Guitar Snobs

[stubhead]

I have GOT to stop reading this thing....

I merely wish to address the "tragedy of being 13" meme that's flopping around here like a dying sea lion. Believe it or not - many people have also been 13, at one time or another in their shameful past.

Actually, WHEREVER YOU ARE, you are ARE SURROUNDED BY EX-13ers!


so the dilemma becomes:

A) What can you, actually, do about an infestation of 13er's? Even more:

B) Is it fully safe to believe that "being 13" is categorically equal to, "You Suck!"

Because if so, if you just look around you, and realize that... not only are YOU surrounded by ex-13ers who at one point categorically sucked, you can't... really... be... sure, that they don't STILL - HARBOR THOUGHTS of 13-ness! And even worse, you realize that... you... YOURSELF... Just.Might.ha... oh god no, that's why amnesia was INVENted. Whew.

http://www.warmoth.com/Gallery/#!/Strat/1

I can't believe somebody cloned a Hello Kitty Squire out of Warmoth bits. Phruckin' Canadians. Now, THAT's something to worry about, they're masters of disguise, the sneakiest ones can even talk proper American.

 

[mayfly]

I never liked Teles as a kid either.  I thought they were only for hillfolk for some reason.

Hey man, I'm from the prairies.  Not a hill in sight.

 

[Cagey]

I don't remember being 13, but then I have severe retrograde amnesia due to traumatic brain injury. Still, I'm quite confident I didn't suck. Much. Except, I think that's when I started smoking anything that would burn. I can't tell you how happy that's made me, and how unhappy it's made everyone else. Gotta love that.

Yeah, I'm a bitch. Who knew?

I do know that's about the age, give or take a few years, when you reach the age of reason and enter puberty. Makes you think you've got a lock on the world, and are discovering many things for the first time that nobody's ever known about before, like sex and drugs and rock and roll, right and wrong, life and death, and all manner of pithy subjects most adults have no clue about as they go about their oblivious lives.

Stupid humans.

So, no harm, no foul. We try to teach, but the lessons fall on deaf ears. Stove are never hot, paint is never wet, god is dead, and gravity only exists if you believe in it. For a while, anyway.

Let the kids have their fun. It's their last chance.

 

[mayfly]

I can't believe somebody cloned a Hello Kitty Squire out of Warmoth bits. Phruckin' Canadians. Now, THAT's something to worry about, they're masters of disguise, the sneakiest ones can even talk proper American.

We also need to talk about your unnatural fixation with Katy Perry, there buddy....

of course some of it I understand:

 

[Cagey]

She's a hot chick!
No, she's a dessert topping!

SHE'S BOTH!

 

[Updown]

Well she sure livens the thread up      :icon_biggrin:

 

[DangerousR6]

Mmmmmm, cupcakes... :laughing7:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

One thing's for sure.  When we 13, there was no internet to troll.

 

[Cagey]

Right. When I was 13, the closest thing to a network that existed was a mainframe with a bunch of teletypes hard-wired to it through RS-485 links communicating at the blinding speed of 110 baud, which isn't really a network at all.

Phbbt. 110 baud. Can you imagine? Most 3rd graders can read faster than that.

 

[pabloman]

And if you wanted to get picked on by old guys you had to sneak into a bar or something. arty07:

 

[Cagey]

Hehe! Yeah. Or be a paperboy.

 

[Great Ape]

Hey, whatsa matter with HILLS, anyway? I live on one-duzzat make me a "Hill People"?

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Lothar of the Hill People?

 

[hannaugh]

Not "hill people".  I used to live on hill too - a big tall one!  No, I mean Hilll-FOLK.  :laughing7:

For some reason I thought these people played Telecasters.  Stupid really.  I doubt they have any of that new-fangly E-Lec-Tricity with which to plug in a Tele. 

 

[Jumble Jumble]

She's a hot chick!
No, she's a dessert topping!

SHE'S BOTH!

Finally, someone who gets it.

 

[m4rk0]

With a heavy sigh, I find myself needing to stick up for artists whose work I don't even particularly like because, like it or not, your remarks are fallacious.

When I was 13... ok maybe a bit older, I was very upset for "inferior" artists getting more credit and more airplay than skilled musicians and original songwriters..

I was very annoyed when people really liked boring predictable pop songs and could not appreciate the music I was trying to get them to listen to!

Now I'm no longer 13 and I don't give a poop! I am definitely a music snob but I know there is no way I can talk a teenage girl out of enjoying Justin Beaver, or a middle aged housewife out of enjoying Adele.. or those people (whatever they are) who listen to Susan Boyle..

I consider myself to have a broad taste for all kinds of styles, but my favorite music is indeed prog... the ultimate music snob music! (like Jazz is the ultimate music for pretend music snobs)

 

[Johnny]

Right. When I was 13, the closest thing to a network that existed was a mainframe with a bunch of teletypes hard-wired to it through RS-485 links communicating at the blinding speed of 110 baud, which isn't really a network at all.

Phbbt. 110 baud. Can you imagine? Most 3rd graders can read faster than that.

You mean kind of like a double density disk drive the size of a washing machine with two spindles and each spindle held a whopping 7 MB!!!!  Yeah, I remember.  I also remember the old card readers, line printers and tape drives.  Those were actually mechanical marvels to me.

First place I worked had a 1000 sq ft raised floor computer room with special air conditioning, mainframe, console, line printer, tape drives, hard drives and card reader making up a very small fraction of the computing power of the cell phone I carry in my pocket.  Just amazing.

 

[jackthehack]

She's a hot chick!
No, she's a dessert topping!

SHE'S BOTH!

Finally, someone who gets it.

She's NOT hot.
She's homely.
She's fat.
What she attempts to pass off as "music" is banal, insipid pablum.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

It's like the last 10 pages never happened! I'll let someone else take this one...

 

[reluctant-builder]

She's a hot chick!
No, she's a dessert topping!

SHE'S BOTH!

Finally, someone who gets it.

She's NOT hot.
She's homely.
She's fat.
What she attempts to pass off as "music" is banal, insipid pablum.

Of course, an opinion, both stances ... but I can't agree with remarks that she is either homely or fat.

She looks like a mid-20th-Century pin-up with those doe eyes (a good thing, in my opinion), and she's got a nice set of cupcakes, for sure (also a good thing).

On the objective side: She's not remotely fat. Have you ever seen a fat person? Come on ...