Twitter backlash against users who didn't know the Titanic was real
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Maybe the Titanic story is slowly fading into obscurity. It isn't even that big of a deal. It was a big ship that sunk. It sucked when it happened, but it isn't really important for everyone to know now. It's just a meme used for certain ironic situations.
I bet most of you guys didn't get taught about the Battleship Maine in elementary school, even though it holds a shitload more historical significance than the Titanic. I guess that means you all must be dumb, right?
It's really not a big deal that people don't know what the Titanic was, unless you're one of those people who like to complain about new generations getting dumber even though it's been shown everyone is getting smarter.
[QUOTE=confinedUser;35632148]ignorance in humanity. This is why i'm upset with people, i want to slap each and everyone of those people for being dumb[/QUOTE]you're upset with people because they didn't know that an event was real? really? not because of all the other terrible things that happen?
also why are you guys not mad at the people who should be educating these kids lol
[B]This is my rant and its long as shit. Read it if you want or don't.[/B]
This is why technology is bad for this generation, they spend too much time on there tweet tweets and there mybooks and don't get out and do enough socializing or interacting in the real world.
Now of course this doesn't apply to ALL of the damn kids in the generation, but there is just too much a majority that are complete idiots! They don't even know what the hell an encyclopedia is! An encyclopedia for Alla's sake! And i wont start on a lack of common sense.
Every time i hear something like this i think "they cant get any stupider" and time and time again i am proven wrong. I lost my faith in that damn generation a long time ago, but with media everywhere and seeing it and hearing it with my own eyes and ears its hard to ignore.
Though it is not entirely there fault (they still hold blame). It is the people that decided to have these children and not educate them or raise them the right way (is one way that things like this can go wrong). Also teaching your children moderation and not buying them a damn cell phone and computer at age 5! When you take away a child's phone and or computer and they literally go through a form of withdraw or cant live without it, you know you fucked up somewhere and best start on the road to fixing it before its too late! Same with what there teaching kids in schools. Now I'm not sure of how every school teaches but i know there are those that don't teach right, what happened to good quality discussions or debates when people would actually know there stuff and you wouldn't have 99% of a class coming to a stunning realization that (for example) The titanic was real!
Now the on to the moderation one. I mentioned earlier that technology is bad for this generation. what i mean by this is that the kids aren't taught moderation of any kind. Kids are on the computer and there phones almost non stop and, as i mentioned before, will nearly die without it. I'm all for the support and advancement of technology but when it is used obnoxiously or in the wrong ways it becomes a bad thing and, as we can see, can make some very uneducated. hell the internet itself has so much information on it and yet no one knows anything. The irony makes me want to laugh if it weren't so sad.
Now technology isn't all bad and not everyone is like this and the ones that are could have different reason for being such a way and etcetera etcetera as there are many variables that go into these things.
I remember when i was a kid and we would play outside and that the whole neighborhoods kids will be out having fun, now though (at least where i have been) there are no kids ever out doing anything (that you can see). Now don't get me wrong we did have videogames (I'm not that old) but we knew there was more than videogames and more to do. Hell i can drop all my technology like computers phones videogames and go out into the country and just have a great time without worrying about those things or feeling "lost". I even find just starring at the stars in a light polluted area to be enjoyable and often do that for extended periods of time.
Well now I'm just starting to ramble like an old man.
I have no idea if anything a said will get through or listened to by anyone, and I'm sure there will be those that agree and disagree and hate, etc. You can take it however you want and think this is drunken ramblings of a nostalgic old monkey. To each there own. Everyone has there own opinion and a right to express it.
Also no i don't have a facebook or a twitter, i think there a waste of time.
And yes i put all this thanks to people who didn't know the titanic was real, kidding of course, this is just one of many things.
There is my big ol rant and ramblings, i tell you i just want to be able to go into space one day is all and id be content. Ether that or be immortal in which case id get there eventually.
Tata for now, avetazen, guten tag, cheerio pip pip and all that! To space for me, I'm outa here.
You might have valid points if you weren't factually wrong. Kids are getting smarter, due in large part to more technology. The internet makes information accessible and cheap to the masses. Facebook and Twitter are capable of sending and spreading very large amounts of cultural information around the world.
In fact, your outlook stems from technology and media itself. It is easier to see the less intelligent among us because we are forced to see them through social media websites. Stupid people are not more prevalent, they are just more visible.
Not only is it incoherent but I find it funny that you're complaining about how kids these days are terrible and hopeless and don't know what an encyclopedia is when your rant is absolutely riddled with terrible English.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;35633307]Not only is it incoherent but I find it funny that you're complaining about how kids these days are terrible and hopeless and don't know what an encyclopedia is when your rant is absolutely riddled with terrible English.[/QUOTE]
Encyclopedia? I think you mean dictionary.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35633311]Encyclopedia? I think you mean dictionary.[/QUOTE]
No, he mentioned an encyclopedia. Goddammit, now I have to explain my joke, I hope you're happy!
You see, I'm mocking the fact that he's mad about kids these days (supposedly) not knowing about something as relatively simple as an encyclopedia while having a rant that's filled with mistakes which are just as easy to correct.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;35633337]No, he mentioned an encyclopedia. Goddammit, now I have to explain my joke, I hope you're happy!
You see, I'm mocking the fact that he's mad about kids these days (supposedly) not knowing about something as relatively simple as an encyclopedia while having a rant that's filled with mistakes which are just as easy to correct.[/QUOTE]
I can say with certainty that I am happy now. Thank you.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35632698]I bet most of you guys didn't get taught about the Battleship Maine in elementary school, even though it holds a shitload more historical significance than the Titanic.[/QUOTE]
That's the one that got sunk and caused the US to start getting really pissy at Spain, right?
What the fuck? I can't be the only one who received a book filled of pictures and information about the Titanic at about 7 years old. Not that I understood most of it, but the pictures were cool.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35632698]I bet most of you guys didn't get taught about the Battleship Maine in elementary school, even though it holds a shitload more historical significance than the Titanic. I guess that means you all must be dumb, right?[/QUOTE]
I'm from the UK, we learn history from our nation, not yours (minus thanksgiving, as that involved people from the UK heading to the US). Also, it isn't riddled with fame, so it wouldn't be studied as much. How much about the gunpowder plot did you learn?
Why do I have to be associated with these morons?
I watched Titanic when I was 6, I fucking cried when I saw that movie, and I eventually found out it was based off a real event [b]when I was 7.[/b] I fucking love Titanic, but to find out that people around my age group thought the movie wasn't based off of anything, that just really makes me cringe at the stupidity my generation has.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;35578733]Or maybe blame the kid for being an ignorant douche?
Sometimes the blame lies with, you know, the actual person.[/QUOTE]
I don't think that people are born as ignorant douches.
[QUOTE=Irockz;35636430]I'm from the UK, we learn history from our nation, not yours (minus thanksgiving, as that involved people from the UK heading to the US). Also, it isn't riddled with fame, so it wouldn't be studied as much. How much about the gunpowder plot did you learn?[/QUOTE]
I learned all I needed from V for Vendetta :v:.
Anyways, this is still part of my point. The Gunpowder Plot probably has more historical significance than the Titanic, even from the perspective of an American. I don't quite get why the Titanic is such a big deal to learn about anymore.
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[QUOTE=lavacano;35633697]That's the one that got sunk and caused the US to start getting really pissy at Spain, right?[/QUOTE]
Put simply, yea.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35633306]You might have valid points if you weren't factually wrong. Kids are getting smarter, due in large part to more technology. The internet makes information accessible and cheap to the masses.[/QUOTE]
That doesn't make people smarter, it just means they can find out things quickly. If anything, it makes people lazy and complacent, like calculators.
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;35638731]That doesn't make people smarter, it just means they can find out things quickly. If anything, it makes people lazy and complacent, like calculators.[/QUOTE]
Except people are smarter as well.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Flynn_effect[/url]
If people were taking IQ tests made in the 50s, the median IQ would be around 118.
Being someone who lives in Cork, In Ireland, 20 minutes away from the port that the Titanic was last docked in, in cobh, and on the same land mass this ship was built, this hurts, this hurts so damned bad... please... make it stop
[QUOTE=dagoth_ur;35640660]Being someone who lives in Cork, In Ireland, 20 minutes away from the port that the Titanic was last docked in, in cobh, and on the same land mass this ship was built, this hurts, this hurts so damned bad... please... make it stop[/QUOTE]
I know that feel bro.
[QUOTE=All0utWar;35582540]I think if you forget about what happened, history is bound repeat itself. We wouldn't want another Titanic, now would we?[/QUOTE]
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