# 2015: The Back to the Future question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-the-back-to-the-future-question/708619 "2014-12-31T14:39:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-the-back-to-the-future-question/708619/21 "2015-01-01T00:26:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **kunilou** : > > Want to date? Don’t be ridiculous, you’re 15. And God forbid when you’re a couple of years older and you get pregnant like that slut down the street did. You’ll be expelled from school and be told either to marry the boy or get sent off “to visit your aunt” for six months. And yet at the same time, you’ll _also_ be expected to do whatever the men in your life want you to do. I’m sure that the young ladies of the time had some way of avoiding the contradiction inherent in that, but I don’t know what it is, and I doubt a modern young lady would know, either. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-the-back-to-the-future-question/708619/22 "2015-01-01T04:19:29Z")
[.QUOTE=alted315;18016355]two words, no hover boards [/QUOTE] Patience. McFly doesn’t come back until October 21st. Hoverboards don’t become a thing until June. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-the-back-to-the-future-question/708619/23 "2015-01-01T06:06:24Z")
Actual teenagers that I know would find 1995 unbearable nevermind 1985. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-the-back-to-the-future-question/708619/24 "2015-10-21T13:01:00Z")
Bumped. It’s _Back to the Future_ Day! > **['Back to the Future' Day: Time is in flux, and the 'Future' is today | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/20/entertainment/back-to-the-future-day-feat/?iid=ob_article_entertainment_pool&iref=obnetwork)** > > "Back to the Future" is being rereleased Wednesday, and fans can compare its vision of the future with the realities of 2015. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-the-back-to-the-future-question/708619/25 "2015-10-21T13:10:04Z")
Relevant Thread: **What are you doing to celebrate Back to the Future Day?** > **[Any Back to the Future fans planning anything special for October 21, 2015 then?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=772626)** > > Well now it’s hard to believe that in a few days’ time it will be October 21, 2015 which is the date that Doctor Emmett Brown and Marty McFly go forward to in the film Back to the Future Part II and in the film Doctor Emmett Brown says “We are... ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-the-back-to-the-future-question/708619/26 "2015-10-21T13:51:41Z")
Huh. Thanks. I searched “back future 2015” and that didn’t show up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-the-back-to-the-future-question/708619.md?page=1)