OMG I'm jelly, I really want a pink Power Range costume, where did you get it? I loved that show.

No idea, it's long gone now! Also... the original yellow ranger died in a car accident! :eek:

WTF! I had no idea. Poor guy. :(

It was a chick! Geeeeez, Vanilla :p: New Zealand was obviously behind with the times in Power Ranger knowledge! I loved that it was the 90s and she was a Vietnamese actor on a popular kids' show :(

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You are romanticising the past to a ridiculous degree. I guarantee there are people your age that don't know who Mark Antony is - and how is that considered a requisite for intelligence? It's so pretentious to base your judgement of an entire age group on their knowledge of a minor historical figure, cause you can bet your ass we all know who Cleopatra is. You can keep Mark Antony because I'm safe in the knowledge that our generation will be furthering technology, medicine, and art in ways yours never even dreamed of.

Man you get upset very easily don't you? It wasn't meant to be taken that seriously, just a sly dig at how a younger generation see things differently and the worry that unimportant things take over from the more important ones.

Go and have a cup of tea willya? I'm not trying to fight with anyone. I doubt there are people my age who don't know who MA is but of course I can't prove that, but I lived in an era before the internet had a stranglehold on people and we had to find things out by ourselves, often through asking people older than us or (shock horror) paying attention in class.

I'm not trying to romanticise the past but in twenty-odd years I have seen such a slide in the standards of both spelling and grammar, as well as a shocking lack of historical knowledge or even interest, adn you can't tell me that it's just coincidence that the rise of Facebook, Twitter et al has been happening at the same time?

Also, I'm old. Leave me alone you young whippersnapper! Things were better in my day. Windows were things you opened to let in air, a mouse was something the cat chased and a PC was a police officer... :rofl:

The definition of irony, ladies and gentlemen.
And while grammar and spelling may have slipped, bear in mind illiteracy rates have also slipped and a lot of disadvantaged people back in the good old days didn't know what spelling and grammar even was.

I was gonna post the same thing. :laughing:

**** you both! :rofl:

Seriously, I only get annoyed when people annoy me. I don't take meanings out of context as you seem to be doing here. If I think these times are less caring then that's my privilege and there's really no call to be using words like ridiculous, which is just (ahem) annoying, particularly when I didn't address the comment at anyone specific.

But whatever: think what you like. I'm not here to fight. If you want to consider me someone who gets upset easily, fair enough but bear in mind that the things I get upset over are usually things that matter to me and do get on my nerves. Also, this is the Bitch Box isn't it? Woops! No it isn't. Well anyway.
Let's meet! :laughing:
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I'd just like to point out that neither the pot nor the kettle is black. Fail.

I'm sorry I used nasty words like 'ridiculous'. I feel my anger at you for calling me and my peers stupid is more justified than 'bawww why do you all hate my thread?'.

Literally ages, I mean a lot of the shyt said about Caligula was basically celebrity gossip

Accepted. I'm an old man. I rant easily. Please accept my apologies for lumping you all together (although I do not know your age and was not singling you out). I'm sure there are a large percentage of you that are not that way; it just gets on my nerves when I think of the knowledge we had to consume in school, and which has stayed with me my whole life. So far. Please don't set your dragon on me...

Mind you, I'm not sure about the second part of your quote. I have made that complaint before but I don't think I have done so in this thread, which most people I think are happy with. Seems to be going ok, other than the odd bump along the way...

In the year 2000 Facebook will become known as Facepalmbook.

^Nice pun. My teacher meant the social platform is called: book a face.
At some point he's right, people all look the same, but there are always exceptions ofc.

What makes me feel old is that the TV shows I watched as a kid aren't even available anymore.
I remember using audio cassette and VHS and I was so proud of my Walkman.
Oh, and the fact that my 2008 phone is seen as trash, especially by 6-year-olds that own a smartphone.

^ I totally ripped off Conan O'Brien, which makes me feel old come to think about it.:(

You didn't even rip him off right. In the year 2000, Facebook wasn't created yet and if the joke is supposed to mean 3000. Facebook will be long dead and gone in place of something more convenient.

Or we'll develop into telepathic humans without the need for language.

Being telepathic will bring a whole meaning to "he has hang ups."

Not trying to fight. Not trying to romanticize the past, yet that's what you're doing.

Presuming that social media is for stupid young people is highly ignorant. If you cared to use it, you'd know that the brightest people share their knowledge there (and know how to spell :rolleyes:). It's akin to paying attention in class. Guaranteed, you'd be privy to a lot more information than your grade school education in the 1970s provided.

And you dare to criticize the internet? You think it has a stranglehold on people? Um, isn't the internet the ONLY WAY you have to communicate with the outside world? Isn't it what makes you feel special?

Please stop making age 50 look like age 80. You know better.

Another thing besides grammar and spelling (and the tendency of using catch phrases, acronyms, memes and gifs) Penmanship is also in declined.

This all the way. Soon it'll be Weezer, and maybe even White Stripes.

I don't know if he's updated it since going to cable but even after 2000 he was still doing the bit and saying "In the year 2000".

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I think I said I wasn't trying to romanticise the past to the degree James is saying I am. I know it wasn't all roses then. I did live through it. As for the Internet, I may use it to communicate with YOU guys but it is not the only way I have to communicate. Anyway I apologised to James already so why are you fuelling the fire --- oh yeah, you're an engine aren't you? Hmm.

You only have to look at the "Facebook" thread here to see the shocking level of spelling and grammar proliferating. Obviously I'm not saying every person on FB does that but it seems very prevalent from the admittedly little I've read.

You see? People keep pulling me into fights I don't want. I made my apologies and that should have been the end of it but others want to take me to task too, initiating a new argument and wasting time debating something I've already apologised for. That said, I am right in part of what I say and you surely can't deny that there is overall a terrible decline in the usage of the English language, and that this is mainly due to people using messengers and chat rooms, Facebook, Twitter et al, and to texting as well.

I may not be 100% right, but I'm not 100% wrong. Your points are valid but you should concede or allow that mine are too. I'm not always right, I know that. But there is truth, even partial truth in what I say. Parts of the internet may be populated by --- sorry, are populated by intelligent, well-read people, I certainly don't deny that, but other parts of it are home to people who couldn't spell a word with more than three syllables without having to look it up.

hm we should consider what the point of language is before condemning an entire generation over Facebook syntax.

You say you're apologising but you keep repeating the same offensive and ignorant opinions.

Trollheart the reason you keep being pulled into arguments and especially this particular argument is that over and over again you act as if you're smarter than everyone else. You're coming across as very elitist and condescending. Worst of all whenever you're questioned you play the victim.

When you lie on an operating table below a surgeon that was part of the 'Facebook generation', I doubt the shortening of words will seem important. As Engine said, all the great thinkers these days use social media to express themselves and even (slowly) bring about change - because the world was never perfect and still isn't. Autocorrect should root out any spelling mistakes, because in the world we live in today intelligence isn't measured by those standards.

OH YEAH?! WELL LISTEN HERE MAN! Just kidding, I'm not going to fight you on this point any more. I will say that those FB people who seem stupid are, in the worst case, just like the kids who seemed stupid/weren't paying attention when you were in school. Some kids just don't care about school, does that make the school bad?

And it was hyperbolic and a bit harsh of me to say..

.so I apologize for that. And I do concede that many people on social media networks are, for lack of a better word, stupid. But others aren't, that's how life works. Just don't throw out the baby with the bathwater so to speak.

Even better guys: "Learn to Fly" by foo fighters on classic rock radio. I'm living it. Right now. Shit is a bummer.

Sup man. Been so long since I saw you, I feel old.

Cool man, cool. As you say, it's all good. I apologise if I offended anyone. Will think twice before opening my mouth again. Good to know we're still cool. :beer:

Amen, I went from gray to white and shit man