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I mean, I once knew a guy who said his favourite bands were Nickelback and Def Leppard, unless he wanted to listen to something "sophisticated" in which he case he listened to Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. That's fine if that's what you're into, but what I personally don't get is how you can listen to Nickelback and listen to Def Leppard and still like Nickelback, because Def Leppard (and really most hair metal bands) were doing essentially the same thing as Nickelback except to my mind it's a lot more entertaining and generally had a higher standard of musicianship.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Nickelback somehow produced even worse imitators like Hinder and Saving Abel. My least favourite is Theory of a Deadman, which is a band which Chad Kroeger "discovered" and got signed to his record label so he can "bring back rock and roll".
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Dec 27, 2018 20:06
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I think the most recent band to break through in a big-ish way is Greta Van Fleet, who I believe are Australians. I haven't heard any of their music myself so I don't know if they're any good or not.
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Dec 27, 2018 20:47
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Henchman of Santa posted:They're from Michigan. About 40 minutes North of my hometown in fact. They're spiritually Australian because all the other big "retro" hard rock fad bands have been. Huh. I wonder who I'm thinking of. Wolfmother? Again, the sum total of my knowledge of Wolfmother is that interview from about a decade ago where Mike Patton hears them playing in the background and derisively asks, "What decade is this?" My current music opinion which may be unpopular is that the peak era for Queen was 1976-1980 (i.e. just after Day at the Races through to The Game) when they were being denounced by the music press as "the world's first fascist rock band". Another opinion is that Thin Lizzy deserved to be as successful as U2 but I don't believe that's terribly unpopular.
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Dec 27, 2018 21:20
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I wonder why that is.
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Dec 27, 2018 21:24
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Michelle Branch should have been more popular than almost any of her peers, including Avril. She's just better and didn't make that stupid hello kitty song. I've heard she was really screwed over by record company politics. People wanted her to be more like Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry or Taylor Swift at various stages in her career and the consequence was that she didn't get an album out for 14 years, by which point she'd been forgotten. My opinion is that Taylor Swift is medium talent at best.
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Dec 28, 2018 12:31
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The best national anthem is "Ireland's Call". At least it would be if it was the national anthem. As it is, it's just a rugby song.
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Dec 28, 2018 19:31
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I have no place commenting on the politics but Amhrán na bhFiann/The Soldier’s Song is by far my favourite anthem in terms of the song. drat if it doesn’t hype you up to fight for freedom against someone. Some of the Irish republicans used to boast that they were the most conservative revolutionaries ever to put through a successful revolution and honestly, they were probably right. I remember one dramatisation of it (curiously enough, in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, but I know enough actual history to say that it was reasonably accurate) where Sean O'Casey is angrily declaring that he won't be involved with the Easter Rising because, "I believe in a socialist Ireland, not an Ireland run by Catholic priests," which is what they ended up saddled with for the next few decades. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 20:08 on Dec 28, 2018 |
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Dec 28, 2018 20:04
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Unfortunately it is very politics-related, but my opinion is that Northern Ireland should continue to have some sort of devolved government if we become part of the Republic in the future.
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Dec 28, 2018 20:19
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Mu Zeta posted:So you basically hate black people and accuse them of war crimes I didn't think my opinion would be that controversial. 
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Dec 28, 2018 20:28
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spit on my clit posted:the national anthem should be Black Betty The Tom Jones version.
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Dec 28, 2018 22:52
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lavaca posted:Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud. Rednecks and southsiders need not apply.
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Dec 29, 2018 01:52
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People take movies too seriously.
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Dec 29, 2018 09:56
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I have a seldom-used little notebook where I write down what people owe me and what I owe other people. If they never pay me back, I don't mind too much (even though I have a sort of avaricious attitude to money), because having the record of it is enough for me.
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Dec 30, 2018 15:25
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Writing Stabler out of SVU was the biggest mistake they ever made. He was what made the show. The watered down replacement caresi or whatever is just boring. The only good post-stabler episode was the gamergate one and that is solely because of the greatness of Ice T. The incel one from this year was somewhat entertaining (also because of Ice T).
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Dec 31, 2018 00:55
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Was that the Elliot Rodgers one? I have no idea if I'm up to date or not, there are so many seasons. No, it's from this one from earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtvrlmbF-CY It included a scene where they go into "the dark web" and find a site called "Incel Message Board" where users have names like "Hateful One" and "Phallus Power".
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Dec 31, 2018 01:26
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I don't think peoples' religion or political opinions are intrinsically worthy of respect; it seems like an unsustainable position to me to suggest as much. I don't mean "equal respect", I mean "any respect at all". I'd go so far as to say that sometimes it can potentially be fair to be prejudiced against people based on their religious beliefs or political opinions, because those are things that they have chosen to believe.
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Dec 31, 2018 17:16
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Depends on how broad your brush is. You can be “prejudiced” against people who believe in religious violence without automatically disliking all catholics, muslims, buddhists, etc etc What I mean is that if somebody introduces themselves to you and informs you that they are, for instance, a devout Christian or an observant Muslim, then I think it would not be unreasonable to infer (pending some demonstration from them to the contrary) that they are probably homophobic, because that's just part of their belief system. I think that prejudice in those terms - where you have made this judgment about someone on limited information - is fair enough. That being said, it remains a rebuttable presumption.
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Dec 31, 2018 21:17
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Shibawanko posted:Superhero comics are one thing ive never been interested in and i cant think of many things that are more boring The one "nerd" hobby I've never really gotten the appeal of is action figures. I'm always reminded of that Simpsons joke where Comic Book Guy's rule for buying action figures is to get five of everything: one to open; one to trade; one to customise; one to display; and one to put away as an "investment". (Though I suppose some action figures probably are better "investments" than over-printed "first issues" of comics with holographic 3D covers, aren't they?)
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Jan 1, 2019 17:01
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I used to like Lego but then when I got to be about 12 my dad told me I was too old for Lego and said I could have books instead, so I haven't had any Lego since then.
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Jan 1, 2019 20:27
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Tubgoat posted:I'm sorry your dad is a jerk. I don't mind. I preferred books anyway. Unfortunately they were mostly really bad books like Star Wars EU novels but we all must start somewhere.
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Jan 1, 2019 23:05
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I don't really think too much about what I'm doing while I'm driving. I guess I'm used to it. I drove a lot over Christmas when I was home for the holidays and even in spite of not having driven at all for several months, it all came back fairly naturally.
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Jan 6, 2019 15:15
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doverhog posted:I once had a long argument in D&D about how political violence is wrong, even if the target are nazis. It's funny to me how that's an unpopular opinion (now?). There's a disconnect in some places; I know a few people who would otherwise argue that killing Nazis is a good thing continue to insist that stuff like the Allies or the Soviets turning Nazi cities into rubble with tanks and planes during the Second World War was a "war crime". It doesn't seem altogether consistent to me. In both cases, you are killing the Nazis so why is one good and the other bad? Anyway, that's probably too much like politics as well, so I'll go no further with it.
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Jan 6, 2019 15:41
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The threat of violence is often enough - that is how the Ulster Volunteers secured the freedom of Northern Ireland.
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Jan 6, 2019 19:23
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I dislike babies/children but I like both cats and dogs. Probably like cats/dogs better than babies/children, honestly.
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Jan 7, 2019 12:06
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I believe I mentioned before that I don't understand why people want to have children to the point where I really have no idea why my own parents even wanted to have me, so I probably just don't have a healthy attitude on the subject.
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Jan 7, 2019 12:56
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Mu Zeta posted:Is it because your parents wanted to gently caress and the catholic church didn't allow contraception or something My parents are Christians, not Catholics.
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Jan 7, 2019 21:40
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Of all the music genre fans, I reckon the metalheads are still the biggest tossers about it.
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Jan 9, 2019 12:02
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My opinion is that buying avatars or custom titles for other people on this forum to "get" at them for whatever reason is very silly because spending money on people you don't like is very foolish. (It's bad enough spending money on people you do like.)
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Jan 10, 2019 19:44
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Mark Knopfler is a really boring guitar player, or at least he has been for the past 20 years or so.
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Jan 12, 2019 14:55
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Gripweed posted:Music is the artform in which technical skill is by far the least useful skill to have. It's not the least useful but it's probably the least necessary.
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Jan 12, 2019 23:33
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They're all in the shadow of Tommy.
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Jan 13, 2019 00:02
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Away all Goats posted:Most chain pizza places are really good. Regardless of what sort it is, you should eat pizzas with a knife and fork.
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Jan 13, 2019 00:44
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The best pizzas are the ones with the most tomato sauce.
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I like the ones with the really spicy tomato sauce best.
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