I’ve never been much for those pseudo-intellectual hangouts where people mostly just talk in circles—it's all empty noise. Real intelligence comes from actually putting in the work and studying, not from reading the papers, smoking a cigar, or grabbing coffee with the crowd you mentioned. It kind of reminds me of my younger self...
Gerald Gonzalez57 said:1. This is just an information thing. 2. Everyone thinks they have it the worst. Honestly, it’s all the same. Or as we say here: Same crap, different packaging. 3. So don't be surprised by kids today. Previous generations were way more mature than this current crowd. I realized that a long time ago. Just stay quiet, watch from the sidelines, criticize, and laugh. You'll see—it's actually kind of fun. 😁
1. Fine. 2. I don't think I have it the worst. I was specifically pointing out the difference between my luxury of not knowing anything about "Emo culture" and your luxury of not having detailed memories of the wars in the outskirts of the country. 3. Hmm, I wouldn't say I'm surprised. It's a little funny seeing schoolgirls obsessing over Rihanna or boys thinking 2Pac is some peak poet and artist 🤣. But just a little... I still think it's probably inappropriate for a professor to sit in the corner mocking today's youth🤣.
Gerald Gonzalez57 said:You're hoping for the wrong thing. I'm being deadly serious.
I love the outdoors... hiking, traveling through various parts of the country, camping 😍 Sometimes I even go work (specifically when I'm proofreading) out in nature, or just read. And you shouldn't be afraid of animals... there aren't many of them, and there's never any real danger if you know how to handle yourself in those situations.
Gerald Gonzalez57 said:By the way, tell me—what was it like just hanging out in nature or at a cafe while shells were dropping on your city (since you're from Indianapolis)?
Why bring up stuff like that? (I remember it well enough, and I'd gladly trade my luxury of time for yours...)
It all went down in the late 90s, so there weren't exactly artillery shells... just a whole lot of trauma and wounds that still need healing.
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Sitting in the grass is a risk—between the local wildlife and the threat to your kidneys.
I think you’ve got a massive bias against long-haired people🤣
I wasn't some high school dropout—stopped drinking when I turned 18, always preferred girls who didn't go overboard with the makeup, and honestly, long hair just drives me crazy. Emo kids weren't even a thing back when I was growing up, I was never really into metal, and I didn't go out much. Usually, I'd just hang with my small circle at a local diner, debating philosophy—or whatever our version of it was back then—until the staff kicked us out around midnight🤣...
but...
I loved (and still love) sitting in the grass. Real nature, though🤣.... not some urban bum style🤣
As you can see, most of the stuff you supposedly "outgrew" by getting a haircut, I never had to deal with in the first place🤷
On the flip side, my parents wouldn't have let me pull that off anyway. Plus, being at a specialized math high school, I was constantly surrounded by "nerds," so that probably played a part too🤷 University doesn't even need to be mentioned...
Not sure why there's so much sarcasm in that first reply.🤷
I agree with you on the second point—though I didn't see it that way at the time. It took me a few months to get used to the person looking back at me in the mirror.🤣
Now you're coming for me too 😉 Who says you have to outgrow music? If anything, your palette just gets wider as you age. I was a total rocker back in my teens—now I jump from classical and jazz to blues and old-school rock. Postscript: Did someone force you to get that haircut, or did you just snap? Even at my University, they couldn't make me do it—even when the professors suggested it 🤣 It wasn't until after graduation that they finally made me cut it, since apparently, a professor shouldn't look like his students 🤣
And you're telling 🙂 I know we rockers are the problem. We messed around too much and ended up creating this half-witted thing called metal. Whatever—who's actually to blame now?
Honestly, I wouldn't even be surprised. Given the musical (lack of) taste of today's youth—and honestly, what people even think music is for anymore—it doesn't shock me that they have enough listeners. Between Thompson, generic pop trash, Rihanna, and those bottom-of-the-barrel hacks... music has really hit rock bottom.
And I’m not even going to touch the whole war profiteering thing. I just don't have the energy or the desire to get into an argument over some random info found on a reliable source known as the World Wide Web.
EDIT: That erratic guy might actually be your professor. Run while you can, girl. ☕
It’s honestly embarrassing that they allow a band of this caliber to exist ☕ And don't worry, Megan Rodriguez44—they want people talking about Joe through their own lens. They know exactly why they wrote this song. It was designed specifically to spark this kind of debate. Sadly for them, it’s probably the only way they’ll ever pull in any decent number of listeners.
