Pet Peeves

[leatherface]

Constant phone software update reminders.

[The Heretic]

I haven't updated my phone for 3 years, my phone can fuck off

[Barnacle Billy]

The big cracks on my screen annoys everyone else, except me.

[Carnage]

Coming down with a headcold heading into a bank holiday weekend. Yay.

[OpenSores]

Torn legiments, home from work busting for a piss, ran upstairs grand. Ran downstairs with my work boots on caught on the carpet rail and the ankle went right back. The pain.

[Bürggermeister]

Misery porn, by which I mean this peculiar fetish which has infected popular culture, where no music review, article or interview is complete without a list of ailments and conditions which the protagonist has heroically battled in order to commercially release to you their latest deeply-personal ejaculatory tour through their narcissistic self-obsession, each trying to outdo the other for your attention as the most tormented soul in pop. It's then frequently used as validation for low-intellect, low-effort music by low-intellect, low-effort journalists so that low-intellect, low-effort listeners can wallow in shared self-pity, a convenient distraction from how hollow and unimaginative the content is.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5mDUDV_XV0

[open face surgery]

     Amazing. Looking forward to seeing him in June.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

David fucking ignoramus Quinn (though he's almost certainly lying here imo). And to think this clown/prick is also one of the loudest sources of climate denialism in Ireland 

[The Heretic]

Misery porn, by which I mean this peculiar fetish which has infected popular culture, where no music review, article or interview is complete without a list of ailments and conditions which the protagonist has heroically battled in order to commercially release to you their latest deeply-personal ejaculatory tour through their narcissistic self-obsession, each trying to outdo the other for your attention as the most tormented soul in pop. It's then frequently used as validation for low-intellect, low-effort music by low-intellect, low-effort journalists so that low-intellect, low-effort listeners can wallow in shared self-pity, a convenient distraction from how hollow and unimaginative the content is.

Joe Duffy was awful for that kind of thing, David McSavage had him sussed

[astfgyl]

David fucking ignoramus Quinn (though he's almost certainly lying here imo). And to think this clown/prick is also one of the loudest sources of climate denialism in Ireland 

It's a fair point that not many celebrate it as imbolc these days here although it seems to have crept back in officially. I was checking something on maps on Monday and it informed me that imbolc is celebrated in Ireland and thus opening hours might be affected. Cool call it whatever just keep giving me the day off for it

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Saying it hasn't been widely celebrated is one thing. Saying you've never heard of it, quite another. And, from a "journalist", almost certainly a lie. Iona and all them despise everything about pre-christian Ireland though, on top of having no moral scruples.

[astfgyl]

To be fair they do hate all that stuff the iona lads. Must do a bit of reading into the old festival and see what sort of craic it was I only barely read about it years ago.

[ldj]

Random observation about current music culture.

While I think it's great that the 'album' has gained more relevance again in the past decade or so, even mainstream pop fans seem clued into actual albums by Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Lana Del Rey etc.

From reading about music online I've noticed this strange trend pop up and its, generally younger people, judging albums by the amount of 'skips' they have, as in, "the new Kanye album is class, it only has like 4 skips"...surely if an album has not one but several tracks that are so bad you couldn't even bare to sit through them...then by definition it's a shit album  .

[Eoin McLove]

The songs they skip might well be the ones that end up being the best. Many times the difficult songs turn out to be the most enduring. Get them back on the tapes!