Old I feel

[thebitterguy]

I would like to talk about game today, but no time.

However, I did participate in a discussion about last night's Lost in lost_geek where I mentioned that one of the characters had mentioned Chernobyl.

Two separate people didn't know what I was talking about. Feh.

Admittedly, one is in 12th grade, and the other is in 9th, so I don't know if the US curriculum covers that incident, but, really.

Comments

[dawgstar.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'd like to chime in with, "Of course they do!" but it's become an increasingly long amount of time since I was there. Three Mile Island, sure, but Chernobyl's off in Russia, all tucked away down there where nobody can find it on a map.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Seriously doubt 3 Mile is any more covered than Chernobyl.

[terheyt.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of a time I was studying for a physics final in my first year of university with some other freshmen (2001). There was an aside in the textbook about the responsibility of people in the real world to get things right, and check their work, or disasters happen, and they had a picture of Challenger.

One kid piped up with "That's silly. Space Shuttles don't explode."

The ignorance, it hurts my head.

[thebitterguy]

Yet, if you killed him, you'd be a criminal. What a sad world we live in.

[zatara2000.livejournal.com]

At work the other night a girl didn't know who Humphery Bogart was. She used the excuse that she was 21. My only reaction is that, for some sick reason, kids are just a lot less aware these days.

[thebitterguy]

You should have taken her back to your place to watch Casablanca, then asked her if she wanted to play "hide the Maltese Falcon."