women's sports are, in general, less exciting versions of men's sports
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:52 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sexual dimorphism of humans def means that a lot of sports are more exciting to watch when men are playing them but otoh a lot of women's sports are less commercialized and therefore less likely to suffer from rampant PED use endemic to men's sports and therefore likely to be more of a clean competition
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:08 (eight years ago)
also crowds at woman's sports tend to be less shitty
(emil.y i was laughing at the extreme relativity necessary to consider those "conservative opinions." i assumed they were posted tongue in cheek so thought i was laughing along with one way street, not at them, and wasn't critiquing the positions themselves)
― he mea ole, he kanaka lapuwale (sciatica), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:13 (eight years ago)
Can't speak for sciatica but I lol'ed at ows' post bc it requires some, like, wicked fractal definition of conservatism within the queer anticapotalist left. but I get how all those opinions could be uncool rn
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:15 (eight years ago)
liberalism as many of my friends practice it is like a shitty religion that i want no part of.
they think of other people as needing to be saved, by them. they make penance with speech acts, not real action. they live their lives in constant guilt. they live in cities that are only differentiated from other cities by being huge destinations for wealth, then they disavow that wealth while continuing to partake in the lifestyle it provides. they blame rich people for all the evils of the world while ignoring that they are the 1%. they prescribe how other people should be living their own lives.they say things that have no meaning other than to reveal to others that they are members in this very sensitive club of good people. it's nothing but performative.
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:15 (eight years ago)
Lol got xp'd
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:16 (eight years ago)
I must admit I like Republican President Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower. But chances are, you also like Ike. Maybe everybody likes Ike.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:18 (eight years ago)
xps to sciatica and flopson - yeah, both of those reasons are basically fair enough. I think I inhabit so many circles where these are topics for fierce debate that I took it w/ a completely straight face!
― emil.y, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:19 (eight years ago)
watching grown adults discussing rae sremmurd like it was literature is to behold the end of art
― imago,
links?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:19 (eight years ago)
― Philip Nunez,
best Cold War president if you look past his championing of covert ops
just watch their latest video, 'set the roof' and listen to the lyrics, they're just the worst people in earth, i fucking despise literally everything they're doing
Lj on rap always sounds like thinly veiled racist uncle 'i like blk ppl...who pull up their pants' lol
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:23 (eight years ago)
There was some self-directed irony in my post (like, as a queer trans woman and a marxist, I realize I occupy a different milieu than some of you), but I do actually hold the positions in it, and they're generally unpopular in radical circles; but as e.mily said, this thread seems "like a dumping ground not a discussion ground," so I'll stay out of the rae sremmurd discourse.
― one way street, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:30 (eight years ago)
*emil.y, I mean
― one way street, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:31 (eight years ago)
if hating on vicious misogyny, shit beats and two little soi-disant alpha male fuckers is racist then
― imago, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:32 (eight years ago)
never listened to rae sremmurd but i see his/her/their name everywhere
just read the lyrics to set the off and stopped here:
Now let's fill up her head and let's see if she chokes
it's fashionable to call anything (thinly veiled) racism these days (oh my conservative opinion i guess)
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:40 (eight years ago)
Bill O'Reilly also quotes lyrics as if they made sense removed from arrangements.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:44 (eight years ago)
you just wrote hating "on."
if you are comparing me to bill o reilly you should say so instead of hinting at it
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:46 (eight years ago)
I think I did!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:46 (eight years ago)
[Pre-Hook: Swae Lee]Flash her with cash, had to spazz on the waiterShe fucked up my order three times in a row, woahI'm good on gas, I just filled up my tankNow let's fill up her head and let's see if she chokes
so the double entendre is not done on purpose i guess is what you're saying
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:47 (eight years ago)
i don't actually think ur racist lj you just an fyi you sound like coded white supremacist
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:48 (eight years ago)
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 7:46 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and no, you didn't
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:49 (eight years ago)
yeah I quite like rap and rap culture so I appropriate its vernacular sometimes. doesn't mean I don't detest some of its practitioners though
and they're not as bad as anthony kiedis I guess
I see you flopson, I'm better about this shot these days but sremm are p much in the sweet spot of do not get
― imago, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:50 (eight years ago)
yeah idk they're like a fabulous marriage of Descendants and Kool Keith. They get away with their snottiness and for the moment they don't sound anomic or evil. But they can't keep it up forever and I can imagine hating them like The Weeknd and late Kanye.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:53 (eight years ago)
doesn't mean I don't detest some of its practitioners though
― imago, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 7:50 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is the thing
people take a band you don't like and make a lot of unwarranted generalizations about you
theres tonnes of good hip hop and rap that reads different than rae sremmurd
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:58 (eight years ago)
nah it's all good -- we're just zingin' late afternoon
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:00 (eight years ago)
zingin on hump day
ugh
s'all good
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:01 (eight years ago)
let's get back on topic
courses aimed at bright/curious state-schooled kids, such as those I help to run a few times a year, are not elitist
― imago, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:03 (eight years ago)
I think my uncool conservative belief is on a parallel with LJ's statement there -- I think drawing a line dividing quality work from mass market pulp and calling one side "literature" has its place
the line moves all the time, though, and things jump back and forth
― mh, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:06 (eight years ago)
spelling your band name backwards is straightup stupid
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:09 (eight years ago)
They get away with their snottiness and for the moment they don't sound anomic or evil. But they can't keep it up forever
This was basically my take on Odd Future when they first came out, but weren't they actually kids at the time whereas Rae Sremmurd are like proper adults? I like RS musically, but honestly I haven't really paid much attention to their lyrics, so... eh. I kind of don't want to go down that route but just imagine I wrote an incredibly long and interesting post about the conflicts and intertwinement of ingroup lexical production, culture, Cannibal Corpse and exclusion/alienation of marginalised groups. Seriously, this hypothetical post was the most brilliant and incisive thing you've ever read about lyrics and it's changed your worldview forever.
(sorry for continuing to turn this thread into 'Rae Sremmurd: Classic or Dud')
― emil.y, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:10 (eight years ago)
Fair enough. Cannibal Corpse have shit beats too though
― imago, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:23 (eight years ago)
rock has a rich and deep history of making garbage music (another uncool conservative opinion!)
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:28 (eight years ago)
the internet can't accommodate both privacy and anonymity, and given a choice between the two i pick privacy
it will never be ok with me when people use "unique" to mean "uncommon"
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:58 (eight years ago)
Marxism is dumb and bad.
Capitalist liberal democracy is the end point of Western civilization, it will never be superseded by a higher/better form of social organization, will only end through collapse.
Men should not have facial hair and people in general should not have messy hair.
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 12:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You know the Marxist view *is* that Capitalism will collapse, right?
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:10 (eight years ago)
permitting female facial hair is a nice lacuna in jim's conservatism there, rebounds to his credit
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:14 (eight years ago)
xp. I am very familiar with Marxism. This is probably the problem! Grew up in a house filled with books on Marxist theory. Literally was at a table with friends of my parents and an uncle who are all Trotskyists a week ago.
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:15 (eight years ago)
just need to repost this
nah it's all good -- we're just zingin' late afternoon― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 7:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 7:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― bagging area (map), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:16 (eight years ago)
wasn't the marxist view that capitalism collapses after we have 3D printers that really work, and don't just make smelly, knobby statues of webcomic characters?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:16 (eight years ago)
nah that's gene roddenberry, easily confused
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:18 (eight years ago)
they blame rich people for all the evils of the world while ignoring that they are the 1%.
never realized that liberals are 1% of the population
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:27 (eight years ago)
I think you need like $420K household income to be in the top 1% in the US. Maybe sleeping bag has a lot of rich liberal friends, but I doubt it.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:47 (eight years ago)
global 1% I MEANT
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:50 (eight years ago)
barb is overrated
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:53 (eight years ago)
that is my uncool conservative belief
Maybe sleeping bag has a lot of rich liberal friends, but I doubt it.― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:47 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What does this even mean, I grew up in south fl and many of my friends moved to new York, San Fran, Boston, so... Yes? Arent u a lawyer in NYC? Guessing u do too?
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:55 (eight years ago)
I grew up in south fl
really?!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:56 (eight years ago)
(maybe I asked you already)
Isn't like half of the United States in the global 1%? And also isn't that term kind of meaningless without accounting for cost of living?
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:58 (eight years ago)
I am a lawyer in NYC and my household does not earn anything close to $420K and neither do most of my friends afaik.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:59 (eight years ago)
Why do weed smokers think “no smoking” signs don’t apply to them?
― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 01:09 (two months ago)
You sound kind of uptight, man. Here, try some of this.
― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 01:58 (two months ago)
https://i0.wp.com/www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nancy-Reagan-Just-Say-No.jpg
― Evan, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 17:47 (two months ago)
^^^Pole smoking
― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 18:05 (two months ago)
my boss was smoking in the office one Saturday. "it's ok, there's no tobacco in it" he said, as if that made everything ok.
― koogs, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 20:04 (two months ago)
That’s ridiculous tbh
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 21:27 (two months ago)
Like because it’s legal now, it’s allowed anywhere at any time: the bar, the subway, your oxygen tent
― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 21:48 (two months ago)
Crazy. Being intoxicated at work not the greatest idea anyway but if that's your thing there's gummies and oils and stuff that don't impact ppl around you.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 21:56 (two months ago)
(this was the uk, and 2005ish. it wasn't so much the smoke that made me pack up and leave as the way he was constantly tapping his one foot and making the floor shake)
― koogs, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 22:31 (two months ago)
Nuclear power is fine
― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 23:23 (two months ago)