13th December 2006, 5:56 PM
Ryan Wrote:I'm sure it happens. I'm sure it's not a statistical impossibility, but you must really, really be cut off from almost every walk of popular culture to have gone more than two decades in complete ignorance of something so painfully eminent during the season.
And, if you choose to get touchy, I didn't mean 'ignorant' in a bad sense, only in a purely literal fashion.
No no I'm clearly ignorant of this movie. I'm just saying that your assumption that I have to be "cut off from almost every walk of popular culture" is, well, pretty off. I've just never heard of it. It happens. I can't have heard of EVERY bit of popular culture. That's a pretty big expectation. I will say I don't follow hollywood or movies in general that much, or at all really, but I don't know anyone in hollywood so you'll forgive me if I don't really see that as a problem. Doesn't affect me and isn't really important to much of anything.
What surprises me is those people who have gone for decades without knowing what a black hole is or what e=mc^2 means. Now those people's education has failed them utterly, and that shocks me because it's ubiquitous. I mean black holes are EVERYWHERE, more so than that movie, in books, music, TV (they sometimes run entire days of nothing but black hole specials on the Science channel) games and is the name of at least one (bad) movie, but some people can go their entire lives having never HEARD of these things, and THEY actually exist and knowledge gained from them could affect our technological development as a species.
So I think you'll forgive my ignorance of some little holiday movie if you please.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)