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charlene · 10-09-2010, 11:22 PM

originally posted by podunklander: Who are you to determine(d) how Gordon thinks and should think, etc.? Canadian mindset..look at what you wrote. So if he's in the US and eats American food here....(fill in the blank yourself ______________________).

And you also seem to know what every "ordinary bloke" thinks and doesn't think or should think and do. Or what the music critic thinks or doesn't think. You seem to know and have an opinion about what and how everyone else thinks...and condemn them, judge, etc., and I find that very insulting, etc., even if it's not directed towards me. I feel offended for Gordon when you're channeling his every thought and breath into his Canadianism and using that to tell EVERYONE that if we think any other way about him...any tinge of American spirit, etc.,...then we're wrong.

You wrote: "It's nice that folks love songs so much they take them as their own like some people in Arizona might feel about Carefree Highway, possibly because they don't delve into details." Charlene...you don't make it sound very nice!! So they love it and call it their own because they're ignorant of the details???? wtf...you think this isn't condescending???

LOTS of things you said were really very offensive not really to me personally...but I felt for others (such as 'some people in Arizona') and I responded as such. It's ok then for you to insult every "ordinary bloke"?? I didn't even think that it was any major faux pas that the reviewer didn't mention Gordon and it's like you assumed that he didn't know or something. Many people know Sundown is Gordon's song. That he didn't mention it in that short blurb is too bad, but maybe he had a reason. Like maybe he assumed that it's well enough known, that he didn't have to say. (though of course, he should have to please you!)

I can disagree with your opinions if I want to! AND I don't have to think they're as valid as "any one else's". How come you you can disagree with other's opinion and how they think, etc. (such as 'some people in Arizona'), the validity of what they say or don't, etc., and I can't yours? I can't even begin to count how many people you've deemed as ignorant, etc just in this thread alone. And what they all should think or not. But it's everyone from Arizona to the NY highway and well, all points in the USA. end quote.

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10-09-2010, 11:22 PM	#71
charlene Moderator Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 16,001	Re: cover of SUNDOWN by Toby Keith originally posted by podunklander: Who are you to determine(d) how Gordon thinks and should think, etc.? Canadian mindset..look at what you wrote. So if he's in the US and eats American food here....(fill in the blank yourself ______________________). And you also seem to know what every "ordinary bloke" thinks and doesn't think or should think and do. Or what the music critic thinks or doesn't think. You seem to know and have an opinion about what and how everyone else thinks...and condemn them, judge, etc., and I find that very insulting, etc., even if it's not directed towards me. I feel offended for Gordon when you're channeling his every thought and breath into his Canadianism and using that to tell EVERYONE that if we think any other way about him...any tinge of American spirit, etc.,...then we're wrong. You wrote: "It's nice that folks love songs so much they take them as their own like some people in Arizona might feel about Carefree Highway, possibly because they don't delve into details." Charlene...you don't make it sound very nice!! So they love it and call it their own because they're ignorant of the details???? wtf...you think this isn't condescending??? LOTS of things you said were really very offensive not really to me personally...but I felt for others (such as 'some people in Arizona') and I responded as such. It's ok then for you to insult every "ordinary bloke"?? I didn't even think that it was any major faux pas that the reviewer didn't mention Gordon and it's like you assumed that he didn't know or something. Many people know Sundown is Gordon's song. That he didn't mention it in that short blurb is too bad, but maybe he had a reason. Like maybe he assumed that it's well enough known, that he didn't have to say. (though of course, he should have to please you!) I can disagree with your opinions if I want to! AND I don't have to think they're as valid as "any one else's". How come you you can disagree with other's opinion and how they think, etc. (such as 'some people in Arizona'), the validity of what they say or don't, etc., and I can't yours? I can't even begin to count how many people you've deemed as ignorant, etc just in this thread alone. And what they all should think or not. But it's everyone from Arizona to the NY highway and well, all points in the USA. end quote. podunklander deleted her last post. Thread is moved and closed..