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#41 Re: The Garden » 2016 Presidential Election Thread » 497 weeks ago

Randall Flagg wrote:

But I've yet to find anyone who can tell me what gender means objectively, and when we use common sense to explain it, the progressives flip out.  Tell me something that is unique to one gender? Something that only a "man" has or can do.  If you said functioning testes, you just removed all your transgender friends and anyone who suffered an accident or was born sterile/deformed. So because no one can define what gender means, how can a "man" feel like a "woman"? Seems like gender is just another bullshit word crafted by sociologist to pretend they're just aren't a lot of really weird and fucked up people out there.

Great point. By the same measure we cannot say objectively say what a mental illness is, unless there is a biological difference.

Randall Flagg wrote:

Would you support a law that says Ebola patients who don't identify as having Ebola should be treated as free from Ebola and require everyone else to play along?

No I wouldn't support a law like that because it would lead to a lot of people dying or getting hurt.
I don't see how transgender people could hurt or kill me though so I'm okay with them being integrated into society.

#43 Guns N' Roses » GNR Members Google Searches » 497 weeks ago

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I was playing around on google trends a site that shows you how popular google search terms were over the past 10 years.

I put in all the original guns n roses members.

I know this is all fairy open to interpretation, but I thought the graphs were pretty informative.

We hardcores think of Duff as being as important as Slash and Axl but the average fan isn't searching for info about Duff nearly half as much as they are searching for Axl and Slash. No one really searches for info on Steve Adler, Izzy or Duff.

Slash's popularity has plummeted since returning to GNR while Axl's has gone through the roof.

https://www.google.ie/trends/explore#q= … tc%2FGMT-1

Again I know it's all meaningless and out of context but still looks kinda cool and says something about how the public views GNR and DufF Izzy and Steve's roles.

#44 Re: The Garden » The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024 » 498 weeks ago

AtariLegend wrote:

It's for the entire UK voting to stay or leave.
In theory it means Northern Ireland needs to put up borders with the Republic. Very few people are actually discussing it at the minute though and Northern Ireland is the smallest part of the UK.

Northern Ireland isn't going to be voting to leave the UK anytime soon. There's no desire for independence here and doesn't seem like it would be sustainable. Northern Ireland voting to join the Republic either for a united Ireland is unlikely to happen anytime soon either. Though that's a seperate argument and one best avoided tongue.

That would be .... unfortunate. The Republican VS Unionist problem would kick into overdrive.
I live in the South. This isn't being discussed here either for a few reasons. One is that my generation, 28 yr olds, don't care. The Ireland/Britain and Northern Ireland troubles stuff never touched our lives or effected us in any way.
The other reason is that no one really thinks Brexit is going to happen.

After the major vote a while back where Scotland voted to stay with the UK, Cameron the prime minster immediately made a speech about ENGLISH votes for ENGLISH laws. That might seem reasonable, but basically it was just a "fuck you" we're running the show now and your going to less of a say.

HA HA!! Good jesus... did not know he did that...
That's hilarious for all the wrong reasons.

Here's a question will Cameron's back benchers push him out if Brexit fails?

#45 Re: The Garden » Climate Change » 498 weeks ago

buzzsaw wrote:

The earth's temperature has changed long before people came along. I suppose we came out of the ice age because people were burning fossil fuels?   Climate change is real, sure. Not convinced that the reasons are what we've been told, and I certainly am not going to take the government's word for it.

It's not about the fact that it has changed. It is about the speed at which it is changing.

Also, about not being convinced you don't need to be convinced. It's not an argument. It's a reality.

buzzsaw wrote:

Actual scientists getting paid by the gov't a shit ton of money?  No thanks. They have a agenda. As soon as someone explains how we could come out of the ice age long before fossil fuels were being burnt but that can't possibly be the same reason things are changing now, I'll consider listening. I've never not believed things are changing, but I don't trust the why.

The Governments of the world have a lot less money to spend on climate change research than Oil companies.

Also with smart sensing technology in place the world over now and the open access to historical climate its very easy for the average citizen to work out the climate change equation for themselves.

A huge amount of work on climate change is not done by well funded scientists anyway. It is undertaken by early stage researchers and phd students who haven't got a pot to piss in.

CSS 2.0 wrote:

Not everything is, or has to be, a conspiracy.

It does if you're lazy and emotionally invested in a certain world view.

Also, great went through a huge phase of Peter Gabriel a few years back.
Excellent musician.

#46 Re: The Garden » How Long Have You Posted On A Guns N' Roses Fanboard? » 500 weeks ago

I started in 2002. I was on holidays in Spain with family and the hotel had those computers where you have to pay money for 10 mins internet access and then the computer locks when the money runs out. The guy before me had been reading about GNR and buckethead and was on the ilicit press website where the IRS leak originated.
I logged in after him and read some stuff. I got hooked then found ROV early on and been knocking around ever since.

#47 Re: Guns N' Roses » Lenny Kravitz on opening for GNR » 500 weeks ago

Smoking Guns wrote:

I am watching his special documentary on Showtime right now.  This is some great shit.  He plays all the instruments on the albums I think and then the band learns them.  Some good performances.  He is a perfectionist and they rehearse like crazy.  He is a real pro and really talented.

He puts some really cool videos online for his fans too.

He posted this short video of himself working on the track Superlove from Black and White America a few years back.
It's really cool watching him do all the different parts and hearing how it comes together.


I just found he posted a few more:


Also this video is brilliant.
He's in New Orleans and hears a group of kids singing his song down the street.
He goes down to join in but lets the kids keep the spotlight.
Really cool:


I like Lenny a lot. He has some really good music some absolutely classic albums. His first 3 and his most recent 3 are excellent, some of the middle ones I'm not so fond of, but they came out in the late nineties to mid 2000s. Rock n Roll was truly dead during that period.
He's also got that musical ability that people like Prince had where he can play almost anything to a virtuoso level with ease.


Also. Lenny mentioned fields of Joy in that interview.
It's got one of Slash's best solos from all of his work on it.
If having Kravitz around keeps Slash that inspired it can only be a good thing. 

#48 Re: Guns N' Roses » Lenny Kravitz on opening for GNR » 501 weeks ago

He is very good.
His last album was perfect.

#49 Re: Guns N' Roses » Discussion of Axl's Voice: Only When It Was Funny? » 502 weeks ago

bigbri wrote:

I don't think he gave a shit, honestly.

I agree with this. But not in a negative way.

I think he just liked to experiment and make use of all his different voices, keep them all trained in.


Also, another possibility could be the oxygen tent.

Axl supposedly had an oxygen tent at all guns shows since at least 2006.

There's a behind the scene video which shows his oxygen tank.

Being in the throne he can't get near his oxygen and I think that has really helped his voice.

Maybe Mother Goose was slipping some helium into the old O2 supply to liven things up a bit...

#50 Re: Guns N' Roses » Any Rumors on Opening Acts? » 502 weeks ago

monkeychow wrote:

Some more ideas

A7x
Chickenfoot
Ac/Dc
Aerosmith
Megadeth

Some of these are more co-headliers obviously.

A7x would kill for the gig.
Chickenfoot aren't good enough to be honest.

AC/DC sould never do it.

Aerosmith  have too much ego to open a GNR show.

Megadeth are the same.

Sky Dog wrote:

I saw somewhere maybe Lenny Kravitz....

Perfect opener.

Black Crowes are a piss poor band in my opinion. All style no actual decent music.


I hope its lenny, but I've heard tell of the Foo Fighters, and I'd believe that too.

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