The Ranting Room

Maybe Americans  can have their own ranting thread? 

This may be a tired and tried one, but I'm here to rant about it anyway - the Christianity-promoting f$%kers. The other day I had a middle-age a$$%#le coming over to me, said something, and gave me a pamphlet about some church. Surely it's a small thing. It gets worse. Some girl was shouting at the top of her lungs on the local university campus, saying something about god and sin and us and s$%t. I just shut my ears and ------ - --- --- -------- ------, - ----- ---- - --------, --- - ----- ---- -- ---- -- --- ----- --- -- ----- ---- --- ---. Then there's this a$$%&le (these pictures are also posted in a couple of other threads ... eh ...):

Edited by Dayvenkirq - June 09 2013 at 04:51

Finnforest wrote: I can't remember the last time I've encountered a stapler that works consistently well.

I have. After years of fighting with staplers that jam or fold the staples in on themselves (you know, when they end up looking like a squished letter "w") and generally fail to staple together more than 4 sheets of paper without mangling the staple and the corner of the page, or worse still, just puncture vampyre tooth-marks in the corner of half the pages while the remainder are untouched (and thus unattached), I have finally found one that works - and even works on documents that are more than 10 pages.

This is probably a common rant, but here it is anyway. I cannot stand mainstream indie (mainstream indie because I haven't dug hugely into anything hugely underground in the indie scene) rock. Stuff like Neon Trees, Local Natives, Arcade FIre and Vampire Weekend. It just sounds so dispassionate and lame. The vocalist never belts out and uses all of his throat, but just kind of disconnectedly mumbles all the verses in lyrics that are completely nonsensical in an attempt to be deep. The bass is usually inaudible, the drummer plays a single pattern for the whole song and the guitarist strums a long pattern of one or two single notes. Sometimes with a band like arcade fire you'll get different instruments (arcade fire has 15 members or something) but you'll have some weird instrument play one note the entire album as an attempt to be 'avant-garde'. I'm not expecting every band to be like Behemoth or produce a multilayered prog epic, but very simple music can be some of the most passionate like blues, punk and even some of inde rock's contemporaries in the indie folk scene like Fleet Foxes, The Decembrists and Bon Iver. 

But perhaps the thing that gets me most about this stuff is the band and their fans will try to pass it off as 'sophisticated' or 'avant-garde'. Sure, I can't stand listening to top 40 pop, party hip hop or scenecore emo, but those bands aren't trying to bs me over what they are. I get exactly what I expect to get. But no, with an indie band the description is always like 'well, we take influence from the late pavement and mix it with world folk, post-punk and our sound resolves with echoes of freak folk and early psychedelia' and then they end up sounding like every other indie band. It doesn't realize that it's making pop music too, very few riffs and a basic chorus-verse structure and some of it's fans try to pass it off like it's experimental classical it's the most infuriating thing ever. Between this indie crap, emo rock and post grunge, what happened to rock just having fun? It's become so whiny, self important and pretentious. This said, I do like The black keys and The Flaming Lips.

Edited by Evangelion2014 - June 07 2013 at 02:10

Agree with Dean. sh*t idea and little more than a cynical revenue raiser.

I see the Government are planning to fine middle lane hoggers.

Edited by chopper - June 05 2013 at 06:38

HolyMoly wrote: AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: Really annoying that tonight on the reality TV show Changing Rooms, when the couple were walking thru the rooms and amiring the renovations from the other couple, the guy did not say hardly a word, What made it worse is that when the blonde girl spoke her first words were always "Oh my God!" I kid you not, she never wavered, next room she sees the wallpaper "Oh my God!", then walks in the bathroom, nice shower "Oh my God!", then walks in the bedrom, sees the nice pillows "Oh my God!" then into the lounge room, sees the flat screen TV mounted, "Oh... my.... God!" What is her problem anyway.... She has no imagination and sounds like a bloody broken record, actually she sounds like a freaking moron! And she mentions God like He's her best friend and she doesn't give a toss about God anyway. Just makes my blood boil the way these people just Sl*g off God every chance they get without a moments thought. And the TV producers call this family entertainment, when I have to constantly cringe when my kids hear all this blasphemy... sure its better than saying Jesus as a swear word but its still not good enough... politically correct society and yet people still get off on sl*g.ing off God. Pass me the dang remote... mute button! Ah thats better!!! That tendency has always bugged me too. It's so trite and predictable.  It makes me wonder if the contestants on the show are coached beforehand to say that stuff.  Just once I'd like to hear, "hey, that's not bad!", or "I am surprised at how good this looks!"  Ok that last one sounds a bit stilted. And as for the men on those shows, I get the feeling that when they do open their mouths to talk, they're just saying stuff that they think they're supposed to say.  Because most guys don't give a crap about pillows and curtains.

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: Really annoying that tonight on the reality TV show Changing Rooms, when the couple were walking thru the rooms and amiring the renovations from the other couple, the guy did not say hardly a word, What made it worse is that when the blonde girl spoke her first words were always "Oh my God!" I kid you not, she never wavered, next room she sees the wallpaper "Oh my God!", then walks in the bathroom, nice shower "Oh my God!", then walks in the bedrom, sees the nice pillows "Oh my God!" then into the lounge room, sees the flat screen TV mounted, "Oh... my.... God!" What is her problem anyway.... She has no imagination and sounds like a bloody broken record, actually she sounds like a freaking moron! And she mentions God like He's her best friend and she doesn't give a toss about God anyway. Just makes my blood boil the way these people just Sl*g off God every chance they get without a moments thought. And the TV producers call this family entertainment, when I have to constantly cringe when my kids hear all this blasphemy... sure its better than saying Jesus as a swear word but its still not good enough... politically correct society and yet people still get off on sl*g.ing off God. Pass me the dang remote... mute button! Ah thats better!!!

That tendency has always bugged me too. It's so trite and predictable.  It makes me wonder if the contestants on the show are coached beforehand to say that stuff.  Just once I'd like to hear, "hey, that's not bad!", or "I am surprised at how good this looks!"  Ok that last one sounds a bit stilted.

Edited by HolyMoly - May 25 2013 at 12:15

Another rant before I head off!

Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - May 25 2013 at 10:03

Ah yes I remember this odd little room... Though I rarely rant unless its something i am passionate about, such as annoying telemarketers!