Yes, they are deadly indeed. I'm diabetic, and I have to look at sweets like that as "poison". Sweet, yummy, beautiful poison.

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I mostly see a kid who is woefully ignorant of how he's being manipulated by pop culture marketers.

Great point. My mom taught me about bell-bottoms at a very early age, and explained how quickly trends rise & fall. So I've been a skeptical consumer ever since.

I'm still wearing my bell bottoms.

I work on the theory that fashions return on a regular basis, so depending on the particular decade I'm either innovative and way ahead of the industry, bang up to date and fashionable or [most of the time] I'm cool and 'retro'.

Joking apart, a young guy used to come in our local boozer dressed exactly as Bitflipper describes - he came in one night with his designer punk [now there's an oxymoron] gear or including a brand new Clash T-Shirt.

I engaged him in polite conversation... "What's your favourite Clash album then mate?"

End of conversation.








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Joking apart, a young guy used to come in our local boozer dressed exactly as Bitflipper describes - he came in one night with his designer punk [now there's an oxymoron] gear or including a brand new Clash T-Shirt.

I engaged him in polite conversation... "What's your favourite Clash album then mate?"

I play a similar game with American Bible-thumpers. Most don't have a clue about any of the text inside the cover.

LOL - Don't try that with a Jehovah's Witness though!

I'm diabetic, and I have to look at sweets like that as "poison".

Same here. I haven't munched a lucious, gooey Cinnabon in years. Mmm. Ah, I gotta go get some cottage cheese.

LOL - Don't try that with a Jehovah's Witness though!

Why not? I have a friend who is a preacher's kid, knows the Bible like a theology grad student. He had great fun with the JW's and other evangelical sorts who came to his door. He saw it as an entertaining battle of wills -- would the JW's give up on him before he gave up on them!

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my personal opinion about metallica is that the drummer is an ****, the singer is a drunken redneck that cant sing (i remember very old concerts without autotune and i remember some concerts with autotune that cher could have sung), the new bassplayer looks like he is in the wrong band because he jumps around like metallica was a metal hiphop crossover-band and the only good album they ever made was "justice for all" and eventuylly those before - yet they were pretty primitive
now i now that there seem to be millions of metallica fans out there - yet i cant understand it - btw..bad taste is a very common thing and it wouldnt be statistically be very outstanding to have some million of people who just dont get it...
again FOR MY PERSONAL TASTE metallica is one of the most overrated bands ever - musically even megadeath kicks their butt....
if you like metal/trash metal there are /have been sooooo many better bands out there - metallica just are more likely to act commercially...to get publicity...

wow...overrated???ever been to a show? this is one of the most influential bands ever and will be worshipped for generations long after they are gone. say what you want, but i give em props for continuing to rock hard into middle age and thank them for influencing so much of my own playing. rock on metallica!!! (i think the album sounds killer...maybe people should listen to the music and focus less on the production quality). why not attack the artwork...oh, wrong forum! peace!

wow...overrated???ever been to a show? this is one of the most influential bands ever and will be worshipped for generations long after they are gone. say what you want, but i give em props for continuing to rock hard into middle age and thank them for influencing so much of my own playing. rock on metallica!!! (i think the album sounds killer...maybe people should listen to the music and focus less on the production quality). why not attack the artwork...oh, wrong forum! peace!

Amen!!!!!!

I'm not from Nebraska....but Kansas. I used to frequently play a club in Kearny called THE FIRESIDE - if I remember correctly. And some other club - will never remember the name of the city or the club in Western Nebraska.

If yall ever want to see a desolate, skanky, cold and windy as hell winter.....check out Nebraska. Holy crap! If you ever want to see a 40+ BELOW ZERO windchill....good times.

On one of our trips, during a blizzard from hell, we kept hearing this CRAZY sound coming from what seemed to be under the back wheels of our van, and we really didn't have as much power as usual. The road was all ice...snow blowing horizontally....finally the sun came up and we stopped at a shop in a small town to see what was wrong with our van.

Turned out to not be the van....but the axle had frozen solid on our u-haul trailer and we were actually dragging it behind the van on the ice/snow. The sound we kept hearing was the tires on the trailer occasionally hitting pavement as we dragged it along. Sounded like our back wheels were gonna fall off.