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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3765997" data-attributes="member: 19675">And my point was that since taste is subjective, one cannot draw conclusions about someone's character based on their taste.One can be quite intelligent yet have truly abyssmal taste.If it hadn't been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, I'd be able to post pictures of my grandparents' home for illustration of the point.  Both of them were educators, and my grandfather in particular taught History, Math, and a variety of other subjects in the High-Schools and every college & university in the New Orleans area.  If he had a textbook, he could teach the class, he said...and proved numerous times.Despite the fact that they had green velvet curtains in a red-themed room, and orange-ish ones in a green themed room (custom made, delivered and placed in the wrong rooms, and never moved for 40 years), he even managed to teach a college level course on aesthetics, and could not personally understand the fuss made over Erte or Picasso when one could get art from students & starving artist sales.</blockquote>