> . . . I just get tired of people acting like teenagers are stupid. . . .it does sound like we must be idiots for not knowing those things.

I was an odd teenager: my social bias was ahead of my age. I was impatient and unappreciative of my peers. And yet I had much the same attitude that you have, perhaps for that reason: it bothered me that older people upholded a certain negative view of teenagers. It was an unexpressed view. Nonetheless, now I think I overreacted.

At any rate, as others have said, the purpose of this list is to make people feel old, not make teenagers feel dumb. The list may have been unfortunately worded, but I felt the intent clear: as Kelly said, even if you are knowledgeable of cultural history, you haven't lived through it, and therefore the events spoken of are simply not going to mean the same things to you as they do to those a decade or so older than you. Let's face it. The teenagers fifteen years from now will simply never be able to know what it was like to live through Princess Diana's death or Y2K, for example. And when you realize that one day, you're going to feel old. And it doesn't mean the teenagers of that day are stupid.

For better or worse, I deleted most of the point-by-point responses to this list, because I couldn't imagine that many would care to read exactly which points a half dozen specific teengaers agreed with and which they did not. I almost deleted this subthread, too, being no longer as relevant, but I decided the discussion of the issue itself was more than worthwhile. If any of you care to continue this discussion, please do.