start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

the "ten concerts" facebook thing is great, it's probably something a bunch of editors are trying to spool into a story but failing because it's just personal experiences and how people frame them organically circulated. people who met each other recently are talking about being at the same show in 1999 and crap like that. it's the casual interaction facebook and other sites have failed to capture, and it crossses boundaries between ilm obsessive list people and people who casually went to some shows

like wow I can't wait for this to die down so I can see more content from my favorite brands and some posts explaining why Trump is breaking the law

I havent seen anything like that. Ive seen a bunch of people just making random guesses until they hit the right one by elimination, and a bunch of olds whining that theyve never heard of any of these damn bands.

wow that sucks

I've been cracking up because a couple people discovered they were at the same Dave Matthews Band concert in '99 and had a horrible time

another person got called out for actually having gone to see Coldplay, and they admitted a friend gave them and their fiance tickets. said friend was apparently very irritated when they got shitfaced and just made out through the whole show

lots of stupid, funny stories

haha I am pretty sure I was at a dave matthews concert in 1999 and had a horrible time

the best part is I was not at that concert, but I remember it happening!

there were a couple harmless but kind of irritating people in my photography class (I was a senior in high school) recounting it, and I can still remember one of them saying "...and we got up close on the side of the stage, and we were all like 'Daaaaave! Daaaaave!'" ... and that was the entire story

it was a cross between the proto-jam band types from one high school and some preppy kids who somehow went to our magnet school for photography despite their home high school being catholic who went to the DMB show

I believe I looked up the woman who said that a couple years ago on facebook and she was a yoga instructor or essential oils specialist

I can't stand the lists.

I can't stand the calendar month thing that comes up every once in awhile - "Okay, '4/9: Your First Time at the Mall' lessee, it was 1987..."

I can't stand what your porn name is.

tbh if I am ever in a porn production i am just using your real name

unless it's a comedy then I'm changing the last name to bonker

I'm always bemused by people who do all the quizzes on ename.com like "what unicorn colour are you" and "what is your real political party!!" and whatever, cos that shit is pure datamining for advertising/spam agencies. GOOD LUCK GUYS.

I like the lists. All of the ones I've seen posted up have had the type of good conversation mh mentions. Also it makes me nostalgic b/c it's very web 1.0.

Those ename "quizzes" really do suck, though, they're not even quizzes, they're literally just "please click on this and we'll spout some nonsense while we scrape your data". At least meitu and faceapp give you amusing pictures while they do it.

Ive been googling re faceapp to work out if theres anything suss going on there and havent found anything (i havent used it). Aside from the accusations of raceism.

it definitely lightens the skin tone of people when you choose the "hot" option, which is probably the racism bit (which is valid, I said that the first time I read it and they turned Rick Ross into an albino)

I didn't mind the ten gigs, one's a ringer thing because a) half of my friends are music writers or similar and b) silently judging the five women on my timeline for posting YOU GO GIRL memes as part of the marketing for their chosen MLMs was getting boring.

I mean, I don't bitch about it, but my least favorite part of an ILM poll thread is at the end where everyone starts posting their Top 50 Violent Femmes songs or whatever. I just don't care!

the whole thing is just "check out my music tastes", plus a dumb little game whose only goal is "please comment on my music tastes"

in other words, not very different from what we do here

yeah idk it's also a self-selector of whether you list the most recent cool shows, your favorites from when you were a kid, or the dumbest ones you can think of that make it genuinely hard to guess

tbh it's a lot more illuminating to hear about musical taste from people who aren't constantly cranking out lists, even if their tastes are pretty middle of the road. ilm lists are so specific that I'm not going to get into an interesting conversation with someone about how they ranked one song a spot higher than another on their best Gino Vannelli best singles list

judging by the people I see doing these lists, the joke is "Can you believe that I, a person with such impeccable musical taste, went to see Motley Crue and Bon Jovi in concert?"

Yeah, this isn't about taste, this is about randomly guessing which random show some person randomly (or intentionally) did or did not see. It might as well be a personality test. "Which State Fair Band Are You!?"

that's a bad joke and is 100% indicative of a particular attitude and a strong indicator of how that person views their tastes and is distinctly triangulating them against that joke entry!

how is it not about taste when it's nine "look at my good taste" entries and one "this is distinctly a joke" entry

Because a bazillion of them are "look at these ten shitty acts, guess which one I didn't see."

This is what my feed has looked like this week x 300:

http://i.imgur.com/42SO3N6.jpg

well I bow to your bazillion facebook contacts, my focus group was a lot smaller

I have such few Facebook peeps, and they were all posting this nonsense.

I've seen 11 of the acts on that grave, can you guess which ones?!

I don't really care to *scrolls*

would encourage anyone who dislikes this meme to do a version with skynyrd as their fake

I only accept pre-'77 skynrd performances and will argue in the comments you did not actually see real skynrd

Someone I know just listed ten Grateful Dead concert dates/venues.

that should kill it

bowing to that person as a master of the form right now

You're gonna throw your back out with all that bowing.

ravages of age

ilxor tarfumes did a funny fake list on facebook and i laughed.

The stage plot on that headstone bugs me because the cabinets aren't behind the musicians and there are no monitor wedges. One might charitably concede that this is from the era of in-ear monitors, maybe? But that doesn't fit with the list of acts.

Also the musicians are all ghosts.

how is it not about taste when it's nine "look at my good taste" entries and one "this is distinctly a joke" entry

Get yourself some better friends.

Yeah, I had Nickelback as one of my nine.

Performative sneezing. There is no need to engage your vocal chords at all, let alone make everyone in the room jump and frighten small children.

^^^my mum used to do this, less the explosion than the lead up to it, she sounded like melanie griffiths in when harry met sally >:(

i am a loud noseblower i fear but that just makes ppl laugh on the bus

I'm a loud sneezer but I'll work to better myself

People who work at theme parks seem to think that everybody else is so interested in their fucking theme park life.

Performative sneezing. There is no need to engage your vocal chords at all, let alone make everyone in the room jump and frighten small children.

I was just thinking about this in bed this morning after scaring the shit out of my cat.

At work I was sitting in on a trial for almost 2 months, during which time I struggled to sneeze not-too-loudly. It couldn't keep from engaging my vocal cords. Usually I tried to muffle the sound by sneezing into the crook of my arm, when I could catch it in time.

It's definitely gotten worse with age, but IDK why.

tbh I find people who suppress their sneezes worse, I always fear they are doing themselves damage.

Oho god yes especially when they hold their nose!!! You'll damage your eardrums!

I did that a few times during this trial and it hurt my ears and eyes and sometimes it. Lee out my mouth, making a raspberry/motorboat sound. Far worse.

Let the wind go free, wherever thee may be is my own philosophy. But with a beware the follow through cautionary nb, that should be applied more rigidly to farts than sneezes imo.

tv characters who are only famous when it suits the story (frasier being the obvious example). right now i'm watching some terrible chinese drama with a woman who in one episode is so gobsmackingly a-list she has to wear giant sunglasses everywhere, and in the next episode so anonymous she can chuck a tanty in public and go totally unnoticed, and it's really getting up my arse.

otm. Also, when a tv show decides that characters aren't working and sideline them (like the kids in Designated Survivor) but then make sure that the remaining characters mention them in every episode so people don't get upset or something

*googles "chuck a tanty"*

Makes me angry when houseguests empty the dishwasher but put everything away in the wrong places. It's cool that you're helping, but just ask! Because now it's a household scavenger hunt for me, which is extra work, often when I least expect it. (I'm looking at you, missing oval yellow Fiesta ware plate.)