Pet Peeves: "Rap is Crap!" and other percentages
"98% of teenagers surround their minds with rap music, if you're part of the 2% that stayed with rock, put this in your signature."
Translation: "Hi, let me enlighten you with bullsh*t percentages and a narrow-brained assumption that an entire genre of music is crap, simply because I heard a limited selection of music which wasn't particularly varied or talented."
See? It's all about readin' between the lines.
Most of the signature statements that you add to your collection, right off the bat you can dismiss as miscalculated. It's always either 98% and 2% or 92% and 8%. That in itself makes it nothing than a fabricated sentence that some lonely person made, because they were feeling picky about their music.
It is completely idiotic to take an entire genre of music and denounce it as 'crap'. You haven't heard every single song, and I've met people who have put that in their signature, and I've asked them to list all of the hip-hop artists they're familiar with---guess what? Their list is mediocre. Therefore, claims that any genre of music is terrible, without listening to enough from it, makes a person appear very misguided.
I'm not a fan of country music, however, despite the fact that it does not appeal to me---I don't parade around tearing it apart. I may not like country music, still I can say that there are some great classics, and it's certainly a good genre to get into.
This is a peeve of mine because posting such simple minded things signatures seems a little... unoriginal to me. It's like broadcasting the fact that you can't even maintain an open mind when it comes to something as available and 'simple' as music.
Different music genres still exist---Rock isn't just going to disappear because another type of music has suddenly become popular. So fumbling and whining over which one is better is pointless and an utter time waster.
- Next post was going to be different, however, it's such a topic I peeve over, it's going to take time to translate nicely on e-paper. /laughs
I’m making new segment in this world; Pet Peeves! I have quite a few, so I’d figure I’d share them. Let’s start with this one:
[1] Pet Peeves - TL;DR
‘Too long; didn’t read’ also known as TL;DR is just one of those things that just... gets to me. My dislike for it began on GaiaOnline, where the majority of users there have the magical ability to aggravate me. There are a lot of young, immature, 'witty' people on there, and quite a few times this has occurred:
A user online writes something particularly long, which occasionally (not all the time) touches upon an important subject---and after this person spent their time writing this entry, in hopes of engaging in thoughtful conversation---the first person simply replies:
"TL;DR"
Why does this bother me so much?
I tend to see things differently than some. I believe the human mind is complex and interesting, capable of mindboggling things. And after years and years of humans evolving and surviving years of mediocrity, cannibalism, mindless open violence, and many other monstrosities that were faced on human's path to intelligence and civilization---you’ve decided to take -1% of your brain's capacity, skim over a topic with harrowing conceit, and scribble down such a simple, pathetic line?
Is reading a few pages that difficult? I certainly don’t think so. I don’t mind if someone goes:
"TL;DR
I don’t have enough time to read the entire thing,
when I have the chance, I check back and read it."
That’s more reasonable; however, the first example, in my opinion is surely insulting. Now, sometimes someone will post something that is long, uninteresting, and stale. Guess what? If you're online, and it's not assigned, you don't have to read it. You can skip right over it.
If only some would keep that in mind...
