The Onion did a report on the PRF:


https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1611116607169826818

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:02 pm The Onion did a report on the PRF:


https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1611116607169826818

Yup. I can confirm that this happened.

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:02 pm The Onion did a report on the PRF:
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1611116607169826818

"Back then, I listened to junk like Journey and watched crappy movies like Iron Eagle," the 41-year-old said in reference to popular music and films of the 1980s that allowed him to have something to talk about with friends. "I wish my own dad had turned me on to the good stuff, so I wouldn't have had to wait until I was in my 20s before I started digging anything halfway decent."

Journey is not junk.

enframed wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:39 pm

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 1:02 pm The Onion did a report on the PRF:
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1611116607169826818

"Back then, I listened to junk like Journey and watched crappy movies like Iron Eagle," the 41-year-old said in reference to popular music and films of the 1980s that allowed him to have something to talk about with friends. "I wish my own dad had turned me on to the good stuff, so I wouldn't have had to wait until I was in my 20s before I started digging anything halfway decent."

Journey is not junk.

Who is fact checking theses articles? If the dad in question was BORN in 82, there is no way he is listening to Journey and watching Iron Eagle in 1994 to fit in.

zorg wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:43 pmWho is fact checking theses articles? If the dad in question was BORN in 82, there is no way he is listening to Journey and watching Iron Eagle in 1994 to fit in.

Millennials? I’ve noticed discrepancies like this in The Onion and The Hard Times, and I get the feeling they’re written by people who don’t have firsthand experience of the things they’re riffing on.

The original article is over a decade old, so more like born in 1972.

I am so that dad.

You know what’s funny? My brother bought my son a copy of Marquee Moon a few years ago. My son asked for a Television t-shirt last year. He wears it to school pretty regularly.

Other kids at his school like Television and have commented on his shirt.

pretty sure my kids (8 and almost 10) know more songs by Queen and Prince than whatever current songs their classmates may be listening to. They may know more than their 21 year old half sister too and they sure don't listen to her music.

Weather Twitter says that lightning just struck the south tower of the Golden Gate bridge with 170.8 kA of current. I don't know how people accurately measure lightning, but wow......

Also, there was a screenshot from software called "Thunderstorm Manager' which ought to give conspiracy nuts a lot to work with.

Wood Goblin wrote: Fri Jan 13, 2023 11:50 am The original article is over a decade old, so more like born in 1972.

I am so that dad.

You know what’s funny? My brother bought my son a copy of Marquee Moon a few years ago. My son asked for a Television t-shirt last year. He wears it to school pretty regularly.

Other kids at his school like Television and have commented on his shirt.

The weird kid on Stranger Things was listening to Television in one episode. Might have juiced things slightly for the youth.

I have never tried to play my kid music really. Mostly all new stuff for her. She likes the B-52's and the Breeders, though, and a few other stray things from being around stuff as a kid.

Playing in a typewriter band, my own son, 8, has definitely had a unique formative experience around what a band sounds like. Also for some reason, the Shaggs’ “My Pal Foot Foot” was an early earworm for him, and I was worried I might have blown up something in his brain. Fortunately he’s moved on to Taylor Swift and Imagine Dragons so another triumph for the resiliency of the child’s mind!