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Post by strumntheguitar on Jul 30, 2008 10:49:26 GMT -5
I don't think there's anything wrong with being an air-rockstar at a show as long as it's a controlled manner. If you are exerting more energy with your air instrument than the actual performer, then there is probably a problem
Post by DystopianDream on Jul 30, 2008 11:31:26 GMT -5
^^Yes. I would so much rather hear WP.
*HOWEVER* I would like to see MMJ play Freebird once before I die. Even if it means the band has to pretend to be Ruckus again, I want to see that sh*t.
Watchin' a stretch of road, miles of light explode. Driftin' off a thing I'd never done before. Watchin' a crowd roll in. Out go the lights it begins. A feelin' in my bones I've never felt before...
First day running on a track in 1 year, at noon, in full sun, on an empty stomach and a sleepless night - - -> very bad planning on my part. Sometimes the songs on my ipod are just a tad bit too motivating.
i always EYEROLL so big when jokesters scream out Freebird at shows. Its not funny, and neither are you. Usually its the same dude whose doin the air-guitar/air-drums/air-instruments.
The sole exception to this is when I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd. Everyone yelled Freebird.....and then they played it.
Post by bamadancer on Jul 30, 2008 13:43:57 GMT -5
Ugh, I feel like crap today Storytime though, this annoyed me last night...
I'm at the local martini bar last night, having a good time and listening to this piano player they have. He's kind of a creepy old guy, and hits on young girls, but he bought us free shots so I was dealing with it. Then he comes over to talk to us.
I ask him what he does, and he says he's a political consultant during the day. I think this is cool, since I'm a political science major, so I decide to ask him some stuff. He explains that he works for a national candidate, can't say who he works for but he votes the other way, yadda yadda yadda. Then he goes off on how "OMG DEMOCRATS ARE HORRIBLE THEY'RE SCREWING THE COUNTRY THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS RUINED EVERYTHING" etc etc etc. Needless to say, I'm slightly intoxicated and get involved. He's against universal health care because "other people aren't my responsibility". I explain to him that health care is a basic necessity, and we're the only first-world country without it. He gets into, "Well then how come canadians come to our country for surgery huh?" which is not a good argument, but anyway. He gets into birth control.
Now, this is my soapbox. I work in reproductive health. I start to tell him that birth control is basic health care, that every woman should be able to afford it. He says, "I shouldn't have to pay for when you can't be responsible enough to say no. Women back in my day could say no." Which, I told him, was complete bullshit, because just as many women got pregnant back then too.
Finally I get tired of dealing with this jerk, so I ask my friend to leave, because we had been wanting to leave anyway. THEN, THEN he has the nerve to put his hand on my back and go, "It's okay sweetie. I'm just glad you can talk about politics." Like he'd never heard a woman talk about politics before! THEN he called me sweetheart again! Ugh, I wanted to throw something at him. I mean, you deal with idiots every day, but good LORD this took the cake...how sexist!
Post by bamadancer on Jul 30, 2008 13:55:58 GMT -5
I just don't get the "other people aren't my responsibility" thing. I mean, I kind of understand it...but you can't go through life living that way. It's just kinda...sad.
I just don't get the "other people aren't my responsibility" thing. I mean, I kind of understand it...but you can't go through life living that way. It's just kinda...sad.
I get it - it is not my responsibility to suport people that won't get off their asses and support themselves. I can understand people needing welfare or food stamps for ashort period of time - BUT not for a life time - people should get out there - get a damn job - quit sleeping around having babies with 5 or 6 different men 1/2 of whom end up in jail and don't support their kids.
I work hard for my money and I should not have to support people who are not willing to work for anything.
As for universal health care - that is all fine and good - but it should not be an across the board thing - if I have the money and ability to pay for my own insurance - then let me so that I can choose who I go to for treatment and what treatments I deem necessary - it is not the government's business to do that. BUT - again - I should not have to pay for someone else who refuses to get off their ass, get an education and a job. If they want health insurance - they can damn well pay for it - quit giving the country away to people who refuse to work for anything they have and think they are entitled to a hand out just because they live here.
I just don't get the "other people aren't my responsibility" thing. I mean, I kind of understand it...but you can't go through life living that way. It's just kinda...sad.
Well tell him to pave his own f'in way to work then, because it's not my responsibility to pay for his road to work
I am a capitalist, don't get me wrong but the almighty dollar does not belong on the bottom tiers of Maslows Hierarchy
Also am I the only person who ever played sports...when you are on a TEAM everything works better, ie the Boston Celtics have a better chance at winning the gold then the "Dream Team" we have now...As my coach always said "It's not the 15 best, it's the best 15"
I'm the opposite of moderate, immaculately polished With the spirit of a hustler and the swagger of a college kid Allergic to the counterfeit, impartial to the politics Articulate but still would grab a ni**a by the colla quick
I just don't get the "other people aren't my responsibility" thing. I mean, I kind of understand it...but you can't go through life living that way. It's just kinda...sad.
I get it - it is not my responsibility to suport people that won't get off their donkeys and support themselves. I can understand people needing welfare or food stamps for ashort period of time - BUT not for a life time - people should get out there - get a damn job - quit sleeping around having babies with 5 or 6 different men 1/2 of whom end up in jail and don't support their kids.
I work hard for my money and I should not have to support people who are not willing to work for anything.
As for universal health care - that is all fine and good - but it should not be an across the board thing - if I have the money and ability to pay for my own insurance - then let me so that I can choose who I go to for treatment and what treatments I deem necessary - it is not the government's business to do that. BUT - again - I should not have to pay for someone else who refuses to get off their ass, get an education and a job. If they want health insurance - they can damn well pay for it - quit giving the country away to people who refuse to work for anything they have and think they are entitled to a hand out just because they live here.
Also am I the only person who ever played sports...when you are on a TEAM everything works better, ie the Boston Celtics have a better chance at winning the gold then the "Dream Team" we have now...As my coach always said "It's not the 15 best, it's the best 15"
This is what I've been trying to think of a way to say. If we don't help out the people who can't help themselves, the whole country suffers.
I get that there are people who abuse the system, but it doesn't make sense to base your opinion of the system on those people. Some people don't have the opportunity to get an education, and without an education it's damn hard to get a job that's worth more than a few bucks an hour (did you know that you have to have a 4-year degree to work at Enterprise?). And prices of everything are through the roof right now. It's hard enough to buy groceries on minimum wage, much less buy groceries, pay rent, buy gas, and hope to have a little bit left over for yourself at the end of the month. (Hell, I make a lot more than minimum wage, and there are plenty of months that I struggle with those things.) And without health insurance, you better pray to anything that will listen that you don't get sick or hurt because paying for healthcare is pretty much out of the question.
I'm just rambling, but my point is that there are plenty of people in the system who, through no fault of their own, couldn't survive without it, and who will continue for long periods of time to not be able to survive without it. I'd rather give up some of my money to take care of those people and improve our society as a whole than continue to let people suffer.
I get it - it is not my responsibility to suport people that won't get off their donkeys and support themselves. I can understand people needing welfare or food stamps for ashort period of time - BUT not for a life time - people should get out there - get a damn job - quit sleeping around having babies with 5 or 6 different men 1/2 of whom end up in jail and don't support their kids.
I work hard for my money and I should not have to support people who are not willing to work for anything.
As for universal health care - that is all fine and good - but it should not be an across the board thing - if I have the money and ability to pay for my own insurance - then let me so that I can choose who I go to for treatment and what treatments I deem necessary - it is not the government's business to do that. BUT - again - I should not have to pay for someone else who refuses to get off their ass, get an education and a job. If they want health insurance - they can damn well pay for it - quit giving the country away to people who refuse to work for anything they have and think they are entitled to a hand out just because they live here.
LOL - I don't hide who I am - I am a conservative and my money is my money and I work for the things I have - I don't stand around waiting for a hand out from the government.
I don't understand the "I don't think I should have to pay for people who refuse to work" argument. I don't think it is in anyones proposal for anyone to pay for people that do not deserve it. It seems like an obvious statement to me, heck, I don't want to pay for people that don't deserve it either..........who does? So, it comes down to, it's a good idea that the possibility to be a great solution to a large problem. Let's just concentrate on finding a way to make it work.
Post by bamadancer on Jul 30, 2008 16:08:58 GMT -5
I mean, I understand that there are people abuse the system. I agree with Flowers though...we need to help the people who can't help themselves. Not everybody can work. My aunt has cancer, and can't work. She can't afford her health insurance bills. My grandmother can't afford her groceries, yet she can't get food stamps. Hell, I can't even afford my birth control. You try as hard as you can but sometimes that's not good enough. And sometimes the government needs to help people out. If that requires me paying some extra money, then honestly I'm okay with that. I'd rather have 50 people have a better quality of life and me make a little less money than me make more money and have those people suffer just so I can afford nicer stuff. Because you don't really need all that stuff anyway...
God, I sound like such a liberal ;D lol
As far as the piano guy...I can deal with the whole rhetoric thing, it just made me mad that he felt that "paying for birth control" wasn't his "responsibility"...I'd hate to meet the woman who sleeps with him. He said it was a luxury, when in reality, it's basic health care.
And then he had the nerve to call me sweetheart. Twice. And touch me. Ughhhh.
Peanut butter and bananas > Peanut butter and jelly
G-d bless you for bring some humor to this...I know everybody gets tence...Karma for you (Although I don't like giving you 421...I'd rather stay on 420, but be a donkey to someone today so you can go back down)
People always remember the fastest way to win is to divide and conquer...
Anywhoo...how about this weather in Vegas it's like 115 today, geez
I'm the opposite of moderate, immaculately polished With the spirit of a hustler and the swagger of a college kid Allergic to the counterfeit, impartial to the politics Articulate but still would grab a ni**a by the colla quick
I'm the opposite of moderate, immaculately polished With the spirit of a hustler and the swagger of a college kid Allergic to the counterfeit, impartial to the politics Articulate but still would grab a ni**a by the colla quick