Are you pretentious?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Well? Are you?

[TXlib]

1. But what if you genuinely ARE better than everybody else?

Are you pretentious then?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. Hmm. That's kinda like the tree falling in the forest when no-one's around

I'll have to put my thinking hat on. It's a deerstalker.

[skooooo]

I know, that's the problem I HAVE...

...so what am *I* supposed to do??? Act like everyone else????


I DON'T THINK SO!!!

[radwriter0555]

19. Such the QUANDRY, I know of what you speak, being THAT superior

member of the human species.

[SarahB]

21. Exactly!

:thumbsup:
I say that in the most humble way possible. :7

[rocktivity]

3. I live in New Jersey

where pretentiousness and bad drumming are in violation of state law.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. Thank God for New Jersey!

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Absolutely, Yes

The Professor

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Heck no! I'm from the East Side...

:eyes:

;) Just a little SE Michigan humor.

[Cannikin]

7. "Daddy always says, an ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure"

The gay bible....."Steel Magnolias"

[fudge stripe cookays]

9. Do you have track lighting too? n/t

[Cannikin]

13. No....nor am I named Mark, Rick or Steve......but still.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. No, of course not, but I'm sure one of you slackjawed

beer-swilling football-watching troglodytes will say that I am while you sit in the wallow of your Velvet Elvis festooned clap-board-panelled country duck decor mobile home sitting on the edge of some forlorn and unimaginable hell of a small country town with a pot-bellied sheriff and a ludicrously alcoholic mayor in which the barely-employed citizenry gathers each evening at one of the local smoke-filled filthy saloons with broken pool tables and Pabst on tap to play Euchre for nickels and in which overall donning men in feed hats try to hit on the beehive-sprouting bartendress to take her home for an evening of rutting on unwashed sheets on a bed with rusty springs forcing the rest of the SRO boarders to follow along with every half-educated grunt.

[xchrom]

12. that was fabulous!

that's a pretentious gay response.

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. like a taffeta gown on Audrey Hepburn

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. Man, I cannot achieve that level of genius this early in the morning.

I salute you, Rabrrrrrr.

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Thank you!

Salute accepted!

[GOPisEvil]

15. *applause*

Brilliant!

And stop spying on me.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. It's like he was channelling the spirit of Robert Terwilliger.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. thanks!

But I'm sure you don't wear overalls, so it's not you I'm spying on...

:-)

having grown up in that kind of environment it was easy to follow the old adage "Write about what you know."

[tigereye]

37. rave on girl!

[FunBobbyMucha]

10. I find that I'm getting pretentious as I get older. At least when

it comes to current events, popular culture, and the pitiful trainwreck that is predictable human behavior. My wife finds me insufferable when she's trying to chill out at night to Soapnet and I'm castigating all the closeted gay actors and plastic starlets. I try to shut up but can't. I really do try. I go to movies and see previews for new slop starring Lil' Romeo and say "Oh, fer Chrissakes!"

I'd like to be more live and let live--intellectually I see the value of it, but I just can't shut up and be, sometimes.

[m-jean03]

11. No, but sometimes I like to pretend

That I am someone I'm not!

[bif]

17. Total snob.

Not really.

[Fenris]

18. Absolutely not

And I think you are a vacuous, ill-mannered Scot for suggesting otherwise.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. Uh-huh. My suspicions would seem to be confirmed here.

:evilgrin:

[Fenris]

27. Oh, you would say that, wouldn't you, you tosser.

:evilgrin:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. I am familiar with your obnoxious demeanor, pedant!

:P

[Fenris]

29. I mock your puerile attitude and garrulous maw, you foolish knave!

:D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. My new sig picture mocks your pathetic attempts at jocularity!

;-)

[Fenris]

32. Thou vain shard-borne gudgeon!

:D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

35. Base-born villein! Thou shalt rue the day you laid such claims on moi.

[dolo amber]

22. *Picks self up from floor*

:D

And no. No I ain't.

:P

(edit: Unless someone has utterly rubbish taste in music. Then I fear I may be insufferable. :evilgrin:)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. We have a sacred duty to mock the musically afflicted.

That's not pretentiousness. That is our holy quest!

[NightTrain]

30. Well, my favorite novel is THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV...

...I frequent the movie theaters at Trinity College and Real Art Ways, and I disdain mainstream TV, radio and music.

Who the fuck are you calling pretentious???

[Screaming Lord Byron]

36. You know. I think you might qualify. I shall check the rule book.

Hmmm. Your knowledge of '60s soul would seem to work against you. Any genre centred on Detroit and Memphis cannot be considered pretentious.
Maybe you should try listening to Enya, or Yanni.

[Whitacre D_WI]

33. Weren't we just talking about this?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. Hmm? Were we? I don't know what you mean.

Oh, that. Yeah. So we were.

[tigereye]

39. I think I am a little...

books.. sniff at the Danielle Steele rack (esp the ones with The Kiss on the cover, sigh. Head for the poetry and women's criticism, but I do read mysteries, so maybe that gets me off the hook)

Music... yes, although I am not as snobbish as SOME

Beer... yes, somewhat. Don't drink a lot, so when I do I want imported or microbrews. Case in point, High school reunion " Me: "Don't you have any real wine or at least Rolling Rock?" Granted this was in a small town Legion Hall. Have been accused of being a yuppie, but am more of a bo-yup. (meaning not a lot of money and you haven't seen my "yard.")

[Parrcrow]

38. I'm not pretending

I really am this sophisticated, witty and charming.

goddam it

[amandae]

40. Unique position ...

Friends outside of school probably think I'm a bit of a snob .... friends in school probably think I'm the least pretentious! I don't change to be around either .... just those two crowds are COMPLETELY different!!

:hi:

[TahitiNut]

41. "Je suis..."

:evilgrin: