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How is everybody missing my point?




you're communicating just fine. You know this crowd... we like to stir the kettle to see what floats to the top.

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Yet 19,500 fans out of 19,800 fans attend games to see fights. <snip>

NASCAR is about endurance, driving skills, reacting to quick changes at 200 miles per hour. Yet most of the fans go to see crashes.




are you arguing a point... with fabricated statistics??? You presume those things to be true, and that affects your reaction. Your outrage appears to be real, but it's not so clear whether or not the focus of your outrage is even accurate. Here in the south it seems that everybody is a Nascar fan. They know the drivers by name, often the names of their families too. They are genuinely upset when their heroes crash.

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There is an occasional decent singer at karaoke. Most of the people attending are there to laugh at the bad ones who think they CAN sing.




this has not been my observation at all. What I've seen over and over again at Karaoke and open mic places where multiple people are putting their egos on the line is an uncommonly supportive group, often because the vast majority of people in attendance at such events are either participants or friends of participants. Its a lot like the user showcase here. The vast majority of comments are encouraging, and the occasional blooper is more inclined to make people cringe rather than laugh.

I believe you have seen the scenario play out differently, but I'll bet you were with a bunch of musicians, and they were the ones who laughed when somebody crashed and burned... because musicians generally don't like karaoke and therefore want it to fail. But birds of a feather flock together. As a general rule, people who hate something stay away, and people who don't stay away probably like it.

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That is cruel to the bad singer...




anyone who willingly gets up in front of a crowd has implicitly accepted the crowds response. Its the essence of liberty. I'm at liberty to make a fool of myself, and you're at liberty to laugh at me. It's not quite the same as the poor kid in elementary school who gets laughed at for reasons that are out of his control. That *IS* cruel.


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... and an insult to Music, which as I said, is sacred and must be respected, not ridiculed.




Eddie... that's your OCD rule. The world at large does not see music as sacred, any more than they see the product of any other profession as sacred. You don't have to like it, but you can't really control the rules by which the rest of the world "must" live and think.