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Post by ellie1981 on Oct 15, 2018 21:25:41 GMT
Isn’t everyone in some kind of bubble? I’ve had so many conversations about sport and entertainment with people and I’ve been ignorant to people that they’d consider to be household names and vice versa. I even recently saw an episode of a game show where a 50 something woman had never heard of Muhammad Ali! It actually got me thinking of which famous non royal, non political famous figures I’d honestly consider to be proper world famous everywhere.
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Post by kathryn on Oct 16, 2018 12:24:58 GMT
Isn’t everyone in some kind of bubble? I’ve had so many conversations about sport and entertainment with people and I’ve been ignorant to people that they’d consider to be household names and vice versa. I even recently saw an episode of a game show where a 50 something woman had never heard of Muhammad Ali! It actually got me thinking of which famous non royal, non political famous figures I’d honestly consider to be proper world famous everywhere. The Pope, maybe? Though arguably he's a political figure. I think part of this is that the human brain is just not built for comprehending very large numbers. The population of the world is more than 7 billion, living in 195 countries. Probably no-one exists who is truly world famous!
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Post by ellie1981 on Oct 16, 2018 12:47:23 GMT
The ones I’d argue are synonymous with their name and image. I’d say in the western world, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Charlie Chaplin and Elvis Presley. Maybe James Bond as a fictional character.
Muhammad Ali would have been my go-to sports figure. I argued with some of my football fan friends who go on about these guys as if I’m supposed to recognise them, that Roger Federer on the other hand was a well known figure that even people with no interest in or knowledge of Tennis would know, but they even proved me wrong as we did find some hermits who didn’t know who he was. I mean seriously I only first heard of David Beckham when he started dating a Spice Girl. I think Gary Linekar was the first and only footballer I’ve ever known purely for being a footballer and not because he dated a pop star or got in trouble with the law.
I wouldn’t say any stage stars are household names across the world.
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Post by daisy24601 on Oct 16, 2018 13:54:42 GMT
My dad met someone a few years back who'd never heard of Britney Spears. Now there's one you'd think EVERYONE would have heard of.
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Post by raider80 on Oct 16, 2018 14:07:05 GMT
In the UK Patti is not a household name but, in America she is pretty well known. Mainly for her comments about Trump and the time she stopped the show to yell at a person taking photos and the time she took a phone out of an audiences hand.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 17:13:55 GMT
My dad met someone a few years back who'd never heard of Britney Spears. Now there's one you'd think EVERYONE would have heard of. I’m always impressed by people who know very little about popular culture. I assume - perhaps erroneously - that they constantly have their heads buried in a book.
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