Nashville Bits and Pieces

[Guest]

Incredible long and the political overtones were problematic ... but it was Buzzfeed and trash is their normal product. I was really only interested in the  origin of why Nashville has all these 'bach' parties and the angle that they can drive population growth.

[Nashdawg]

Overall, interesting article! Didn't expect that from Buzzfeed! There was a definite skew, which I expected. As usual, the majority of the comments section was cancerous. 

Edited April 10, 2018 by Nashdawg
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[billgregg]

The tone of the comments about Buzzfeed is a little dated. They're doing hard news (though I'm not sure this article qualifies) and investigative reporting now:

https://www.poynter.org/news/buzzfeed-news-gets-its-first-pulitzer-citation

The reporter who was the subject of that article, Chris Hamby, is from Williamson County and already has a Pulitzer under his belt.

[Nashdawg]

I didn’t realize that. Thanks for letting me know!

[markhollin]

United Kingdom-based music television channel, producer and broadcaster Vintage TV announced Monday it now has a production base in Nashville and has begun to film U.S. musicians in the city. They are looking for office space, whiel starting work out of a temporary space in Midtown.

Launched in 2010, Vintage TV also is available in Canada, China and the Republic of Ireland.

The company bills itself as having a monthly following of more than 10 million viewers in the U.K. It produces roughly 30 hours of original shows each month, filming both 20th century music artists as well as emerging musicians “who’ve been inspired by earlier generations and their sounds,” the release notes.

This will help fuel more interest in our British Air routes.  

More behind the Nashville Post paywall here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/music-business/article/21000024/british-music-tv-station-establishes-nashville-presence

[MidTenn1]

When o when are they going to implement a pedestrian control sidewalk plan for downtown?

How many years have they been talking about it?

[markhollin]

[nashvylle]

Nashville mayor election to be held May 24th, not in August. 

[grilled_cheese]

Tennesee house votes to allow wine on Sundays and some local yokel quotes the bible in response lol.  What a joke.  I absolutely loathe people like that.

http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/tennessee-house-votes-allow-liquor-and-wine-sales-sunday#stream/0

[Guest]

^^ I will go out on a limb and say the loathing is probably reciprocated! SMDH

Edited April 11, 2018 by Guest

[Pdt2f]

53 minutes ago, grilled_cheese said:

Tennesee house votes to allow wine on Sundays and some local yokel quotes the bible in response lol.  What a joke.  I absolutely loathe people like that.

http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/tennessee-house-votes-allow-liquor-and-wine-sales-sunday#stream/0

You live in the Bible Belt dude, get over it. 

[grilled_cheese]

25 minutes ago, nashville_bound said:

^^ I will go out on a limb and say the loathing is probably reciprocated! SMDH

That's not very christian of you.

8 minutes ago, Pdt2f said:

You live in the Bible Belt dude, get over it. 

And that buckle is loosening.  Not sure if I'm the one that needs to "get over it".

Edited April 11, 2018 by grilled_cheese

[wmaddbb2018]

A little different direction that the previous posts in this thread, but my wife and I, along with some friends went to TPAC tonight to see Wicked. And it was the best musical I have ever seen. The lead girl is born and raised here.  

[volsfanwill]

1 hour ago, grilled_cheese said:

Tennesee house votes to allow wine on Sundays and some local yokel quotes the bible in response lol.  What a joke.  I absolutely loathe people like that.

http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/tennessee-house-votes-allow-liquor-and-wine-sales-sunday#stream/0

Andy Holt. He is also the one that keeps bringing up the bathroom bill. 

Here is the thing that people in dry counties or that don't drink don't seem to understand.  No one is forcing you to go buy alcohol on any day. No one is forcing your dry county to be wet. But why do you insist on. Stoping me from buying something that I am of legal age to? No one is forcing a liquor store to open on Sunday or a grocery store to sell wine on Sunday. They can still choose not to. But give them the option so they can make their own business decisions. And me the option to make adult decisions. 

[titanhog]

Christophobes 

[grilled_cheese]

3 hours ago, titanhog said:

Christophobes 

If they just left other people alone I wouldn't make a big deal but they infringe on my rights so I'm going to call them out.

[markhollin]

20 of Nashville area's top realtors weigh in on the state of the housing market in the region for 2018 and beyond.  All are very bullish.

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/04/11/when-will-nashvilles-housing-market-slow-down-real.html

[samsonh]

12 minutes ago, markhollin said:

20 of Nashville area's top realtors weigh in on the state of the housing market in the region for 2018 and beyond.  All are very bullish.

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/04/11/when-will-nashvilles-housing-market-slow-down-real.html

Which would make me a bit scared. Rising interest rates could curtail some of that bullishness. 

[ruraljuror]

5 hours ago, titanhog said:

Christophobes 

Just curious...if there were a legislator using the Torah to support banning booze sales on Saturday or an Islamic legislator trying to ban booze sales during prayers for 15 minutes 5 times a day, would you consider the people opposing those regulations to be anti-Semitic or Islamophobic? 

[Pdt2f]

1 minute ago, ruraljuror said:

Just curious...if there were a legislator using the Torah to support banning booze sales on Saturday or an Islamic legislator trying to ban booze sales during prayers for 15 minutes 5 times a day, would you consider the people opposing those regulations to be anti-Semitic or Islamophobic? 

It’s not the lifting of the Sunday ban that we find troubling, it’s grilled cheese’s blatant dislike of Christians in general. I completely want the Sunday ban to be lifted, but when people make it a “what an idiot, quoting the Bible” issue, my tribalism kicks in. 

[ruraljuror]

5 minutes ago, Pdt2f said:

It’s not the lifting of the Sunday ban that we find troubling, it’s grilled cheese’s blatant dislike of Christians in general. I completely want the Sunday ban to be lifted, but when people make it a “what an idiot, quoting the Bible” issue, my tribalism kicks in. 

I can understand that.  I interpreted GC's frustration and animosity to be primarily about a separation of church and state issue, but that may be generous on my part.  

[AronG]

11 minutes ago, Pdt2f said:

It’s not the lifting of the Sunday ban that we find troubling, it’s grilled cheese’s blatant dislike of Christians in general. I completely want the Sunday ban to be lifted, but when people make it a “what an idiot, quoting the Bible” issue, my tribalism kicks in. 

This, in the middle of another pointlessly escalating forum argument where people yell at each other online for no good reason, is a beautiful response. You could write an authoritative history of the early 21st century called My Tribalism Kicked In. Posting while tribal should be considered similar to driving while drunk. It clouds one's judgement and intelligence and often seems to inspire pointless aggression.

[MagicPotato]

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2018/03/13/exclusive-new-york-financial-powerhouse-scouts.html

 

Does anyone know about this? I heard their potentially looking at relocating their office to Charlotte also. 

[BnaBreaker]

36 minutes ago, Pdt2f said:

 I completely want the Sunday ban to be lifted, but when people make it a “what an idiot, quoting the Bible” issue, my tribalism kicks in. 

That's fair, and if that truly is the case, that he is opposed to people quoting scripture in general, then I agree it's a bit silly.  What I took his words to mean though, and this is something I agree with, is that he is opposed to legislators allowing their personal religious beliefs to cloud their judgement on issues that have nothing to do with religion at all.  Just my two cents. 

Edited April 11, 2018 by BnaBreaker

[titanhog]

No...it actually has to do with his use of the word "christian" to disparage not only this one guy...but others as well.  No need to say "not very "christian" of you.  That is a taunt and a troll...and he knows it.  It's not the first time he's made similar comments.  Yet it's deemed appropriate in here to mock someone's religious beliefs.

i'll say it once again.  This kind of religious and political remarks on this board DOES NOT lead to anything constructive.  All it does is divide.  That's why I remark...in hopes that a moderator will finally see how absurd a small segment of this board has become about their loose comments that are most definitely barbs thrown at not only the person they are speaking of, but oftentimes incendiary towards an entire group of people who frequent this board.

It's not that hard to consider others and realize your asanine comments will incite rather than provoke sincere discussion.  In other words, whether it's their intention or not, there are 3-4 posters who continually throw a molatov cocktail into the middle of a thread while the rest of us argue about why the thread is suddenly on fire.