by "Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
Published 11/30/2017 at 16:25
by "Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
Published 11/30/2017 at 16:25
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...who’s never seen or heard of
Raiders of the Lost Ark
. I made a reference to the Ark from the movie and then had to explain it to her when I got a blank look. It sometimes takes me by surprise when I meet someone who doesn’t get what I think is a ubiquitous pop culture reference and hasn’t been holed up in a bunker on a Pacific island since the war.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
11/30/2017 at 16:26, STARS: 4
I’ll go you one better:
My kids only know of many pop-culture references from memes. FUCKING MEMES.
When I mention that a certain line or action is from a movie or tv show or song they look at me like I’m some kind of alien.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/30/2017 at 16:27, STARS: 0
The Austin Symphony recently performed the scores to the first Harry Potter movie and the first Star Wars movie. One of the musicians in the orchestra hadn’t ever seen either movie. Hard to believe, but he said he just never watched science fiction or fantasy movies.
"crowmolly" (crowmolly)
11/30/2017 at 16:28, STARS: 4
I think I told the story on here before, but I was in a store once when two kids were talking about Paul McCartney.
One said “ Oh yeah, he was that guy from the band Wings. ” Unironically.
I mean... I guess so? But DAMN.
"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
11/30/2017 at 16:34, STARS: 5
my daughter told me john lennon really butchered green days working class hero when i played it to her.......
i’m about ready to be put into a home now i think
"SpeedSix" (speedsix)
11/30/2017 at 16:35, STARS: 3
Your kids are broken.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 16:35, STARS: 0
How can you laugh at the punchline when you haven’t heard the joke?!
Why didn’t you give your children a proper classical education?
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 16:36, STARS: 0
What does he play?
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 16:36, STARS: 0
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
"SpeedSix" (speedsix)
11/30/2017 at 16:39, STARS: 0
I didn’t grow up watching older films or listening to older music, but I search for them to be a more well-versed person, that, and a lot of it is better than stuff today.
Oh, and I watched Star Wars IV on LaserDisc at home.
"SpeedSix" (speedsix)
11/30/2017 at 16:41, STARS: 0
I had no idea Wings had any popularity/exposure among youth - Beatles are played everywhere, and the only Wings song I ever hear is Live and Let Die .
"facw" (facw)
11/30/2017 at 16:44, STARS: 0
It came out in 1981. I can believe someone not having seen it, even as iconic as it is.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 16:45, STARS: 0
This is not because she is young. She’s not.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
11/30/2017 at 16:50, STARS: 1
I was raised in a home that my friends and I occasionally refer to as “The Shelter”. I have seen Raiders , but there are plenty of TV shows and movies that normal humans my age watched in the late 80s and early 90s that I’ve never seen (born in ‘78, driver’s license in ‘94).
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 16:52, STARS: 0
Holiday binge-watching time is coming up.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
11/30/2017 at 16:54, STARS: 5
THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM!
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 16:55, STARS: 0
COTD
"EL_ULY" (uly)
11/30/2017 at 16:56, STARS: 0
There is a buuuunch of epic and staple movies me and especially my wife wife have ever seen or heard of.
this being one of them
"TheRevanchist" (therevanchist)
11/30/2017 at 16:57, STARS: 0
Same. I’m trying to break my son from talking in memes, explaining that memes only entertaining when not spoken by him. To which he replies with more memes.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
11/30/2017 at 16:58, STARS: 1
I’ve never seen a single Indiana Jones movie. I think at the most I’ve watched is 10 minutes of one...I just haven’t gotten around to watching them. lol
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
11/30/2017 at 16:58, STARS: 0
Band on the Run seems to get a fair amount of play. I hear that a lot more than Live and Let Die (and usually the version I hear of that song in GnR’s). Also Jet.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 16:59, STARS: 1
Well now you have your homework assignment!
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
11/30/2017 at 17:00, STARS: 0
Are you mormon? :)
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 17:01, STARS: 1
This tells me we need an Oppo movie night.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/30/2017 at 17:03, STARS: 0
LaserDisc. Wow. By older , what are we talking about?
"Ssfancyfresh" (scotttt)
11/30/2017 at 17:03, STARS: 0
What was the reference? Was it “Bad dates” with the dead monkey?
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/30/2017 at 17:03, STARS: 0
Trumpet. He was born in ‘82 and grew up on a farm. Not much time for that sort of thing.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
11/30/2017 at 17:04, STARS: 0
I taut them gud
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
11/30/2017 at 17:05, STARS: 0
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 17:06, STARS: 0
I thought you Austinites were edumacated.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 17:08, STARS: 1
And now I see where they learned about memes. ;p
"CKeffer" (KefferCameron)
11/30/2017 at 17:11, STARS: 1
I have no words, that honestly makes me a bit sad
"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
11/30/2017 at 17:15, STARS: 0
yep...... that was pretty much me...
"syaieya" (syaieya)
11/30/2017 at 17:20, STARS: 1
I fear that the current generation is about to hit that point where its very apparent the next generation doesnt know what cool and pop culture was.
My brother almost certainly doesnt know the opening to fresh prince. And I shamefully only saw pulp fiction a couple years back.
Without power players like disney keeping a thing relevant its really up to chance what will stay known.
I mean who knew of hocus pocus by focus before that soccer ad brought it back up?
"SpeedSix" (speedsix)
11/30/2017 at 17:25, STARS: 0
Am 20, parents emigrated from Asia, where LaserDisc was huge in the 80s and 90s (it apparently didn’t catch on elsewhere).
Unfortunately, the LaserDisc player is currently broken, and we don’t know who’ll fix it.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/30/2017 at 17:26, STARS: 0
Good luck finding anybody who even knows how. You could probably buy a player from somewhere, though.
"Biggus Dickus (RevsBro)" (NKlein)
11/30/2017 at 17:27, STARS: 0
damnit, you beat me to it!
"EL_ULY" (uly)
11/30/2017 at 17:30, STARS: 0
Sometimes i’m a bit mamón lol :]
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
11/30/2017 at 17:32, STARS: 0
I would never think that about you. Just wondering why you had two wives!
"EL_ULY" (uly)
11/30/2017 at 17:33, STARS: 1
We are picking at them maybe once a week :]
OPPO posts would be good to document my thoughts about finally watching Jurassic Park, Star Wars, etc.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 17:35, STARS: 0
What is the world coming to?
"EL_ULY" (uly)
11/30/2017 at 17:36, STARS: 0
oh lol, didn’t see that typo :]
One made me loose the hair on my head, another would make my pubes disappear probably lol
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 17:37, STARS: 0
Good idea. Do it. I took my wife to see Star Wars when we were dating, and I got to see it again through her eyes a bit by watching her facial expressions. It was cool.
"boredalways" (boredalway666)
11/30/2017 at 17:37, STARS: 1
But seriously, did you see my cheering up post (I’m still at work so I don’t know what’s what right now)?
"EL_ULY" (uly)
11/30/2017 at 17:38, STARS: 1
lol indeed, those are good looks :] That alone is worth it
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
11/30/2017 at 17:39, STARS: 1
Wife has never seen a Bond film, Indiana Jones, or Star Wars. We were both born in the late 70s, so I find this inexcusable. But at the same time I also found it really refreshing.
“I asked you to go to a Green Day concert. You said you’ve never heard of them. How cool is that?” —Weezer
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 17:43, STARS: 0
I find this inexcusable
It is. You know what you have to do.
"Die-Trying" (die-trying)
11/30/2017 at 17:46, STARS: 0
me and the old guy at work, were making fun of the asian woman who works where i do, has a little boy haircut, and speaks with an over the top fake sounding asian accent.......
and the cover your heart indy.
to bad everyone else at work is too young to get the reference.....
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 17:48, STARS: 0
Probably just as well to keep it an inside joke. These days you’d get a call from HR.
"Die-Trying" (die-trying)
11/30/2017 at 17:53, STARS: 1
yeah, we’ve gotten away with a whole lot where i am at, usually to nothing more than a “oh yous guys” from the bosses. but i KNOW that its just a short hop skip and a jump from something even tamer getting the guys here canned.
are the good times really over?......
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 17:58, STARS: 1
Pretty much. You can’t risk guessing who has your sense of humor these days.
"Die-Trying" (die-trying)
11/30/2017 at 18:13, STARS: 1
yeah, the guys at work are all pretty thick skinned....... until they arent, and get thier feelings hurt, then they want to fight. and if they lose, THEN they call hr. but i definitely been seeing how the trend has been moving. feels odd, watching the the world change around you......
"punkgoose17" (punkgoose17)
11/30/2017 at 18:21, STARS: 0
My response would be to Spongebob meme him every time he does. Or is this what he is doing?
"boredalways" (boredalway666)
11/30/2017 at 18:45, STARS: 0
With kids these days, that’s called “a good start”.
"TheRevanchist" (therevanchist)
11/30/2017 at 18:48, STARS: 0
Coincidentally, I hear a lot of “Oh, Mr Krabs”. But, no. Not that one. I do my best to not give in and listen to them much.
"ranwhenparked" (ranwhenparked)
11/30/2017 at 18:52, STARS: 1
I guess it can happen. I met a someone last year that claimed to have never heard Elvis. I rectified that, but, still, some of these shared pop cultural experiences, its like you have to try really hard and go out of your way to avoid them.
You’d think someone would at least maybe catch part of Raiders by accident while flipping through channels or something.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 20:36, STARS: 0
What I think. You kind of have to really disconnect.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 20:55, STARS: 1
I was saying how a piece of old equipment I want just got sent to surplus. I’ll never see it again now. It’s probably sitting next to the Ark of the Covenant.
"gmporschenut also a fan of hondas" (gmporschenut)
11/30/2017 at 22:03, STARS: 0
I used to have a manager who I loved and we’d try and fit in as many movie lines into a meeting as possible, before others caught on. There was one co worker who would never get any of them. Comedies, action movies, major classics. nope not one of them. Casablanca, gone with the wind, jaws, star wars, any mel brooks movie.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
11/30/2017 at 23:25, STARS: 0
I feel like it must take effort to remain that clueless.