incessant talkers

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
  Who is Jackass?

It's that show from MTV a few years back which was basically an hour straight of idiots stapling stuff to each other or punching each other in the groin. Come to think of it, it was pretty latently-homoerotic in it's own right.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by jdr:
  i haven't read any scholarly writing on the subject, but i bet there is a strong correlation between the increased use of mobile phones in the U.S. and the ever-increasing level of jibber jabber at a show.  generations of people think it's fine and dandy to prattle on about any old shit they want(usually at an absurdly high volume).
 
 maybe the club should make people endure some nonsense like movie theaters play before a film reminding patrons to shut the hell up and refrain from using their cell phones.

I think it's also a leftover by product of 60s rock culture, when it was an accepted social norm that you had a god-given right to do whatever the hell you wanted, and that anyone who tried to tell you otherwise was a narc, working for the Man.  
 
 Although many intelligent people eventually realized that giving unlimited rights to be an asshole ultimately infringes on the rights of everyone else, perhaps the most visible manifestation of where this culture led is at the occasional accoustic tour by 60s and 70s-rock dinosaurs, whose efforts at moving on are inevitably marred by thousands of assholes who feel compelled to yell "wooo!" during any quiet parts of the set.

[kosmo vinyl]

When I was a wee nipper, my grandpapa blamed it on TV. People gathered around those glowing objects, got use to being able to converse while being "entertained" and just carried that same behavior into the real world.  The living room becomes the audience...

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
   

Originally posted by jdr:
  i haven't read any scholarly writing on the subject, but i bet there is a strong correlation between the increased use of mobile phones in the U.S. and the ever-increasing level of jibber jabber at a show.  generations of people think it's fine and dandy to prattle on about any old shit they want(usually at an absurdly high volume).
 
 maybe the club should make people endure some nonsense like movie theaters play before a film reminding patrons to shut the hell up and refrain from using their cell phones.

I think it's also a leftover by product of 60s rock culture, when it was an accepted social norm that you had a god-given right to do whatever the hell you wanted, and that anyone who tried to tell you otherwise was a narc, working for the Man.  
 
 Although many intelligent people eventually realized that giving unlimited rights to be an asshole ultimately infringes on the rights of everyone else, perhaps the most visible manifestation of where this culture led is at the occasional accoustic tour by 60s and 70s-rock dinosaurs, whose efforts at moving on are inevitably marred by thousands of assholes who feel compelled to yell "wooo!" during any quiet parts of the set. [/b]

Which is in part why the Birchmere has those rules...

[sacriforce]

I dont think this is anything to get oent out of shape over just move elsewhere. And what would be the alternative? An extra team roidheads who walk around during shows making sure that people keep quiet? Smoking is far more annoying

[sacriforce]

Who is Jackass?It's that show from MTV a few years back which was basically an hour straight of idiots stapling stuff to each other or punching each other in the groin. Come to think of it, it was pretty latently-homoerotic in it's own right.

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
   

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
 [qb] Who are MMV and HIM? [/b]

I don't know who MMV are, but HIM is a shitty, latently-homoerotic goth band from Finland or someplace

homophobe much?

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
  homophobe much?

Yes, I fear homosexuals. When confronted with a non-hetero individual, I often run in terror.

[CookieMnstr]

I would personally like to know when will people finally get the clue that it is not nor ever really was funny to yell requesting Free Bird at a show.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I think if every time someone yelled that, bands would start playing the song -- and not just a few notes, but the whole song -- people would stop yelling it.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Cooke:
  I would personally like to know when will people finally get the clue that it is not nor ever really was funny to yell requesting Free Bird at a show.

i think it's kind of funny.

[sacriforce]

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
   

Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
  homophobe much?

Yes, I fear homosexuals. When confronted with a non-hetero individual, I often run in terror. [/b]

I'm sorry ... you often... post in error? please repeat, I'm getting old.  

[sacriforce]

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  I think if every time someone yelled that, bands would start playing the song -- and not just a few notes, but the whole song -- people would stop yelling it.

Sounds good on paper, but what if all that overlapping irony destroys space and time? then what?

[radioclash]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
   

Originally posted by Cooke:
  I would personally like to know when will people finally get the clue that it is not nor ever really was funny to yell requesting Free Bird at a show.

i think it's kind of funny. [/b]

[you be betty]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
   

Originally posted by Cooke:
  I would personally like to know when will people finally get the clue that it is not nor ever really was funny to yell requesting Free Bird at a show.

i think it's kind of funny. [/b]

are you kidding me?? I LOVE THAT GUY!
 
 seriously, there is one at every show.  always makes my night.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by you be betty:
 are you kidding me?? I LOVE THAT GUY!
 
 seriously, there is one at every show.  always makes my night.

Just out of curiosity, why do you find it funny?  Especially since you're not old enough to have any idea where it comes from or why it was funny the first couple of times someone did it?  You can't possibly know that millions of herd-following longhairs across our nation at one time considered "Freebird" the single greatest accomplishment of human civilization, and consequently yelled it at every show because they really wanted to hear it.  It's likely that not once in your life has someone ever yelled "Freebird" in earnest sincerity.  So why funny?
 
 I'm not being critical, I sincerely want to know.  I think you may hold the key as to why this phenomenon looks likely to survive long beyond the generation that spawned it.