Is Wilco your favorite band?

[Cold as Gasoline]

Yes.

[Sir Stewart]

Fortunately or unfortunately the Beatles carry so much weight in all aspects of the music business. Once on this forum I had one of my posts deleted because I said that I didn't (don't) like them 

 

Unlikely.

[Jane Smiley]

Hands down.

Hands down

[Kim Bodnia]

Unlikely.

 

It's all correct, I'm not complaining if the post was deleted, if I don't like the Beatles or X band then the appropriate thing to do is refrain from posting in that band's thread, let the fans of the band post in it, I had no business posting there in the first place. Sometimes it's a good idea to just stay away from the nomenklatura.

[Guest Jules]

Do you mean this forum as in THIS forum?

[bjorn_skurj]

No, I think it's OK and sometimes fun to oppose the prevailing viewpoint. I mean, it's just the Internet, after all.

[Moss]

Sometimes it's a good idea to just stay away from the nomenklatura.

 

Had to google and I still don't get it.  Wait, are you calling someone a commie?

 

 

The nomenklatura (Russian: номенклату́ра, Russian pronunciation: [nəmʲɪnklɐˈturə], Latin: nomenclatura) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region.

[Sir Stewart]

I was wondering about that too.

[Kim Bodnia]

Had to google and I still don't get it.  Wait, are you calling someone a commie?

 

Sorry, that was not the intention to call anyone a commie.

 

As I understand the expression, it can be used to describe any sort of ruling class, or majority, whether socialist, capitalist or whatever, it's just a group of people who are more powerful than the average folk.

 

So it was a methapor to describe a majority of the population, who adore the Beatles, and the minority of people, who do not, but probably I should just stop here as I don't want to offend anyone. As I said before, anyone is free to have their own band preferences, but in general terms, I think, people who confess their dislike of The Beatles are seen with a somewhat peculiar or strange regard, like someone swimming against a current.