[QUOTE=Fish]
It’s not the one about Corn Flakes, I hope? :smack: 
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You’ll never know 'till you start them all!
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts]
Man, I cannot wait for your guest membership to be up. From one of your first topics asking “Why should I sign up?” I just had a feeling you’d be nothing but trouble. You just strike me as a grade A troll.
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Unforutunately for you then, I will be signing up, and taking the two year membership option with it 
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts]
Man, I cannot wait for your guest membership to be up. From one of your first topics asking “Why should I sign up?” I just had a feeling you’d be nothing but trouble. You just strike me as a grade A troll.
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Look, I said I’m sorry! It was just a few Corn Flakes.
With milk.
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried]
I don’t know if George Bernard Shaw is highbrow or lowbrow, but yesterday, in his National Public Radio segment Writer’s Almanac, Garrison Keillor mentioned that it was George Bernard Shaw’s birthday, and repeated this quote from the great playwright (very appropriate to this venue, in that it’s a good rule to live by on message boards):
“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
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Well if wrastlin’ won’t work we’ll be makin’ bacon.
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
Unforutunately for you then, I will be signing up, and taking the two year membership option with it
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Touche.
Well, I hope you’re not wasting your money, for your sake. If you’re really serious about staying and trying to “modify” your behavior, I’d suggest to take an even further step back then you’ve apparently thought you’ve already taken and adjust accordingly.
Good luck to you.
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts]
Touche.
Well, I hope you’re not wasting your money, for your sake. If you’re really serious about staying and trying to “modify” your behavior, I’d suggest to take an even further step back then you’ve apparently thought you’ve already taken and adjust accordingly.
Good luck to you.
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Nope. I’ve adjusted before and had the adjustments used against me. I will use the dope for two main purposes:
- I will be able to offer answers to finance (in the broadest sense) or motoring matters, as well as some other less common subjects.
- I will take advantage of my anonymity to get involved with, and start, discussions about controversial subjects.
And to hell with what anyone else thinks.
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
- I will take advantage of my anonymity to get involved with, and start, discussions about controversial subjects.
And to hell with what anyone else thinks.
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Snipped.
You know what? I had a sudden change of heart.
That’s it! You go at it. Boy has the dope needed someone like you for a long time. Never let them tell you you’re doing wrong! Don’t go down without a fight!
Come on, mods, just one “pulls up a lawn chair” here?
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
I could modify your definition somewhat: high brow being things that appeal to the intellect, and have previously appealed to the intellect of (function yet to be determined) of others.
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Your reluctance to include film is surprising, then, many films having appealed to the intellect of many intellectuals for quite a while now. Is there some fundamental difference between discussion of cinema and, say, discussion of novels or discussion of plays?
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
Your reluctance to include film is surprising, then, many films having appealed to the intellect of many intellectuals for quite a while now. Is there some fundamental difference between discussion of cinema and, say, discussion of novels or discussion of plays?
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Only tradition, which is obviously evolving (see the film studies departments being formed at universities).
Oddly enough, I feel that for something to cnsidered high brow, the “average Joe” mentioned before should consider it to be high brow. I don’t consider films to have reached that point yet.
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
Oddly enough, I feel that for something to cnsidered high brow, the “average Joe” mentioned before should consider it to be high brow. I don’t consider films to have reached that point yet.
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I guess it’s hard to argue against your feelings if you admit they don’t make sense. Are you saying film isn’t highbrow until most people think it’s highbrow, and all opera is highbrow because people think it’s highbrow?
[QUOTE=Marley23]
I guess it’s hard to argue against your feelings if you admit they don’t make sense. Are you saying film isn’t highbrow until most people think it’s highbrow, and all opera is highbrow because people think it’s highbrow?
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Sort of, yes.
I make no pretence that my opinions make sense. I am a human being, after all. One of the greatest errors that a human being can make is to think that they are logical.
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
Only tradition, which is obviously evolving (see the film studies departments being formed at universities).
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Yeah, some of those film studies departments have been “being formed” for decades now!
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
I make no pretence that my opinions make sense. I am a human being, after all. One of the greatest errors that a human being can make is to think that they are logical.
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Fair enough, but in that case, why bother criticizing everybody’s tastes in the first place?
[QUOTE=Marley23]
Fair enough, but in that case, why bother criticizing everybody’s tastes in the first place?
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I’m going to bed now, but first:
I can’t say this enough. This thread is only in the pit because I understand that the pit is the appropriate forum for commenting on the SDMB. This is not a pitting
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
Only tradition, which is obviously evolving (see the film studies departments being formed at universities).
Oddly enough, I feel that for something to cnsidered high brow, the “average Joe” mentioned before should consider it to be high brow. I don’t consider films to have reached that point yet.
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“being formed”? “Being formed”?! Good God, man, are you 102? Film studies has been in place in universities for at least 50 years now! Y’know what they’re teaching about now? Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Sandman! Marvel Comics! How do I know this? My husband is a professor with classes on all these topics. At a prestigious university. He’s even gasp been to professional conferences in other countries where he’s delivered respectable academic papers on X-Files!
He’s just upset because his base-ball game was cancelled due to a brawl between nativist gangs and Irishmen, and someone forcibly shaved off his mustachio.
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
I can’t say this enough. This thread is only in the pit because I understand that the pit is the appropriate forum for commenting on the SDMB. This is not a pitting
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Do you think that’s a complex point or something? I get it. I said you’re criticizing everybody’s tastes, and your OP says
My emphasis. Is this getting through to you? When you say “low brow” and “disappointing,” you’re clearly making a disparaging comment about it. And I think your use of “critical” more than justifies my use of the word “criticizing.”
:rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
I’m going to bed now, but first:
I can’t say this enough. This thread is only in the pit because I understand that the pit is the appropriate forum for commenting on the SDMB. This is not a pitting
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The poster you’re replying to wasn’t saying anything about why you put this in the pit, or calling it a pitting.
By virtue of relegating people’s posts into what you believe is “highbrow” vs “lowbrow” you are criticising people’s tastes - you’re saying their taste in entertainment is somehow less worthy than other forms of entertainment, due to some arbitrary standard you’ve set. It would be criticism regardless of whether it’s here, in CS itself or up in ABTM.
If you’re going to sit back and just wash over everything you’ve said previously with “…but this is just my opinion and everyone knows opinions are illogical and thus not to be taken seriously” (paraphrasing) then why say it in the first place? Why not keep your “illogical” opinions to yourself and try not to piss off your fellow netizens by telling them their choices of leisure are low or base?
[ETA]: Saw Marley’d responded for themselves, so adapted my response to take out a guess at what they were saying.
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]
I have reported this post.
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Just report, don’t post that you have. We have a rule about that.
I’m sensing a logical disconnect.
If something is “highbrow” because Joe Average thinks it is — that is, “this is too rich, too snooty, too pretentious and intellectual for me to enjoy” — then why in the world would he expect an average board cross-section to predominantly be speaking of such things?