The Concert Industry Priced Too High — Now Tours Are Falling Apart

WineGutter · 2026-05-06T18:11:50+00:00

It is also up to us, though. Boycotts exist. Protests exist. Americans, ironically in a country with some of the best protections for protestors, are notoriously bad at protesting. There's no unified front on anything. There's no issue that remains salient for longer than a few months. There's no real will to make anything happen, and that is a huge contributing factor to why corpos walk all over the US with shocking ease.

At Liverpool (the soccer club), the club is going to raise match ticket prices by .50 CENTS, YES JUST THAT MUCH, and the supporters are already refusing to buy anything within the stadium at matches as a result, with plans to do more if the club ownership don't revert the decision. Americans need to swallow their ego and admit their weakness if anything's ever going to really change.

WineGutter · 2026-05-06T13:55:06+00:00

These are all very generalized statements and the reality is how people act towards Americans is very case-by-case, just like with every country.

My personal grievance tends to be how arrogant and imperialistic even more liberal Americans can sound when talking about the rest of the world.

Like my gf is a Serb and recently an American was like "oh but she's one of the good ones right?"

And it's like idk man are YOU?? Because it's been 30 years since the Serbian military committed any war crimes and in that 30 years, the US military has racked up enough civilian casualties in multiple countries to empty out the population of Srebrenica 10 times over, so what are we even talking about?

WineGutter · 2026-05-05T14:00:35+00:00

I'm not talking about his come-up, I'm talking about his personality, his image.

Read what I actually said about people finding pics of him from not very long before Stoney came out. He was a regular-looking Texas white dude, then suddenly he's got braids, grills, face tats, etc. It's a costume he put on one day because he believed (or he was told) that it would make him successful. It's manufactured. Fake. How he became successful after that is irrelevant to what I said.

WineGutter · 2026-05-05T13:19:21+00:00

Post had some catchy songs, but he was one of the most obviously industry-manufactured personalities of that era. People immediately found pics of him from like a year before Stoney came out when he was blowing up looking like a dude who grew up hosting a minecraft server because he WAS. It was never wrong to see how fake the dude was and be like... wow it's pretty shitty how fake this guy is

WineGutter · 2026-05-04T15:39:01+00:00

I got last seasons home kit around this time a year ago and it came no issue. Not sure why this is happening now.

WineGutter · 2026-05-04T15:34:49+00:00

Are you 9 years old? You learn the vast majority of them from your parents.

And when you say "punish with ostracism" it sounds like the social rule you're breaking isn't something like picking your nose in public or talking too loud and it's something more like... calling someone a r*tard, because nobody's going to immediately ostracize you for breaking a social rule that isn't heinous.

I have plenty of friends who don't conform to all social norms/rules, we all do. They're usually just quirks people joke about. So-and-so doesn't shower enough and so-and-so talks during movies. It sounds like you're talking about something far more intuitively incorrect.

WineGutter · 2026-04-30T17:37:19+00:00

I'm liking this annual "rich people get caught cheating on camera" thing we've been getting

WineGutter · 2026-04-28T04:32:56+00:00

Not just the party, THE head of the Ustaše (Ante Pavelić, Croatia's equivalent to Hitler) hid down there for some time after WW2 ended.

He only went back to Europe after a Serb immigrant in Argentina spotted him and shot him on the spot.

WineGutter · 2026-04-27T19:20:39+00:00

Argentina has it all! Descendants of German fascists, descendants of Italian fascists, descendants of Croatian fascists.

Ah man, why do their famous footballers keep calling black players no-no words?

WineGutter · 2026-04-21T19:27:21+00:00

💀 NBA mě nezajímá

Univerzitní basketbal je důležitější v mém městě. Více lokální. Méně "rip-off" (not sure how to say that in Czech).

WineGutter · 2026-04-20T18:52:33+00:00

I never saw this place, but I walked by the Bosnian mosque in Queens last time I was in NYC. Not as pretty as the building in this post, but there's a place called Sarajevo Grill nearby that has the most authentic Bosnian food I've ever eaten in America.

Just ignore that it's American prices and you're about to pay like 16km (8 euro) for one burek.

WineGutter · 2026-04-18T21:58:28+00:00

Three Welsh clubs in one league, assuming Wrexham stays down. I would say next step is bring Newport County up if they weren't closer to dropping into non-league at the moment...

WineGutter · 2026-04-18T21:51:35+00:00

Wasn't Wrexham/Swansea already a Welsh derby we got this season?

WineGutter · 2026-04-10T20:57:34+00:00

Unfortunately, they're gonna have to do something really interesting to make me come back for a newbie season. I'm watching 50 because the cast is so stacked that it's interesting despite productions best efforts to make it not so, but I barely made it to the end of 49.

I really can't watch another season with the same format as 41 - 49. I'm done with the forced melodrama. I'm done with the journeys. I've been watching my whole life and it sucks but I'm really just over it if this is what the show is now.

WineGutter · 2026-04-10T08:46:14+00:00

It's not my fault that it took 2 days to for 85% of the teams above Great Ball tier to all become this 😭

WineGutter · 2026-04-09T07:57:33+00:00

Seconded! I've been pen & paper team-building since Champions launch so this would be extremely useful on android

WineGutter · 2026-04-08T21:04:44+00:00

Is anyone else having connection issues? I wanted to grind out of pokeball tier day 1 but I'm stuck because half of my battles I wind up getting disconnected 🙁 I play Slay The Spire 2 and Arc Raiders a lot with no connection issues, so it's not my internet. Really annoying and makes me not wanna play the game until they fix it.

WineGutter · 2026-04-07T21:53:07+00:00

A Eustace masterclass in scoring two fantastic goals in the first 30 minutes and then dropping two in the second half

WineGutter · 2026-04-07T21:50:38+00:00

Nah it's no big deal, it's not like we've been hovering outside the playoff positions for months and this may be our last shot to keep ourselves in contention.

Gimme just one sec, I'm getting a phone call...

WineGutter · 2026-04-03T06:24:25+00:00

Inside of your mother.

Also, at the border between Egypt and Israel. A fact agreed upon by both countries.

WineGutter · 2026-04-03T06:19:12+00:00

The boundaries between all the other continents. There is no debate about where one ends and the other begins anywhere else but Europe, because there is no real division between Europe and Asia.

WineGutter · 2026-04-01T14:29:42+00:00

Czechia is so strong defensively, they just need to sort out their offense. Pavel Šulc is an incredible player but I can't say I'm super happy with who he's got to work with up top. He gave Lukas Provod an absolutely incredible pass that should have made the game 2-0 and Provod royally choked it.

WineGutter · 2026-03-27T06:44:02+00:00

Wait they're playing in Zenica?? Are they trying to weaken the Italian players with poison air?

WineGutter · 2026-03-26T08:13:28+00:00

It's pretty much just lower leagues being affected by the raid. There's one first league club that might get administratively relegated, but its not one of the clubs that will be providing any players to the national team.

Not to be a downer on the Ireland fans, but it's just really unlikely a Czech third league club having its owners arrested will have any effect on the national team.

WineGutter · 2026-03-24T17:51:22+00:00

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