Nanomashoes posted:

Phlegmish posted:

lol did he say his school is full of beaners

Nanomashoes posted:

Phlegmish posted:

lol did he say his school is full of beaners

Nanomashoes posted:

Good Dog posted:

I drive passed this school every day on my way to work I'm going to go give that kid a wedgie.


It is in the heart of Santa Ana, CA.



Also that industrial shredder video always makes me smile. My dad designed that machine. The reason they dump tampons in there is to demonstrate its shredding ability against one of the more common things it will be up against. They're used in waste treatment to shred material flushed into the sewers in order to protect the pumps and other equipment. Non-disposable baby wipes are actually one of the most effective ways to gently caress the systems up since their fibers get all stringy and wrap around pumps/augers.

Ak Gara posted:

Oh sweet, toilet chat. My parents and I once went on holiday in a hot location and their public toilet plumbing was so inadequate, we were instructed to place our faeces covered toilet paper (not just baby wipes) not into the toilet, but into a basket right next to you. While it was 40c. Yeah no gently caress that. I threw it all down the toilet. Baby wipes included.

Nanomashoes posted:

oh dope posted:

"beaners"

and the beatles are infinitely overrated

oh dope posted:

and the beatles are infinitely overrated

Tetracube posted:

look here you dumb slut

Tetracube posted:

look here you dumb slut

Ein cooler Typ posted:

is it ironic or just lack of self-awareness that he said a tenny-bopper song is his favorite Beatles song

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Gotta defen that music.

I'm the music defener.

Nanomashoes posted:

Beatles' "Aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll. It replaced syncopated African rhythm with linear Western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.

Nanomashoes posted:

it had no technical innovations

ThaGhettoJew posted:

If anyone is looking to contact this villain, I have his number.

Breetai posted:

Wait, how many levels of irony are we operating on today again?

rumble in the bunghole posted:

who knows

beato posted:

Is it #1?

Viruswithshoes posted:

Does this count as a Beatle meme?

Viruswithshoes posted:

Does this count as a Beatle meme?

Viruswithshoes posted:

Does this count as a Beatle meme?

Viruswithshoes posted:

Does this count as a Beatle meme?

Nanomashoes posted:

Time for the beatles meme


The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.
In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.

Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles. At such a time, rock critics will study their rock history and understand which artists accomplished which musical feat, and which simply exploited it commercially.

Beatles' "Aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll. It replaced syncopated African rhythm with linear Western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.

Contemporary musicians never spoke highly of the Beatles, and for good reason. They could never figure out why the Beatles' songs should be regarded more highly than their own. They knew that the Beatles were simply lucky to become a folk phenomenon (thanks to "Beatlemania", which had nothing to do with their musical merits). That phenomenon kept alive interest in their (mediocre) musical endeavours to this day. Nothing else grants the Beatles more attention than, say, the Kinks or the Rolling Stones. There was nothing intrinsically better in the Beatles' music. Ray Davies of the Kinks was certainly a far better songwriter than Lennon & McCartney. The Stones were certainly much more skilled musicians than the 'Fab Four'. And Pete Townshend was a far more accomplished composer, capable of entire operas such as "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia"; not to mention the far greater British musicians who followed them in subsequent decades or the US musicians themselves who initially spearheaded what the Beatles merely later repackaged to the masses.

The Beatles sold a lot of records not because they were the greatest musicians but simply because their music was easy to sell to the masses: it had no difficult content, it had no technical innovations, it had no creative depth. They wrote a bunch of catchy 3-minute ditties and they were photogenic. If somebody had not invented "Beatlemania" in 1963, you would not have wasted five minutes of your time reading these pages about such a trivial band.

Viruswithshoes posted:

Does this count as a Beatle meme?