Saturday, March 12, 2011
Disconnect
I've got two friends who are both going through the same program I'm in to get their degrees and go back into the military. Consequently, we're all good friends and hang out almost daily. The other night we had a conversational disconnect. One of our number had never seen the youtube video of "Leeroy Jenkins." Someone had pulled up a youtube video that was a compilation of the top 100 youtube videos in 4 minutes. It showed the funny clips from these top 100 videos. When the clip from the leeroy jenkins video came up, the two of us that HAD seen it were rolling, but the one who hadn't had no idea what we were talking about. So through discussion and futher watching of this top 100 video, we also discovered he had never heard of "rick rolling." Just goes to show that not everyone is familiar with the same internet memes as us.
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I've experienced the same situation with my wife. She's in the same career field as I am, so I always assume that she's seen the same videos, read the same articles, and knows the same things that I do. In reality, I'm a lot nerdier than she is, so she usually hasn't seen/read the same things.
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