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[weeesplatt]

Sometimes I really dislike how, in this silly world, when in a group of people, you always have to be knowledgeable about modern media culture to be able to have a conversation. You have to know and watch what's on tv, the most popular movie of the week, the current music fads, etc etc. And if you don't know, and have that blank stare (e.g. you are

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[lintson]

Well don't you worry, ol linty will help you keep a hippin and hoppin with the newest fandangled things! Now where'd I put my trusty TV radio?

[penguin_ken]

Haha, sounds familiar. I also have this problem when people talk about advertisements etc. They always assume others watch TV. Seriously, why isn't the world using torrent already? Can't imagine being a slave to some TV's schedule, and abused by its advertising.

Thing is though, eventually, "old" becomes cool and new becomes "crap". Thus, you can endlessly talk about 80s shows and movies and scorn discussion of Survivor.

I read once that whilst Americans on average don't have great geographical, mathematical or other knowledge (compared to the other countries in the study), their knowledge of pop culture was extremely high. Makes sense. If you had a choice between steak, lollies and other yummy foods versus highly nutritional/healthy foods that taste like cardboard and are hard to chew, you'd eventually go with the easy choice.