Future Generation

Future Generation 

I came by the below YouTube video which shows a mischievous reporter asking teenagers and young adults about a certain subject matter. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWernyXJezE

I was not very happy about the video as it showed the future generation as ignorant and stupid.  However, I would like to step forward and try to support and explain about these young adults in this video by writing the following:

Young adults do not vote, 

Young adults do not watch the news,

Young adults drink and party on a Friday night,

(I must add the following "most young adults" to the above sentences)

I mention Friday night since in the video it looks like the reporter is walking around on a Friday night asking questions to these kids/students/teenagers who are clearly intoxicated, on a subject matter that they do not care for.  

This is not the right question Mr Reporter should be asking...

Ask these young adults what Tom Cruise's (or Brad Pitt's) pet hamsters name is, and they will know that since they are focused on information that is not relevant to some, but important to them...

Unfair to the teenagers/young adults here. 

What do you think? Am I on to something here? 

Thank you, 

Ben

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Pepi Longsocks

Pepi Longsocks

Watching old SCTV episodes are a past time of mine.   SCTV is a Canadian show from the mid 1970s to early 1980s.  It is brilliantly funny, and I recommend this show wholeheartedly.  

I wanted to analyze and give a constructive review of one of the episodes of SCTV, titled Pepi Longsocks, here is a short link of a YouTube episode below:

https://youtu.be/epLq_DAeex4

Watching Pepi when I was a kid, I did not get the reference to other cultures.  But watching this and other episodes of SCTV now, I actually think that the references are bang-on and done very good, especially with this one.  

Here are a few points I want to make:

1, in this episode, it is supposedly Bulgaria, and me born around the Balkans, I remember watching old Turkish movies (still watching them now I must add), many of the older films are out of sink with the picture and the sound, and one learns to just accept this while watching, but in this episode/video, it is wickedly funny, done purposely,

2, outfits were nailed bang on; I have actually been to Sofya in 1988 (Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria) and they actually dressed almost like this in the country side of the capital city,

3, the name Pepi; don't know if Bulgarians have this name in use, most of the ones I know are either named Dimitri or Constantin, but only a minor issue here,

3, John Candy was in my opinion the most under-rated actor in Hollywood, watching him here brings to me nice memories of my simple childhood, he does this to me as I like him and admire him greatly.   I have nothing but good to say about him, may he rest in peace.  

Thank you for visiting, 

Ben

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