• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Fun fact: this practice hasn’t changed in the hundreds (thousands?) of years we’ve been asking kids to introduce themselves to a group

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      13 hours ago

      Yeah, but this is a specific quote from an anime. The practice still exists I’m sure, but would anyone get the reference?

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        Probably not. But it’s close enough to the mark for Dan Da Dan for someone to clock it as a line. And “goofy shit kids say for attention” coded enough that you’d still probably get a laugh.

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        6 hours ago

        There are 20-somethings answering pop music trivia from the 70s and 80s with the utter confidence that indicates intimate personal knowledge. I don’t know how or why, but some of the kids are getting exposed to the classics.

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          The easy answer for music is these kid’s parents are putting those tunes on their home speakers. While I would agree Haruhi is some form of “classic”, I do wonder what parent is showing it to their kid…

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            2 hours ago

            If we had kids, instead of a server full of anime, we would certainly force them to watch Endless 8 during summer vacation, in the same way that my father forced us to spend two weeks camping every summer when I was young. You know, to build character.