Hair swirling bands DO NOT belong in PA

The Doctor wrote: bluetailfly wrote: Gentle Ronnie wrote: What are you, nazi? No, I'm not a nazi, whatever the hell that means... You know.  Hitler, 60 years or so ago.  World War II.  It was a big deal back in the forties.  Ask anyone with a Jewish heritage and they'll tell you all about it.  Or ask Americans, French, Brits.  It was a really big deal.  Perhaps you should try to stay awake through your 8th grade civics class.

My good Doctor,

I know what a nazi is; I just had no idea what Gentle Ronnie meant when he called me one in that context...it's a rather complex and politically-charged term to throw at someone who is merely opining that windmill headbanging is a goofy-looking spectacle.

Alagithil wrote: What you fail to realize, my good bluetailfly, is that windmill headbanging is an old and hallowed practice going back to the classical age: Plato condoned it, it was a massive influence on the Renaissance thinkers of the 16th-17th century, and the work of such composers as Bach, Beethoven, and Haydn could not have flourished without the enlightened practice of windmill headbanging. So it seems that the very sources whence progressive rock musicians draw inspiration did inevitably also pass down as the birthright of intelligent people the world over what you have so ignorantly termed as "hair swirling".   Which means that I am right, your opinions are all sad trash, and you owe me a Coke.

As for you, Alaigithil <---??? Is that name from Battlestar Galactica?

I defy you to show me a woodcut, or tapestry, or cave painting, or aged oil-painted canvas, or a textual citation from any of the thinkers you mention above that depicts a unison windmill headbang (which is really what we're talking about here; I know Plant and many other greats have thrown their hair around in defiantly cool ways; but never did they line up and in unison lower their heads and swirl their hair like some kind of girly teen act).

If the Spice Girls want to unison swirl, I say go for it, I look forward to checking it out. But if a group of musicians do it and seriously mean it, well they've just demonstrated a fundamental lack of taste, a lack so fundamental that it must necessarily affect all facets of their lives, including their music.

So that being said, you still must prove your point, my TV sci fi fan, and sure I'll give you a Coke, what the hell, I'm a good fellow.

bluetailfly wrote: Alagithil wrote: What you fail to realize, my good bluetailfly, is that windmill headbanging is an old and hallowed practice going back to the classical age: Plato condoned it, it was a massive influence on the Renaissance thinkers of the 16th-17th century, and the work of such composers as Bach, Beethoven, and Haydn could not have flourished without the enlightened practice of windmill headbanging. So it seems that the very sources whence progressive rock musicians draw inspiration did inevitably also pass down as the birthright of intelligent people the world over what you have so ignorantly termed as "hair swirling".   Which means that I am right, your opinions are all sad trash, and you owe me a Coke. As for you, Alaigithil <---??? Is that name from Battlestar Galactica? I defy you to show me a woodcut, or tapestry, or cave painting, or aged oil-painted canvas, or a textual citation from any of the thinkers you mention above that depicts a unison windmill headbang (which is really what we're talking about here; I know Plant and many other greats have thrown their hair around in defiantly cool ways; but never did they line up and in unison lower their heads and swirl their hair like some kind of girly teen act). If the Spice Girls want to unison swirl, I say go for it, I look forward to checking it out. But if a group of musicians do it and seriously mean it, well they've just demonstrated a fundamental lack of taste, a lack so fundamental that it must necessarily affect all facets of their lives, including their music. So that being said, you still must prove your point, my TV sci fi fan, and sure I'll give you a Coke, what the hell, I'm a good fellow.

FYI, my name is from a website that converted my name into Elvish. Whereas yours is from a minstrel show song, performed by people who put black makeup on, made fun of slaves, and, significantly, never swirled their hair in unison. I rest my case.

Wait, no, I don't. As to textual citations, Plato wrote, "Wise men windmill headbang because they have someone to impress, fools because they have to impress someone," and Shakespeare wrote, "This above all; to thine windmill headbanging be true; and then it must follow, as the braid the head, Thou canst not be lame to any man."

As to taste, taste is a highly subjective thing, something which no one person can determine; it is not clear cut. Who can tell what has taste and what hasn't? Also, you have no taste. You owe me two Cokes, a Dr. Pepper, a half-eaten Swiss cheese, and a fart in your general direction.

P.S. For the elvish name converter, I had to include my middle name; initially, my Elvish name was Jon Anderson.