their exercise is to remind their professors that what seems clear and plane and natural to them, may not even register to those turning 18. Part of the reason I posted this is to highlight how we all need to stay aware that the world around us is constantly changing. We should not assume or norms hold true forever. I thought it dovetailed nicely with the generation gap thread. Former PornUsers Senior Administrator Now at: MyPorn.com "To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."-John Henry Patterson | |
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| 08-24-09 11:18am - 5599 days | #4 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I used to find those lists interesting but no so much any more. It's really just a things that have happened or have "always been" in a teens a lifetime. Just because something has always been a certain way doesn't necessarily mean that all people find it appropriate or true. People are more likely to accept the state of affairs in their lifetime as being true on the surface but that doesn't mean that the next generation of moronic Americans (I'm a card carrying member) turns off their ability to reason and think about their world. As for the young porn hounds, the most damaging idea is that "free internet porn, music and movies is the rule, not the exception" is the most difficult idea facing the entertainment industry as a whole. However, people bitched about the invention of audio tape (your can record stuff off the radio or your friends lp) and the vcr (people will record stuff off of tv and skip the ads or tape movies from tv and not rent or buy them). The new generations, especially in this fast paced interconnected world, simply tend to assimilate and adopt technologies as standard operating procedure without going through the moral/business debate surrounding it. The result is that business models sometimes have to change to connect with a new audience. The moralizing and debating for the young tend to come later when they get older and have a stake in the status quo. As for porn, I don't see much changing in terms of what people like or not. When todays youth have their own kids, the idea of sporting a set of DDDD platic tits and ass antlers like mom has won't be as appealling to the next generation. It seems like most niches and fetishes exist in porn land and that some may gain more prominence with the new crowd but with more to explore means there's more room for people to find what they like and what turns them on. The most difficult task of the moment in porn land is convincing the teenies to pay for their porn; what's going to push the next frontier of porn will be the adaptation or creation of new technologies, not what the young crowd likes or doesn't. | |
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| 08-24-09 02:50pm - 5599 days | #5 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
I agree that it dovetails with the gen gap thread. But saying that "Tattoos have always been very chic and highly visible" is pretty close to saying that everyone thinks so. In fact, all of the statements on the list use "always" or "never" in them. I've learned in my own studies of critical thinking and argumentation to be very careful about making such all encompassing statements, as they are often the product of a simple and lazy mind. It's rather amusing to find it being done so shamelessly on a university web site. Oh well ... never say "never"! I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 08-24-09 06:27pm - 5599 days | #6 | |
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Khan (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,737 Registered: Jan 05, '07 Location: USA |
Again, the "never" and "always" is strictly w/in the context of THAT age group. Perhaps it'll help if I post a link to the page that explains the reasoning behind the list. http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/ To help explain the context, it might be easier with an example from an earlier year. For example, if you look at the list for the year 2008 (for those born in 1986) you see ... "6. Photographs have always been processed in an hour or less." Now, in earlier years it took several days if not a week to process photos but ... for those born in that year, 1 hour processing has ALWAYS been available. That's the context that the list uses "always" and "never". Former PornUsers Senior Administrator Now at: MyPorn.com "To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."-John Henry Patterson | |
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| 08-24-09 06:45pm - 5599 days | #7 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
Thanks Khan. It's always good to have a different prespective on life. It's too bad that their list didn't go before 2002. I would have been curious to see what my mindset would have been when I entered college. One thing is for sure. The only xxx porn found on a computer would have been in text only. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 08-24-09 06:50pm - 5599 days | #8 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Sure, but I think they go overboard on some of them. Dan Rostenkowski? To the class of 2013, he's always been a felon? Both his felonious and pre-felonious lives are far enough into history for that age group that I can't see what difference it would make. How many kids born in '91 have even heard of him? Or of Jack Kevorkian, for that matter? How many even know who their member of congress is? After all, this is about the MINDSET of the current 18-year-olds (mostly, now). Right? And I have another bone to pick. It's so one-sided, so pandering to tuition money. I've never seen anything equivalent in terms of getting the students to understand the mindset of the people older than them. Wouldn't they benefit from that? Can't this be a complete effort in mutual understanding? Well, whatever. Lists. They're so American. They remind me of books like the 1-Minute Manager. Everyone is encouraged to be impatient and shallow-minded and not take the time and effort needed to really understand things in any depth at all. Really, I think that lists like that are worth a little something, but not very much. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 08-24-09 07:14pm - 5599 days | #9 | |
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exotics4me (0)
Active User  Posts: 664 Registered: Jan 12, '07 Location: USA |
I enjoyed it, never had read one before. My nephew is 15, he thinks the Atari 2600 came out in the 50s and will not believe me that televisions have not been around for hundreds of years. His reasoning behind that belief about televisions, "How else did they know what to write in history books?" And if you recommend him and his friends to read "Homer" they instantly start talking about The Simpsons. My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich. - Chuck Palahniuk | |
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| 08-26-09 01:22pm - 5597 days | #10 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Glancing at the list in the link provided by Khan, I've come to the conclusion that most of the stuff listed there isn't really informative, useful or entertaining. For anyone who has seen the Late Show with David Letterman, his "Fun Facts" routine is entertaining and more appropriate here (he starts out with a list of trivial but true facts, then mixes in a bunch of made up shit). So, here's Wittyguy's Fun Facts about the Class of 2013: 1. Have probably never used a phone with a cord attached to it. 2. Agree that "I Dream of Drooler" is the worst porn movie never made. 3. Probably have never worked a real summer job. 4. Describe Brett Favre as DR. FILTH (Double Retired Football-player I'd Like to Fuck). 5. Will never vote for a Baseball Hall of Fame candidate who wasn't juiced during his career. 6. Think that "Denner" is an impoverished African country with a serious porn problem. 7. When they start their work careers, there will be 3.9 of them working to pay for each of our retirement (social security and medicare). When they retire there will only be 2.7 people doing the same. 8. Refer to the "State of Virginia" as a girl who claims to be a virgin because she only has anal sex. 9. Think that BadAndy downloaded all the good porn so they're stuck ripping all their porn from free tube sites. 10. Generally like the TBP version 2.0 reviews but find they're too hard to read because they're not written in txt msg frmt, OMG!. 11. Believe that America is dominated by ruling class families named Clinton and Bush. 12. Only know Michael Jackson as perv, not a singer. 13. Secretly think that Pat362 and Messmer are a gay married couple because they live in Canada. 14. Believe that Daniel Radcliffe (aka Harry Potter) is the most influential movie star in history. 15. Fucked up the world's perception of vampires by making them "glitter". 16. Have only known communism to exist in China, Cuba and North Korea. Of course, according to Republicans, if America has government sponsored health care that will make us communists too. 17. Voted RagingBuddhist's avatar as the America's number one pre-apocalyptic messianic action figure, edging out David Koresh and Sarah Palin. 18. Think that looking at porn on their cell phone is "awesome". 19. Believe the phrase "Booty Call" refers to pervs who set their phones vibrate and stick e'm in their rear for fun. 20. Often confuse Lk2fireone's avatar with Hello Kitty. 21. Probably will be the first generation to think that porn is cool, like tattoos and nose rings. 22. Will never read this post because Wittyguy wrote it. 23. Believes Obama's slogan "Change We Can Believe In" was stolen from a coin dispenser advertisement. 24. Believe the phrases "Taking a Toke" refers to watching the Lord of the Rings on dvd again and "Getting stoned" means pulverizing some Ritalin with a rock for a quick hit. 25. Think that Khan is a reanimated caveman who works here only because Geico didn't think he looked Neanderthal enough for their commercials. 26. Think that Paris Hilton is an old skank. 27. Will deny even knowing the name "Hannah Montana" in another five years let alone admitting they owned her music/merchandise. 28. They have no lurid thoughts or chuckles when someone talks about a "stimulus package". 29. Coined the phrase "I was Max Hardcored" to mean excessive punishment for a minor offense. 30. As a group, unanimously voted a can of spaghettioes as being sexier than BadAndy on the site www.hotornot.com. 31. Believed that the "Cash for Clunkers" program was a way to make some college money by euthanizing their grandparents. 32. Barring a massive wave of immigration, the Class of 2013 will be the last generation of Americans because it's so much easier and faster to participate in "sexting" instead of actually doing the deed. I'll let you figure out what's real (or intended to be) and what's not. Feel free to add your own "fun facts" should you not have a life and choose to participate in mindless posting. Edited on Aug 28, 2009, 10:59am | |
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| 08-26-09 02:32pm - 5597 days | #11 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Wow! I mean, WOW! How do you come up with this stuff? It's a treasure! I'll be returning to read it again and again. And it's the most "mindful" mindless posting I've ever seen. Probably. Good enough, anyway. (Trying to demonstrate "mindless" here.) I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. Edited on Aug 27, 2009, 08:28am | |
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| 08-26-09 07:13pm - 5597 days | #12 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
Witty you are a genius. Either that or you have Waaaay too much time on your hand. Now can anybody top that list?? Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 08-26-09 10:29pm - 5597 days | #13 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Another hilarious Wittyguy post! There's no way that's going to be easily topped, though I'll add some: 33. Think that Star Wars Episodes I-III are getting old and wonder when someone is going to do a sequel. 34. Know Hugh Hefner is famous for starring in his own TV show. 35. The only way to figure out a location or directions is to use GPS. One of your fun facts really hit me:
That's my kind of virgin! And technically, it is the Commonwealth of Virginia, but I doubt that the class of 2013 even knows basic geography, so if they at least know it is the U.S., or maybe just the western hemisphere, then we should be thankful. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 08-27-09 01:27pm - 5596 days | #14 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Not bad there turboshaft (you might have made the list but your lack of an avatar left the Class of 2013 drawing a blank ... sort of like how they reacted to the math portion of their college entrance exams). Here's a couple more off the cuff fun facts: 36. 82% of them believe that "Denial" is a river in Egypt ... which is located just south of Alaska. 37. Have never driven a car without air bags, ABS brakes, cd player, power windows and doors and air conditioning. 38. Refer to "GI Joe with the kung-fu grip" as some military recruit caught masturbating in his tent. 39. Believe that when people talk about "9/11" they're refering to a supersized 7-Eleven store. 40. Have never held a Playboy (or any other skin magazine) in their hands. 41. Only know Madonna as a tired, over-the-hill rock act and know Hulk Hogan and The Rock as tv/film stars, and believe the original Starship Enterprise was led by "Captain Priceline Negotiator". 42. Define "Gay Pride" as a group of homosexual lions. 43. Think that when their parents reminisce about drive-in movies that they're referring to their colonoscopy exams. 44. Are eagerly waiting for scientists to develop a pill that can mimic the placebo effect. Edited on Aug 31, 2009, 04:17pm | |
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| 08-27-09 04:26pm - 5596 days | #15 | ||
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Those are some good ones Wittyguy. And yes, I'm still trying to find a good avatar that fits within the size and dimension requirements. You made some interesting points:
I have read various articles in the news concerning how people around my age -- 'my' generation if you will (I certainly won't) -- are somehow "defined" by 9/11. This is my whole problem with so-called generation gaps and even the attempt to define generations; the arrogance of somehow claiming and carrying exclusive rights to certain events and characteristics. Couldn't anyone who remembers that day firsthand be "defined" by it, regardless of age?
Why are so many people known for TV work alone? The real Mindset list mentioned Ozzy as always having comebacks, but I do wonder: how many in the class are even aware of his solo career, much less his Black Sabbath days? "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | ||
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| 08-27-09 04:54pm - 5596 days | #16 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
In my book there are actually very few events that affect a generation which can then be claimed as truly "defining". Off hand, I would say that WWI and WWII would be such events because the entire population had to live through them (both as soldiers and citizens giving up normal life for the war effort). For the rest of us, we're stuck rembering where we where when certain shocking events happened or claiming some cultural fad as our own in an attempt to define our demographic other than merely age. 9/11 and the two wars that spawned from it could have been truly generational defining but, as one pundit so aptly put it, "Never have so few, given so little in a time of war". If you buy that statement as true then I guess I you in fact have defined the generation (re-affirmed actually) running our country at that time. You could argue that the Baby Boomers, not just the Republicans, who were in charge of the country at the time felt that their personal needs (voting for war so as to not look "soft" and not raising taxes all so they could get re-elected) are a reflection of the "me generation" label attached to the Baby Boomers. Personal and national sacrifice were abandoned in favor of the illusion of security and sacrifice (airport screening and some color coded terrorist threat chart dreamed up by Dr. Strangelove), sending the nonelite classes who make up the bulk of our military into combat, and conducting the wars through a mixture of hubris ("They Iraqi's will welcome us" and "Democracy will take root in the Middle East and make the world safer") and running up the national charge card (As Dick Cheny said "Deficits don't matter"). So, I guess, 9/11 is generational defining moment ... it just defined the Baby Boomers for who they are; the "me" generation who believed that democracy, deference to the poll numbers, and instant credit are the secrets of life. Meanwhile, the rest of us to sort out the mess they left behind while we pay for their retirement. All you old farts can put that in your pipe and smoke it :) Edited on Aug 27, 2009, 05:08pm | |
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| 08-28-09 03:44am - 5595 days | #17 | |
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badandy400 (0)
Active User  Posts: 869 Registered: Mar 02, '08 Location: ohio |
Is this what you do when your hand gets too sore to rub one out? If it is I am going to send some porn your way to keep it that way. I love this stuff! Which is why I have hired a hitman to come after you the day you decide you do not want to post funnies in the forum. If you leave he will tie you up to your computer chair, throw cheesy puffs at you, and rub his fingers across a balloon until you come up with another funny post. One day I porn sucking black hole will for inside my computer and begin draining the world of porn, and the Ukrainian government will be happy. People will be thrown back to the stone age when they had to use the Sears catalog as jack off material. "For example, badandy400 has taken it upon himself to become the one man Library of Congress for porn with a collection that surely will be in Guinness Book of World Records some day." ~Toadsith~ PU Interview | |
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| 08-28-09 01:25pm - 5595 days | #18 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Hmm, interesting point Wittyguy. I have heard boomers blamed for our current economic clusterfuck, as well as all the peace and prosperity in the '90s, so who knows? I haven't actually thought anybody would blame them for our disastrous response to 9/11. You're right in that maybe everyone just defines it (9/11) as a memory, not as any action taken afterward. I still see our response as a national collective problem, that transcends age/generation, culture, and even class and wealth (or lack thereof). What were we told to sacrifice? Nothing, unless you consider the almost total sacrifice of personal savings, frugality, and volunteerism in the wake of the attacks. We were told to shop, or to continue to shop, as shopping and consumerism are how we have come to define ourselves. And in the succeeding years what else did we sacrifice? With the help of our government, time and money with phony terrorist alerts, more shopping (buy duct tape and plastic wrap!), and many basic civil liberties in the name of 'security' and 'patriotism'. The percentage of the U.S. population actually doing any real sacrifice -- volunteer forces both armed and peaceful -- is minute, and largely unknown. People don't actively engage or think critically because they are grossly uninformed and comfortably indifferent. You see it in opinion polls, these recent town hall shouting contests, and basically every election cycle. I am not sure if people really are just generally stupid, simply gullible, or both, but we have left decades of very shameful history in our wake as a result. I better stop before my head explodes... (Is this why Wittyguy has his head up his ass? To keep if from blowing up?)  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Aug 17, 2010, 07:54pm | |
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| 08-28-09 03:28pm - 5595 days | #19 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Well put Turboshaft. My little rant on the Boomers was more or less a means of showing how generational attitudes and complacency can lead to unintended consequences. I agree that our current clusterfuck of problems is transgenerational, more defining of a country than a dominant demographic. I think that the "average" American, based on all the stupid surveys and polls, has never been able to find their way out of a wet paperbag back in 1809 let alone today. So, I don't think it's general stupidity. We are less civic minded then past generations in part because we work more hours, have two spouses who work so there's more domestic ework to be done at the end of the day, and many more entertainment options other than politics and news to attract our limited free time. Often what news that grabs peoples attention is the shallow hype and talking head drivel that the 24 hour news cycle generates to feed itself. Because of the news beast, politicians feel compelled to label their programs and directives in such a way as to offend no one (especially their base of talking heads) or to brand those who disagree as unamerican. Take a less civic minded populace eating from the news beasts trough, mix in more money (aka lobbyists and campaign cash) than politics has ever seen and add the phony idea that politicians keep trotting out by saying you can get something for nothing (the "W" legacy said "deficits don't matter"; Obama says "we can pay for healthcare reform by making medicare more efficient" and the Republicans say "if we just cut taxes and make government more efficient more we can pay for everything") and you end up with a mess. Everyone ends up outside of the reality loop with no resolve to change because change involves uncertainty or displeasing someone and none of the players in this game like those cards. Change sucks but sometimes you gotta do it whether that means actually paying attention to whom you elect and watching what they do instead of what they say or waiting until your country can't afford to borrow any more money and tightening the belt until it hurts. When some kid opens their history book in the year 2300, we (along with our parents, and children and the entire world during this time) will be branded as idiots. Not for the economic/political mess America has now but for failing to address global warming when we knew about, failing to address the world's population explosion when we knew about it and failing to preserve species and ecosystems for future generations when we knew they were disappearing fast. These topics aren't even on the table for serious discussion by anyone, anywhere. These aren't problems for a generation, these are problems for next thousand years plus. Edited on Oct 28, 2009, 08:41pm | |
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| 08-28-09 03:38pm - 5595 days | #20 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
No, it doesn't make sense to blame the Boomers for the mess we're in. There's been a divide in the US between two general political camps, and one of them got the upper hand for 8 years or more and then it got out of control. You have to have regulation of financial markets and banking, for one. You can't have banks lending at 30 to reserves of 1; that's obviously going to lead to some reckoning. And it has. There are Boomers on both sides, and Gens X and Y as well. It's not a generational problem. So smoke that. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 10-20-09 02:56pm - 5542 days | #21 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Here's one to add to the list just for the fun of it: They've never heard of Tubular Bells and probably have no idea how many people in their parents' generation (and possibly their own parents) got stoned on weed and listened to it over and over. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 10-21-09 01:39pm - 5541 days | #22 | |
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RagingBuddhist (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 893 Registered: Jan 23, '07 |
They get stymied if they have to make change for $1.37 when you hand them a five-dollar bill and 2 cents. They've also never heard the word 'stymied'. Sarcasm is a body's natural defense against stupidity. | |
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| 10-22-09 03:27pm - 5540 days | #23 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Yes, I have had coins handed back to me when I tried to make it easier for them to give me change, but they get pissed if I use a credit card because they have to wait for me to sign. :) "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 10-22-09 09:52pm - 5540 days | #24 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
LOL. And usually all they have to do enter the "amount tendered" into the cash machine. (Whatever "tendered" is supposed to fucking mean.) Have you seen how their faces light up in a mixture of wonder and confusion when they see the amount of change the machine tells them to give you? I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 10-23-09 12:49pm - 5539 days | #25 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
Witty, I love your fun facts list, it was hilarious. I liked as well the discussion that followed. It is so refreshing to be in the company of thinking people! And how did you find out about Pat and me? Scary! Just don't ever mention the fact that we are U.S. Army deserters or we're really in trouble. | |
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| 08-17-10 06:38pm - 5241 days | #26 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
The Beloit mindset list for 2014 list is out. http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 08-17-10 07:49pm - 5241 days | #27 | |
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Tree Rodent (0)
Active User  Posts: 708 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
I got the point of this straight away and think it is a great help in aiding social understanding. It may be fun but also is very useful as a way of generations understanding one another. If older people read this it is easier for them to understand why there is little or no communication at times with the younger generations. If there is nothing in common with someone it is harder to get along. It shows how old you are, how different things are now, and how things have changed. It shows why generations have so very different experiences, and why those differences segregate. These are some of my favourite entries - if I am allowed to quote them. If not, apologies to Khan and crew, I did not wish to breach copyright. "For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead. 68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S. 53. J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasn�t he? 43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space. 32. Czechoslovakia has never existed. 29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown. 22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech. 20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed. 19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone. 12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry. 11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis. 10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority�unless it involves �real� aliens from another planet." For me the saddest entries were the ones involving Clint Eastwood, Sam Kinison, John McEnroe, and Benny Hill. They are the ones that really make me feel old, sad, and filled with melancholy. | |
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| 08-18-10 12:20am - 5240 days | #28 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Man, what a pathetic excuse for a list. The best one was about them only knowing Fergie as a popstar, not a princess. Overall, it simply reaffirms everyone's understanding of what happens when college professors try to riff on pop culture (it's commonly called "silence ... followed by the sound of two nerds laughing"). If only Wittyguy's probation officer let him move out from under his bridge (at least I got bitchin' wi-fi reception here) and rightfully assume his place as the Chair of the Marvin Gaye Professorship of Sexual Healing and Women's Studies at Beloit college, then this list would get one hell of a lot better. Oh hell. Why wait for the horns of the Apocalypse to sound, here's WITTYGUY'S MINDSET / FUN FACTS LIST FOR THE COLLEGE CLASS OF 2014: The Class of 2014: 1. Has never had a cell phone they couldn't fit in their pocket. 2. Knows that there really is nothing to do in Canada since Messmer and Pat362 can't seem to find anything else to do but log post after post in the PU forum. 3. Believes that Taylor Swift actually wrote "Romeo and Juliet". 4. Learned in science class that "Homo Hypocritus" is a primitive form of man most often found in a compromising position while acting as a politician or clergyman. 5. Unanimously agreed to name their first born child "Drooler". 6. Knows that a pornstar becomes a MILF once she's made 20 videos or has turned 24. 5. Now only wears lingerie when sexting pictures of themselves just to get Messmer, Squirrel and WeeWillyWinky to shut up about the topic. 6. Keeps waiting for Chef Boyardee to appear on an episode of Iron Chef. 7. Coined the phrase "A BP-DP" to mean a porn star who starts uncontrollably squirting lube during a sex scene. 8. Believes that Johnny Cash's song "Ring of Fire" is really about gay sex with hemorrhoids. 9. Recognizes Wittyguy's avatar from their elementary school "Stranger Danger" talks. 10. No longer uses cliche phrases when having sex. Instead they yell out "Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah! Roma-Roma-ma-ah! Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!". 11. Will be the first generation to be able to automatically file for divorce just by changing their Facebook relationship status. 12. Thinks that BadAndy's ability to download 3 terabytes of crap per month to be pretty awesome ... for a day of mindless surfing. 13. Will be completely fucked if they ever come across a real vampire or wizard. 14. Defines "masturmastication" as a lengthy and epic review on PU. 15. Was more scared of the catholic church across from their childhood playground than the idea of mosque being built near Ground Zero. 16. Is more likely to have been conceived in a test tube than in the back seat of a car. 17. Often mistakes Khan for one of the ZZ Top guys. 18. Really likes Barack Obama's "Yes We Can!" slogan until they read the fine print ("because generation 'Y' will pay for it"). 19. 18% of them have had sex with Tiger Woods, Jesse James or Ben Rothlesberger (2% with all three). 20. Is waiting for Squirrel to burst his nuts over the next favorable Brazzers review. 21. Uses the phrase "I got Madoffed" to mean that some sleek looking porn site ripped them off. 22. Thinks that Capn is a BFF of Lindsay Lohan because his location is "near the beer". 23. Only understands the phrase "Greek Style" to mean an economy that takes it in the ass and expects its neighbors to clean up the mess. 24. Ranks Paul the Octopus ahead of Albert Einstein as the world's greatest mind. 25. Placed Mbaya at number 126 (ahead of any Nobel laureate but behind Dr. Ruth) on their list of PILFs (professors I'd like to fuck). 26. Knows that pimpin' ain't easy but still can't make change without looking at the cash register display. 27. Doesn't realize that they are 99.99% more likely to become a pornstar than a member of Congress ... meaning they're more likely to take it in the ass than give it to us. 28. Will be declared a universally disabled generation by the time they turn 30 after listening to too much loud music on their i-pods and watching too much porn on cell phone screens. 29. Sees nothing wrong in using the phrase "Man, I'd kill for an OJ right now." 30. Have voted more times in one round of American Idol than the number of times they'll actually vote in elections. 31. Understands the phrase "Bieber Believer" to mean someone who thinks they're hot shit but can't auto-tune themselves in real life. 32. Ranks the Jonas Brothers, LeBron James decision and cancellation of The Hills as the three greatest tragedies that have occurred in their lifetime. 33. Defines "Turboshafting" to mean the multitasking art of pounding out witticisms while pounding one out. 34. Thinks that when a road sign says "Speed Bumps Ahead" that they have to slow down in order to ogle some chicks ass. 35. Believes that a "snuff film" is just a couple chicks swapping chewing tobacco in a sex scene. 36. Will be trying to figure out WTF we're doing in Afghanistan and Iraq when one of their classmates gets elected President. 37. Laughs when grandma talks about "duck and cover" drills during the cold war era; thinking that she was practicing putting a condom on a guy with her mouth. 38. Have never joined PU because because there's no app for that. 39. Voted RagingBuddhist as being "Most Likely to Go Totally Kanye" at the next PU Forum Awards.. 40. Becomes extremely aroused when Dirty Harry says "Go ahead, punk, make my day" because they've only seen it as a porn parody. 41. Doesn't realize that their ass antler tattoos are going to look more like roadkill in 20 years. 42. Only know a Snuggie to be a cuddly blanket, not a vicious school yard attack where someone yanks your underwear over your head. 43. Will never procreate because they know that every sex act ends with a cum shot on the girls face.  Edited on Aug 18, 2010, 12:27am | |
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| 08-18-10 12:39am - 5240 days | #29 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The only one I really believe in is the one about Wittyguy's avatar.  | |
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| 08-18-10 09:34am - 5240 days | #30 | |
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Tree Rodent (0)
Active User Posts: 708 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
I walked in a local town centre today and it changes every time. Never looks the same. A few weeks ago I returned to a town which I knew for 30 years and I hardly recognised it. I felt like Rod Taylor in "The Time Machine" looking at the shop front changing as he travels through the years in a few seconds. I felt old, sad, tired, and out of touch. Then I pulled myself together, gained some perspective and looked at the cricket and baseball scores. Oh NO, the Yankees won again and England batsmen are getting a spanking worse than one inflicted by a Mood Castings dom. | |
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| 08-18-10 11:46am - 5240 days | #31 | |
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mbaya (0)
Suspended  Posts: 891 Registered: Jul 07, '08 Location: new jersey |
I am at 126? I thought more like 1126. Thanks Witty, you made my day. | |
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| 08-18-10 06:52pm - 5240 days | #32 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
Another example that Witty is the master of us all. Great list. In our defense. There isn't much to do in Canada what with all the polar bears trying to eat you whenever you leave the igloo or the mooses chasing you through the snowcovered street. Posting can be done inside and we love to talk. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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