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um... cute jian...

since your 'poetry' is completely made up of snippets of words found in this thread... did you just take random pieces & put them together, or did you find a program to create random 'poetry type form' from any text? It's worthy of Yoko Ono.

How 'bout some 'real' poetry?

This one is as real as you want it.

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Seby had remarked this looks like a randomly generated item.
Excluding the Chaos theory, it may be fun, but I guess the real message, besides dancing plushies (which are more fun than a restatement of overrated submissions) is if there is to be a rating system, it needs some teeth, and while this is a fun place,
critique is critique.

We have new fish come in the lake, put up subs, and we have a quandry. A popular Karaoke site, is a fun Karaoke site, and it is no fun to be told your sub is not wonderful. Like American Idol, there will be some that are - well normal is a good word. A kind word. And that is all fine and good as long as they are not put up for critique. Critique is not synonomous with only nice good fluffy huggy comments.

Honestly, I have heard people who have noted they cannot trust people to give them a fair and useful critique and have to PM to get something honest. My point is there should possibly be a button for a negative critique, because we can all see after a year that handling the idea that a sub is not as terrific as the subber may feel it is, is not easy, even though it is is stressed over and over.. if you won't want negative comments don't put things up for "C" just sub them for fun.

And the WORST part of this. Has always been the 10. We have people who average 10s that are not 10s. And it only takes a single 9 to knock them down - and no one wants to be the evil one to do so. It creates "bad feelings", people leave the showcase, or weep.

Well, question is.. how do you deal with the fact people want to beam with pride at 10s and be popular and liked and happy. Other Karaoke places have eliminated rating. But American Idol loves it. And we sure are not AI. I mean there really is no effort to demean or hurt people here in critiquing their subs. There have been a few who are out of here like in a flash who are abusive or cruel.

It is like a rising tide you see. Things get moderately real and then all of sudden you have stuff getting rated 10s that are 7s or 6s. And then someone comes back and rates them honestly, and then - this is certainly not news.. I mean I started the first Snipe comment thread - they track them down and give them 1s.

Well, let's be real. Except for a cat in heat or someone in torture, I have never heard a 1 on here. Hardly any 3s.

As long as there is rating, there will be a debate on the equity of it.

Perfect. Well, for the sake of niceness, we can all bend it a bit, although there are subs I have heard that are 10s. Yet, let us be real. No one, (except for ML or a few singers on here who are just consistently excellent) can rack up all 10s. It just isn't real.

My comment for today.

I have enjoyed the plushie posts on this thread though. Nice to see Crystal, Gilly, and the enduring Karaoke chickens coming out of lurk land.

jvj

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Bawwwkkkk... BAWWWKKK!!!



Hmmm... Umm, i don't know who you are talking about loofa... I think I CONSISTENTLY deserve 10's.


And, not for my submissions, I just  mean for everyday things.

YES!! Great job scrubbing  the floors! YOU GET A TEN!!!

Yes! You did a WONDERFUL job wiping your ARSE!! 10! 10!

I mean, we all know my LOOKS are a ten, that's a given, and well, my subs, geez, you must be deaf to NOT give me a ten.


Yup... yup...



(On a side note (aren't all posts by  me?) I just got my hair cut off:) And, on monday, I am getting it dyed blue black, with NEON pink peaking through, under my bangs:) How exciting my life is. (yeah... sure.. it is DEF. a 10!)

Oh, and on sunday, I am driving to Nova Scotia, so, toodles, to all of you wonderfully screwy folks:)


What else... Oh! I just bought an expensive leather couch and chair, that I can't afford. Thank gawd for the military intrest free credit plan, AND i don't have to start payments until July. Whew.

Gilly - you have nearly matched my 10 for humility. Yes, and I know you are cute.
Seby has suggested we give you the new name "Red Hot Gilly Pepper". I will cut my hair too when I find it. I once got one of those dumb hair things and the Wolf Dog thought it was a raccoon and ate it. So for now, I will stick to baseball caps in public.

At times when I am mixing things I think we should get 10s for endurance as far as going over a song with 12 tracks and like 50 takes. Somewhere in the early morning you stare blankly at your guitar and mike, and think.. where are groupies and loadies that used to follow us on tour.

You know you are self-conscious when you read about the face transplant and look at Keifer Sutherland and start saving up to make an offer.

Well, back to the unreal word. The streak might be interesting underneath the jet black sky ieee ieee ieee. Little girl comes out looking different... about the hair dye mommee...

jvj

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I neither want, nor 'don't want' (bad grammar aside). I would rather see any attempt at legitimate poetry than semi-random stuff pieced together (unless it's pieced together in such as way as to create poetry), but hey... it's your effort (or non effort) to use as you see fit. I was mostly just curious as to whether you were using a program to generate the 'poems' or if you were choosing the words yourself. Whether it's an actual attempt at abstract poetic generation, or a 'waste of space'.

uh-huh... i bet Justy gives you TENS all the time. heheheheh

Justy is one lucky feller I tell ya. Have fun in NS if I don't talk to you before then (and I'd better!!!) hehehe

Digital art is like Rap and Hip hop, some like it some dont. Try give it a go here
http://cmdrtaco.net/poemgen.cgi

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Ah-hah!!!! That's what I wanted to see...

Thanks for the link. It's an interesting toy.

Here is something I posted in my LiveJournal from a random 'phrase' generator I found entertaining. It takes a name and inserts it into random factual phrases for fun and amusement! (i particularly like #5 & #9) heheheheeh

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Syberchick!

1. Baby swans are called Syberchick.
2. Owls cannot move their eyes, because their eyeballs are shaped like Syberchick.
3. Czar Paul I banished Syberchick to Siberia for marching out of step.
4. The fingerprints of Syberchick are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
5. The air around Syberchick is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun.
6. The water in oceans is four times less salty than the water in Syberchick.
7. If you blow out all the candles on Syberchick with one breath, your wish will come true.
8. Native Americans never actually ate Syberchick; killing such a timid prey was thought to indicate laziness!
9. Astronauts get taller when they are in Syberchick.
10. The National Heart Foundation recommends eating Syberchick at least three times a week.

If you would like a crack at it... it's found here:

http://thesurrealist.co.uk/trivia.pl

Along with lots of other neat toys if you go to the main site.

The story - if you put enough moneys on typewriters eventually all the great works of fiction would be written. Perhaps the brain is a random generator of sorts. Remember the old movie "Soyent Green" - Well - SS is people. Music is there like the happy Seby singly lalalalalalalala and dancing around (which she and Gilly - sometimes naked) do in real life.

Imagine - (try to imagine - in the best Mother's of Invention Voice) being a serious computer programmer (I am sure Justy (Gilly's love toy) can appreciate this) and having a wife who is wildly spontaneous. I guess that is what we geek hard core scientists look for (music being a renaisance thing.. like the redeeming part of the brain to keep us from seeing the world as a one vast Chaos equation.) wild impulsive women.

Our family has been ill lately with some god awful tummy thing and they put me on Flagyl. Sounds like some kind of S&M drug doesn't it. Anyway, it is supposed to pass the blood brain barrier. From the looks of this post... it has. But - back to point

Anyway - Dancing plushies. I have suddenly discovered no less no more, that both Gilly and Seby and many Karaoke chickens (and d*** aren't there some nice looking women in this place (too much Flagyl) that female singers are sexy as all hell. Have I become a sonicphile. Of course I guess the alteration of this theme would be the sexy and humble males here.

Where was I. Music. Well, it's all tied in isn't it. It's the singer, not the song ya know. I mean the emotion behind some of these subs. People's heart and souls pouring into their singing. Friends, daily dramas and trauma, love and death and moments of euphoria followed by days of despair.

Hey my childhood was a mess. Ouch to the nth power. And I had two counselors besides my religion. My guitar and my cat. At five bruised bleeding (violins kick in) I sat on my roof (to get away from Dark Man.. my father) and played the guitar and sang about love and peace and the newest girl I had met who I was sure would be mine forever and ever.

I loved, I pined, I made a total fool of myself writing love poetry and songs to uncountable at this point nympettes. Some of these were successes. We will not go into what exactly a success could be equated to - but my guitar was my doorway to beautiful women. At parties, with my buddies we could sit around and play love songs and look deeply in their eyes and it worked. Musicians did not lack for female companionship.

So - fun place. Isn't it interesting when the nympettes frolic and joke and sing and are creative and make you pause and think impure thoughts while you are typing computer code.

Identify, fellow Logan 5s. You know you love to read some of these female posts. Now back to cyber slavery. Physical Flagyl.

jvj

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I washed my hair last night.  It wasn't hard, the other 3 fell out before I got the shampoo !

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loofa.. you have surpassed your personal best for 'weird posts'. hehehe

(at least I'm never bored)

LMMFAO!!

This was good reading!! But don't review me on the contents. My comprehension is timed only as long as it takes to lift the beer from the desk to my mouth, and that's a millisecond.

I don't care for the critiquing thing either, I guess it's an idividual's feeling about a performance that dictates the rating given. One might not really know how to critique, so a nice 10 is a friendly gesture to a likeable performance.
The best way to do this would be to not announce what rating was given...or is there a way to see what a particular person rated you at? I don't know, I've never asked for a rating.

It does seem though that this critiquing thing here at SS brings on some interesting threads to enjoy.

hehehe

Actually... I now have a policy of always saying exactly what rank I give a person because otherwise, people tend to get more angry trying to 'guess' what *I* gave them to 'knock down their score' (when usually it isn't even that bad). No, you can't see what someone has given you unless they tell you. (that kind of sucks i think)

btw... what IS your name???

btw... what IS your name???  

Is that a trick question?  :newlol:

Perry, but I never reveal my last name in a public forum...too many wackos and predators out there. I hear there's a link that anyone can log onto and find out anything about anyone that they want to....I just don't know what it is. Some kind of Dept. of Criminal Justice link?
Another forum I use to go to had a few computer geniuses that knew all of this stuff, and they knew how to send viruses to certain unsuspecting people, but everyone played like they were innocent and computer illiterates.

I have enough personal info out here right now that a con-artist could effectively work with. but I'm not worried about it really...they'll have alot of fun I bet with all of my maxxed out credit cards.

ROTFL

Sorry... didn't mean to sound so 'ominous'. In your tag-line, you say "My name is not really Cornell...it's just a nickname that I adopted because I sing Audioslave...I thought it was cool, but don't hold me to it." So, I was just wondering what your name was!! (first name... wasn't fishing for last). heheheh

As for links where people can find out 'anything about anyone'?? eh.. they're overrated.. but if some of the services can get you certain types of information (registered address, criminal record, etc) about people (for pay of course). Usually though, you have to have more detailed information, such as SS#, driver's license... stuff like that.

But yeah... for sure be careful!  :shock:

Sorry... didn't mean to sound so 'ominous'.  In your tag-line, you say "My name is not really Cornell...it's just a nickname that I adopted because I sing Audioslave...I thought it was cool, but don't hold me to it." So, I was just wondering what your name was!! (first name... wasn't fishing for last). heheheh

Oh no, I was pretty sure you meant first name...I was just explaining why I never throw my last name out in the open...I don't think it's a good idea. This car forum I use to participate in had a pic gallery with the members username, but also the user's real full name attached with the pics. The webmaster always liked to claim that his website is a family...but then he, and his more favored relatives would publicly chastise other members of his family in the forums. I'm not saying this was me at first, but it came to that after I started inquiring and intervening into the webmaster and his henchmen's conduct when they treated some others like trash. It was like a cult or something there...I bailed. But people knew my name, and had my email address. I kept getting virus warnings from my ISP after this until finally, my computer completely crashed. I can't prove this, but I believe it was the work of these unsavory characters. The webmaster was some kind of computer wizard who didn't have a life like most of us.

I meant to ask...are you Seby?  :wave:

Ouch!! yes, things can get scary pretty quickly online



uh... why??? what have you heard????

hehhehe

yep.. I'm Seby.

So.....when another person (can't remember which lady it was) didn't like the rankings or mean critiques here, she started her own SS-like site and it is very successful (KSK).  So if you don't like it why not start your own SS-like site? You can make your own rules.  People must be brutally honest.  Critiques must be honest or not given at all.  Forums will be brutally honest.  Hurt feelings? Well, tough.

You can also have rankings or critique colums where people can check off if you are out of tune, not feeling it.

I'm not kidding. I would go to a place like that. I don't mind critique as long as people are expecting it and won't complain about getting their feelings hurt. If they do, you just say "read the rules" and they will know.

I am not kidding....go start one!! And stop complaining here about it Seriously, I don't care if you complain or not but it just seems that if you don't like the way it is here, you can start your own, just like what's-her-name did.

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