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What would Marty McFly be shocked to see today?

Postby DBSoT » Oct 21, '15, 8:42 am

In Back to The Future 2, Marty McFly traveled forward in time to October 21, 2015. In honor of today being that faithful date, I wanted to start a fun topic about what Marty would see if he really travel forward to today.

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Hipsters
Pumpkin Spice everything
Drones
A Black President
Dub Step
The lack of flying cars
Rocky getting so old they had to make a movie about Apollo Creed's son
Hover Boards just taking off as a real thing
A real life version of the evil villain from "Wall Street" running for president
Internet Porn
A Roomba
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Re: What would Marty McFly be shocked to see today?

Postby SlightlyJames » Oct 21, '15, 8:44 am

The avalanche of posts on the internet about how he was about to arrive would be very surprising, I would think.
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Re: What would Marty McFly be shocked to see today?

Postby PorkChop » Oct 21, '15, 9:09 am

The internet.

We have machines capable of producing the entirety of human knowledge at the click of a button. Many of us carry these machines in our pockets.

Marty would probably be shocked that people privileged enough to access this incredible resource use it to discuss things like green shit.
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Re: What would Marty McFly be shocked to see today?

Postby War Daddy » Oct 21, '15, 9:12 am

Women with rights.
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Re: What would Marty McFly be shocked to see today?

Postby Everlong » Oct 21, '15, 9:36 am

Eh, hipsters have always been a thing, they just have changed names over the years depending on how the counterculture movement evolved with the time.

Black president is a good one. Another big one would be how differently society views gay people today.
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Re: What would Marty McFly be shocked to see today?

Postby Hanley! » Oct 21, '15, 3:35 pm

I think the show Rick & Morty would seem eerily familiar to him ...
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Re: What would Marty McFly be shocked to see today?

Postby Westcoastvibes » Oct 22, '15, 5:32 am

I would say Internet / technology and peoples reliance on it.
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Re: What would Marty McFly be shocked to see today?

Postby Romo » Oct 22, '15, 5:43 am

kim kardashian being the most famous person alive.
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Re: What would Marty McFly be shocked to see today?

Postby Twister » Oct 22, '15, 7:24 am

Technology, smart phones, smart tv's, netflix, games consoles etc.
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Re: What would Marty McFly be shocked to see today?

Postby Twister » Oct 22, '15, 7:27 am

Oh and online shopping, the fact that you can order something at the click of a button and have it delivered to your door in a matter of days or in some cases hours.
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