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> is this like "I want to be in a band" of a previous generation? People started blogs for that? I thought that was more the realm of supermarket bulletin boa

> is this like "I want to be in a band" of a previous generation? People started blogs for that? I thought that was more the realm of supermarket bulletin boards next to the firewood flyer. Maybe I'm just from a previous previous generation. How can "a friend" post something on a supermarket bulletin board now that they don't seem to exist?

zem 2y ago
what the gp is getting at is that back in the day there were people who wanted to be in a band not out of any particular musical talent or even inclination but because a lot of their friends were doing it and it looked like a cool thing to do.
- dghlsakjg 2y ago
  Ronnie Coleman put it succinctly: “Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.”
  - LtWorf 2y ago
    I don't want to be out of breath after 3 seconds of running. No thanks.
    - bookofjoe 2y ago
      Me neither and yet I've been doing it for 45 years.
    - LtWorf 2y ago
      I see people got triggered by the obvious general lack of fitness in body builders. They are not more healthy than starving female models.
billdueber 2y ago
“Do you want to be a Writer, or do you want to write?” I think that almost any question of the form “Do you want to be an Xer, or do you want to X” is useful these days.
- danielmarkbruce 2y ago
  100%. As a kid growing up near a golf course I knew lots of kids who wanted to be a pro golfer (me too). Did they want to spend 10 hrs a day at the range hitting ball after ball? Not so much. Lots of people want to be Warren Buffett - do they want to read 10-ks for 10 hrs a day? Not so much.
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bookofjoe 2y ago
Your question got me thinking about supermarket bulletin boards. I recall them from way back as busy places with lots of notes attached, but last year or thereabouts I remember seeing a small bulletin board with one note attached and thinking how unusual it was.

zem 2y ago

what the gp is getting at is that back in the day there were people who wanted to be in a band not out of any particular musical talent or even inclination but because a lot of their friends were doing it and it looked like a cool thing to do.

dghlsakjg 2y ago
Ronnie Coleman put it succinctly: “Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.”
- LtWorf 2y ago
  I don't want to be out of breath after 3 seconds of running. No thanks.
  - bookofjoe 2y ago
    Me neither and yet I've been doing it for 45 years.
  - LtWorf 2y ago
    I see people got triggered by the obvious general lack of fitness in body builders. They are not more healthy than starving female models.

billdueber 2y ago

“Do you want to be a Writer, or do you want to write?” I think that almost any question of the form “Do you want to be an Xer, or do you want to X” is useful these days.

danielmarkbruce 2y ago
100%. As a kid growing up near a golf course I knew lots of kids who wanted to be a pro golfer (me too). Did they want to spend 10 hrs a day at the range hitting ball after ball? Not so much. Lots of people want to be Warren Buffett - do they want to read 10-ks for 10 hrs a day? Not so much.
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bookofjoe 2y ago

Your question got me thinking about supermarket bulletin boards. I recall them from way back as busy places with lots of notes attached, but last year or thereabouts I remember seeing a small bulletin board with one note attached and thinking how unusual it was.