by chrondog Sat Apr 12, 2014 12:24 am
C-poots wrote:I just don't get why you have to always post like you are an expert on every subject. You admittedly wear ill-fitting clothing you buy from thrift-shops, but you are going to explain what "fashion observers generally do"? I just find it obnoxious. You even admit to having made up one of the two terms I asked about so I feel at least 50% justified in my question.
should i start every post with "in my opinion" or "this is how i see it"? this is just another twist on the debates we had on this board years ago about whether opinion on music should aim for objectivity or subjectivity. every post i make is just a reflection of what i think and how i understand a given topic. that's why i'm posting on a message board. because i like to have other people introduce me to topics and i can try to flesh out my thoughts on them.
maybe, as Waylon has pointed out in the past, i use terms like "obviously" or "generally" too much and it comes off as attempting to be definitive about a subject when i actually invite criticism. "generally" doesn't mean, to me, that i think i have my finger on the pulse of objective reality and what 50% + 1 of people are doing. it just means, from where i'm sitting, this is how i perceive things to be. i want people to challenge my assertions and give me a taste of their worldview and how its different from mine.
if you don't think camo is currently a trend, i'd love to hear who your fashion trendsetters are. i'd love to hear how you think the modern camo trend is new or different from camo trends in the past and maybe isn't part of a cycle. i'd love to be asked to clarify a made up word like "trendware" by someone who came across as actually curious.
i make up terms because i am having fun and using colloquial language. i went into a douchy spiel about what "fashion observers generally do" because you asked me another douchy question. i just matched your patronizing tone in my second post. i think there's a markedly different tone in my second post from what i thought was a lighthearted first post about how people wears lots of camo.
i guess i just continue to find it a feigned ignorance that you don't understand, at least a little, where my persona is coming from after all these years and figure you'd rather just be a sourpuss about it.
C-poots wrote:Anyway, Sorry Chrono I won't be such a butthead anymore, I pretty much knew what you meant by those terms as you already know.
it's all gravy and/or bridge over troubled water, my friend
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