THose guys weren’t part of the USA For Africa endeavor; perhaps you’re thinking of Band Aid.
I’m shocked you didn’t know that. 
… so that you can carry a woman around like a bowling ball.
:smack:
Carry on. 
Sorry, did I say reptiles? :smack: I think she actually said birds were amphibians. Not that I think she was exactly on top of modern evolutionary biology.
She got all insulted when I thought she was joking around with me.
There are a disturbing amount of people in the US who think Hawaii is a foreign country.
Just like New Mexico.
I was watching the show “Are you smarter than a ten year old” ,UK equivalent of “Are you smarter than a [something’th] grader” (I have no idea what the grade is)
A picture of Albert Einstein (a very famous one to boot) came up on the screen. All the kids knew who it was. The adult didn’t. This shocked me.
I can’t actually think of many (if even any) faces more famous and well known than that of Albert Einstein.
A grown man once asked me if Ireland is a country, and if whales are animals. The last one, however, he may have meant to ask if they were mammals.
I onced asked someone if mushroom was a kind of meat. (What I was actually trying to establish was whether mushroom contained protein)
Slightly off topic but - A newsreader once asked a woman he was interviewing - “Did you survive the accident?”
I had a conversation with a woman who was trying to remember a particular state’s name. She said it was one one of the ‘New’ ones. Alaska? Hawaii? "No the "New’ ones. "Oh! New Jersey? New Hampshire? New Mexico? No…New* Braska*!
You can’t yet take a train from Edinburgh to Dublin.
I was going to say this. It’s like people hear “Mexico” and just forget everything else.
With regard to the We Are The World thing - I’m 23, meaning the video was recorded a year before I was born. I looked up the list of who appears in it. I watched it. For many of them, had I not known it was them I wouldn’t have got it, because they’re all considerably younger in the video than they are in my mind. I think the only ones I would have recognized for sure were Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson (which, really, is just too easy), Willie Nelson (not by looks, but there’s no mistaking that voice), and Springsteen (same reason as Willie). There’s a difference between knowing who a performer is, and recognizing a video of them from 25 years ago.
Woah, woah, woah… There’s a new Mexico?
This reminds me of the time Paul Begala and Meghan McCain were on Real Time with Bill Maher and she insisted she didn`t know anything about the Carter administration since she wasn’t alive then. Begala points out that he wasn’t alive during the French revolution but he still managed to learn about it.
There’s lot of music and other pop culture I don`t know about from before my time, especially the bad stuff, but I’ve always tried to know about and appreciate the good stuff.
On an unrelated note, I still can’t figure out how people don’t know what a suit is. It doesn’t surprise me anymore because it happens pretty often, but I don’t get it. When I was in college I had a job that required I dress up a bit more than the average college student - dress shirt and wool trousers. My fellow college students male and female would often ask “why I’m wearing a suit”. How can you not have even a vague notion that one needs to be wearing a jacket to be wearing a suit?
The French Revolution
The Carter Administration
We Are The World
One of these things is not like the others.
I was shocked that I thought pineapples came from trees. 34 years old when I learned differently.
Me too. And I am shocked that I have managed to largely forget this since the first time I found out. Thus being slightly shocked again to be reminded of the fact.
That’s the one that killed me. All these old folks screaming AGAINST “socialized medicine” while fiercely protecting their own socialized medicine and not even having a single fucking clue where it comes from.
I recognized Lionel Ritchie, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Kenny Rogers, Cyndi Lauper, Janet Jackson, Paul Simon and Michael Jackson.
I’m pretty sure one of the dudes is the raspy-voice guy who has some song about Maggie… uh… Rod Stewart? Threw me for a loop because I think of him as platinum blond.
I’m not sure who the other black ladies are. In fact, I’m now not certain it was Diana Ross in the beginning.
I did not recognize Willie Nelson until he started singing. I did not finish the video.
I am 26. And yes, OP, this means we are getting old. My big, ‘‘You’re getting old’’ moment was when my husband’s little sister some years back announced she was going to see a concert with ‘‘Jet and some other band I’ve never heard of… Oasis.’’ It only goes downhill from here.
My favorite ‘‘you didn’t know that?’’ story comes from an interview on NPR with an otherwise educated, intelligent woman who was at a dinner party during a conversation about unicorns. She said, dead serious, ‘‘I’ve never been sure… are unicorns extinct or just endangered?’’
She was met with uproarious laughter, until they noticed she wasn’t laughing, at which point everyone fell silent. And then began laughing even harder.
I have a t-shirt which reads “New Mexico: not really new, and not really Mexico”. I’m afraid to wear it out of state because I know there will be people who don’t get it in the worst way.
I, uh, didn’t learn this until I started playing Farmville on Facebook, and leveled up enough to grow pineapples. In our defense: most people won’t ever see a pineapple farm, they do kind of look like they could grow on a tree, and the name - pine is a type of tree, apples grow on trees, but…pineapples don’t grow on trees.