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Something to decorate the office? [h/t JohnM via BenS]

The article is a bit dated, and I wonder whether it is even an issue any more. But in true Philistine Liberation Organization style, one of the commenters writes,

How exactly does what I watch, what I drink and What I listen to make me inferior to you? I watch NASCAR, sure its dumb, cars going around in circles but I enjoy it and that isnt hurting anyone. What do you watch? Opera? Ballet? Those dont hurt anyone either, but I fail to see how they are better then NASCAR. I drink Bud out of a can, its cheap, I like it, it is made in my state. Does your sipping a cosmo somehow elevate you above me? Are we not both still consuming alcohol? If we drink too much do we not both get intoxicated? As for Limbaugh, well, I dont listen to him either, but Im sure youd blanch at the country station presets on my radio, just as I would skip over your world music or indy rock or whatever you listen to. So we are different and have different tastes, how exactly does that make you better than me?

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Interesting comment down below, in answer to the one you liked, says pretty much everything about why I like the Philistines so much more:

runningman32...we need sheeple like you. You are the folks who keep the lower and mid-range of the consumer economy chugging along, like so many NASCAR fans and Budweiser. Seriously, I agree with your message and while I do not understand how NASCAR can possibly be the fastest growing spectator event in the US, or how it is possibe to choke down a Bud [or a super girly Cosmo for that matter] without holding ones nose, or how anyone could listen to the predictable and simple dramas expressed through predictable and simple melodies in most country music without feeling simple and predictable, I do not believe your tastes are less valid than mine. Less refined and much less interesting, but certainly not less valid.

He's presented his ~~argument~~ pile of manure in a marvelously condescending manner, and with poor punctuation, to boot.

4.28.2008 4:42pm

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