Dude maybe you could have some more links in what you write — like I get that you have nothing to say yourself, but maybe a few better links would make it worth a little.
Wow, I forgot how much that used to happen to Nice Guys. Thank goodness that sort of thing went out with loose plaid flannel men’s shirts.
People have more entertainment options today, but they’re also much more tied into a common societal grid with Facebook, YouTube, online chat rooms, email and smartphones.
Easy Dawson. Why don’t you maybe rest for a bit and sit out the next couple of plays?
One needs cites/citations.
I like girls that break nice guy’s hearts…I like sluts!
Sorry if it’s already been posted, but for me, the 90s is summarised by this sound.
No way. THIS sound!
Heh. Well played.
I played a lot of GoldenEye.
A song from the 80s and an internet meme from the 2000s… Hmmm, maybe if you average them together.
I was born in 1976, and started college in 1994. Here’s something that’s changed pretty significantly for today’s high school seniors looking at colleges: the commercialization of college.
For me and my generation, the way you chose a college (and this ties in with the fact as other have mentioned that the internet wasn’t a household thing yet) was to go to a bookstore and buy a copy of Peterson’s, the phone-book-sized college guide. You could browse through and look at each college’s tuition, acceptance statistics, student body size, majors offered, etc. For a fee, an institution could pay Peterson’s for the privilege of an entry in another section in the back where they could submit their own blurb giving the reader a more personal feel of what it was like to be a student there.
But there were no radio or TV ads for colleges and universities. There were no billboards on the Interstate saying “University of Toledo: Your Future Starts Here” or “Boost Your Career With Our Convenient Night and Weekend Classes!” or whatever. When you drove past a college campus, there was no big banner with the U.S. News logo on it, reading “Top 20 Ranking in Six Majors!” or “2014 Best Value in Higher Education!” or whatever. Colleges and universities were still very much these ivory-tower institutions which, just by tradition, held themselves above the fray of such things. I guess there was still just enough of the vestigial pretense that the purpose of college was to obtain an education for its own sake, not vocational training. It seems strange that it’s changed that much since I graduated.
It’s a temporary condition due to the college bubble. It’s the same pattern we saw with the stock market bubble and the real estate bubble. All of a sudden you see a huge increase in ads because everyone is doing it or interested in doing it. I’m 40 years old, yet most of the people I know are taking out loans to go to school. They are utterly screwed, and these are in many cases the same people who got fucked by the previous two bubbles.
That’s one reason I refuse to just blame banks or brokerage houses or whoever for these bubbles. I’ve observed too much idiocy from regular people who should know better.
When the economics say, overwhelmingly, that a college education typically leads to a much higher salary and much lower unemployment rate, it’s hard to argue against that.
Heh, I still remember the sound of the body armor.
Laptop gun.
The sound of the rocket launcher.
Putting mines on the ceiling.
Yelling “stop looking at my part of the screen!” at your buddy on the couch next to you.
You also have to take into account the amount of loans you’ll take out along with expected lifetime earnings.
“College” does mean higher earnings, but a large portion of the higher earnings college graduates get comes from a few degrees. Plus you also have to take into account the fact that you might not finish, plus how many years of earnings you’ll get out of your degree. The math is different for a 40-year old than for a 20-year old.
Taking out loans to pay for college is a huge financial decision that I think most people just consider automatic these days. And that’s why it’s a bubble. The return on the investment is assumed to be a sure thing. It’s just not, and that was a big motivator for the Occupy Wall Street protests. You got all these people with degrees and the salaries turned out to be disappointing, or jobs in their field are simply not available. And they took out massive college loans. Obviously, this state of affairs is someone else’s fault.
Pepsi didn’t just come in a white can. It could be see-through!
As Homer Simpson observed at the time: “Mmmmm… Invisible cola.”
I was unbeatable on Madden Football on the Sega Genesis as long as I took the 49ers with Jerry Rice.
Forget Madden. Tecmo!
Well I was unbeatable on that game too, except this time with the Roger Craig slant pass over the middle. 11-20 yards each and every time and could not be stopped.