<p>So I ask here because you guys are younger than those on the College Life forum. I am college class of 2013 and I think half of this list is complete crap. It’s supposed to be a snapshot of the mind of an 18 year old right now. You guys are younger so tell me if being only a few years younger than myself makes a huge difference. </p>
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<p>Really?</p>
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<p>… I use exclusively cursive</p>
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<p>and there is no such thing as history! Huzzah!</p>
<p>I’m kind of confused about your post, but I do primarily write using cursive, although I am the only I know who uses it.</p>
<p>I think that a lot more than half this list is crap.</p>
<p>This one I don’t understand:</p>
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Huh? Isn’t it Sunnydale High? Am I missing something. </p>
<p>The one about the watch just kind of ticked me off. We’re not idiots. We know what a freaking watch is. </p>
<p>The writers of this were on CNN yesterday. They said something along the lines of “You can point to your wrist and look inquisitive all day… an 18 year old isn’t going to know that you’re asking the time.” WTH?!</p>
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Yeah, I also thought it was Sunnydale!
What thing about the watch?</p>
<p>Which parts of the list did you guys think was true? :D</p>
<p>^ 28 is the watch one.</p>
<p>Number one is definitely true.</p>
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<li>Few in the class know how to write in cursive.</li>
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<p>I knew how in third grade, but I don’t use it anymore.</p>
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<li>Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.</li>
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<p>Sometimes regular mail, often email, but usually just the phone.</p>
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<li>“Go West, Young College Grad” has always implied “and don’t stop until you get to Asia…and learn Chinese along the way.”</li>
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<p>I’ve been told I need to learn Chinese to “be successful”. Same for Spanish.</p>
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<li>Al Gore has always been animated.</li>
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<p>Animated? As in cartoon, or being active? Because I’ve heard he used to be a more boring speaker.</p>
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<li>Los Angelenos have always been trying to get along.</li>
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<p>Gang wars?</p>
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<li>Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-suckers at Hemery High.</li>
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<li>“Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo.</li>
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<p>Nope.</p>
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<li>With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.</li>
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<p>Not always, but during my lifetime.</p>
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<li>Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus’s folks on Parents’ Weekend.</li>
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<p>I love *2001: A Space Odyssey<a href=“the%20book”>/I</a>, but I prefer Childhood’s End.</p>
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<li>Entering college this fall in a country where a quarter of young people under 18 have at least one immigrant parent, they aren’t afraid of immigration…unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet.</li>
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<p>I am in favor of the right for people to move between countries. I’d love to meet extraterrestrial intelligent beings, but violence and xenophobia would end poorly.</p>
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<li>John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.</li>
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<p>Probably has, given this question. I just don’t follow tennis.</p>
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<li>Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.</li>
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<p>Didn’t know he was a director. Though maybe I just forgot.</p>
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<li>Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation.</li>
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<p>Stupid show.</p>
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<li>Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine.</li>
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<p>Yes, yes he was.</p>
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<li>Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause.</li>
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<p>Nope. Oh, and don’t forget the bracelets.</p>
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<li>Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.</li>
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<p>Cars haven’t always been around.</p>
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<li>Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection.</li>
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<p>Don’t have one. Never did.</p>
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<li>Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.</li>
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<p>Haha, finding out that there was one of each came after some confusing news headlines.</p>
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<li>They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.</li>
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<p>I used to have a corded phone, too.</p>
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<li>DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.</li>
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<p>What is this “always existed” stuff? How about “as far as I can personally remember”?</p>
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<li>Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.</li>
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<p>Don’t recognize her name.</p>
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<li>Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.</li>
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<p>Okay, no more answers to “always” ones.</p>
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<li><p>Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.</p></li>
<li><p>“Cop Killer” by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording.</p></li>
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<p>Same for “never”</p>
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<li><p>Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks.</p></li>
<li><p>Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.</p></li>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<li><p>Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.</p></li>
<li><p>They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.</p></li>
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<p>I wore a watch, until it recently broke. Need to get that fixed.</p>
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<li><p>Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.</p></li>
<li><p>“Viewer Discretion” has always been an available warning on TV shows.</p></li>
<li><p>The first home computer they probably touched was an Apple II or Mac II; they are now in a museum.</p></li>
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<p>Unsure</p>
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<li>Czechoslovakia has never existed.</li>
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<p>Breaking my rule, to say I love history. So there.</p>
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<li><p>Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.</p></li>
<li><p>“Assisted Living” has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always offered an alternative to the hospital.</p></li>
<li><p>Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall.</p></li>
<li><p>Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones.</p></li>
<li><p>Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an “Annus Horribilis.”</p></li>
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<p>**I disdain British monarchs. Tiocfaidh </p>
<p>^ To be fair “has always existed” probably means “has existed the entire time they’ve been on this earth.”</p>
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Yeah, but:
1.) That could be inferred from my date of birth
2.) It got annoying
3.) I realized I didn’t want to answer all of them, but didn’t want to throw out what I had already written</p>
<p>I don’t really understand this thread. Some are true, some are not true, and most are just what the heck am I reading</p>