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Is It Just Me?
Topic Started: Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:52 pm (579 Views)
Mojochi
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Conversation I had at lunch today, with my 22 year old girl coworker

Me: Whoa, that guy looks a lot like Bob Newhart

Her: Who's Bob Newhart? *Tap tap tap on iphone* (With a snotty look on her face as if to say "What's old person talking about?"

Me: He had a tv sitcom... 2 actually. :wissa:

Her: *Tap tap tap* what were they called?

Me: (Long pause) N e w h a r t......... and........ The Bob Newhart Show

Her: (Looks up) Never heard of it

Me: Don't you people have Nick@Night or something? Just Google it

But what I was really thinking was that I know 1000x more about the generation before mine (My Dad's) than this generation knows about the one prior to theirs (Mine). She's nearly 25 years younger than me & I'm 25 younger than my dad. The equivalent example, in my dad's generation, to Bob Newhart in my generation would maybe be Donna Reed, right? Close enough? I never really watched her show, but I do know who she is

It's sad really, & I feel like it will get exponentially worse in coming generations, though I hope I'm wrong about that, but Come ON! You have the entire collection of human knowledge right at your literal fingertip, & I know more about what happened hundreds of years before I was born than you know about 2 decades ago. WTF?
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My grandfather was 87 when he died, he was born in 1909. He knew all about MY interests, bands, tv, cartoons whatever because he made an effort to listen to me and wanted to have things in common with me.

I, like you Mojo, knew about his generation and my parents. My parents were on the older side, my mom was 38 when I was born and my dad was 42. I knew/know the famous actors and actresses and shows and music of the time.

If she watches The Big Bang Theory, he was on there this season too as Professor Proton.

I use to love to watch some of the shows from the 50s...I loved The Donna Reed Show and Make Room for Daddy, those were my 2 favorites. Not counting The Munsters and The Addams Family but those came out in the 60s.

But I know what you mean and I totally agree with you. This generation doesn't care about the older generation, meaning us and heaven forbid the one before that.
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Sherlock... I mean... KHANNNNNNN

I think it's because a lot of people now a days are only interested in the now & in what came before.
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My kids are 80's hounds and I make it a point to be interested in what they are.

The "tap tap tap" is what drives me fucking insane. When I am talking to you have the goddamned common courtesy to ignore the phone for the five minutes we're talking.
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Sherlock... I mean... KHANNNNNNN

I hate that too! It's completely ill mannered!
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I had a girlfriend who told me I was like an old man because I had a late 90s sitcom on DVD

(she wasn't like a child or anything, she was about 25)
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I just don't get it. I can readily reach over & grab haphazardly at a stack of dvds or cds & come up with something that was made 30 or 40 years before I was born

How do people not see that things which are old have worth?
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Alisium
Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:02 pm
The "tap tap tap" is what drives me fucking insane. When I am talking to you have the goddamned common courtesy to ignore the phone for the five minutes we're talking.
She does it a lot, with a whole table of coworkers chatting at lunch :wissa:
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i think it depends on how they were raised.
if they had parents that talked about the old shows/movies/music
& made an effort to share, the kid will at least have knowledge of it.
but if the parents are as into the "new, hip & happening" stuff as their
kids are, the kids will most likely not know anything about what came before.
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I think we are taking less time to show our kids our entertainment. And there are a whole lot more entertainment options and more places to watch it. It was easy to know about your parents tv when you were still limited to 3 channels on one communal tv.
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That still doesn't account for me knowing about Donna Reed, or Jack Parr or Steve Allen. I never watched their shows, & neither did my parents when I was growing up

I just know about them, because I am interested in more about my culture than only what happened ten minutes ago. I learned about them through other people in the media

The same way I learned about who Charles Mingus was, because he was relative to other musicians I listened to. That kind of referral is dying or many young people are disinterested in it

The closest I ever came to pissing myself laughing was from some Buddy Hackett standup. I'm sure nobody under 30 knows or cares who Buddy Hackett is anymore
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I think you were more likely to run into these things, or to hear people talking about them though because there was so much less entertainment on the landscape.
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Frankly, there's not all that much more entertainment happening than before. There's just much more of people being entertained by less entertaining things, like video games & websites, & youtube videos of people doing stupid crap

The world of entertainers may be bigger, but not astoundingly so

Edit: Maybe the issue is that were a culture inundated with crap now
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there are so many many more options and outlets than there ever were! when I grew up there were 3 american chanels and a canadian. And they didn't even have programing 24 hours a day. I think there were far less movies out too. Entertainment is so splintered now new shows can only dream about pulling down percentages that old ones did.
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Live long and prosper.....!!

Must admit that I know waaay more about the music, tv and 'current affairs' from my youth, than I do about the present era. Which can be useful, especially when younger people are curious about those times. But when I try to ask about current music etc, the 'youngins' give me a look which says 'why dafuq this old farty want to know' ??

Then again, I probably did the same thing when I was young - oh, so long ago now !!
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Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:57 pm
there are so many many more options and outlets than there ever were! when I grew up there were 3 american chanels and a canadian. And they didn't even have programing 24 hours a day. I think there were far less movies out too. Entertainment is so splintered now new shows can only dream about pulling down percentages that old ones did.
I also remember older shows still being re-run in prime time when I was child. That you never see anymore, except for odd specialty channels that are air only.

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there is so much out there now I don't even know if kids can have that experience anymore of all watching the same thing. People my generation can all relate to a gilligan's island or brady bunch joke because literally every single one of us has seen every single episode. I don't think kids can go to school anymore and have the experience of everyone having seen the same show the night before.
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I dunno, some things get forgotten, others are remembered. People still know who Johnny Cash was. Kids still watch Grease and know the songs.
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that's a good point. We may know who Donna Reed is but I bet there is a ton of stuff we don't know.
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:44 am
I dunno, some things get forgotten, others are remembered. People still know who Johnny Cash was. Kids still watch Grease and know the songs.
Johnny Cash though, I knew who he was just because my parents loved country music and him. But right before his death, he did cover a Nine Inch Nails song and in a way, he brought the youth to him.
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