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Old 03-12-2014, 12:35 PM   #101 (permalink)
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Of course, there was snow, and lots of it. That means skiing. Let me clear up these things:[/SIZE]
  • Not all Norwegians love skiing
  • For many, skiing is only tradition
  • Most Norwegians are only averagely skilled at skiing
The fact that most Norwegians have actually been skiing kind of reinforces whatever stereotype you're referring to (over here in America your country is so irrelevant that we don't have any stereotypes for you, like Uzbekistan or Lichtenstein).
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Old 03-12-2014, 02:56 PM   #102 (permalink)
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The fact that most Norwegians have actually been skiing kind of reinforces whatever stereotype you're referring to (over here in America your country is so irrelevant that we don't have any stereotypes for you, like Uzbekistan or Lichtenstein).
According to our stereotypes you're obese.
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Old 03-12-2014, 03:57 PM   #103 (permalink)
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According to our stereotypes you're obese.
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Old 03-13-2014, 09:28 AM   #104 (permalink)
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According to our stereotypes you're obese.
That's what happens when you eat food other than herring and sheep heads.
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That's what happens when you eat food other than herring and sheep heads.
It's not metal, though
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Old 03-13-2014, 10:12 AM   #106 (permalink)
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It's not metal, though
Eating all the food so that African children have to eat their own tears is metal as ****.
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Old 03-13-2014, 01:48 PM   #107 (permalink)
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Briks' Green Day thing





“Hyped, commercialized, excessively marketed pop punk aimed at kids like me, but scene of course”. If I randomly came up to you and said that, would you think of Green Day, or would you think of Blink-182 and then Green Day?

There are some very mixed opinions on the band. I'd say there are three types of people:
  • Those who would say “yeah, American Idiot's pretty good”
  • Those who would say “Hah, they suck ass, go listen to some proper music, like Bon Jovi”
  • Those who would say “Their first two/three/four albums are amazing, but I want to buy a thousand copies of everything that comes after just so I can burn them all
Unfortunately, I'm among the latter, but I can only afford one copy of each album. Anyway, the problem isn't that I dislike cheese. Cheese can be fun. My problem is with cheese trying to be serious, thus coming off as pretentious. Therefore, I gave 21st Century Breakdown a 2/5 review. Then there's Kerplunk. It's got the hooks and angsty lyrics of pop punk, but compared to everything that came after, it's unpolished and independent, so you don't get the feeling that they're doing it all for the money, you know? Even if you don't like Green Day, and not even their earlier releases, I hope you can understand why I like this...



better than this.



Sure, the latter is okay, but it seems pretentious to me; I can't listen to it and take it seriously, know what I'm saying?
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Old 03-13-2014, 02:27 PM   #108 (permalink)
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Hm. I really don't know what to think of Green Day.
I liked the old, more punky n experimental stuff, when I was young,
but I haven't really listened to them for a long while.

Then there was this American Idiot thing,
and yeah... the lyrics sucked, the music was actually ok.
But your first example is fine
And I think there's no person alive who wouldn't understand why this is better than the second ...thing
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Old 03-13-2014, 10:38 PM   #109 (permalink)
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Briks, you've got a nice point there.
I am not a huge fan, but I liked some of the Green Day songs.
Though I see the change in style a bit, I haven't got any real preferences.
Not very educated in that genre, to be honest!
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Chunks of metal: fusion metal



Artist: Pantera
Album: Far Beyond Driven
Year: 1994
Chronological position: Seventh, though I'm sure they wish it was their third
Genre: Groove metal
Expectations before listening: I don't know, something mediocre, perhaps

"Briks, you're increasing my blood pressure," you say. "Groove metal is not a fusion genre". What do you mean, is it not a fusion between groove and metal? Oh, well. The only reason we're using the fusion tag at all, is because we needed a place to dump nu, goth, groove, folk, prog and every other subgenre/fusion genre that doesn't deserve it's own chunk because it's either:
  • Said to be crap (nu metal)
  • Not large or important enough to take up 1/6th of this section
Anyway, my opinion on this album... I'd heard Cowboys from Hell and A Vulgar Display of Power already, and now I've heard this. I don't even know how to properly rank the albums, because they sound too similar to me, and I feel no need to concentrate on hearing them again. That's because I think Pantera is a bit bland. This album sounds, to me, exactly like A Vulgar Display of Power, maybe just a bit louder. But if you're reading this before hearing the album, keep in mind that I've only heard it in its entirety once, and that the same goes for the two preceding it, so feel free to judge my right to judge.

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