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  • flicker@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhats your such opinion
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    10 months ago

    Yes. Exactly.

    The thing is, the guy? The character of The Piano Man? He’s a fucking dick! He spends the entire song singing about every single person in this bar, boiling them down to one or two of their least desirable traits- which, by the way, he’s obviously been playing at this bar long enough to get to know all of them well enough to boil them down!- and then he sings about how great he is and how he’s the only joy in their miserable little lives!

    I want to get the waitress who’s practicing politics, the men sharing a drink they call loneliness, the businessmen getting stoned, and we are gonna write a song called “The Piano Man is a Fucking Dick Who Thinks He’s Too Good to be Here!” Fuck that guy!







  • One thing I think people need to understand is that ‘Tex-Mex’ should not be considered a goddamned insult. Texas has a deep history with it’s relationship to Mexico, and Texas is fucking huge.

    To put it in perspective, go look at a land size comparison of Texas and the entire UK. Texas is bigger. On it’s own.

    So to expect it to not have it’s own culture and it’s own cuisine is stupid as hell. Now, if we want to discuss which we prefer… that’s a different conversation.

    And to ask me if I want to live there? The answer is a resounding “hell no.”


  • flicker@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlInspired
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    10 months ago

    Now we called them demotivationals because they were made in reaction to motivationals, which were all the rage in Shelbyville. And one demotivational was worth ten motivationals. ‘Gimme one for the ten,’ you’d say, and you would post your motivationals so the wizards of memes could photoshop them, or you might say “shop.” Which was the style at the time.

    You could always tell a shop from some of the pixels, or from seeing quite a few shops in your time. Whichever was easier.

    (I put way more effort into this than it called for.)


  • flicker@kbin.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldDeaf
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    10 months ago

    I’m a hearing individual but I’d like to say that I always enjoy subtitles and I really the way they sometimes describe the emotion music intends to convey.

    Like when it says “romantic melody” or “suspenseful music.” I like having that spelled out for me because sometimes I’ll hear the music and I’ll get a completely different vibe from what’s playing than what was intended.

    “Why is this horror scene playing elevator music” has been a real question I’ve asked myself, only for the subtitles to tell me I misinterpreted the music.