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NNadir

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33. Oh please... There is a real life out there, serious and important things.
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 03:26 AM
Apr 2018

Last edited Sat Apr 14, 2018, 08:24 AM - Edit history (1)

Don't trivialize real life by asking me to take cartoon characters seriously.

To compare Stevie Nicks to a woman in a woman's shelter is to be oblivious, and trivializing and frankly a little bit obscene.

How people come up with these kinds of associationson the internet - not caring about Stevie Nicks is the same as the tragedy of domestic abuse - is extremely disturbing...

You know, the beat I study on this website is the environment and its relationship to human poverty, seen through a prism of the scientific literature.

You comment reminds me of the kind of people who carry on about the importance of Elon Musk's stupid car for billionaires and millionaires as if it mattered, this on a planet where hundreds of thousands of people die - most of them children - because as the World Health Organization reports, 2.1 billion people lack access to clean water.

If there were 1/50th as many people who gave a shit about that fact - the lack of clean water for billions of people - as do the sordid lives of some stupid rock stars somewhere, or, to mention a similarly insipid bourgeois affectation, Tesla cars, the world would be a decent place.

But it's not a decent place. It's a cartoon, bread and circuses.

History will not forgive us, nor should it.

Who cares? BeyondGeography Apr 2018 #1
And that coin's flipside, Lindsey's "Go Your Own Way" is certainly no slouch ... (nt) mr_lebowski Apr 2018 #3
Go Your Own Way? Oops sorry! gldstwmn Apr 2018 #29
All I'm going to say is ... Fleetwood Mac is dead to me w/o Lindsey Buckingham ... mr_lebowski Apr 2018 #2
They've been fighting (Artistic differences), inter-band dating, etc. since I was .... LenaBaby61 Apr 2018 #5
Wow...I YouTubed this Upthevibe Apr 2018 #7
Great video. n/t gldstwmn Apr 2018 #27
He wouldn't do the tour unless they let him gldstwmn Apr 2018 #28
Jesus, Lord, are they still around? jberryhill Apr 2018 #4
Haha! Oh the drama! n/t gldstwmn Apr 2018 #26
I'm guessing there are egos a-plenty that caused this. Neema Apr 2018 #6
i was going to post much the same thing, but thought I would just ruffle feathers AmandaRuth Apr 2018 #8
My angle is more outside Neema Apr 2018 #10
I'm really excited to see Neil Finn perform with them. n/t gldstwmn Apr 2018 #25
I'm interested in the idea, but not interested in pay $500 for a decent seat. Neema Apr 2018 #34
Have no clue what this is about left-of-center2012 Apr 2018 #9
This is about a group of male fans launching gldstwmn Apr 2018 #24
Heavens, it has always been a volatile group with waaay too much "intra-band" history hlthe2b Apr 2018 #11
Mike Campbell is fantastic. n/t gldstwmn Apr 2018 #23
Windmill Tilting ProfessorGAC Apr 2018 #12
To the extent I've been interested in Fleetwood Mac, my favorite line back in college was... NNadir Apr 2018 #13
So if you heard you neighbor abusing gldstwmn Apr 2018 #22
Oh please... There is a real life out there, serious and important things. NNadir Apr 2018 #33
Someone started a petition over a bunch of rich geezers disagreeing? RhodeIslandOne Apr 2018 #14
No someone started gldstwmn Apr 2018 #18
Wha...? Iggo Apr 2018 #15
Nice signature. Is that for men only? n/t gldstwmn Apr 2018 #20
You're just trying to pick a fight. Iggo Apr 2018 #36
I preferred Fleetwood Mac when Peter Green was with them. jalan48 Apr 2018 #16
Yes and I don't think Peter is a misogynist or woman beater. gldstwmn Apr 2018 #21
Yes, like Syd Barrett. jalan48 Apr 2018 #35
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Skittles Apr 2018 #17
Yes I think the #metoo movement gldstwmn Apr 2018 #19
internal fights within Fleetwood Mac ARE NOT NEWS Skittles Apr 2018 #32
It's not news. gldstwmn Apr 2018 #38
Please stop the homophobic blame game against Jello Biafra DBoon Apr 2018 #30
if you want to go back to even earlier glory days, here is my Buckingham-Nicks favorite: spooky3 Apr 2018 #31
Great song. n/t gldstwmn Apr 2018 #37
I wish they could resolve some of the drama and perform this live -- and if possible spooky3 Apr 2018 #39
Sigh. First, the band breaks up. Then, the stories fly. Finally, they reunite and charge more for Yavin4 Apr 2018 #40
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