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Offline aldo_14

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I have to say I put my mouseover the link, and seeing it in my status bar as "www.cosmicroughriders.com" I didn't even bother. :p


*raises eyebrow*

Dare I ask why?

 

Offline Grug

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I don't know why, but "ROUGH RIDERS" doesn't really appeal to my tastes...

btw rofl @ "goth mode" and the following comment.

EDIT: went to the site anyway. What are they? Neo-Hippies?
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Offline aldo_14

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I don't know why, but "ROUGH RIDERS" doesn't really appeal to my tastes...

btw rofl @ "goth mode" and the following comment.

EDIT: went to the site anyway. What are they? Neo-Hippies?


An astonishingly cheery Scottish band with a sort of psuedo-Beach Boys / West Coast sound.  The most, um, 'warming' band I could think of offhand.

 A friend of mine knew the former lead singer (Daniel Wylie), hactually.

EDIt; oh, and they're farking brilliant listening for summer & Saturday afternoons.

 

Offline Grug

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Hmm, I'll take your word for it.
I wasn't much a fan of the beach boys... :s

 

Offline aldo_14

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Well, note the 'pseudo'......

Ach, it's up to you what you like etc etc.  I just pick up songs on eMule or Kazaa lite and buy the album if they're good enough anyways.

Point is, not all bands are constantly miserable; just the **** ones are.

 

Offline Grug

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Well, point taken, but some of the most adored bands and most popular are miserable.

Personally I like Jet, and U2 flavoured with some other older stuff like Black Sabbath (which is hardly peace promoting)... :)

 

Offline aldo_14

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Well, point taken, but some of the most adored bands and most popular are miserable.

Personally I like Jet, and U2 flavoured with some other older stuff like Black Sabbath (which is hardly peace promoting)... :)


Ah, but most adored and popular doesn't always mean 'good' :D

'sides which, the good bands - the talented ones - aren't always miserable.  Take the Verve, for example (arguably the best band of the last decade IMO); can follow up 'The Drugs don't Work' (effectively the love song of a doomed addict), with 'Lucky Man' (which was a really, um, 'uplifting' song).

'tis all about variety, after all. U2 are a perfect example... like 'With or Without You' versus that one whos name I forgot where the video had them on a runway from the 2nd last album.

 And IIRC Jets' second single was a sort of more ballady thing.

So if a band is always miserable, then they must be ****e.

  

Offline Gank

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Amusing, since we started the concept. And your comparison cannot and will not hold water.

Go ahead. Try and prove me wrong.

Done.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11614846%5E1702,00.html
Quite easy too, guess you aint really following the news anymore.
As for you starting the concept, LOL, you'll be telling us you invented democracy  and electricty next.

 

Offline Andreas

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What can we do? Nothing, nothing that would make a difference. In my opinion humanity is pretty f***** up beyond recognition. But not to sound too negative, if people would be willing to take that thumb out their asses and actually TRY to do something, instead of just whining, maybe something could be accomplished. So, onto the second revolution, brothers! :D
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire

 

Offline Nuke

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youd be supprised how common revolutions are and they havent changed much.
I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Nuke's Scripting SVN

 

Offline Ford Prefect

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I think what we really ought to get working on is permanantly colonizing space so that if Earth gets pwned, at least we won't die out.
"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"  --Maurice Ravel

 

Offline Zarax

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Too easy...
Learn to pay your mistakes instead of trying to flee from them.
The Best is Yet to Come

 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Too judgemental. Learn to avoid the consequences of your mistakes instead of paying for them. :)
"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"  --Maurice Ravel

 

Offline Zarax

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Irresponsible :p
Learn to avoid mistakes instead of avoiding consequences ;)
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Offline Unknown Target

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How about just doing the right thing? Even if it's not the most cost-effective thing?

I say we should colonize Mars, just to make sure that we won't die out as a species.

 

Offline Zarax

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How about using Occam's razor principle?
It would be simpler to take out all WMD than colonize Mars
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Offline Ford Prefect

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Irresponsible
Learn to avoid mistakes instead of avoiding consequences

Unrealistic, etc. etc. My point is, why should we stay here and allow ourselves to become extinct if we don't have to? To punish ourselves for killing the whales? Boo-hoo. If we're going to die, I don't really care about the moral question of what we did to the planet.
"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"  --Maurice Ravel

 

Offline Unknown Target

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While I would prefer to look at it in less sterile terms, I'm gonna agree with Ford.

 

Offline Zarax

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While we discuss the thing i would rather work on preventing it :)
The Best is Yet to Come

 

Offline Grey Wolf

To go slightly off topic, or rather back to posting related songs:

The sparks of the tempest rage a hundred years on
The voice of the dreamer screams, the cause of the pawn
The King and the Queen are gone, each piece is the same
The difference between us is a part of the game

Darkness is spreading like a spot on the sun
The dead are the living in the age of the gun
While everyone clamors for the justice they seek
The word is corrupted and the strong take the weak

They mold you and shape you, so watch what you do
The sparks of the tempest are burnin' you through
Spreading like wildfire, fallin' like rain
Though they may promise, they only bring pain

The future is managed, and your freedom's a joke
You don't know the difference as you put on the yoke
The less that you know the more you fall into place
A cog in the wheel, there is no soul in your face

Run for the cover, Millennium's here
Bearing the standard of confusion and fear
Spreading like wildfire, fallin' like rain
Though they may promise, they only bring pain

Blood in the sand, a cry in the street
Now the cycle is nearly complete
Ten thousand years, and nothing was learned
No turning back, now the wheel has turned

Big Brother is watching and he likes what he sees
A world for the taking, when he's ready to squeeze
The King and the Queen are gone, each piece is the same
The difference between us is a part of the game

Soothsayer saying now tell me no lies
What is this madness that is filling the skies
Spreading like wildfire, fallin' like rain
Though they may promise, they only bring pain
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw