Comments on: Some Friendly Advice from Brendon Carr

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:41:24 +0000

#155

Ditto on the insult thing. I used the word “can’t,” so no vicious accusation there.

Now that we have established that we are both rather thin-skinned, I will do one better and say that #155 was actually more insulting than #123.

I certainly don’t claim to know everything about every subject (as I assume you would not), so it is possible that there is something I am missing. I am still learning about a lot of things and won’t stop until I am called home.

However, to say that I am being disingenuous (to put it mildly) is another matter all together. Perhaps I should take the “random” out of in front of “insult.”

I think we have now crossed some line about running personal commentary, so I will just say that we disagree on the Korean people’s ability to handle this topic in their democratic system. That is all I will say more on the subject.

By: Paul H.

Paul H. — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:39:42 +0000

#140 — it’s just you.

By: Paul H.

Paul H. — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:37:54 +0000

#139 “…the not so elegant disdain of an american for someone not american who has the cheek to use his own language… “unamericanized””

Not at all. Rockchuck can be as elgantly disdainful as he likes of Fox-watching Americans, once he is practicing law in an ROK free from the imprint of their boots.

With nary a world of complaint from me. It’s a matter of simple esthetics, unlikely though it may seem to you that a Fox-watching American could have such a thing.

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:05:09 +0000

I did not “randomly insult” you at all, Andy — you should know by now i don’t do that on-line — and you should not respond with a vicious accusation against me. I meant it quite literally — i’m sure that there is very little possibility that you could be so clueless about how the ROK operates social-politically, and it’s history of such; we all know that you are well-informed about it all. If a K-newbie posted what you did in #100, we would just gently laugh and patiently try to educate him/her. But for you to say that brings a !!! — i know that you know it’s entirely false — legalizing pot has never been an issue in election campaigns here, the issue has never been openly discussed. And you know why…

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:36:20 +0000

South Korea has been very slowly on its way to becoming democratic for two decades now. Many topics are still taboo for honest discussion, the media still manipulate with fear-mongering propaganda. There has not yet been any real information provided to the populace (or even the ruling class) on medical, psychlogical or social-effect facts of currently-illegal recreational psycho-active substances; Koreans remain mostly ignorant on the subject (except for some who’ve lived overseas). The public has never been given any choice on the matter, has made no choice. “Democracy” has had nothing at all to do with it, yet.

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:16:49 +0000

Sanshinseon #123: Come now, you cant possibly be that addle minded from years of recreational drug use (Wow, throwing in random insults DOES make a comment more fun.).

Korea has been democratic for two decades now. If there was a significant portion of the population that thought legalizing it would be a good idea, I promise you that some politician or another call for it.

Then again, perhaps Koreas really are ignorant children who just don’t know which drugs are fun and which are bad (For late comers, no, I that is not my argument.).

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:41:17 +0000

No, didn’t tell you that at all — re-read. I think it’s well-known (and told in horrifying detail in his book about it) that Croz’s musical artistry went straight downhill when he started on Freebase Coke (and came back after he was clean for a year or so). Pot, OTOH, seemed to serve him well for decades, as with so many musicians.
They are DIFFERENT.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:11:36 +0000

“Beatles didn’t have to be drugged on stage. All they had to do was “experiment” around in a recording studio. And revisit that.”

How about this…Listen to any stoner and you’ll see that you’d have to be stoned yourself to thing that he makes sense. The same goes with musicians. Whether the Beatles used drugs or not doesn’t change the fact that their music is a product of the times and their maturing talent.

#150,

Okay, then. So, you’re telling me that cocaine enhanced David Crosby as an artist? Given the mellow nature of his music, I would find that hard to believe.

Okay, I’ll admit…Robin Williams was more entertaining when he was on coke…but, then again, I was still just a kid when he kicked the habit, so I wouldn’t give too much weight to that assertion.

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:26:17 +0000

> David Crosby, a notorious drug user, even said in
> an interview that he only did drugs once before a
> performance. He said something along the lines that
> you simply can’t give a good performance if you
> think the fretboard on your guitar is melting.

Let’s be accurate: he said that specifically & only about LSD. An example of the problems with using the word “drugs” about the various illegal recreational psycho-active substances, as they are so entirely different from each other.

By: wjk

wjk — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:05:23 +0000

Mr. Someguyinkorea, I’m not gonna change your mind.

Beatles didn’t have to be drugged on stage. All they had to do was “experiment” around in a recording studio. And revisit that.

Would Bob Dylan or the Beatles make that up?