Re: "But I quite like the songs"

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I've posted the remedial thread for the not calc-inclined. Buncha dorks over there.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:25 PM
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Whoa, title change.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:25 PM
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I agree, though. Good song.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:29 PM
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Whoa, scary hair.


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:30 PM
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2: Shhhhh.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:30 PM
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I like this song.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:31 PM
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3: I found a song that teo likes!!!11one!!


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:32 PM
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That song makes me kinda weepy.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:34 PM
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I like the one in 6 too.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:38 PM
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Whoa, scary hair.

Don't hate on his hair, (). There's a song and everything.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:40 PM
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Can I hate on his eye make-up?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:43 PM
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Is there particular significance to the phrase "white wine in the sun", or is it just there to rhyme?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:45 PM
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11: I would never presume to hold back the unbridled hate that is nosflow.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:45 PM
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I love ginger people (seriously, in Britain, it would appear to not just be a hair color but an entire identity). I'm just not fond of that particular hair style, even on non-ginger people like Russell Brand.


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:46 PM
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It's not a bad song, but then neither was "Brick" the first seven times I heard it.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:46 PM
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12: I figured it was that they were meeting in Australia and that it's summer. But yeah, a rhyme thing, I guess. Don't know.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:47 PM
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Further to 16: white wine being a wine I associate with summer, that is.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-14-09 9:52 PM
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re: 16 (and 14)

That'd be because Minchin is Australian [and a 'musical comedian'], not British.

He's good at the melancholy/sweetness with laughs things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHJl711OTCI

[The youtube posters misheard lyrics are a source of unintentional comedy...]


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 12:04 AM
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18: My whole experience with the ginger stigma comes from my time in Scotland; I assume (perhaps wrongly) that it is much the same throughout the former British empire.


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 12:17 AM
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Wherever redheaded stepchildren are beaten.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 12:18 AM
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the ginger stigma

Saffron?


Posted by: teraz kurwa my | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 12:43 AM
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So, Stanley, do you guys sing the traditional Polish Christmas carols (kolędy)? There's zillions of them. I think my mom once counted up around a hundred that she knew. They range from sickly sweet odes to the baby jesus to stately archaic bourgeois hymns, to rough peasant carols including drinking carols and ones mocking the idea of the virgin birth. As a little kid they drove me crazy since you don't get presents until the carol singing session that follows the Christmas Eve dinner.


Posted by: teraz kurwa my | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 12:48 AM
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re: 19

Possibly, yeah.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 12:49 AM
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Last week, there was a radio station in Florida with an all-Christmas hits playlist. Is it possible the rental car radio was tuned to Radio Christmas, the all-year round Christmas station? Oddly enough, it actually amused me quite a lot - I usually find that kind of "ironic" bollocks bollocks, but it seemed to fit the genius loci rather well.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 3:35 AM
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There's an actual "ginger" stigma anywhere on Earth outside of South Park episodes?


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 4:21 AM
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re: 25

There is the odd joke. Some of which can be cruel.

Reginald D. Hunter, starting at 7min 30 [plus McNulty, with his own accent].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7aYM9jI_ug


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 5:04 AM
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My favorite Christmas song.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 5:13 AM
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There's an actual "ginger" stigma anywhere on Earth outside of South Park episodes?

Oddly enough, yes. I've even heard a low grade racist git have a go at a passing Hajji with his hennaed beard by shouting "Ginger!" at him. The upside would be that the victim almost certainly had no idea what he was on about, or even that he was being addressed.


Posted by: OFE | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 5:22 AM
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27: Wow, even Wild Man Fischer wasn't as daring. I am in awe. Holy awe.


Posted by: Mo MacArbie | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 6:59 AM
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My favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg


Posted by: Will | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 8:10 AM
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Good Christmas music! More here.

Who decided these were hostile corners for Christmas music?


Posted by: k-sky | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:24 AM
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...cause I missed that memo.


Posted by: k-sky | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:26 AM
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So, Stanley, do you guys sing the traditional Polish Christmas carols (kolędy)?

No, but you should feel free to post or send me some examples. I'm intrigued. The only things that delayed our Christmas Eve gift opening was the washing of all dishes and the insistence of my Uncle John that we play what he called The Quiet Game (brilliant, in hindsight) in which all the kids stay as quiet as possible for as long as possible.

McNulty, with his own accent

Probably late to the party on this one, but I had no idea he was a Brit.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:34 AM
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Who decided these were hostile corners for Christmas music?

I might be overly extrapolating from apo's more or less yearly pronouncement that his job plays holiday music non-stop starting in, like, August and it drives him nuts.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:36 AM
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I am led to believe that John Fahey's The New Possibility is the ne plus ultra of non-crappy xmas tunes.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:39 AM
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McNulty, with his own accent

Probably late to the party on this one, but I had no idea he was a Brit.

Really? His accent comes and goes a bit in the Wire -- sometimes it's noticeably 'false'. There are several Brits in the Wire, of course. Stringer Bell, McNulty, and Mayor Carcetti.

Idris Elba's is the only one that sounds consistently convincing to my non-American ears.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:39 AM
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His accent comes and goes a bit in the Wire

I knew about Stringer Bell, but McNulty's accent going off the rails a bit fell on my ears as someone, say from the Midwest, slightly goofing up the Baltimore accent. I didn't catch the English bit of it at all. Huh. (In fairness, I'm stalled on Season Three, awaiting the next bit of discs. Give me time, people!)


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:44 AM
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re: 37

Yeah, I can see that. I hear Americans doing crap American accents all the time, so I can easily imagine someone not realizing he was English.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:45 AM
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and it drives him nuts

It would drive me less nuts if my wife didn't luuuuuurve the Christmas music and start playing it incessantly around the same time. I did like the song in the post, however. My real issues are 1) there are about 15 songs that every artist on god's green earth feels obligated to cover and consequently get sledgehammered into my brain stem several hundred times each during December and 2) the fucking horrible Lawrence Welk-style schlocky arrangements that dominate the genre.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:52 AM
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I typed two paragraphs here before realizing I had said the same exact thing 26 months ago.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:55 AM
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39: Surely this doesn't mean we will be deprived of a Christmas Unfunkked!


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:56 AM
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I play the role of the annoying Christmas music luuuuurver in my household. I think the thing that's really baffling to my wife is that we're both Jewish.


Posted by: k-sky | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 9:57 AM
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In lieu of Christmas Unfunkked, I recommend this album, which is actually quite fun.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 10:00 AM
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42.last: I was gonna say...


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 10:02 AM
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I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for your both being Jewish.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 10:04 AM
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45: Coriolis effect?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 10:05 AM
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46: No, but that does help me understand why the piano in the original post is backwards.


Posted by: k-sky | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 10:09 AM
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45: Just to be sure, we should throw k-sky and his wife in a lake to see if they float.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 10:12 AM
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Stanley, you can look up koledy on youtube, though the quality will be very uneven. I'm off to catch a plane to Europe. So, Wszystkiego Najlepszego i Wesolych Swiat to everyone.


Posted by: teraz kurwa my | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 3:24 PM
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Oh fuck


Posted by: teraz kurwa my | Link to this comment | 12-15-09 3:27 PM
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After reading this thread, I was randomly passed a link to this ginger flare-up. I still don't understand what the stereotype is supposed to be, though.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 8:48 AM
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Yeah, I've been confused about that too. In the US, if there's a redhead stereotype it's sexy, for women only, and hot-tempered for men and women. But it's not terribly intense -- I went red for a couple of years in an attempt to exploit the sexy bit of the stereotype (and I'm basically the right color of pale to make it look plausible), and no one ever made a comment about my temper, expected or actual.

I'm not sure if the UK stereotype is the same, just more intense, or if there's something different.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 8:56 AM
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I went red for a couple of years in an attempt to exploit the sexy bit of the stereotype

While talking about the weakness of the stereotype, I should note that this also had no discernible effect on anyone.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 9:19 AM
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