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This is why I tend to just nod when people talk about how badly Los Angeles needs more public transportation.

Thanks, but I'll take my cheap little minimally polluting econocar where I can choose the music and the temperature and, most importantly, the passengers, and deal with the traffic.

If I want to find out more about the decline of civil behavior in my fair city, I'll read the paper. I don't need to be confronted with it directly, as I'm close enough to saving up for a desert compound as it is. (Guns, dune buggies, young women with poor impulse control, no neighbors for miles, much less crowds of aimless youth playing R&B. Property prices are coming down in CA, so this isn't entirely out of the question.)

And honestly, WTF is it with R&B?

I mean, I get almost every other form of music. Opera gives fat people a chance to be admired, rap music gives white kids a chance to pretend they're black without having to know or interact with any actual black people, techno makes working out and long car trips more fun, classic rock allows everyone to indulge their inner mullethead, country music is fun (and a super way to annoy the PC crowd), and even goth music gives pale-skinned depressed girls an chance to wear bosom revealing outfits and get out of the house (thereby making it the greatest form of music of all time, regardless of how it actually sounds).

But WTF is it with R&B? It's the most boring and worthless shit of ALL TIME? I swear to god, I can't blame the artists, as I'd pump out those musical turds by the bucket for that kind of $, but people who listen to it really worry me. It's music for people who don't like music, kind of like Dane Cook is a comedian for people who lack a sense of humor. My only hope is that Dane Cook shows and R&B concerts are being tracked by the government and a gas that renders attendees sterile is being pumped into the ventilation, so that these horrors don't continue for future generations.
(not here, Sat 19 Apr 2008, 16:00, Reply)