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Originally Posted by James
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.
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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...
