Pedestrian tastes

Had an extremely rich friend once. Told her that she could enjoy a movie no more than I could. I love people who can give formal, outlined reviews. I can't. My mom gifted me with understanding the nuances of many forms of art and music. I can neither paint nor perform worth a poop. I can understand the nuances. I can't report them to save my life.
My reviews are totally pedestrian. I can appreciate a bourbon and water in a dive or a castle. I feel blessed to not care which

Lived in a gated community in a Bay Area, right on the water. Easter floods would come and stuff around fishing camps would float away. The well to do would after the flood ,go as they would say scavageing, picking up what was not theirs. I told my wife, you see Rich people scavenge, poor people steal. Just to clarify I'm in the poor people camp. That's just my pedestrian take on it.

Remember that probably Leonardo Da Vinci painting that sold at Christie's for $450 million? Here's another 'modern art' painting that sold in the same auction:



It was described by Christies' art critic thus:

Red is the colour of wine, but also of blood, and these canvases encompass both the sensual pleasure and violent debauchery associated with the god. The contrast is echoed in the paintings' combination of euphoric loops that soar upwards and vermillion floods of paint that ooze and cascade down the canvas. The unfurling gestures of these painting were made, like Henri Matisses's works in old age, with a brush affixed to the end of a pole, which lends them their vitality and scale.

It sold for $46 MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.  It is brilliantly named: Untitled. Here's my pedestrian review:

Two year old left alone for two minutes with a bottle of ketchup.

Sometimes the Emperor has no clothes. And now you know, although I am educated, whether I prefer the company of peasants and rednecks, or elitists and nobles

Agreed, pedestrian is dull, predictable and common. It's never a compliment. Redneck on the other hand, can be a put down or a compliment, mainly depending on whether you've spent time with rednecks or not White trash is never a compliment, redneck certainly can be. As the most famous redneck of all, Jeff Foxworthy, describes it, it's 'a glorious lack of sophistication'.

I love racing. While oval racing is my least favorite form of racing, that's what they built here in Dallas: Texas Motor Speedway. The biggest draws are the two NASCAR races. There are a lot of rednecks that attend NASCAR races. From the very first race, and no one told them to, when folks got up from their seats to go get another hot dog, they left all their stuff on their seats. I'm talking scanners, binoculars, coolers, whatever. Women took their purses, and that was it. I'd never seen that at Cowboys games, Stars games or even Rangers games. No one told them to, it was just normal, and I thought it was fantastic.

Problem is, some people's education is in bullshitting others  into believing crap like the above is worth something. I can't imagine even wanting to belong to a club like that.

I've always taken the term "Pedestrian taste" simply to mean average and of no great character. It's not bad, nor is it good. It's not rich, nor poor. It's very common and not thought provoking. Pedestrian taste breaks no new ground. It accepts the ground already broken by many others. There's certainly nothing wrong, nor right, with having pedestrian tastes. They can be very comfortable and occasionally comforting. There is no virtue in having pedestrian taste, nor vice. Having pedestrian tastes requires no exploration, thought, nor intellectual effort. Pedestrian taste is freely available to all

Since we don't have an issue with linking other boards here can you please post a link to the thread you're talking about so I can judge it for myself.

Let's see now, pedestrians are walkers. Walking while smoking a pipe is lunting. Therefore I am... now I am confused. Why would someone call someone else a walker? What's wrong with a walker? 

... and yet ... neither Lunting nor Whiskey is Pedestrian!

better a Walker than a Wanker.

Here is where I disagree with you,for me,I've had enough excitement and adventure.Dull,predictable,and common
are simple goals that I can achieve without external aid.If I happen to enjoy a simple one dimensional smoke on
a daily basis does that make me inferior?I think it makes me comfortable and satisfied.If I post a review that is
filled with simplistic terminology I must be under educated or lacking in palette talent?I think it just shows that
my use of verse is constrained to nouns and verbs I learned in life rather than school.

ABSOLUTLY !,,,,This is exactly what I'm trying to say.We use and take labels as insults when these adjectives are
nothing more than a state of being.  (I've also been called Retarded and decided to act accordingly)

It was a thread on PSF dealing with Tobacco Reviews,and the comment was a remark how one persons reviews were
of a "pedestrian taste".Upon research of the complaining party,the insulted individual found them to be a one or two
bowls a week smoker,who claimed a year of expierience.It was the common insult of "pedestrian" that I was addressing not
the merits of the other thread.But I will try and find the post and link it for you.
pipesmokersforum.com/community/threads/worst-review-i-ever-read-rant.62954/

Been my experience that people who accuse others of pedestrian tastes are insufferable sanctimonious bastards who need not be listened to at all. Speaking of insufferable, how'd ya like my avoidance of the preposition at the end of that sentence? 

U sure it wasn't a mouse?