I can totes see where you’re coming from here, but colostomy bags serve a useful purpose and we’d really miss them if they weren’t around.
So even though douchebag is a gendered term with all the weighting that comes with it, I read it as “A useless item that serves little purpose in the modern world and can actually be harmful to women”.
Not really a term I use much myself though, due to the heavily gendered bit. Human garbage usually covers it for me. But for the IOC, I’m always open to new terms to describe these dickweasels.
It does not shame people who have to wear colostomy bags. It’s not saying they are like the people who wear the bags. Stop trying to hard to be offended on someone else’s behalf. It’s a real colostomy bag move.
You are just arguing yourself out of need for your suggested change of bag in the first place, for if this doesn’t shame colostomy bag users then neither does douchebag need to be changed…
I’m gonna stick with scumbag, as that, AFIK, doesn’t relate to any medical or health usage by any group of people - well, maybe some cult of probiotics advocates? Dunno…
I thought that’s a “dirtbag” (also, the semi-formal nickname of my alma mater’s baseball team)? Or maybe that’s just in U.S.? Personally, I’m okay with douchebag ever since the old SNL skit with Buck Henry, with Garrett Morris calling out the entering nobility (“Lord and Lady Douchebag”).
Always makes me smile, that one. It’s a great idea: but how would it have worked in real life? Imagine an empty venue, a long line of trailers, and I don’t know how many dozen crew, both touring and local, on a tight schedule. Do they wait for the 11-page catering rider to be delivered backstage, and David Lee Roth to check the M&Ms for brown ones, before concluding that the stage or the hanging points are probably not going to kill anybody and beginning the load-in? What if they were to load in on schedule, only to find that the venue had included some brown M&Ms - would that mean that they’d just rigged several tonnes of trussing on potentially lethal infrastructure? What would they do then? Derig it?
I think that thing about having their own private roads was the worst. Jesus, that sounds like the worst from Russsian autocrats before the Revolution. I think it’s time for the IOC to die. There is no hope for them to ever reform. They are addicted to living like kings on someone else’s money.
As if the catering provider and the union riggers are one in the same…
The brown M&Ms thing sounds more like a really, really, really thin excuse to trash the green rooms rather than any actual, practical check on contract compliance.
I always figured that if the brown M&Ms showed up that the technical director would start to question and confirm everything that the venue had said about the facilities. “Are you sure this ceiling is rated for 25 tons? Who does have the paperwork?” kind of thing.
So I assume at least a few of us here are in entertainment - what’s the most outrageous thing you all have ever seen on a rider? And did your venue provide it?
@nimelennar My silly expectation would be, that a truly competent planning committee would, you know, manage to plan for traffic and it would not be an issue which the host city would be obliged to build major infrastructure to remedy for them.
There will always be megalomaniacs who want the ability to show off on a world stage how great they (and maybe even their country) are. See Beijing, Sochi, Berlin, Qatar (World Cup), etc.
Oh, disgusting behavior on the part of the municipalities goes back even earlier than that. Someone posted this charming article about what happened in Tokyo the other day (though it kind of pales in comparison to the link you posted).
But I was thinking about IOC corruption, specifically.
Talk about inattention to detail, he’s mixing up Macbeth and Hamlet. That’s the last time I mount a production of Elizabethan drama at David Lee Roth’s house!
ETA: Another thing is that most rock bands, especially those that fill arenas, are doing some pretty arduous work night after night after night, not entirely dissimilar to what Olympic athletes are doing, and most of them have paid their dues hauling their own gear and sleeping in the back of a van and making no money. These useless IOC douchebags are doing what, taking meetings? Conference calls? If they all vanished overnight the event would still go on, possibly in improved form.
