Could WAN have faired better under a different name?

Charming.

You started the animosity. I simply tried to get to the root of why These Days failed in America and you instantly pulled your flag out and got on the defensive. The boasting about being a super power derailed the thread and turned it into a mockery which had nothing to do with music.

Aloha !

I'm not vacationing anywhere, but since with the arrival of people like you, as in derailing good topics with posts of no substance and then acting innocent, I've stopped posting my take on things altogether. It's not worth trying to have a debate with you when your reply is always the same name calling or other things of similar extent. Instead, taking the piss out of you is a rather easy and more entertaining for me, thus I resort to a level of communication on your level.

Your dig at Kathleen was unnecessary. And yes, for those select few who can't believe what they're reading; hell just froze over.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

This is what started the animosity:

"So you're saying Europeans are more cultured then?"

Trends have NOTHING to do with the above. You were just being a prick.

Aloha !

Yes they do. Trends have all to do with culture. Without culture, local trends wouldn't exist.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Then why didn't you just ignore my post in the first place? It had nothing to do with you. You stated it was incorrect. I asked you to explain why. And you couldn't because you knew it wasn't incorrect. So again, if it's not worth debating with me, why do you reply to everything I say? Are you a Troll?

And please don't use my post as a back door way to communicate to Kathleen. Whatever personal issues you have with her, work it out somewhere other than here.

Aloha !

You're pretty much incorrect all the time, but I've stopped trying to explain myself especially for the reasons listed above. Instead, when you act all riled up, I will resort to trolling you, and so far it seems to work. For someone who's been saying he "was trolling all along" it's all going over your head, so you're either a very bad troll, or just lying through your teeth whenever you say you are trolling. It's funny how it gets picked up by everyone but you.

And no, I'm not using your back door, thank you very much.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

How on Earth does that paragraph make any sense? Especially the last sentence? The UK is a world power...right. Ok. Say I'd accept that the UK was some form of world power with marginal influence on Europe and even less influence on the world...I am Romanian (didn't we have this conversation before when I explained to you that Transylvania is actually a real geographical region engulfed by the Carpathian mountains and that you made a massive fool of yourself calling me whatever names you called me for saying that I am from there). Supersonic is Dutch. And Panda is Canadian, I think. So what on Earth are you actually trying to say?

On a second thought, what an obsolete question. It's not like you know what you are trying to say anyway....you say whatever it takes to make yourself look like 'not a complete and utter moron!'...I'm just nice enough to point out that it doesn't help.

Everything in life is surrounded by some sort of culture but not everything in life creates a trend. It's like saying Pepsi is a soda but not all soda's are Pepsis.

Yes, there are cultural trends but TDs being a trend in Europe and not American doesn't meant that America is less cultural. I could flip in and say that about grunge music. Europe didn't embrace the grunge music change like Americans did so Europe is not adaptable to cultural change.

They are rhetorical statements and only posted cause trouble.

Educate Yourself:

Defination:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/world+power

World Power Countries:
(This is just one google search but others will give you similar results)
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_count...e_world_powers

By the way, the only thing I was doing was calling you out for being trolls. Not for being from countries of power.

Indeed. This is one of the most bewildering aspects of this guy. He claims to be this uber-mature 39-year-old guy who keeps putting down the younger fans for immaturity, yet calls them all childish names. It's like a car crash, you just can't look away.

To think that there was actually some good discussion on the first page of this thread...