Sweet, new thread.

Sweet, new pics.

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/me shaved my head tonight

I'm liking the glasses :cool:

[QUOTE=metal guitar]I'm liking the glasses :cool:[/QUOTE]

Hell yea!, Are you a biker, I just think you would luck pretty **** cool on a Harley???

If anyone sees antihero, could you please quote this message to him, i have a link he could do with visiting, Thanks

[url]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7483536#post7483536[/url]

Quote:
Originally Posted by LarsAgi007
Antohero I think it could use a tutorial on how to change files to MP3 ect: And how to create link to upload it, Might help a little.. I think some people with limited computer knowledge (No offense to anyone) would get put of by the complexicity!

As one user states:
that would be useful to me as me and technology don't get on...

[quote=metal guitar]I'm liking the glasses :cool:[/quote]

I love those shades. :cool:

[quote=LarsAgi007]Hell yea!, Are you a biker, I just think you would luck pretty **** cool on a Harley???[/quote]

Haha, well I am a chopper fan, and I'm working on getting set up to build one this summer, but I've never actually ridden a motorcycle.

[QUOTE=LarsAgi007]
As one user states:
that would be useful to me as me and technology don't get on...[/QUOTE]
:lol: that's me...

I don't think this forum can handle a community thread.

[QUOTE=Bartender]I don't think this forum can handle a community thread.[/QUOTE]

What?

EDIT: Oh, I think I see what you mean.

'Sup with the new thread?

EDIT: Might be getting closed.

[QUOTE=Antihero]
What?

EDIT: Oh, I think I see what you mean.[/QUOTE]

Yeah. 700 posts in one night, the majority of it chat room material.

Ah. I get it.

[QUOTE=Bartender]EDIT: Might be getting closed.

Yeah. 700 posts in one night, the majority of it chat room material.[/QUOTE]

Ah, good, I have foresight.

Perhaps you should make an announcement stating what is considered appropriate off-topic posting and what is considered "chat room material." Maybe that would steer things in the right direction?

It should just be common sense, though. We shouldn't need a special announcement to tell people what is spam and what isn't.

[QUOTE=Bartender]It should just be common sense, though. We shouldn't need a special announcement to tell people what is spam and what isn't.[/QUOTE]

Not everyone that posts here has as high of an intellect as you, though, Mr. Philosopher :)

Umm... I have to avoid spam in this post.

My diversity prof made a peculiar statement in his lecture today.

[quote]Change is psychological loss.[/quote]

He didn't exactly clarify, though. Any suggestions as to what he meant?

EDIT @ Bobo's post below mine: I was very hesitant to compare this to the Guitar comm. thread, but it is slowly starting to turn into it :-\

I don't even post there, but I read it from time-to-time... it's pretty bad that they get to 100K+ in such short amounts of time.

I admit to not being particularly constructive in the last comm thread towards the end, so don't think I'm trying to act like I'm a saint, because I am far from being one.

[QUOTE=Bartender]EDIT: Might be getting closed.



Yeah. 700 posts in one night, the majority of it chat room material.[/QUOTE]


Werd yo, shut it down if it is just going to be a chat room...

This is about as bad as the people in the guitar forum now...

[QUOTE=BoboTheRagingHobo]Werd yo, shut it down if it is just going to be a chat room...

This is about as bad as the people in the guitar forum now...[/QUOTE]
The postcount went up almost as fast :-/

Yeah, 28 pages in a day, man...

[QUOTE=AntiHero3314]
I admit to not being particularly constructive in the last comm thread towards the end, so don't think I'm trying to act like I'm a saint, because I am far from being one.[/QUOTE]

You're generally okay though; a lot of the time you seem to make the effort to make your posts as long as possible :)

No one's at absolutely no fault, are they, but we're not trying for a 0% spam rate, just because it's impossible. Page after page of one- and two-word posts and responses, with only a small percentage of it all carrying any meaning, is stupid though. Especially since it can be confined to a chatroom, which we kind of have set as "mxrockandmetal", don't we? I'm not sure, since I haven't been in one for ages.

/mangled paragraph

Anyway, last week here in California, I'm going to make the best out of it.

[QUOTE=Bartender]You're generally okay though; a lot of the time you seem to make the effort to make your posts as long as possible :)

No one's at absolutely no fault, are they, but we're not trying for a 0% spam rate, just because it's impossible. Page after page of one- and two-word posts and responses, with only a small percentage of it all carrying any meaning, is stupid though. Especially since it can be confined to a chatroom, which we kind of have set as "mxrockandmetal", don't we? I'm not sure, since I haven't been in one for ages.

/mangled paragraph[/QUOTE]

No, I understand what you mean. I participate in the spam now and then, but generally I find it boring. I usually try to talk about [I]something[/I], or at least I hope I do. It's always hard to gauge what the opinion of me is in the eyes of other members. :-/

But I remember three months into my membership, this thread had maybe 3-4,000 posts. I hate to say it, but after the Ultimate Metal Ban comp--and correct me if I'm wrong--when I (and I'm not trying to take credit for it or assign blame, I'm just saying), zepfan, etc., started posting in here, it started attracting a lot of other people and the post count just exploded in a ridiculous way.

Rep and the consequent whoring for postcount and points had a lot to do with it too.

Wow...28 pages in around a day, you guys are uh...good.
Bartender:
I downloaded one of those comedian's songs, (can't remember his name, sorry :() It's called, "Drugs have done good things" it's great! :cool:

I don't even get what the hell spam is. That's how much I suck at the internet.

[quote=Bartender]You're generally okay[/quote]

Yeah, but my goal is to get rid of that middle word :)

Well, I do remember when rep was still around and how much whoring went on there... that's where I was at fault, mostly. I would get a ridiculous rep message and post it, without saying anything else besides :lol:, probably. Now that rep has basically been vanquished (well, it's still there, but I don't foresee anyone getting star status in the near future, to be honest), that disappeared, but then, like Bartender said, the one or two word posts can be rather ambiguous. Again, I sometimes fall victim of doing that, so I guess it's the pot calling the kettle black again... but oh well.

[quote]Change is psychological loss.[/quote]

Uh, any ideas?

These kind of posts in the Pit really pissed me off:

[QUOTE]Uh...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]WTF?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]yeah.[/QUOTE]

So little substance.

[QUOTE]Change is a psychological loss.[/QUOTE]

Hmmm....


puberty? That's a change, and leads to the loss of childhood innocence.

[QUOTE=i_am_Jimmy_Page]Wow...28 pages in around a day, you guys are uh...good.
Bartender:
I downloaded one of those comedian's songs, (can't remember his name, sorry :() It's called, "Drugs have done good things" it's great! :cool:[/QUOTE]

(Bill Hicks)

Glad you like him :) That's one of his better-known riffs, too, due to bits of it appearing on Tool - Aenima. Remind me to upload some in the uploading thread when I'm back at Uni.

Anyway, I'll leave the thread open for now. If it doesn't improve (quickly) though, I'll just have to close it (with a link to AIM :)).

EDIT: It's not just the spam, and the <10-word posts, though. It's also that people seem to come here (to R&M) more or less for the sole purpose of posting in this thread, and chatting with everyone else.

Bill Hicks was a smart guy, not just a funny guy.

Ah, Geometry time.

Seacrest Out!

Afternoon :)

NP:AC/DC-Shake a leg

[QUOTE=Bartender](Bill Hicks)

Glad you like him :) That's one of his better-known riffs, too, due to bits of it appearing on Tool - Aenima. Remind me to upload some in the uploading thread when I'm back at Uni.

Anyway, I'll leave the thread open for now. If it doesn't improve (quickly) though, I'll just have to close it (with a link to AIM :)).

EDIT: It's not just the spam, and the <10-word posts, though. It's also that people seem to come here (to R&M) more or less for the sole purpose of posting in this thread, and chatting with everyone else.[/QUOTE]
That's the guy, and yeah, this song rules. First time I heard it I was laughing really loud, he sounds like a really inventive artist.
And yeah, I will remind you, but in the meantime any songs by him that I'd enjoy, on the basis that I enjoyed this one?

[QUOTE=i_am_Jimmy_Page]That's the guy, and yeah, this song rules. First time I heard it I was laughing really loud, he sounds like a really inventive artist.
And yeah, I will remind you, but in the meantime any songs by him that I'd enjoy, on the basis that I enjoyed this one?[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure..have you actually got a song? Or is it just him talking, doing stand-up, with occasional guitar drifting in and out. If so, you might have some from one of his post-death releases. If not, then I don't know what you have :-/

Boy, Bartender's declaration really killed the desire to post in here, didn't it?

Well, at any rate, I would say that if people arrive and there's a discussion, they should participate. If they have a discussion to start, they should try to start it. Mindless posting of amusing-looking misspellings, smileys, all by themselves would be stupid, for instance. If they have nothing to talk about, it would probably be best for people to not just post a hello and a goodbye in here between classes, for instance, or something of that nature.

That sound about right for the types of "improvments" you're talking about, Bartender?

(Regarding any potential AIM discussions, when lot people get onto the chat rooms it moves at such a fast, ridiculous pace that there's nearly no way to talk about anything. I feel drowned out. At least with this thread I can know what everyone's responding to or carry on a discussion with them seperate from any spam that may be occuring, if I choose.)

I realize that this is easily within the confines of common sense, and it's probably a case of "the pot calling the kettle black" as Jom said, ;) but whatever.

I just have a shameful 'collection' of one song...Drugs Have Done Good Things...It's good, I just can't really seem to find much by him.

I guess that's the impression the last thread gave off, though... I mean, I don't blame people who thought that off-topic = chat.

I'm sure people will work on it, though. Hopefully. I know I will.

///

I was talking with someone about the differences between high school (secondary school in Europe? I don't know the term for it, sorry :() and university.

I took the stance that uni is just a glorified high school, with just a lot more people and a lot more work. I genuinely felt that when I came to uni that all the cliques and things of that nature (basically, everything that I hated about high school) would disappear, but this isn't the case.

I never went to senior prom (or any prom for that matter), the only school events I attended were the sports I participated in (and to other sports events to support friends), and I was just so numb to "the high school experience" that everyone raves about. I honestly thought that uni would be easier, but this is clearly not the case.

I said that I would still be optimistic that things will be better next year and that my first year was just a bad, fluke-y year, and this is what he said in reply:

[quote]See, I don't really miss high school that much. I mean, your friends in high school are generally friends of convenience or just the kids you've known since pre-school. The pool is bigger in college. And, this is extremely fu[font=]cking dorky, with livejournal, you're kind of able to have a meeting of the minds, in a way. There have been a lot of real-world 'lj sightings' and it seems like friendships and even romances have blossomed because of this thing. But I'm rambling here.

My point is, after a few years, you really find your niche in college. You meet the right people, you do the right things and it all falls into place. That's what happened to me... after 3 years. After another year, I'm done with uni. So yeah, keep being optimistic, seriously.[/quote]

The LiveJournal reference is a long story, but I'll try to break it down in a nutshell: a lot of the people who post on my uni's community LiveJournal know each other very well, it seems, and I only know them because I introduced myself to them at either the radio station, or at the improv comedy thing, and so on. /nutshell

Anyways, my whole point is that I don't see a difference between high school and university other than the fact that there's an even larger number of as[/font]sholes here with an even larger amount of people being cliquey with each other. I just can't stand things like that.

Comments regarding anything I wrote in this post are appreciated.

[QUOTE=AntiHero3314]I was talking with someone about the differences between high school (secondary school in Europe? I don't know the term for it, sorry :() and university.[/QUOTE]
The way I see it, "High School" which is what I'm at now, is forced, I.E, you have to, it's against the law not to go, University is more of a choice, if you want better qualifications etc, you go to University to get them.

[QUOTE=i_am_Jimmy_Page]The way I see it, "High School" which is what I'm at now, is forced, I.E, you have to, it's against the law not to go, University is more of a choice, if you want better qualifications etc, you go to University to get them.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but as you get older, you need those qualifications in order to have a high-paying job, because money = happiness to most people. Not all, but most.

Is that not a valid assessment? :-\

[QUOTE=AntiHero3314]Yeah, but as you get older, you need those qualifications in order to have a high-paying job, because money = happiness to most people. Not all, but most.

Is that not a valid assessment? :-\[/QUOTE]
I'd say so, allthough I don't want to come across as a money grabbing miser :p...heh.

I'll possibly go to University or College, it completely depends on what courses they are offering, the universitys and colleges around here are pretty decent though, so I don't think I'll have any problems..

My thread is turning into a flame fest.

[QUOTE=88_Fingers_Joe]My thread is turning into a flame fest.[/QUOTE]

The metalcore one? You should have expected it posting it in R&M, to be completely honest. I thought it was a good thread, but there will always be people who will try to make it sound like their points are superior to everyone else's... it's a far cry from Drew vs. Dargon, but sometimes what you think is a flamefest will hopefully turn into some healthy discussion?

Perhaps you should go in there and ask everyone to calm down/get back on track, etc.

If not, ignore me.

[QUOTE=AntiHero3314]I guess that's the impression the last thread gave off, though... I mean, I don't blame people who thought that off-topic = chat.

I'm sure people will work on it, though. Hopefully. I know I will.

///

I was talking with someone about the differences between high school (secondary school in Europe? I don't know the term for it, sorry :() and university.

I took the stance that uni is just a glorified high school, with just a lot more people and a lot more work. I genuinely felt that when I came to uni that all the cliques and things of that nature (basically, everything that I hated about high school) would disappear, but this isn't the case.

I never went to senior prom (or any prom for that matter), the only school events I attended were the sports I participated in (and to other sports events to support friends), and I was just so numb to "the high school experience" that everyone raves about. I honestly thought that uni would be easier, but this is clearly not the case.

I said that I would still be optimistic that things will be better next year and that my first year was just a bad, fluke-y year, and this is what he said in reply:



The LiveJournal reference is a long story, but I'll try to break it down in a nutshell: a lot of the people who post on my uni's community LiveJournal know each other very well, it seems, and I only know them because I introduced myself to them at either the radio station, or at the improv comedy thing, and so on. /nutshell

Anyways, my whole point is that I don't see a difference between high school and university other than the fact that there's an even larger number of as[/font]sholes here with an even larger amount of people being cliquey with each other. I just can't stand things like that.

Comments regarding anything I wrote in this post are appreciated.[/QUOTE]

Well, you go to a state school, right? Those tend to be much cheaper, not personalized, and gigantic. As a result, they tend to attract the assholes and careless, stupid people the intelligent guys like you hated in high school. The way I look at it is this: everyone that was in cliques, and who cared about them, went to uni too, just like you. What are they gonna do? Start cliques. Start drama. Throw easily available alcohol and massive amounts of partying and free sex into the mix and it turns into a severely unpleasant and volatile situation.

I go to a very liberal-arts school. Much more expensive, with its own brand of idiots and extremely unpleasent people, and even the random clique here and there. But among its benefits are a much smaller student population, a much more personalized education both in terms of how much effort an individual teacher can spend on individual students and also freedom of choice in terms of what students choose to study. The kids tend to be by and large quite intelligent, and very nice. I've had an awesome first year, with a girlfriend going into the seventh month of a relationship in just five days, and a slew of amazing friends far better than any I had in high school. It's a lot different here than the environment at my state school, which is where nearly every idiot I hated throughout high school chose to go, and I honestly believe that this is the perfect choice for me.

It's very different between colleges. The way I see it, though, is that there is a universal strategy that is either assisted or hindered by the environments I described but which will work in either situation. The way I see it, the key is picking people that you honestly like, and who gives a **** what clique they're in. The first three weeks of school were spent by me by meeting as many people as possible, so that I wouldn't be confined to a "group" that would limit me socially. It sounds like I'm trying to be popular when I say that, but it's more indicative of a disregard for cliques rather than a desire to be a part of many at once, I think. I basically agree with the respondee you quoted. You've just gotta take care and do what you feel you have to to find your niche. It's a bit harder I think because of the general environment of state uni, but it can work. :)

High School is alot different in England. Private Schools are full of drug taking rich kids, who's parents trust them to much to care about grades. You generally find the more intelligent people in a Public School, but you also get the idiots who miss every lesson, and occasionally come in to cause trouble.

We also have a big racism culture in our school, and alot of Islamic people regulaly start fights with white people just for being white. If i said that in school, i would be called racist. The British policy on politcal correctness is ridiculous.