Just how brilliantly awesome this man was
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Just how brilliantly awesome this man was
Some of his songs were good.
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Just how brilliantly awesome this man was
He could play guitar, but he was not my kind of music.
God, I couldn't get through that.
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God, I couldn't get through that.
Brother, I knew I couldn't either, so I didn't even try.
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God, I couldn't get through that.
LIES!
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God, I couldn't get through that.
LIES!
I never liked Prince's music, nor David Bowie's. I appreciate that they had talent, but my ears just don't like it.
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LIES!
I never liked Prince's music, nor David Bowie's. I appreciate that they had talent, but my ears just don't like it.
Old Brick was a Bowie fan. I don't know anyone else that likes Bowie's music.
Prince was okay. I think I actually liked two of his songs. That's about it.
A gal I dated off and on for a while was a big Prince fan and she dragged me to see 'Purple Rain' when it came out.
I think I ruined my chance to get back together with her when I fell asleep in the theater.
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A gal I dated off and on for a while was a big Prince fan and she dragged me to see 'Purple Rain' when it came out.
I think I ruined my chance to get back together with her when I fell asleep in the theater.
:roll: :roll: :roll:
Quote from: "Biggie Smiles" post_id=494227 time=1676510778 user_id=3214
Prince was okay. I think I actually liked two of his songs. That's about it.
Lol same. 3 max.
Party like its 1999 is prolly my fave lol.
The actual movie Purple Rain, even as a kid, ruined Prince for me.
Today's youngin's will never understand a fuck ton of what we had. I feel bad for these kids.
The video is not available... But Prince.
I can listen to some Prince... When the mood strikes.
I cant remember anything from Purple rain other than a beach and a motorcycle.
I believe the memory is from that movie.
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I never liked Prince's music, nor David Bowie's. I appreciate that they had talent, but my ears just don't like it.
Old Brick was a Bowie fan. I don't know anyone else that likes Bowie's music.
Me. Early stuff mostly, up to and including the Scary Monsters album. It tends to get a bit hit or miss for my tastes after that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo
...but he still managed to knock it out of the park on occasion.
As for Prince... yeah, the guy was an above average multi instrumentalist (alright, significantly above average) but I could say that about a number of musicians and probably there's a few people here who might agree with my choices. Thing is, as prolific as the guy was, I could probably be content with a personally curated "best of" his work and the only thing would be missing to complete it would be...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7CAt3LIxSI&list=PLDo07Ios8tCBtFuLhh8s5z3KCWn9dG6ad
I had two copies of this back in 1987, one of them pretty close to an original master. Still got it. Fuck knows what it's worth nowadays, but for me it's the best shit that midget dipped in a bucket of pubic hair ever produced.
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Today's youngin's will never understand a fuck ton of what we had. I feel bad for these kids.
Right? I swear my kids will "eww" everything from our generation.
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Today's youngin's will never understand a fuck ton of what we had. I feel bad for these kids.
Right? I swear my kids will "eww" everything from our generation.
My kids cant even fathom that we had to break out the big map books when we was going somewhere unknown and far away
They be looking at me all strange like "why you didn't just use the GPS on your phone"
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Today's youngin's will never understand a fuck ton of what we had. I feel bad for these kids.
Right? I swear my kids will "eww" everything from our generation.
Us 80's kids didnt know it at the time, but we were the last of the greatest. We were Gods lol.
Kids are trained to hate the old ways, cause it goes against the agenda.
And to think, these the brats that are suppose to wipe our asses when we get old :laugh: If they can get off their phone for 5 mins lol.
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Right? I swear my kids will "eww" everything from our generation.
My kids cant even fathom that we had to break out the big map books when we was going somewhere unknown and far away
They be looking at me all strange like "why you didn't just use the GPS on your phone"
We didnt even have cell phones :laugh:
Fuck, when I delivered pizza, if someone didnt answer the door, we had to find a pay phone to call them lol.
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My kids cant even fathom that we had to break out the big map books when we was going somewhere unknown and far away
They be looking at me all strange like "why you didn't just use the GPS on your phone"
We didnt even have cell phones :laugh:
Fuck, when I delivered pizza, if someone didnt answer the door, we had to find a pay phone to call them lol.
lol -- and you needed one of those big map books I'm betting
them shits was annoying as fuck
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Quote from: Blazor post_id=494285 time=1676566143 user_id=2221
We didnt even have cell phones :laugh:
Fuck, when I delivered pizza, if someone didnt answer the door, we had to find a pay phone to call them lol.
lol -- and you needed one of those big map books I'm betting
them shits was annoying as fuck
I delivered for Pizza Inn (Salem) between graduation and going to basic training.
Drove an old converted mail Jeep that had a map of our area laminated and glued to a tray next to the driver's seat.
It was fun but a bit top heavy... almost tipped it a couple times on sharp curves. LoL
I miss the old street directories for the ability to do your own route planning and not simply leave it to a computer to tell you where to go. The kids of today have been bred into being a bunch of conformist cabbage-craniumed cockmongling cuckpigs that need a good smack upside their moonfaced oblong shaped heads to think for themselves.
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Old Brick was a Bowie fan. I don't know anyone else that likes Bowie's music.
Me. Early stuff mostly, up to and including the Scary Monsters album. It tends to get a bit hit or miss for my tastes after that...
Maybe I never gave his music a fair shake. He kept changing his musicial style over his long career. It was hard to keep up with the guy.
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Me. Early stuff mostly, up to and including the Scary Monsters album. It tends to get a bit hit or miss for my tastes after that...
Maybe I never gave his music a fair shake. He kept changing his musicial style over his long career. It was hard to keep up with the guy.
Think of it more along the lines of "what new shit have you got for me this time". Some artists get accused of each new album sounding the same as their last - not a bad thing if you like familiar territory and I'd be lying if I said there weren't any examples of that in my collection, but I do appreciate a surprise, a bit of variety.
Prince did Prince. Frank Zappa did Frank Zappa. Robert Fripp did Robert Fripp. David Bowie did David Bowie. And so on. It earned them a lot of criticism, changing their entertainment chops up as they did, but it did earn them accolades in some quarters too. You know what you like; if there's anything in what any entertainer does that gets your foot tapping. it's worth it to you in the moment and so what if whatever comes next - you still have your enjoyment of what you *did* like.
I like continuity. If Ronnie had survived the plane crash and Skynyrd started doing hip hop, I sure as hell would not have listened to them. Not even their old shit that I like.
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I like continuity. If Ronnie had survived the plane crash and Skynyrd started doing hip hop, I sure as hell would not have listened to them. Not even their old shit that I like.
Yeah, I think we differ there. I've got a large-ish collection of Zappa I only listen to a quarter of, same with King Crimson, but only four albums I listen to with any sort of regularity. I poke no end of fun at The Wiggles which is pure cringe, but still enjoy dropping a Cockroaches record on the turntable at times. Deep Purple, Kraftwerk, Stranglers... I can still enjoy an artists former work long after they've started delving into genre's I don't necessarily want to hear.
And hip hop.... depends on how it's presented I guess. If it sounds interesting and not like a bunch of trucks reversing while some homo gibbers all angry and jealous about how many cocks his mother sucked, I might give it a cursory listen. There was a guy out of Fortitude Valley by the name of Eddie Jacobsen I didn't mind for instance, used to front a band called Butterfingers back in the day... I'll listen to that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9CWWSW7bfM
Funniest thing; if the pair of you sat down to yarn about it, you'd probably agree on the state of most hip hop. He can't stand much of the current stuff either.
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I miss the old street directories for the ability to do your own route planning and not simply leave it to a computer to tell you where to go. The kids of today have been bred into being a bunch of conformist cabbage-craniumed cockmongling cuckpigs that need a good smack upside their moonfaced oblong shaped heads to think for themselves.
I see no difference between paper or digital maps except you can find your exact location on digital via gps, if enabled.
We regularly have to receive privately created maps of state and national parks in order to work the tracks in exact manners, guidelines.
Sometimes we have both paper and digital for a track or tracks, but I suspect plotting way points digitally is a whole lot more believable than holding a length of string to the scale and measuring out windy kilometres worked, then later a snapshot of the string, for when payments need to be made.
Unless of course the world goes mad and emp balloons go off.... then paper is king.
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I miss the old street directories for the ability to do your own route planning and not simply leave it to a computer to tell you where to go. The kids of today have been bred into being a bunch of conformist cabbage-craniumed cockmongling cuckpigs that need a good smack upside their moonfaced oblong shaped heads to think for themselves.
I see no difference between paper or digital maps except you can find your exact location on digital via gps, if enabled.
We regularly have to receive privately created maps of state and national parks in order to work the tracks in exact manners, guidelines.
Sometimes we have both paper and digital for a track or tracks, but I suspect plotting way points digitally is a whole lot more believable than holding a length of string to the scale and measuring out windy kilometres worked, then later a snapshot of the string, for when payments need to be made.
Unless of course the world goes mad and emp balloons go off.... then paper is king.
And the people who can interpret it satisfactorily. Which as time goes on will become rarer and rarer as successive generations, used to being told where to go by an AI, lose the ability to understand how to use it.
A new old timey wimey telephone directory showed up in my mailbox yesterday. Blast from the past it was. And strangely enough, more easily nagigable than trying to ferret out local business names than Google, go figure.
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Quote from: Frood post_id=494361 time=1676615584 user_id=1676
I see no difference between paper or digital maps except you can find your exact location on digital via gps, if enabled.
We regularly have to receive privately created maps of state and national parks in order to work the tracks in exact manners, guidelines.
Sometimes we have both paper and digital for a track or tracks, but I suspect plotting way points digitally is a whole lot more believable than holding a length of string to the scale and measuring out windy kilometres worked, then later a snapshot of the string, for when payments need to be made.
Unless of course the world goes mad and emp balloons go off.... then paper is king.
And the people who can interpret it satisfactorily. Which as time goes on will become rarer and rarer as successive generations, used to being told where to go by an AI, lose the ability to understand how to use it.
A new old timey wimey telephone directory showed up in my mailbox yesterday. Blast from the past it was. And strangely enough, more easily nagigable than trying to ferret out local business names than Google, go figure.
Their process can't be perfected much more than how perfect it is now and after nearly a century of study.
I know this much, if I needed to take a shit in the outback, I'd much prefer to wipe my ass with a street directory than a Garmin.
I'd prefer Prince's ears or forearms... for the baby soft touch...
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We didnt even have cell phones :laugh:
Fuck, when I delivered pizza, if someone didnt answer the door, we had to find a pay phone to call them lol.
lol -- and you needed one of those big map books I'm betting
them shits was annoying as fuck
Nope, no map book. We had a huge map on the wall, and I would look up the street, and on the back of the customer ticket, I would right stuff like....
R Madison
L 10th
L Salem
And when I got there, if a customer didnt have their porch light on, and I knew it was their house, I would shine my half million candle power spotlight in to their windows, making them think the cops had arrived hahahaha. Porch light went on real quick :laugh:
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lol -- and you needed one of those big map books I'm betting
them shits was annoying as fuck
I delivered for Pizza Inn (Salem) between graduation and going to basic training.
Drove an old converted mail Jeep that had a map of our area laminated and glued to a tray next to the driver's seat.
It was fun but a bit top heavy... almost tipped it a couple times on sharp curves. LoL
Ha! I remember Pizza Inn!
I ordered from them ONE time, then never again lol. Took 2 1/2 hours to get my pizza. I wanted to try their Mexican pizza. It arrived cold, and didnt even have all the toppings on it.
With my Jeep, when I delivered, they knew I couldnt call out for snow lol. I'd be the only driver when it snowed, but I made MAD money lol.
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I miss the old street directories for the ability to do your own route planning and not simply leave it to a computer to tell you where to go. The kids of today have been bred into being a bunch of conformist cabbage-craniumed cockmongling cuckpigs that need a good smack upside their moonfaced oblong shaped heads to think for themselves.
:roll:
Hell yeah!!!
That was the beauty of back then, one could learn the shortcuts, hell.... learn the city! Now, they NEED GPS just to get to anywhere!
I was always the guy, that everyone called, and be like "where is such and such street?".
Quote from: Frood post_id=494361 time=1676615584 user_id=1676
Unless of course the world goes mad and emp balloons go off.... then paper is king.
I have maps just for that kind of scenario!!!
I have a US map of interstates, a map of the Blue Ridge Parkway, a map of my city, a map of West Virginia, and 3 forestry maps that are areas near here.
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I miss the old street directories for the ability to do your own route planning and not simply leave it to a computer to tell you where to go. The kids of today have been bred into being a bunch of conformist cabbage-craniumed cockmongling cuckpigs that need a good smack upside their moonfaced oblong shaped heads to think for themselves.
:roll:
Hell yeah!!!
That was the beauty of back then, one could learn the shortcuts, hell.... learn the city! Now, they NEED GPS just to get to anywhere!
I was always the guy, that everyone called, and be like "where is such and such street?".
I know what you mean. As a kid I used to love poring over the street directories of my city, by the time I hit adulthood you could have put me anywhere in the suburbs and within ten minutes I could have told you exactly where I was.
Quote from: Blazor post_id=494393 time=1676651320 user_id=2221
Ha! I remember Pizza Inn!
I ordered from them ONE time, then never again lol. Took 2 1/2 hours to get my pizza. I wanted to try their Mexican pizza. It arrived cold, and didnt even have all the toppings on it.
With my Jeep, when I delivered, they knew I couldnt call out for snow lol. I'd be the only driver when it snowed, but I made MAD money lol.
Must've been after my time.
I dogged that poor Jeep something fierce.
The only time I got delayed was when the Jeep died on me while out on a delivery.
Not because of anything I did, thank goodness, only because it was kinda old.
I got to know Salem pretty well at that time... knew lots of back streets and whatnot.
I've forgotten it all now though.
Nine state representatives voted against this. :2r4ml1j_th:
A bill from Democrat West Virginia Delegate Kayla Young would remove the ability of children under 16 years old to get married and of those from 16 to 17 years old to marry those who are more than four years older than they are.
House Bill 3018 eliminates current provisions that allow children under the age of 16 to be married so long as they have parental permission and approval by a circuit judge. The bill passed by a vote of 83-9 and will move to the desk of Governor Jim Justice.