# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 182
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3917 "2025-02-13T04:03:39Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I don’t think it was BS what @Jasmine posted. I feel the same way. > A thread on Rap and Hiphop is gonna go down the “these kids and their music” flame road. Just because you agree with the opinion, that doesn’t justify threadshitting. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3918 "2025-02-13T04:05:04Z")
Here we go again. Prepare for another 50 post hijack about Beck & opinions ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3919 "2025-02-13T04:14:38Z")
Known threadshitter defends threadshitting as perfectly alright by shitting in yet another thread? Color me shocked! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3920 "2025-02-13T04:46:45Z")
Oh, my bad… ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3921 "2025-02-13T13:48:01Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The OP of the thread might’ve considered the audience. It led to hurt feelings asking about rap and hiphop Completely disagree, aside from a couple of threadshits, and a couple of “why are you bothering” posts, there was a flood of positive responses making an effort to fight the ignorance of us old white people who don’t get rap. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3922 "2025-02-13T17:52:23Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Completely disagree, aside from a couple of threadshits, and a couple of “why are you bothering” posts, there was a flood of positive responses making an effort to fight the ignorance of us old white people who don’t get rap Yeah, I read that thread with some interest. I usually can’t catch enough of the words and can almost never catch enough of the references to understand what’s going on in rap; but that doesn’t mean that I think there’s nothing going on worth listening to, which would be something else entirely. I was glad to see some explanations given. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3923 "2025-02-14T15:37:44Z")
So weird. Philster comes back from a nearly-5-year hiatus to insult a newb that raised a 20-year-old zombie (IMHO forum, “Why do truckers cut people off”) and gets bent out of shape for being modnoted for being an actionable asshole. And then insultingly demands a mod ban them because they’re just that butt-hurt. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3924 "2025-02-14T15:40:35Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > And then insultingly demands a mod ban them because they’re just that butt-hurt. Death by moderator. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3925 "2025-02-14T15:48:43Z")
Well he sure showed that truckers are _not_ assholes. /s ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3926 "2025-02-14T22:18:39Z")
**Drive-By Truckers** tickets to the summer concert tour go on sale TODAY! I’ll be at the box office tonight, for a different show. How convenient! What? This _isn’t_ about Truckers? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3927 "2025-02-15T00:36:22Z")
Wow. Former Doper just so happens to delurk after a long absence just to insult a newb who inadvertently summons him to a thread that he participated in years earlier. He gets butthurt and promptly commits suicide-by-mod. WTFH? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3928 "2025-02-15T00:47:16Z")
Full moon. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3929 "2025-02-15T20:20:43Z")
And Magiver weighs in too, > [@Would rap/hip hop/KL fans explain the Superbowl halftime show to me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-rap-hip-hop-kl-fans-explain-the-superbowl-halftime-show-to-me/1014131/131): > > You’re right. It’s a wheelhouse devoid of melody or music. A completely different form of entertainment. It’s sad that it’s often filled with misogyny and the “N” word. For reasons unknown the rapping industry seems to spawn violence from within it’s ranks. I don’t see the value it adds to a national passtime. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3930 "2025-02-15T20:52:18Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > And Magiver weighs in too, I’m not interested in that thread, but Magiver often pisses me off with his intransigence and pseudo-expertise on virtually everything, so let me at least indulge in a bit of pedantry related to that quote: > [@Would rap/hip hop/KL fans explain the Superbowl halftime show to me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-rap-hip-hop-kl-fans-explain-the-superbowl-halftime-show-to-me/1014131/131): > > It’s a wheelhouse devoid of melody or music. That is not at all the metaphorical meaning of “wheelhouse”. > [@Would rap/hip hop/KL fans explain the Superbowl halftime show to me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-rap-hip-hop-kl-fans-explain-the-superbowl-halftime-show-to-me/1014131/131): > > For reasons unknown the rapping industry seems to spawn violence “The rapping industry”? There is indeed such a thing as “rap”, and a “rap music industry”, but the only “rapping” that should ever be spoken about is in this context: _Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door._ > [@Would rap/hip hop/KL fans explain the Superbowl halftime show to me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-rap-hip-hop-kl-fans-explain-the-superbowl-halftime-show-to-me/1014131/131): > > seems to spawn violence from within it’s ranks **Its** ranks – **its**!! “It’s” is a contraction of “it is”. > [@Would rap/hip hop/KL fans explain the Superbowl halftime show to me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-rap-hip-hop-kl-fans-explain-the-superbowl-halftime-show-to-me/1014131/131): > > I don’t see the value it adds to a national passtime. One can, in moments of leisure, pass the time. But any purported organized activity that helps pass the time is a “pastime”. \ ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3931 "2025-02-15T21:15:10Z")
They say, “Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence." I believe Magiver is both incompetent **and** malicious. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3932 "2025-02-15T21:30:33Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > “The rapping industry”? There is indeed such a thing as “rap”, and a “rap music industry”, but the only “rapping” that should ever be spoken about is in this context: > > _Once upon a midnight dreary, > while I pondered, weak and weary, > Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— > While I nodded, nearly napping, > suddenly there came a tapping, > As of some one gently rapping, > rapping at my chamber door._ As I understand it ([and Wikipedia apparently agrees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapping)), “rapping” is a perfectly appropriate word to describe what people like Kendrick Lamar do. What other verb would you recommend instead? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3933 "2025-02-15T21:43:40Z")
You would say “rap industry”, just like the “rock industry” and “jazz industry”. We don’t refer to a “rocking industry” or a “jazzing industry”. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3934 "2025-02-15T22:09:58Z")
Nor does anyone refer to a Rap or Rock or Jazz industry. Those are all genres within the music industry. It’s like referring to the Chardonnay industry. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3935 "2025-02-15T22:20:21Z")
Though “Rap Industry” sounds like a good name for a music act. It’s also apparently the name of a hip-hop/R&B magazine. > **[RAP INDUSTRY - Hip Hop Videos - Rap News - Music and more](https://rapindustry.com/)** > > Rap Videos: latest news, music, artists, & albums from Rapindustry.com. Find out about your favorite rappers, listen to new music, and watch the latest videos. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3936 "2025-02-15T22:21:38Z")
It’s not used as often but it is used. Search up “[rock industry](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22rock+industry%22+site%3Arollingstone.com)” or “[jazz industry](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22jazz+industry%22+site%3Anytimes.com)”. Or “[rap industry](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22rap+industry%22+site%3Arollingstone.com)”, for that matter. ~Max [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=181) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=183)