Irritating Thing #984653
Among the long long long long long long list of things that irritate me are these stupid dance-and-socialize parties. I mean, what’s the point of crappy, annoying, mind-numbing, artless and tasteless music, plus a dozen or more people moving like happy zombies? Having a good time? “Socialization?” Good for you! Please respect me enough to let me respectfully dodge this one in utmost respect. It’s especially bad when you actually care about some of the people in there, because then you can’t just pack up and leave (if you are more polite and considerate that I am, that is!)
My kind of parties have either less people and better music in them, or much much more alcohol! In my kind of parties people laugh at Monty Python jokes and sing and dance to Rock and Metal and cry to traditional Iranian music. In my kind of parties, I actually care about who other people are and what other people say, not just sitting in a corner, eating and/or drinking and listening to Death Magnetic over Sandy or some other shit, thinking about implementing (almost-)non-intrusive code instrumentation!
first of all, this post is listed before your previous entry!
I think when you fixed date of your previous post, something *cool* happened there, maybe that gh0st in your machine? maybe.
and besides, I donno if you are aware or not but your blog was down Thursday morning for sometime.
Does your kind of party actually exist? I mean, Monty Python jokes for Christ’s sake! Maybe you should settle for something less than perfect then
“Happy Zombies”! I was laughing my ass off reading this. You know, that “crappy, annoying, mind-numbing, artless and *taste*less music” is called pop music, and there is a reason they call it pop. It is not intended for Monty Python lovers, and nor are those parties. It’s just a different taste my friend, it is not tasteless.
BTW, merry Christmas. Like you care if it’s Christmas
@MatGill:
Yes it does, actually. Occasionally. They might not have seen or read Monty Python in action, but they are weird enough to appreciate the jokes.
You’re right about “pop”. Just because I don’t like it, doesn’t mean it’s bad (it usually means it’s good, actually!) But there is pop and there is “pop”. There is bearable and likable “pop” and there is crappy, annoying, mind-numbing, artless and tasteless pop. Because of my bad luck, I get trapped in places with the worst of the latter kind, and even worse rap.
And again you are right. I don’t care!
@that random guy over there:
That’s by design (for once!)
What’s the point of a post asking people to click a lot on a given link when that post is gonna vanish into oblivion?
And I didn’t know that. I should check my hosting provider’s messages. Maybe that was planned.
There is pop and “pop” and there is rap and “rap”. I happen to like the rap backing classic rock.
I used to blame people, much much more than I do now.
I used to blame them for doing whatever I wasn’t doing, like in Music, Art, Film, etc, everything and always thinking that I’m “better” (Holier than thou, anyone?) than them because I play some games that they don’t even heard of or I watch movies that they don’t understand and won’t even bother even if they heard its name to watch.
But time passed on and on, I found myself in situations that there were people who “I” couldn’t understand and I felt how it feels to be them.
What I currently do these recent years is that I don’t judge them, I “exactly” know what/how you feel when I encounter such people but if you move your first person camera into their head, what you’ll see? you see that in their local activities, listening to such music and doing such Happy Zombie Movements gives them happiness that you (and probably me and some of us) feel by doing something else, listening to some pop music gives them joy that you gain by listening to Metal music.
I know the depth is different, I know, I know that the depth of you that enjoys Turn The Page is far more deeper than the depth that you enjoy a pop music in a party but “don’t judge them” for doing so.
Thats the whole thing I wanted to tell here, “Don’t judge people”, as American’s say, “Live and let live” (or as GN’R says: Live and let die).
In other words, its not “better” per se to listen to something that I like rather than something that you like, I believe its like saying that C++ is the best programming language in the world (lol, you’r gonna tear my head of, aren’t you!) but ther are different languages for different people and different purposes, its likewise in other aspects of life too, there are different kind of music for different kind of people but “people are people” (as Depeche Mode says or “People=Sh*T” as Slipknot believes) and you can’t convert them to what you love and thus, blame them for doing so.
Its like using Windows, some just click same icons over and over again until they get retired but there are other people who delve into Windows more and more, you can’t blame the normal Windows user by not knowing RegEdit, nor you can’t force that expert guy to not to use RegEdit, they are in two different worlds and can’t understand why each one does the other.
My friend used to tell me (and still does) that why I listen to such angry Metal music, why I enjoy listening to odd time signatures of Progressive music, why I feel the same as Corey Taylor when he screams, why when I hear Jymz’s cry, it resonates something in me, and guess what, I couldnt explain it. I can just play him the tracks and let him grasp it (or not) and he wonders why.
By doing that, in the short term its hard to do so and say “Ok” and by heart but in the long term that you grow more and understand them, you won’t regret judging them.
This whole comment is just my 0.02$ and I just wanted to share it with you, I’m sorry if I talked like a friggin preacher or anything.
My post was not about judging people, even if it seemed so (which I don’t think it did.)
It was more like “let my heart go”, a cry for people to exclude me sometimes (well, most of the time) and let me be.
If I seemed angry it was because I was. This does irritate me.
By the way, I’m sure you have noticed that people tolerate our way of music or happiness or life much less and much worse than they expect us to tolerate theirs’.
I mean, how many times have people told the likes of me to turn down their friggin headphones in public places, in contrast to the number of taxi drivers that have heard such thing? It’s improbable that everyone just likes all the different kinds of garbage that people play in their cars!
So why they see fit for them to hate rock and metal and be loud and clear in declaring so, but not the other way around? And this extends pretty well to many more aspects of our lives against the society.
My main objection, I guess, was about how the common gives itself right to invade the uncommon, how the average does not tolerate the edge-case but expects to receive it.
I felt really sorry when i read this post. I’m wondering that how silly i was all these years thinking that every one even you sometimes likes to be drunk, or maybe over drunk, thinking to “just” nothing, laughing to a crack on the wall and enjoy the ability to turn yourself into a brainless monkey, pay the price to loos your rationality, shake yourself like a zombie even with that shit music, share a cigar with your friends and at last … forget every thing in the next morning.
So sorry.
@that random guy NOT:
Of course I do!
I have already written that my kind of parties either have a lot of alcohol, or better music!
Most of the parties I attend have both (thank the gods!)
The irritating parties are mostly family gatherings, that unfortunately you cannot evade. Not that all family gatherings are irritating either!