Baffling Knowledge Gaps

[100proof]

So I was having a conversation with my wife earlier and realized that she'd never seen the D'Angelo video "Untitled" (soul song from 1999 that was the soundtrack to probably 50% of all fucking done for the next few years... probably more famous for dude being nekkid and showing off his V in the video).

Anyway, we watched it, she was into the song but not so much the video (not in to the chiseled V on men apparently). In any case, it was one of those ubiquitous pop culture things I just assumed everyone her age knew about (especially women).

So what situations have you run in to where someone gave you a blank stare when you mentioned something you just assumed everyone knew?

 

[Taiso]

A young barista at Starbuck's and I somehow got into a conversation about whether or not art was inherently political.

At one point, I asked him if he'd read Orwell.

He didn't know who Orwell was.

I was, as they say, agog.

 

[fake]

What is a chiseled v?

Also isn’t that the video where they had a girl give him a beej out of frame?

 

[famicommander]

I once met a woman who genuinely believed that the entire world used to be in black and white and that's why old movies and TV shows were black and white.

I was like, "...so what, you think someone just invented colors in the last 60 years or so?"

Apparently.

 

[100proof]

What is a chiseled v?

Also isn’t that the video where they had a girl give him a beej out of frame?

I mean dude looked like he was getting head but I think that's an urban myth (no pun intended).

Chiseled V is when a guy is so cut that the muscle above the pelvis protrudes away from his legs to form a V pointing down at his dong. D'Angelo famously has it in that video. A lot of ladies are wayyyy in to that shit. It's like dick cleavage.

 

[LoneSage]

I think 100proof has been fantasizing about D'Angelo's V for 20 years.

Don't bing D'Angelo Untitled unless you too want to turn into a V-obsessed maniac.

 

[100proof]

Guilty. Song's been in my MP3 collection for 20 years because I'm always thinking about his delicious chocolate package.

Either that or it's a total panty dropper and I was sexually active from 1999-2003. Women generally prefer some smooth, low-pace background music over the sound of grunts, balls slapping thighs and their own juices.

 

[ForeverSublime]

Women generally prefer some smooth, low-pace background music over the sound of grunts, balls slapping thighs and their own juices.

To each their own.

 

[theMot]

When I was travelling through Europe in my younger days I was watching Formula 1 at a bar in 2002, this was the time when Schumacher was winning 80% of races. I got talking to this Murcan dude about the same age as me there who didn't know Michael Schumacher was a real person, he just thought he was someone made up for the Playstation F1 game... I know F1 isn't big in Murca but fuck me dead, Schumacher was one of the most well known sports people in the world back then. It would be like saying you don't who Christiano Ronaldo is now, even if you don't know soccer/football you know who that is surely.

 

[famicommander]

When I was travelling through Europe in my younger days I was watching Formula 1 at a bar in 2002, this was the time when Schumacher was winning 80% of races. I got talking to this Murcan dude about the same age as me there who didn't know Michael Schumacher was a real person, he just thought he was someone made up for the Playstation F1 game... I know F1 isn't big in Murca but fuck me dead, Schumacher was one of the most well known sports people in the world back then. It would be like saying you don't who Christiano Ronaldo is now, even if you don't know soccer/football you know who that is surely.

I couldn't name a single F1 driver right now. I couldn't name a single Indycar driver either.

Hell, I bet I couldn't even name five NASCAR drivers.

Racing isn't popular in America, and F1 is niche among that niche. 99% of any racing coverage on the major sports highlights shows will be NASCAR.

In terms of overall sport popularity, it's something like
Football
Baseball and Basketball
Hockey
Golf
Tennis
Boxing and MMA
Soccer

And then maybe racing. Even boxing and MMA aren't super popular. Probably less than 10 active fighters in each sport are household names.

 

[theMot]

I couldn't name a single F1 driver right now. I couldn't name a single Indycar driver either.

Hell, I bet I couldn't even name five NASCAR drivers.

Racing isn't popular in America, and F1 is niche among that niche. 99% of any racing coverage on the major sports highlights shows will be NASCAR.

In terms of overall sport popularity, it's something like
Football
Baseball and Basketball
Hockey
Golf
Tennis
Boxing and MMA
Soccer

And then maybe racing. Even boxing and MMA aren't super popular. Probably less than 10 active fighters in each sport are household names.

You're missing the point. This guy was playing an F1 game and thought it was all just made up. As in the whole thing was just some fantasy series and the drivers were no more real than Ryu and Ken. I know F1 isn't a super big deal in America but it's still got solid following there. At that time they were even racing at a modified Indianapolis.

 

[wyo]

You're missing the point. This guy was playing an F1 game and thought it was all just made up. As in the whole thing was just some fantasy series and the drivers were no more real than Ryu and Ken. I know F1 isn't a super big deal in America but it's still got solid following there. At that time they were even racing at a modified Indianapolis.

America is very insular. There's an ingrained lack of inquisitiveness about the rest of the world. Spend enough time here and you eventually realize this is not by accident.

 

[Late]

^I got into a discussion on another forum where a few Americans got raged because I didn't know some C list celebrities of theirs, they thought I was trying to "act cool" "I bet you're the type that doesn't own a television"

 

[Burning Fight!!]

What the fuck, I'm not entirely convinced this isn't some old tymer prank to pull our noob legs. Some posts really seem fake but deep down I know it can be possible, considering the current state of the US of A.

 

[Setherial]

I once met a woman who genuinely believed that the entire world used to be in black and white and that's why old movies and TV shows were black and white.

I was like, "...so what, you think someone just invented colors in the last 60 years or so?"

Apparently.

.................

 

[theMot]

^I got into a discussion on another forum...

One does not simply post on other forums...

 

[Setherial]

One does not simply post on other forums...

Don't sweat it, it's not like he gets the death penalty for doing that.

 

[titchgamer]

Talk to any kid about online gaming.

Mention a dial up modem and 100 kbs a second download speed and watch their head tilt and jaw fall as they try to mentally compute what you are saying, then question if you are taking the piss.

Always ends up making me feel old and them feeling 2000ms of lag on COD aint so bad afterall.

 

[Heinz]

Talk to any kid about online gaming.

Mention a dial up modem and 100 kbs a second download speed and watch their head tilt and jaw fall as they try to mentally compute what you are saying, then question if you are taking the piss.

Always ends up making me feel old and them feeling 2000ms of lag on COD aint so bad afterall.

Oh yeah try imagining a world where the fucking internet didn't exist and even when it did nobody knew what to do with it. Oh and TV where you have to wait until a specific day and time to watch your favourite show! Literally everyone born in 2000 has no fucking idea, woe is me, life is such a drag.

 

[titchgamer]

Oh yeah try imagining a world where the fucking internet didn't exist and even when it did nobody knew what to do with it. Oh and TV where you have to wait until a specific day and time to watch your favourite show! Literally everyone born in 2000 has no fucking idea, woe is me, life is such a drag.

Ha yeah I never even thought about TV, We had 4 channels when I was a kid and I remember the excitement everyone had when Channel 5 launched.
Even more excited when they started showing a porno at 11pm every friday night LOL

 

[theMot]

Another one I forgot about that recently happened... This faggot I know starts singing to me “ground control to major Tom”. I diffuse it by saying “Oh you’re a David Bowie fan, eh?”

He had no idea who David Bowie was...

 

[Heinz]

Fuck me Tommo...

 

[andsuchisdeath]

So I'm at a party with a bunch of people in their twenties and someone tells me that this person is on their way in a few minutes and I'm like "Who do you think you are with this news, Kurt Loder?!"

They looked at me like I was absolutely INSANE.

Somebody shows up later with a green fanny pack on and I said "Hey did you drop a teenage mutant ninja turtle pie on your lap".

They had nooo idea what I meant.

WHO SHOT JR?

 

[LoneSage]

So I'm at a party with a bunch of people in their twenties

why


whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

[andsuchisdeath]

why


whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Oh I don't know. Maybe because it was a fake story?