How Pretentious Are You? - Page 5

MellySingsDoom · 06.19.2008, 07:30 AM

I'm so pretentious it hurts, dahlings. Here's me the other day:

girlgun · 06.19.2008, 09:59 AM

i drink pbr. because it's fucking cheap. and if you're gonna drink 15 (kidding)... it's much more affordable. it's definitely the more tasty of the shit beers.

haters.

acousticrock87 · 06.19.2008, 11:14 AM

Oscar Wilde was so pretentious, everyone who ever reads anything by him becomes pretentious.

Sheriff Rhys Chatham · 06.19.2008, 12:35 PM

I voted 5-6 because I have a lot of friends that I hang out with only once in a while so they only see me as some cool guy, which they emulate to others, which goes to my head.

Glice · 06.19.2008, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by pbradley

Usually I find that social definitions are derived from poor understanding and use of academic definitions.

Catachresis as a social phenomenon is fascinating. The proliferation of the word 'logic' fascinates me; its lay definition suggests something to which everyone can appeal. A quick survey of your average office politics suggests that 'logic' means little more than 'emotional investment' (i.e. nearly entirely the contrary of its actual definition).

The process of effacement (the Nietzsche/ structuralist/ Derrid-ian lovehorse) makes criticising the misappropriation of words troublesome, surely?

acousticrock87 · 06.19.2008, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice

Catachresis as a social phenomenon is fascinating. The proliferation of the word 'logic' fascinates me; its lay definition suggests something to which everyone can appeal. A quick survey of your average office politics suggests that 'logic' means little more than 'emotional investment' (i.e. nearly entirely the contrary of its actual definition).

The process of effacement (the Nietzsche/ structuralist/ Derrid-ian lovehorse) makes criticising the misappropriation of words troublesome, surely?

I only half-understood that last sentence. My mind got sidetracked by the realization that Derrida's name in any form sounds like music. Here a da, there a da, everywhere a...

Dr. Eugene Felikson · 06.19.2008, 06:51 PM

I'm also a huge fan of PBR. It's immensely easy to chug and dirt cheap to boot. Definitely my type of brew.

Derek · 06.19.2008, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Sheriff Rhys Chatham

I voted 5-6 because I have a lot of friends that I hang out with only once in a while so they only see me as some cool guy, which they emulate to others, which goes to my head.

Yeah.

Death & the Maiden · 06.20.2008, 02:40 AM

I'm pretty sure I come off as pretentious. I voted 7-8.

!@#$%! · 06.20.2008, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Death & the Maiden

I'm pretty sure I come off as pretentious. I voted 7-8.

naming yourself after a play by ariel dorfman is not pretentious unless you didn't read or see the play performed and are just trying to appear sophisticated. yeah that would be pretentious. or the movie-- fine.

then again this could be about schubert, right?

pretentious fucker!!

Cantankerous · 06.20.2008, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

naming yourself after a play by ariel dorfman is not pretentious unless you didn't read or see the play performed and are just trying to appear sophisticated. yeah that would be pretentious. or the movie-- fine.

oh haaaaaaay.

!@#$%! · 06.20.2008, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

oh haaaaaaay.

quote the rest!!

i was unfinished.

Cantankerous · 06.20.2008, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

naming yourself after a play by ariel dorfman is not pretentious unless you didn't read or see the play performed and are just trying to appear sophisticated. yeah that would be pretentious. or the movie-- fine.

then again this could be about schubert, right?

pretentious fucker!!

oh haaaaaaay, y'all said my name

!@#$%! · 06.20.2008, 02:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

y'all

are you cryptoing?

i hear texas...!

Cantankerous · 06.20.2008, 02:52 AM

i must be pretentious
i'm having an argument about post punk.

!@#$%! · 06.20.2008, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

i must be pretentious
i'm having an argument about post punk.

that depends--

to what end?

Cantankerous · 06.20.2008, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

that depends--

to what end?

the argument is about whether new bands can be called post punk

i say NO, because the term is used solely to describe bands that came directly after the "punk explosion" in the 70s and because there is no specific SOUND associated with post punk, bands today cannot be classified as post punk because the term is used to describe an era.

acousticrock87 · 06.20.2008, 03:00 AM

Is postmodern art/literature technically a style, not an era? I thought it was, but now that I was about to use it for my point, I'm not sure.

Cantankerous · 06.20.2008, 03:01 AM

postmodernism is technically STUPID, but don't get me started

✌➬ · 06.20.2008, 03:03 AM

Talking about postmodernism in a thread is pretentious.

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06.19.2008, 07:30 AM	#81
MellySingsDoom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,662	I'm so pretentious it hurts, dahlings. Here's me the other day: __________________ Snow on Easter Sunday - Jesus Christ in reverse.
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06.19.2008, 09:59 AM	#82
girlgun invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2,906	i drink pbr. because it's fucking cheap. and if you're gonna drink 15 (kidding)... it's much more affordable. it's definitely the more tasty of the shit beers. haters.
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06.19.2008, 11:14 AM	#83
acousticrock87 invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,515	Oscar Wilde was so pretentious, everyone who ever reads anything by him becomes pretentious.
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06.19.2008, 12:35 PM	#84
Sheriff Rhys Chatham invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New England. Posts: 4,027	I voted 5-6 because I have a lot of friends that I hang out with only once in a while so they only see me as some cool guy, which they emulate to others, which goes to my head. __________________ My Music(grunge rock) A part of this blue shit since June 24th, 2004
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06.19.2008, 06:51 PM	#87
Dr. Eugene Felikson invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 7,571	I'm also a huge fan of PBR. It's immensely easy to chug and dirt cheap to boot. Definitely my type of brew.
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06.20.2008, 02:40 AM	#89
Death & the Maiden expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 2,036	I'm pretty sure I come off as pretentious. I voted 7-8. __________________ www.myspace.com/ghostofanidealwife
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06.20.2008, 02:52 AM	#95
Cantankerous invito al cielo Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A RETIREMENT HOME Posts: 18,499	i must be pretentious i'm having an argument about post punk. __________________ RETIRED
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06.20.2008, 03:00 AM	#98
acousticrock87 invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,515	Is postmodern art/literature technically a style, not an era? I thought it was, but now that I was about to use it for my point, I'm not sure.
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06.20.2008, 03:01 AM	#99
Cantankerous invito al cielo Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A RETIREMENT HOME Posts: 18,499	postmodernism is technically STUPID, but don't get me started __________________ RETIRED
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06.20.2008, 03:03 AM	#100
✌➬ invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: ιλ Posts: 5,754	Talking about postmodernism in a thread is pretentious. __________________ We Kill Homosexuals!!!
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