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09 Sep 2010, 2:51 pm

Does it feel like you learn things that everybody else already knows? That happens to me a lot. It's kinda scary.

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09 Sep 2010, 4:06 pm

Sometimes.

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09 Sep 2010, 5:13 pm

It happens from time, to time.

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16 Nov 2010, 10:56 pm

YES!

But, that is a part of life.
(The trick is to keep on trying to learn more, and someday you will be the one telling someone else common knowledge).

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16 Nov 2010, 11:53 pm

Yes, all the time. My younger brother calls me a "noob at life". :lol:

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17 Nov 2010, 3:08 am

i didn't get bellbottoms until long after everybody else had moved back to wearing straight-legs.
i didn't get long hair until long after everybody else had cut their long tresses off.
i didn't get 80s music until the 2000s.
i have always just managed to catch the caboose of life.

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17 Nov 2010, 3:47 pm

Nice job AB.

It is scary that I didn't really know pop culture anymore. I'd assume that is a sign of getting older and not being very people oriented these days. I also don't see much TV these days. Someone will say something about some new group or some actor and I will no idea who in the hell they are talking about. That used to be such a big source of conversation and how I related to other people that not having that at my disposal makes communication more difficult.

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17 Nov 2010, 6:09 pm

No. Well, yes and no. I've no interest in most of the crap that's on TV, so I don't know who's won the latest Celebrity Nonsense shows or who Betty knifed last week on Eastenders, but I'm pretty good at real general knowledge, y'know, language, literature, history, geography, science, art, music, politics, religion &c. and as a card-carrying Troper I'm at least aware of the existence of a lot of pop-culture stuff I'd otherwise not be interested in.

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17 Nov 2010, 10:25 pm

I often find I know them better, when I do.

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18 Nov 2010, 9:35 pm

I'm severely lacking with common knowledge but I have lots of obscure knowledge

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18 Nov 2010, 9:43 pm

nick007 wrote:

I'm severely lacking with common knowledge but I have lots of obscure knowledge

so instead of common sense, you have uncommon sense. i like that.

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18 Nov 2010, 9:51 pm

auntblabby wrote:

nick007 wrote:

I'm severely lacking with common knowledge but I have lots of obscure knowledge

so instead of common sense, you have uncommon sense. i like that.

I'm like wiki for completely useless info :lol:

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18 Nov 2010, 9:57 pm

nick007 wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

nick007 wrote:

I'm severely lacking with common knowledge but I have lots of obscure knowledge

so instead of common sense, you have uncommon sense. i like that.

I'm like wiki for completely useless info :lol:

here is something to add to your wiki then- did you know that the word "nifty" is a civil-war-era contraction of the word "magnificent"? or that the term "fizzle" originally meant a "noiseless flatulance"? or that "peter-out" essentially means the same thing? [from the french pété, meaning flatulance]

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18 Nov 2010, 10:29 pm

nick007 wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

nick007 wrote:

I'm severely lacking with common knowledge but I have lots of obscure knowledge

so instead of common sense, you have uncommon sense. i like that.

I'm like wiki for completely useless info :lol:

I usually get listed as the person people would most like to get stuck on a desert island with or be one of the last two people left on the planet.

As I say I've got a really good memory for useless stuff,but can never remember anything important. or is it the other way around.

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19 Nov 2010, 12:27 am

Ambivalence wrote:

Ditto. I have a general knowledge far greater than average but I stand in the supermarket line looking at the magazine covers and see "Harry and Beth to split up". "A new baby for Agnes" or "Irving's health scare" or whatever.

I think "WTF are these people and why should I care?". Someone must care because they sell a lot of those gossip magazines.

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19 Nov 2010, 8:57 pm

I have a lot of knowledge that most people would consider obscure. I usually seem to know most of what people would consider common knowledge. I seem to have the ability to understand or quickly figure out what someone is talking about. Some of the things that most people would consider common knowledge I just don't know and don't have any interest in such as celebrity gossip or who did what on this or that reality show or crappy TV show. Occasionally people start talking about a TV show and since I don't watch much TV I usually don't know what they are talking about. I don't consider myself to be lacking in common knowledge at all. I learn new things every day, some of it is useless and some is very useful.

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