It’s honestly surprising when someone admits they don’t know something anymore. It’s tough to get away with being an expert on everything in person, but on the computer, through Twitter or Facebook, unlimited knowledge to any subject imaginable is only a click away #catfish. Someone tweet calls you out on your lack of Shirley Temple references? *goes to IMDB* “Well, I bet YOU didn’t know that in 1932, she was signed by Educational Pictures.”
For instance, right there, I don’t know what the hell I just wrote, but I sounded smart saying it, because I LOOKED IT UP. So while it can be refreshing when someone freely concedes, “Yeah, no clue who this is,” it can also be maddening. Take, for instance, the new Tumblr, “Who Are the Stone Roses?” Wait, WHAT? HOW DOES SOMEONE NOT KNOW WHO THE STONE ROSES ARE. Screw those people, reacting to Coachella choosing the recently reunited U.K. foursome as one of the festival’s headliners. Or better yet, make them listen to The Stone Roses, a mostly great album that came out 23 years ago, receives little-to-no radio airplay anymore, and is the only one of the group’s two releases worth hearing, then screw ‘em.
These people shan’t be adored.
OK, I was being facetious earlier, but that last guy’s problems go far beyond not knowing who the Stone Roses are.
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My buddies and I used to listen to The Stone Roses years ago. Like, when I first started dating my wife, which has been at least five years. They were like a more British (but less obnoxious) Oasis…but not really…maybe. Christ, I could never describe their music, but I remember I liked it. Shocked nobody’s heard of them. People will be in for a treat.
They probably remind you of Oasis because Liam Gallagher started out trying to sing like Ian Brown. It’s quite evident in early Oasis s
*songs
Stupid phone…
The same can be said for that girl up above not knowing who Blur are. Do your homework chica!
Thank you. “Hm, who is this band I don’t know, surrounded on all sides by bands I love, booked by people whose breadth of taste in music have made Coachella legendary? Bah, fuck ‘em, they probably just suck.”
It ain’t the ignorance, it’s the lack of curiosity that makes these kids annoying. That, and they just won’t stay the hell offa my lawn.
Posts like these are always a nice reminder of why I just loathe Twitter.
I feel like that too. I’m still on Twitter and continue to subject myself to the nitwits for some reason.
No one knows who any of these twitter idiots are either.
SIDE NOTE: When did openly proclaiming your ignorance become a thing?
When dumb people who were lacking in attention were allowed to get Twitter accounts.
Rob Delaney said it best: [twitter.com]
Let em know when Pop Will Eat Itself reunites.
This makes me want to stab kittens. Lots of kittens.
Its arcade fire winning a grammy all over again.
You shouldn’t be allowed on the internet if you don’t know how to use it.
Can I vote for you as Sheriff of the Internet, please?
GET OFF MY LAWN YOU FUCKING KIDS!
I mean it was on the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas soundtrack for fucks’ sake. I know how you children love the video games with the shooting and the loose morals.
I have a Stone Roses shirt. I will accept my accolades in the form of them playing a non-festival show that I can get tickets to attend.
I wanna be adored & I’m only 22. Fuck modern hipsters!
Bollocks.
A bunch of daft cunts………. seriously! It’s like you couldn’t use google of youtube…. i really wanna slap people, but more like in Archie in RocknRolla….
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