El Kabong wants to rant

[El Kabong]

My local music scene sucks. Extremely. About 70% of the local bands consist of 16 year old kids playing uninspired screamo. Pretty much everyone here gets a hard on for generic hardcore and punk and they think they are better than everyone else and politically enlightened because they picked a Something Corporate record over Good Charlotte's latest. And the rest of the bands around here are boring pop punk, who are the kids that do in fact like Good Charlotte and argue with the lame emo guys about their credibility. And finally, there are about two death metal bands, but I suspect that it is the same 5 guys playing under two different names.

I hate these kids that think Thursday started emo and that play such awful music. They are almost as arrogant as me, but also have no idea what the hell they are talking about, and that pisses me off. None of them have even heard of Rites of Spring, and when a band they don't know is brought up they try to change the subject and convert me to Coheed and Cambria. And since my area harbors about 99% of America's yuppie population, all of these kids can afford to buy their girl pants and boxy glasses and tight T-shirts and hair spray. So I'm not a fan of my area's music scene and I tend to avoid local shows at all costs.

But a scene is only a scene because it's popular. This means that my friends eat this crappy music up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and try to drag me to the awful shows. I can usually decline, but I got talked into tagging along tonight. I was promised to meet a hot hardcore liberal girl I had talked to on the phone before, and lefties aren't as common in wealthy suburbia as I would have hoped. So I came along to meet this girl, unaware that the bands could manage to be worse than even my pathetically low expectations. But oh, was I wrong.

The first band I saw was a quartet with really expensive equpment and tight jeans and their hair in their eyes. The set started out innocently enough, with a decently catchy hook rattled off the kid's Les Paul. Then the band spontaneously went into this distorted onslaught of cymbals and power chords and an uninspired bassline and yelling. Then a whispered verse led into the same breakdown. Then again. But they changed it up for the last verse, preceding the chorus not with whispered and indecipherable lyrics, but with a disgusting scream that was a shameless ripoff of the guy from Senses Fail. The vocalist snuck in this disgusting wail for the last verse of every song they played. And of course, all the members made sure to carefully put their hair back in their eyes between songs. I figured they were talentless, but during one of the predictable breakdowns I saw the kid on the Les Paul flying through a decent-sounding, impressive solo that was all but drowned out by the boring bassline and cymbal rapage. And then after the set, the vocalist asked the audience to come talk to him about God after the show. Their set converted me to atheism. If God truly did exist, He would not allow such an awful band to have ever been created. Just more uninspired screamo that sounds just like everything else.

But the following act made the first band look like the Stones. Another quartet. But instead of blessing them with the talent to write a listenable song, or even the sensibility to not have a keyboardist randomly in the group, God gave them a keyboardist. And these guys thought they were really hardcore, too. Each song was two minutes of unadbridged screaming with the singer's SG somehow suspended above his nipples and the amps cranked to 11 with insanely fast strumming and very very few chord changes. All the while with a dorky retro keyboard riff rattling from the fingers of the goofy big guy in the Dungeons and Dragons shirt. All this was too much for the drummer; he started pulling his hair out and screaming, since he couldn't handle all his crazed emotion of playing generic drumbeats and cymbal crashes. This band was basically From Autumn To Ashes played on fast forward. But they thought they were experimental, too, and the SG nipple guy started playing around with his effects pedals, apparently trying to make his crappy chord progressions as annoying as possible. He eventually settled on this obnoxious beeping effect that complimented the retro keyboards quite nicely, though it made my ears bleed. This was the worst band I have ever ever heard in my life, and I went to a Sugarcult show.

After the literally torturous set of FATA on LSD, I called it quits. I sat outside and talked about homosexual rights with my hot friend for the remainder of the show. I know for a fact nobody cares and I doubt anyone will read this, but if it didn't get said I would probably have to kill myself. I have given up on humanity because of the crappiness of the bands I witnessed a few hours ago. I trash on screamo way too much, but now I respect the kids that can manage to survive such sonic molestation. I just can't handle it I guess.

I invite you to piss and moan about whatever is on your mind. I'll come here to complain often. Again, I know you don't care, so don't say so.

[paintedmonkey16]

imj drunik...asf asd like a mtoher

[thepeashooter]

your a....Liberal? just go nail yourself to a cross now. It hurts to much to know that.

[paintedmonkey16]

Originally posted by El Kabong
My local music scene sucks. Extremely. About 70% of the local bands consist of 16 year old kids playing uninspired screamo. Pretty much everyone here gets a hard on for generic hardcore and punk and they think they are better than everyone else and politically enlightened because they picked a Something Corporate record over Good Charlotte's latest. And the rest of the bands around here are boring pop punk, who are the kids that do in fact like Good Charlotte and argue with the lame emo guys about their credibility. And finally, there are about two death metal bands, but I suspect that it is the same 5 guys playing under two different names.

I hate these kids that think Thursday started emo and that play such awful music. They are almost as arrogant as me, but also have no idea what the hell they are talking about, and that pisses me off. None of them have even heard of Rites of Spring, and when a band they don't know is brought up they try to change the subject and convert me to Coheed and Cambria. And since my area harbors about 99% of America's yuppie population, all of these kids can afford to buy their girl pants and boxy glasses and tight T-shirts and hair spray. So I'm not a fan of my area's music scene and I tend to avoid local shows at all costs.

But a scene is only a scene because it's popular. This means that my friends eat this crappy music up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and try to drag me to the awful shows. I can usually decline, but I got talked into tagging along tonight. I was promised to meet a hot hardcore liberal girl I had talked to on the phone before, and lefties aren't as common in wealthy suburbia as I would have hoped. So I came along to meet this girl, unaware that the bands could manage to be worse than even my pathetically low expectations. But oh, was I wrong.

The first band I saw was a quartet with really expensive equpment and tight jeans and their hair in their eyes. The set started out innocently enough, with a decently catchy hook rattled off the kid's Les Paul. Then the band spontaneously went into this distorted onslaught of cymbals and power chords and an uninspired bassline and yelling. Then a whispered verse led into the same breakdown. Then again. But they changed it up for the last verse, preceding the chorus not with whispered and indecipherable lyrics, but with a disgusting scream that was a shameless ripoff of the guy from Senses Fail. The vocalist snuck in this disgusting wail for the last verse of every song they played. And of course, all the members made sure to carefully put their hair back in their eyes between songs. I figured they were talentless, but during one of the predictable breakdowns I saw the kid on the Les Paul flying through a decent-sounding, impressive solo that was all but drowned out by the boring bassline and cymbal rapage. And then after the set, the vocalist asked the audience to come talk to him about God after the show. Their set converted me to atheism. If God truly did exist, He would not allow such an awful band to have ever been created. Just more uninspired screamo that sounds just like everything else.

But the following act made the first band look like the Stones. Another quartet. But instead of blessing them with the talent to write a listenable song, or even the sensibility to not have a keyboardist randomly in the group, God gave them a keyboardist. And these guys thought they were really hardcore, too. Each song was two minutes of unadbridged screaming with the singer's SG somehow suspended above his nipples and the amps cranked to 11 with insanely fast strumming and very very few chord changes. All the while with a dorky retro keyboard riff rattling from the fingers of the goofy big guy in the Dungeons and Dragons shirt. All this was too much for the drummer; he started pulling his hair out and screaming, since he couldn't handle all his crazed emotion of playing generic drumbeats and cymbal crashes. This band was basically From Autumn To Ashes played on fast forward. But they thought they were experimental, too, and the SG nipple guy started playing around with his effects pedals, apparently trying to make his crappy chord progressions as annoying as possible. He eventually settled on this obnoxious beeping effect that complimented the retro keyboards quite nicely, though it made my ears bleed. This was the worst band I have ever ever heard in my life, and I went to a Sugarcult show.

After the literally torturous set of FATA on LSD, I called it quits. I sat outside and talked about homosexual rights with my hot friend for the remainder of the show. I know for a fact nobody cares and I doubt anyone will read this, but if it didn't get said I would probably have to kill myself. I have given up on humanity because of the crappiness of the bands I witnessed a few hours ago. I trash on screamo way too much, but now I respect the kids that can manage to survive such sonic molestation. I just can't handle it I guess.

I invite you to piss and moan about whatever is on your mind. I'll come here to complain often. Again, I know you don't care, so don't say so.


heye where do oyu livee and what r was then name of the banddf??? cuzzd it soudns familiear

[El Kabong]

Originally posted by thepeashooter
your a....Liberal? just go nail yourself to a cross now. It hurts to much to know that. And you're Canadian. It's okay, mistakes are made by the best of us.

And monkey, the first band was called Second Session. The second is something like Blue Letters, but I'm not too sure. But you're drunk and I think they're both strictly local, so I don't think we're talking about the same guys. Could be, though.

[paintedmonkey16]

aight weroer ll cuz d theresa people arohnd herer tghat i know in a badn called An Endd To October. and i jknwo the gutiarist and he plays a les paul s,. and they have ea keyboardist....and they d jsut left for tour aroiuind texas and stuffc....so i was just wodneitrng.....but An Endo to Octber kicks assde and you said that d band sodesnt so it cant be the same bandsd

[whizzit]

Well good rant, none-the-less. On the bright side you talked to your hot friend. How big is your local scene anyways? There is actually no decent bands to go see? I live in a town of 50k, waaay up north, theres actually 1 punk band that is relatively good. Not that I'll buy their cd, but I don't mind at all going to some of their shows. But it is funny how EVERYBODY is all hyped up about them just because they're local and there alright.

I invite you to piss and moan about whatever is on your mind
Bleh, if I were to do that you'd get a page long rant on myself :(

[wiseguy360]

Originally posted by El Kabong
And you're Canadian. It's okay, mistakes are made by the best of us.

El Kabong lays down the law. Seeing as you probably classify me as one of your "yuppies"....maybe you don't, but I'm sure you do, I can't stand any of that music. It'd be cool in a band, but I can't stand most bands that try so hard to be the same as the bands they emulate, instead of trying to be original, which is usually how music gets popular. Don't know what you have to say, but it's all Jack Johnson for me.

[Codestar20]

You're always ranting about how bad music is. I'm sorry to say this but get over it. People like what they do and everyone is entitled to their opinions. Like I've stated before, if everyone liked the same music, the world would be boring. Your taste of music isn't all that superior, it's just different. You like Radiohead? I can't stand them. They bore me to death. See? Aren't differences great?


My local music scene isn't the greatest either. Folk rock is huge here for some reason. It's just not my thing.

[MaLfUnCtIoN]

he doesnt hate types of music as much as he hates talentless people. least thats what i got from his story.

and dude, if i were talking to a hot female, no matter what school of thought they have, my topic of discussion would not be homosexual rights. no offense. i just think she might get the feeling that you swing the other way.

rants? i have a lan party in 1 week and i need a video card (AIW 9600XT :D) and then i have to reassemble the whole pc . however, the software part has to be done by some1 else cause bill gates blows wang and cant make an os that wont **** the customer in the ***. very tight timing by the time the card comes.

musically? dont matter to me. i download my music so i only here what i want. radio can drink bleach cause i dont need em. i dont even leave teh house so theres no chance of hearing something i dont wanna.

sorry to hear that you live in an area where music talent is rare. but ya gotta expect that in rich white suburbia. they prolly get everything they want so they have nothing to write about but their g/f.

[Chill_Bebop]

Originally posted by Codestar20
You're always ranting about how bad music is. I'm sorry to say this but get over it. People like what they do and everyone is entitled to their opinions. Like I've stated before, if everyone liked the same music, the world would be boring. Your taste of music isn't all that superior, it's just different. You like Radiohead? I can't stand them. They bore me to death. See? Aren't differences great?


My local music scene isn't the greatest either. Folk rock is huge here for some reason. It's just not my thing.

Thank you, code.

Kabong, i live in a HUGE local music scene. You name the band, and they got a big break in San diego. Its freaking huge. And you know what?

its 100% crap. But far be it from me to critisize EVERYONES taste in music, cause your only gonna get more enemies that way. People like what they want to listen to.

You know what i want to rant about? (This is only halfway directed at Kabong) How stuck up wannabe musuic god teens like to tell off everyone for their musical tastes, and demand they isten to some weird, unknown POS band.

And Kabong: Quit being so negative. How come a few months ago you just switched from nice funny dude to depressed emotional trauma kid?

[timmyfreaker]

Originally posted by Codestar20
You're always ranting about how bad music is. I'm sorry to say this but get over it. People like what they do and everyone is entitled to their opinions. Like I've stated before, if everyone liked the same music, the world would be boring. Your taste of music isn't all that superior, it's just different. You like Radiohead? I can't stand them. They bore me to death. See? Aren't differences great?


My local music scene isn't the greatest either. Folk rock is huge here for some reason. It's just not my thing. People can like whatever music they want, but have you ever tried to live while every word around you end with "izzle." Everyone around me likes rap. I cant even ride my bike down the street without hearing an obnoxiously loud bass coming from some $50 car with a $5 million stereo. The "music" sucks, I cant stand it. Every time I ride past a car that is playing rap on the stereo, I die a little more. About a week ago, I was riding down the road and some car passed me. This is relatively normal, considering that im on a bike and he has a lot more power behind his vehicle. He was in a honda civic. Now, these can be rather fast if the money is put into proper upgrades(I believe its a type srs engine, but Im not sure). He slowed down, white guy, looked at me, revved up and took off. Now, what was he trying to prove? Thats he can move his car faster than I can my bike? Or that his car is fast in general. Well, his car revved up to what sounded like 5-7 k RPM. It was that terrible scream that engines make when someone slams on the accelerator in an attempt to pull out the throttle cable. He accelerated from a little faster than me(15 at most) to about 40(assumed speed based on cars in other lane). Took him over 3 seconds to do this.

The car was covered in the most pointless upgrades anyone could ever get for a car. It looked like an attempt at a clone from "The Fast and the Furious." He had this(black) rear spoiler that appeared to be mounted on those little childrens toys where its thin sheet metal that has screw holes punched into it, only thicker. And this was put onto his trunk. The car was the standard red with flames coming up the front end. It had low profile rims, undercarriage lights, the rear end was dropped, as though the springs were cut or he didnt know how to work airbags, an ungodly loud muffler, dark tinted(like limo) back windows, the front was rolled down so I couldnt tell. The stereo seemed to be all woofers. It literally sounded void of even one tweeter or midrange. He was blasting the latest crap put out by the suburban-turned-ghetto rapper. Sounded like emenim or some other rapper with a high voice.

I cant imagine the extreme pride he takes in the fact that he beat someone in a race that had both no interest in racing and a friggin bicycle. I bet hes really glad he invested $6500 in those rims, they really help him beat people who already lose respect for him for wearing baggy pants around his knees and threatening to pull out his gat and bust a cap(you know these people). I have found revenge though: If I ever decide to buy a car, Im going to play Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rolling Stones, Steppenwolf, or Led Zeppelin at full volume whenever I hear this rap "music" being penetrated into my skull because someone has the audacity to think that music being louder makes it better and that everyone has no taste in music, like him.

[FalloutMan]

i recommend blasting ac/dc as well lol


and kabong i recommend listening to some 311 because i know you love them as much as me :laugh:

[Rancid Coleslaw]

Wise choice talking to a hot girl instead of watching a group of screaming turds in girl pants.

[camoman5000]

Originally posted by Codestar20
You're always ranting about how bad music is. I'm sorry to say this but get over it. People like what they do and everyone is entitled to their opinions. Like I've stated before, if everyone liked the same music, the world would be boring. Your taste of music isn't all that superior, it's just different. You like Radiohead? I can't stand them. They bore me to death. See? Aren't differences great?


My local music scene isn't the greatest either. Folk rock is huge here for some reason. It's just not my thing.

Thank you Code, we seem to always agree on the whole "music" subject. Music scene? We live in the middle of the friggin boonies in Kansas, there is nothing here! Hell, kids around here listen to anything and everything, we don't really care what anybody else listens to so it's all good.

[thunderpig]

Sooo... much.... reading. :(


Uhhh... Music is cool.

[i like tictacs]

Originally posted by El Kabong
My local music scene sucks. Extremely. About 70% of the local bands consist of 16 year old kids playing uninspired screamo. Pretty much everyone here gets a hard on for generic hardcore and punk and they think they are better than everyone else and politically enlightened because they picked a Something Corporate record over Good Charlotte's latest. And the rest of the bands around here are boring pop punk, who are the kids that do in fact like Good Charlotte and argue with the lame emo guys about their credibility. And finally, there are about two death metal bands, but I suspect that it is the same 5 guys playing under two different names.

I hate these kids that think Thursday started emo and that play such awful music. They are almost as arrogant as me, but also have no idea what the hell they are talking about, and that pisses me off. None of them have even heard of Rites of Spring, and when a band they don't know is brought up they try to change the subject and convert me to Coheed and Cambria. And since my area harbors about 99% of America's yuppie population, all of these kids can afford to buy their girl pants and boxy glasses and tight T-shirts and hair spray. So I'm not a fan of my area's music scene and I tend to avoid local shows at all costs.

But a scene is only a scene because it's popular. This means that my friends eat this crappy music up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and try to drag me to the awful shows. I can usually decline, but I got talked into tagging along tonight. I was promised to meet a hot hardcore liberal girl I had talked to on the phone before, and lefties aren't as common in wealthy suburbia as I would have hoped. So I came along to meet this girl, unaware that the bands could manage to be worse than even my pathetically low expectations. But oh, was I wrong.

The first band I saw was a quartet with really expensive equpment and tight jeans and their hair in their eyes. The set started out innocently enough, with a decently catchy hook rattled off the kid's Les Paul. Then the band spontaneously went into this distorted onslaught of cymbals and power chords and an uninspired bassline and yelling. Then a whispered verse led into the same breakdown. Then again. But they changed it up for the last verse, preceding the chorus not with whispered and indecipherable lyrics, but with a disgusting scream that was a shameless ripoff of the guy from Senses Fail. The vocalist snuck in this disgusting wail for the last verse of every song they played. And of course, all the members made sure to carefully put their hair back in their eyes between songs. I figured they were talentless, but during one of the predictable breakdowns I saw the kid on the Les Paul flying through a decent-sounding, impressive solo that was all but drowned out by the boring bassline and cymbal rapage. And then after the set, the vocalist asked the audience to come talk to him about God after the show. Their set converted me to atheism. If God truly did exist, He would not allow such an awful band to have ever been created. Just more uninspired screamo that sounds just like everything else.

But the following act made the first band look like the Stones. Another quartet. But instead of blessing them with the talent to write a listenable song, or even the sensibility to not have a keyboardist randomly in the group, God gave them a keyboardist. And these guys thought they were really hardcore, too. Each song was two minutes of unadbridged screaming with the singer's SG somehow suspended above his nipples and the amps cranked to 11 with insanely fast strumming and very very few chord changes. All the while with a dorky retro keyboard riff rattling from the fingers of the goofy big guy in the Dungeons and Dragons shirt. All this was too much for the drummer; he started pulling his hair out and screaming, since he couldn't handle all his crazed emotion of playing generic drumbeats and cymbal crashes. This band was basically From Autumn To Ashes played on fast forward. But they thought they were experimental, too, and the SG nipple guy started playing around with his effects pedals, apparently trying to make his crappy chord progressions as annoying as possible. He eventually settled on this obnoxious beeping effect that complimented the retro keyboards quite nicely, though it made my ears bleed. This was the worst band I have ever ever heard in my life, and I went to a Sugarcult show.

After the literally torturous set of FATA on LSD, I called it quits. I sat outside and talked about homosexual rights with my hot friend for the remainder of the show. I know for a fact nobody cares and I doubt anyone will read this, but if it didn't get said I would probably have to kill myself. I have given up on humanity because of the crappiness of the bands I witnessed a few hours ago. I trash on screamo way too much, but now I respect the kids that can manage to survive such sonic molestation. I just can't handle it I guess.

I invite you to piss and moan about whatever is on your mind. I'll come here to complain often. Again, I know you don't care, so don't say so.

Nobody is forcing you to listen.

[El Kabong]

Now I am going to rant about people thinking I am an arrogant piece of crap that likes to piss people off for not liking the same music as me.

I did not once claim to have superior taste in music to the kids that were at the show last night. I was complaining that the scenesters around here worry more about their hair being combed over one eye and their pants fitting tight more than they try to write an original song, and the elitist card was again pulled on me. Well, I will admit that the second band was trying something somewhat original, but it was clear they were being different for the sake of being different. Believe it or not, I don't think I am better than you guys because of my music tastes. I am not trying to divert you from whatever you happen to like. I am not trying to relate the local bands to any bands you guys might be listening to. Emo is just frickin' popular here, and the fashion and shameless copying is irritating. Kids here can afford to buy their pricey band shirts and expensive equipment and can start bands with no idea what they're doing. If indie and 60's/70's revival bands were to suddenly become huge here, I'd be disgusted at everyone buying thrift store clothes at ridiculous prices and covering "Stairway to Heaven" and ripping off Modest Mouse and Pavement and the like. When something is popular, it has the tendency to be torn down to its most superficial state, and that is what the genre is branded by. Emo got huge and is now represented by boxy glasses and lame poetry. Nobody points out how emo descended from hardcore and sometimes consists of complicated guitar work and some progressive thought. Instead, everyone supposes it is some wailing over power chords. Thus, that's what local bands do, without understanding the depths of the genre they claim to be a part of.

My friend is in a band that cites many of the same influences I would. Collectively, I'd say their top three bands are Modest Mouse, Radiohead, and Pavement. All are very good in my book. But their gig is to just copy Modest Mouse as carefully as possible. This is okay for a little while, because I happen to dig Modest Mouse. And luckily Modest Mouse has some pretty diverse material. But after a few songs, I want to walk out on my friend's band because of their near covers and unoriginal songwriting. Crappy ripoffs transcend genres. Getting a hard on for Isaac Brock and copying him has no more dignity than playing your favorite Thursday song, changing the lyrics, and claiming it as your own. I'm not out here to criticize music tastes; I just wanted to complain about how uninspired the first band was, and how nauseating the following act was. If folk rock were huge here, I'd be whining about the Bob Dylan covers and how people would play their bad songs on acoustic guitars to make them even more boring. And I like folk rock. But popularity has a way of making good music awful and spawning disgusting trends.

And this is the last time I am defending my opinion on music. Codestar, I don't think I have shared one thought on music without you saying I'm whining and think I'm too good. I realize I'm audacious and condescending and mean about sharing my views, often not giving bands enough credit, but I'm not bigotted against anything popular. And Bebop, one day I realized I was smarter than everyone and that made me arrogant and really disappointed all at once. No, I actually don't really know what you mean, since I think I've always been a jerk. I'm really not that sad anymore, I just get my panties in a knot too easily.

And Alex, you're good in my book. And tictacs, I realize this. That is why I said I avoid my local scene. And will continue to do so. And why I walked out after the second band. But thanks for the advice.

[i like tictacs]

I didn't read more then five lines of either. All I can say is shut up. Yes, hardcore sucks. But if your scene sucks so much why don't you start a "good" band and just be happy with it? Let them be morons. Live and let live.

[El Kabong]

How intelligent. Don't read a word I have to say and then tell me to shut up. Jesus, at least understand what I am saying before being a dick.

And I can't start a band because the only friends I have that like similar music are moving away or also happen to play guitar. And I'm fine avoiding local music, even though getting paid to play music I love would be fun. I'll try to piece a decent band together in college, since college radio tends to get people into music I agree with.

[Cuervo]

Arguing over music is retarded.

[i like tictacs]

Originally posted by El Kabong
How intelligent. Don't read a word I have to say and then tell me to shut up. Jesus, at least understand what I am saying before being a dick.

And I can't start a band because the only friends I have that like similar music are moving away or also happen to play guitar. And I'm fine avoiding local music, even though getting paid to play music I love would be fun. I'll try to piece a decent band together in college, since college radio tends to get people into music I agree with.

Actually it appears you are the one not reading a word I said. Because, if you go back and read my post, it said I "didn't read more then five lines" which means I did read some words. You should try reading some of my posts first. I'm not being a dick. You are being a dick. Let them be a bunch of morons slamming their drums and Ibanezes. (Ibani?) Maybe you should get a car or something? Or are you even old enough? Then you could expand your ...base... and meet more musicians. Drummers, bassists, singers, horn players, whatever, that you want. It sure worked for me because I have a band that exactly fits my tastes and we have a keyboard player, a drummer, rhythm guitar and bass.

Just saying, you sure put a lot of complaining in to a minimal issue.

[jus]

make your own band, i bet theres a blue night somewhere near you. go there, unless of course you just lsiten ot bum rock. in which case just go to a bar. quit your *****ign and use your brain, noones forcing you to listen to it, some people like that music, some dont. I do not but im not goign to be an ******* about ti because i understand that some people do.

[Echoes]

Originally posted by i like tictacs


Actually it appears you are the one not reading a word I said. Because, if you go back and read my post, it said I "didn't read more then five lines" which means I did read some words. You should try reading some of my posts first. I'm not being a dick. You are being a dick. Let them be a bunch of morons slamming their drums and Ibanezes. (Ibani?) Maybe you should get a car or something? Or are you even old enough? Then you could expand your ...base... and meet more musicians. Drummers, bassists, singers, horn players, whatever, that you want. It sure worked for me because I have a band that exactly fits my tastes and we have a keyboard player, a drummer, rhythm guitar and bass.

Just saying, you sure put a lot of complaining in to a minimal issue.

He didn't literally mean that you didn't read ANY word he said; he meant that you were commenting on five lines compared to how many that he actually typed? Can you not figure that out? ...So you're saying that you want to read five lines out of sixty or whatever and think that you have a right to be a critic? Then you tell him to read your posts? I normally would concoct a weakness-inducing anology at this point, but I'm feeling overly generous.

I hate my local music scene too...I avoid it all-together. It still probably doesn't live up to the horror of Kabong's described music scene and society in general, though. If I was him, yeah, I'd complain. I will even go further and straight up say that I do have superior music tastes to many people.
Let's push "opinion" aside. Here's a nice fact:
Music which requires talent to make is far more "superior" than music which requires no talent to make.

Just like so many of you have said "stop *****ing, nobody is forcing you to listen to the music," I will say to YOU people, "stop *****ing, nobody is forcing you to listen to his rant/opinion."

[i like tictacs]

Nobody forced you to read my opinion either.

[timmyfreaker]

Originally posted by i like tictacs
Nobody forced you to read my opinion either. The same argument can be used against you about echoes; post. :rolleyes:

[GranDream]

In my experience, you don't go to the local music scene for the music, you go to hang out with your friends and complain about how bad the music sucks. I went to a local show once, hardcore bands with singers who can't sing, but they get drowned out by their crappy drummer anyways. One funny moment though, this one EMO solo artist came up, started singing the only audible lyrics of the night that went something like. "I hate my life, I'm going to kill myself.."
Anyways, people started going outside because it was really hot inside and they wanted some fresh air and because he sucked, and you could see in his face that he knew thats whay people were leaving, then one of the strings on his guitar snapped and he threw it to thye ground and stormed out of the place, going through his complete repertoire of swear words. Everyone was like, "Oh god, now hes really gonna go kill himself:sulk: "
But yeah, music is a form of art, and like all art, some people are going to like it, and some people aren't, it all comes down to a matter of taste.

[toolbandfan]

Meh, sounds like another great post by the Kabong, but I think I'll read it tomorrow.;)

[Echoes]

Originally posted by i like tictacs
Nobody forced you to read my opinion either.

I'm not going to even take the time to analyze this and explain its irrelevance to the whole argument.

Rather, we can all line up and you can throw sticks at us without us throwing them back at you -- and it can be perfectly okay because you will feel just dandy behind your shield of fallacious reasoning and fleeing won't you?

[El Kabong]

This thread rules.

I've got another rant because I am really pissed. I went paintballing for the first time in months today, and all was going great until I got bunkered. The fat kid didn't even mean to do it either. He just ambled his chunky *backside* up to my bunker like seconds after I chopped a ball, so I am autotriggering my heart out at this tubby target and hitting everything but him. And somehow he still didn't notice me, so I got up to run around my bunker and destroy him, and just as I turn the corner I intercepted a ball aimed at my friend in the bunker behind me. I know it was a mistake because when he saw how close he was to me he said sorry and ran away. Skin broke. I almost whipped it out and pissed on him, but I was so humiliated I opted to just try and drown myself. But I made up for it when an army of 3 little kids tried to bunker me and I raped them all with my pump. Destroying 9 year olds is much more satisfying than it should be.

Anyway, that's not why I'm pissed. I had to wake up at 7:00 because the field is really far away and my friends insist on being early. And since I am used to going to bed around 5 AM, I didn't nod off until sometime after 3:00. So I'm exhausted from a day of getting molested on the field and I only got 4 hours of sleep, so I want to come home and shower and take a nap, right? Well my mom is too stupid to deduce that one might actually be tired after spending 9 hours running around getting shot at. So I am taking a nap and she walks in every ten minutes to tell me to do chores. Then the dumb wench pulls me out of bed to watch the family eat dinner, since it had been too long since we had last eaten together. How retarded is that? Then I was really pissed and went back to sleep hafway through the meal. Then the girlfriend called and insisted on talking for like an hour, despite my insistent yawning and nodding off during the boring conversation. How women can manage to talk about absolutely nothing for so long, I have no idea. Seriously, she was asking me aboot my neighbors. MY NEIGHBORS! I challenge you guys to find someone that gives a damn about someone else's neighbors. Neighbors exist to complain about loud music and offer you rights to their swimming pool, not to be talked about in a rational conversation. Then after I escape the monotony of talking to a female, I give going to sleep one more shot. I find success, drifting back to the land of dreams within minutes. Then the mother comes back in to remind me to feed my cats. How God created such a worthless human being, I have no idea. Aha, I'm not steamed anymore though because I am watching a movie that's making fun of Siamese twins. Just kidding, that's horrible.

This rant blows, but I am so mad with the female species I am about to crap a brick. And if you guys can somehow find a way to argue about this rant, genitilia and knees will become aquainted. Very well aquainted.

[thunderpig]

Now this one is just funny. :laugh:

[MaLfUnCtIoN]

your field sounds like its very illegal. what with you raping 9yo with an inanimate object and then you getting molested.

kabong, if i may play the voice in your head for a moment:
"slay them all":crazy:

[Justin The Pyro]

Get over it. I swear you must be the whiniest person on this site. I go to paintball all the time and get bunkered by fat kids. I hear music I don't like all the time but I don't come on here and take it out by telling other people what to listen to. I wake up early to clean my house because we're getting ready to sell it every day but I don't come on here to get it out. Suck it up. Grow some balls. Get a sense of maturity. You aren't much different from those whiney emo kids you're ****ing about.

[Chill_Bebop]

Originally posted by Justin The Pyro
Get over it. I swear you must be the whiniest person on this site. I go to paintball all the time and get bunkered by fat kids. I hear music I don't like all the time but I don't come on here and take it out by telling other people what to listen to. I wake up early to clean my house because we're getting ready to sell it every day but I don't come on here to get it out. Suck it up. Grow some balls. Get a sense of maturity. You aren't much different from those whiney emo kids you're ****ing about.

Shut up, kid. Hes ranting, let him blow off his steam in his own thread. Its become clear that a big majority of people act calm in real life, and then deal with it by blowing off steam on the internet. No consequences. i'll let Kabong do it, and so should you. Dont be a jerk to him.

[Juvenile]

Originally posted by paintedmonkey16
imj drunik...asf asd like a mtoher Such a lame attempt at being cool.

[Chill_Bebop]

Originally posted by Juvenile
Such a lame attempt at being cool.

No...he really is. When your at the age, your bound to get on PBR and make sound weird drunken posts.

[Justin The Pyro]

Originally posted by Chill_Bebop


Shut up, kid. Hes ranting, let him blow off his steam in his own thread. Its become clear that a big majority of people act calm in real life, and then deal with it by blowing off steam on the internet. No consequences. i'll let Kabong do it, and so should you. Dont be a jerk to him.
Sure he's ranting, but he's going on about the dumbest things. Yes, we all know you hate everyone elses music, Yes we all know it sucks to wake up early and get bunkered. I'm ok with having people let stuff out everyone does it in their own ways but when you see someone come on here pissy about stuff that doesn't bother anyone else it's really annoying. It's good to come on here when people have REAL problems.

[Chill_Bebop]

Originally posted by Justin The Pyro

Sure he's ranting, but he's going on about the dumbest things. Yes, we all know you hate everyone elses music, Yes we all know it sucks to wake up early and get bunkered. I'm ok with having people let stuff out everyone does it in their own ways but when you see someone come on here pissy about stuff that doesn't bother anyone else it's really annoying. It's good to come on here when people have REAL problems.

A massive amount of small problems easily equals one or two big problems. And those small problems, while not traumatic or anything, piss people off more. Hes entitled to a rant if he likes.

[El Kabong]

Originally posted by El Kabong
I invite you to piss and moan about whatever is on your mind. I'll come here to complain often. Again, I know you don't care, so don't say so. There you go Justin. If you have that big of a problem with me, and find it that difficult to avoid this thread, then at least write a comical rant about it. You must be some sort of genius, to deduce that my problems are in fact insubstantial in the big scheme of things. I don't write these to get sympathy from strangers; I write them so I can let off steam and have fun mocking people that irritate me.

And thank you Chill, it's good to see you're sticking up for me even though I'm a whiny brat :).

[Magnus55]

Originally posted by El Kabong
My local music scene sucks. Extremely. About 70% of the local bands consist of 16 year old kids playing uninspired screamo. Pretty much everyone here gets a hard on for generic hardcore and punk and they think they are better than everyone else and politically enlightened because they picked a Something Corporate record over Good Charlotte's latest. And the rest of the bands around here are boring pop punk, who are the kids that do in fact like Good Charlotte and argue with the lame emo guys about their credibility. And finally, there are about two death metal bands, but I suspect that it is the same 5 guys playing under two different names.

I hate these kids that think Thursday started emo and that play such awful music. They are almost as arrogant as me, but also have no idea what the hell they are talking about, and that pisses me off. None of them have even heard of Rites of Spring, and when a band they don't know is brought up they try to change the subject and convert me to Coheed and Cambria. And since my area harbors about 99% of America's yuppie population, all of these kids can afford to buy their girl pants and boxy glasses and tight T-shirts and hair spray. So I'm not a fan of my area's music scene and I tend to avoid local shows at all costs.

But a scene is only a scene because it's popular. This means that my friends eat this crappy music up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and try to drag me to the awful shows. I can usually decline, but I got talked into tagging along tonight. I was promised to meet a hot hardcore liberal girl I had talked to on the phone before, and lefties aren't as common in wealthy suburbia as I would have hoped. So I came along to meet this girl, unaware that the bands could manage to be worse than even my pathetically low expectations. But oh, was I wrong.

The first band I saw was a quartet with really expensive equpment and tight jeans and their hair in their eyes. The set started out innocently enough, with a decently catchy hook rattled off the kid's Les Paul. Then the band spontaneously went into this distorted onslaught of cymbals and power chords and an uninspired bassline and yelling. Then a whispered verse led into the same breakdown. Then again. But they changed it up for the last verse, preceding the chorus not with whispered and indecipherable lyrics, but with a disgusting scream that was a shameless ripoff of the guy from Senses Fail. The vocalist snuck in this disgusting wail for the last verse of every song they played. And of course, all the members made sure to carefully put their hair back in their eyes between songs. I figured they were talentless, but during one of the predictable breakdowns I saw the kid on the Les Paul flying through a decent-sounding, impressive solo that was all but drowned out by the boring bassline and cymbal rapage. And then after the set, the vocalist asked the audience to come talk to him about God after the show. Their set converted me to atheism. If God truly did exist, He would not allow such an awful band to have ever been created. Just more uninspired screamo that sounds just like everything else.

But the following act made the first band look like the Stones. Another quartet. But instead of blessing them with the talent to write a listenable song, or even the sensibility to not have a keyboardist randomly in the group, God gave them a keyboardist. And these guys thought they were really hardcore, too. Each song was two minutes of unadbridged screaming with the singer's SG somehow suspended above his nipples and the amps cranked to 11 with insanely fast strumming and very very few chord changes. All the while with a dorky retro keyboard riff rattling from the fingers of the goofy big guy in the Dungeons and Dragons shirt. All this was too much for the drummer; he started pulling his hair out and screaming, since he couldn't handle all his crazed emotion of playing generic drumbeats and cymbal crashes. This band was basically From Autumn To Ashes played on fast forward. But they thought they were experimental, too, and the SG nipple guy started playing around with his effects pedals, apparently trying to make his crappy chord progressions as annoying as possible. He eventually settled on this obnoxious beeping effect that complimented the retro keyboards quite nicely, though it made my ears bleed. This was the worst band I have ever ever heard in my life, and I went to a Sugarcult show.

After the literally torturous set of FATA on LSD, I called it quits. I sat outside and talked about homosexual rights with my hot friend for the remainder of the show. I know for a fact nobody cares and I doubt anyone will read this, but if it didn't get said I would probably have to kill myself. I have given up on humanity because of the crappiness of the bands I witnessed a few hours ago. I trash on screamo way too much, but now I respect the kids that can manage to survive such sonic molestation. I just can't handle it I guess.

I invite you to piss and moan about whatever is on your mind. I'll come here to complain often. Again, I know you don't care, so don't say so.

Sounds like Hawaii's local scene. Anybody who gets halfway decent moves up to the mainland. I suppose that's why I'm still here. :D

I always thought shows were where good bands would play, like you had to get a special invite to play at a local show, but at the local scene anyone who knows someone can play, meaning, anyone with a few guys with instruments end up getting stage time. For the most part everyone sucks. A few of the local ska bands are decent but they're too far and in between all the other mindless scremo bands, and fat girls with mowhawks swearing into the microphone Dr. Seuss style about how everything sucks.

[Mr. Lahey]

tl;dr


I agree...

[Echoes]

laughs of the day

Originally posted by El Kabong

You must be some sort of genius, to deduce that my problems are in fact insubstantial in the big scheme of things.


:laugh:

Originally posted by Magnus55

and fat girls with mowhawks swearing into the microphone Dr. Seuss style about how everything sucks.

:laugh:

[i like tictacs]

Originally posted by Chill_Bebop


Shut up, kid. Hes ranting, let him blow off his steam in his own thread. Its become clear that a big majority of people act calm in real life, and then deal with it by blowing off steam on the internet. No consequences. i'll let Kabong do it, and so should you. Dont be a jerk to him.

Shut up kid? You're 16, I don't think you have any room to call someone "kid"

[Chill_Bebop]

Originally posted by i like tictacs


Shut up kid? You're 16, I don't think you have any room to call someone "kid"

If hes gonna act like a kid, im gonna call him a kid. Simple as that, and the dispute is already solved.

Was it really necessary to call me out for this? I think you deserve a "Shut Up, Kid" As well.

[Dancing racoon]

Originally posted by El Kabong
My local music scene sucks. Extremely. About 70% of the local bands consist of 16 year old kids playing uninspired screamo. Pretty much everyone here gets a hard on for generic hardcore and punk and they think they are better than everyone else and politically enlightened because they picked a Something Corporate record over Good Charlotte's latest. And the rest of the bands around here are boring pop punk, who are the kids that do in fact like Good Charlotte and argue with the lame emo guys about their credibility. And finally, there are about two death metal bands, but I suspect that it is the same 5 guys playing under two different names.

I hate these kids that think Thursday started emo and that play such awful music. They are almost as arrogant as me, but also have no idea what the hell they are talking about, and that pisses me off. None of them have even heard of Rites of Spring, and when a band they don't know is brought up they try to change the subject and convert me to Coheed and Cambria. And since my area harbors about 99% of America's yuppie population, all of these kids can afford to buy their girl pants and boxy glasses and tight T-shirts and hair spray. So I'm not a fan of my area's music scene and I tend to avoid local shows at all costs.

But a scene is only a scene because it's popular. This means that my friends eat this crappy music up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and try to drag me to the awful shows. I can usually decline, but I got talked into tagging along tonight. I was promised to meet a hot hardcore liberal girl I had talked to on the phone before, and lefties aren't as common in wealthy suburbia as I would have hoped. So I came along to meet this girl, unaware that the bands could manage to be worse than even my pathetically low expectations. But oh, was I wrong.

The first band I saw was a quartet with really expensive equpment and tight jeans and their hair in their eyes. The set started out innocently enough, with a decently catchy hook rattled off the kid's Les Paul. Then the band spontaneously went into this distorted onslaught of cymbals and power chords and an uninspired bassline and yelling. Then a whispered verse led into the same breakdown. Then again. But they changed it up for the last verse, preceding the chorus not with whispered and indecipherable lyrics, but with a disgusting scream that was a shameless ripoff of the guy from Senses Fail. The vocalist snuck in this disgusting wail for the last verse of every song they played. And of course, all the members made sure to carefully put their hair back in their eyes between songs. I figured they were talentless, but during one of the predictable breakdowns I saw the kid on the Les Paul flying through a decent-sounding, impressive solo that was all but drowned out by the boring bassline and cymbal rapage. And then after the set, the vocalist asked the audience to come talk to him about God after the show. Their set converted me to atheism. If God truly did exist, He would not allow such an awful band to have ever been created. Just more uninspired screamo that sounds just like everything else.

But the following act made the first band look like the Stones. Another quartet. But instead of blessing them with the talent to write a listenable song, or even the sensibility to not have a keyboardist randomly in the group, God gave them a keyboardist. And these guys thought they were really hardcore, too. Each song was two minutes of unadbridged screaming with the singer's SG somehow suspended above his nipples and the amps cranked to 11 with insanely fast strumming and very very few chord changes. All the while with a dorky retro keyboard riff rattling from the fingers of the goofy big guy in the Dungeons and Dragons shirt. All this was too much for the drummer; he started pulling his hair out and screaming, since he couldn't handle all his crazed emotion of playing generic drumbeats and cymbal crashes. This band was basically From Autumn To Ashes played on fast forward. But they thought they were experimental, too, and the SG nipple guy started playing around with his effects pedals, apparently trying to make his crappy chord progressions as annoying as possible. He eventually settled on this obnoxious beeping effect that complimented the retro keyboards quite nicely, though it made my ears bleed. This was the worst band I have ever ever heard in my life, and I went to a Sugarcult show.

After the literally torturous set of FATA on LSD, I called it quits. I sat outside and talked about homosexual rights with my hot friend for the remainder of the show. I know for a fact nobody cares and I doubt anyone will read this, but if it didn't get said I would probably have to kill myself. I have given up on humanity because of the crappiness of the bands I witnessed a few hours ago. I trash on screamo way too much, but now I respect the kids that can manage to survive such sonic molestation. I just can't handle it I guess.

I invite you to piss and moan about whatever is on your mind. I'll come here to complain often. Again, I know you don't care, so don't say so.

Sounds like an Avril Lavinge concert except those people actually have talent.

[Juvenile]

Originally posted by Chill_Bebop


No...he really is. When your at the age, your bound to get on PBR and make sound weird drunken posts. 1) He's not drunk if he's on PBR 2) When you're drunk you don't say you're drunk or talk about alcohol 3) You can't use a keyboard or mouse 4) I would know since I'm drunk at least once a week.

It's not even e-cool to try and act drunk on the net. Even fake drunks in real life are annoying as ****.

[Magnus55]

Originally posted by Justin The Pyro

Sure he's ranting, but he's going on about the dumbest things. Yes, we all know you hate everyone elses music, Yes we all know it sucks to wake up early and get bunkered. I'm ok with having people let stuff out everyone does it in their own ways but when you see someone come on here pissy about stuff that doesn't bother anyone else it's really annoying. It's good to come on here when people have REAL problems.

I actually liked his post and agreed with almost everything he said. Maybe it doesn't bother me to the extent that I'd write a long rant about it, but it doesn't mean I haven't had the same thoughts myself.

And what do you define as real problems? Another, "girl problems" thread where kids whine about how they're scared to ask someone out? Another thread about how someone "accidentally" got porno popups on their computer and they have to get it off before their parents come home? Dunno, this problem seems just as valid as the next.

[DirtMcgirt]

i'm really drunk so i didn;t read most of this thread, but kabong is right. he summed up the "your music sucks" thread in a few short paragraphs. i have to work tomorrow at 7. i hate my life.

[Echoes]

Originally posted by DirtMcgirt
i'm really drunk so i didn;t read most of this thread, but kabong is right. he summed up the "your music sucks" thread in a few short paragraphs. i have to work tomorrow at 7. i hate my life.

Someone needs a hug :grouphug:

[PMI-guy]

I don't know what bugs me more- emo pieces of crap, stupid wannabe pop punk kids, or brainwashed ******* political punk kids. I hate passing by these jokers in the mall complaining about how society doesn't accept them because they "listen to different music and have different views" and to me it seems that these kids talk like this and wear their dumbarse punk style just so they can force some fraudulent individuality on others because they can't rely on their personality, wit, or sense of humor. It all ends in them hanging around my mall *****ing about various stupid jazz that they usually have no idea about and pissing me off along the way. They also seem to think that they are the internet joke gurus, and that any jokes from sites like homestarrunnner.com are theirs alone and no one else will or should get it. I heard them spouting off lines at my school one time and I chimed in, the response I got was "I can't believe he knows about that" which chapped me quite a bit considering my friend and I were the very first people at our school to introduce that to anyone, and they found it by looking over our shoulders in the computer lab.

damn kids, need a healthy dose of the floyd. So do those kids in your rant kabong... so do all of you dammit! I would suggest "time" "hey you" "eclipse" or "dogs"... godspeed lol.

[firekow]

Suckers, we have generic rock here as well as screamo. I remember back in french class, we had this one kid who sang for a metal band and would always quietly practise his screaming in the back of the class. We'd be reading some french garbage novel, and out of nowhere there'd be this raspy whipsering voice whining about satan. His guitarist was in the same class, and would play along air-guitar style and headbang. On the other hand though, we have one band who plays at the school talent shows. I believe they kicked out their singer/harmonica player, because he couldn't sing. They could play decently, but they lacked stage presence. They were either aiming for the whole "catatonic" scene or the "too cool to show enthusiasm" scene. I realize music is about the whole sound thing, but if you're playing someone else's music, shouldn't you try throwing your own talent in somewhere? Bah.

[I.A.O.A.B]

Originally posted by PMI-guy
I don't know what bugs me more- emo pieces of crap, stupid wannabe pop punk kids, or brainwashed ******* political punk kids. I hate passing by these jokers in the mall complaining about how society doesn't accept them because they "listen to different music and have different views" and to me it seems that these kids talk like this and wear their dumbarse punk style just so they can force some fraudulent individuality on others because they can't rely on their personality, wit, or sense of humor. It all ends in them hanging around my mall *****ing about various stupid jazz that they usually have no idea about and pissing me off along the way. They also seem to think that they are the internet joke gurus, and that any jokes from sites like homestarrunnner.com are theirs alone and no one else will or should get it. I heard them spouting off lines at my school one time and I chimed in, the response I got was "I can't believe he knows about that" which chapped me quite a bit considering my friend and I were the very first people at our school to introduce that to anyone, and they found it by looking over our shoulders in the computer lab.

damn kids, need a healthy dose of the floyd. So do those kids in your rant kabong... so do all of you dammit! I would suggest "time" "hey you" "eclipse" or "dogs"... godspeed lol. i agree with everything you said except.. the pink floyd part... they creep me out

[timmyfreaker]

Originally posted by I.A.O.A.B
i agree with everything you said except.. the pink floyd part... they creep me out Pink Floyd cant creep you out a lot until you see the wall. Watch that movie and then tell me about pink floyd. The opening scene is going up the tube on a vaccum cleaner into this guys apartment.

[I.A.O.A.B]

ive seen parts of it... like the hammers... really freakin weird... :confused:

[PMI-guy]

that it is, but the floyd is still a goot band, and they have a great sound, come on LISTEN TO THE DAMN FLOYD!

[I.A.O.A.B]

ok, now i scared... youve backed me into a corner... nooooo!!! im scared!!! ahhhh!!! :P

[Echoes]

Originally posted by PMI-guy
LISTEN TO THE DAMN FLOYD!

Listen to this guy.

[El Kabong]

The Summer Olympics suck. I am getting damn sick of everyone talking about the events and athletes like they're experts of some sort, even though they'd never heard of these people before the games started. Every channel in this history of television is devoted to airing as many swimming events as is humanly possible. All the while I have to hear everyone I know screaming "OMG Michael Phelps!!" like frickin' prepubescent fat girls. You know, the ones that you want to kick because they cry when their fat parents don't give them candy. Everyone has gotten some false notion that their a goddamn expert on the athletes and events for some reason, just because they have nothing better to do than listen to half an hour of commentary on a 30 second event. Then there's gymnastics. Any guy I catch watching men's gymnastics is getting torpedoed in the nuts, just to make sure he still has them. What part of watching buff guys dance around in skimpy clothes is NOT homoerotic? Women's gymnastics is acceptable as a spectator sport, because who can say no to watching cute small chicks bending and flipping in their little leotards. Women's beach volleyball is also decent from a far camera angle, but I think for the next Olympic trials, the girls should be allowed onto the team for their looks and not their volleyball talent. And grunting should no longer be allowed. It's just not right. Fencing with sabers and the fighting events will also be allowed. Everything else is gone. Now, the Winter Olympics are actually worth my time. Everyone likes snowboarding. Everyone likes skiing. If you'd rather watch people swim around a pool than put their life on the line going 60 down a hill or doing flips like 15 feet over a sheet of ice, then you are a pansy and your TV should be taken away. Then bobsledding and skeleton. That is just awesome. Especially when they crash. Then there's a sport where competitors ski around and shoot crap. How cool is that? That could only be topped by aerial archery. These people will be like 90 feet in the air doing about a thousand backflips, then they have to shoot a target before they hit the ground. The summer games should just be replaced by the winter games. Who in their right mind would rather see half naked men dancing around than five guys falling out of a huge sled with sharp things going really really fast?

This rant sucks, but I am moody because ***gy swimming events took away my Conan from me last night :mad2:.

[evilhomer]

Don't worry, there will be plenty more homoerotic sports to take away your Conan in the near future.

[wiseguy360]

Entertaining. Maybe Conan and the homoerotic sports are in cahoots?

[the other one]

Originally posted by wiseguy360
Entertaining. Maybe Conan and the homoerotic sports are in cahoots?

:rolleyes:




the only olympic event that any of my friends followed was the precision rifle teams.... mostly because we're on a rifle team. go figure.:|







my rant:
seeing a guy in a courtroom break down and cry "im guilty" while being dragged away in cuffs and chains..... I saw that yesterday. The guy did something stupid, but in the preliminary hearing, he couldn't say that he was guilty or not. They wouldn't let him say that he was guilty. He was one of those "slow" guys that would be in special ed, but he wasn't really all that stupid. he knew something.

but the judge wouldn't let the guy say that he was guilty, and wouldn't let him report into a mental illness ward (which would happen if found guilty in his case). He had to go back to jail/prison. He was crying and fighting to stay in the coutroom and screaming that he was guilty. For a full minute after he was physically dragged out of the room, you could still hear him screaming "i'm guilty!" in the hallway. He said something about not wanting to go back, also......

So, while I was sitting there, waiting for my traffic violation case to be up, I was just about ready to stand up and call the judge a moron and a heartless ******* who will not help someone who is visibly in need. I felt so bad for the guy after that. I got so sick of our judicial system after that.

[/my rant]

[El Kabong]

I'm back.

You guys get two rants for the price of one. First of all, I would like to piss and moan about the retardedness of school. I signed up for four AP classes out of eight classes for the year, but the fat women at the office decided to give me the shaft. I have one of my AP classes this term and the other three next term, meaning three out of my four classes will be college level come January. But for now, I have an AP English class and three ridiculous electives. I haven't had a class with the "less-gifted" crowd since my sophomore year, since I spent all of 11th grade in AP and honors or TA'ing. And for clarification, by "less-gifted" I mean "average." The mean intelligence at my school ranks somewhere on the chart between vomit and mayonnaise. And it only gets to there because I make up for half of the kids that are only in my electives because the school can't afford any more Special Ed teachers. So I spend three of my four classes with these idiots and it makes me consider hanging myself with my shoelace an average of 11 times a day. It is literally repulsive that they can manage to be so ridiculously retarded. One girl was trying to convince me that anything above 1000 was a good enough SAT score to get one into any college. Another girl couldn't grasp the concept that PDA is, in fact, rude. She also didn't understand that when a computer isn't working, the school sends a technician to fix it instead of replacing it with a new computer. This retard is also contributing to the school newspaper. It is absolutely digusting. I guess I don't really have to deal with idiots in piano class, but only because we're not allowed to speak or move. Bell to bell piano playing, with the exception of the teacher peaching to us the first 15 minutes of every period. And he hates us all by default because our school doesn't have any gangs. Either I'm not understanding something, or my teacher is mildly retarded. But it's allright because he has wicked facial hair. Anyways, all you need to know is that 95% of my classmates are still in search of their lost brain stems.

The only people worse than these down syndrome poster boys are the pricks that think they don't have down syndrome just because they get good grades. You know who I'm talking about. These loud-mouthed douches infest AP and honors classes and think their crap doesn't stink. They can be identified rather easily; they are always ugly and usually crying because they only have a 93% and they wanted a 97% at least. But they don't get by on any natural intellect. They only muster their good grades by spending an unbelievable amount of time studying crap that the smart kids memorized the second they wrote it down. These pricks also live by the mantra, "There are no stupid questions," siezing every opportunity they have to listen to themselves talk. They give their stupid insight into everything and the teacher always gives them the "Shut the hell up, I should have called on El Kabong because he's always right" look. So when I'm not listening to the socially adept retards talk about nonsensical rubbish, I'm listening to the socially rejected retards spew their own brand of nonsensical crap. I just hope down syndrome isn't contagious.

Okay, I'm adding another rant. Cats piss me off. All they do is eat and crap and walk on my keyboard and claw the hell out of everything ever created. And they shed. Why would God give them this ability? Because He wanted to make them as annoying as possible, so no sane individual would own a cat. I challenge you to convince me that cats are, in fact, not worthless.

Allright, last rant. Damn, I forgot what it was. These things are going downhill fast. I still laugh out loud when I read my first one. I'm getting calmer in my old age. Wait, I just remembered what I was gonna complain about. Spam. It is not funny. "Man secks" nonsense is also not funny. Purposely misspelling words and adding a ridiculous amount of letters and numbers at the end iz awls0 n0t fun-E OMG OMG lololol lollersecks penar 111!!!SHIFTONE. It is so old and everyone but you is sick and tired of reading it. You're all probably thinking along the lines of "Ranting online is also nerdy and not funny, hypocrite." Well, first of all you're wrong. And second of all, I don't write these late night cynical musings so you can get a good chuckle. I write to make myself feel better, then I share this literary brilliance because I like to pretend that people actually read what I say. Seriously guys, tone down the tired online jokes. Just make fun of ugly people. Or if you are ugly, make fun of shallow people. Poke fun at stereotypes or something. Take a picture that does not involve the word "owned."

[El Kabong]

I had way too much caffeine and I'm still pissed. First of all, my toe hurts like hell because I clipped it too short. Nerves are worthless. Secondly, I'm getting relationship advice from some arrogant turd that is oblivious to the fact that nobody likes him. He is acting all condescending and experienced in relationships, only 2 months after he confronted me to ask if it is acceptable to cheat on a girl if you don't tell her. Now he's offering his instructions that nobody cares about on my relationship of 7 and a half months. I'm also pissed because some jerkoff stole my trademark before I made it. I mean, everyone needs a trademark, and I came up with a brilliant idea. My hair was starting to annoy me and get in my eyes, so I put on a bandana to sorta push it out and away from my face. The only bandana in my house happened to be pink, but since I am sexy it automatically looked really good on me. I've been wearing it for about five days and have grown really attached to it, and decided I'd wear it to school and earn fame as "the white kid with a pink bandana." Well, I was just informed today that some kid that wants to be black already took my trademark. If I weren't so afraid of blemishing my perfect face with a black eye, I'd fight him at this moment for rights to the pink bandana trademark. I also hate the kids that think they're God's gifts to politics. They offer their retarded analysis into everything, totally ignoring the other side of the story just so their stance will mesh with their political affiliations. They bring up their one-sided opinions at every opportunity, just trying to start an argument so they can hear themselves babble about what they think, even though everyone knows that they haven't the slightest idea what they're talking about. If you talk to anybody sensible about politics, they will be able to tell you that nearly all issues are giant grey areas, with absolutely no definitive right or wrong solution. And I also had one kid tell me that Bush gave such sloppy speeches because he was busy thinking about, and I quote, "What he really believes, not what he thinks will get the most votes." I just laughed at the kid, then cried when I realized he will be able to vote come November. Then he went on to say that most Democrats will vote for Bush since the Republican Convention was so good. Sadly, this is the kind of kid that will end up in politics because he's got extreme opinions and lots of money. Okay, that's not true because politicians only pretend to be that stupid, while he is sincerely that retarded. I don't know if I should feel sorry for him and put him out of his misery, or make fun of him on a paintball website.

My scrotum has been in general discomfort for about 4 years. Insanity is slowly consuming my mind because I'm realizing I'll never ever live another moment without a desire to scratch or adjust myself. I'm also mad because I have to watch these poor nerds cry on TV on this awful MTV show because they suck with girls. It's so damn depressing. I literally saw a dude cry over some ugly, rude slut that wouldn't let him in the house.

My dog's dying soon. That pisses me off because he's the most wicked awesome dog ever. When he gets mad, he craps on stuff. How cool is that? Imagine dropping a load everytime you get offended. That's just awesome. But he's dying in like a month, which is stupid because he's my best friend. We've had him since I was 2 and he has never walked on my keyboard like an ugly cat. He just sits around and lets people pet him and chases things that annoy me. If he could talk, he would sound like Sean Connery and say witty things about not having his testicles and about how my other dog smells like he sleeps in his own feces.

I also hate people that brag or talk about their lives in their internet screen names. As if anyone gives a flying frick about what goes on in their pathetic lives. He's a general rule: if you feel compelled to talk about what happens to you in your MSN screen name, then you have a boring personality and nobody cares to begin with. Then there are those jerks that type out an entire fricking song for their screen names. Not only is that inconsiderate, but poor judgement in screen names usually indicates poor judgement in lyrics choice.

You want to know what sucks? Of course you do. I don't get to miss school on my birthday. Well, I can cut of course, but my mommy won't call and have me excused. Whoever gave that woman a right to have an opinion must be the same idiot that invented fannypacks. And probably the ame guys that write the essay prompts for AP classes. Yesterday, I had to write about a Mexican family based on a horribly-written passage about Christmas. I'd have a better time writing an action script about a bowl of clam chowder. "It moved with the agility of a centipede with 100 missing legs. The soup was white, like a spot of bleach on a plaid shirt. If my clam chowder suddenly grew a mouth, the first thing he said would be a compliment on my bandana. Then I'd be like 'Whoa, talking clam chowder!' And he'd be like, 'I taste awful!' And I'd be like, 'I don't think we've met before, kinda like two tryanosaurus rexes who have also never met.'"

4:00 AM. Still watching nerds on MTV and trying to entice my cat into a game of chess. Why can't my cat play board games with me? Because it's a woman. Zing! Curveball! You were totally thinking I was going to say something about opposable thumbs. But I'm like a Kenyan and you're like everyone else; I'm always a step ahead. Caffeine's a hell of a drug. I'm starting a cult in commemoration of someone famous. Then if you ever meet them you can be like "Dude, I started a cult for you!"

Yep.

[firekow]

:tup:

Why watch anything on MTV except ride guide?

[Echoes]

Of course, again, I agree with pretty much everything you're saying...to the extent of thinking that you stole my brain/fingers for a while. I really agree with your view on politics and the grey area, and your interpretation of 99% of high school kids, as well as the common internet teenager.

I like my cat a lot, but I will admit that he is near worthless. It's just the attachment factor, I guess.

I'm online so early now because I haven't been able to get much sleep in the past 4 days, due to surgical knee pain. :( Glad I caught something worthwhile. You'll find that this OT forum seemingly gets dumber every second though; my OT postage has dimished to rare status, only resurfacing when I see someone say something so stupid, that I have to correct them. Or maybe there's a worthwhile thread every once in a while. When I feel a rant coming, on the other hand, I usually just open up notepad. Notepad doesn't argue back in ignorance.

Luckily, at my school, I have found a few others...generally like you and me....

Originally posted by El Kabong
Zing! Curveball!

nice one

Sorry about the dog :(
Talk to me anytime on AIM.

[Chill_Bebop]

El Kabong, i love you.

[Hmmm Donut]

Originally posted by El Kabong
I'm back.

You guys get two rants for the price of one. First of all, I would like to piss and moan about the retardedness of school. I signed up for four AP classes out of eight classes for the year, but the fat women at the office decided to give me the shaft. I have one of my AP classes this term and the other three next term, meaning three out of my four classes will be college level come January. But for now, I have an AP English class and three ridiculous electives. I haven't had a class with the "less-gifted" crowd since my sophomore year, since I spent all of 11th grade in AP and honors or TA'ing. And for clarification, by "less-gifted" I mean "average." The mean intelligence at my school ranks somewhere on the chart between vomit and mayonnaise. And it only gets to there because I make up for half of the kids that are only in my electives because the school can't afford any more Special Ed teachers. So I spend three of my four classes with these idiots and it makes me consider hanging myself with my shoelace an average of 11 times a day. It is literally repulsive that they can manage to be so ridiculously retarded. One girl was trying to convince me that anything above 1000 was a good enough SAT score to get one into any college. Another girl couldn't grasp the concept that PDA is, in fact, rude. She also didn't understand that when a computer isn't working, the school sends a technician to fix it instead of replacing it with a new computer. This retard is also contributing to the school newspaper. It is absolutely digusting. I guess I don't really have to deal with idiots in piano class, but only because we're not allowed to speak or move. Bell to bell piano playing, with the exception of the teacher peaching to us the first 15 minutes of every period. And he hates us all by default because our school doesn't have any gangs. Either I'm not understanding something, or my teacher is mildly retarded. But it's allright because he has wicked facial hair. Anyways, all you need to know is that 95% of my classmates are still in search of their lost brain stems.

The only people worse than these down syndrome poster boys are the pricks that think they don't have down syndrome just because they get good grades. You know who I'm talking about. These loud-mouthed douches infest AP and honors classes and think their crap doesn't stink. They can be identified rather easily; they are always ugly and usually crying because they only have a 93% and they wanted a 97% at least. But they don't get by on any natural intellect. They only muster their good grades by spending an unbelievable amount of time studying crap that the smart kids memorized the second they wrote it down. These pricks also live by the mantra, "There are no stupid questions," siezing every opportunity they have to listen to themselves talk. They give their stupid insight into everything and the teacher always gives them the "Shut the hell up, I should have called on El Kabong because he's always right" look. So when I'm not listening to the socially adept retards talk about nonsensical rubbish, I'm listening to the socially rejected retards spew their own brand of nonsensical crap. I just hope down syndrome isn't contagious.

Okay, I'm adding another rant. Cats piss me off. All they do is eat and crap and walk on my keyboard and claw the hell out of everything ever created. And they shed. Why would God give them this ability? Because He wanted to make them as annoying as possible, so no sane individual would own a cat. I challenge you to convince me that cats are, in fact, not worthless.

Allright, last rant. Damn, I forgot what it was. These things are going downhill fast. I still laugh out loud when I read my first one. I'm getting calmer in my old age. Wait, I just remembered what I was gonna complain about. Spam. It is not funny. "Man secks" nonsense is also not funny. Purposely misspelling words and adding a ridiculous amount of letters and numbers at the end iz awls0 n0t fun-E OMG OMG lololol lollersecks penar 111!!!SHIFTONE. It is so old and everyone but you is sick and tired of reading it. You're all probably thinking along the lines of "Ranting online is also nerdy and not funny, hypocrite." Well, first of all you're wrong. And second of all, I don't write these late night cynical musings so you can get a good chuckle. I write to make myself feel better, then I share this literary brilliance because I like to pretend that people actually read what I say. Seriously guys, tone down the tired online jokes. Just make fun of ugly people. Or if you are ugly, make fun of shallow people. Poke fun at stereotypes or something. Take a picture that does not involve the word "owned."

No offense but what in the hell do u except. Most people are complete idiots. I know kids at my school, That are taking algreba 1 for the third time. Then we have Mtv polluting the mines of our youth, making them sick destructive people.
But if u really want ot rant at someone, rant at MTv. It is the worst thing that ever happen to this world.

When u go to a below average school like me. Where about 70% of the stidents are into narcotics, gangs etc........ U realize how much of a **** hole this world is.

My generation is going to end up blowing up the world because they dont know their head from their ***

[thunderpig]

Pure brilliance. Really. I almost feel smarter after having read it.
Originally posted by El Kabong
My dog's dying soon. That pisses me off because he's the most wicked awesome dog ever. When he gets mad, he craps on stuff. How cool is that? Imagine dropping a load everytime you get offended. That's just awesome. But he's dying in like a month, which is stupid because he's my best friend. We've had him since I was 2 and he has never walked on my keyboard like an ugly cat. He just sits around and lets people pet him and chases things that annoy me. If he could talk, he would sound like Sean Connery and say witty things about not having his testicles and about how my other dog smells like he sleeps in his own feces.
It's sad that your dog is dying, but this little rant made me burst out laughing. :laugh:

[Awhislyle]

*1000th View*


1000 people now know of your life

[El Kabong]

Originally posted by Awhislyle
1000 people now know of your life Or lack thereof...

[wiseguy360]

"Ahh El Kabong! Can I be one of your groupies!!!?!??!"

But seriously. Since I attend your school and am in one of your classes, I can relate... Sigh. The girl next to me in English the other day asks, "What's infinite mean? Is it like infinity?"

[El Kabong]

I hate drugs and alcohol. It was once respectable to take a hit when life was dragging you down, but now nearly everyone that partakes in either is doing it in some hopeless attempt to gain acceptance from their retarded peers.
"I'm a dumbtard and started doing weed because all my friends called me a woman until I tried it. Now I spend all my money on it for fear of being socially rejected. Care to try some?"
"Well I am morally opposed to using drugs, and the idea makes me uncomfortable. But I lack a personality and a brain stem, and therefore will give it a try in some ridiculously stupid effort to get you to like me."
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with our culture? There is horsecrap in profiles about who has and hasn't tried pot, as if it is a defining character flaw/makes you tough shat if you have tried it. If you light up because it improves your mood, then go for it. But if you have to brag about it, a swift kick in the nuts is in order. If you think you are better than everyone else because you don't have any inclination to do drugs, or have simply never been offered a joint, then I suggest inserting what is left of your manhood into a vice grip and tightening until you get the point. Drug use should be your own business, not a necessity at parties and something that defines social cliques. If you are one of the kids that sits at the back table in school and loudly discuss how quickly you could hotbox the classroom, I hate you. On the contrary, if you are one of the kids that looks down on people for the legality of their private habits, I hate you as well. If you think doing drugs is stupid and laugh at the kids that fall into the downward spiral of wasting money and sucking at school, that's cool. But dammit, just because you get your jollies on one way and another guy gets his hard-ons by hitting the bong when his mood calls for it, then you aren't the better person by any means. Nobody gets hurt either way, so don't let a contradictory law define your moral attitude. Do what you do for your own reasons.
I realize I am preaching to the choir on this one, but I am sick of nerds bragging about their substance abuse-filled weekends in vain attempts to not sound like nerds.

"Special" Students Learns Politics!
A few days ago, the two blondest girls I have ever seen were united in the Journalism classroom. I could feel the stupidity and naivity descend upon the room, suffocating my intellect and making my blood boil and nearly compelling me to simultaneously escape the room and beat one with my keyboard. But I resisted my savage urges because I am just a nice guy. These girls are the epitome of the stereotypical blonde, as they've got extremely cute faces and bodies that you are suddenly no longer attracted to the second they open their mouths in a non-fallatious manner. I swear on my life, if they had been 3 feet shorter and had just a bit more drool on their faces, I'd have assumed they were escaped convicts from the Special Ed class. I realize I use that analogy a lot, but it fricking rings true. Anyway, the retards begin conversing innocuously enough. I wasn't really paying attention at all, as I was probably busy playing Slime Volleyball with an editor or fighting with my girlfriend or something. But eventually the fervor and momentum of their conversation reached my ears, and with horror I realized the gravity of the situation. These two blondes did the exact thing that two blondes should never do: they chose to discuss politics.
There is something that you must know about our area. As I've said before, it is like a breeding ground for idiotic yuppies to have their idiotic kids. We've got tons of rich people that like having money, so naturally the region is infested with conservatives. And the students at my school like their parents having money to spend on them, thus they spinelessly accept the political leanings of Mom and Dad and become extremely--nay, ridiculously--politically right-minded. There stand, however, a few exceptions; we've got about 10 liberals at the school. Unfortunately, 8 of them came to their political conclusions because Sum 41 and Blink 182 told them to. So discussions on social issues and politics will inevitably end in disaster.
But when you've got two blondes discussing such complicated topics, we get into a whole new ballpark of disasters. Like, if a semi-intelligent individual merely listens to the shear idiocy of the conversation, a hernia of frustration is apt to follow. I promise you, the blondes were in fact that stupid. So we have Blink-182 girl vs. Abercrombie girl trying to battle out issues so involved that they are creating a national dichotomy.
The only positive I drew from the situation is that the liberal blonde made her points slightly better than the gayhating girl. Unfortunately, watching their conversation was like watching two nerds playing Pokemon card games at lunch; even if there was a winner, both were bound to end up looking like down syndrome kids. That were really hot.
So they get going on homo rights, not making any clear points at all. First of all, neither of them understood civil unions at all. Then they had trouble figuring out which side their parents/favorite band told them to be on, so they were very open-minded for the first few minutes of discussion as they figured out what they were supposed to think. Once that was sorted out, they just whined and yelled at each other in the most blatant and disgusting display of ignorance I have ever born witness to. It was like two blind rats racing to suffocate first in their own feces. Absolutely hideous and neither of them gained any ground whatsoever. The liberal blonde was saying her homo uncle in San Francisco should be granted the right to vote, while the other girl was saying something about how homosexual couples shouldn't be allowed to have kids because they can't reproduce. I personally hate this point with a passion, but I will admit that it has some merit if you relate their inability to have proper sex with some BS about God's will and whatnot. But God never came up in her explanation. Just making fun of homosexuals.
Then they got going on abortion. This is an approximate summation of the conversation:
"I'm a liberal and I am Pro-Choice!"
"I'm a conservative so I am Pro-Life!"
"Choice!"
"Life, baby hater!"
"Choice!"
"Ch---wait, which one do I like again?"
At this point I vomitted in my mouth and thanked God for properly assembling my brain. The bell rang or I resigned myself to a slow suicide via insertion of a pen to my skull or something like that, because after that hideous exchange I abandoned my eavesdropping for less IQ point-diminishing pursuits.

[firekow]

Again, noice. Always entertaining, if not a good waste of time.

[Hmmm Donut]

El Kabong you are officially the most depressing person on the Internet. You hate everything and anything, so do everyone a favor and jump in you coffin now and save us the trouble.

Although you are right about the things you say, you can't be so depressed about things. There has to be one thing you don't hate.

ONE word :( Zoloft

[Chill_Bebop]

Kabong, still a great read. I definatly know what your talking about Drug wise- Every other person in my school is a daily user. Thankfully they realize not to try and pressure me into anything, cause its a useless gesture to try me. Pot is just annoying. I dont have to do it because honestly, im not taking this out of an anti-drug commercial, but i need to work my hardest and not screw up. If i was to do pot, id not only betray my own values, but i'd betray my own parents, and i get along with them very well. I dont hate them at all. I do drink, but my parents dont mind it, because they know i dont drink to get hammered drunk.

Im pretty well known as a conservative politcal figure around school, and the fact that i hang out in the democrat's club before school (Yes, i do. Besides having lots of friends in the club, its fun to get a good laugh about what they're saying) So every once and a while i get this weirdo fanatical Kerry supporter get very angry and uptight at me, while im, say, taking a leak or waiting in line.

Meanwhile, the majority of the democrats club has been very cordial to me, and i like debating with them.

It happens if i were on the different side, too, i suppose.

[wiseguy360]

Interesting, after the conversation we had on Friday you didn't rant about our newspaper? I'll do my best to summarize our conversation and witty remarks towards the authors.

Point 1: A Jewish girl is writing about religion, and how people are ignorant. She believes (this is in the opinion section, in case that needed clarification...) that people should know about each religion so they don't look like fools... Okay. Makes some sense. Apparently she got frustrated when someone asked her if Jewish people celebrated Easter. Fair enough. This article had an okay premise, until halfway through she says something like "Well, I admit, I don't know anything about "x" religion (forgot the name)...".....
...
Hypocrite?

Point 2: A Junior girl at our school, whom I find annoying, and I'm aware of at least 300 other people that agree (mas o menos). She decides to write an article to the freshmen at our school. Couple of her points are:
1) Freshmen girls: don't date Senior guys.
2) Go to the rallies and dances, but don't try to look cool. You'll only embarass yourself. "You, a freshman, are not the coolest person doing anything here." <-Almost a direct quote and I don't have the paper, it was super funny.

1) Now...I've heard this is normal around other schools, but at our school...there is about 1, maybe 0 Freshman-Senior couples, that really doesn't happen. My friend's main belief behind her making this point was that she was jealous as a freshman for not getting asked out by anyone older.

2) Weird. I personally think it's fun to make a fool of myself (on occasion, sometimes not) at rallies and school events. It's more fun than just sitting there...she is basically telling the widdle kids not to do anything that other people might think is weird.... and the point of high school is to grow up and stop caring what other people think, is it not?

Last article was just someone not taking a stand on the article, just saying what is happening...don't feel like discussing.

In conclusion... I wish I had the newspaper here.

Oh, El Kabong writes for the paper, and does a fairly decent job at completely ridiculing Alter Bridge. I found his articles amusing, but we'll wait until he tries an opinion article. Maybe he should, and it should be about blondes and politics.


Not quite an edit, but almost: The insecure girl of point 2 also wrote an article last year about a website someone at our school put up with naughty pictures some of the hotter girls at our school had taken of themselves, and also a list of the ugliest girls at our school. She denounced this site because her sisters were on it ( the ugly list...not the hot pictures)... (I had never actually seen the site, but some of the pictoids :love:)

[Flog Monster]

Originally posted by El Kabong
And you're Canadian. It's okay, mistakes are made by the best of us.
WTF MATE? Canada is the Country of Liberalism...We are the most liberal country in the world.


You should move here.



Also I agree I hate ****ty rip off emo and screamo bands..My brother plays drums for a EMO SCREMO PUNKO band theya re actully very good,a nd may go somewhere....

But so many bands i ahve seen just writhe crap lyrics and play power choards and then bash blink 182 when infact theya re justa s lame.

[El Kabong]

Nah, I love Canada. And I'll rant aboot Meegan later if you'd like.

[blinkpk11]

wow a place to rant...so here goes....
I hate school rallies. Why in God's name would one think of such a cliche concept? Yes lets just try and piss off everyone at lunch time by filling the school with crappy music and the annoying voices of our student "council." i use the word council in the loosest sense of the word, because lord knows they cant even tell their asses form their elbows. No body wants to hear about "school spirit" in fact id say 99% of the people at school would much rather be at home, so stop reminding us of how much it sucks. thank god these inbred idiots are only allowed to conduct these rapings of the school grounds once a week. what even irks me more, is that the only decent place to sit down during lunch is the so called "rally stage." again, if they left it up to me, it would simply be called, "place to sit in the shade," because denying me of my right to have a nice relaxing lunch, should not be interrupted ever.
and another thing, i hate teenagers. now im only 17, but have pretty much decided that apart form the 10-20 people i consider "friends," teenagers are well, senseless idiots. now my small group of people i hang out with, we are as i would say "budding intellectuals" and well are snobs and think we are better than everyone, but we are. just about everyone else in this "school" as an iq of somewhere between mashed potatoes and a wooden chair. those who have excelled themselves in the slightest are quickly brought down by our social norms which prides itself on idiocy and looks down on any type of intellectual behavior. and i hate the kids who think they are cooler than everyone else just because the drink and party. frankly, society (i.e. me) doesn't give a rats *** how much you drink or smoke. and yes i hope your liver looks something like a rotten piece of mutton, because its not the drinking that irks me, but the fact that your pompous *** has to parade it our in front of me. i myself have been none to drink socially and smoke every now and then, but i don't go around and tell everyone i have ever met. get a life, wait screw that kill yourself and save us all the trouble of replacing your liver in 5 years...

[El Kabong]

Originally posted by Hmmm Donut
El Kabong you are officially the most depressing person on the Internet. You hate everything and anything, so do everyone a favor and jump in you coffin now and save us the trouble.

Although you are right about the things you say, you can't be so depressed about things. There has to be one thing you don't hate.

ONE word :( Zoloft Aha, I missed this one. These posts of literary and philosophical brilliance aren't meant to get pity. You're supposed to read them and get pissed off and challenge my points or laugh at how hilarious I am. And my parents were trying to get me some Zoloft, but I guess they forgot about that.

And blink, I couldn't agree more. School spirit nerds were going to be a subject of one of my rants somewhere down the line.

[darkjedi]

I agree with all of you(ie Kabong, Bebop...). Can totally relate.

Okay, my mom just had a hysterectomy, and she can't do any lifting. So, every ****ing night in the past 2 weeks I've gotten 2-4 hours of sleep because I have to watch the little ****(my brother) while my stupid wench sister is out w/ her ****ing ******* boyfriend and I've had to go help my mom with her route at 2 in the morning. All while my ******* sister is sleeping. And then the kids at this school, ****ing hate me because I'm so cranky all the time when most of them know why I'm so ****ing tired all the time because I explained it to the little yuppie *********s. Then my Latin 3 teacher, god I ****ing hate him. His parents payed his way through college, and then he sits there and brags about being a grad student. He keeps giving me **** about being late all the time(my mom has redeliveries in the morning), even when I explained it to the little ******* twice already. Oh and then the little ****(brother) doesn't listen to me when I'm watching him so I hit stuff and have to have counseling. wtf.

[i like tictacs]

I agree with that "secks" part

and the drug part

but i still hate your stance on music

[Chill_Bebop]

Originally posted by i like tictacs

but i still hate your stance on music

My stance on music is simple.

If it sounds good i'll listen to it.

This may deeply upset Dirt/kabong, but honetly, i dont get the deal here. I'll listen to Reggae, Didgeridoo Recordings, Bebop (My name isnt just random, i actually do like Bebop, both the show and the music) crappy 90s techno, Vocal Trance, Blues, etc. My tastes runs fricking everywhere.

[Hmmm Donut]

Originally posted by darkjedi
I agree with all of you(ie Kabong, Bebop...). Can totally relate.

Okay, my mom just had a hysterectomy, and she can't do any lifting. So, every ****ing night in the past 2 weeks I've gotten 2-4 hours of sleep because I have to watch the little ****(my brother) while my stupid wench sister is out w/ her ****ing ******* boyfriend and I've had to go help my mom with her route at 2 in the morning. All while my ******* sister is sleeping. And then the kids at this school, ****ing hate me because I'm so cranky all the time when most of them know why I'm so ****ing tired all the time because I explained it to the little yuppie *********s. Then my Latin 3 teacher, god I ****ing hate him. His parents payed his way through college, and then he sits there and brags about being a grad student. He keeps giving me **** about being late all the time(my mom has redeliveries in the morning), even when I explained it to the little ******* twice already. Oh and then the little ****(brother) doesn't listen to me when I'm watching him so I hit stuff and have to have counseling. wtf.


WOW 11 curse words.:eyes: Thank god for word filters.

and EL KAbong you are one funny MOFo, BUt really depressing. :laugh: But so DAmn funny. :laugh:

[El Kabong]

Originally posted by Chill_Bebop
My stance on music is simple.

If it sounds good i'll listen to it.

This may deeply upset Dirt/kabong, but honetly, i dont get the deal here. I'll listen to Reggae, Didgeridoo Recordings, Bebop (My name isnt just random, i actually do like Bebop, both the show and the music) crappy 90s techno, Vocal Trance, Blues, etc. My tastes runs fricking everywhere. Doesn't offend me at all. I support people listening to what they like. That's what everyone should do.

[Chill_Bebop]

Originally posted by El Kabong
Doesn't offend me at all. I support people listening to what they like. That's what everyone should do.

Yeah....

But by that logic i could like Ashly Simpson/Hanson/Good Charlotte, and consider Linkin park to be death metal.

[firekow]

Originally posted by Chill_Bebop


Yeah....

But by that logic i could like Ashly Simpson/Hanson/Good Charlotte, and consider Linkin park to be death metal.

Sure, you could, but you'd still be wrong (to call LP death metal):P.

[Canadia_PBaller]

There is a difference between being wrong, and right, and having an opinion. For example, saying Linkin Park is an opinion, but saying they're death metal is just plain wrong. And El Kabong, wtf dude, you seem pissed off as hell. Kick some body's ***, it'll make you feel better.

[El Kabong]

Though hideous and misguided she may be, Tony doesn't quite deserve such disparagement.

Even El Kabong has standards. You guys really shouldn't like me.

[TiPpYsGaLoRe]

Wow.




Your life sucks. :(

[ICE COLD666]

I don't know how your class is set up, but you just ask to move,or you could get a restraining order

[firekow]

That's really too bad, I feel your pain. I've known the sting of an actual male Tony, except he works at an egg farm or something equally dead-ended and repulsive.

EDIT: He has not, and ne'er will try and hug me.

[Chill_Bebop]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303383319.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Sit somewhere else, coming in late so she cant move in the middle of class. If that doesnt work tell the teacher you dont want to sit next to her. If that fails, kill her cat.

[Fandango]

You need a blog el kabong. Like one we don't have to see everytime we go to off topic. Sig link perhaps?

I read that whole thing just now. I have realized only one type of thing in many different packages can help you.

http://img228.exs.cx/img228/4686/aflippingun16sp.jpg

[Chill_Bebop]

Originally posted by Fandango
You need a blog el kabong. Like one we don't have to see everytime we go to off topic. Sig link perhaps?

I read that whole thing just now. I have realized only one type of thing in many different packages can help you.

http://img228.exs.cx/img228/4686/aflippingun16sp.jpg

Suggesting a $3,000 Janz TL Super-Korth Revolver would solve the problem, but also put him in Debt. Try something more cost effective.

[evilhomer]

You feel the pain of gender confusion as well eh?
By the way, that rant :tup:


Edit, I suppose I forgive you also, since you did forgive me for the peanut epidemic. :P

[Fandango]

Originally posted by Chill_Bebop


Suggesting a $3,000 Janz TL Super-Korth Revolver would solve the problem, but also put him in Debt. Try something more cost effective.
Holy cow, I just searched my pictures for a gun pic and that's one I found.
It's one you posted a long time ago. I still have that picture of your sandwich saved.
http://img102.exs.cx/img102/3779/verytastysandwich3ex.jpg

[playzpaintball]

That was the funniest rant I have read in a long time.

I feel your pain Kabong, but I can't but help and laugh at that rant :tup:

[the other one]

wow, didn't this thread die?:eyes:

i thought surely you would have committed suicide by now...:P

[Fandango]

Originally posted by the other one
wow, didn't this thread die?:eyes:

i thought surely you would have committed suicide by now...:P
Yeah, me too. I remember when he first posted this.

[evilhomer]

It's a continuous cycle of angst... It can not be done away with...

[Fandango]

Originally posted by evilhomer
It's a continuous cycle of angst... It can not be done away with...
Well, I had been planning on hi commiting suicide. Or shooting the damn woman and getting on with life.

[playzpaintball]

wow.

I was just re-reading some of his rants, and one's I'd missed before somehow...Brilliant, I loved them all.

[Pistolero2112]

I'd like to rant too...

These grade 8's at my school are startin to piss me off. Almost all of them are Emo Skater Punks with long greasy hair. So anyways, I show up to school in the morning and got to sit at my table with my friends and there are 4 of the grade 8's there all with their guitars. 3 of them have Black Fender/Squier Strats, with homo HIM stickers on them, and the other has a Black Squier Precision Bass. He is using a pick, and all of the guys with guitars have their hands in the Punk Powerchord position. All of them are sittin there squabbling over which songs are hardest to play, yet all the songs they mention are ALL powerchords. So I try to drown out that crap, and then I hear what sounds like a Cat and Baby duct-taped together being smacked on a Sitar with a distortion pedal. I turn my head and I can see them making retarded faces as the guitarists completely destroy their strings playing powerchords over and over again, and the bassist sitting their with an emo face, his hair in his eyes, and playing the same note over and over again with pick. I tell them to be quiet because they sound like an Obese man who just ate his own weight in mexican food taking a crap, and they tell me that they are jamming. I tell them "No, you aren't jamming. With jamming you at least have to have some rhythm." One with really bad acne and a "I just hit puberty" voice hands me his guitar and says , "If you know so much about guitar and rhythm, why don't you play us a solo?" so I grab his guitar and play both solo's from Stray Cat Strut mixed together (one after the other) and hand it back to them and say, "Happy? Now why don't one of you play one?" so the same kid who told me to play one starts to play the solo from Smell's Like Teen Spirit (easily simplest solo of all time) and says "That's right, my solo smoked yours!" I told them to leave because their powerchords were just too good for me.


Sorry if I sound emo, but I was really pissed off about that.

[Chill_Bebop]

Originally posted by Pistolero2112
Blah blah blah

Excuse me sir, but this thread is entitled El Kabong wants to rant, not Pistolero2112.

[Pistolero2112]

Originally posted by El Kabong


I invite you to piss and moan about whatever is on your mind.

Excuse me sir, but he did give me permission.

[wiseguy360]

Originally posted by Chill_Bebop


Excuse me sir, but this thread is entitled El Kabong wants to rant, not Pistolero2112.

Originally posted by El Kabong
I invite you to piss and moan about whatever is on your mind.

Chill ... it's okay. You were very wrong.

edit: Yes, Justin, he did beeet me. But I have prooft him wroung.

[Chill_Bebop]

Originally posted by Pistolero2112


Excuse me sir, but he did give me permission.

As Wiseguy has stated in a painful way over AIM.

Haha, he beat you, Alex.

[playzpaintball]

Either way 'permission' or not, I agree with Chill in a way.

Kabongs rants are informative and funny...I didn't even complete one sentence from Pistolero2112's 'rant'.