Useless twisting of our new technology
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Well we could start with a name...
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Well we could start with a name...
wrote last edited by [email protected]Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
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Well we could start with a name...
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's so strange for me, having been born in 1988, to hear someone not know who this guy is, and this song.
I fully understand that it's been just about 30 years since this came out, and there are multiple generations of kids that will never have heard it that are fully grown adults now.
Its just that this song was not only massive, one that everyone knew, but it lived on way past its release date, it was played on radio, tv, used in films and tv shows (silicon valley is a recent one of note). The same band also had a meme based on the film "napolean dynamite" with the song canned heat, which the main character did a dance to that made it into games such as world of warcraft and fortnite.
The band is a part of pop culture, and despite it all, there are still places in the world where people dont know instantly what this picture is from and who that is.
I get it. It just boggles my mind how vast the world is. Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were. (Beatles are from liverpool in the north west of england and liverpool is littered with beatles murals, staturs and that kind of shit) its insane that anyone could not know who they are.
But hey ho. Just thinking out loud.
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I'm walking into spiderwebs, so leave a message and I'll call you back.
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TIL "gaff" is UK slang for your house or home.
And a fuck up.
Gaffer is a boss.
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Original post made me search for jamiraquoi, which led to me listening to their music, then finding a yt about their music video which led me to the jk wiki page, which had the term twinkess twin, so then I started on that etc. Internet Rabbit hole.
Im glad he's still robustly british.
It's "twinless" with an L.
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It's so strange for me, having been born in 1988, to hear someone not know who this guy is, and this song.
I fully understand that it's been just about 30 years since this came out, and there are multiple generations of kids that will never have heard it that are fully grown adults now.
Its just that this song was not only massive, one that everyone knew, but it lived on way past its release date, it was played on radio, tv, used in films and tv shows (silicon valley is a recent one of note). The same band also had a meme based on the film "napolean dynamite" with the song canned heat, which the main character did a dance to that made it into games such as world of warcraft and fortnite.
The band is a part of pop culture, and despite it all, there are still places in the world where people dont know instantly what this picture is from and who that is.
I get it. It just boggles my mind how vast the world is. Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were. (Beatles are from liverpool in the north west of england and liverpool is littered with beatles murals, staturs and that kind of shit) its insane that anyone could not know who they are.
But hey ho. Just thinking out loud.
Well it's possible people have heard the song and just not know where it is from. I've seen the music video in muted online clips about film production, but I don't think I've ever actually heard the music.
I don't think I've ever heard the music and the video together at once so I wouldn't have made any connection. Assuming that you have heard the music because I have no idea what it would even sound like.
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And a fuck up.
Gaffer is a boss.
I don't know why people say that English is hard it all makes perfect sense.
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Oh jfc teletext.. now that's a blast from the past. used to love reading it lol
Yeah sometimes I wish the internet had never been invented and we all just kept using teletext.
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It's so strange for me, having been born in 1988, to hear someone not know who this guy is, and this song.
I fully understand that it's been just about 30 years since this came out, and there are multiple generations of kids that will never have heard it that are fully grown adults now.
Its just that this song was not only massive, one that everyone knew, but it lived on way past its release date, it was played on radio, tv, used in films and tv shows (silicon valley is a recent one of note). The same band also had a meme based on the film "napolean dynamite" with the song canned heat, which the main character did a dance to that made it into games such as world of warcraft and fortnite.
The band is a part of pop culture, and despite it all, there are still places in the world where people dont know instantly what this picture is from and who that is.
I get it. It just boggles my mind how vast the world is. Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were. (Beatles are from liverpool in the north west of england and liverpool is littered with beatles murals, staturs and that kind of shit) its insane that anyone could not know who they are.
But hey ho. Just thinking out loud.
Also, little kids are going around in Nirvana t-shirts, so they can can all the “before my time” natter.
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And a fuck up.
Gaffer is a boss.
That’s gaffe though.
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Not sure what that means but I saw him live a few years back and I was shocked how extremely British he is, both in accent and great sense of humour. Also the whole band is now a bunch of old dudes. I guess that shouldn't be surprising but it was very different from the picture I had in my head since my childhood.
Except the music. The music was just as good as ever. It was awesome.
Did he actually have canned meat in his heels when you saw him?
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Was born in 1996, please can someone tell me who's this? I'd like to listen to them. Thank you.
It’s your real dad.
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I'd been texting for a couple of years when this came out, and had just logged my first full year working as a web developer. The next 5 years or so felt amazing, hardware and software was improving so quickly on all fronts.
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You're not at all worried about the phenomenon of diluting definitions of powerful words until they lose their power, are you?
Honestly a lot of these terms are quite old and not great at describing current politics.
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People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds. Like back in the day there were people saying the same thing about books when the printing press was invented
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Well it's possible people have heard the song and just not know where it is from. I've seen the music video in muted online clips about film production, but I don't think I've ever actually heard the music.
I don't think I've ever heard the music and the video together at once so I wouldn't have made any connection. Assuming that you have heard the music because I have no idea what it would even sound like.
Yeah! Thats what i am saying.
It absolutely makes sense that there will be vast numbers of people who dont know any single well known anything.
But it never fails to blow my mind just how big the world is.
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ASCII pr0n anyone? [nsfw]
Be right back....
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People have always complained about how new tech warps people’s minds. Like back in the day there were people saying the same thing about books when the printing press was invented
Every generation has said stop X it'll rot your brains.
Like you said, it was books at first, children told to go outside, then book readers centuries later told their children to stop watching TV and read a book. Now video games are the latest
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Before the modern web, before Wikipedia, before pocket computers, Encarta was the shit!
