Proof that GT is isolated from the real world.

Platapus · 06-21-13, 05:56 PM

All that prattle about NSA, Syria, Obama, the Republicans, crappy government, etc.

But not one thread about Paula Deen being dropped from the Food Network!

It's on the front page of CNN and Fox News so it has to be important!!!!

But no one here cares about the important stuff.

u crank · 06-21-13, 06:02 PM

In before Red.

Who's Paula Deen?

Platapus · 06-21-13, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by u crank

In before Red.

Who's Paula Deen?

Only THE absolutest mostest importantest person in the whole world! No I can't back that up. I think she has some sort of cooking show on TV.

But she is on the front page of both CNN and Fox News so she must be doubly uberly important.

u crank · 06-21-13, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

But she is on the front page of both CNN and Fox News so she must be doubly uberly important.

She doesn't meet any of the SubSim GT criteria. Not a politician. Not a terrorist. Not a conspiracy theorist. Not a Swedish sailor.

Jimbuna · 06-22-13, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by u crank

She doesn't meet any of the SubSim GT criteria. Not a politician. Not a terrorist. Not a conspiracy theorist. Not a Swedish sailor.

nikimcbee · 06-23-13, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Only THE absolutest mostest importantest person in the whole world! No I can't back that up. I think she has some sort of cooking show on TV.

But she is on the front page of both CNN and Fox News so she must be doubly uberly important.

I thought that was a Snooki or Kardashian?

Wo ist Der Yubbameister?

Red October1984 · 06-21-13, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by u crank

In before Red.

Who's Paula Deen?

Oh...so now we're posting before I can get to a thread?!

I deserve this honor.

Paula Deen is a southern chef on the Food Network. I honestly wouldn't have known about this if I hadn't read this thread.

Sailor Steve · 06-21-13, 06:35 PM

All I can say is...

u crank · 06-21-13, 07:02 PM

I recognize a lot of the people on the left. Unfortunately I know the person on the right, but not because I want to.

Armistead · 06-21-13, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

All I can say is...

I miss Hitch

Subnuts · 06-21-13, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

All I can say is...

I recognize Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Carl Sagan, and Charles Darwin. I guess 6/10 isn't horrible. Thinking the guy in the lower left corner is Charlie Chaplin, but I'm probably wrong.

Sailor Steve · 06-21-13, 07:30 PM

Nicola Tesla. Don't worry, I had to make a guess and look him up.

razark · 06-21-13, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Subnuts

I recognize Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Carl Sagan, and Charles Darwin. I guess 6/10 isn't horrible.

I think 6/10 is great. (Especially since you got the same ones I did.)

Who is the one on the right, anyway? It looks familiar (which saddens me, somewhat).

donna52522 · 06-22-13, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

All I can say is...

It depends on your generation, many people in history are no longer taught about because they get replaced by 'up and comers'. Only the very elderly, or total book worms would know everyone on the left...where as the person on the right made her face well known through social media.

Education in High School isn't about trying to teach someone the entire history on the universe, it's more about preparing someone for the future in the world that exists at the moment. If one wants to know more about a certain subject, then they would go to College and major in that particular subject.

Sailor Steve · 06-22-13, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by donna52522

It depends on your generation, many people in history are no longer taught about because they get replaced by 'up and comers'. Only the very elderly, or total book worms would know everyone on the left...where as the person on the right made her face well known through social media.

True enough, but I think the real ramification involves not knowing even one person on the left. I didn't know all of them. If social media is more important to a person than anything else, then there truly is a problem. Again, not with one person, but with the collective.

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Education in High School isn't about trying to teach someone the entire history on the universe, it's more about preparing someone for the future in the world that exists at the moment. If one wants to know more about a certain subject, then they would go to College and major in that particular subject.

I never said anything about high school or what it teaches, and neither did the picture. I think it's adults we're talking about here; adults who shape the world. I also think it's not about really knowing who is who on any level. It's about caring about more important things that who is laying whom. 'Snookie' seems to be a product of what we used to call "famous for being famous"; people who have contributed nothing worthwhile to the world, yet are known by everyone. That is indeed a problem.

06-21-13, 05:56 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,375 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Proof that GT is isolated from the real world. All that prattle about NSA, Syria, Obama, the Republicans, crappy government, etc. But not one thread about Paula Deen being dropped from the Food Network! It's on the front page of CNN and Fox News so it has to be important!!!! But no one here cares about the important stuff. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,746 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	In before Red. Who's Paula Deen? __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	All I can say is... __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

06-21-13, 07:02 PM	#9
u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,746 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	I recognize a lot of the people on the left. Unfortunately I know the person on the right, but not because I want to. __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Nicola Tesla. Don't worry, I had to make a guess and look him up. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo