John Bonham Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 When I was growing up, bullying meant a bloody nose or a fat lip...Strangers making fun of you on Twitter is bullying now? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 When I was growing up, bullying meant a bloody nose or a fat lip...Strangers making fun of you on Twitter is bullying now? Pretty much anything anyone says or does to you that you'd rather they not say or do is bullying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 #bullyvilleedit: I'm starting to think that people nowadays think that they have an open license to be as big a fuckwit as possible and if anybody mentions the fact they are a fuckwit it's bullying.It's part of this shit fad of calling people "haters." Self reflection is for pussies. Never question anything about yourself. If anyone criticizes, they're a hater. #deepI love when women post that on their facebook. It is a great warning flag.Translation"I'm a total cunt and take no responsibility for my actions, but you should put up with my bahaviour in the hope that I throw you a treat every once in a while." 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rock4eva Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 IMO, it's a sign of a weak ass culture that deserves to get stomped out when grown men start talking about bullying. IMHO the weakness lies in the grown men and women who feel the need to bully and harass. At that point in one's life, it's a sad and insecure sort of person who feels the need to dedicate their time to hurting others.Yes, those hypothetical and imaginary adult bullies who dedicate their time to hurting others are the worst.If you honestly don't see that there ARE adults out there who are malicious and use their time to harass and hurt others, I don't know what to tell you. Workplace bullying and harassment very much IS a thing.So you think something like this is imaginary?http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28933724Or this?http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/brianna-wu-gamergateIt's a veritable epidemic.Yeah, actually, it is. Go look at the rates of adult suicide and workplace-related PTSD sometime. Just because you refuse to acknowledge something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.Not wrong Stella, looking this up I see it's a year to the day since we lost this beautiful womanhttp://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/charlotte-dawson-found-dead-at-her-sydney-home-police-say-her-death-is-not-suspicious/story-fni0cvc9-1226834547331 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 #bullyvilleedit: I'm starting to think that people nowadays think that they have an open license to be as big a fuckwit as possible and if anybody mentions the fact they are a fuckwit it's bullying.It's part of this shit fad of calling people "haters." Self reflection is for pussies. Never question anything about yourself. If anyone criticizes, they're a hater. #deepI love when women post that on their facebook. It is a great warning flag.Translation"I'm a total cunt and take no responsibility for my actions, but you should put up with my bahaviour in the hope that I throw you a treat every once in a while." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I sense some bully in your tone, JB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Everyone loves to be a #victim these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfierose Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 This thread is getting a little off topic. I feel I should bully someone into starting a topic in AG if you want to continue the discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stella Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 (edited) *shrug* Then I'll drop it, Alfie Rose. But I do think attitudes like the ones above - that don't show any discernment and don't seem to recognize that repeated harassment IS a problem - are part of the problem, IMHO. If any one of these people think they could cope with getting hundreds of death threats every day or being abused all day long at work, the way some adult victims of bullying have, and feel it's not an issue at all...hey, try it and then get back to us./end of debate. Edited February 22, 2015 by stella 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Marilyn Monroe couldn't even handle herself at her worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I'll make a deal with the ladies. If they look like Marilyn, I'll indulge their crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Anyone here read Del's magnum opus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfriend Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Anyone here read Del's magnum opus?Almost made it past page 12 once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 What were the drawing's like? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfriend Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Maybe my standards are just too high, but I generally prefer authors who've read more books than they've written. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I assume it's either a pop-up book or a coloring book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axl_Fetish Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Anyone here read Del's magnum opus?Yes... and I STILL don't know how the chick in November Rain died... a fire, I think?Which, IMO, is in contradiction to all that rainy day-cake-jumping shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stella Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I did read Del's book. I did not like it to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I don't remember this in the book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brunzopolis Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I haven't read James's book. Recently though, I watched all of the "Making the F****ng Videos". I can't remember which one it's in, but there's that bit where Axl and Del are talking about how the whole thing came about. It seemed like it was one of those little synchronistic things that happen from time to time, where you have some emotional response to something, could be anything: life, love, ketchup, whatever. Then five minutes later you walk around the corner and hear someone talking about the same thing, or a ketchup bottle flies out of a window and hits you in the face.It's all very profound at the time, and it maybe even does signify that something weird or unknown just happened; but then you quickly forget about it. And later, if you look back on it, you rationalize that it was probably just a random coincidence of no significance. And if you happen to have done something at the time it happened to chronicle it, that allows it to live on - like write a song or a book about it - you look back and cringe slightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I have already said I don't really have an opinion on Del James. Because I don't know him, and I don't know much about him. Like, I would guess, almost everyone else in this thread. He could very well be an enabler, or a sycophant, or evil incarnate, I just don't. I simply haven't seen any signs of it. And if there were any such signs, I believe I would have seen them, since I tend to read every interview and thing related to GN'R. This also means that I believe most people who blast Del (except those that have read his book and finds it awful) are just making fools of themselves by swinging blindly while really being frustrated with the state of GN'R and Axl. They might be right, but I think that would be nothing but pure luck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appetite4illusions Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Most of the work he did was buried.Wrote "Shattered Illusions," the official GN'R biography slated for release in 1995. BURIEDWrote an episode of "Tales From the Crypt," one which would have seen Axl star in. BURIEDLed and narrated the feature length UYI documentary "The Perfect Crime." BURIEDLike most of the work Axl does. It comes to a certain level of completion and then he begins to have doubts, or, he is ambivalent to release it because things are falling apart in the larger scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris 55 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Del has always seemed like a cool guy to me, not usre what the problem some people have with him is. As for what he does, I would imagine a great many things, but as for official titles there is nothing lisgted in the early itineraries for Del. Even in the later itineraries I see Road Manager, but not tour manager:http://www.troccolitm.com/1106010302Itin4.JPGhttp://www.troccolitm.com/Itin2010Can3.JPGBut my absolute favorite title for Del can be found here (look on the bottom):http://www.troccolitm.com/93TourItin4.JPGWhere did this come from? Someone just make this themselves and post shots online? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troccoli Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Del has always seemed like a cool guy to me, not usre what the problem some people have with him is. As for what he does, I would imagine a great many things, but as for official titles there is nothing lisgted in the early itineraries for Del. Even in the later itineraries I see Road Manager, but not tour manager:http://www.troccolitm.com/1106010302Itin4.JPGhttp://www.troccolitm.com/Itin2010Can3.JPGBut my absolute favorite title for Del can be found here (look on the bottom):http://www.troccolitm.com/93TourItin4.JPGWhere did this come from? Someone just make this themselves and post shots online?I'm not sure what you mean. These are from itineraries that the band uses when they are on tour. I have most of them going back to UK 1987. I don't know why he was given the title of Encyclopedia of Useless Info in one of them. Guess you'd have to ask Del. But no, I did not make this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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