Re: What Ticks You Off?
Posted by Orpheus on Thu Feb 23rd at 1:55am 2006
? quoting Dr Brasso
pffttt.....i take full fledged ass chewings with nary a word being said man....

i know what ya mean though, and yeah it can be creepy, but man o' man if it doesnt come in handy at times....wewt!!
Doc B....
It has its drawbacks. Sometimes we are zoned in and later when I say "I'd like to see that movie" She claims we already had. I can never convince her that I hadn't seen it yet.
Somehow, we zone in so well that its hard to separate on some future date, when we were alone, and when we were together.
If only it would work when she's trying in vain to achieve an or**sm. If women thought like men, they'd be having them in succession. 

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Re: What Ticks You Off?
Posted by ReNo on Thu Feb 23rd at 3:26am 2006
People with elitist views on music who somehow think that by liking Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Beatles, Hendrix, or any other "proper" bands it makes them some sort of authority. I don't care if somebody doesn't like what I listen to, but when people make out that I'm some sort of idiot or somehow "unrefined" for doing so, it gets on my nerves.
So I listen to some emo bands and emo is the current "cool thing to hate" - get the f**k over it already and stop throwing the term around like you know all about it. Disassociate the music from the "scene" if you truly do dislike that; don't condemn it when chances are you can only name 2 or 3 bands in the genre and have only heard the same amount of songs. It's no better than the lame blaming of computer games for all of our youth's problems, and it f**king sickens me to see so many people jump on the hate bandwagon so readily. Don't judge a music genre you've heard little of just because you like laughing at people's myspace blogs.
So I don't have a clue what the Japanese bands I like are singing about - why do I have to in order to enjoy it? I enjoy some witty or powerful lyrics as much as the next man but it's far from the only worth to be gleamed from music. And no, I'm not a pathetic anime fanbody or "wapanese", I just happen to enjoy music that, to be honest, is quite unlike most things you find in the West.
So I listen to the mainstream end of the punk/pop/rock scene like Yellowcard, Fall Out Boy and Motion City Soundtrack - why does gaining in popularity strip you of musical credibility, or at least until the point at which you become "legendary" and are suddenly okay to like again? Like the music for the music itself, not because it makes you some cool "underground" type. The entire "selling out" excuse for condemning bands you used to love, even when their sound has often matured more than outright changed, just makes you look like a fickle scenester rather than somebody who ever actually enjoyed the music.
Can't people realise that musical taste is subjective? By all means dislike music if you don't like it, but drop this "holier than thou" attitude and elitism that seems so god damn rife. And too many people need to stop closing their mind to other musical genres, which is something I did for far too long. I claimed to hate hip-hop/rap for years but you know what, there is a fair bit of it that is actually good. Don't hate something before you have heard it just because it sits in a genre you have marked as "hated"; listen to it, take it in, and don't let your preconceptions rule your opinion.

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Re: What Ticks You Off?
Posted by Nickelplate on Thu Feb 23rd at 3:41am 2006
Weno, I wasn't talking about Emo MUSIC. I was talking about the middle-class white suburbanite kids who think they need to cut themselves because they ran out of Lucky Charms cereal...
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Re: What Ticks You Off?
Posted by ReNo on Thu Feb 23rd at 4:30am 2006
Yeah, seriously, screw those TV schedulers. For some mad reason they just decide to take a week off of showing the proper episodes, to show the original pilots. Why? You're half way through season two and you stop the flow to show the start of season one? It's almost as annoying as when they decided to jump back three episodes for no apparent reason, or when they decided to stop showing Prison Break for 4 months in the middle of the season.

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Re: What Ticks You Off?
Posted by mazemaster on Thu Feb 23rd at 8:05am 2006
I think the thing about Steven Spielberg is that his style has been copied so many times in so many movies that now when we see his movies it looks like a cliche even though it was origional at the time it was made.

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Re: What Ticks You Off?
Posted by fraggard on Thu Feb 23rd at 11:25am 2006
People who let their emotions get in the way of the work they're
supposed to do, people who bitch and whine and moan, people who can't
take responsibility for what they do, people who keep distorting their
own arguments, people who try to modify history, people who look only
at the sunny side of an issue, people who look only at the dark side of
an issue, people who don't do what they're supposed to do, people who
are worried that they are doing too much work, people who claim to know
stuff they don't, people who keep looking to others to bail them out of
s**t, people who don't "mind" sacrificing others for their best
interests, clueless people in high up posts, power grabbers, small-time
politicos, big time politicos, sensationalist reporters, people who act
like they are too busy for other people, people with no sense of
humour, people who think they are far more important than they really
are, people who think they are better than you because they can't use
computers, people who refuse to make their own opinions and just
regurgitate the s**t fed to them by the
groups/allegiances/parties/whatever they are a part of.
Stuff that is designed with defects, stuff that can't be fixed, Nokia
accessories, deliberately underpowered vehicles, things that are
designed with no aesthetic sense at all, fragile electronics, stuff
that fails after "too much use".
Bands/artists that make music "for the people", bands/artists that
allow record companies to dictate their style, movies designed to be
summer/winter blockbusters, movies with unnecessary action, movies
themed around explosions, movies designed to be throw-away, movies
designed for awards.
Books that attempt philosophy unnecessarily, books that try and use
major political issues to sell more, books designed to sell more, tom
clancy novels, clive cussler novels, books that fail at humour, books
printed on s**tty thin paper, librarians who don't let you browse,
libraries that don't get new books, libraries that let people corner
books for months on end.
Aaaah...

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Re: What Ticks You Off?
Posted by Hugh on Thu Feb 23rd at 11:41am 2006
Fraggard, you've got some good ones, or should I say ones I agree with - Tom Clancy novels, bands/artists that allow record companies to dictate their style, people who refuse to make their own opinions and just regurgitate the s**t fed to them by the groups/allegiances/parties/whatever they are a part of, people who act like they are too busy for other people, people with no sense of humour, people who think they are far more important than they really are.
It's like spring cleaning for your soul.

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Re: What Ticks You Off?
Posted by poisonic on Thu Feb 23rd at 7:06pm 2006
Michael Jackson (mr plastic fantastic)
BUSH (lie lie lie & lie)
Seeing friend's wrekked on DOPE Abuse
to much american news on tv
Irritating jamba frog
TV comercials......
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