An actual response to what I said would have been preferable to a deflection.


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You DO realize you're derailing your credibility as a member deserving of any sort of respect here, correct?

Baggs is certain Baggs garners the respect of them that matter.

Not sure however if any matter here on this specific forum.

Thats the trouble with the internet - you dont know who you are addressing.

Could be adults, could be junior keeners.

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Perplexed.
Help me.

So then posters here are not encouraged to enthuse over what they deem merits listening?

Whats the alternative you propose??

On the internet, it doesn't matter whether you're addressing adults or "junior keeners"... Either one has the capacity to contribute something worthwhile, or completely ridiculous. If you focus less on who you're addressing, and more on what you're putting out there, I think you'll do a lot better. Regardless of who ends up respecting it or not.

The fact is, at this forum, I know the majority of people here respond better to content that isn't aimed at insulting their intelligence or tastes. You can place yourself as high as you want, but in reality, you won't be looking down on very many people here. This forum is comprised of some of the most intelligent and open-minded people I've ever come across, and I'm only 30. You can choose to view this as either a testament to my personal characteristics, or the characteristics of the community as a whole. Either is fine. But you do lose something pretty vital when you choose to see yourself above all. I won't insult your position by specifying what that is, because I'm sure you already know.
And no, it's not respect.

Open-mindedness is over-rated.
Why should one be open-minded to something one considers shoite-taste.

Thats just being disingenuous to the Self.

Sentence structure exhibited above is somehow giving Janszoon a headache.Is there backwards masking hidden there somehow? Or is it just bad grammar.

Well, for one, you're being closed-minded to things you haven't even heard before. I'm not sure how you're able to carve out a perspective for yourself when you're only getting a small portion of the facts.

I'm saying that in relation to your comment about, and I'm paraphrasing, "50 percent of the stuff I see here, I haven't heard of, but I'm assuming I won't like it anyway."
Sounds to me like you either know your self truth is really limited, or you're just ignorant of anything outside your own little bubble. If it's the latter, and you're happy, then that's great. No problem. But when you act like your little bubble floats higher than all the others, you can see how little your opinions are going to be taken seriously, given the fact that you know nothing about anything outside of it.

How can one NOT experience reggae, supermarket muzak ,hiphoppery, metal...ad nauseum.
I mean really! ITS EVERYWHERE, right?

Baggs be glad Baggs is not in a job position where Baggs is forced to listen to all that. (Baggmaster used to work in a laboratory. Baggs was immature then and used to have obnoxious, foul-mouthed aggression-music playing loud all the time: German Sheperds,Lydia Lunch,Crass,Karen Finlay, Butthole Surfers and all that. One evening the president of the company (whom rarely ever entered the plant) makes a surprize visit showing some knob a tour - once Gorbachev went through!. Just then I had some noiseband on loud and the singer is frothing at the mouth going on how much he wants to kill the martinet-boss! Baggs was clear at the other end of the lab and could not get to the boombox to shut the "music" off. The president just shakes his head and smiles. Baggs feared getting a "call-in" the next day, but thankfully nothing at all developed.)

So then, yes I DO know the "silly" musics. And, just like yourself - and to quote Genesis: "I damn well know what I like."

(When one of my guitar heros, Jan Akkerman, totally ruined a solo album of his by doing a reggae version of "All Along The Watchtower"(!!!) that was something not to be forgiven.)