People who proudly boast about how they never spend a dime on Epic Games, in their store, but has hundreds of free games to play with no intent to play them. Like, I don’t know who is supposed to be impressed by that. Not to mention, that’s not really a good method of protesting if you’re someone who hates Epic Games.
You’re still spending the time and effort, not to mention even bothering to have an account with them to begin with, to redeem free games that they give away. Who are you seriously trying to impress or what message are you trying to convey? Because all I see are contradictions and ironies.
Dismissing knowledge. ”I don’t know anything about football. I don’t watch any game!”
All knowledge might be useful and should be valued as a positive thing.
False. I barely know what a Snookie is, and I refuse to waste time finding out.
The fact that I have no idea what you’re referencing makes me both relieved and perversely curious at the same time.
reality tv star form the early 2000s who was the butt of jokes and parodies.
you didn’t miss anything of significance, i guess unless you are really into reality TV trivia.
I am really not.
Wait, is this what South Park was referring to in some episode (I don’t remember which) where some goblinesque creature shows up and they refer to it as “It’s very famous!” ? TIL…
Yes, that’s exactly the reference. it was a reality tv star from jersey shore which was extremely popular and controversial at that time. and she was famous for being a gross goblin creature, figuratively. south park ran with the joke and made her a literal goblin creature.
Search YouTube for SNL Snooki and that’s the closest you ever want to get to the actual thing. Bobby Moynihan is a genius.
I have no idea what a nookie is either, and I listened to Limp Bizkit sing about it a lot.
I don’t know on this one. I would rather prefer someone having knowledge about survivor skills, budgeting, common sense and just general living. Nobody has to care about knowing sports, until they decide to get into sports themselves, then yeah it wouldn’t hurt to know some of the sport and the teams you’re into.
But it’s not something everyone needs to have knowledge of.
It wasn’t an exclusionary statement. Knowing something about football doesn’t mean you can’t also know something about survival, budgeting, etc. Their point was that knowing anything about football is probably better than not.
E.g. “All knowledge might be useful and should be valued as a positive thing.”
I’m sorry but I don’t think the knowledge of knowing who won the Super Bowl 20 years ago will serve any relevance about how I’m trying to research and diagnose a medical issue with my health. Not to mention what could possibly go wrong if things are left unchecked, so I don’t think also the knowledge of who started as the running back on the 3rd week in the last season of football would help there either.
I largely agree with you, but they do make a fair point: all knowledge has some value. Football trivia won’t help you in your research, but general knowledge of football might help you break the ice in a social setting where you’d otherwise feel awkward or out of place.
That’s a sentiment I get every day when teaching maths. Many do not value maths because they can’t see any immediate benefits. What I’ve learned is that you never know what knowledge you might need in the future.
Knowledge is knowledge and everything is of some value. Maybe not the greatest value at all times, but some value. One should strive to have as much knowledge about as many things as possible.
You’re still misunderstanding it, lol
how often is anyone in a survival scenario?
the only people that would really apply to are those who are doing back country outdoors work or off the grid living.
which is very very few people
Just because someone says survival scenario, doesn’t always mean it is about being in the middle of some jungle somewhere. It is about also upkeeping balances, making sure you’re not homeless .etc
Come on now, think a little harder.
Or people who live in a place where there are increasingly bad weather events, spotty power supply, poor government, civil unrest, etc.
so being poor?
i grew up in a rural place with spotty power and limited civil services.
you don’t need survival skills, you just need to plan ahead or have another place to go to until the power comes back up. like grandma’s house.
what if you know all about something, did it your entire life, and till think it’s totally stupid and uninteresting?
Thinking something is stupid and uninteresting is a completely normal thing. However, if you do have knowledge of that horribly dull thing, that knowledge is of value. Who knows, suddenly you might impress someone with that knowledge. Or you might be able to carry a conversation with someone who is interested in it.
I know almost nothing about sports or celebrities, but that’s not a good thing. I would be able to talk more with my colleagues if I had known more about sports. I’ve tried to learn more but it’s hard when I don’t find it interesting.
you seem to presume that we are infinite beings with infinite time and capacity for knowledge.
we’re not. we’re finite. we can only know so much, and knowing one thing means not knowing another.