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WCDT: 2236-40 (23-27 July 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: ihaveavoice on 25 Jul 2012, 01:10 ---Looks like she's got a nice cute curly 'fro goin' on!
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Not as cool as Nabeshin's fro.
Tova:
--- Quote from: T on 24 Jul 2012, 23:29 ---That would be the "crazy explanation" some sort of quantic coincidence!
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Actually...
As to the Padma 2.0 conjecture... if I see evidence beyond a one-off gag, then I'll believe it.
DSL:
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 25 Jul 2012, 01:45 ---... I'm assuming she's just pulling Momo's leg here ...
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That's next. Unless ... TZZZZAP
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 25 Jul 2012, 01:45 ---... the idea someone has not mentioned anime in her presence before now boggles my teensy little brain something fierce.
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Unless she hangs around with people who are not anime nerds enthusiasts. It's not unusual for enthusiasts of a given subculture to assume, wrongly, everyone else is familiar with the details of, or has even heard of, their particular interest. It's kind of a reverse hipsterism: "Psssh! I can't believe you've never heard of (podracing/quidditch/tribbles/roll cake stored in arms)!"
Tova:
There was a relatively recent xkcd comic about this... it claims (and I have idea as to the validity of the claim) that for each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people hearing about it for the first time.
I have no idea where they could possibly have got the number from, but the basic idea behind the statement is something I can definitely agree with. The number of times I've heard people exclaim "but doesn't everyone know that?!" ... and I always think "well, you're not born with the knowledge, are you? You've got to hear it for the first time some time... and some things you end up hearing later than others, that's all."
I'm sure I could make a long list if I sat down and thought about it.
As for anime... I personally had never heard the term until I shared a place with a couple of friends who were watching Neon Genesis being screened on SBS television at the time.
And I'll wager I was older than Emily.
So, draw from that what you will.
Don't be so quick to assume that your experiences are universal. ... hmm, I'm sure I've heard that sentiment expressed on these forums more than once before! :)
Boomslang:
I'm not assuming my experiences are universal, but there is a more than passing correlation of computer science majors and anime enthusiasts.
So for Emily to have never heard of anime, not just not being familiar with it but completely ignorant of the existence of that word, implies that not a single person ever actually said that word to her or to each other when she was paying attention, even when she was taking college classes in a group of people who generally are more open about 'nerdy' hobbies or interests, and who would almost certainly assume her familiarity with those shows (I've seen similar things happen more than once). She'd never seen any page on the internet, in her life, talking about anime using that word, despite being into computer science enough to major in it.
And yet she, out of nowhere, uses what would be two anime references in the appropriate context during a casual conversation without any prompting. If she'd seen those shows, and mentioned them to anyone else who had seen that show, they somehow never actually used that word when talking about it.
This is like the social equivalent of getting hit with a meteorite on your birthday. Technically possible, but wildly improbable. Her simply messing with Momo doesn't require that bizarrely unlikely series of events to have taken place.
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