Morris Iemma

Namedropping structuralism? As opposed to the guy who blathers about Barthes, Baudrillard, and postmodernism the first chance he gets, incorrectly, even if it is only (falsely) relevant in his little mind? Fantastic. I mentioned the word 'structuralism' because of your comment, you idiot. But no, I get it, don't worry. What sort of fucking cunt mentions something when it is relevant to the dialogue? What a waste of time!

I know how intelligent I am comparatively - i.e. (I'll explain that so you don't have to think about it for more than three minutes), in comparison to you I am intelligent.

First here? Oh, I apologise. A public forum really does need an enforced private code, I know, especially if it stopped all those fuckwits bombarding you with the need to justify your bullshit and the like. Enjoy skipping through your discussion board and doing things like conflating a statement about there being more than one explanation to an argument 'for postmodernism' (whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean) or dismissing a couple of very well known and influential intellectuals as anti-rationalists, or saying the word 'hipster' over and over again until it either becomes a valid argument in your head or until it becomes meaningless.

I hope you yourself don't even find your last comment either 'telling' or 'funny'.

Then again, Morris Iemma is probably just some hipster apologist twat hipster cunt, saying cassettes are rad' and dropping critical theory and European philosophy terms her doesn't understand, huh?

Bye bye.

Thought Black Mirror was great, third episode was really good.

Decent article

Life's Too Short - I couldn't watch more than the first episode. It was horrible; painfully shit.

Go dig up Roland Barthes' corpse and have a good suck on his cock bone and turn it into an ironic porno soundtracked by Girl Talk. Post modernism argued badly is so tiresome. You can't use it as a self-justifying thesis: ''your quest to use logic and insight to explain things is outdated. Everyone's forgotten the enlightenment. We don't talk about those guys anymore. Baudrillard predicted 9/11 AND childhood obesity. All rationalists ever did was invent penicillin and the origin of species, pffft.'' It's the same as the stupid Hipster argument where you accuse the person who doesn't like something of not being cool enough to understand it. Post modernism explain a few things about modern culture in the West really well. That doesn't mean that one person cannot be more correct in their explanation of a phenomena than another.

What the hell are you babbling about? I said there are a myriad of reasons rather than simple one. This misinformed garbage you have responded with is basically irrelevant to my comment. And that last sentence applies to your other responses. If you're going to talk in non sequiturs, forget I mentioned anything in the first place. (I'm not sure you know what 'subjectivity' means either. Or 'Postmodernism', or 'Postrstructuralism', or 'Structuralism'. Though you did mention the problem of 'self-justifying thesis' - and you apparently don't know what 'thesis' means either - maybe you should try looking for these 'self-justifying theses' in your own comments.)

This place seems increasing more like a playground for morons.

Surely you could be patriotic or even nationalistic and object to Australia's participation in the Great War...

andydepressant said 3 days ago: No it doesn't! That was one sentence on the end. I though I made my point quiet clearly: There's like 2000 words of wank up there about technical aspects of the sound qualities of the format when the reason most people use them has fuck all to do with sound - it's about as important what fucking guitar pick they use. The connection being that there is a fixie thread on here full of similar levels of technical wank about about the gear ratios of fixed gear bikes, weight to function arguments, friction etc and in reality the vast majority of people own a fixie because of fashion. Like I said any vaguely competent student of history should know that no-one is going to come out and say they bought a fixie cuz everyone else was doing it, they will reel off some half understood and probably incorrect explanation about the technical benefits of a fixie. Obviously ''because everyone else is doing it'' is not an explanation either as there are multiple and complex forces behind that that are quite hard to explain satisfactorily.

Exactly. People can't be trusted to tell you why they like X, I have a privileged position to say they actually like X to be fashionable in so and so way (and therefore it's just a 'hipster thing') and by the way I don't actually have a privileged position and I can't really say what the reason is because it's complex but at least my explanation is better than theirs. Good work.

People are having a discussion about 'technical aspects' of the medium but regardless of those aspects, people actually like them for other reasons. Did you think it may be possible to discuss a myriad of reasons rather than aim at the one true explanation? What is this, 1780?

So the vast majority of people own cassettes because it is fashionable, in a niche market kind of way I presume. Can you tell us all why that is a problem or why it is a negative thorn in the side of these pro-cassettists? What's wrong with fashion and why can't something be valued technically and fashionably?

I heard girls are go through this weird thing at 13 and at 16 they come out either elfin goddesses or whores - so PJ Harvey can't be both, right?

So you're disparaging someone for using a term you don't like and yet your primary argument consists of you saying the word 'hipster'?

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I'm nearly 50 got a bad back like my headphones with wireless jack too busy to pick up tonight the kids HD700 to HP-P1 to TWO AIRMOTIVS

steve albini will try to destroy me talking about my generation [with stutter via dentures]