Dinner with Friends

[kentonio]

Octavian
Hunter S Thompson
Leonardo DeVinci
Einstein
Admiral Canaris
Henry VIII (around age 20-25)
Archimedes
Robert E.Lee
Stephen Fry
Alexander the Great

[Al B. Sure!]

Keith Moon
Oliver Reed
John Mytton
Richard Burton
Errol Flynn
Brendan Behan
Vivian Stanshall
Richard Harris
David Niven
Dorothy Parker


Stick those 10 in a room with me and about a million units of alcohol, and set the cameras running for the greatest party in history.

It's amazing how I have never heard of any of those people except for Errol Flynn. And I only know who Flynn is from a Jay-Z song reference.

[Tupac Shakur]

How can you not know who Vivian Stanshall was? The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band were nearly as influential as Led Zeppelin...

[Al B. Sure!]

I looked up half of them. English. People with relevance 40 freaking years ago. No wonder. I have no embarrassment for not knowing who they are. A different culture and time with no relevance to my generation.

[Tupac Shakur]

Go drop some acid and watch Magical Mystery Tour, you cultural neophyte.

[Guynemer]

It's amazing how I have never heard of any of those people except for Errol Flynn. And I only know who Flynn is from a Jay-Z song reference.

Jesus ****ing Christ, you are a cultural Philistine.

[Al B. Sure!]

Jesus ****ing Christ, you are a cultural Philistine.

To your culture. **** that English people or white people or whatever were into 40-50 years ago. What relevance does that have to me?

[giblets]

It's amazing how I have never heard of any of those people except for Errol Flynn. And I only know who Flynn is from a Jay-Z song reference.

Okay...? I don't know who some of those people are but I'm not exactly going to take every possible opportunity to show how ignorant I am.

[Hauldren Collider]

Hunter S Thompson would probably just take acid tabs and pass out.

[Al B. Sure!]

Okay...? I don't know who some of those people are but I'm not exactly going to take every possible opportunity to show how ignorant I am.

It's not about ignorance. There's this tendency here to mis-characterize cultural non-relevance as ignorance. Instead of having an appreciation for the narrow spectrum from which one views thing as having cultural significance and realization that others do not share that same experience, posters here choose to denigrate.

Would it be appropriate for a Brazilian to mock an American for not knowing of a famous Brazilian pop singer or soccer player from the 1960's? And yet, posters here continually exhibit the same behavior.

[giblets]

It's not about ignorance. There's this tendency here to mis-characterize cultural non-relevance as ignorance. Instead of having an appreciation for the narrow spectrum from which one views thing as having cultural significance and realization that others do not share that same experience, posters here choose to denigrate.

Would it be appropriate for a Brazilian to mock an American for not knowing of a famous Brazilian pop singer or soccer player from the 1960's?

Look, if you're American and don't know who Led Zeppelin is, you're just ignorant about popular culture. Get over it.

[Al B. Sure!]

Look, if you're American and don't know who Led Zeppelin is, you're just ignorant about popular culture. Get over it.

The question is whose popular culture? Certainly not mine.

[giblets]

The question is whose popular culture? Certainly not mine.

You're not American? Okay, fine.

[Guynemer]

YES YOURS.

I know who Jay-Z is.

You don't know who Keith Moon is.


YOU ARE IGNORANT.

[Al B. Sure!]

YES YOURS.

I know who Jay-Z is.

You don't know who Keith Moon is.


YOU ARE IGNORANT.

Umm... knowledge of Jay-Z is not relevant here. Would I ostracize you for not being familiar with, let's say, Beanie Sigel?

We can play this game of mocking someone for not knowing what is relevant in your circle but would it get anywhere beyond making us all look like idiots?