Jon's tea thread seems about to go down a "non-tea route" on the topic of taste. Ergo, a new thread...with an opening question "Is taste more about acquired prejudices than anything else?"
I ask while recalling an event that happened when my oldest daughter was about eight years old. A young man went by with hair done in a number of very tall, very orange spikes. Someone close by muttered something about: "What do these kids think they're proving and blah blah blah."
What got me was my daughter's response. She didn't see anything except the orange which she thought was really nice colour.
ryck
And how could we begin without words from mark Twain:
"There are no standards of taste in wine, cigars, poetry, prose, etc. Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard." -Mark Twain, 1895
Last edited by ryck; 04/11/11 04:11 PM.
