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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 15, 2014 20:25:29 GMT
If they truly can sing and need to tell their sob story, why not just write a song about it like everyone else with musical talent does? There's nothing new and innovative about it, I'll be the first to admit, but at least it becomes "entertaining" in some way. Ummm, you just described Taylor Swift's creative process. She has been quoted that when she writes it's like she's writing in her diary. Oh yeah, don't date her because she'll just write a song to bash you after you leave her... |
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 16, 2014 1:10:07 GMT
If they truly can sing and need to tell their sob story, why not just write a song about it like everyone else with musical talent does? There's nothing new and innovative about it, I'll be the first to admit, but at least it becomes "entertaining" in some way. Ummm, you just described Taylor Swift's creative process. She has been quoted that when she writes it's like she's writing in her diary. Oh yeah, don't date her because she'll just write a song to bash you after you leave her... That describes the creative process of many others than Taylor Swift. She's just not as subtle as most when it comes to who or what she's talking about. |
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Post by the light works on Jan 16, 2014 3:58:33 GMT
Back-Stories. Its starting to get beyond a joke now?... If you can "sing", you can sing. You are not going to get any vote at all, but dont expect an ounce of "Support" because you have a sad story to tell... If I watch a talent show, I want to see people who are REALLY good at what they do... I dont want to have to sit there "With a box of tissues", listening to sob stories?.... We all suffer sh-1-t in our lives, for an instance as one of the many, I lost my Dad before he was 70, way way way to early, but I didnt jump on a talent show and use THAT as a sympathy vote to get me to the finals.... Neither did a great many people in the world. Cut the back-story, lets see the talent, and those that "Think" they can sing but are just as awful as my dog are more entertaining than me having to fast>>fwd through all the dross. If they truly can sing and need to tell their sob story, why not just write a song about it like everyone else with musical talent does? There's nothing new and innovative about it, I'll be the first to admit, but at least it becomes "entertaining" in some way. that's not exclusive to those with musical talent. |
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 16, 2014 13:33:56 GMT
And American Dullard had its season premiere last night. The wife sent me a text while I was in class last night to verify that it was being recorded...
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Post by freegan on Jan 16, 2014 18:25:25 GMT
And American Dullard had its season premiere last night. The wife sent me a text while I was in class last night to verify that it was being recorded... Is your wife under the impression that you're a masochist? |
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 16, 2014 21:52:49 GMT
And American Dullard had its season premiere last night. The wife sent me a text while I was in class last night to verify that it was being recorded... Is your wife under the impression that you're a masochist? There are so many inappropriate places I could go with a response... But, short/PG-rated answer is: My mother-in-law lives with us, what do you think?!  |
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Post by freegan on Jan 16, 2014 22:18:22 GMT
Is your wife under the impression that you're a masochist? There are so many inappropriate places I could go with a response... But, short/PG-rated answer is: My mother-in-law lives with us, what do you think?! You have my sympathies.  |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 17, 2014 7:39:13 GMT
I am assigning the blubber (canadian singist wot likes celebrity snow) a spot high up on the wall where light doesnt get in the furthest recesses of the room, behind the obligatory elephant statue we keep here.
His name now no longer exists, he can only be refereed to as "That brat", or "The Blubber", to stop any mention of him on here being searchable by google or the like, thus he stops getting publicity.....
From now on, any item mentioning him by name on the board must have his name replaced with "The Brat", or "The Blubber", we all know who he is, we all decry his antics, so help stamp out his name being used.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 17, 2014 13:45:18 GMT
"He who's name we shall not speak"?
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 18, 2014 9:01:06 GMT
"So"
So it has become recently "Fashionable" to start each conversation, answer, or sentence with the word "So"
So its beginning to annoy me.
Instance, game show host: Tell us a little about youself?.
Contestant : So I do a little for the local Football team....
Soap I suggest it has a place here. {Can we wash it out of their vocabulary?..)
Well, thats got that out of the way.
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Post by freegan on Jan 18, 2014 9:49:31 GMT
"So" So it has become recently "Fashionable" to start each conversation, answer, or sentence with the word "So" So its beginning to annoy me. Instance, game show host: Tell us a little about youself?. Contestant : So I do a little for the local Football team.... Soap I suggest it has a place here. {Can we wash it out of their vocabulary?..) Well, thats got that out of the way. What about "Well"?  |
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Post by the light works on Jan 18, 2014 9:51:57 GMT
"So" So it has become recently "Fashionable" to start each conversation, answer, or sentence with the word "So" So its beginning to annoy me. Instance, game show host: Tell us a little about youself?. Contestant : So I do a little for the local Football team.... Soap I suggest it has a place here. {Can we wash it out of their vocabulary?..) Well, thats got that out of the way. add "like" and "you know" |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 18, 2014 9:53:19 GMT
What about well?.. its a hole you get water from?....
Or do you mean starting a sentence with it?...
Its not so bad as so.
So, Well, like, you know Perhaps that should be thought through then?...
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Post by the light works on Jan 18, 2014 9:58:19 GMT
What about well?.. its a hole you get water from?.... Or do you mean starting a sentence with it?... Its not so bad as so. So, Well, like, you know Perhaps that should be thought through then?... but at the height of its fashion, "like" was being used multiple times per sentence. years ago, I listened to a critique from a guy who abused "um" so badly, I can say for certain, barring memory error, that he used various inflections of "um" 28 times during the critique. |
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Post by freegan on Jan 18, 2014 11:03:37 GMT
What about well?.. its a hole you get water from?.... Or do you mean starting a sentence with it?... Its not so bad as so. So, Well, like, you know Perhaps that should be thought through then?... In speech, these words are often used to insert a pause in the speaker's thought process whilst they consider what to say next. (I used to overuse "Actually" at the start of speech and meaningless guttural sounds like "aah","um" and "er" within spoken sentences ... actually, I still do ) I agree that, in written form they are redundant but not as annoying as the absolute lack of any punctuation or incoherently expressed thoughts transcribed to text. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 18, 2014 11:21:06 GMT
I have seen this happen, and wondered.
I have tried to re-read what has been written.
I end up demanding my time back.
If I just spent 10 mins trying to decipher what you wrote and it doesnt make sense, why did you write it down anyway?...I must presume it was to annoy, so in that case, I want my time back.
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Post by the light works on Jan 18, 2014 14:10:46 GMT
What about well?.. its a hole you get water from?.... Or do you mean starting a sentence with it?... Its not so bad as so. So, Well, like, you know Perhaps that should be thought through then?... In speech, these words are often used to insert a pause in the speaker's thought process whilst they consider what to say next. (I used to overuse "Actually" at the start of speech and meaningless guttural sounds like "aah","um" and "er" within spoken sentences ... actually, I still do ) I agree that, in written form they are redundant but not as annoying as the absolute lack of any punctuation or incoherently expressed thoughts transcribed to text. if there was any evidence that they actually USED the pause to think about the next thing that was coming out of their mouths, it might be forgivable, but so many of them don't seem to do that. |
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Post by Lokifan on Jan 18, 2014 19:19:19 GMT
So, um...err...Actually...like...uh...well...  Don't forget the ever popular "Y'know?" |
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 18, 2014 23:54:47 GMT
My girlfriend has a nasty habit along those lines. When she's recounting a conversation between herself and someone else, she starts almost every sentence with "then I said" and finishes every sentence with "I said", so it comes out:
"Then I said, Mom!, I said. Why don't you call the doctor?, I said. Then I said, you need to talk to him about this, I said."
I've mentioned it to her so many times and she tries to not do it, but she's been doing it since she was a little girl, so it's just a reflex now. A REALLY annoying reflex!
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 19, 2014 4:35:56 GMT
So, yeah, I, umm, uhh...then I said, you know...
"You know what I'm talking about?"
My response: Obviously not, otherwise I wouldn't have asked...
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