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post #1 of 48
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I find it interesting that one can tell an unintelligent/unsophisticated person from their taste in things. Some generous folks posit that taste is personal and cannot be compared on any kind of scale, but they are wrong and most likely have bad taste. It is incredible how large a majority of America and the world has awful taste in things.

1) Music - I won't get started here, but if you listen to the radio you most likely fall in this category. People with good taste in music can tell why you like bad music (because you enjoy formulaic beats and the word "skeet"), but it saddens them and makes them worried for humanity.

2) Porn - If you like really skanky New Jersey bleach blonde sluts with fake breasts and fake tans (think most late eighties and early nineties porn, although the trend extends to today), you have bad taste in women and porn.

3) Film and television - If you enjoy long car chase scenes and explosions, you have bad taste. The exception being if the explosions are complemented by a good, original plot (rare). If you can't wait for the next Will Ferrell movie, you most likely have bad taste, with some exceptions. If you enjoyed Transformers 2, die. If you think Family Guy is the funniest show on television, you are either under 18 or have bad taste. Or you went to a bad college. No offense.

4) Clothing - If you buy clothes for the brand name, especially a European brand name, you are either an unintelligent European or have bad taste. You also likely have a mullet or a faux-hawk and wear overly large sunglasses. Your penis is likely under four inches in girth.

5) ...

I'm sure there is more, but I'm going to take a nap. Peace y'alls.
post #2 of 48
5) Books - If your favorite book is a bestselling potboiler (see Stephen King, Danielle Steele, etc.) you're probably a semi-literate Philistine.
post #3 of 48
5. liquor, if your bar is stocked with mostly labels that are advertised to death.
post #4 of 48
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5) Books - If your favorite book is a bestselling potboiler (see Stephen King, Danielle Steele, etc.) you're probably a semi-literate Philistine.

Ugh. Don't forget Dan Brown. How did I overlook this one!?
post #5 of 48
what about people who speak in tautologies, and generalize. I am a very simple person in terms of taste, but you seem to lack the complexity that "life" imbues. How can you say that there is anything definitive when it comes to art. That is in itself idiotic. Ugly is a relative term to describe an individual's aversion for a given subject matter. Social distinctions can delineate a society's aggregate aversion from subject to subject, but without the beauty that exists in minority expression the majority would have nothing. Every example of anything remotely artistic or innovative has a history that is derived in minority expression. You sound obtuse, at best!
post #6 of 48
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5. liquor, if your bar is stocked with mostly labels that are advertised to death.

Right now, I have stocked Smirnoff, JW Black, Balvenie 12, Stolichnaya, Beefeater, Pikesville Rye, and Noilly Prat sweet vermouth. No bitters; need to buy.

Corsendonk, Killian's, and National Bohemian in the fridge.

How plebian am I?

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How can you say that there is anything definitive when it comes to art.
Just about anything done after about 1920 is definately not art.

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Ugly is a relative term to describe an individual's aversion for a given subject matter.
Jackson Pollock's "work" is fucking ugly.
post #7 of 48
I LOL'd at the notion that the #2 thing defining an elegant person is a taste for elegant porn.
post #8 of 48
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I LOL'd at the notion that the #2 thing defining an elegant person is a taste for elegant porn.
+1. How can someone have bad taste in porn?
post #9 of 48
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I LOL'd at the notion that the #2 thing defining an elegant person is a taste for elegant porn.

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+1. How can someone have bad taste in porn?

Lol shouldn't you cockfagzz be busy masturbating to Nicole Sheridan or something?
post #10 of 48
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Originally Posted by RyJ Maduro View Post
Just about anything done after about 1920 is definately not art.

How silly.
post #11 of 48
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Originally Posted by RyJ Maduro View Post
Right now, I have stocked Smirnoff, JW Black, Balvenie 12, Stolichnaya, Beefeater, Pikesville Rye, and Noilly Prat sweet vermouth. No bitters; need to buy.

Corsendonk, Killian's, and National Bohemian in the fridge.

How plebian am I?

the bar is plebian enough by my take.
post #12 of 48
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Originally Posted by RyJ Maduro View Post
How plebian am I?

You're a fucking plebiopian.
post #13 of 48
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Originally Posted by hossoso View Post
You're a fucking plebiopian.
And I just noticed I misspelled "plebian."

How plebeian of me.
post #14 of 48
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Originally Posted by MetroStyles View Post
I find it interesting that one can tell an unintelligent/unsophisticated person from their taste in things...
This is more a way to distinguish among social class, upbringing, or community than a way to measure intelligence.
post #15 of 48
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This is more a way to distinguish among social class, upbringing, or community than a measure of intelligence.

I come from rural, white trash VA and have a desire to consume art and culture. I'd definitely argue it's tied to intelligence.
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