trenchant social commentary 2

I'll be so happy when we evolve beyond physical interactions so people will quit bemoaning the inevitable death of it and just accept their fate.

OK let's entertain for entertainment the fact that her "Music should not be free" stern balled editorial wasn't corporate shilling and just the regular blazayblah opinion probably most people on the street might have if you pressed them on this subject of i.p rights and internet downloads that they don't often think about and have never dl'd a song for free in their life. Let's also ignore, for the moment, the fact she's from a rich family a stock broker father and Merril Lynch financial wealth management adviser of millions of dollars. Let's also ignore, for a second, that generation of her grandfathers are banking presidents. Let's also put aside the fact Taylor's parents have been shaping and controlling and market managing her pop career since she was 14, setting up merchendising companies in her name, alienating people with that alleged arrogance and 'pay as little as possible and treat people like shit' attitude.

Let's put all that aside for a brief moment and reconsider her assertion: "It's my opinion that music should not be free".

And remind ourselves: She's only worth $200 million, guys. She only made $120 million on her last tour. We shouldn't forget that. She's only 24. People at 24 with only hundreds of millions in the bank and millions of adoring merchandise wearing fans can only be asked to give so much. I mean come on, her New York penthouse was only bought for $20 million, how do you expect her to keep up this lifestyle? Music should not be free. Music should not be free. It is my opinion that music should not be free.

― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, November 5, 2014 4:30 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Hey, Tom - do you mean "written tics" outside of obvious grammatical errors and poor spelling? (I loved those 3rd-grade-level e-mails I used to get asking if I was selling Dave Matthews Band tickets. I felt like I was in a hi-tech version of Fast Times - "No, I DON'T have any Blue Oyster Cult!")

I've always chafed against constant use of those damn emoticons. You know - ;), :), :P, %). Once in a while, okey dokey. Fifteen times in the same "conversation", I'm about to go alkdjfalkj.

Origin of such things (i.e. "Two words:", "Can you say...") - television. Bane of our existance. Glass tit. Sweet oblivion.

― David Raposa, Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:00 AM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

okey dokey

David Raposa was an absolutely classic poster and I shall hear no ill spoken of him

yeah it's pretty standard from-the-vaults type stuff & I was was only gonna include the last paragraph as the tsc part but stuff like "okey dokey" adds so much to the experience, also hints of cunty spelling & grammar nazism followed swiftly by "those blasted emoticons" followed by "existance" is just like, take a bow whoever you are

xp I'm sure you're right

it was a different time

http://i.imgur.com/ZDyMWHj.png

I don't know if I can make it through this article

http://i.imgur.com/kL6umQG.jpg

Elite Daily

unconvinced that any mode of meeting people is inherently more ~real than any other, real is what u make of it

― lex pretend, Monday, December 15, 2014 11:56 AM (5 hours ago)

so annoying

~ next time

lol matt

Sure, I get that about automation and fragility and buying parts - but the espresso people are less "buy a receiver at the pawn shop" and more "my diamond-encrusted cable really allows me to HEAR this section of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' for the first time."

Mostly no. The difference between the espresso you get out of a top-quality commercial machine like a La Marzocco and out of a substandard quality home machine is enormous. There are pricey but not insanely pricey home machines where you can get pretty close to the Marzocco quality with the right technique. And certain factors in making espresso are pretty well-established -- pressure, temperature, grind, tamping (not to speak of the beans themselves). The best machines are simply able to produce the appropriate pressure and temperature consistently, which is surprisingly difficult. Other bells and whistles can make a difference -- the bottomless portafilter, for example, but there's a pretty commonsense reason for that one -- in a normal portafilter oils from the coffee build up and are hard to clean away. The bottomless portafilter simply eliminates that problem.

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:35 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

meanwhile

http://www.unicefusa.org/press/releases/unicef-too-many-children-dying-malnutrition/8259

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 9:48 AM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf that "meanwhile" could've linked to a local news story about a flatulent dog and the contrast would not have been lost

lol just came here to post that

dog might have been flatulent due to inefficiently made coffee tho

a new use for the tamper really

"I don't like mayonnaise on my sandwiches, only mustard"

meanwhile

http://www.unicefusa.org/press/releases/unicef-too-many-children-dying-malnutrition/8259

oy amateurist

going to post that link after every amateurist film crit post

should be forced to change dn to that link

So the idea is that if someone is derisively called "politically correct" presumably because they are unnecessarily touchy about things. This displays a lack of self-awareness because if you are upset about someone being PC then you are being unnecessarily touchy imo.

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, February 13, 2015 2:02 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

http://djconnectiontulsa.com/imgUL/doublestuff2007.jpg

As grotesque as fox news is, they are not the root of any of the issues we face

― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship),

Actually, they are. Manufactured Consent. Chomsky. Get into it ya'll.

― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:19 AM (21 seconds ago) Bookmark

i want to believe

probably safe to just credit every American song ever written to "anonymous black guy"

― Οὖτις, Friday, April 10, 2015 12:48 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

anonymous black guy's early stuff was better imo

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Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

Sports writing is and always will be terrible, because sports contests are extremely rule-bound and essentially near duplicates of one another in everything but the outcome of each contest. All the possible stories have been written hundreds of thousands of times. Consequently, sports writers are stuck in horrible dead end jobs they often become wretched unhappy people.

― Aimless, Thursday, May 7, 2015 10:01 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"No more unreleased material in the archives, folks, but here's a vintage recording of John Lennon laying down a shit on his toilet at Tittenhurst Park circa 1971"

"*gasps* Oh my god, such genius! What a musical colon! BEST BAND EVAAAAAAA! MUSIC HAS NOT BEEN IMPROVED SINCE THE '70s!!!11!!"

― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 3:49 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They just need to dig up the Bible verse where Jesus says it's ok to hate people and mess up your home if there's money in it.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, June 29, 2015 3:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That would require actually reading the Bible, it's way easier just to not read it and carry on being human garbage.

― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, June 29, 2015 3:31 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

let's be real here: fuck 'merit'.

― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins),

BB otm, 'distinction' or gtfo

yay!

I remember
when we used to sit
in the government yard in trenchanttown
oba-oba-serving the hypocrites
as they would mingle with the good people we meet

If a thing happens and isn't shared, did it really happen?

― calstars, Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that is a st. vincent lyric tbf

http://i.imgur.com/Qeuajx0.jpg

the dumbest philosophical thought made even dumber

wat if someone comes later in the wodds & the tree is lieing on ground

This thread is for reposts, not originals

Is that on a koozie?

http://i.imgur.com/vCblGIh.jpg

cool tablet w the headboard going thru the middle of it

you wdn't really need bedside lamps with the illumination coming off that thing

i was gonna say that the modern world is starting to make trenchant feel simply accurate but that's a great example of how this is still a thing

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2022/oct/04/david-squires-on-going-to-the-match-2022-ls-lowry

my god, it's full of trench

I assume Telsa will eventually use the subscription model for braking

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 October 2022 17:15 (nine minutes ago) link

the typo really makes it

A new British song (genre: folk) pic.twitter.com/L6KSuhNlPO

— Jonathan Coe (@jonathancoe) April 12, 2023

I'm no expert but this doesn't read as very folky to me, if I imagine this set to music it's more like some kind of poor man's Instant Sunshine or something

That has made me a gbnews/fascist minion meme guy

this guy gets it

https://i.imgur.com/GoEsOb8.jpg

it's smaller than i imagined

love that

Kids these days reserve their solemnity for Tiktok reels

― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 18 December 2023 20:04 (sixteen minutes ago) link

Gen Z figuring out its cheaper to just drink and talk loudly at home with music on the stereo

― brimstead, Friday, 23 August 2024 14:07 (two minutes ago) link

worry about not being seen by the important folks? Just instalive it or some shit

― brimstead, Friday, 23 August 2024 14:08 (two minutes ago) link

hahahahahaha good one, NA!!!!!!

zing! Ouch!!!

Gen Z doesn't drink much at all?

Don’t get defens’ about being called on your trench’, brims’

past expiry but a good one

https://i.ibb.co/FBTByQy/D2-Tt-VQUWk-AAx-LAq.jpg

why are there so many songs about nae nae

Actual lols at that

hahaha