RIP 2010

[Alex]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Ok. But what about the unicorns and rainbows?

Yes; on Tuesdays during summer months, every other Monday during winter months.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Complete separation, no, but you've got to admit it's a significant blind spot.

Sure, and I have no problem saying a musically retarded. I just havee issues for when that gets expanded to an assumption that I've in no way partaken in the cultural zeitgeist of my time. I'm guessing I know far more about TV, books, movies, Saturday morning cartoons of the '80s, and sugared cereal mascots than the average person.

But when I run into someone who doesn't watch movies I just treat them like someone who doesn't watch movies, not express amazement and how hard it must be to live without a culture (not saying that CP did that, but she did expand it a lot from just being stupid about music).

And to a certain extent a big part of things is that I am horrible at remembering proper nouns. Though I'm sure I've been told the real names for everybody here many times, I wouldn't be able to give them for more than a dozen of the posters here. I'm horrible at remembering book titles and author names and that's in a realm I'm hugely interested. I"m sure that I had heard the name "Kurt Cobain" many, many times before he died. It just had not implanted and the fact that he was from a realm of culture I had no interest in made it even less likely it would happen. Some people suffer from face blindness (Oliver Sachs rears his head again), I sometimes wonder if I suffer from capitalized noun blindness.