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Bud:

--- Quote from: TimFox on July 10, 2021, 02:06:40 pm ---You meet the first younger employee at work who was not alive when JFK was shot.
(I've been old for a long time.)

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You feel even older when you ask them who was JFK and they do not know   >:D
coppice:

--- Quote from: Bud on July 10, 2021, 06:54:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on July 10, 2021, 02:06:40 pm ---You meet the first younger employee at work who was not alive when JFK was shot.
(I've been old for a long time.)

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You feel even older when you ask them who was JFK and they do not know   >:D

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There are plenty of people graduating from university these days who barely know anything. Knowing who the current prime minister or president might be would be beyond them.
TimFox:
I was hospitalized for an injury a few years ago, and following normal practice the staff would occasionally ask me who the President was, etc. to check for stroke.  Once, they asked me what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 and, being a smart-ass, I replied "Well, that's controversial...". 
coppice:

--- Quote from: TimFox on July 10, 2021, 07:18:28 pm ---I was hospitalized for an injury a few years ago, and following normal practice the staff would occasionally ask me who the President was, etc. to check for stroke.  Once, they asked me what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 and, being a smart-ass, I replied "Well, that's controversial...".

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"What is 911?". "Its the taxi booking number for the infirmed."
TimFox:
As a curmudgeon, I continually complain that, in this "Information Age", no one knows anything.
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