Is Anyone Else Sick to Death of Irony/Quirk???

dokelroth · Sep 21, 2007

Augusto:

I can't shake the image of you with a rose in front of a mirror. I see you pulling off petals one by one saying "oh how are thee so deep and sensitive, let me count the ways". Guys like you went to my high school in 1984, they always had diaries and read epic poems. You are a cliche making fun of a cliche.

Edward Appleby · Sep 21, 2007

and gay.

It's a gladiator movie. That's like knocking the PGA tour for being boring.

Augusto86 · Sep 21, 2007

Augusto:

I can't shake the image of you with a rose in front of a mirror. I see you pulling off petals one by one saying "oh how are thee so deep and sensitive, let me count the ways". Guys like you went to my high school in 1984, they always had diaries and read epic poems. You are a cliche making fun of a cliche.

Where the hell do you get this **** from? Anyone who has been on this board more than three months could tell that my personality is quite the opposite...

gdl203 · Sep 21, 2007

^^ This thread contains some of the best putdowns I've ever seen. That alone justifies its existence.

Yep. If I had to summarize the thread, I would use this tiny piece of art:

Augusto86 · Sep 21, 2007

Sadly, I can't argue with that...

odoreater · Sep 21, 2007

Frankly, I find both ends of the spectrum pretty annoying - including the "ironic/quirky" crowd and the people that are 18 going on 50.

brimley · Sep 21, 2007

Maybe Augusto wants to start a blog about his feelings?

dokelroth · Sep 21, 2007

Augusto:

I can't shake the image of you with a rose in front of a mirror. I see you pulling off petals one by one saying "oh how are thee so deep and sensitive, let me count the ways". Guys like you went to my high school in 1984, they always had diaries and read epic poems. You are a cliche making fun of a cliche.

Where the hell do you get this **** from? Anyone who has been on this board more than three months could tell that my personality is quite the opposite...

Really?

I find myself retreating to things that most other people find insufferably serious or un-ironic - epic poetry, classic literature, my photography, romance, diary writing, a drinking habit, and Dire Straits songs.

Anyone else?

+1

But from my - fairly historically aware - perspective, it is really at its over-saturated peak right now

It's when I take my camera and make my pictures...? Unclear?

That's the bloody point.

I'm trying to watch more and more classic movies.

One thing I never do is pretend not to look down on some people. I have always admitted my own elitism, for better or (more usually) worse. I've just reached a saturation point of ironic crappiness(sp?) and thought I might discuss it here.

I was mostly referring to the two new dudes with the sub-100 post counts. I do fancy myself an intellectual, FWIW.

I'm sorry that wanting to take things seriously is pretentious to you...

QED

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Augusto86 · Sep 21, 2007

Yes, that's me. Pleasure to meet you!

I can't help but think that some of my comments might have struck uncomfortably close to some people to generate this firestorm of backlash which did admittedly kick ******.

Either that or I am really an insufferable ass...

LabelKing · Sep 21, 2007

Augusto, you sort of remind me of those college people who take themselves very seriously and then use something like Schopenhauer to justify it; or the Sorrows of Young Werther.

lawyerdad · Sep 21, 2007

Augusto, you sort of remind me of those college people who take themselves very seriously and then use something like Schopenhauer to justify it.

As opposed to non-college people who drop Schopenhauer allusions? Do the Gilmore Girls make such erudite allusions? My college friends were more likely to quote Bob Dylan (the really self-important ones) or Spinal Tap (the not-quite-as-self-important ones) than Schopenhauer.

odoreater · Sep 21, 2007

Augusto - question:

How do you figure that an interest in epic poetry, classic movies, literature, etc. is a serious endevour that makes you a serious person?

Personally, I consider those things to be just as frivilous as what ever it is that ironic/quirky people are into.

I think that's the problem people have with you. You have some self-professed seriousness based on an interest in subjects that, in the grand scheme of things, are not very serious.

Augusto86 · Sep 21, 2007

Philosophy not being my strong point, I've never touched Schopenhauer. Would Heiddeger(sp?) do? I didn't understand it but I'm sure I could make some bullshit up. odor I guess that's my whole problem. I think literature is serious, at the risk of becoming this stereotype:

I don't think of myself as a serious person. But there are things I take seriously. Those things are the ones I listed, lit, poetry, etc. Maybe that's pretentious, I'm too young to know, honestly. I'm not a serious person, mostly.

GQgeek · Sep 21, 2007

Wasn't that Woody Allen?

No. There was a character in the movie that was an actor.

odoreater · Sep 21, 2007

odor

I guess that's my whole problem. I think literature is serious, at the risk of becoming this stereotype:

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I don't think of myself as a serious person. But there are things I take seriously. Those things are the ones I listed, lit, poetry, etc. Maybe that's pretentious, I'm too young to know, honestly.

I'm not a serious person, mostly.

I guess for a college student that might be serious, but dude, there's a lot more serious things out there. Believe me, I know - I'm a personal injury/products liability defense lawyer and I deal with things that are very serious all day long (that's kind of why I come here, to get away from the seriousness of my daily life). When you hear about a 25 year old guy that fell to his death while working on a construction sight leaving behind a wife and two kids - all of a sudden, War and Peace seems a lot less serious.

I guess my point is that people who deal with very serious things in their life might have a negative reaction to a college student that talks about how serious epic poetry and classic movies are.

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