why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

yeah honestly NES/8/16 bit nostalgia never really seems to die off to the point where I remembering interview ppl that were like 25 and they wax nostalgic for that era

Hilariously, the Konami Code is still used in tons and tons of contemporary apps and games, including the entire Metal Gear series, and kids certainly know it.

I used to have it on a t shirt and would get stopped in the street all the time

i would bet more people in america know the konami code than the name of the speaker of the house

^facebook that plz

To cardamom's makeover pic: yes, that's EXACTLY how it works. Wear less expensive clothing and you can just paint instead of working.

kids of today ironically far far better informed about popular culture before they were born than kids of, say, thirty years ago ever were.

perhaps. but growing up in the decade of the 1960s (ages 5 through 15) television was jamcrammed with cartoons and movies from the 1930s and 40s, so that as an 8 year old I could easily identify oldster celebrities like Jimmy Durante, Jerry Colona, Bing Crosby, Boris Karloff, Rudy Vallee, or the Marx Brothers. At age 10 I'd seen such outdated fare as Wild Boys of the Road, I Was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, or Boys Town.

Personally, I'm uncertain how to address cultural literacy with children, because there is JUST. SO. MUCH. CULTURE. I try to resist the urge to oversteep them in things that happened to be important to ME in my antediluvian childhood.

http://www.theonion.com/article/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-h-26132

My own personal parents hit me over the head repeatedly with the cultural signifiers of their upbringing, to the exclusion of the many fine things that came before, things that came after, and things they didn't happen to dig. So, like many of my contemporaries, I knew as much about the Beatles as the most ardent Beatlemaniac - but I needed to go out of my way to specifically seek out knowledge of Brahms, Billie Holiday, the Clash.

If I wish to present a diverse spectrum of culture to my children, I feel some responsibility to avoid over-representing the ephemeral 80s culture that formed my worldview, but also avoid leaving out those ephemera entirely.

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/11888099_942670152467451_5327522948042574807_n.png?oh=934ac66961c5894293d642af5db42991&oe=56B00880

Tanya Markul, Executive Vice President of the Sparkle Marketing Council

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True enough.

That's quite clever, tbh

i lold

Another funny one.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12299349_10205576641155735_7782712964251153490_n.jpg?oh=e87990f2d003741d7921e865d0dd4855&oe=56DFC710

http://i.imgur.com/C0K1qlm.jpg

You know God is serious it when he uses all caps.

*it

Seems an omniscient god would be better at knowing people's gender

this Job reboot started out with such potential, wonder what went wrong

3:)

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I don't

man why can't people spend the holiday season doing something loving and traditional with family, like terrorizing strangers outside best buy?

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11221897_10153232322015756_289926922657883689_n.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/550c9422d01ff5a51bab72e54fa73486/tumblr_nyfvu8iwGZ1sy67obo1_500.jpg

...black ops?

euphemism for scat

Are crowns the new fedora or something.

"I'm a nice guy, but women only want the bad boys."

some men like to see you smile!

http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/2015/11/kilgrave_2.png

Was expecting that image to be broadcitysmile.gif but I like the idea of purple mansplainer being a sjw meme

you and me, forks. we can make this happen!

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/12039269_917042935057142_5307795173293550690_n.jpg?oh=da18eeca976312591ebf9e7bee31ae4c&oe=56F89246

who's the guy?

I believe he may be an early 20th century hair pomade magnate or something. Shamefully I don't know who he is, even though I do recognize Cher.

ISIS: couldn't pick Nicolai Tesla out of a crowd

Why is it always Nikola Tesla in these things? Like nobody would recognise Ernest Rutherford or HG Wells either.

(assuming that is Tesla, I have no idea tbh)

What's the point in recognizing scientists? Isn't it more important to know what they did?

Like, congrats, you're a sentient being with an internet connection, who haven't ever googled 'Nikola Tesla'. Take a good fucking look at yourself.

Like, I know who the fuck Nikola Tesla is. I've seen The Prestige. And played Red Alert.

Tesla may be the darling of a certain kind of technophile, but holding a bunch of patents and being something of a maniac hardly places one in the same category as a Dmitri Mendeleev or a James Clerk Maxwell.

oliver heaviside ftw imho. his biography matches or bests tesla's too for that matter.

I wouldn't get too hung up on the identification of Tesla via picture aspect, as I'd imagine the creator of that image would argue the point still stands even if each photograph was captioned with the corresponding names.

As we've seen on trenchant social commentary thread, there is a common tendency for trenchants to believe that one is to be blamed, personally, for not knowing what one doesn't know

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRafTnIUwAE0xhl.jpg

how the fuck is a hoverboard not experiencing life

That's a cheap trip to Europe.

immateriality of memory is a bold clam

$600 = Round trip to Britain in freezing grey February, maybe

best to experience us at our realest