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Offline mjames

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You know what I hate
on: December 20, 2013, 11:57:37 AM
People who call classical music study/sleep music.

I was talking to do this chick, and she was like "oh yeah you play play piano well I like classical music too."

I'm like "cool, so who do you listen to?"

"I listen to chopin when I study, and to mozart when I'm trying to fall asleep."

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*starts playing verdi's requiem on my iPAD*

"You know, this is Verdi, and I listen to him
WHEN I'M ABOUT
TO
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KILL SOMEBODY

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #1 on: December 20, 2013, 02:15:53 PM
Usually, I'd have a problem with my music being called sleepy/study music (or at the very worst, "Disney music").

However when I write lullabies and berceuses, I find that that is the time I want most for my music to be called sleep music.
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Offline bronnestam

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #2 on: December 20, 2013, 03:38:00 PM
I really don't know why you "hate" this. (How old are you, btw?)

I also play classical music, preferably Beethoven sonatas or other piano music, when I work hard at my computer. Also often when I want to relax. The music is perfect.

So? This does not mean that I never listen in a more active, concentrated way. For heaven's sake, I'm a pianist!
My mother used to listen to the "Elvira Madigan concerto" (Mozart) when she was pregnant with me and wanted to relax. She told me that once, when I just had told her how much I loved that concert ... have loved it all my life ...  :) ... My parents dragged me to classical concerts when I was very young. First I found it boring, later on I liked it very much, so I have enjoyed classical music for 47 years, or even longer if you count the months before I was born ...


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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #3 on: December 20, 2013, 04:33:26 PM
I really don't know why you "hate" this. (How old are you, btw?)

I also play classical music, preferably Beethoven sonatas or other piano music, when I work hard at my computer. Also often when I want to relax. The music is perfect.

So? This does not mean that I never listen in a more active, concentrated way. For heaven's sake, I'm a pianist!
My mother used to listen to the "Elvira Madigan concerto" (Mozart) when she was pregnant with me and wanted to relax. She told me that once, when I just had told her how much I loved that concert ... have loved it all my life ...  :) ... My parents dragged me to classical concerts when I was very young. First I found it boring, later on I liked it very much, so I have enjoyed classical music for 47 years, or even longer if you count the months before I was born ...




How can you listen to Beethoven sonatas when you want to relax?  :o
When I listen to them I stop whatever I'm doing and just concentrate. It's stronger than me  ;D
Chopin First Scherzo
Guarnieri Ponteios
Ravel Sonatine
Rachmaninoff Prelude op. 32 no. 10
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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #4 on: December 20, 2013, 05:53:14 PM
*starts playing verdi's requiem on my iPAD*

"You know, this is Verdi, and I listen to him
WHEN I'M ABOUT
TO
***
KILL SOMEBODY

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"

To be fair, the Dies Iræ in Verdi's Requiem is quite intense. It makes sense someone would associate something conveying the world being torn apart and the perishing of the wicked with anger.
Per novitatem, artium est renascatur.

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #5 on: December 20, 2013, 06:58:27 PM
This usually crosses my mind.  They relax to this stuff?

Mahler 6


Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht



Actually I could see it.  If the tones are pleasant.  Dissonant maybe.  And if it's a recording you could always lower it.


Sounds like "top 40" classical music is what they're talking about though.
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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #6 on: December 21, 2013, 05:48:56 PM
You know what I hate? When people call girls/females "chicks".

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #7 on: December 21, 2013, 06:16:13 PM
You know what I hate? When people call girls/females "chicks".

In general: +1, but your phrasing also needs correction: In modern English, you can't use the word "female" as a noun to refer to women.
P.S.: If you tell me that you also hate nerds, I promise you I will not be offended. ;)
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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #8 on: December 21, 2013, 07:24:27 PM
You know what I hate? When people call girls/females "chicks".

What's wrong with calling it a chick?



It's just slang, no need to take it personally.

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #9 on: December 21, 2013, 08:24:45 PM
What's wrong with calling it a chick?



It's just slang, no need to take it personally.

Calling a female an "it" is worse.
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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #10 on: December 21, 2013, 09:43:32 PM
Quote from: dima_76557link=topic=53662.msg579662#msg579662 date=1387649773
In general: +1, but your phrasing also needs correction: In modern English, you can't use the word "female" as a noun to refer to women.
P.S.: If you tell me that you also hate nerds, I promise you I will not be offended. ;)

He/She just did, yet you don't see the moon crashing down, a better suited concept would be, it isn't proper to refer to the ladies as females.
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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #11 on: December 22, 2013, 04:09:58 AM
a better suited concept would be, it isn't proper to refer to the ladies as females.

I also got "punished" with a symbolically lower score in a mock TOEFL test for using the word "ladies" to refer to women in general. The remark was that it sounds "demeaning" to the ears of modern English speaking women when the word is used out of a proper context. Why do they teach that kind of rules to foreigners if it doesn't matter in real life?
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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #12 on: December 22, 2013, 07:58:22 AM
Quote from: dima_76557link=topic=53662.msg579706#msg579706 date=1387685398
I also got "punished" with a symbolically lower score in a mock TOEFL test for using the word "ladies" to refer to women in general. The remark was that it sounds "demeaning" to the ears of modern English speaking women when the word is used out of a proper context. Why do they teach that kind of rules to foreigners if it doesn't matter in real life?
The majority of people living in English speaking countries use a very unproper version of the language, but it's common to teach us foreigners real English :)

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #13 on: December 22, 2013, 09:48:03 AM
Calling a female an "it" is worse.

woooooooosh

there goes the joke flying over your head

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #14 on: December 22, 2013, 06:55:54 PM
woooooooosh

there goes the joke flying over your head

I'm not exactly one for jokes. I don't care for most jokes, as they are either uncreative or course these days.

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #15 on: December 22, 2013, 07:23:22 PM
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
Oi! Leave me out of this...

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #16 on: December 22, 2013, 08:12:10 PM
I'm not exactly one for jokes. I don't care for most jokes, as they are either uncreative or course these days.



Lmao, just don't try to take everything so seriously :P Chillllaxxxxing is the best way to enjoy life.

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #17 on: December 22, 2013, 08:20:17 PM
Lmao, just don't try to take everything so seriously :P Chillllaxxxxing is the best way to enjoy life.

I thought playing piano while doing it was the best way for enjoying life D; Have I been mislead?
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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #18 on: December 23, 2013, 03:17:01 PM
I thought playing piano while doing it was the best way for enjoying life D; Have I been mislead?

Yes.
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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #19 on: December 23, 2013, 04:27:31 PM
I hate noisy kids in restaurants. They should be taken outside and machine gunned and their parents sent to a concentration camp.

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #20 on: December 23, 2013, 04:37:38 PM
I hate noisy kids in restaurants. They should be taken outside and machine gunned and their parents sent to a concentration camp.

Thal

No, all they need is a good lashing with a switch. There wouldn't be noisy kids in restaurants if parents still used discipline.
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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #21 on: December 23, 2013, 04:41:51 PM
Well said.
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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #22 on: December 24, 2013, 03:02:43 AM
I hate noisy kids in restaurants. They should be taken outside and machine gunned and their parents sent to a concentration camp.

Thal
If you are trying to be funny, you're not. In fact, you have no idea how incredibly offensive your statement is. I don't even know you,  but if you are being serious, I would not hesitate to hunt you down and cut your throat, you no good piece of sh*t.

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Re: You know what I hate
Reply #23 on: December 24, 2013, 02:38:37 PM
Well said.

Thank God in Heaven someone agrees with me. Children used to have a sense of etiquette, obedience, and respect for their elders. They had those qualities because right and wrong were very clearly outlined, and children would see that everything had consequence. As the old saying goes: spare the rod, spoil the child.
Per novitatem, artium est renascatur.

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