DLC Discussion Week of 6/26 - Carrie Underwood 3 Pack!

[Whizzer191]

Yupp! The dude was telling me to tune into GSN when I was busy, I came back and missed it, and told him it wouldn't have mattered anyway since I didn't know what it is. By the time I posted it I was already Googling the word, and when I found out I really couldn't care less. If announcing that I never heard of something while looking it up is foreign to you, then I should explain. I do this all of the time as it allows me to not only find out what it actually is (most likely by Wikipedia), but it also allows me to capture the human element of the people that have experienced it. My favorite example of this is when I asked what an NDA was and the responses told me much more than a Wikipedia article would.

So yes, I do look things up at the same time as I ask what they are. Weird, isn't it?

I mostly read the New York Times (and occasionally the Wall Street Journal) and names don't stick to me if I deem them of no importance. I remember you mentioning Colin Powell before and had no idea who he was until I just looked it up. Yeah, I never heard of this bloke in my life.

Well, that clears it up a bit.

Not knowing Colin Powell is surprising, despite all the weird things we've already learnt about you. If I were many years younger, I could be excused for not knowing who he is, living on the other side of the Atlantic pond and all, but you? Are you in any way engaged with what's going in the world at all?

he didn't ask, he said he didn't know what it was.
big difference

Strictly, yes that's true. On the interwebz, many people will however take that as an invitation to explain what is is, or consider it a question. After all, the main use of the internet is communication, including tat of information.

[Lowlander2]

Who is Colin Powell?

[ClaptonsWig]

Who is Colin Powell?

Retired Secretary of State from the US. It would be like me saying I know australian government, but don't know who Julia Gillard is.

[Lowlander2]

Ah, okay. The only American history I really studied was The Great Depression.

[ClaptonsWig]

Ah, okay. The only American history I really studied was The Great Depression.

You're not missing much, other then going from threatening people with a big stick to the atom bomb, it's been remotely blah.