PeterS

54 minutes ago, Leykis101 said:

So because someone worked their ass off and made bank, passed it down to their family, they are no longer entitled to it? I hate rich fucks more then anyone, and guess what? they burn out the fastest, look at our presidents son for instance, or any number of the Kennedy offspring, they are garbage human beings, but why should they not be able to have the money in their own family? you start pulling back that curtain and we will no longer be a capitalist society will we? capitalism doesn't put a block on the amount fireman, teachers, or police make, and they are grossly underpaid, but it's not cause their not taxing the citizens enough, it's certainly not from that, those professions are not capped by anything other then bureaucracy, and I'll be the first to admit the US government is bad to the bone, all sides, but what is a better line to tow? there was a reason that the US blew up when it came to be, the entire idea was to explore capitalism under a promise of freedom to explore it, people flocked from every corner of the world, good immigrants, who couldnt carry out their ideas and dreams in their own country's, here they would be able to not only make their dreams come true, but to be paid for doing it, peope choose to do what they do for their living, I hated wearing a suit and tie to work for a marketing company, I dreaded every day I had to do it, I hated it so much I said fuck it I will go make less money doing something I truly love, then I worked my ass off until I made good money doing what I loved, my brothers chose to be Police Officers, knowing damn well what the pay was, the idea of Capitalism I believe is the greatest driver there is, and people take advantage of every aspect in society, but i'd rather have people plowing forward to get ahead of each other, then not doing shit because they can get paid to do nothing, just my opinion, lots of gaps and mistakes in it, but capitalism is solid for what its designed to do, it's base principle,

Dude, learn how paragraphs work. :-) TLDNR as it stands. 

1 minute ago, Leykis101 said:

I don't know man, as long as I can take care of me, and have the things I Need and want, and believe me, I'm not good with money by nature, Ive fucking squandered, gambled, invested, and fucked off money I wouldn't even want to try and add up, it's taken some big time fucked up lessons to smarten me up with money, and people who don't have money think money is everything, people who have money know it's not even close to everything, but I got to where I just save it, well I mean I have cool shit that I worked hard for, my daughters got cooler shit then I do, that I worked for, and I know I could drop dead tomorrow and non of it would mean a thing, my favorite shit to do is stupid little shit, like paying for someones dinner randomly in a restaurant, its fun, you make someone else happy, or tipping your waiter or waitress a bill if they do an excellent job, or if they got big titties and bend way down to pour your water for you, worth a tip, I'm not rich at all, im not even well off, I just do what I do, and I don't do shit for money anymore, that breeds bad feelings and shit, do shit you like to do, take pride and do it well, and you will succeed, I can only speak for me, but I never do shit that isn't 100% because if I do anything, and it isn't the best, then my name is tied to whatever it is, and I do not ever want to be ashamed of something with my name on it, that's why Ive never had a marriage certificate.

I have problems with generational wealth and don't see how those who believe in 'hard work' support it. You think rich kids work hard? 

All I'd like to see is a system where your 'work' is fairly rewarded but opportunity is there for all and the best do rise to the top. Always remembering you're a day away from a really bad day and having a society that will be there for you if it happens to you is in your own best interests. 

There are rich freeloaders and poor.  Can't get away from it. Not having a good fair society that supports all always stuck me as dumb as you're ultimately hurting yourself as you're part of that society. There are reasons the social democratic countries lead the happiness indexes. 

Give me good roads , clean environment, education, safe society where I can go out alone at night with no worries , etc over some dog eat dog society any day. Probably why I like living in Germany so much. We do pretty well economically as well. 

 

Need is the mother of invention.

 Once you have too much then you probably won’t put too much effort in 

Police, Military, Teachers etc etc part of a social system. Should they be done away with? 

 

16 minutes ago, Glen said:

sorry mate disagree. Labour governments in the UK have a tendency to drive up business tax and taxes on the 'wealthy' - who actually aren't wealthy at all.  just hard working middle class families. 

its actually proven that lowering business tax generates more revenue as businesses boom. Also if you tax the wealth creators they have a tendency to bugger off elsewhere so again bad for the economy. 

Where's the proof of that? 

Wealthy isn't the middle class.  They are the ones driving the economy though consumption. 

I'd actually be curious to see stats on the number of 'wealth creators' who moved because of the various governments. 

I'm not an advocate of either full on capitalism or socialism. The extremes both have huge problems. 

On 8/13/2021 at 9:50 PM, Glen said:

thats the problem with socialism,  you always run out of other peoples money 💰 

How is Capitalism different? It's just the distribution that's different. Once all the money flows to the few you run out of money as well, only what happens is governments borrow or make more money. All Governments. Usually republicans borrow more but bitch more when democrats do it. 

Simple fact is that if you want to grow GDP you supply money to those who will spend it.  Everything else is a conversation about 'fairness'. 

Nice idea. I think I'd separate Southern and Classic. Except for being old don't see much link. 


 

Really had to check if it was Bon Jovi guesting on "Breathe Again".

Very consistent band. Another good album I'm sure I'll be listening a lot more to. 

Listened once. Once too many. 

My 70s and 60s listening far less. Most was the stuff my dad listened to until I got into rock when I'd listen to Zep , Bad Company etc. A lot on this list I really should listen to. 

One of my favourite albums. Absolutely love it. 

Really liked their last album. Good band. 

On 7/30/2021 at 2:10 AM, KarpetRydOFunk said:

Is that really an appropriate comparison?

Why not? 

Plenty of bands where there are no original members any more. Most have lineup changes. 

Would put a quite few people's noses out but an official franchised band , why not? I think I'd prefer that to a lot of the trash being put out now.  

Theater productions do this and you've got 'Blue Man Group' who is half band , half theater production. 

Coverdale's voice has been shot for a good while now.  He's been one of the greats, clearly, but time catches up. A 'backing' singer might not be a bad plan. 

As for bands going on. Nobody flinches an eyelid about their sports teams doing that. They still get followed and we reminisce about the old players. Why not do it with music? So much great music is about to potentially never get played again. The 60s and 70s heros will all be gone soon. 

Very sad.  RIP. 

One where you maybe just want to think of her as a different artist. 

I enjoyed the last album and I'm enjoying this. 

On 7/19/2021 at 4:54 AM, auslander said:

Speaking industrial I almost forgot Faster Pussycat! 

 

There's a very good reason to try and forget them. 

5 hours ago, Doggy said:

When he form and played Freak Of Nature

Never thought of Freak Of Nature as grunge. 

Like's a good whinge every once in a while about YouTube, Apple etc etc but awesome videos. 

Gun's an interesting one.  The telephone number album terrible because of that but then they learned their lesson.

First Status Quo album very very different from what they became. 
 

Genesis changed multiple times. 

Whitesnake's move from a blues band to more glam in 87. 

Very close to what I would have. 

For sure Rock City Angels would be in there for me. 

I'd probably swap Bad Aimals with Heart but they were both amazing albums. 

I'm also a big fan of the Bad English. 

Hit's all the right spots for me. Great album. 

9 hours ago, Geoff said:

Can't really get to listen to an album on a weekend but snuck in the first three songs in the day and I agree already. Absolutely loving what I'm hearing. Full adoration to follow on Monday. 

I'm on a short holiday so in the same position.  My most anticipated album of the year and loved everything I've heard so far. 

15 minutes ago, Leykis101 said:

Im pro abortion, maybe if we had promoted it a little better, maybe give a punch pass or just let the government pay for them, we possibly wouldn't be dealing with many of the issues in this country were dealing with

There's research that shows when abortion came in 15-20 years later there was a drop in crime in the USA.  

Lordy this lot are banging them out. Last one comfortably their best, IMO.