Only if your name is Jackson Pollock.
[QUOTE=Beadalin]
I’d also argue that threads about the great pieces of literature/art/film (and even TV) may spur people to seek those pieces out, even if they’re too late to participate in the discussion. I just finished reading Scott McCormack’s The Road, and the first thing I did was look up old threads about it to see what other Dopers thought. Too late for me to revive those threads, but I did read them. Same goes for lots of other stuff, for me.
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Interesting, is it anywhere as depressing as Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”?
And anyone with eyeballs knows that the Venus de Milo is way hotter than the Mona Lisa. It seems that we all agree on that point.
So broadly speaking, anything which SBSO does not understand or enjoy is highbrow and anything which he does tap into is lowbrow.
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
I never said I wanted it to be raised.
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I’ve been following along, slowly and with much trepidation, but this is the limit.
What the hell, old chap, eh? You poke and prod at popular SDMB forums and threads, get hostile and defensive, and start er, um–ODD threads about horrible acts, and now you’re just yanking our collective chains? Talk about low brow–your posts reveal a taste that is below plebian.
You’ve managed to anger even such a dedicated Anglophile as myself. Thank God the other Brits here aren’t as stiff-rumped wankers blowing hot air AND smoke.
And I am left asking myself why I am battling wits with an unarmed opponent. Good day to you sir; I am late for my Monty Python rerun.
:rolleyes:
[QUOTE=anyrose]
what exclusively ought we to discuss in a forum called Café Society?
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Coffee and Coffee shops perhaps?
after all, Starbucks is rather lowbrow, innit? 
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
Here are all the topics in it at the moment, sorted into high and low brow:
High brow:
Well-known or well-respected art you would never hang on your walls
Horace (Horatius)
Low brow:
The Simpsons Movie review thread (Spoilers)
Emotional songs
The Simpsons Movie (the bad edit)
I miss House!
What’s Your Signature Dish? ( 1 2 )
Anyone seen Hairspray?
Nimoy to play Spock in new Star Trek film
Truly funny foreign comedies?
Oooh! Steampunk Stuff! ( 1 2 )
Ninja Warrior/Japanese Language Question
Geico Cavemen = Black Peps?
Huh? Are we supposed to be wearing high-tops again?
What makes a curry/kebab compelling eating after a night out?
Songs they’d NEVER let contestants perform on American Idol ( 1 2 3 )
Watchmen Casting News
Fun to read non-fiction books
Jeff Corwin’s Alaska series…factual errors
Bands you can’t believe are still performing
MLB: How’s your team doing? How about vs. what you expected? ( 1 2 )
Harry Potter #7: (SPOILERS APLENTY): Now that you’ve read it… ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 … Medieval: Total War 2 Cooperative Campaign…The Revenge ( 1 2 )
Scariest moments in funny series
Crappy books turned into decent movies ( 1 2 )
Who wants to be a Superhero Season 2 TONIGHT
Horace (Horatius)
Steroids in different sports. . .
American Supermarkets
Movie to Play to Movie
Chitlins
How can I watch “The Star Wars Holiday Special?”
How great they are, these British films
So You Think You Can Dance 7/25-26
What songs have three or more “Superstars” singing in them?
Are there epic foreign movies?
What Makes A Movie An “Epic”?
Pirate Master: The rest of season one ( 1 2 3 )
Finish the Hardboiled Detective story: “A Beautiful Corpse”
Kevin James illusion on America’s Got Talent
Free Original Music for your project
Hell’s Kitchen 7/23/07
yankees in playoffs
$50 to the Potter Predictions winner
Keeping balls hit into the stands at sports events.
Schilling’s latest comments on Bonds & Big Mac.
Universe on The History Channel
Need downloadable games for MIL
Manga for Adults
Fantasy for people who don’t like Fantasy ( 1 2 )
Phantom Dennis
VERY low brow
Why did the risotto taste and smell like vagina? ( 1 2 )
You might feel that this unrepresentative, but I disagree.
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Small British Shop Owner, I have to disagree with how you sorted these. The Simpsons and foreign movies are not lowbrow. The Simpsons is lowbrow and highbrow; there are jokes that are very sophisticated and there are jokes that are very crude. The thread “What Makes a Movie An Epic” is about a very highbrow discussion question.
The Simpsons Movie review thread (Spoilers)
The Simpsons Movie (the bad edit)
Truly funny foreign comedies?
Are there epic foreign movies?
What Makes A Movie An “Epic”?
On the other hand, threads like these (that involve the majority of television programming) are lowbrow. I consider the shows lowbrow and therefore I consider the threads about the shows lowbrow.
Hell’s Kitchen 7/23/07
So You Think You Can Dance 7/25-26
[QUOTE=Frank]
I am, frankly, bewildered as to why those of you who want to discuss “high-brow” topics in CS simply don’t start some threads about what you are interested in discussing.
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Bingo. SBSO, if you think Cafe Society is too lowbrow, then go start some goddamned highbrow threads. This is a participatory medium.
Or, failing that, shut the hell up.
Ha ha! Oops. Really should have checked that, but once again, posted too fast. Someday I will learn. For now, I am content to wonder who Scott McCormack might be.
And stretch, good to know I am not alone!