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[whytemyke]

So I'm talking to this girl, and we both really like each other. Very good vibes, working our way up to dating. I'm pretty excited. And then she says this:

"Aerosmith as far as I'm concerned is a rock band wannabe."

I don't know if I can date a woman that thinks this. I can cope with it if you just don't like them. That's fine. i'm not a big Beatles guy, but I don't say that they were wannabes. They defined a generation. Same with the Stones... they defined what rock and roll was during the 60's and 70's, much as I think Aerosmith was during the 70's and early 80's. But it's not that she doesn't LIKE them... it's that she thinks they're wannabes.

How can you think one of the greatest selling bands ever is a wannabe?! If you wanna say Puddle of Mudd is a wannabe band, fine. I'd agree. But Aerosmith? This is the equivalent of saying the Civil War was on par with the Kent State shit that went down during that protest.

This brings up a huge huge problem. What if other staples of any civillized human being are outright rejected? What if she thinks pizza is stupid? cars are dumb? Video games are for geeks?!

I'm spazzing here people, hahaha. I don't know whether love can survive such a tough battle... or if hormones can survive. Yeah, definitely hormones. I wonder if testosterone and my need to get laid again soemday down the road is enough to overpower her offensiveness to any decent human beings taste.

Then she went on to say that they didn't sound original. I was like, "Have you ever even heard Sweet Emotion?!" ugh.

Ok. rant over.

 

[Triumph]

Yeah, women are great until they open their mouths. That's why I usually try and put something(food, a hand, other appendages) in their mouths as much as possible. It keeps the futile hope alive that somewhere out there, somewhere waiting for me, is a woman with a brain.

 

[White Man]

How can you think one of the greatest selling bands ever is a wannabe?!

Because they ripped off everything in their repertoire from the Stones and hired the nastiest drag queen ever to be their frontman?

 

[Boogie]

Writing off a woman because of her opinion of a band = a special brand of retarded

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

This brings up a huge huge problem. What if other staples of any civillized human being are outright rejected? What if she thinks pizza is stupid? cars are dumb? Video games are for geeks?!

Dude...that's slippery slope logic...

And to outright reject a girl because of that seems really immature. If she were racist, outwardly prejudice, overly religious to the point it runs her life, or doesn't support choice (well that's a criteria for me anyways) then I'd understand.

But...so she doesn't like a band you like...my girlfriend doesn't like video games and when I got my PSP she rolled her eyes and just said "boys with their toys" but I can deal with that...

 

[Triumph]

Writing off a woman because of her opinion of a band = a special brand of retarded

You're just saying that because of your situation. I have a crapload of chick friends that I hang out with that I started out wanting to bang, but dropped that idea because I'm so fucking finicky. And I'm fat and balding to boot, but the girls still like me. Must be due to my COCKY AND FUNNY pheremone cologne that I bought from cubsfan.

 

[whytemyke]

For the record, I'm not really THAT shallow as to reject a girl because she can't recognize a good band. This is mostly tongue in cheek, but it does however raise a deadly precedent if I let anything else like this slide.

 

[Boogie]

You're just saying that because of your situation. I have a crapload of chick friends that I hang out with that I started out wanting to bang, but dropped that idea because I'm so fucking finicky. And I'm fat and balding to boot, but the girls still like me. Must be due to my COCKY AND FUNNY pheremone cologne that I bought from cubsfan.

That's great. I'm going to add you to my GAF hit list now.

*scribbles down Raoul Duke underneath demi, NLB2, Cubsfan, and everyone who makes Bob Saget jokes in threads with my picture*

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

:lol

Law of Averages, Boogie; things will work themselves out eventually

I was too scared and nervous to have much to do with women before, now is a much different story though.

 

[etiolate]

I won't date a woman who disses Pearl Jam.

And yes, I've dropped girls who have done so before.

 

[whytemyke]

*scribbles down Raoul Duke underneath demi, NLB2, Cubsfan, and everyone who makes Bob Saget jokes in threads with my picture*

Haha, that's actually pretty good company.

 

[Koshiro]

You're just saying that because of your situation. I have a crapload of chick friends that I hang out with that I started out wanting to bang, but dropped that idea because I'm so fucking finicky. And I'm fat and balding to boot, but the girls still like me. Must be due to my COCKY AND FUNNY pheremone cologne that I bought from cubsfan.

Okay, that's great, I have a girlfriend and I agree with Boogie. This guy is clearly an idiot.

 

[FoneBone]

Because they ripped off everything in their repertoire from the Stones and hired the nastiest drag queen ever to be their frontman?

You know, there's a certain charm to it, but you are perhaps the biggest elitist on these forums...

Though Steven Tyler is very, very frightening.

 

[Triumph]

How old are you guys? When you get older, superficial things like that matter more. I dunno. I can't even DATE a chick that isn't funny, and any sort of longterm thing is right out if they don't have good taste. I mean, who wants to fuck someone who likes Christian rock?

 

[WrathOfOtaibah]

Aerosmith? Wannabes? Of who? Even in their post drugs stage, they haven't copied anyone. Their shit sounds the same but thats not considered copying.

Video games are for geeks?!

When I had my PS2 and over 20 games, girls...man, it was a shitty situation. Most of them thought that meant I played them constantly. I actually lost a hookup because of it because she just "couldn't get over it." Girls are just as prejudiced as men but men don't want to accept it because they have vaginas.

 

[whytemyke]

How old are you guys? When you get older, superficial things like that matter more. I dunno. I can't even DATE a chick that isn't funny, and any sort of longterm thing is right out if they don't have good taste. I mean, who wants to fuck someone who likes Christian rock?

Amen man. Most of these people wouldn't date someone that doesn't have the same political beliefs as them... and if they do, than I'm willing to bet that their ability to compromise is something fierce. It's the same as me refusing to date a girl that doesn't put out after 30 days, or if she doesn't swallow. People talk about these hangups all the time, and act like it's some great thing when they overcome them, but the simple fact of the matter is that these hangups are what make everyone unique, and if you're so busy trying to overcome who you are just to give someone else a watered down version of your own personality, then both you and the significant other are just getting ripped off.

 

[Boogie]

How old are you guys? When you get older, superficial things like that matter more. I dunno. I can't even DATE a chick that isn't funny, and any sort of longterm thing is right out if they don't have good taste. I mean, who wants to fuck someone who likes Christian rock?

Yeah, 'cause when I get older, I want to be more superficial.

*Puts in Switchfoot's The Beautiful Letdown CD*

 

[Gazunta]

I broke it off with one girl hundreds of years ago because she said that Bon Jovi was the godfather of grunge music.

I mean, what the fuck?

 

[Incognito]

I won't date a girl if I find out a.) she supports Bush or b.) she's a new conservative. Drastic times call for drastic measures.

 

[Cubsfan23]

It's the same as me refusing to date a girl that doesn't put out after 30 days,

30 days is a long time.....

 

[Incognito]

Agreed. If she's not putting anything out by the third date, it's time to consider whether you signed up to date Mother Theresa, and if so, why the fuck you did that.

 

[whytemyke]

Yeah, 'cause when I get older, I want to be more superficial.

*Puts in Switchfoot's The Beautiful Letdown CD*

Ugh. Don't be so cliche...

 

[FoneBone]

Well, if someone had really, really bad taste in music (for instance, if he liked nothing but contemporary pop music), then there might be problems. Or if his political stance crossed the line for me...

But while I think I'd need some degree of shared interests, it has a limit. I mean, one clone (heh) in my life is enough.

 

[WrathOfOtaibah]

3 dates for me too. Life is too short to deal with people that want to take forever to put out.

 

[Boogie]

Ugh. Don't be so cliche...

I'd rather be cliche than so shallow that one of my demands of any girl I get involved with be that she "put out" by the 3rd date.

 

[MC Safety]

30 days is a long time.....

Not for most of the studmuffins who post on Gaming-Age.

You know what? My mom and dad hate different things, different people. They piss each other off every day in a thousand different ways. They haven't agreed on anything since maybe 1985.

What they love is each other. And it's corny, yeah. But it's true.

So go ahead and dismiss people because you're an elitist, or have these crazy notions you have to be compatible with someone so totally they have to like the stupid mediocre rock band you like. It just seems petty and limiting.

 

[whytemyke]

I'd rather be cliche than so shallow that one of my demands of any girl I get involved with be that she "put out" by the 3rd date.

Well if you want to become so watered down that you have no sense of self and you're willing to sacrifice the very things you like just for some illusion of companionship, more power to you. But I guarantee that while you're feeling holier than everyone here right now, when the rest of us actually do find someone who compliments us, we'll be a lot happier (cuz we'll be ourselves) and it'll last a lot longer than some fake, made up thing other people come up with in order to fit in with this societal trend of not being superficious.

But like I said, if boring, routine, and unoriginal is your thing, more power to you. I'm sure you'll find another perfectly watered down and boring companion that compliments your willingness to please society just fine.

 

[Boogie]

Well if you want to become so watered down that you have no sense of self and you're willing to sacrifice the very things you like just for some illusion of companionship, more power to you. But I guarantee that while you're feeling holier than everyone here right now, when the rest of us actually do find someone who compliments us, we'll be a lot happier (cuz we'll be ourselves) and it'll last a lot longer than some fake, made up thing other people come up with in order to fit in with this societal trend of not being superficious.

But like I said, if boring, routine, and unoriginal is your thing, more power to you. I'm sure you'll find another perfectly watered down and boring companion that compliments your willingness to please society just fine.

Watered down? No sense of self? What the hell are you talking about?

 

[bjork]

Why the fuck are you stealing Matlock's gimmick?

6.8

 

[Incognito]

Well if you want to become so watered down that you have no sense of self and you're willing to sacrifice the very things you like just for some illusion of companionship, more power to you. But I guarantee that while you're feeling holier than everyone here right now, when the rest of us actually do find someone who compliments us, we'll be a lot happier (cuz we'll be ourselves) and it'll last a lot longer than some fake, made up thing other people come up with in order to fit in with this societal trend of not being superficious.

But like I said, if boring, routine, and unoriginal is your thing, more power to you. I'm sure you'll find another perfectly watered down and boring companion that compliments your willingness to please society just fine.

PREACH IT!!!!

oh btw, BOOGIEOWNED :lol

 

[Boogie]

PREACH IT!!!!

oh btw, BOOGIEOWNED :lol

Yep, I'm owned. Shucks, I'm so boring, unoriginal, and watered-down. I'm all about bending to society's image.

 

[impirius]

I broke it off with one girl hundreds of years ago because she said that Bon Jovi was the godfather of grunge music.

That's not a difference in tastes, that's a difference in realities.

I'm convinced that the downfall of one of my old relationships began when we went to see John Q. She loved it. I thought it was a preachy, overbearing film with a trite plot and the most predictable ending I'd ever seen. I didn't care that she liked it, but she was offended that I didn't.

So thank you, Nick Cassavetes, for making a movie so powerfully bad that it got me out of an awful relationship!

 

[Deleted member 4784]

I won't date a girl if I find out a.) she supports Bush or b.) she's a new conservative. Drastic times call for drastic measures.

I used to believe all of this lovely dovely stuff about how "political views don't really matter in a relationship" until I became involved with a liberal. The two of us had opposing political beliefs on everything from political to even environmental issues. Although I'd debate, he would argue and I would ALWAYS end up pissing him off (to the point where he'd start screaming lol). The situation got to the point where I wouldn't allow myself to comment on the morning's news because I was afraid of offending him somehow and instigating some sort of argument.

Needless to say, if two people disagree strongly on something that they are both passionate about, it isn't the best indication that they'll make viable partners in life. Relationships are about give and take, but when you have to refrain from expressing yourself freely, it is an unfair and uncomfortable situation for the both of you; not to mention an unhealthy one. I don't think that music is an issue to feel passionately about, but then again, some people feel the same way about politics. Just a thought...

 

[totoro'd]

3 dates for me too. Life is too short to deal with people that want to take forever to put out.

That's a 2-way street. I wouldn't date a nasty guy who expected me to "put out" after 3 dates either. I'm also old-fashioned (well, just old in general) and I realize that.

I think it's pretty common for couples to have differing opinions. For example, my fiancee and I were watching Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, and while he was sitting there not laughing and commenting on how stupid and silly it was, I was literally in tears on the floor from laughter.

It didn't make me think about dumping him, I just thought we had very different opinions when it comes to movies.

 

[Drinky Crow]

Me and my wife have almost no overlapping taste in music.

We've also been married seven years, and had no serious fights.

Musical tastes are fucking trivial. Disagreements on such matters only become problematic when one (or both) of the people in a relationship lack any sort of perspective.

 

[Triumph]

Oh, I'm fully willing to admit that I overreact. I can't help it... it's hardwired into me. I think it has something to do with working in music stores so long... all you do is sit around and talk about music all day with people. So when I'm spending time with someone outside of that environment, where I have to make allowances for other's bad taste, I find that I have NO patience for a girl who likes crappy music.

The same would be true of books as well, but I can't find girls that actually read books. And no, Harry fucking Potter does not count as a "book", ladies.

 

[cloudwalking]

my boyfriend and i have almost exact taste in everything... except music. we differ like night and day there. but i would never let something so trivial have any kind of impact on our relationship. that just seems really silly to me, that anyone would complain about something so tiny.

 

[fart]

steven tyler is totally hot, dudes

 

[MC Safety]

Oh, I'm fully willing to admit that I overreact. I can't help it... it's hardwired into me. I think it has something to do with working in music stores so long... all you do is sit around and talk about music all day with people. So when I'm spending time with someone outside of that environment, where I have to make allowances for other's bad taste, I find that I have NO patience for a girl who likes crappy music.

The same would be true of books as well, but I can't find girls that actually read books. And no, Harry fucking Potter does not count as a "book", ladies.

Harry Potter isn't a book? God, you're a pompous ass.

 

[Triumph]

Harry Potter isn't a book? God, you're a pompous ass.

Well now I'm TOTALLY not gonna date you.

Oh, ICO isn't a game either. pffft.

 

[fart]

oh stewey, your lack of humor, perception and decency never ceases to amaze me.

it really shouldn't surprise anyone that different people put totally different weights on cultural compatibility.

personally, i find a belief in creationism to be unbelievably hot, even though i think it's a crock of shit. music is a tricky thing but only because music itself is such a strange beast.

 

[MC Safety]

oh stewey, your lack of humor, perception and decency never ceases to amaze me.

it really shouldn't surprise anyone that different people put totally different weights on cultural compatibility.

personally, i find a belief in creationism to be unbelievably hot, even though i think it's a crock of shit. music is a tricky thing but only because music itself is such a strange beast.

Hahaha. I love you, too.

Fart.

 

[Jim Bowie]

I don't think I'd ever dump a girl on the basis of music differences.

Unless that band was The Darkness. Oh God Why My Ears.

 

[fart]

Fart.

You're excused!

 

[Ristamar]

I don't think I'd ever dump a girl on the basis of music differences.

Unless that band was The Darkness. Oh God Why My Ears.

:lol

 

[iapetus]

Just ask yourself that simple question: What would Joe Perry do?

I don't think he'd break it off. She's clearly suffering, and in need of re-education. It's your duty to the human race.

 

[Fresh Prince]

I don't think I'd ever dump a girl on the basis of music differences.

Unless that rapper was 50 Cent. Oh God Why My Ears.

Fixed for my benefit

 

[etiolate]

I don't know. I find often that the girls who have incompatible music tastes also have incompatible personalities.

I mean, would you date a girl who listened to ICP?

 

[FoneBone]

I mean, would you date a girl who listened to ICP?

Well, that's a bit of an extreme... Their fans (excuse me, juggalos) are fucking nuts.

 

[whytemyke]

Just ask yourself that simple question: What would Joe Perry do?

I don't think he'd break it off. She's clearly suffering, and in need of re-education. It's your duty to the human race.

Hm... reeducation. This is not a bad way to go. It's like community service! I can date her only to teach her the error of her ways. Not a bad idea at all! Wonder if I can write off any cd's I buy to help teach her on my taxes next year.

See, this is the kind of thinking I admire. I get to stay close to the poon without having to accept the awful taste! It's like having your cake, and eating it too! Maybe they had a good idea with that reeducation crap in 1984. Big Brother loves "Eat The Rich", and meeee.

I mean, would you date a girl who listened to ICP?

WTF?! OMFG!!! what if she DOES like ICP? You can't reeducate Juggalos... they're like dying dogs. You just have to kill them and hope the next time you buy one that doesn't die so quickly. Oh nooo... I f-ng H8 ICP s0 MUcH I teh H9 them1!!!1!