There are people I used to hang around with, 30 years ago or so, who would understand the phrase “It’s like that bit in Battleship Potemkin”. Most of the people I hang around with now wouldn’t. Just to clarify, “Battleship Potemkin” is a 1925 Russian (or Soviet) film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. The brief IMDB… Continue reading “It’s like that bit in Battleship Potemkin”
I wrote last month about coincidences, and how some people claim that things are “amazing coincidences” when really they’re not. If you keep your eyes and ears open, and read (anything – magazines, newspapers, websites, books), and watch TV programmes, movies and plays, and listen to the radio, you will come across the same things… Continue reading Porlock
You know what Nazis are, right? You can picture Adolf Hitler, can’t you? Me too. But most people under 30, especially outside Europe, don’t know what Nazis are. It’s likely that more than half of the world’s population right now have no idea who Hitler was and what the Nazi party did between 1933 and… Continue reading Universal Knowledge: Nazis
The older I get the more I realize that there is very little Universal Knowledge. There are so many things (cultural references, song lyrics, basic facts) that I can safely assume my immediate family and oldest friends will recognize but outside of these groups I am constantly surprised by the things that people have never… Continue reading Universal Knowledge: “Make it easy on yourself”
