It's also historically impossible. Anthropologists study the migrations of early human group by examining various influences societies had on each other. A trader could bring a lot of cultural influence along with him on his trade route, and some of those influences will get integrated into the villages he visits. It's just what people do, and have done for centuries.
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It's also historically impossible. Anthropologists study the migrations of early human group by examining various influences societies had on each other. A trader could bring a lot of cultural influence along with him on his trade route, and some of those influences will get integrated into the villages he visits. It's just what people do, and have done for centuries.
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"Although" is just indicative of an alternative interpretation of the phenomenon of cultural mixing. The good effect is that cultures are not so isolated and alien from each other, the bad effect is the diluting of cultural identity. All will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
"Put on your big boy pants," which essentially means you're a snowflake (another overused/misused term) if you don't agree with someone, or if you don't take a stance as tough as they think you should.
I frankly resent anyone suggesting I need put on pants at all
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We're talking trousers, mate... Not yer UK pants.
Wouldn't be caught dead without me Y-fronts. Or a glittery g-string if it's a holiday.... IMHO, of course!
I don't like it when a waiter asks me if I'm "still workin on that?". I'm not supposed to be the one working in this scenario.
Agreed. I have an amateur level interest in the migrations of various cultures into (and out of) the British Isles. Amazes me how quickly pre-Roman Britons adapted socially and culturally (and economically) to the Roman occupation. And then dropped that when Romans left (well, least the Romans as a part of the occupying forces). I'm sure there's still a lot of ancient Roman DNA in Britain.
Like history, i believe that culture - for better or worse - is "written" by the victors, for a while anyways.
Some bassist don't play bass guitar exclusively. Some bassists play upright/string bass as well, or exclusively. They play bass. I play bass. I have 8 basses and not all are guitars.This cracks me up, because this is exactly the one that gets to me the most, except it's the number of people playing bass guitars who want to insist that it's just some weird thing called a "bass," as though a "bass" can exist outside of an instrument category. It can't, unless you're talking about a fish.
You have bass saxophones, you have bass viols, you have bass clarinets, and we play bass guitars.
The fact that many people, including the person who sold you your first one, didn't bother to include the obvious instrument category in the name when you first heard it does not mean your instrument doesn't fall into that category. It is not in a category of its own named only for its playing register. No soprano sax player ever went around yelling at people that his instrument is just "a soprano."
I blame the poor state of music education for this mess, since once-upon-a-time our grade school music classes taught us about different kinds of instruments and the various registers they played in, but it's increasingly exacerbated by people who insist on clinging to this error even though it's been pointed out to them.
Bass guitar
Now, get off my lawn.
I only do that when I'm channeling Magritte, which is only when I want crickets and/or tumbleweed.
When someone says they play bass, it doesn't always mean the instrument itself, but the function of their contribution to the music. Some musicians play chords, some melody, and some bass. No matter the instrument, I play bass.
I understand that; that should be clear enough. The gripe I have, which is what this thread is about, is about those people who get upset when someone calls their bass guitar a guitar.
I hear it here all the time. Someone complains when a person comes up to them at a show and says "that's a nice guitar." But they are holding a bass guitar. Not an upright bass, not a bass mandolin, not a tuba. They are complaining because the person mentions the type of instrument rather than its register, which is silly.
Not sure why you're not understanding my point. Perhaps you do. In any case, have a great day!
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I'd go so far as to say the use of the term "snowflake" is one of the most revealing things a person can do. Almost like public nudity, but of the psyche. Use of it usually tells the world:
-the users affinity for a certain era cinema *or* their capacity to absorb artistic messages and (either consciously or otherwise) misread, reject or repurpose them to varying degrees.
-the user's politics
-the user's level of patience and self-control
-the user's baseline of respect for cultural enemies.
-the extent to which the users buy into the concept of community (it seems more commonly used among individualistic cultures than ones of mutual obligation)
It's a cliche term, but remarkably revealing, and in my opinion a.staggering admission (basically telling the world openly that you are not interested in displaying courtesy - quite a shocking admission in my social setting YMMV). However telling the world by use of the term "I don't care what you think" and therefore by extension "I don't care about you" seems to be the point.
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"these tootsies ain't going to tickle themselves."
Your shoes are off and you are wiggling your toes; I am a famous podiatrist. Obviously you want your feet massaged! Stop trying to leverage The situation, it's annoying.
Your shoes are off and you are wiggling your toes; I am a famous podiatrist. Obviously you want your feet massaged! Stop trying to leverage The situation, it's annoying.
