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tattoos are ugly

The Mens Rights movement raises some valid points esp regarding custody of children and domestic abuse of men

literally a thread for that!

If you say there are valid points to be raised, I agree fully. If you say that MRA's actually usually raise these points, then... I don't know.

The men's rights "movement" refuses to be intersectional and that's how you know it's bullshit

Always love a hoos callback

the strasserites raise some valid points regarding economic justice and rentier capitalism

christianity should take a harder line against heresy

Magic is real

Neanderthal did you see this? It's a long read and on Slate but I thought it was pretty good. I like that Bem's takeaway is "I wish more people believed."

http://redux.slate.com/cover-stories/2017/05/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real-showed-science-is-broken.html

tattoos are ugly

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High five

It is Good when Trump voters suffer materially.

The ugliness of tattoos is a well-established ILX opinion (and I agree).

Well-established RONG opinion, that

Ten is the only good Pearl Jam album

This sentence is false.

that's just like, your opinion, man.

"Black" is the only good Pearl jam song. And that was on Ten. Thus, Ten is the only good Pearl Jam album. #prologic

I can get with that but I like all the Ten singles

and "brain of j"

Pearl jam doesn't have any good songs therefore it doesn't have any good albums of songs

elizabeth warren would prob not be as effective or good a candidate as everyone seems to think

Betty would've won

In the long run, it's always better to choose a good politician, rather than a good campaigner, as a candidate, no matter for what.

As a constituent of Elizabeth Warren, I disagree.

Neil Young's ditch trilogy and "weird/challenging albums" sound more or less like what he always does. which doesn't mean it is any less brilliant, on the contrary. it's just reductive to be told oh yeah this is what the real heads listen to and the other stuff is middle of the road.

Wow yeah anyone who is policing which Neil Young albums someone else likes? And finding the obscurity of their selections wanting? That is a person who may need other hobbies. IMcontroversialO

eh not so much that just when you hear the hype that there is this crazy stuff then you finally listen to "On the Beach" and yeah half the songs are beautiful folk pop that could've probably fit on Harvest just fine.

The words, man, listen to the words.

neil young: unlistenable bleating

The only measure of art is as demonstration of technique

maybe if it existed in a vacuum. social and historical context is an inescapable burden of the postmodern world.

This is not the thread for being incorrect about the controversial opinions posted

Poetry should scan and rhyme

Three shredded wheat is a pathetically low barrier

For anti-tank defences?

people over the age of 30 should not be wearing/obsessing over jordans unless they're on a basketball court.

people over the age of 30 should not exist

That's the stuff.

people between the age of 19 and 31 should only exist to serve other people who are not in that range

oh wait that's how it already is except when rich parents are invoked. rich parents should not exist

The only measure of art is as demonstration of technique

technique is necessary, but not sufficient. or every boring-arse modern day photorealist painting would be a masterpiece.

Don't try to refute controversial opinions darragh doesn't seriously hold.

At best he likes the idea of someone holding such an attitude posting to ilx, the critic's message board. (TM)

"technique is necessary" is still pretty controversial in this world of my-three-year-old-could-have-done-it art.

we should institute a 100% estate tax. let's see who the real bootstrappers are.

sourdough isn't all that

"technique is necessary" is still pretty controversial in this world of my-three-year-old-could-have-done-it art.

How's "Never Going Back Again" coming along?

Don't try to refute controversial opinions darragh doesn't seriously hold.

At best he likes the idea of someone holding such an attitude posting to ilx, the critic's message board. (TM)

There's something to be said for it but I was trying to work out how it squared with thinking that Hot Fuss was the pinnacle of musical achievement.

How dare you jaymack my opinions!

Concerts are only fun when drunk. when I'm sober, there is too much stimuli and I often feel overanxious due to the crowd. Plus I usually am too worried about not having a good time given what I've spent.

I say this as someone who has been to 150+ shows in the last 3 years, I'd wager 80% of them at some level of drunkenness.

Also lol music isn't art fyi. Obviously.