Defining Moments for 2009 Graduates - LOL TWILIGHT

Spotts1701 wrote:

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

But seriously, 9/11 isn't on this list? Does that not count as their generation? They were alive and 10-11 years old for it, they should remember it, it should count.

These things are usually for things that happened during their senior year of high school, not stuff that happened when they were younger.

Yup, that was my year (2001-2002); that was in our senior yearbooks, but for the most part, the pages were packed with entertainment crap that hasn't been relevant since six months after the yearbooks were distributed. I don't know that any of it was quite as retch-inducing as Twilight, but it was close.

In our year senior yearbooks, Hurricane Katrina was one whole page more than Family Guy being uncanceled, & Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince being released.

I graduated in '03. Nothing interesting happened that year.

Wow, MTV. Twilight and Twitter are definitely things that defined my graduation.

I noticed they stuck some Twilight stuff in the back of my yearbook, so I joker'd it. It looks much better this way.

gaijinguy wrote:

I graduated in '03. Nothing interesting happened that year.

I guess the people who put your yearbook together were really sheltered. The Iraq War began in 2003, triggering the biggest anti-war protests in world history (yes, even bigger than during the Vietnam War).

I graduated on 2001, didn't have yearbooks, and even then, 9/11 happened a few months after I graduated. Damn, I feel old...

I graduated in 2007, so I got to totally escape the Twilight craze during high school. Lucky me.
My class didn't really vote on a list of important events. There were just five pages of things that happened that year.

Hmm, we have nine pages of junk like movies, music, sports, and trends and six of news, but the news section does come first. Highlights include finding Saddam, Bush not finding WMD, the '04 election, and the Pope reaching 25 years of Pope-hood. They listed a lot of stuff, actually, almost no one read any of it.

In entertainment news Friends came to an end. Oooh, and we have a pretty nice pic of Sean Astin with Elijah Wood. No 'Lando or Vigo for some reason. Oh, and the trends page has a bit on the Do Not Call list and Napster users getting the shit fined out of them. Huh, someone actually did some research for this section.

Fuck, sports got a third page? Oh go to hell, high school.

Reepy wrote:

Fuck, sports got a third page? Oh go to hell, high school.

I'm class of '09, and 3/4 of the 'past 12 months' page is essentially Celebrities And Who They Are Bonking. Oh, and Barack Obama became president of america and got torso of the week in heat magazine lol. Twilight doesn't get a mention actually, that's wei oh wait it gets its own page.

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!

The Steelers win the Super Bowl for you and you PUT TWILIGHT AHEAD OF BIG BEN?!

Fuck all ya'll. Srsly.

But seriously, 9/11 isn't on this list? Does that not count as their generation? They were alive and 10-11 years old for it, they should remember it, it should count.

I was in high school when it happened, and half my classmates spent the hour we were in a room watching the coverage making out with their boyfriends/girlfriends and applying makeup. They knew it was a bad thing, but the actual concept of why it was so horrible went right over their heads. If it was that hard for them to grasp, I think it'd be even harder for younger kids. (Or maybe my classmates were just overly hormonal and unable to stop thinking about dating and looks.)

Either way, I'm not saying they wouldn't have cared, but it just wasn't within their range of understanding at the time. Stuff like gay marriage is a more contemporary issue for them, something they were old enough to understand.

Twilight... although it's a horrible series, at least they even listed a book. Though I do think gay marriage is much, MUCH more important than even reading a book. (Especially one with disturbing messages about women having no lives other than their possessive boyfriends - as a GOOD thing.)

FUCK YOU GUYS

WE DON'T EVEN HAVE YEARBOOKS

Just getting out my yearbook. Class of 86--yes, I am that old!
Laughing at the hairstyles.
I still see some of these kids--yeah, I know, they're not kids anymore, but in my mind I'll always be a kid.
I'd say our defining moment was the Challenger disaster. Mentioned both in a special dedication and on the Entertainment page. Make of that what you will.

Um, hey, guys... did you notice who was taking this poll before you started raging?

Wow. My yearbook never has any pop culture garbage thrown in. Thank God. I don't think I could handle an entire page dedicated to any sort of pop-ey book that I did like. Hell, even a page about Star Trek would make me go "... the fuck?" unless my entire class had a running joke about Star Trek or something.

I think that the greatest defining moment of my school is the fact that we survived our seasonal drive-by hurricanes(five bridges washed away in one day just AWESOME). Oh, and the grand opening of Dollar Tree.

We led such boring lives.

At least they put Obama at #1. Whether you like Obama or not, you must admit his election was a historic moment.

Edit: In the spring of 2008, some of the students at the high school I work for almost got into a fistfight over who would be the next president--Hillary or Obama. McCain never entered their minds.

Lady Anne wrote:

Edit: In the spring of 2008, some of the students at the high school I work for almost got into a fistfight over who would be the next president--Hillary or Obama. McCain never entered their minds.

Well, really...did anyone expect McCain (who would have been the oldest person ever elected to their first term as President) to emerge from that mess of a Republican primary? Most people were expecting Romney or Giuliani.

Spotts1701 wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

Edit: In the spring of 2008, some of the students at the high school I work for almost got into a fistfight over who would be the next president--Hillary or Obama. McCain never entered their minds.

Well, really...did anyone expect McCain (who would have been the oldest person ever elected to their first term as President) to emerge from that mess of a Republican primary? Most people were expecting Romney or Giuliani.

No one I know of. Romney was the pick in the red part of this state, but Huckabee's refusal to sit down and shut up led to him being the spoiler and McCain getting the nomination.

The fact that it's a MTV poll aside (a bit like quoting a Daily Mail article?) this is an alright list. Obama makes sense, and so does (amazingly) Twitter!

Twitter, the biggest site for self-centred, vapid "micro-blogging" actually became at least somewhat useful and relevant this year. Apparently Iranians protesting Ahmedinejad's "landslide" victory have been using it to share news. I swear it's true, click here.

gaijinguy wrote:

No one I know of. Romney was the pick in the red part of this state, but Huckabee's refusal to sit down and shut up led to him being the spoiler and McCain getting the nomination.

I've actually met Huckabee several times, and the man is honestly completely batshit. I actually really freaked out a little when I thought that there was a remote possibility that he would be president.

Lysander wrote:

I've actually met Huckabee several times, and the man is honestly completely batshit. I actually really freaked out a little when I thought that there was a remote possibility that he would be president.

Governor of Arkansas. You'd think we'd have learned the first time. . .

gaijinguy wrote:

Lysander wrote:

I've actually met Huckabee several times, and the man is honestly completely batshit. I actually really freaked out a little when I thought that there was a remote possibility that he would be president.

Governor of Arkansas. You'd think we'd have learned the first time. . .

Oh, he'd agree with you. He let a convicted rapist out of jail, because the woman he raped was a distant relative of Bill Clinton. His campaign was basically funded by those people who still think that the Clintons killed hundreds of people somehow.

The man is one poorly Xeroxed newsletter away from living in a log cabin in the Ozarks, surrounded by ATF agents.