Kids these days

[Long Run]

This year’s entering college class of 2015 was born just as the Internet took everyone onto the information highway and as Amazon began its relentless flow of books and everything else into their lives. Members of this year’s freshman class, most of them born in 1993, are the first generation to grow up taking the word “online” for granted and for whom crossing the digital divide has redefined research, original sources and access to information, changing the central experiences and methods in their lives. * * *

Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. * * *

As for the class of 2015, without any memory whatever of George Herbert Walker Bush as president, they came into existence as Bill Clinton came into the presidency.

The Mindset List for the Class of 2015

1. There has always been an Internet ramp onto the information highway.
2. Ferris Bueller and Sloane Peterson could be their parents.
3. States and Velcro parents have always been requiring that they wear their bike helmets.
4. The only significant labor disputes in their lifetimes have been in major league sports.
5. There have nearly always been at least two women on the Supreme Court, and women have always commanded U.S. Navy ships.
6. They “swipe” cards, not merchandise.
7. As they’ve grown up on websites and cell phones, adult experts have constantly fretted about their alleged deficits of empathy and concentration.
8. Their school’s “blackboards” have always been getting smarter.
9. “Don’t touch that dial!”….what dial?

12. Amazon has never been just a river in South America.

16. Women have never been too old to have children.
17. Japan has always been importing rice.

23. The Communist Party has never been the official political party in Russia.
24. “Yadda, yadda, yadda” has always come in handy to make long stories short.
25. Video games have always had ratings.

29. Arnold Palmer has always been a drink.

32. Their older siblings have told them about the days when Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera were Mouseketeers.

37. Music has always been available via free downloads.

42. Electric cars have always been humming in relative silence on the road.

46. Russian courts have always had juries.
47. No state has ever failed to observe Martin Luther King Day.

49. Public schools have always made space available for advertising.

56. They’ve always wanted to be like Shaq or Kobe: Michael Who?
57. They’ve often broken up with their significant others via texting, Facebook, or MySpace.

63. They won’t go near a retailer that lacks a website.

67. Folks in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have always been able to energize with Pepsi Cola.

75. The New York Times and the Boston Globe have never been rival newspapers.

Full list: http://mindsetmoment.com/Mindsetlist.html

[Scooter]

Ferris Bueller and Sloane Peterson could be their parents.

Why do I find this the most disquieting from this list?

[Sean]

Never mind all that... There are 26 year olds walking around today who weren't even born when Live Aid happened!

[Daisy]

Shit Sean that accounts for every single one of my team!

I'll get me Zimmerman frame!

[The Hen]

Oh it's so sweet when you young'uns pretend to be old .... NOT.

[rubato]

18yr old women today take it for granted that they can be anything. They have the greatest gift the generations before them could have given them (thanks to feminism).

It makes me smile.



yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has always been available on TV.

And presumably the characters in it seem neither shocking, outrageous, or particularly sexy.

[Sue U]

Saddest:

68. Andy Warhol is a museum in Pittsburgh.

[Sue U]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has always been available on TV.

And presumably the characters in it seem neither shocking, outrageous, or particularly sexy.

Susan Sarandon will always be sexy. Tim Curry maybe not so much -- at least not in drag.

[Gob]

Oh I still carry a candle for Little Nell, but I doubt most 17 year old boys woudl now.

[Sue U]

Little Nell Campbell today:

[Gob]

Oh, break my fucking heart, why don't you!

She'll always look like this to me...



To be the filling in a Nell / Magenta sandwitch..... Oh boy....

[Sue U]

That pictue was taken what, like 35 years ago? Rocky Horror was already 20 years old before today's university freshmen were even born. (I still remember seeing the stage show in London in 1977.) Do yourself a favor and DO NOT go looking for pictures of Magenta today.

[The Hen]

I dunno? For a 68 year old woman, she is doing OK.









... and she still looks like a filthy slut!

[Sue U]

Did you know those are her lips in the opening credits of the movie? After all these years, I just found that out.

[SisterMaryFellatio]

Tim Curry in drag is hot!!




So was Craig Mclaughlin as Frank N Furter.



And I have always thought Russell Brand (Phwoaaaarrrr) would make a good one.



But hey I know my taste is a bit off the wall!

[Gob]

I've met Sean, you don't have to tell me that!

[Beer Sponge]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show brings back some fond memories for me. I'm not sure I want to share them, though...

[oldr_n_wsr]

Did you know those are her lips in the opening credits of the movie? After all these years, I just found that out.

I knew that.
Saw Rocky Horror in 1977 when I visited a girl I knew who was attending New Paltz. At hte time it was considered THE party school. There were door to door drug "salesmen" in the dorms. Good time was had by all that weekend.

[Sean]

I've met Sean, you don't have to tell me that!

I missed this one you cheeky bastard!