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re: This is how future generations will learn about complicated topics in school..
Posted on 1/29/26 at 7:59 pm to T1gerNate
Posted on 1/29/26 at 7:59 pm to T1gerNate
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It’s really weird. 9/11 is like a big joke to kids now. I have to explain to them “no guys a bunch of people died in that. It’s not funny.”
I think generally speaking humor is more dark these days.
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Posted on 1/29/26 at 8:00 pm to RollTide1987
Make it a little harder rock and add some cuss words and I would have the whole album remembered in about 3 days..
Posted on 1/29/26 at 8:27 pm to CocomoLSU
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Is it? Is that really a thing? I have never even remotely heard any young people joke about that or not think it was bad.
Unfortunately yes. I’m mid-30s, so it’ll always have a profound impact on me. It bothers me when I see the jokes pop up on social media, but basically no one who graduated college within the past year was even alive for it, and hardly anyone under 30 remembers it.
The memes aren’t really, “haha, lots of people died, hilarious!” But people will meme a picture of Card whispering to Bush while reading to the kids and caption it something stupid like, “Mr. President, a second [start of dumb joke] has [end of dumb joke].” Or if someone posts a (not-9/11) conspiracy theory, someone might reply with a gif of the (not impacted) Twin Towers. It’s things like that.
I think most people here would agree that two of the best movie/TV jokes of all-time are:
37 years after Pearl Harbor: “Was it over when the Germans bombed” it?
29 years after JFK’s assassination: “There was a second spitter.” (Of course, the film had just been released and Seinfeld was spoofing the movie, but still, if the film had been released in 1971, I don’t think there’d be a sitcom making jokes about it the next year.)
And all of of us have heard (if not said ourselves) plenty of Titanic quips.
Whether right or wrong, that’s how tragedies often tend to trend after decades pass.
Posted on 1/29/26 at 8:31 pm to T1gerNate
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It’s really weird. 9/11 is like a big joke to kids now. I have to explain to them “no guys a bunch of people died in that. It’s not funny.” Life is weird.
This is pretty normal. 9/11 happened 25 years ago.
When 9/11 happened, kids surely made jokes about things that happened in the 70s.
People make edgy jokes about things they didn’t experience
Posted on 1/29/26 at 8:36 pm to RollTide1987
I have to keep reminding myself that my 8th graders don't really remember the 2016 flood.
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:26 pm to RollTide1987
Next iteration of "School House Rock". I learned stuff from School House Rock, I learned stuff from this. All good as far as I am concerned.
Posted on 1/30/26 at 6:59 am to Buckeye Fan 19
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Unfortunately yes. I’m mid-30s, so it’ll always have a profound impact on me. It bothers me when I see the jokes pop up on social media, but basically no one who graduated college within the past year was even alive for it, and hardly anyone under 30 remembers it.
The memes aren’t really, “haha, lots of people died, hilarious!” But people will meme a picture of Card whispering to Bush while reading to the kids and caption it something stupid like, “Mr. President, a second [start of dumb joke] has [end of dumb joke].” Or if someone posts a (not-9/11) conspiracy theory, someone might reply with a gif of the (not impacted) Twin Towers. It’s things like that.
I think most people here would agree that two of the best movie/TV jokes of all-time are:
37 years after Pearl Harbor: “Was it over when the Germans bombed” it?
29 years after JFK’s assassination: “There was a second spitter.” (Of course, the film had just been released and Seinfeld was spoofing the movie, but still, if the film had been released in 1971, I don’t think there’d be a sitcom making jokes about it the next year.)
And all of of us have heard (if not said ourselves) plenty of Titanic quips.
Whether right or wrong, that’s how tragedies often tend to trend after decades pass.
I get what you're saying. But to me meme-ing something isn't the same as thinking it's a huge joke or not taking it seriously. I wasn't alive for JFK or Pearl Harbor, and have joked or laughed about those (or seen the quotes you referenced). But that has nothing to do with me thinking they are some big joke or that they weren't awful happenings in our history.
That's just me though. As someone with kids between 6 and 23, I don't think I've ever heard or seen anything that leads me to believe they think 9/11 is hilarious or some shite like that. Thus my initial questioning of it.
Posted on 1/30/26 at 7:03 am to CocomoLSU
I was ten when the Challenger disaster happened.
Literally the next day kids in my class were passing around this joke:
"What color were X astronaut's eyes"?"
Blue!
One blew this way, and one blew that way.
We were South Park before it existed.
Literally the next day kids in my class were passing around this joke:
"What color were X astronaut's eyes"?"
Blue!
One blew this way, and one blew that way.
We were South Park before it existed.
Posted on 1/30/26 at 7:29 am to MMauler
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It’s got to be something that kids can sing along to.
Conjunction Junction, what's your function...
Posted on 1/30/26 at 7:31 am to RollTide1987
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
Posted on 1/30/26 at 9:19 am to fr33manator
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Conjunction Junction, what's your function...
Hooking up words and phrases and clauses
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