I can't even imagine to going to a concert these days. Zero desire to see any bands in person anymore.
I have been to like 400 concerts in my life but I think I have officially turned old. I would rather listen to music at home with my ear buds while getting stuff done around the house.
Every time my wife brings up going to concert I strongly suggest she make it a ladies night out.
Sour Patch Kids look hardly anything like they do on the bag. There’s a disclaimer that says, “Enlarged to show detail”. Detail, my ass. They don’t have faces or appendages separate from their torsos. I want to dismember the little ####s as I snack on them. Give me satisfaction, Mondelez.
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I was standing for what felt like a million hours at the Dropkick Murphys/Pennywise show in October. Next standing show I'm going to claim disability and bring my scooter. Standing is the worst.
Green Day last summer in Minnesota. ####ers in front of me stood the whole show. I get it, you’re excited, but how about being excited while seated? I’m old ya know.
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Green Day last summer in Minnesota. ####ers in front of me stood the whole show. I get it, you’re excited, but how about being excited while seated? I’m old ya know.
People sit at Green Day shows? I haven't seen them in a long time, but Blink 182 is similar and everyone jumped to their feet when they walked out and staid up the whole show. I'm the opposite of you guys it seems, as I can stand, or jump around and mosh a bit all show, but if I have to sit it just feels weird and oddly confined for a rock show. Like you can't dance or go crazy for awesome songs/moments, and if you do it would just look weird.
Bragging about pirating stuff is always kind of a weird flex, yet everyone who does it wants to tell everyone they know.
Like yeah, "stealing" is a way to get literally anything for free, who knew?
I'll agree with you here only where music is concerned. I used Napster, KaZaa, Limewire, torrents, etc. for MP3s when I was younger; of course I did, I was a broke-ass minor, I didn't even have a job. Once I started making a proper income, I signed up for a streaming music subscription and stopped pirating songs. They made it convenient, they had no idiotic rules that prevented me from listening to the music that they insisted they offered, and as long as I had an internet / data connection, I could play what I want when I wanted as much as I wanted for a reasonable sum of money. That lives on today.
The music industry figured out how to encourage people to acquire content legally; make it easy, make it affordable, and if you're going to have to play by stupid and convoluted rules about how you access what, where... then make sure it isn't obvious to the end-user. I'm sure there is content on Spotify I could listen to stateside that users in Canada aren't permitted to stream and vice-versa. But I couldn't tell you what.
It's the same way I started paying for software. Steam? Jesus, how many games do I own -- games I've paid for -- that I've never played? XBL discounts, Xbox Game Pass discounts on purchases, Humble Bundle.... Give users a convenient, reasonable, and cost-effective option for acquiring useful applications and games, and they'll give you their money.
Video? F-ck no. [Rant=on] Content licensing with stupid-ass regional restrictions that are overtly thrown in the face of end-users and greedy streaming platforms (Netflix is raising their prices AGAIN by the way) have somehow managed to make cable an unpalatable solution while also turning legit avenues for cord-cutting from attractive alternatives to cable... into cable (or at least cable providers' VoD with ads or stupid restrictions all over again).
I was out with the girlfriend for a bite to eat the other night and TSN had a game on. After the game, it was about to show the next game only to present all the patrons in the restaurant with "The scheduled programming is not available in your area" blah blah blah. If that happens at home and I am paying $100 for the privilege of subscribing to your broadcast service, I will rightfully be pissed off -- I really don't care whose fault it is -- and it is sh-t like that which is why I cancelled cable and all my streaming services in exchange for grey market Plex-share subscriptions and sailing the high seas for sports streaming (for what little I partake, anyway).
If I pay a handsome sum for a service that is meant to provide entertainment programming and someone starts telling me I only get to watch it if I'm in PEI or some f-cking place, then remind me again what I'm paying for. No question this exists in music streaming too but it's handled transparent to the user; don't give me the option to view only to say "no, f-ck you" if I have no legal way to procure the content through your sh-tty service. [Rant=off]
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People sit at Green Day shows? I haven't seen them in a long time, but Blink 182 is similar and everyone jumped to their feet when they walked out and staid up the whole show. I'm the opposite of you guys it seems, as I can stand, or jump around and mosh a bit all show, but if I have to sit it just feels weird and oddly confined for a rock show. Like you can't dance or go crazy for awesome songs/moments, and if you do it would just look weird.
My "aha moment" on sitting was when The Pixies played the Jubilee. Can't remember when that was. Maybe 2010? No clue, really. Anyway, everyone stayed seated and at first I thought that was super fricken weird, but after a song or two it felt like I was living the dream. Sitting is perfection.
My "aha moment" on sitting was when The Pixies played the Jubilee. Can't remember when that was. Maybe 2010? No clue, really. Anyway, everyone stayed seated and at first I thought that was super fricken weird, but after a song or two it felt like I was living the dream. Sitting is perfection.
99% of the time I’m disagreeing with sitting at concerts, I’d much rather wander around in a general admission show, hop in the mosh pit for a while, go grab a beer etc.
The one time I was jacked up for a seated show was Tool in 2017. Took a gentle dose of zoomers and the music combined with the visuals were unbelievable.
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My "aha moment" on sitting was when The Pixies played the Jubilee. Can't remember when that was. Maybe 2010? No clue, really. Anyway, everyone stayed seated and at first I thought that was super fricken weird, but after a song or two it felt like I was living the dream. Sitting is perfection.
Blue rodeo concerts - everyone sits until the last song. Heaven. Went to Billy Joel at msg and everyone stood for 2.5 hours, great concert but torture at times for standing. I’m old. That grinds my gears too.
If you have a seat you should sit at a concert. Standing in front of your seat makes no sense at all.
That's terrible logic, lol. There's a seat, it's there for a reason! The one minute mark is how I prefer a crowd if I can't be on the floor. Everyone up and many dancing, bobbing along. Way more energy and fun in the crowd that way.
That's terrible logic, lol. There's a seat, it's there for a reason! The one minute mark is how I prefer a crowd if I can't be on the floor. Everyone up and many dancing, bobbing along. Way more energy and fun in the crowd that way.
Yeah I’m mostly just taking the piss, but I do think it’s weird that people stand just to stand. Sure some people dance or whatever, but 90% of people bob their head at most. You could do that sitting. Then I could do that sitting!
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99% of the time I’m disagreeing with sitting at concerts, I’d much rather wander around in a general admission show, hop in the mosh pit for a while, go grab a beer etc.
The one time I was jacked up for a seated show was Tool in 2017. Took a gentle dose of zoomers and the music combined with the visuals were unbelievable.
At Tool last year I was riding the same boat you were on and had floor tickets. My wife ended up getting a last minute invite to the corporate box and I had to go there and mingle with VPs and #### from her company. That was a weird af experience to go from hanging out with my friends to instant corporate situation. And once I was in there was no way to leave.
That's terrible logic, lol. There's a seat, it's there for a reason! The one minute mark is how I prefer a crowd if I can't be on the floor. Everyone up and many dancing, bobbing along. Way more energy and fun in the crowd that way.
I’m 55, #### that.
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Yo. If you aren't able or don't have the answer, just say so. I'm not going to be mad if that's your company procedure. Why the #### are you saying you can answer my question, but then telling me to ask someone else for the answer instead?
UPS. I saw a UPS driver doing circles in front of our office building for a few days and then I'd get a notification they couldn't deliver the package. I even went outside to wave to the driver and they just drove off.
Contacted them. "Oh must be a mistake. It'll deliver."
Now I'm following up to a notice that the package is undeliverable and being sent back to sender.
The item is sold out, so I cannot simply reorder. Trying to figure out if they can still get that package to me. An answer why they kept thinking they couldn't deliver to us would be bonus.
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