Post #323006 by TikiSOX on Fri, Aug 3, 2007 10:35 AM

"In order to preserve a particular life style, one has to be able to point fingers and go "nah nah nah!". Or are we expected to behave politically correct towards inferior drinking customs? Sorry, sports fan."

Just shaking my head.... How silly is this. Is this a gauntlet being thrown down to debate the great dispute between who is better, the sport enthusiast or the tikiphile? :)

Could it be possible that maybe, just maybe, somebody out there is capable of liking both? Could my mother have been wrong all these years telling me to treat everyone as I would have them treat me?

Can a legitimate debate be had in the first place with someone who uses the phrase "nah nah nah" in their argument?? :)

Hmmmmm.... inferior drinking customs..... What to say. Could say a lot. Could show a lot of great history going back well over one hundred years regarding the heinous "sports bar", but....what's the point. Minds have been made up. Lot's of built up angst out there for some reason. My guess is somebody had a bad experience with a "jock" way back when and now all sports enthusiasts have been stereotyped and deified.

By the way, my wife and I are far from being considered "jocks", but we love baseball (as well as a good evening and the Ho Kong and collecting tiki mugs). I personally can't stand Jimmy Buffet, but I don't go around hating Parrot heads or whatever they call themselves. To each their own. Do you know ANYTHING about the people in this bar you're so bent up over?

Too bad that for all of the good will that's supposed to be in this tiki "culture" of ours, none of it seems to extend beyond the boundaries of the inner "family." This is really an ugly side of the culture I must say. If there is something I'm missing, I apologize, oh Godfather of the Ohana. :)

Maybe more superlative attitudes should have frequented the Mai-Khi so it wouldn't have had to close in the first place. Ever think of that? Ever think that probably 99% of the patrons to any tiki bar/restaurant/motel/bowling alley/recreation spot in the history of the same would not consider themselves a "tikiphile" but an average joe just trying to find some entertainment for a short moment?

Oh the tragedy of it all....

I'll let everyone go back to their childish bitching and moaning, if that's what they're into it. It's too bad for all of the great stuff that is at Tiki Central, things like this show their evil side.

(by the way, I'm not serious about any of this...the whole debate is assinine :))