trappedslider
Legend
If it hadn't been a part of a character's arc during ER, I may not have heard of it all.
Ask someone under the age of 30 if they know of Jerry's kids and MDA.
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Ask someone under the age of 30 if they know of Jerry's kids and MDA.
Aeson
I am the mysterious professor.
I mentioned the porn.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
Speaking of Doctors Without Borders, I was a member of the student chapter of Engineers Without Borders at my alma mater. They do good work, particularly with improving the lives of small communities all over the world. For my part: I designed a water cistern for an orphanage in Nicaragua.
Mad_Jack
Legend
And a lot of people just aren't capable of (and/or interested in) seeing the larger world outside of their own personal experience and beliefs. For a lot of folks, if something wasn't part of their experience growing up they may never become aware of it since their "world" has basically become set into stone by the time they get into their twenties. They don't go out of their way to seek out new things. Short of some outside factor intruding into their lives that introduces new information/experiences, they'll just go marching along doing the same things they've always done. And even then, their usual reaction to things intruding into their world view is to reflexively reject or ignore it.
On the other hand, sometimes information/knowledge just doesn't filter out into a larger group consciousness that isn't somehow connected to it, or may be dated and have become less relevant to the larger group consciousness. (For years, Floor Jansen has been the lead singer of a world-famous band that sells millions of records every year, but no one in the Netherlands where she's from had heard of her until she ended up on a Dutch tv show that got posted on Youtube. And as mentioned, the Jerry's Kids telethons (and telethons in general) have long since faded from popular consciousness as other things have replaced it.)
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Aeson
I am the mysterious professor.
I'm really getting tired of the cops following me. I'm driving around DOING MY JOB. I wish they would get a real job and stop harassing innocent people. The world would be better off with fewer cops in it. People can live in peace without fear of being shot, profiled, or entrapped. 
trappedslider
Legend
I was at the library yesterday and discovered that a book I enjoy reading despite the author's action has an audio version that is divided into two volumes each about 23 discs. It's also read by a full cast instead of one person.
I didn't get it, mainly because I'm too lazy to rip that many discs.
I didn't get it, mainly because I'm too lazy to rip that many discs.
Mad_Jack
Legend
I could never get into audio books. In addition to my hearing issues, I'm also one of those people who has trouble filtering out extraneous stimuli. So I'd have to sit down with a pair of headphones on to listen to it with my eyes closed.
The only audio book I own is the Dresden Files novel Full Moon by Jim Butcher, as read by James Marsters (Spike from Buffy).
I've never actually listened to it in the fifteen (?) years I've owned it.
The only audio book I own is the Dresden Files novel Full Moon by Jim Butcher, as read by James Marsters (Spike from Buffy).
I've never actually listened to it in the fifteen (?) years I've owned it.
Blackrat
He Who Lurks Beyond The Veil
I’ve been enjoying audio books for about five years now. I listen to them on my trips to work and back. It takes me about a month to get through an average book. I’m going through the Horus Heresy series at the moment. That should take me a couple of years still 
Mad_Jack
Legend
Somebody in the thread about Nova coming to the MCU was unaware who the character was, and someone else countered that the guy was #98 on IGN's list of the greatest superheroes.
Someone asked who the hell could even name 100 superheroes, and the next post was of course a list of 99 other superheroes. To which I added another 66 right off the top of my head.
Which made me realize that I could easily rattle off the names of probably somewhere around three hundred superheroes from Marvel, DC, and some of the other publishers.
I am the wellspring from which all useless knowledge flows.
Someone asked who the hell could even name 100 superheroes, and the next post was of course a list of 99 other superheroes. To which I added another 66 right off the top of my head.
Which made me realize that I could easily rattle off the names of probably somewhere around three hundred superheroes from Marvel, DC, and some of the other publishers.
I am the wellspring from which all useless knowledge flows.
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