I have to say, you guys are doing quite a dance right here.
Has anyone else noticed the irony that a thread started by tdn about advice he doesn’t believe and is sick of hearing, has turned into him offering advice that Priceguy doesn’t believe and is sick of hearing?
Jesus, guys, get a room!
So you aren’t mystified, you are just griping because you fully understand the importance of dancing. So sorry…silly of me to misunderstand you.
Good point!
Of course, the advice I was rejecting boils down to “Just sit around doing nothing and good things are guaranteed to happen”, and what I was offering boils down to “Don’t give up on yourself.” Maybe it’s just in my imagination that there’s a world of difference there.
I’m pretty sure that “Just sit around doing nothing” was not the intent of the advice given. It’s more like, “Do stuff that makes you happy, and get out of the house so other people can see you being happy.”
You know, you have been told dozens of times already that you have this wrong, and yet you still keep repeating it.
So maybe you shouldn’t be moaning about anyone else.
Which he’s been told dozens of times already in this thread, yet he’s complaining that someone else is being dense.
I understand that now, but it doesn’t change what I was thinking when I started the thread. So no, I’m not repeating it. But I’ll tell you what – convince the admins to give us a more powerful editing tool, and I’d be happy to go back to all of my previous posts and retype them to reflect my new understanding.
Yes, I get that now. Why people think I haven’t learned anything from this thread is beyond me.
When you say things that sound like you don’t get it, people will try to make you get it. But hey, now I know you get it, so I can put away the hammer.
But what if sitting around the house doing nothing is what makes you happy? Betcha don’t have an answer for that, smart guy!
No, I am mystified. If you explained the importance of dancing, I missed it. A clarification would be appreciated.
I’m curious about the form these lessons of yours took. Were these people trying to teach you to waltz or something, because that’s pretty fucking hard actually. Most people I know aren’t highly trained dancers or anything remotely like that, they just get out there and sort of randomly move their extremities, or orbit a point on the floor with a partner.
What do you think webcams are for?
There’s an excellent thread in IMHO about it. It’s very informative!
I actually went to a ball (I guess you Yanks would call it a prom) once and learned some waltz in preparation. I sucked at it, but I could at least do it, by mechanically learning the movements by rote. I’ll never be good about something like that before six billion years past the heat death of the universe, but I am able to do it. Similarly, I can slow dance if I can hold my partner.
It’s actually the club hopping around stuff with the “randomly move their extremities” parts that I find impossible (with the various disclaimers about special occasions as detailed above). I think explaining this will be like a person without a visual cortex trying to explain a lack of sight to a seeing person, but I’ll try.
In short, I’m a freak. A mutant. I’m rhythmically disabled. Usually, if I concentrate, I can find the rhythm of a given song and tap along with a finger or my foot or something. It’s not a sure thing; as I was reading this thread earlier today I tried to do it to a Nerina Pallot song and failed. But usually, with most songs, I can locate the rhythm and keep it if I work at it. Sometimes, when I’m really preoccupied by something else, it even happens spontaneously.
However, then I watch someone dancing, and that’s where the disconnect hits. I’m told I’m supposed to move to the rhythm - but they don’t do that, as far as I can tell. Moving to the rhythm, to me, must be like transferring the foot-tapping to my limbs or entire body. And that’s not what’s happening when people dance. In fact, I can’t see any connection between the music and their dancing. Have you seen The Fifth Element? Remember the scene where Milla Jovovich kicks Mangalore ass to the tunes of sci-fi opera? That’s what moving to the rhythm should look like, to my mind. The music goes bing, she goes whap at the same time.
Now, this disability has its advantages. For example, I dance equally well without music as with it. Not many people can say that.
'preciate it.
So, you’re saying I should start my own porn site?
He’s saying you’re wasting opportunities by even asking. Get going.