Boy she must have really been contemplating on that.
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Just one more prosaic example of the elites impersonating the oppressed…
Poor Christians.
Poor, poor Christians…
I’m amazed by the lengths people will go to just to use the N-word.
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It is interesting to watch this in the context of the cartoon a few days ago http://boingboing.net/2016/10/06/this-comic-explains-tone-polic.html and while maybe not articulated very well I don’t dismiss this women’s critique just because she is upset. She is basically asking the question of what is acceptable for public behavior, and it is normal for people to have different views about what is acceptable in public. It is very easy to mock someone because they are less accepting of something then us or it frightens and offends them, but I think we all have boundaries that if crossed we would react too if we witnessed it in what we consider a public space or forces us to isolate ourselves in order to avoid it. This is why I’d consider this post a classic example of tone policing, people don’t like the emotion so they mock it instead of responding to the question of what is and what is not acceptable in public space and why we should or shouldn’t push those boundaries.
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Sign #2903832 that I’m old; I really hated the production of the Norf Norf song. Like he was rapping over an old Casio keyboard preset beat.
What I’m saying is that The Bomb Squad would have done a better job. Kids these days…
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She must have had a very insular childhood.
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Thank you for links. Saved me the trouble.
I get what you are saying, but I don’t quite agree as to how it applies here for two reasons. First, she never really bothered to critique the song, instead reiterating that she can’t believe it. Second, I did not interpret Rob’s post as mocking her.
I would be interested to hear her explain what she thought of the track, how she felt about it, why it affected her that way, and how she would rather things were. Apparently, she was too upset to go into details. But it’s a problem I often encounter with people in the US that those who seem to be the most upset are less likely to get into details. When they feel that their values are transgressed, instead they emote as if the reasons are self evident to all, when they aren’t. People have often attacked me even for giving them the benefit of the doubt to explain what was bothering them, apparently because I failed the shibboleth when I was supposed to know already what they felt and why. That I don’t claim to know and understand their values already makes me “the other”, puts me in a distinct category of person and discourse all without even having discussed anything. So, me still being willing to listen in good faith usually does not go well. Maybe it’s a cultural thing.
Perhaps. For me that boundary is commerce, and that almost universally gets me mocked and insulted. It’s so pervasive and difficult to avoid that I wish it was something as simple to avoid as sex, drugs, or violence - which most people in public can go whole minutes or even days without being confronted with.
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With the exception of second from the bottom and possibly top, these are amazing.
I’m sorry to do this…
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that image is funny on so many levels. thx. <3
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blasphemy…grid mode is the best.
I was told not to listen to this by an evangelical friend of my mum.
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There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
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Flares are still in style!
Poe?
Poe.
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe.
Poe!
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Not exactly a song. So what then? Poetry Slam?
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Leave Britney alone!
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And her grandparents were offended out of their minds by Lucille Bogan’s “Shave 'em Dry” (1935):
I got nipples on my titties, big as the end of my thumb;
I got somethin’ between my legs’ll make a dead man come.
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Say I fucked all night, and all the night before baby;
And I feel just like I wanna fuck some more.
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Move over Gandhi! You shithead!
Now your nuts hang down like a damn bell sapper;
And your dick stands up like a steeple;
Your goddamn asshole stands open like a church door;
And the crabs walks in like people.
I’d venture a wee bit more explicit… So, it’s explicit lyrics all the way down. I’d guess a google search could find some pretty ribald lyrics from old folk songs dating back hundreds and hundreds of years.
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