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Loser · #**551** September 11th, 2003, 07:59 AM

I'm sure you've heard "Don't Bring Me Down", yes?

No?

Kids these days have no sense of history.

Fyron · #**552** September 11th, 2003, 08:28 AM

You had no sense of history when you were a kid and the older people said the exact same thing.

Loser · #**553** September 11th, 2003, 09:05 AM

I am, more or less, still a kid (see profile). I just apparently don't use emoticons enough.

Sad truth is, people in general have no sense of history. But that's a whole other rant.

deccan · #**554** September 11th, 2003, 11:53 AM

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Originally posted by Loser:
I am, more or less, still a kid (see profile). I just apparently don't use emoticons enough.

Sad truth is, people in general have no sense of history. But that's a whole other rant.

Born in 1976. You're the same age I am, but a "kid"? I have a receding hairline already, sad to say.

dogscoff · #**555** September 11th, 2003, 12:07 PM

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Born in 1976. You're the same age I am, but a "kid"? I have a receding hairline already, sad to say.

Same age as me too. I don't think I can be classed as a "kid" any more when I weigh about as much as my two parents combined...

Joachim · #**556** September 11th, 2003, 03:46 PM

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Originally posted by Loser:
Sad truth is, people in general have no sense of history. But that's a whole other rant.

I am a University tutor and a colleague came in to my office to complain. He had a student see him and ask "what is the cold war" we had been doing this for weeks but it had obviously not got through to said student. He started to explain: "Well the cold war started at the end of World War Two when.."
Student: " Ahh, excuse me but what was World War Two?"
True story, happened yesterday.

Kamog · #**557** September 11th, 2003, 04:16 PM

People, in general, have no sense of anything! They haven't got a clue about astronomy or geography or physics or math!

Somebody asked a friend of mine, "where in the solar system is the galaxy?"
Another person I know thought that the reason the moon goes through its phases is because it's always the earth casting a shadow on the moon, just like in a lunar eclipse.
A coworker of mine thought that Singapore is inside China.
Another person I talked to thought that gravity is caused by the earth's rotation.

Puke · #**558** September 11th, 2003, 06:46 PM

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Originally posted by Kamog:
A coworker of mine thought that Singapore is inside China.

Thats not far off. I heard a few years ago, that China was considering building Singapore Franchises inside their borders. They figured that since the thing was so neat, sterile, and self contained, that they could just commission the Singapore government to replicate a few of them.

I dont know if it ever got off the ground, or if it ever will.. but the idea is.. odd.

narf poit chez BOOM · #**559** September 11th, 2003, 07:21 PM

what's the singapore franchise?

well, some of that is the school systems fault. when i was in school, what was covered was the roman empire, middle ages, renasciance, US history, canadian history. the first three are in the order we studied them, the Last two in the order of priority. i live in canada. the rest of the world was covered as an afterthought.

[ September 11, 2003, 18:21: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Loser · #**560** September 12th, 2003, 01:45 AM

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Originally posted by deccan:
You're the same age I am, but a "kid"?

It may have more to do with how I live. When my Father was my age he was working in defense and I was three years old and full of bees. I, however, am single and without children, the youngest at my workplace, and tend to hang out with people younger than myself. I only recently got away from the 'party' scene and don't feel any claim to maturity just yet.

My hairline has started it's slow march back when I was ninteen. I'm just glad 'thinning on top' dosen't run in my family. We do, however, have a tendancy toward wicked Widow's Peaks.