MSG (aah my stomach lining)
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hey guys
badger was so ingenious st to give me a topic as to what to do for my english study.
mainstream!
what is it?
and what are your views on the topic?
hit me with your quotes!
regards 
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Rouge Dragon
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02/06/04 07:47 PM
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well, when i think of mainstream i basically think "not me" (if youve seen me dress you'd know what i mean!)
i see it as somehting that is common, usual, even trendy. and basically i dont like it as to me its somehting that people do all the time and often loses its meaning.
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Patrick the Bubba Badger
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02/06/04 07:55 PM
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i think that this forum has become to popular and m,ainstreem and now people are just talking about crap which has nothing to do with fire, poi, or anyother things that this sight reprisents
dose anyone feel the same way i do?
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certifiedloon
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02/06/04 09:56 PM
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spell check, anyone?
Apart from that... I guess mainstream is down to perspective, what's mainstream to some may be totally unusual to another.
Sorry that's a bit of a cop out and doesn't really help!
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GottaLoveIt
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02/06/04 10:07 PM
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Mainstream to me means pop culture whish isn't something i'm going to escape from unless I build myself a space shuttle and get off of earth.
certifiedloon has a point. depends where you come from, your background etc as to what you think goes under the umbrella that is mainstream.
I was talking about it yesterday with a mini buddy and even the 'alternative' peeps have their own way of being mainstream (not all! I'm only generalising) such as they don't participate in anything they consider to be mainstream and create their own mini-mainstream which is nothing that is mainstream... make sense? Thought so.
Then of course everyone's different even if you're part of the mainstream...
la la la la la
I'm done 
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Flapjacks
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03/06/04 01:45 AM
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To me it's a fashion, or a media thingy, or a fad or a something with way too much exposure to the geneal public for it's own good, that causes many many people to like it, and for the same reason, many people to loathe and avoid it.
Maybe the word mainstream is too mainstream?
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Kapura Mataaro
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03/06/04 01:50 AM
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i'm with the others...mainstream is a perspective thing; but  IMHO its a case of looking at MTV and all the other mcshyte...and then look at the stuff that YOU think is mainstream....like the others said- a tad firecracker to the apple cart...but eh...
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Doc Lightning
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03/06/04 04:44 AM
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Do a search.
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03/06/04 08:39 AM
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It's the Big bit of the river where all the other little streams come from 
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Mele
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03/06/04 02:32 PM
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I think of mainstream as what everybody know about, what everyone can do, it doesn't turn heads, its the norm and common.
Its prolific, its your "mainstream" chain stores, your main tv stations, your major radio stations, and its the ordinary that you can't escape, but never think twice about (if that makes sense?)
Whats that quote about taking the road less travelled? Mainstreams the road most people travel, Alternate or however you want to describe it, is the road less travelled.
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03/06/04 02:38 PM
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Yeah but the only problem is now bieng Alternitive is becoming Mainstream. All alternitve clothing is bieng sold at shops that are aimed for the younger generation, but what really annoys me is when people wear spikes and a Blink 182 shirt an call them selves "punk."
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MSG (aah my stomach lining)
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03/06/04 10:21 PM
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thats really good and i'm well on my way in my essay
keep themcomming.
P.S and my essay will be spell checked.
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Dirty Marmite Spider
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03/06/04 11:07 PM
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I don't think mainstream is something you can really define. Everyone conforms to something. I've never met a person who doesn't conform to some kind of stereotype some of the time.
It is definitely all about the way you view it. Example: to some people I look really square. I have a job, I pay my rent and taxes and I wear a shirt to work. But then plenty of people think I'm odd because I have a spike through my face and dress alternatively, and work for a 'hippy' charity. The truth is you can't win. There were kids at my school who had the piss taken out of them for being 'geeky', but if they changed the way they dressed to fit in they had the piss taken out of them for trying to be cool.
Everyone is unique, and it's impossible for a mainstream to exist because there will always be exceptions and different viewpoints. The truth is people and things conform sometimes and not at others. there isn't really a consistency.
Just my opinion though.
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bender
This is MADNESS!!
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04/06/04 11:48 AM
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mainstream is the biggest pigeon youse ever seen.
it's the pigeonhole youse is put in if you dun fit the others.
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Edited by bender™ (04/06/04 11:49 AM)
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Lyra
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04/06/04 12:22 PM
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mainstrem isent shocking
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bender
This is MADNESS!!
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04/06/04 01:54 PM
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what about excessive banality? sometimes the lack of imagination *is* shocking, just as it is shocking to hear the silence after a Sepultura concert!
Under Pale Grey Skies We Will Arise!
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