Most things really aren't worth getting excited about are they.
 

When you think about it.

Yes, things you wouldn't consider a "good" experience are generally not worth getting excited about.

i know.

I had a bit of a thing earlier when I was ignoring a pretty/ boring person who was wittering on about something or other - Life is pretty fucking alright. It might not stay this way, but by God it's great to be me right now.

Depends on your frame of mind. It's all what you make of it. A lot of the time, what you get excited about just disappoints you while unexpected events and circumstances make it worth everything and more. I've thoroughly enjoyed some shitty concerts for reasons I could hardly explain.

ha ha ha fun:pny

Life is exciting when you breath it in. Go smell flowers. It will do you wonders.

Prick.

I can understand that feeling. :D

Yeah, I'm hardly ever excited. Even sex has lost its magic.

This thread brought to by Djarums™ and nihilism.



When the world has become an unpleasurable masquerade of the typical, have a Djarum™.

pretentious boring sods, the lot of you!

bahh, not worth the exclamation mark.

_!_

I was actually described as being pretentious earlier today by someone I know in a quite vague way. I'd used the word zeitgeist during a pub discussion in which I was criticising Radiohead and this apparantly turned me into a pseudo intellectual. The person who accused me of this was wearing a Star Wars T shirt, baggy combat style shorts and flip flops. Just so you get a fuller picture as to the depths of his prickishness.

Yes, but using the word zeitgeist? Shame on you.

It was in context. Unlike his flip flops.

shame on both of you.

though, i understand dr666 itch to use a word such as "zeitgeist", it twatens a sentence like nothing and can be a test for the other end of the conversation to either find the humour in it or to know if he/she is twice the twat you are portraying.

having said that, anyone with that kind of attire gives nothing but thoughts of shaking my head sideways whispering "shame shame shame" to myself.

Seriously calling someone pretentious to their face for a stupid reason like that is more obnoxious and unecessary than using big words.

Even if zeitgeist is very hard to put in context. Unless you were comparing Yorke to Billy Corgan.

I agree that it's a twatty word and would never use it without recognising that fact. The problem with using words ironically is that it relies on the person you're talking to having a modicum of irony themselves. Which evidently wasn't so, in the case of Mr Chewbacca T shirt.

most things, no, really aren't worth getting excited about

Hang on, we're talking about the word zeitgeist here. Sports pundits use it, it's regularly used in tabloids. It's a twatty word, but hardly on a par with something like gesamkunstwerk is it.

Meh. For the most part, though, if you or someone else uses a twatty word here and there, the correct response for both parties is to not give a fuck. It's only a problem if they start talking like the Architect from the Matrix.By 'in context', I just meant the situation, not the meaning.

i hate the word zeitgeist

Well, Chewbacca boy was defending Radiohead, who aren't exactly Oasis when it comes to their down-to-earthness, and the word zeitgeist just sort of slipped out (I think I was lumping Thom Yorke in with Al Gore and Naomi Klein as part of some kind of eco-obsession within popular culture). Maybe I should've just stabbed the bloke when I first saw him and had done with.

Anyway. I didn't even want to be talking about Thom Yorke in the first place, let alone bring in a word like zeitgeist. (I'd actually planned to spend the afternoon watching F1 on TV) But I was, and i did and thinking about it I'm glad that it happened. I'm gonna use it constantly now, whenever a similar situation arises where I'm forced to sit with blokes in their thirties that insist on wearing Star Wars T Shirts and flip flops.

you should have stabbed him, ugh chewbacca shirt? really?

Hah, it's all good. I wasn't accusing you of anything I wouldn't do.

no shit, this thread is trapped in the mid-90s.

ha ha ha ha ha.

add my vote to that.

here's the antidote!





(Good morning!)
Ohhh! Fuckkk!

She says, "Let's go to Brighton Beach,
And the ??? disco."
[Ukrainian]
Well that would be great fun of ironic kind,
For your self-collapsing ironic mind,
But, hey girl, we've got the cure for you,
Provided of course you will ever make it through!

So let's get radical!
[Ukrainian] radical!
Not ironic, sardonic, catatonic, ceremonic but radical!

Well you know mother,
Some things are actually sacred.
And tough for you ceremonic just won't do!
So hey girl we've got the cure for you,
Provided of course you will ever make it through,
But, hey boy, we've got the cure for you too,
Provided of course you will ever make it through!

So let's get radical!
[Ukrainian] radical!
Not ironic, sardonic, catatonic, ceremonic but radical!
Let's get radical!
[Ukrainian] radical!
Not ironic, sardonic, catatonic, ceremonic but radical!
Not ironic, sardonic, catatonic, ceremonic but radical!

death to false gypsy music.

The Ukraine, with a Williamsburg 'twist'. Heaven help us!

there is no "heaven", nihilist.

prepare to give up the ghost!

There really aren't a lot of things worth getting excited over, but there are some things.

I like those things.

let me guess...



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Then again it's not like you're asked to get excited about EVERYTHING, are you?

Music gets me excited, sex gets me excited, my family and friends get me excited, politics get me excited etc. Why bother with people or things that you know will bore you to death?

Manic depressives.

God, I hate Gogol Bordello - Eugene "Lionel" Hutz deserves a kick in the nutsack for arseing around with Madonna. I'd rather listen to evil Serbian turbo-folk, thanks.

Anyway, back on topic - to me it's not about the zeitgeist, but the ZeitGuest:

Wow, you are pretty pretentious for holding these things against him.

He must be wrong, after all he is wearing a Chewbacca t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops! Argument is now void!

Twat.

if pressed i can think of about 6 exciting things

i'm not in the frame of mind at the moment to agree there are more than 6 exciting things in the world

exciting/frightening

I dare you to cross a freeway during rush hour and tell me that life isn't exciting.

Would you not love to live your life like you're constantly on smack?