Re: New on TTY: "Music awards are none of your business."
Drivel.
Drivel.
Rants are for emotionally-driven, half-witted types. If he wants to persuade he must master the art of rational and clever polemics. I think he tries but fails miserably. His irrational hyperbole contaminates his arguments, making him appear as a child playing in a sandbox rather than an intellectual to be taken seriously.
You must remove yourself from my head at once!
I couldn't have said it better myself...and that is saying something
Rants are for emotionally-driven, half-witted types. If he wants to persuade he must master the art of rational and clever polemics. I think he tries but fails miserably. His irrational hyperbole contaminates his arguments, making him appear as a child playing in a sandbox rather than an intellectual to be taken seriously.
I get what you are saying, but still...there is a certain sense of "recklessness" to his writing. Kind of like the difference between shooting at a gun range vs. firing off a shotgun in public, or driving fast vs. driving drunk. He is a public figure, not one of us nameless, faceless individuals that can get by doing basically whatever we choose. His actions have consequences beyond his wishes or his control. This is what I think frustrates him the most. So he rails against these things making it all the worse.
Lastly, I think there is an important distinction between over thought and thoughtless. You appreciate his candor...I find it a little alarming. Beg to differ I guess
I plan on occupying your mind's landscape until your last, dying breath. Hehe.
For you this may all be true but it's not the case for all people. Likewise, you may find some people fascinating where as others will switch off at the thought of listening to them. Whether we like what he has to say or not he gets people talking and that's surely a good place to start.
I think among the rants there is usually a rational point, he could elaborate on that and tune it into a polished statement but that's not him. Just because his way of communicating is often a poorly constructed rant, it doesn't mean that the point he's making hasn't been thought through. It's just that his way of communicating is a rant without paragraphs.
I think intellectual is such an over-used word. For every "intellectual" that has made a difference I'll give you a hundred that haven't. Most are too busy blowing smoke up their own asses to achieve anything worthwhile.
There is nothing wrong with being emotionally driven, give me that over a stone cold psychopath any day.
Whether I care or do not??? Do you know something I don't? I decided a long time ago that I will never die, I will just decide to stop living. There is a difference...Isn't there?
Well...I guess I am going to need to pull an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind here
For you this may all be true but it's not the case for all people. Likewise, you may find some people fascinating where as others will switch off at the thought of listening to them. Whether we like what he has to say or not he gets people talking and that's surely a good place to start.
I think among the rants there is usually a rational point, he could elaborate on that and tune it into a polished statement but that's not him. Just because his way of communicating is often a poorly constructed rant, it doesn't mean that the point he's making hasn't been thought through. It's just that his way of communicating is a rant without paragraphs.
I think intellectual is such an over-used word. For every "intellectual" that has made a difference I'll give you a hundred that haven't. Most are too busy blowing smoke up their own asses to achieve anything worthwhile.
There is nothing wrong with being emotionally driven, give me that over a stone cold psychopath any day.
Slightly off-topic... you're old enough to remember this cheesy song. Sing it Charlie!
Whether I care or do not??? Do you know something I don't? I decided a long time ago that I will never die, I will just decide to stop living. There is a difference...Isn't there?
Well...I guess I am going to need to pull an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind here
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I get it Charlie...you like the colour of things. You, me, RB, BB, bhops, Gregor and Surface all getting together. Now that would be colorful to say the least!
Moz will be pissing himself laughing at Madonnas blunder, silly old cow.
Thanks for telling us about this, I'm on my fourth view, it's still not enough.
me thinks the bulls survived this one. (isn't she dressed as a matador under that cape?) kether for the mother f***en win!!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/music/madonna-takes-a-major-onstage-tumble-at-the-brit-112079529441.html
Staircase aaaaaaat...the universitaaaaay...she threw herself down....
Moz will be pissing himself laughing at Madonnas blunder, silly old cow.