Do me a favour. When I ask you when a certain artist’s album will be available, don’t give me a smart ass answer. Just because your taste in music isn’t the same as mine, doesn’t give you the right to not do your job.
I purchase a CD, and politely ask you when the new [insert artist here] album comes out. You respond with “I dunno, probably when he stops getting in trouble”
I also suggest that you change the display, as the album that I did purchase was listed as the deluxe version, when in fact there were no deluxe versions ever shipped to your store, according to you. It had the price correct, but the item incorrect. I suggest that you might want to change that as it is undeniably incorrect (either the price is wrong or the item is wrong.) You brush it off “people keep switching it around.” The tag is WRONG! No matter where you put it, it’d be wrong. The tag is incorrect, not its location.
This isn’t the first time your staff have given me a snotty answer and I think it just might be because some of these hipster indie types look down on hip hop fans.
So yeah, when a paying customer asks a question, HELLO?! Answer it to the best of your ability. You could have checked it, it comes out in the next week or so, and I could have called you on your bullshit, but I was nice about it, brushed it off, even tried to make a bit of friendly conversation with you. “I can go home and look it up online” I say to myself. You weren’t trying to have it.
What, you’re too good to converse with a hip hop fan? Yet you know all about the legal troubles of the artist I inquired about? Fuck you.
I am one of the few who actually bothers to go out and support artists that I think deserve my hard earned money. I prefer a physical copy to digital, especially bootlegged illegal download. Also, I know that making and marketing music is hard work and downloading is stealing. People like you make me want to boycott your establishment, even if it is the best place that I know of to buy music.
Stop being rude to customers. I guarantee that if I had asked you about an artist whose music YOU enjoy you would have chatted it up with me, and looked up the fucking release date. Nice skin-tight brown corduroys by the way. They really compliment those pretentious fucking thick rimmed glasses and ear spacers. Dude you’re pushing 30, and are dressed like an awkward 15 year old, and have the nerve to look down your nose at me? Douchebag. —And You Wonder Why People Download
This article appears in Aug 25-31, 2011.
tommy? which store?
I’m sure I don’t have to tell anyone whose bitch this is.. You also don’t have to tell me that I should get over myself or that I have a chip on my shoulder. It’s ok, I know.
lol it was HMV at Mic Mac Mall PG. I called the manager and basically gave him this bitch word for word. He says he’ll talk to his staff about it. It honestly made me laugh more than anything.
Not only do you make no effort to answer my question but you find it necessary to make some sideways snarky remark about my taste in music? I bought the album I was inquiring about off iTunes last night, I probably would have pre ordered it from the store if the guy had, you know, done his job.
I live closer to Wal Mart but I like to support Canadian business. This is what I get. Fuckin snarky indie skinny pants wearing prick.
i figured it was hmv, sounds like a venereal disease^^ good on you for actually complaining
Ugh, the hipsters who work at this chain BUG ME.
They’ve always been nice to me, but then again, I don’t give two craps about what they think. I don’t buy things often there — I find their pricing is ridiculously high, and they don’t do price matching, which UGH. I couldn’t get the last two seasons of the gilmore girls at FS — they were only 19.99 there and this chain wanted to charge me 60 bucks! Screw THAT. AND my mom found her favorite TV show’s latest season for 20 bucks less at best buy.
I dunno, they’re ok for cheap dvds and stuff, but… eh.
Very valid Bitch, TJ. If they’re gonna sell it, they should *try* to sell it. Guys like this hipster doofus don’t realize they’re driving people to buy elsewhere, usually for cheaper, just so’s he can flash those fucking cords and ear spacers.
Hey Hipster- you should be facilitating peoples’ love of and purchase of the music they like.
Poseur POS.
p.s. What band are you in?
Is that place on Barrington still open? I might make the trip over the bridge going forward. In the past they’ve dropped their price to match HMV’s for me, and they’re knowledgeable and friendly. It’s almost as if they, I don’t know, value your business.
My friend went to buy the new Jay-Z and Kanye West album the other week when it came out at that same store, there were posters for it all over the place, it’s the number one album in the world right now, and the employee was friggin clueless.
I don’t like pop music but you can bet that if I worked at a record store and Britney was about to drop an album, I’d know about it. It would be my job to.
see, this is why you don’t support Canadian businesses or the music industry.
gets ya shit every time.
you wouldn’t have had to deal with douchebaggery if you were raping the internet like a normal person.
lol thank you wheelie, appreciate your support. I got nothing against hipsters until they start to look down on other people, especially for something as silly as taste in music. I can’t help what I like! Like it’s not hard enough to get people off their computers and into the record store in this day and age. They should be kissing my feet. The manager was good about it. I’ve gotten snark from managers in the past as well, not at that particular location.
Maybe not to many hip hop heads are qualified or want to work at HMV, fine, but I wish they’d make an effort to say to their staff “here’s a list of upcoming releases, people might ask about them” wouldn’t take long.
no tommy i think it’s gone. when i went to sam’s third floor, there were two different people who worked. one was very nice and approachable, t’other was a stuck-up sack of shit, who responded with grunts, sighs and eyerolls
You’re right zZz, he’s probably just mad because he knows that his job will be obsolete soon. Still I don’t like bootlegged music, I like quality.
Too bad, the guys at that place on Barrington were the coolest, and you could always find something you weren’t gonna find anywhere else in a million years. It’s a shame what the music industry has become.
Isn’t HMV a British company?
I think I know the shop you are asking about on Barrington, TJ. If it’s the same one, it’s closed. Has been for awhile now. I have bought from the HMV on SGR before and never had any problem with service. The employees always asked if I needed help finding anything and anytime I did, they were only too eager to look stuff up or point me in the right direction. I haven’t been in awhile, so it may have changed, I don’t know. The other option I have tried is Taz. They were pretty good with lots of new stuff but as they are a private run business, and deal a lot with older/used stuff too, they may not have all the latest music as it comes out. Something to think about.
bootlegged music CAN be decent depending on what the bit rate was set at while uploading.
When I had my pre-employment screening polygraph I had to list, to a police detective, every thing I’ve ever downloaded illegally off the internet.
THAT was fun.
I believe HMV is Bri ish, innit?
Such a shame that Sam’s is gone, wha? Thems knew their stuff!
yes snubiz and mel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMV_Group
aah sam’s, they were never snooty http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aMKRwKRbS58/Tke1…
Too bad on that I’ve never had any problem in there, must be the right people to ask when I’ve gone, side note, I used love the Sams on Barrington, I could spend hours in there
Groovey shot, PG! And then there was the boxing day sales!
My BF had a problem with SGR HMV. Twice he bought XBox cards and twice they were not activated. They kinda shrugged it off and didn’t help him at all.
Yeah I got some snark from the manager at the SGR HMV in the past. I complained about it and they said I wasn’t the first to complain about him, so it’s not just me.
my brother had the plaid one’s snubiz, i had purple and orange ones http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-page-main/e…
He looked like this guy, which is fitting because this is one of the first images that comes up when I Google’d “hipster douche” lol
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3482/330633…
He wasn’t smiling though.
http://www.sbpress.com/2008/10/17/guide-to…
Man hipsters look like fuckin 1970’s gypsy hobos from Romania. Girls are actually into these skeezy fuckwads?
Resist not evil. Whoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. Whoever shall disrespect your taste in music, show him also your manbag, so that he may disrespect your taste in accessories.
I’ve never had any problems with HMV on SGR, but I mostly buy anime there.
hey Tommy, if you make the trip over the bridge, bring the correct amount of change for the bridge this time
🙂
WTG TJ, you’ve cracked the top three commentators!
Lolz troodon4, Ivan and I were discussing ‘the top 3’ on Saturday (long story).
Methinks that maybe, it’s for today/this week, or some sort of average.
Maybe bird will see this and explain.
HI BIRD 🙂
Did you buy a fucking Lil Wayne album, TJ? I don’t think the bitch is overly legit. I would have taken the, “Maybe when he stops getting in trouble” remark as a joke honestly.
Then again I never had an issue shopping at either store. Even when I buy records still the folks selling are mad cool. That reminds me…
Hey Avast-
I go to SGr HMV simce it’s in my neighbourhood. The staff always asks if I have any needs or wants they can help me with. I have found them to be helpful and non-judgemental about my vid and music tastes.
To my face anyway… 🙂
most”artists” today, are usually one shot wonders, and if they do, get a second chance, fuck knows when they will put it out. do yourself a favor o.p., get some electro shock treatment, works about the same.
People buy CDs? LOL…..such old technology.
A (mildly) interesting Bitch based on two inter-twined themes: While there is, on the one hand, that of rude salesmen (sorry, salespersons), there is, on the other, the (slightly) more interesting reason for this rudeness, i.e., a snobbishness based on (slightly) differing musical tastes.
The more interesting question is the second, that is, on just what this snobbishness might be based on or, perhaps more properly, whether it is based on anything at all. More generally still, one could ask as to the neurological content of both the seller and the customer? What would their brain-states look like? Are they conceptual flat-liners?
The whole issue is obviously based on little more than the vague maunderings of the adolescent “mind.” I mean, grown men (and women, of course) discussing the merits of such a fatuous nature? My God, they should be ashamed! One can only hope that they will grow out of it soon.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
lol DON’T JUDGE ME DONARIOUS!! The funny thing is I wasn’t even gonna buy it, I was just making conversation really. But I did end up getting it off iTunes, and you know what? I enjoy it. Is it deep? No, it’s a bunch of punchlines thrown over beats but dammit he’s like the McDonalds of rap music, you know what you’re getting.
“the game is a bitch, I got my hand up her dress, and AK47 is my fuckin address”
lol works for me
Thanks guys, I couldn’t have done it without ya’s
“the more interesting question is the second etc”
I dunno. Both questions seem fairly pointless and designed to accomplish nothing useful.
RRSPs
: Wheeliep (Aug. 30, 10:15AM) – Define “useful.” Now, would THAT be “useful?”
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
lol the ironic thing is that hipsters are total conformists and true aficionados look down on them.
They’re rude because they don’t have an answer to your question and they want to convey that without looking like turds.
http://www.obsoleterecords.ca Your local record store Halifax. Lots of good hip hop selection.
ha ha, pushing 30 and dressing like an awkward 15 year old!
Thanks FS I’ve been lookin for a new place. I’ll check it out.
Well, MMan, you seem to be asking the same question, twice.
You ask “what is the reason” then second question is “what is it based on”.
And two, the motivation for your “2 questions” appears to he so that you can insult TJ et al: “conceptual flatliners”.
Any third parties want to contribute to this?
he’s a pink, hello kitty, dick mitten.
you’re welcome.
He’s jealous, and he’s unable to comprehend what is being said, so he hides his ignorance and shame behind a veneer of insults.
I just try my best to ignore him
Valid bitch TJ! I get a kick out of these hipster types who think they are all that and a bag of chips:) Working in a music store, you think they would have a wide range of music taste, or at least an awareness of what is out there. What a jerk.
obsolete is great and they don’t treat you like poo on their shoe
RRSPs
: Wheeliep (Aug. 30, 1:30PM) – In answer to Wheeliep’s query as to his view that my two questions appear identical, I refer him to an old quote of mine which still seems relevant. It is this: “Intelligence resides in the ability to make distinctions.” How does it apply to the present case?
Well, my first question related to the rudeness of the salesman. Why was he being rude? I determined, from the post, that the reason lay in his snobbishness regarding the musical tastes of the OP.
This then led to my second question which was – wait for it Wheeliep – what was the reason for his snobbishness? Contextual scrutiny revealed that there was no obvious reason. It was groundleszs. While their respective musical tastes might differ marginally, there were no grounds for snobbery. So, two conceptually distinct questions.
Wheeliep then adds an interesting wrinkle, asking a further question about my reasons for asking my two questions. He claims, without showing grounds, that it is to insult the salesman and the OP – ie., the reference to their being “conceptual flatliners.” But what if this is true? What if they ARE conceptual flatliners? In other words, can a true statement be an insult? I leave you to ponder the implications of this question.
Remember, “Intelligence resides in the ability to make distinctions.”
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
“Intelligence resides in the ability to make distinctions.” LOLZ, You rewriting the dictionary again Sméagol? Silly Stoor thinks that nobody knows how to read.
Intelligence ————————————
noun
1. capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
2. manifestation of a high mental capacity: He writes with intelligence and wit.
3. the faculty of understanding.
4. knowledge of an event, circumstance, etc., received or imparted; news; information.
5. the gathering or distribution of information, especially secret information.
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Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotional intelligence and problem solving.
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(1) : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason; also : the skilled use of reason
(2) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests)
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•Adaptability to a new environment or to changes in the current environment
•Capacity for knowledge and the ability to acquire it
•Capacity for reason and abstract thought
•Ability to comprehend relationships
•Ability to evaluate and judge
•Capacity for original and productive thought
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Nope, notheing about making distinctions.
You truly are: Annie Kleinmen, narcissistic epistemological solipsist, Ph-Duh.
And again “Your ignorance and closed mind are your greatests weaknesses.”
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.…
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: Wheeliep (Aug. 30, 1:30PM) – In answer to Wheeliep’s query as to his view that my two questions appear identical, I refer him to an old quote of mine which still seems relevant. It is this: “Intelligence resides in the ability to make distinctions.” How does it apply to the present case?
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Who are you talking to, MMan?
Surely it’s a sign of something (lacking) in the personality or (self-admired)intelligence of the speaker that he is incapable of talking to someone in the first person.
The tone of lecturing from on high is surely another form of weak insult, as was the “flatliner” crack” originally.
“what if they were”
Even with my lack of Philo Bonafides, I can see how weak and argument this is.
“MontrealMan masturbates to childrens’ underwear catalogs”
“What is your proof?”
“Well, what if he does?”
Airtight. Like Sebastian’s culo.
—– In other words, can a true statement be an insult? I leave you to ponder the implications of this question.——-
I think I get it, MMan.
When did you stop beating your wife?
That’s how it works, right everyone?
whelliep – You’ve hit the nail on the head.
Bit of a let down, isn’s it, when you realize what annie’s really all about.
RRSPs
: Wheeliep (Aug. 30, 10:36PM & 10:42PM)
Wheeliep appears to be experiencing severe conceptual cramps and Montrealman is happy to have arrived on the scene to administer philosophical first aid. Just a couple of points of variable interest:
(1) Wheeliep asks who I’m talking to. Wheeliep, look at the beginning of my post. Who’s name do you see there, Wheeliep? Why, Wheeliep, it’s yours! That’s who I’m talking to. Now, to the next question…
(2) Wheeliep has clearly pondered my question, “Can a true statement be an insult?” but the results were not encouraging. The philosophical point was to distinguish opinion from objective fact. (I’ve just finished spanking Avasto over on “Tolerate This” on this point.) Unfortunately, Wheeliep’s lack of philosophical training led him downward into irrelevant scatology and invective. A better example would be the assertion, “Hitler was an anti-Semite.” The point is that Hitler WAS an anti-Semite and so the statement cannot be construed an an insult. The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to the “conceptual flatliners.”
(2) Wheeliep, please tell The Turd about ORIGINAL THOUGHT. Such was my definition of “intelligence.” Such original philosophical thought is not to be found in dictionaries which deal only in tautologies.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
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(1) Wheeliep asks who I’m talking to. Wheeliep, look at the beginning of my post. Who’s name do you see there, Wheeliep? Why, Wheeliep, it’s yours! That’s who I’m talking to.
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That’s what I was talking about.
You appear to be talking about me in the third person, then talk directly to me.
Who. Are. You. Talking. To.
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(2) Wheeliep has clearly pondered my question, “Can a true statement be an insult?” but the results were not encouraging
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You still haven’t proven that your statement about “flatliners” was true.
You stated it, without evidence, then continued on as if it was the “truth”.
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Unfortunately, Wheeliep’s lack of philosophical training led him downward into irrelevant scatology and invective.
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I know many fine people who have studied philosophy, are published, even teach it. They are able to carry on Real Conversations involving the honest and equal exchange of ideas and opinions, so I can’t exactly blame your behaviour on proper “philosophical training”. It must stem from some pre-existing condition, and MMan’s “philosophical training” seems to have given him a framework to (self) legitimise this “condition”.
Would anyone else like to weigh in on this diagnosis?
PK? Hugo? Ivan?
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A better example would be the assertion, “Hitler was an anti-Semite.” The point is that Hitler WAS an anti-Semite and so the statement cannot be construed an an insult.
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Because everyone knows, and history has well documented Hitler’s anti semitism.
You saying someone is a “flatliner” is merely your opinion.
Please try again.
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(2) Wheeliep, please tell The Turd about ORIGINAL THOUGHT.
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You’re a big girl.
Do it yourself. 🙂
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A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
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Weetabix!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLUkpyTUi5M
I still think Hitler was Jewish to be honest. It’s documented that his entire cabinet were all Jews. The anti-Semite thing was just a cover up much like today’s Islamaphobia.
wheelie: MM is the type of intellectual who encourages people to have opinions, as long as they’re HIS opinions.
And if you wish not to engage him in pointless argument because you’re bored or just don’t feel like it he attacks you or even if you don’t see his post he attacks you for ignoring him or whatever.
*shrug*
I don’t really read his posts anymore. My eyes glaze over when I see them.
Why, Montrealman! You getting fresh with me? I do so enjoy a good spanking. BTW, how is that new optomotrist working out for you old chap? What’s that? You haven’t been to see him yet? Really? (See montrealman’s post 31 Aug, 10:09 AM) “Just a couple of points of variable interest:” and then he proceeds to number them 1, 2 and…um…2?? Oh dear. This persistent diminishing vision issue of yours, seems to be getting worse, MM.
“I know many fine people who have studied philosophy, are published, even teach it. They are able to carry on Real Conversations involving the honest and equal exchange of ideas and opinions, so I can’t exactly blame your behaviour on proper “philosophical training”. It must stem from some pre-existing condition, and MMan’s “philosophical training” seems to have given him a framework to (self) legitimise this “condition”. Would anyone else like to weigh in on this diagnosis?” – (wheeliep, 31 Aug, 11:18 AM) – Wheelie, you don’t need to be published or even a student of philosophy to see this in MM. If you go to the bitch Tolerate This, you will see where MM has arrogantly admitted to “self formulating” an alleged philosophical saying and instructed me to take it as truth and apply it to my own assertions about him. Just another example of this self-legitimacy you speak of.
My goodness, MM. That credibility of yours is certainly taking a beating this morning, isn’t it? (Wait! Am I asserting an objective truth about the world, or am I actually referring to the contents of my own mind?….)
I’ve seen Montrealman described as a narcissist, but I think he is more of a megalomaniac. Also, he seems the type of person who couldn’t climax unless he was staring at himself in a mirror. I do enjoy his posts though!
RRSPs
Thank you all for your kind thoughts. Montrealman does enjoy a good “rough and tumble” now and then. First to Wheeliep:
: Wheeliep (Aug. 31, 11:18PM) – I thought his question, “Who are you talking to”
was too simplisic even for Wheeliep. Then the penny dropped after I replied. Wheeliep was not speaking literally but rather in an exended, metaphorical sense. He was protesting, in other words, what he took to be my “de haut en bas” attitude. But, unsuprisingly, he is wrong.
His misconception arises from what is called “cognitive dissonance,” the fact that I speak in an “academic discourse,” a linguistic level far above his “demotic,” i.e. the language of the streets. It is in a “different register.” This is not “phoney” as Wheeliep supposes but rather is the accepted level of discourse one finds in international scholarly journals, a world in respect to which he is, of course, a stranger and in respect to which I am an “habitué.” My point is that the levelling should go up, not down. The rest of his comments are without merit and deserving of no reply.
This is true as well of the other comments except that of Avasto (and, of course Furious Styles) to whom I will respond on the “Tolerate This” thread. However, I’m off to Hawkesbury, Ontario tommorow for a little toot. I’m finishing off my 2005 vintage reds and starting my 2006s. I’ll see what the LCBO has in stock. Wish me luck. So Avasto must wait but Montrealman will be back, make no mistake.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Huh! He must be slumming. I find it rather strange that someone who touts himself as being of the “esteemed upper class” and above us speakers of the “language of the streets” would frequent the liquor store to shop for his wine. You’re going to be in Ontario anyway, why not cut out the middle man and go to the source, like the Niagara Valley region or perhaps Prince Edward County, (Huff Estates is a delightful and elegant little winery). Then again, perhaps this is a step up for you. I’m thinking that if you live in Montreal, (I’m guessing by your name?), you probably just pop down to your corner depanneur or local marche to stock up on your “vintages”, (Do they sell vintages with screw off tops?), and add some more colour to your undoubtedly, already gin-blossomed proboscis. (Hmmm, I wonder …perhaps I have it all wrong, MM. I wonder if I was mistaken in thinking that your failing eyesight was the soul reason for your inattention to detail as of late. Could it be that maybe you were just drunk? Or perhaps experiencing a touch of the “Wine Flu”? Yes, it’s all making more sense now.) In any case, enjoy your outing and don’t forget to pack your Purell. We’ll all miss you SO much.
Caught with his pants down, jerking furiously, MMan throws up an Elbow-Patched Ninja Smokescreen of baloney:
——His misconception arises from what is called “cognitive dissonance,” the fact that I speak in an “academic discourse,” a linguistic level far above his “demotic,” i.e. the language of the streets. It is in a “different register.” This is not “phoney” as Wheeliep supposes but rather is the accepted level of discourse one finds in international scholarly journals, a world in respect to which he is, of course, a stranger and in respect to which I am an “habitué.” My point is that the levelling should go up, not down. The rest of his comments are without merit and deserving of no reply.——
Dismissing the way everyone else in the world(including every PHD, Dr, artist, every day person I have met etc talks as “the language of the street” is a reflection of you, MMan. It exposes(further) your bias(as I correctly accused previously) against everyone else in the world but YOU, because they do not possess the Secret Language of the Philosopher.
This is akin to lawyers walking around in “normal society” speaking legalese, then looking down on everyone who doesn’t understand their “special” language.
Maybe you should avoid these “toots” before typing.
Though it *would* explain the smell.
In your favour, you managed to talk about me in the third person all the way though your missive, MMan. I appreciate the effort it took for you to accomplish this feat.
Enjoy drinking with other boorish snobs this weekend.
Weetabix!
—–language of the streets. It is in a “different register.” This is not “phoney” as Wheeliep supposes but rather is the accepted level of discourse one finds in international scholarly journals, a world in respect to which he is, of course, a stranger and in respect to which I am an “habitué.—–
(looks around)
This is not an “international scholarly journal”, you buffoon.
It’s the message board for a website. The title of te board is “Love The Way We Bitch”.
When you’re at this symposiums for pretentious dooshbags, talking about philosophy, do those guys think you’re a pompous windbag also?
You certainly are entertaining!
RRSps
WINE & THE HALIFAX UNDERCLASS
: Avasto (Sept. 1, 9:27AM & Wheeliep (9:41AM & 9:46AM)
One can only with great effort suppress one’s mirth at the responses to my wine-shopping post. It illustrates the deep differences between the view of alcohol consumption in Nova Scotia and Quebec.
Nova Scotia is a “rum culture” in which people drink to get drunk. Look at the posts of Avasto and Wheeliep – the very mention of wine suggests debauchery and drunkeness. There is a Puritan underlay to the culture which deplores the “Demon Rum.” It is the view, in other words, of a typically Underclass perspective.
A Quebecois, in contrast, looks at this cultue with incredulity. Wine, for him, is a part of the evening dinner. It is an integral part of life. He never drinks to get drunk which he rightly regards as a barbarism. For him, as we say in Italian, “Un giorno senza vino e comme un giorno senza sole.”
Take me. I never drink booze (i.e. distilled spirits) because of the taste and lack of dimension. I rarely drink beer, except possibly with a curry. However, I have an extensive walk-in wine cellar cellar downstairs containing vintage wines from both the New and Old Worlds and a small (30-40 bottles) for daily consumption but not, of course, at the same time (you buffoon). I have both researched and conducted wine tastings for many years with a half-dozen friends to our mutual enlightenment and enjoyment.
However these barbarians continue, in their simple-minded Underclass fashion, to equate wine consumption with drunkeness. Is there no limit to their degradation?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
i enjoy making _urry dishes monsieur, do you prefer seafood or poultry or veg? there are many spi_es in the _urry
What’s with the dearth of the letter C, PG?
it’s my computer at home, my tech support is gone (the boy) so rather than using k’s or leaving it blank i thought a hangman game would work better. so if you don’t see any c’s you know i’m home
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WINE & THE HALIFAX UNDERCLASS
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Spanking Nancy
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One can only with great effort suppress one’s mirth at the responses to my wine-shopping post. It illustrates the deep differences between the view of alcohol consumption in Nova Scotia and Quebec.
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My mirth was the the idea of a “gay little club” of Wine Nancies fawning and pawing over a pile of dusty bottles of wine. And the way you said “Can’t talk/ goin’ to buy wine with my pals/ be back later/ can’t talk to you guys”, yet here you remain.
Hmmmmm…
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Nova Scotia is a “rum culture” in which people drink to get drunk.
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I don’t drink, MMan.
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Look at the posts of Avasto and Wheeliep – the very mention of wine suggests debauchery and drunkeness.
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I’m sorry. I was suggesting your posts suggest drunkeness.
As for debauchery, you make these claims for spanking, but have left me limp and unsatisfied. Do you and you wine ladies spank each other, or do you watch each other spank it?
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There is a Puritan underlay to the culture which deplores the “Demon Rum.” It is the view, in other words, of a typically Underclass perspective.
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Gawsped MontrealMan through a powdered handkerchief. In my mind I picture you as a cackling old man, effiminate and physically very weak. Amirite?
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A Quebecois, in contrast, looks at this cultue with incredulity.
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With seperateness, if you will.
And you’re from Halifax, Perfessor.
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Wine, for him, is a part of the evening dinner. It is an integral part of life. He never drinks to get drunk which he rightly regards as a barbarism.
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I’ve been to Quebec. Your generalization is completely false. Maybe some stats on NS’s very high rate of alcoholism vs Quebec’s non-existant one.
Tell me- do they still have black lights in the washroom at club Supersexe?
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For him, as we say in Italian, “Un giorno senza vino e comme un giorno senza sole.”
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Thank you for doing everything in your power to dispell this horrible rumour that MontrealMan is a humourless, dried-up old twat from Montreal.
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Take me.
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Please.
Lol’d
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I rarely drink beer, except possibly with a curry.
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Sharts and farts. Gotcha.
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However, I have an extensive walk-in wine cellar cellar downstairs containing vintage wines from both the New and Old Worlds
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From Galactica *and* from Caprica?!
(10 pts if you got that one, Dear Reader/Lurker)
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and a small (30-40 bottles) for daily consumption but not, of course, at the same time (you buffoon). I have both researched and conducted wine tastings for many years with a half-dozen friends to our mutual enlightenment and enjoyment.
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Fapfapfap?
Is your wife a “goer”? Does she like “candid photography”?
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However these barbarians continue, in their simple-minded Underclass fashion, to equate wine consumption with drunkeness. Is there no limit to their degradation?
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The fact you were so defensive was quel comical!
Noone equated wine consumption with drunkeness, M’Lawd.
Your shrill protestations were very entertaining though. Another example of MontrealMan using a Strawman argument to avoid answering queries.
Quel buffoon!
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A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
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You’re pretty funny.
When do you leave for your key party/ oops, I mean wine selection party?
Weetabix!
WP
RRSPs
: Paingirl (Sept. 1, 8:12PM) – Always poultry, Paingirl, chicken drumstick, bone in.
: Wheeliep (Sept. 2, 10:53 AM) – Wheeliep, help me feel your pain.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Properly spanked, The Autist Formerly Known As MontrealMan uses a one-liner to tuck his tail between his(ever red turning) legs.
Your silence is deafening, Mon Sewer, but I suppose all that wine choosing is cutting into your philosophizing, huh?
Furious Styles – You made me do some reading 😉
Megalomania and Narcissism are rather like Psychopath and Sociopath.
Narcissism, is a blanket term that covers the egocentric personality disorders.
But I have to agree that annie definately fits the classical definition of a megalomaniac.
As Sméagol’s hero, Bertrand Russell observed – “The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”
And as I’m sure, annie belong in the former catagory.
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Didn’t get to go the wine tasting, eh? Bet everybody was sick and tired of your BS, so they dumped you. Something tell me that they prefered an empty seat, to you.
“drumstick, bone in.” – KK, annie likes ‘Dark Meat’, I wonder where he likes having the ‘bone in’?
RRSPs
: Wheeliep (Sept. 2, 12:03P) & The Turd (12:41PM) – Go back to your villages.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Here’s obviously still here and not sipping Baby Duck at Doosh Manor with the Nabobs and Nitwits because he’s on his period, and his pals prefer him sans blood(“bone-in”, indeed!).
Lol’d!
I typically shop at HMV on Spring Garden and Taz and rarely ever feel like I’m being looked down upon because of my music taste, which tends to sway more mainstream and pop than indie, as I would expect most HMV shoppers’ tastes would since the selection as dwindled in recent years.
I used to occasionally shop at other unnamed and now closed music stores in the downtown and felt uncomfortably judged by what I would buy, even if it was used, cheap and nostalgic 90s. There’s nothing worse about buying music than feeling like you have to be ashamed about what music you like. I hate pretentious music snobs and I’m willing to bet that despite my taste in music, I have a much wider variety and knowledge in music than they ever have, indie, pop, rock, classic, etc.