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I tell people all the time.. "Do you remember when you could bullshit anyone." Now they just type your BS into their smart phone.
by antonioevans 14y ago
I tell people all the time.. "Do you remember when you could bullshit anyone." Now they just type your BS into their smart phone.
- jgroome 14y agoIt was a simpler time. You could misinform just about anybody about anything. Yoko Ono? Sure, her influence in the Beatles would arguably ruin them forever, but after John Lennon's death she went on to invent Skittles. It's an art now though. You have to pick little tidbits that SOUND plausible but you can never really verify. I, for example, told my (American) flatmate months ago that no living person other than current sitting monarch can appear on a British postage stamp. Had to backtrack when the Royal Mail announced every British gold medal winner at London 2012 would get their own stamp.
- parenthesis 14y agoAccording to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_stamps_of_the_United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_stamps_of_the... what you said did used to be approximately correct.
- squonk 14y agoImplies that conversations will no longer center on facts. Will we find ourselves talking more about politics, love, art and philosophy?
- zevyoura 14y agoIt seems to me that it implies conversations will center around truths (or at least googled tidbits) rather than assumptions.
- lupatus 14y agoPre-seed google with your BS and SEO it to page 1.
- Tooluka 14y agoNow they just type your BS into their smart phone... ... and click "Save" :) It's unbelievable how many "facts" nowadays lead to some lone blog or wiki article with no references.