Stupid people saying stupid things about music you like. or Dude seriously hates his dumb-as-balls roommate and can you blame him?

And I thought I'd bitch about it and hope someone else tells a funny story.

does this make me one of the "stupid" people?

there's nothing inherently stupid about finding the Arcade Fire guy's voice horrible. He sounds like a turkey doing an Isaac Brock impersonation.

Yeah, but the perspective from which you condemn him is an informed one. If you're just some jerk with some preconceived notion of one thing being good, and all the rest bad, then you can go fuck yourself in a ham sandwich.

the nerve...

While watching American Idol after a Hispanic guy sings really poorly. My roommate: "See, people with accents shouldn't try to sing songs that were originally wrote by someone without their accent! It just doesn't work! You can't do that! He should have sung Ricky Martin." (The guy didn't have a Hispanic accent at all. This comment was based completely on his appearance.)

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While watching Lost in Translation and repeatedly claiming that it is "like watching grass grow," "has no plot," and "is terrible," despite continuing to watch it: "You see, this is a really new genre -- the type of film that follows someone's regular life, like, a normal person. They only started making movies like this a couple years ago."

By the way, his "passion" is movies. He is an expert on them. Really, ask him. He is.

Me: "Uh, I think you're wrong. They've been making independent movies that are more like real life than fantastic Hollywood movies for a while."

Him: "No they haven't."

Him: "He [Chirac] is such an asshole."

See, it's times like this that I know he either has absolutely no reason to hold his said opinion, or it is completely factually incorrect. Although he is terrible to argue with, I often can't help but ask anyway.

Me: "Why?"

Him: "See, he said going into the Iraq war they had no WMD's --"

Me: "Yeah, he was right."

Him: "--but, but... all along, France was giving Iraq the instructions and capabilities to make WMD's! That's why France was opposed to the war all along, because the whole time they were helping them make nuclear weapons."

Me: "I am absolutely sure that you are wrong. I dare you to find me one credible source that says that."

Him: "No, seriously! I mean, it happened about a year ago..."

Me: "Then it should be easy for you to find a credible source backing that up. Seriously, show me one and then I'll believe you."

Him: "..."

Him: "No, no! That page is lying! It is physically impossible to be a marathon runner and be a vegetarian!"

Me: "So, all these pages are lying?"

Him: "I know what I'm talking about! I'm a runner! It is physically impossible. You can physically not do it!"

Later we found a page that cited some scientific research whose results said something along the line of "not eating meat does not hinder athletic ability."

Him: "No, he's wrong! Who is he? What are his credentials?"

Me: "You're grasping really hard here to defend yourself when you're obviously wrong."

Him: "No I'm not! I'm just asking, what are his credentials? Huh? What are they? And why is he doing this experiment?"

Ex-girlfriend reading the webpage: "He's a licensed M.D."

Him: "Then who gave him his degree? Where did he get his degree?"

Ex-girlfriend reading the webpage: "Ugh, forget this."

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Him: "So, the girl was turned down and didn't get to go on to the next round. So when she was talking to the camera, she said, 'They made a mistake! I'm the next damn American Idol'. What a stupid bitch. She just cussed on national television. America doesn't want that! She is not an American Idol with an attitude like that."

You can use the paper bag between posts.

I grew up in Chapel Hill, NC. Here is my roommates thought on the area:

Him: "Most the people who go to UNC are fucking assholes. They think, 'Oh, I'm so educated and I'm so smart, so I'm going to listen to this really obscure underground music that nobody else has heard of, because I'm smarter than everybody else.'"

Me: "Well, Chapel Hill does have a big independent music community. That's where Merge Records is, the label that the Arcade Fire is signed to. I don't think people there consciously choose to listen to obscure music because they think they're smarter than anybody else. They're just music enthusiasts and like a wide variety of music."

Him: "No, they all think they're so smart, so they're going to listen to all this unknown music because they're so educated going to UNC, and better than everybody else. Everybody I know there is like that."

Me: "Well, I can't argue with you about the personalities of the maybe twenty people you know in Chapel Hill since I've never met them, but you know it's unfair and plain wrong to say the whole city is the same."

Him: "The majority of them are."

Me: "You do realize that majority means over fifty percent. You can't say fifty-one percent of UNC students think they're educated and smarter than everybody else, and that is why they want to listen to underground music and everything else isn't good enough for them."

Him: "Also, I'm not counting all the people listening to Nelly, being brainwashed into thinking they're black."

The weirdest thing about the above quote is that he likes Nelly.

I'm not even making this shit up.

http://www.lasvegas-nv.com/showpics/don-rickles.jpg

xpost, no this thread rules.

I just walked in the livingroom, and his ex-girlfriend was starting to tell this story. He interrupted and told it for her.

A couple years ago, one of his other ex-girlfriends broke up with him. He got drunk and tried to commit suicide by jumping off the balcony. He ended up in the psych ward that night.

By the way, the apartment was on the second floor. He was about fifteen feet off the ground.

I had another roomate that sat on her neatly made bed and watched boy meets world reruns all day. She was black and when one of Ian's friends came to visit he was in the middle of telling a story about how messy black people are when he finally noticed her ethnicity. He then tried to back it up by proclaiming "but I love black people! I'm half black!" He then offered to go out and buy her some chicken to make up for it. I wanted to seriously slaughter him but hey, he was a marine so maybe that explains it.

"Oh, I didn't mean to offend you! Have some watermelon."

Yeah, we filled out roommate matching cards at our dorm. I'm convinced they didn't read them. I'd try to figure out what kind of music my roommate hated by leaving a cd of it running and then leave to go to the bathroom to masturbate. By the time I got back, if he had turned it off that meant he hated it. Then I'd make a playlist of the music he hated (things like Boyd Rice, Ravi Shankar:Chants, and Aphex Twin:SAWII) and leave it on repeat at a very polite volume whenever he tried to study.

Ian came in and sat down and said, "You do know that Bill O'Reilly is a communist, right?" Some day I'm going to ask him what he thinks communism is. He must feel pretty strongly about this since it's the second time he's told me.

FEED ME

"It really bothers me how other people in the class aren't accepting of music they don't normally listen to. Especially... not to be stereotypical, but especially the black population of the class! Today he was playing Bohemian Rhapsody, and this black girl behind me was trying to sing it. She didn't know the song, so of course she got lots of the words wrong. I just wanted to turn around and tell her, 'Do you realize that you are mocking the best vocal singer ever?' It really bothers me how unaccepting the black people are."

Also, here's some of his political musings I've heard in the past few days:

- Bush saved the economy with the tax cuts. Otherwise, everything would be a lot worse right now.

- It's a good thing we invaded Iraq when we did, because maybe they didn't actually have WMD's, but they were about to get them! So close!

- Okay, so maybe Bush did mess up and Iraq didn't have WMD's, but at least he did the right thing by sticking to the course and not admitting he made a mistake.

I'm not sure how "sticking to the course and not admitting a mistake" is the right thing to do, but my roommate assures me that it is.

-- Mickey (modestmicke...), February 5th, 2005.

hahahahaha omg my former boss to thread

Okay, you are making this up. Please tell me you are making this up.

LOL

Actually, the majority of Americans have this attitude (but I know no one on this list would be that stupid ;))... If politicians get information that is useful or become more educated on a subject and act on it, that's called "Waffling." If you close your eyes and drive the steamroller straight ahead, that's called "Courage."

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Me: "Is he new?"

Him: "No, he just sucks at his job. He's black. And, he plays the race card on everything too!"

Oh, the irony.

any more roommate stories?

Im living alone now and miss the hell of other people.

sorry, I was just feeling nostalgic for old ILM threads.

imagine living with mickey & having him constantly run to wikipedia after everything you say - i feel like i need estela to sum up how i feel about that

wow banned mickey wasn't lying about the american idol class at his school:
http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2004/11/08/CampusWatch/UncCharlotte.Takes.idol.Worship.To.New.Level-796570-page3.shtml

Mickey finally got banned?

Good find, Chad.

Good findill selection

i heard a live recording of the arcade fire once. i agree with the roommate.