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    People Under 30: Help!

    With my job, I am around teenagers a lot, but there are still some things about today's youth that I don't understand. Well, I may get what these things are, but what I mean is that I don't understand the fetish around them. Why is this or that thing a thing? Why is it fashionable? That's what I mean. With each passing year, it feels more and more like I'm product of a different age. Therefore, in the interest of better understanding both my students and our younger members here, I would like to request the aid of our resident under-30s: the group our society deems to officially be "the youth". @Green Arrow, @Chloe, @Adelaide, @William, @The Xl, could you help us close the generational divide in understanding? If you can explain one of more of the following things that perplex me (why it's fashionable), I will reward you by explaining the corresponding phenomenon from ancient history: my own youth!


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    Please help!!
    Last edited by IMPress Polly; 10-09-2017 at 03:07 PM.

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    All I saw was:

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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    I don't understand: Twilight
    Ooh, ooh! I'm most decidedly not under-30, but even I know the answer to this one. It's the same reason so many barely adolescent girls like horses: vampires and werewolves are big sexy animals who could hurt them...but don't.
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    If you don't understand your sex robot, download a new software update for her so she can complain in a language you will understand.

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    Standing Wolf wrote:
    Ooh, ooh! I'm most decidedly not under-30, but even I know the answer to this one. It's the same reason so many barely adolescent girls like horses: vampires and werewolves are big sexy animals who could hurt them...but don't.
    Vampires suck. That's why Buffy slayed them.

    (Sorry for the racism.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    Vampires suck. That's why Buffy slayed them.

    (Sorry for the racism.)
    Sure, if they look like Max Schreck in Nosferatu.



    But if they look like a young Frank Langella?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Sure, if they look like Max Schreck in Nosferatu.



    But if they look like a young Frank Langella?

    Dracula is actually supposed to look like Max Schreck's character. The sexy Dracula is derived from a play. The famous film with Bela Lugosi is based on this play not the novel.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1924_play)
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    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
    With my job, I am around teenagers a lot, but there are still some things about today's youth that I don't understand. Well, I may get what these things are, but what I mean is that I don't understand the fetish around them. Why is this or that thing a thing? Why is it fashionable? That's what I mean. With each passing year, it feels more and more like I'm product of a different age. Therefore, in the interest of better understanding both my students and our younger members here, I would like to request the aid of our resident under-30s: the group our society deems to officially be "the youth". @Green Arrow, @Chloe, @Adelaide, @William, @The Xl, could you help us close the generational divide in understanding? If you can explain one of more of the following things that perplex me (why it's fashionable), I will reward you by explaining the corresponding phenomenon from ancient history: my own youth!


    I understand: Pogs
    I don't understand: Fidget spinners
    Lol, don't feel bad about it - I never heard of Pogs.

    I'm not heavily into the spinners - they are mainly for young kids and those with ADHD - but they can be fun. They are banned from class.

    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
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    I hate those stupid looking JNCOs, but what's to understand about Emojis? AFIK, they are just another name for Smileys or Emoticons.

    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
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    Again AFIK, red pilling just means keeping it real, and recognising when someone is spinning you a line.
    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
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    Hipsters are just fashion freaks.

    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
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    VHS was a video tape standard - wasn't it? But I don't understand sex robots or the need for them either (like excuse the language - but why not just have a wank?)


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    Never saw the movie, but it sounds pretty naff to me. Didn't see Twilight either, but it sounds like a bit of a 'girlie' movie.


    Quote Originally Posted by IMPress Polly View Post
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    Lol, I don't get the connection between Alanis Morissette and gluten, but some people have a gluten intolerance and they get sick if they eat stuff with gluten in it. AFIK, it doesn't harm most people, and it's in a lot of stuff we eat - like bread and breakfast cereals.


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    Please help!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Dracula is actually supposed to look like Max Schreck's character. The sexy Dracula is derived from a play. The famous film with Bela Lugosi is based on this play not the novel.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1924_play)
    Oh, I'm aware. I read Dracula for the first time as a teenager, and while Stoker's Count was not quite as unromantic as Schreck's Nosferatu (or Stephen King's Kurt Barlow in ''Salem's Lot'), he was far from being a matinee idol. Lugosi made the ladies swoon in his day, of course; Christopher Lee was a great Dracula - such animal energy and anger; but I think the modern image of Dracula as a sex symbol can be traced to Langella in the '70s.
    Last edited by Standing Wolf; 10-09-2017 at 07:40 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Oh, I'm aware. I read Dracula for the first time as a teenager, and while Stoker's Count was not quite as unromantic as Schreck's Nosferatu (or Stephen King's Kurt Barlow in ''Salem's Lot', he was far from being a matinee idol. Lugosi made the ladies swoon in his day, of course; Christopher Lee was a great Dracula - such animal energy and anger; but I think the modern image of Dracula as a sex symbol can be traced to Langella in the '70s.
    I have to confess a fondness for Langella's portrayal but the novel was one of the best I've ever read. I read it at 16 or 17. I don't read much fiction but Victorian era novels just do it for me. I'm not quite sure what it is. I think the last novel I read was Dostoevsky's The Possessed.
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