Random Green Day News

[Guest]

33 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

I mean, we could just agree the word isn’t used that way anymore and treat it like a regular insult.

That would be my choice too. I didn't really feel like "idiot" was used to talk about mental health anymore; it's just used to insult someone who is acting stupid LOL. Is what you said about Instagram real or a joke (I thought it was a joke but this conversation is going on a long time for a joke LOL)?

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

12 minutes ago, BillieMyLove said:

That would be my choice too. I didn't really feel like "idiot" was used to talk about mental health anymore; it's just used to insult someone who is acting stupid LOL. Is what you said about Instagram real or a joke (I thought it was a joke but this conversation is going on a long time for a joke LOL). 

It did get banned on Instagram, which implies they assume the offensive mh related meaning.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

It did get banned on Instagram, which implies they assume the offensive mh related meaning.

Wow, 2020 just keeps getting worse....

[That Dude]

2 hours ago, Beerjeezus said:

It did get banned on Instagram, which implies they assume the offensive mh related meaning.

Nobody say a word about the lyrical content of "American Eulogy". 

Or "Smell like Teen Spirit" either. 

 

[Paxton]

The PC babies and language/thought police are eating their own.

 

Delicious.

[That Dude]

34 minutes ago, Paxton said:

The PC babies and language/thought police are eating their own.

 

Delicious.

The Dream Police are right behind them.

 

[Guest]

After giving this some more thought, it probably is not about mental health; it's probably about any and all insults getting banned because of the epidemic of cyberbullying. And this is why we can't have nice things....

[Paxton]

1 hour ago, BillieMyLove said:

After giving this some more thought, it probably is not about mental health; it's probably about any and all insults getting banned because of the epidemic of cyberbullying. And this is why we can't have nice things....

Or we can just stop with the implementation of "soft language" and thinking any time our feelings are hurt we need to whine and cry about it. Everyone needs to grow up.

“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.

If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people."

Rushdie

[jengd]

Obviously people shouldn’t go around being racist, sexist etc, but how do you judge what someone else may find offensive, especially if you have freedom of speech which is far more important.  There is no end to it when we try to please all the people all the time, it never works, never has and never will. 

[Paxton]

12 minutes ago, jengd said:

Obviously people shouldn’t go around being racist, sexist etc, but how do you judge what someone else may find offensive, especially if you have freedom of speech which is far more important.  There is no end to it when we try to please all the people all the time, it never works, never has and never will. 

Context matters.

[Guest]

13 hours ago, Paxton said:

Or we can just stop with the implementation of "soft language" and thinking any time our feelings are hurt we need to whine and cry about it. Everyone needs to grow up.

“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.

If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people."

Rushdie

I did not say I agreed with it being banned. I don't. I am just trying to provide some context for what is going on. People seem to have lost the ability to debate things and argue with opinions instead of just attacking others. I completely agree that no one has the right not to be offended. People also have the right not to be personally harassed, threatened, etc. That's where the line has been crossed. And because there is so much of that going on now, the knee-jerk reaction has been to silence free speech, which is also bad. I agree that context matters. 

Anyway, we need you in the fangirls thread LOL, because we seem to have folks there who like to get "offended" and file complaints whenever we admit to having any sexual feelings. 

[jengd]

2 hours ago, Paxton said:

Context matters.

Completely agree but didn’t want to write a huge essay.  The curbs of freedom of speech however are very serious.

[GreenDayItaly]

Green Day's classic single 'Holiday' has just hit Silver certification in the UK.  That's equal to 200,000 sales, which is a big old milestone. 
 

https://www.rocksound.tv/news/read/green-days-classic-track-holiday-is-now-certified-silver-in-the-uk

[pacejunkie punk]

Seems we almost had Pop Disaster 2 

 

[Little Boy Named Booze]

3 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Seems we almost had Pop Disaster 2 

 

So they prefer fall out boy to Blink @Beerjeezus

[The Grohl]

Green Day why?! Pop Disaster 2 would've been awesome. That's one tour I'm so bummed that I was way too young to even know about. And say whatever you want about Blink live (we know Green Day is the better live band) but I would rather take them than Fall out Boy. Hell, I'd take current Blink playing with Green Day over Fall Out Boy.

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

5 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

So they prefer fall out boy to Blink @Beerjeezus

And I prefer Viva Death to them so we’re even!

[The Grohl]

I still think they picked the bands they did for Hella Mega because of Crush. They're all on the same label, so it makes sense.

[Squashie]

Interesting. That looks like a discord chat actually. I wonder if there is a video from a twitch stream of him talking about it.

[billy1986]

Does Billie get along with Mark? I get the feeling besides Matt Skiba Green Day must not like Blink personally 

[The Grohl]

I never got the idea that they dislike them as people, but it just seems like they don't care for them as a band in general. I think maybe they find Blink's standard of dick and fart jokes grating? 

[Virginia Lot Lizard]

I’m glad they’re not doing pop disaster two.

[jengd]

2 hours ago, The Grohl said:

I never got the idea that they dislike them as people, but it just seems like they don't care for them as a band in general. I think maybe they find Blink's standard of dick and fart jokes grating? 

Like I do 😂

4 hours ago, billy1986 said:

Does Billie get along with Mark? I get the feeling besides Matt Skiba Green Day must not like Blink personally 

I always got the impression Tom was the issue, they seem to get on fine with Mark and we know Billie is friendly with Matt, could be 100 reasons I suppose.

[Jankowski576]

Blink is the anti Green Day. Immature songwriting, awful live, and currently just having songs written for them. I’m sure Billie thinks it’s a pretty bad stain on the genre

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]