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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143640 on: March 16, 2019, 06:53:56 pm »

Finally got around to checking out the lyrics to rum & coca cola to find out what an 'ankydalah' was.

Which is to say it wasn't. The lyrics are 'yankee dollar' and it turns out on top of the booze it's a song about prostitution. Catchy tune, though.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143641 on: March 16, 2019, 07:09:05 pm »

Bleh, on a similar note I found out the Money For Nothing by Dire Straights uses the F-word as a slur.  I never noticed until yesterday a friend shared a band that does groove-style covers of rock songs (so the vocals were easier to hear).
They were using it to describe themselves, but... bleh.

The cover band, Big Daddy is really cool though!  They covered Safety Dance for an example.  It reminds me a lot of the retro-swing remix fad which I always enjoyed.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143642 on: March 16, 2019, 07:13:25 pm »

... Big Bad Voodoo Daddy or...?  *listens* oh gods no, that's not them, that's not them at all

swing is great, though, yeah, the new stuff, very much also which reminds me I really need to give some money to caravan palace... maybe tomorrow...
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143643 on: March 16, 2019, 07:43:06 pm »

Bleh, on a similar note I found out the Money For Nothing by Dire Straights uses the F-word as a slur.
I believe there's a censored version that was recorded/dubbed with "queenie" instead, if that's preferable.

But yeah, using it to describe musicians like themselves, from the point of view of a couple blue-collar roughnecks. And Knopfler himself is British, and as such has been known to go 'round the shops for a couple o' fags. Desensitization and whatnot.


I mean, let's not forget the rest of the unsavory commentary/behavior from the personalities represented as narrating the lyrics. There's also the blatant and repeated objectification of women as a sex commodity, specifically with the ol' chorus of "Chicks for free" (which as a child I thought was supposed to mean literal juvenile chickens, something I reasoned was perfectly normal and understandable for a musician to desire and collect).

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« Reply #143644 on: March 16, 2019, 08:03:15 pm »

Also "bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee" could be racist. And the term yo-yos for dumb mentally impaired people is ableist. The song is full of wrong things.
« Last Edit: March 16, 2019, 08:05:32 pm by Reelya »
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143645 on: March 16, 2019, 08:26:59 pm »

Let's focus on the real bad thing about the song, and the Dire Straits in general: their freaking terrible music. Ugh.


As for my own WTF, I drank a lot of $5 schooners last night. At some point the special ended and the price went up to $7, but... I don't really remember much from that part of the evening, haha.
At least I didn't spend too much money. I was somewhat concerned when I checked my bank balance, but it turns out I withdrew a bunch of money but only spent about half of it.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143646 on: March 16, 2019, 08:28:31 pm »

Let's focus on the real bad thing about the song, and the Dire Straits in general: their freaking terrible music. Ugh.



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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143647 on: March 16, 2019, 10:32:27 pm »

Let's focus on the real bad thing about the song, and the Dire Straits in general: their freaking terrible music. Ugh.



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Yoink should be made aware that the rest of the album is quite good.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143648 on: March 17, 2019, 02:05:11 am »

Also "bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee" could be racist.

he could just have fond memories of DK Country :P
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143649 on: March 17, 2019, 03:07:28 am »

I heard from a Finnish person that they apparently sometimes use a rating scale that goes from 4 to 10, with 10 being the highest and 4 being the lowest.

I grow more and more convinced that these people do not actually exist.
That rating scale is for test scores in lower schools (universities use 1-5). The idea is that it's easy to calculate from the percentage of correct answers: <40% = 4 = fail, 40-50% = 5, 50-60% = 6 and so on. There's also half-points and pluses and minuses worth quarters to widen the range: 5, 5+, 51/2, 6-, 6 and so on
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143650 on: March 17, 2019, 04:06:20 am »

For some reason, I was inspired to waste at least half an hour trying to figure out a good way to write 5 + 1/2 on the Bay12 forums. What I came up with was 51/2 or
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[size=10pt]5[/size][size=8pt][sup]1[/sup][/size]/[size=8pt][sub]2[/sub][/size]I'm not sure what practical use this has, frankly.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143651 on: March 17, 2019, 04:11:10 am »

There's a unicode for that fraction..

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143652 on: March 17, 2019, 04:12:41 am »

Sure, but how else do you write numbers like 2/2835?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #143653 on: March 17, 2019, 04:22:35 am »

As a decimal, like a normal person? :P
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« Reply #143654 on: March 17, 2019, 04:33:33 am »

Alright, the exact value of 2/2835 written as a recurring decimal is 0.000705467372134038800, where the underlined section repeats.
I don't know, maybe I have some kind of obsession for writing numbers in ways that are not decimals.
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