tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5420812245298978260.post4311163583027176640..comments2023-05-14T16:46:54.381+01:00Comments on <center>EMOTIONALLY14</center>: Classics Revisited: Sunset RidersRob Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649224109537004738noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5420812245298978260.post-2924397513582944432009-05-20T20:03:03.379+01:002009-05-20T20:03:03.379+01:00The trouble with your definition of the word gener...The trouble with your definition of the word generation, Brad, is that it doesn't allow for anybody else's family but your own to factor into the equation, which can cause serious problems with communication.<br /><br />For example, by your definition, there is no room for another generation between your parents' and your own, which is clearly bollocks, as their are millions of people out there whose minds would boggle at the thought of having to belong to one or the other. While I grant you that your 'dictionary' definition of the word is ONE of the meanings of the word 'generation', I would suggest getting a more comprehensive expanded version of the OED if that's seriously the only definition it lists.<br /><br />Also, let's cut the bullshit here:<br /><br />1. We both know that I'm twisting your original statement to make a joke, and you coming back with a serious reply just kills it stone dead, for fuck's sake... <br /><br />2. We all know that the real reason you don't comment on your own articles is because you're a pompous git.<br /><br />P.S. Do you remember a time when Brad took himself too seriously? Shub-Niggurath remembers...Paulymorphhttp://www.ilovebradharmer.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5420812245298978260.post-58964945851077260302009-05-20T19:33:24.889+01:002009-05-20T19:33:24.889+01:00I don't normally comment on my own articles, mostl...I don't normally comment on my own articles, mostly because I hate discussions via the Internet, but I have to take issue with this. <br /><br />Paul, the reason you're managing to get a rant off here is because you are using your own personal definition of the word "generation". <br /><br />The Oxford English Dictionary defines "generation" as "a set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent". In other words: I am one generation, my mother and father were the previous generation, and my granparents were the generation before that. <br /><br />As you say, Westerns haven't been popular since the 1960s, my Dad was still aged between four and fourteen in the sixties - a perfect age to be into cowboys. In fact, he still has the Hopalong Cassidy watch he had as a kid (which he really should wear more often).<br /><br />The problem isn't that I'm "extending my definition" of "my generation", but rather that you're making up your own definition of what it means, and then getting pissy because the rest of the world doesn't agree with you.Bradhttp://www.emotionallyfourteen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5420812245298978260.post-11585930862103304852009-05-20T17:22:19.747+01:002009-05-20T17:22:19.747+01:00All right, as you know, I am not the slightest bit...All right, as you know, I am not the slightest bit interested in computer games (apart from 'The Sims' but I'm in rehab for that little addiction and doing nicely, thank you) but I still have two things to say about this article:<br /><br />1. Fuck you very much for making me look at a picture of the Chuckle Brothers. Quite frankly, I was less disturbed by your sex toys review the other week.<br /><br />2. How seriously fucked up is your definition of 'the generation previous to ours'???<br /><br />Westerns haven't been mainstream since the 1960s!!! (Not since Gene Roddenberry made everybody realise they'd be SO MUCH MORE COOL if you set them out in space!) Do you HONESTLY consider everybody under the age of (let's see... to be a teenager in the '60s you'd have to be at least...) FIFTY THREE to be part of YOUR generation??? That's very, very weird, if so.<br /><br />I generally consider 'my generation' to be anybody up to two years older or younger than myself. Experience has shown me that anybody outside that five-year bracket generally doesn't get all my culture references and I generally don't get all of theirs; hence 'my generation'.<br /><br />I realise that it's not unreasonable for somebody to extend their definition of 'their generation' a bit beyond my (admittedly quite exclusive) five-year span, but if my calculations are correct, YOUR generation, according to you, spans over half a century!!! Good grief...<br /><br />Anyway, rant over. Please continue talking about these strange 'video game' things that people of my generation will never really understand the huge appeal of. In our day, we were happy with a hoop and a stick... I remember when all of this was fields...Paulymorphhttp://www.notactuallyasoldasimakeout.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5420812245298978260.post-85888987439965515762009-05-20T16:42:08.050+01:002009-05-20T16:42:08.050+01:00Along with Steve Harris' trademark galloping Iron ...Along with Steve Harris' trademark galloping Iron Maiden bassline.. this music mite as well be run to the hills..James Blacknoreply@blogger.com