This can't be the USA I learned to love.

[geekichick]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

All of these Collegiate folk seem to have had any and all common sense drummed out of them and we're left with what we have today... more ons who wear their hearts on their sleeve and are too prone to sue at the drop of a hat and quick to judge every benign act as a criminal offense. If there is no law to prevent it, they'll make one up.

As someone with a degree in Comp Sci (from a college, horrors!!), I can say I have lots of common cents. Sadly, I've not got much else since I'll be paying for that degree til I die.

[Tango589]

Welcome aboard, Geekichick!

No. But so what if they were (LGBT)?

It matters not a jot and I don't think the comment was meant to be taken seriously.

[Torplexed]

Just keep the Havarti cheese coming Denmark, and your reputation will always be spotless.

Oh, yeah keep McBeck's space program going too.

[August]

Originally Posted by geekichick

No. But so what if they were (LGBT)?

You missed her point.

[jacobston]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Found this and I hope it is wrong, when it says what would happen in 2015 instead of 1970.

http://www.youngcons.com/difference-...ldnt-accurate/


Markus

My personal favorite:

 

My point is that the pendulum sings both ways. One could say that their childhood was so much better than someone going to school today for such a reason, but I could argue just as many reasons why today is better than 30 or 40 years ago.

I guess what it comes down to here is the target demographic. This article was not written to prove a point; it was written to be shown to a group of like-minded people - in this case, right wing Americans (based on the ad I saw at the bottom of the screen) born in the late 50's and 60's - and for them to say 'I agree' and share it with their friends. That's how these articles work. It works even better if the article can get you mad about something, in this case about how the 70's was way better than times are now.

video does a better job of explaining how it works.


I actually came across a similar article a few weeks ago. A friend linked me to a page called "15 things only extroverts will understand" and said 'this is so me!' It was so clickbait, I was able to scroll down on the same page and find "15 things only introverts will understand."

Regardless, I did spend ten minutes explaining to him how Buzzfeed and clickbait demographics worked, and when he woke up I broke it to him that extroverts are, in fact, the majority.



EDIT: That said, I don't entirely disagree with this particular post either. These seem to be fairly satirical, and with that they do prove a point. It is just that the point itself isn't exactly one I agree with.

I guess it's not easy to change someone's mind on the internet

[Oberon]

Very well put jacobston.

[Torplexed]

It is kinda weird to see someone waxing so nostalgically for 1970 in particular.

Cambodia, the My Lai massacre, the Weatherman bombings, the Kent State shootings, civil unrest at home, earthquakes, famine, and martial law abroad.

Not to mention it's the year the Ford Pinto was introduced.

[August]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

It is kinda weird to see someone waxing so nostalgically for 1970 in particular.

In 1970 I was young and the world was my oyster.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by August

In 1970 I was young and the world was my oyster.

That's how nostalgia works. The past is always resolved, romantic and rosy-looking, now that it's the past and all the unpredictable things that might have darkened one's days at the time have been long settled and forgotten, or look simple in retrospect.

Not to mention that bell-bottoms went out of style. Thank God.

[Jeff-Groves]

If one is still nostalgic for the 70's?
One is still smoking dope or something.

[Oberon]

Well, they do say that if you can remember the 1960s you weren't there.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by donna52522

By the way, is it true everyone in Denmark is gay and has the herpes?

No.

You're thinking of Sweden.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Dowly

No.

You're thinking of Sweden.

http://i.imgur.com/wgE3LTs.png

[mapuc]

@donna

Denmark is what I know, the most liberal country in the world when it comes to same sex

Two grown-ups of same sex can get married in a Danish church and they can adopt a child if they want to.

I'm against all this

I have absolutely nothing against to person of same sex, should fall in love with each other, but getting married in God's own house !

Adopt a child, in my world a child shall have a mother and a father

Well that how I see it.

Markus

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by mapuc

@donna

Denmark is what I know, the most liberal country in the world when it comes to same sex

Two grown-ups of same sex can get married in a Danish church and they can adopt a child if they want to.

I'm against all this

I have absolutely nothing against to person of same sex, should fall in love with each other, but getting married in God's own house !

Adopt a child, in my world a child shall have a mother and a father

Well that how I see it.

Markus

Well, this explains what you were doing on youngcons.com