The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Mannahnin]

That's legit weird to me. You can't express your dislike for something because other people used their dislike of that thing decades ago as a means of bigotry. What? So everyone has to love country music or they're classist?

No. What on Earth are you talking about?

I'm saying that I self-reflected on my own ignorance as a kid, and realized that I was parroting a phrase which had social implications I wasn't aware of. Like looking down on rural people.

And that Gradine and Whizbang reminded me with parallel cases of things people did in the past or do today which are similar. Whether they're being knee-jerk contrarians or are virtue signaling their dislike for something enjoyed by a group they look down on. Whether it was disco in the 70s or pumpkin spice today.

No one said you can't express your dislike of a thing. If you've self-reflected and you're not doing the same crap I did as a kid, or lots of people are doing today with pumpkin spice, awesome! You probably shouldn't have such a strong emotional reaction to this discussion, then, since it's obviously not about you.

That's even dumber than hating country music because you're looking down your nose at rural people.

Sure, if you want to misrepresent what I wrote, you can make it dumber. That's a thing you can do. It's not a very friendly one or one I would think conducive to positive interactions with fellow gamers, but that's a choice you can make.

Country music has sucked since they stopped singing about unions.

What are some of your favorite country songs about unions?

 

[Ryujin]

Ah, I see. When you wrote "Canadian Pizza," you meant it as "this specific style of pizza by that name," and I misunderstood that to be "a pizza made in Canada."

I think people need to stop blaming the USA for this pineapple pizza confusion. I mean sure, we're guilty of a litany of food crimes, but that isn't one of them. (That's far too creative for us Yankees. Here, we're more about the "cheap, mass-produced corn syrup and GMOs." That low-quality chocolate, watery yellow beer, and over-roasted stale coffee that you can't seem to escape? You're welcome.)

True about the chocolate, but some of your more enterprising citizens from the South learned to improve that crappy chocolate, with bacon.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That whole album is basically a Faulkner novel.

She does a great cover of "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Want to Rock and Roll)" as well.

 

[CleverNickName]

True about the chocolate, but some of your more enterprising citizens from the South learned to improve that crappy chocolate, with bacon.

This is true.

Also, hot take: if you can "improve" your chocolate by adding bacon, or vice-versa, neither your chocolate nor your bacon were all that great to begin with.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That's all so weird to me. While there are some examples of 60's and 70's rock I like, most of the music I listen to is of much more recent vintage (and in the case of symphonic metal, didn't even really exist when I was growing up).

Ask people you work with what they think of today's music. The people over 35 will typically go insane with hatred.

 

[Ryujin]

This is true.

Also, hot take: if you can "improve" your chocolate by adding bacon, or vice-versa, neither your chocolate nor your bacon were all that great to begin with.

I beg to differ. Bacon makes everything better. Note that I did not say "good", just better, because some things will simply never be good.

 

[Mannahnin]

There is definitely good country music out there. I think Patsy Cline would have loved Kacey Musgrave's music, for instance.

The notion that "today's music is all terrible" is largely about brain plasticity. Whatever music you liked when your brain "set" in your mid-20s is what you think of as "the best" music. (Yes, there are people who firmly believe that N'Sync is the greatest music ever created.)

This is why your parents hated your music and you hate your kids' music. In every era, there was excellent, good, average and bad music being created.

Yup.

Though sometimes we have prejudices and/or social associations which prevent us from checking out a given genre and finding the stuff we might like in it.

 

[eyeheartawk]

Ask people you work with what they think of today's music, and the people over 35 will typically go insane with hatred.

I mean that's true.

What's also an objective fact is that music already peaked with this:

 

[eyeheartawk]

I beg to differ. Bacon makes everything better. Note that I did not say "good", just better, because some things will simply never be good.

I don't like bacon chocolate. But that's probaly because most of the bacon chocolate I've had is artisinal and small batch.

Which, in the world of chocolate, equates to a very expensive, non-consistent and grainy chocolate bar. Show me an $8 milk chocolate bar that is better than a $1.50 Milka bar.

Chocolate is one of those things that really benefits from large scale industrial production that can't be bettered by some guy with a stove. Also see hashbrowns.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I don't like bacon chocolate. But that's probaly because most of the bacon chocolate I've had is artisinal and small batch.

Which, in the world of chocolate, equates to a very expensive, non-consistent and grainy chocolate bar. Show me an $8 milk chocolate bar that is better than a $1.50 Milka bar.

Chocolate is one of those things that really benefits from large scale industrial production that can't be bettered by some guy with a stove. Also see hashbrowns.

My oldest loves, loves, loves Hershey bars and cannot get on board with Milka, which completely breaks my heart.