Guitar Jam

[2manband]

Some people order Americanized take-out from a half dozen pseudo-ethnic restaurants every week and the imagine they're touring the world via the taste buds. But what they're really doing is splashing around in the kiddie pool of cuisine.

I don't really think anybody does that though. Everybody who goes to Taco Bell or PF Changs or whatever accepts it for what it is. None of them really have any delusions about it being "authentic ethnic cuisine"

Same thing with the OP. Nobody eats Mexican food every day, Mexicans included. Everybody's diet has some degree of variation.

You guys are inventing ridiculous stereotypes so that you can get mad at them.

But whatever, it's the classic lazy-man's achieverism that is so common around here. "I ate this instead of that! Yay me!!! I rule!!!!"

:rolleyes:

[tamoore]

I don't really think anybody does that though. Everybody who goes to Taco Bell or PF Changs or whatever accepts it for what it is. None of them really have any delusions about it being "authentic ethnic cuisine" Same thing with the OP. Nobody eats Mexican food every day, Mexicans included. Everybody's diet has some degree of variation. You guys are inventing ridiculous stereotypes so that you can get mad at them. But whatever, it's the classic lazy-man's achieverism that is so common around here. "I ate this instead of that! Yay me!!! I rule!!!!" :rolleyes:

And wash it all down with a miller lite! :thu:

[2manband]

And wash it all down with a miller lite! :thu:

And you're free to enjoy a "Balderdash Brewery Oaked Knicker Twist Seasonal October Chocolate winterstein pale ale."

That's a preference. And it's fine to have preferences.

But let's not confuse preferences with achievements.

[tamoore]

And you're free to enjoy a "Balderdash Brewery Oaked Knicker Twist Seasonal October Chocolate winterstein pale ale." That's a preference. And it's fine to have preferences. But let's not confuse preferences with achievements.

I'm an achievement diner, bro....

[Sad Navigator]

And you're free to enjoy a "Balderdash Brewery Oaked Knicker Twist Seasonal October Chocolate winterstein pale ale." That's a preference. And it's fine to have preferences. But let's not confuse preferences with achievements.

"Calmer than you" is the REAL achievement.

[Expressway to …]

Nothing like a bit of achievement beige-ism to get the snoots going.

[Sad Navigator]

Nothing like a bit of achievement beige-ism to get the snoots going.

It's almost Zen, isn't it?

[Expressway to …]

It's almost Zen, isn't it?

We say "I really like the cut of _____ jeans" he says "Hey I wear $10 Wal-Mart numbers with an elasticated waist and love them you snobs" etc etc etc. It's all too easy.

[Sad Navigator]

We say "I really like the cut of _____ jeans" he says "Hey I wear $10 Wal-Mart numbers with an elasticated waist and love them you snobs" etc etc etc. It's all too easy.

It's the lifestyle equivalent of the "My Agile totally smokes every Gibson ever" thing.

[2manband]

We say "I really like the cut of _____ jeans" he says "Hey I wear $10 Wal-Mart numbers with an elasticated waist and love them you snobs" etc etc etc. It's all too easy.

Nonsense. You say "I'm really into jeans" and I say "maybe you need a new hobby"

That doesn't mean that I have a closet full of identical pleated dockers, it just means that maybe you need a new hobby.

I know that it's easiest for you to argue against a pleated dockers lifestyle, and so you've invented one - much as the OP here has invented a ridiculous stereotype to argue against - but it's simply not true.

I get it tho - it's much easier to do that than to address what I've been saying all along; be proud of the things that you do, not the things that you prefer. Having a preference does not constitute an achievement.

[Expressway to …]

Nonsense. You say "I'm really into jeans" and I say "maybe you need a new hobby" That doesn't mean that I have a closet full of identical pleated dockers, it just means that maybe you need a new hobby.

Who said anything about hobbies? :confused:

[Sad Navigator]

Nonsense. You say "I'm really into jeans" and I say "maybe you need a new hobby" That doesn't mean that I have a closet full of identical pleated dockers, it just means that maybe you need a new hobby.

Your preference for a non-jeans hobby isn't an achievement. CALMER THAN YOU.

[tamoore]

Who said anything about hobbies? :confused:

Liking food better than Taco Bell is a 'hobby', bro......

[2manband]

Who said anything about hobbies? :confused:

Meh - you're arguing semantics to avoid the issue

My point - for the 87,000th time is this:

Be proud of the things that you do, not the things that you prefer. Having a preference does not constitute an achievement.

Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

[Sad Navigator]

Meh - you're arguing semantics to avoid the issue My point - for the 87,000th time is this: Be proud of the things that you do, not the things that you prefer. Having a preference does not constitute an achievement. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

So you prefer taking pride in doing rather than taking pride in preferences? And you want credit for that?! *asplode*

[dmn23]

Americanized Mexican food every day? Bleghh. But New Mexican food? Now we're talking.

[Sad Navigator]

Americanized Mexican food every day? Bleghh. But New Mexican food? Now we're talking.

New Mexico is America, bro.

[DdBob]

green chile or red?

[dmn23]

New Mexico is America, bro.

Hush, you.

[dmn23]

green chile or red?

Green, and lots of it. I want my scalp to sweat.