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Wut?!ugo.santalucia said:
Or covering floor boards with carpet to hide the woodworms
things like that
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Everyone else read that in a Mario Bros Italian accent?ugo.santalucia said:Do yourself a favour, once the pandemic is over, go to Naples... but it has to be Naples, not Milan or Venice... only in Naples you get the real pizza
Just me?
Ok“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
It's the only reason I carpet my concrete slab floor.rjsterry said:
Wut?!ugo.santalucia said:
Or covering floor boards with carpet to hide the woodworms
things like that
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The arms of cycling glasses are more comfortable and look better when tucked inside helmet straps.0
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b..b..b..bu...but, how will the sponsor's logo be seen from the moto-cam?bompington said:The arms of cycling glasses are more comfortable and look better when tucked inside helmet straps.
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The rules are a once mildly amusing, now ridiculous code that people take far too seriously and actually live by.2
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Punk music is over rated and a big bag of meh.0
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You become much wiser from reading things on Bikeradar.0
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Don't think it's an unpopular opinion to hold. The point of punk though wasn't that it had much musical integrity, but that it was the perfect antidote to over indulgent prog rock with Rick Wakeman and his 30 minute keyboard solos and the commercial bland sh1te that people like Rod Stewart had started pumping out when he stopped being cool and became a parody of himself.verylonglegs said:Punk music is over rated and a big bag of meh.
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Much of it doesn't stand the test of time but it surprises me how musical some of it is and it was definitely of it's time. Cue John Lydon - "Ah but now, And we don't care"verylonglegs said:Punk music is over rated and a big bag of meh.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Exactly. And not liking punk music is not an unpopular opinion by design. Punk's raison d'etre was to be the non-mainstream/anti-establishment, ie unpopular, option. (I realize this is basically paraphrasing shortfall's point.)0
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Did any of you ever buy a punk record.0
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Cats are adorable cute things.0
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Many.webboo said:Did any of you ever buy a punk record.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Somehow I pictured you all as 40 + not late 50’s0
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Not sure where to put this. Just read an extraordinary piece on London in the DT by Allister Heath, talking about how the importance of working from offices has diminished.
"Fewer people will need to live in or as close to London. The trade-offs that dictate life-choices will have shifted radically. The demographic shock to the capital will be devastating, and will soon turn into a vicious circle. As bankers, lawyers and professionals with families move out, the quality of schools will deteriorate, chasing away yet more families. London will become a younger city, hostile to the middle aged and the old; as the prices and rents of many sorts of properties in certain areas fall, this trend will be exacerbated further. The capital will become populated by people who make an explicit choice to live there for non-economic reasons. Left-wingers will gravitate towards it, and Tories will flee. Its politics will become ever more Corbynite. In turn, this will further chase away the prosperous and foreign investment.
"London will soon see itself pitted in a permanent culture war against Tory Britain: many of the companies and institutions based in the capital will fully embrace the woke agenda. The BBC will become even more radical: if their senior executives only live with other like-minded people, they will find it even harder to understand other perspectives.
"So far, the Government has failed to understand any of this, and is making a terrible situation worse. It has colluded with Sadiq Khan and power-hungry councils to push through policies seemingly designed to persecute Tory voters. The war on cars, which has led to many roads being shut, has infuriated thousands. Why are ministers fomenting gilet-jaune style agitation in peaceful suburbs? Why do they want to make school choice impossible, or make it harder for families to visit each other? The idea of 15-minute neighbourhoods is the product of hard-Left, anti-mobility, environmental extremists, effectively locking people into their local areas: the worst of village life combined with the worst of the urban existence. It will help make London a paradise for spoilt young Corbynites – as it already has in Paris – and a nightmare for families, for the old and for a swathe of the working class, who will flee."
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Yes, although it was the tail end as I'm only youngwebboo said:Did any of you ever buy a punk record.
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Punk music is the only music worth listening to... it did stand the test of time, unlike the other stuff of the same period like Yes and King Crimsonleft the forum March 20231
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Certain aspects didn't. Spitting?ugo.santalucia said:Punk music is the only music worth listening to... it did stand the test of time, unlike the other stuff of the same period like Yes and King Crimson
Thing being that it wasn't just the music, it was a culture.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
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Jazz is f*cking sh!t and people who think it is music are taking the p!ss.
Way too far on the "random bunch of notes" end of the musical spectrum (with a single repetitive noise at the other end)0 -
I am a not very capable musician, but I know enough to recognise that a lot of jazz is a) very clever, and b) played very skilfully.rick_chasey said:Jazz is f*cking sh!t and people who think it is music are taking the p!ss.
Way too far on the "random bunch of notes" end of the musical spectrum (with a single repetitive noise at the other end)
What gets me is that all this skill and cleverness ends up producing something that just sounds like noise.0 -
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I am a not very capable musician, but I know enough to recognise that a lot of jazz is a) very clever, and b) played very skilfully.rick_chasey said:Jazz is f*cking sh!t and people who think it is music are taking the p!ss.
Way too far on the "random bunch of notes" end of the musical spectrum (with a single repetitive noise at the other end)
What gets me is that all this skill and cleverness ends up producing something that just sounds like noise.
Pretty much genres of music can be sublime or utter shît. Jazz is no different, especially when the players are simply playing with themselves (there's a word for that) and trying to show off to each other, and forget that they need to communicate something other than what they perceive to be their own cleverness to each other.
To take one example of what I'd call jazz genius, here's Oscar Peterson and his trio weaving a tale from the very simplest of materials, where the cleverness and skill are at the service of communicating, not an end in themselves.
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Some acid jazz isn't bad.0
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I had a music teacher at school (a very loooong time ago) who opened the ears and minds of a bunch of 13-14yos into hard rock and blues by introducing us to Oscar Peterson and explaining (I guess in elementary terms) what was happening. That learning stuck.0
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Punk was attractive for many reasons, probably the main one is that it is a simple riff, one which is very effective and stays in your head... then of course the lyrics resonate.
Jazz is the exact opposite, over complicated and impersonalleft the forum March 20232 -
Honestly, blows my mind people think this is anything other than musac for a second rate hotel.briantrumpet said:bompington said:
I am a not very capable musician, but I know enough to recognise that a lot of jazz is a) very clever, and b) played very skilfully.rick_chasey said:Jazz is f*cking sh!t and people who think it is music are taking the p!ss.
Way too far on the "random bunch of notes" end of the musical spectrum (with a single repetitive noise at the other end)
What gets me is that all this skill and cleverness ends up producing something that just sounds like noise.
Pretty much genres of music can be sublime or utter shît. Jazz is no different, especially when the players are simply playing with themselves (there's a word for that) and trying to show off to each other, and forget that they need to communicate something other than what they perceive to be their own cleverness to each other.
To take one example of what I'd call jazz genius, here's Oscar Peterson and his trio weaving a tale from the very simplest of materials, where the cleverness and skill are at the service of communicating, not an end in themselves.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJhHn-TuDY0
