H!P/etc Ranking Thread

[Zunu]

Starra's lists are always like the opposite of mine.

WHAT KIND OF MONSTER RANKS "Ookina Ai" 35th place out of 37 songs????????

[Starra]

Never liked it, lol. I guess it's too chipmunk-y in a bad way for me.

Can't believe Ijiwaru Shinaide Dakishimete yo and Berryz' Diet song are so low on your list.

Diet is utter shit; Ijiwaru is just really weak compared to J=J's other stuff.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

"diet is utter shit"
um...
That's like, one of my favorite Berryz songs right there. o.o
So clearly it's not shit. xD (esm doesn't think so either clearly)

Hmph now I'm compelled to make a list like this. >.>

[Starra]

Nah, it's shit and y'all have shit taste. Why do people still not get this?

(I'm just joking around, dude. I don't care if people like songs I don't, I just like disagreeing with people and jokingly being an asshole.)

[resop2]

People don't realize that a ranking thread is inherently a "I hate your favorite <something>" thread. When you rank something like songs, albums, or members, there must be a last place. And, in a large enough community, your last place will have to be someone else's favorite.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

And that's why it's fun looking at the ranking threads, because you get to tell people off about their favorite song. like
"How can your favorite song be kokoro no sakebi? that one was awful!" xD

[Jessi]

"diet is utter shit"
um...
That's like, one of my favorite Berryz songs right there. o.o
So clearly it's not shit. xD (esm doesn't think so either clearly)

Hmph now I'm compelled to make a list like this. >.>

I'm with you. Diet is awesome.

Also its kind of hard to know when Starra is serious or joking. lol

[Starra]

I'm always joking, except when I'm not.

Protip: Don't take me seriously most of the time, lol.

[Starra]

MM。'15:
1. Ishida Ayumi
2. Sayashi Riho
3. Suzuki Kanon
4. Kudou Haruka
5. Ogata Haruna?
6. Iikubo Haruna
7. Oda Sakura
8. Nonaka Miki?
9. Makino Maria?
10. Fukumura Mizuki
11. Satou Masaki
12. Haga Akane?
13. Ikuta Erina

I still like Erina a lot, she just isn't my type. And I've warmed up to Mizuki finally. Only took three years .

[Zunu]

People don't realize that a ranking thread is inherently a "I hate your favorite <something>" thread. When you rank something like songs, albums, or members, there must be a last place.

I'm going to rank your three statements there, in order of my most to least favorite:

1)When you rank something like songs, albums, or members, there must be a last place.
Yes this is absolutely true.

2)People don't realize that a ranking thread is inherently a "I hate your favorite <something>" thread.
I mostly disagree with this, for three reasons. First of all, I don't see people here not actually realizing that ranking by likes is subjective. We're just remarking on some of the rankings for the sake of making conversation. Saying "how dare you hate my favorite bla bla" is mostly done in jest. (Except when I do it, in which case I am, as always, entirely serious.) Second, not all rankings go from like to hate. For example, in Starra's ranking above, Ikuta, although ranked last, is someone she still really likes a lot. It's just that, as you put it, "when you rank...members, there must be a last place." Finally, some ranking is based upon objective criteria, such as ranking members by how many lines they have per song, in which case, like and hate don't come into the picture.

3)And, in a large enough community, your last place will have to be someone else's favorite.
I disagree with this as well. That's like saying, there's a greater than zero probability that you will eat a salmon roe flavored choux creme immediately after reading the next sentence. So in a large enough community, someone will eat a salmon roe flavored choux creme immediately after reading this sentence. The problem is that just because there is a possibility of something taking place, doesn't mean that it will ever actually take place in the real world. For example. Here's a small ranking of three things that could happen today, from my most favorite to my least favorite:

1) Some random person gives me a huge, life-altering sum of money.
2) I stop in a chain restaurant and eat an unremarkable sandwich.
3) A porta-potty spontaneously explodes as I walk past it, and I get completely covered in gloppy mixture of a pee, poo, and paper.

#3 is my least favorite. Is it anybody's favorite thing that would happen to them? PUT YOUR HAND DOWN I DON'T BELIEVE YOU.

In sum: I believe I have just logically proven that only an insane or irredeemably evil person doesn't like "Ookina Ai de Motenashite"