# How "with it" are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 26, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892 "2012-03-26T23:49:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/41 "2012-03-27T04:36:29Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > Apparently watching the Ellen and Jimmy Kimmel shows are enough for me to keep up with things. While I’ve never seen an episode of Jersey Shore or any of the Kardashian shit, I know who all the morons are. I peruse the top YouTube music videos, and subscribe to Phil DeFranco, SourceFed, Ray William Johnson, and they keep me up with the current thoughts and memes, and I follow links my friends leave on FB. I guess that’s plenty. I haven’t had a “who’s that”? moment that I haven’t been able to pull off with a brush off about how lame it is if I don’t know. So, so far, so good I guess! How funny is: A) Late Night Hash Tags B) Bieber yanking his pants up on Ellen. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/42 "2012-03-27T04:54:39Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > How funny is: > A) Late Night Hash Tags > B) Bieber yanking his pants up on Ellen. A - that’s Fallon B - “… and it’s really annoying! So I’m gonna… _pulls pants up, grumble grumble_ …just for you!” (and he runs like a girl) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/43 "2012-03-27T04:55:57Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > not with it! \<- Looked it up. So it’s a boy band that, as far as I can tell, is targeted at 13-year old girls. And you’re buying their CDs. Yeah… and you thought the 17-year old guy or whatever wasn’t “with it” for not knowing who the hell they are? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/44 "2012-03-27T05:07:19Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > A - that’s Fallon > B - “… and it’s really annoying! So I’m gonna… _pulls pants up, grumble grumble_ …just for you!” (and he runs like a girl) > > 😃 HAHAHAHA! Got me. Kimmel had the hysterical Bibier gal tho. [http://youtu.be/AKEQwvaYI\_k](http://youtu.be/AKEQwvaYI_k) And if all y’alls haven’t seen the Fallon/Timberlake history of rap (parts, 1,2, and 3) well I don’t know what all. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/45 "2012-03-27T05:11:44Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Looked it up. So it’s a boy band that, as far as I can tell, is targeted at 13-year old girls. And you’re buying their CDs. > > Yeah… and you thought the 17-year old guy or whatever wasn’t “with it” for not knowing who the hell they are? :: pats you on head:: ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/46 "2012-03-27T05:55:16Z")
Never been with it. Occasionally been against it, but most often indifferent to it. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/47 "2012-03-27T06:51:38Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Looked it up. So it’s a boy band that, as far as I can tell, is targeted at 13-year old girls. And you’re buying their CDs. > > Yeah… and you thought the 17-year old guy or whatever wasn’t “with it” for not knowing who the hell they are? Um, yeah, I’ve got a news flash for the OP direct from the UK. One Direction are naff even to most 15 year olds - manufactured X Factor boy bands have never been cool - and I’m fairly astonished and ashamed that they have crossed the Pond. Please don’t send back. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/48 "2012-03-27T06:57:09Z")
With what? Have I mentioned I’m going to see The Boss in May? Who cares about being with it, I finally have the money to pay for Big Concert tickets, while being in a place that _has_ big concerts _and_ wonderful public transportation so after the concert I don’t have to drive while asleep! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/49 "2012-03-27T07:02:14Z")
As near as I can tell, I’m sort of the Anti-With It. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/50 "2012-03-27T07:13:17Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Um, yeah, I’ve got a news flash for the OP direct from the UK. One Direction are naff even to most 15 year olds - manufactured X Factor boy bands have never been cool - and I’m fairly astonished and ashamed that they have crossed the Pond. Please don’t send back. And you shagged how many birds tonight? ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/51 "2012-03-27T08:43:02Z")
I’m so _hip_ I have trouble seeing over my pelvis 😉 I try to keep up, and it helps that I spend an evening a week at a youth club who have Spotify running nonstop. Of course, I don’t much like hip-hop and tune out for much of that, but I do track most of the pop musicians who seem to be popular (at least with a subset of teens). Si ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/52 "2012-03-27T09:02:08Z")
My girlfriend is a wee bit younger than me and, well, the other day she told me that it was really cute that I still buy CDs. So I guess I’m not with it. And I dance Lindy Hop, which means I am either lost in the 40s or late 90s. But then I met her (of the CD-joshing) there. Hmm. Must think this one through a bit. I do remember feeling vaguely hip when they played Salem on Skins and I had already been listening to them for a good few months. For a second I was cool there, but that was about two series ago. I used to be massively into shoegazing. That dates me more than anything. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/53 "2012-03-27T11:28:08Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Hey, Dude, I got news for you…If Dr. Who declared something cool… It was a pop-cultural reference meant in a post-ironic manner. Please try to keep up. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/54 "2012-03-27T12:43:19Z")
I’m not ‘with it’ but I read the [Cheezeburger websites](http://www.cheezburger.com/) often enough to make fun of ‘it.’ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/55 "2012-03-27T13:07:53Z")
One nice thing about ignorance of pop culture, current music and movies, and suchlike, in a conversation, I can simply ask “What’s that?” and find out enough to know whether I care or not. Heck, it works with sports, politics, medicine, and science, too. Conversation - what a concept!! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/56 "2012-03-27T13:12:27Z")
I’m extremely with it except for hip-hop and rap. I should keep up more despite having no interest, because my trivia team counts on me for pop culture references. I watch no reality shows or competition shows, but I usually know what’s going on because of the Dope and magazines and surfing the net. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/57 "2012-03-27T14:05:23Z")
I gave up on trying to be “with it” when I was about 14. I have pretty much had no idea what was fashionable in terms of clothes, music, hair styles, or TV shows since then. It’s been over 20 years now, and I don’t miss any of it. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/58 "2012-03-27T14:30:35Z")
When I look at the[line-up](http://pitchfork.com/news/45567-pitchfork-festival-announces-dates-initial-lineup/) of this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival, I know 7 out of 13 bands. I used to be a lot more with it musically, but I really fell off when [OiNK’s Pink Palace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oink%27s_Pink_Palace) was shut down. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/59 "2012-03-27T15:14:03Z")
I really have no idea. I’m 51 and do not listen to current radio, but on the other hand I have good friends in a popular Warped Tour band and another who just played SXBW. So it’s a little weird. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892/60 "2012-03-27T15:48:55Z")
The OP isn’t “with it”. She’s like most 30- or 40-somethings who decide at some point they want to be, and who end up being wannabes. You’re the old lady who thinks pre-teen crap is actually cool. It’s so bad, you think you’re more “with it” than the 17-year-old who laughed his ass off after you left the store. I’m with AClockworkMelon on this one. There are plenty of people in their 30s and 40s who manage to stay in touch with relevant pop culture trends, but the OP isn’t one of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-with-it-are-you/616892.md?page=4)