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I can't speak for who you're replying to, but I find myself using it at restaurants, bars, and public locations where music is playing, as well as friends' cars

I can't speak for who you're replying to, but I find myself using it at restaurants, bars, and public locations where music is playing, as well as friends' cars, and other social gatherings. I know these sort of situations are rare for the average HN user.

Cyph0n 8y ago
> I know these sort of situations are rare for the average HN user. A generalization if I ever saw one.
- Mononokay 8y ago
  Have you ever heard about the concept of the "joke?" Novelty thing, I tell you. Admittedly, it might be a bit too recent of a concept for the average person to be aware of, especially with how radical it is. Here's a recent book of them, to help you get "in" on the "hip slang" of tomorrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philogelos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philogelos
  - Cyph0n 8y ago
    Have you heard of Poe’s law?
    - alfredmuffin 8y ago
      People like you take the fun out of this community
      - DonHopkins 8y ago
        An Abderite sees a eunuch talking with a woman and asks him if she's his wife. The guy responds that a eunuch is unable to have a wife. "Ah, so she's your daughter?"
- bsder 8y ago
  Foghorn Leghorn has some comments for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE And the original Senator Claghorn that Foghorn Leghorn was channeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBE92naflJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBE92naflJ0
coldtea 8y ago
They're also rare for anyone over 30 to care about (if not the situations themselves, what some random soundtrack to them is). Give it time...
- iainmerrick 8y ago
  Other people might be different from you.
  - coldtea 8y ago
    A correct statement based on three wrong assumptions. 1) That I've lost interest in music myself (I didn't). 2) That whether some other people might not lose music was disputed. Perhaps you imagined me as some strange creature in a cave that has never heard or known of people that maintain their interest in music to their late age. 3) That the fact that some other people don't lose interest in music is relevant. I was making a general statement ("it's also rare"). Most people do lose interest in music compared to their younger years. That's not some fringe claim, it's borne out by buying patterns and studies. People tend to stick to the music of their youth time and again. Even the new artists they discover tend to be of the same genres and styles in vogue when they were younger.
    - iainmerrick 8y ago
      Even if so, why would that mean older people have no use for Shazam? Have you never heard an old song you half-recognized and thought “huh, what band is that again?”
      - coldtea 8y ago
        >why would that mean older people have no use for Shazam? It doesn't mean "older people have no use for Shazam". It means "as it has been observed statistically, _most_ older people don't seem to have a use for Shazam and any random older person is more likely to fall into that category than the rest of the older people". Carl Craig is old too. >Have you never heard an old song you half-recognized and thought “huh, what band is that again?” Yes, but this is not such a large part of the older demographic's lifestyle for the app to matter much to them. Old people also want to send their dickpicks too, but they don't flock to Snapchat.
meowface 8y ago
I don't go out much, but when I do, most music I've experienced seems to be tolerable at best and ear-assault at worst. I can only think of maybe 2 or 3 times in the past decade where I've heard music in a public location and was interested enough to want to know what song it was.
- alfredmuffin 8y ago
  > I don't go out much Behold, the average HN user I was referring to
  - meowface 8y ago
    It was an unrelated point, though. I'm not sure going out more would result in me finding more music I enjoy, unless I heavily vary where I go.

Cyph0n 8y ago

> I know these sort of situations are rare for the average HN user. A generalization if I ever saw one.

Mononokay 8y ago
Have you ever heard about the concept of the "joke?" Novelty thing, I tell you. Admittedly, it might be a bit too recent of a concept for the average person to be aware of, especially with how radical it is. Here's a recent book of them, to help you get "in" on the "hip slang" of tomorrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philogelos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philogelos
- Cyph0n 8y ago
  Have you heard of Poe’s law?
  - alfredmuffin 8y ago
    People like you take the fun out of this community
    - DonHopkins 8y ago
      An Abderite sees a eunuch talking with a woman and asks him if she's his wife. The guy responds that a eunuch is unable to have a wife. "Ah, so she's your daughter?"
bsder 8y ago
Foghorn Leghorn has some comments for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE And the original Senator Claghorn that Foghorn Leghorn was channeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBE92naflJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBE92naflJ0

coldtea 8y ago

They're also rare for anyone over 30 to care about (if not the situations themselves, what some random soundtrack to them is). Give it time...

iainmerrick 8y ago
Other people might be different from you.
- coldtea 8y ago
  A correct statement based on three wrong assumptions. 1) That I've lost interest in music myself (I didn't). 2) That whether some other people might not lose music was disputed. Perhaps you imagined me as some strange creature in a cave that has never heard or known of people that maintain their interest in music to their late age. 3) That the fact that some other people don't lose interest in music is relevant. I was making a general statement ("it's also rare"). Most people do lose interest in music compared to their younger years. That's not some fringe claim, it's borne out by buying patterns and studies. People tend to stick to the music of their youth time and again. Even the new artists they discover tend to be of the same genres and styles in vogue when they were younger.
  - iainmerrick 8y ago
    Even if so, why would that mean older people have no use for Shazam? Have you never heard an old song you half-recognized and thought “huh, what band is that again?”
    - coldtea 8y ago
      >why would that mean older people have no use for Shazam? It doesn't mean "older people have no use for Shazam". It means "as it has been observed statistically, _most_ older people don't seem to have a use for Shazam and any random older person is more likely to fall into that category than the rest of the older people". Carl Craig is old too. >Have you never heard an old song you half-recognized and thought “huh, what band is that again?” Yes, but this is not such a large part of the older demographic's lifestyle for the app to matter much to them. Old people also want to send their dickpicks too, but they don't flock to Snapchat.

meowface 8y ago

I don't go out much, but when I do, most music I've experienced seems to be tolerable at best and ear-assault at worst. I can only think of maybe 2 or 3 times in the past decade where I've heard music in a public location and was interested enough to want to know what song it was.

alfredmuffin 8y ago
> I don't go out much Behold, the average HN user I was referring to
- meowface 8y ago
  It was an unrelated point, though. I'm not sure going out more would result in me finding more music I enjoy, unless I heavily vary where I go.