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23 Jan 2020, 2:07 am

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23 Jan 2020, 2:13 am

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Artificially produced music especially pop country music which really isn't country music at all.


Define artificial.

No real instruments like for example real drum kits get replaced with drum machines.



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23 Jan 2020, 2:16 am

you mean like, electronic? synths and shiet?




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i still like old tangerine dream. (but they used real guitars a lot)


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23 Jan 2020, 1:45 pm

Dylanperr wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
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Artificially produced music especially pop country music which really isn't country music at all.


Define artificial.

No real instruments like for example real drum kits get replaced with drum machines.


A drum machine is a real instrument. Samplers and sequencers too.

Having made music where I performed guitar/bass/vocals/programming, music that was entirely synths and music that's entirely samples I can say with a fair amount of insight that they're all equally demanding in terms of creativity and skill.

The challenges are different, for sure, but insisting it isn't real music or lacks merit is just objectively incorrect. Among things, synthesizers, sequencers, samplers and drum machines show up in works by bands that are built around otherwise traditional instruments - does that make the act less musical or is it just another tool an artist can use to express what they wish to express?

Drum machines are great, it means you don't have to put up with a human drummer. Think about how many artists who are on the spectrum that enabled, there's a lot of weird loners making great music in their bedrooms, and loads more making music period. Drum machines enabled the one and two man band, ergo must be among the greatest inventions of the 20th century. Change my mind. Image


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23 Jan 2020, 10:32 pm

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military haircuts :eew:

Why do you say that?

IMHO they are FUGLY. only my personal opinion. if you like 'em, more power to you.



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17 Apr 2020, 3:03 pm

Targeted advertising. (Though it is sometimes fun to decorate your internet by messing with its mind....)


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17 Apr 2020, 3:27 pm

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17 Apr 2020, 3:32 pm

The feudal system.



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17 Apr 2020, 10:45 pm

things that stink.



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17 Apr 2020, 10:46 pm

things that sting.



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18 Apr 2020, 12:21 pm

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Mosquitos and fleas are both ectoparasites. Little things that feed off you from outside. And there are also endoparasites. Things like tape worms that feed off of you from inside.

And ...yes...if there is a god it IS baffling as to why he would create either ectoparasites or endoparasites.

It kinda makes sense that he would create plants to produce life, and herbivores (plant eating animals) to eat the plants, and even to create layers of predatory animals to feed on the herbivores, and or to feed on lesser predators. And for the grand finale he would create fungus to break everything down and return to the soil (for the plants to reuse).

But why parasites?

Why would God invent tape worms, mosqitos, and fleas?


He was in a bad mood.


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18 Apr 2020, 12:33 pm

The current "fashion" trend of women having lip injections that make them look like a dollar store-quality Bratz doll and long pointed fingernails that look like something out of a vampire B-movie. Seriously, how can they talk properly or pick up objects?



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18 Apr 2020, 2:14 pm

Jeans with holes ripped in them during manufacture for reasons of fashion. (Generally stitched by people who have holes in their clothes for reasons of poverty.) One day I'd like to take a pair of jeans, rip the seat out of them, hang them up in a shop and see if someone attempts to buy them.


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18 Apr 2020, 2:25 pm

Fashion. Invented to deprive the easily tricked of their hard earned money.



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19 Apr 2020, 12:38 am

high and tight haircuts.