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randyz · Post by **randyz** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:20 am

Roy: There's nothing wrong with liking what you like. As a teenager in the 1970's, I thought it would be weird not to know every song on the pop chart. The other day I didn't recognize the name of a single performer on a pop chart. It momentarily made this 45-year-old feel like a relic, but I got over it.

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:16 pm

I do like a lot of New Country, guitar led stuff Brooks and Dunn, Toby Keith, I suppose I am guilty of not keeping up with music trends but what it really comes down to is I can't identify with bands a hell of lot younger then me, same in life to some degree,I was down sized as Americans call it a few months back and took a job at a far less salary, but being perfectly honest found it difficult to adjust to some kid 25 years younger than me telling me what to do,so quit, I'll get over it I hope, but when for the last 25 years the boot's been on the other foot as they say, it is difficult. Or am I just getting old!

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:28 pm

Oh well... on the other hand, if we consider the Searchers, for example (yup!), at the time they had most of their hits - they all were 22-25 at the time! Usually, i don't mind, but sometimes it occurs to me, "hey, those guys were younger than i am now at the time they recorded it!"
(oh yeah... one of my bosses, who counts my salary, is 5 years younger than me, right out of the University... well, i say it's no problem, but do i really think so?..)

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:30 pm

"Coloured Americans"?

Nothing too personal, but I believe your time warp comment might be appropriate, Roy!

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:42 pm

Yeah, I'd have to say...that went out with the 'Flesh' crayon in the Crayola box...

paulv63 · Post by **paulv63** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:44 pm

That reminds me of an ol' clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSPnG_pMUf8&feature=Recent&page=14&t=t&f=b

Even my black friends got a kick outta this guy.

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:50 pm

I'd forgotten about the 'Flesh' colored Crayola, Dane, likely for good reason. We weren't too right-minded then, were we?

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:51 pm

That's what really drives me about all the PC rhetoric. We get issued a new PC word for everything every couple of years.
Black becomes African American, Indian becomes Native American (or North American).
Alternative lifestyle, _________ challenged, etc.
Every African American & Native North American I know calls themselves either Black or Indian respectively. I personally don't see the terms as any kind of an insult & neither do they.

Perhaps the good folks who come up with these terms figure that the extra time spent learning, spelling, & typing these words keeps people out of slightly more trouble than the old terms!

No offense meant to anyone, but if the new terminology is meant to make us think a little more sensitively about others, then it's failed miserably from the evidence I've seen.

We need real education on the subject, not a change of subject.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:57 pm

Not to change the subject, but...once when I was working at the Drafting counter of a local Art store, a nicely-dressed professional-looking African American couple came in. They came straight up to my counter, and the woman asked (without the slightest hint of irony) if we had any flesh-colored markers...I just about froze up, then sent them on to the Graphics counter. I spent the next several minutes looking for hidden cameras, sure that one of my friends had put them up to it.

Incidentally, I consider myself a European American...no joke, just reality.

leftyguitars · Post by **leftyguitars** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:01 pm

Regarding that youtube clip, if we said that (but the other way round) here in England, we would be locked up for incitement to racial hatred.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:07 pm

There are only two things you can't say here: "I've got a bomb in my shoe" and "Up yours, Mr. Trump"...

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:12 pm

Great thing to say when crossing the border #374:
"Anything to declare?"
"Yeah, it's in the trunk, between the guns & the drugs!"

winston · Post by **winston** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:39 pm

Same here Peter.

That is gentlemen is not practising his right to freedom of speech IMO.

rkbsound · Post by **rkbsound** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:13 pm

Gee, Ronn, thanks for the words of advice!

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:01 pm

Not willin' to cause waves, just curious: is this "feministic" language i've read about somewhere ("shero", "herstory", etc, etc) a true thing or just a joke?.. In fact, being a linguist (or, to be more precise, a graduate from linguistic department), i cannot see any logic there - no offence meant, of course...