Would you vote Brian Walalce off the board if it meant having Dupek back?
Hypothetical question
Is Brian that bad? I think his rants are funny.
I agree with econo on this one… even thought his rant regarding the short comings of DAR was spot on…
Brian is a rank amateur compared to Dupek, an AA vs. a PhD.
Dupek was a lot funnier than Brian when he wasn't being a racist.
His playlist threads were a riot.
His playlist threads were a riot.
Brian is one of my new favorite posters. This place would be Dullsville without him.
A few indiscretions aside, I do truly miss Dupek, The Master, though. Can he come back? Pretty please.
A few indiscretions aside, I do truly miss Dupek, The Master, though. Can he come back? Pretty please.
I do miss Dupek – towards his final days he had gotten totally obsessed with race, though… if he's put that behind him, or at least learned to stuff a sock in it, it would be nice to have him back.
walalce is annoying, but predictable. the only person he succeeds in insulting is himself.
dupek, while entertaining, turned into an immature and insensitive racist prick. his MO was to blindly push people's buttons, not to get them to think or to get them out of their comfort zone or anything potentially elevating… he did it for the sole purpose of pissing them off. my theory on that is that he wanted everyone else to be as angry and petty as he was. he had gone downhill in his last few months, but was a lot of fun to have around before that. i'd definitely take 'the old' dupek back.
dupek, while entertaining, turned into an immature and insensitive racist prick. his MO was to blindly push people's buttons, not to get them to think or to get them out of their comfort zone or anything potentially elevating… he did it for the sole purpose of pissing them off. my theory on that is that he wanted everyone else to be as angry and petty as he was. he had gone downhill in his last few months, but was a lot of fun to have around before that. i'd definitely take 'the old' dupek back.
anyway, let us not speak ill of the departed…
Brian is annoying, but it's not like there aren't a few other annoying posters here. I think the difference is that Brian consciously tries to be annoying.
I vote for letting Dupek back.
I vote for letting Dupek back.
I think the race thing is not to be trivialized though. We were all kind of used to Dupek's quirks, but imagine what effect seeing those posts would have on a newbie coming here. They'd think they had stumbled on Klan Central rather than a music board. It wasn't like he kept it isolated to one or two threads, either.
Yeah it got way out of hand.
I guess I could see how it could be a liability of sorts to the club.
I guess I could see how it could be a liability of sorts to the club.
Hypothetically: why should we have to endure either of them? I guess I missed the part in the Constitution where people were guaranteed a right to life, liberty, and to piss off everyone on 930.com.
I'm with Julian.
curious i've never heard of that part of the constitution, and the right to free speech doesn't apply in a private forum…
as long as we have a right to bare arms.
Brian's rants are annoying, but harmless and occasionally entertaining. He knows exactly what buttons to push to make people crazy - including me. I'm still not convinced he's not an alternate-personality of a regular boardie.
Originally posted by sweetcell:I don't understand that. I'm always insulting myself?
walalce is annoying, but predictable. the only person he succeeds in insulting is himself.
Whether you want to believe it or not, I never set out to annoy or "go off on a rant." I'm not Dennis Miller. The things I've said, I truly mean. I don't think to myself "You know what would really piss them off? If I said 'It's 2007. And what Pete Wentz and Gerard Way have to say is a hell of a lot more important than what Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan have to say.'" I'm not some aimless provocateur trying to "stir things up." I just thought there would be a little more adventurous thinkers/listeners on this message board who resent being fed the same things over and over and over again. Instead it seems this message board is full of people who in theory have an open mind but if you say one bad thing about Thom Yorke, Billy Corgan, Springsteen, Morrissey, etc. to them, you get tsk-tsked and exiled. People who are more concerned with what others think about what music they like and how â??coolâ? it is, than the music itself.
Brian
wait, Billy Corgan is "cool"??
I'm not really one to jump on the bash Brian Walalce bandwagon. I think some of his assessments are off-brand as hell, but he's pretty funny at times even when I think he's dead wrong. Whether he's real or not. (I just recently started leaning towards the former.)
As far as Dupek thing, it boggles my fuckin' mind that some of you "miss" the humor of a racist fuckin' coward who doesn't have the courage to state what he really is in real life, so he spews his warped form of "racial crusading" on an online forum. A musical one that leans indie & liberal, no less. Quotes about lynching negroes in Croatian???? You motherfuckers really find that funny??? It really makes me wonder how some of you conduct yourselves out in the "real world" where there are far less "PC people" (no pun intended at all) around. Fuckin' atrocious. Assume when I 1st came around these parts I were to start off posting a bunch of white-folk filled hate humor. I guarantee that shit would not be endearing to anyone. I like off-color humor & racially insensitive jokes as much as the next man, but only when it comes from a funny place. Dupek was simply a salty coward mad cause black people at his job surpassed him in professional status, some got away with some shit and he couldn't handle it. Nothing funny about him. I really wonder about some of you people . . .
As far as Dupek thing, it boggles my fuckin' mind that some of you "miss" the humor of a racist fuckin' coward who doesn't have the courage to state what he really is in real life, so he spews his warped form of "racial crusading" on an online forum. A musical one that leans indie & liberal, no less. Quotes about lynching negroes in Croatian???? You motherfuckers really find that funny??? It really makes me wonder how some of you conduct yourselves out in the "real world" where there are far less "PC people" (no pun intended at all) around. Fuckin' atrocious. Assume when I 1st came around these parts I were to start off posting a bunch of white-folk filled hate humor. I guarantee that shit would not be endearing to anyone. I like off-color humor & racially insensitive jokes as much as the next man, but only when it comes from a funny place. Dupek was simply a salty coward mad cause black people at his job surpassed him in professional status, some got away with some shit and he couldn't handle it. Nothing funny about him. I really wonder about some of you people . . .