# 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:** 183
**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, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3937 "2025-02-15T22:23:47Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Those are all genres within the music industry. I’ll also mention that troglodytes like Magiver don’t consider it music, despite how diverse the genre is. So the idea of “music industry” probably doesn’t even come into consideration. ---
**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 15, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3938 "2025-02-15T22:51:36Z")
Wait. I thought “_rapPING Industry_” was the topic/post that was in some kinda error. (Sorry, Wolfpup, but it is a titch too much) We all understood what that poster meant, isn’t that all that is necessary, if the goal is to be understood? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3939 "2025-02-15T22:56:48Z")
Yeah “rapping industry” to me just seems idiomatically incorrect: it’s something I’ve never heard anyone say. To me the term, if it existed, seems excessively focused on rap as a lyrical delivery form, which is a weird thing to base an industry off of, whereas “rap industry” is more obviously about “rap music”, which is music using rapping and backed by hip hop music by default. Maybe if there were a music school whose primary focus was on how to teach people to rap, I guess that could be considered part of the “rapping industry”. ---
**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 15, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3940 "2025-02-15T23:00:17Z")
It’s a word easier read than said. I guess. We know the meaning but it feels strange to say it. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3941 "2025-02-15T23:10:59Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > both incompetent **and** malicious. Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. - Grey’s Law > [@Ludovic](#): > > Yeah “rapping industry” to me just seems idiomatically incorrect: it’s something I’ve never heard anyone say. It’s a phrase a disguised alien, trying to make light conversation on an innocuous topic to fit in with the hoo-mans, might use. It’s denotatively sufficient but almost a complete neologism. It practically screams “I have no actual knowledge of this subject!” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3942 "2025-02-16T00:18:14Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > 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. Ironically, “Industrial” is a genre of music, so it’s too bad nobody says “The Industrial 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 16, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3943 "2025-02-16T02:45:32Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > It’s a phrase a disguised alien, trying to make light conversation on an innocuous topic to fit in with the hoo-mans, might use. Now I’m imagining a Coneheads sketch where Cypress Hill was the musical guest and participated. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3944 "2025-02-16T04:29:05Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Ironically, “Industrial” is a genre of music, so it’s too bad nobody says “The Industrial Industry”. Maybe they’re too busy industrialing. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3945 "2025-02-16T09:37:49Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Ironically, “Industrial” is a genre of music, so it’s too bad nobody says “The Industrial Industry”. I like my industrial music to be hand made in small batches. You know, artisanal industrial. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3946 "2025-02-16T09:42:08Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’ll also mention that troglodytes like Magiver don’t consider it music, despite how diverse the genre is. I don’t know why anybody bothers engaging with that thick-skulled boob any more. What an irritating, pigheaded maroon. ---
**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 16, 2025, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3947 "2025-02-16T09:47:45Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I don’t know why anybody bothers engaging with that thick-skulled boob any more. I’ve had him on ignore for a long time now. It’s better to act as if he’s already banned. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3948 "2025-02-16T17:13:59Z")
Seriously, what is everyone hoping to accomplish. He’s an angry man who hates hip-hop and doesn’t want to think about it. He just wants to complain. Guys like him have been around since the 80s. You aren’t going to engage with him on a meaningful level. Leave him be to yell at streetlights and fire hydrants. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3949 "2025-02-17T00:56:15Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You know, artisanal industrial. Don’t they call that indie industrial? Indiestrial for short. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3950 "2025-02-18T13:10:47Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > One can, in moments of leisure, pass the time. But any purported organized activity that helps pass the time is a “pastime”. To be fair, referring to the Super Bowl as “pass time” isn’t inaccurate… ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3951 "2025-02-18T15:51:53Z")
It is an absolute wonder that anyone engages with Czarcasm. I regret trying to offer useful information to him in the gravity marble music video question he posed. The way he responds to people trying to actively engage with him is just so fucking ugly. What an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3952 "2025-02-18T15:59:00Z")
I have definitely stopped engaging with him, due to his board persona. If you coated a porcupine’s quills in poison ivy juice and attached it to a sandblaster, it’d still be less irritating than how he acts toward folks in discussions. I don’t have time for that, which is too bad, because under the abrasiveness he often has interesting things to say. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3953 "2025-02-18T16:00:04Z")
He absolutely does - and he’s smart as hell. He’s just too toxic to engage with anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3954 "2025-02-18T16:01:37Z")
Well not smart enough to figure out how to post a link to a YouTube video. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3955 "2025-02-18T16:02:32Z")
Has anyone noticed that he seems… Worse about it… Lately? I’ve also noticed maybe 6 or 7 times over the last couple months when he said something, was responded to, and reacted with incredulity that anyone would think he said the thing he just said. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3956 "2025-02-18T16:07:21Z")
Thanks for the examples. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=182) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=184)