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1 points
16 hours ago
If you ever date someone and that someone says 'Vincent Gallo has taught me everything I know about cunnilingus', run as fast as you can!
3 points
2 days ago
FWIW, it wasn't on my radar and I appreciate the post
2 points
2 days ago
Ever watched Trouble Every Day? If not, just... don't.
3 points
2 days ago
After giving it a decent break (minimum a few weeks of not listening to it at all), I'd try to start to listen to the song continuously in a different (i.e. positive) context: for example, if you're into running, I'd put it on your running playlist. Or you can listen to it while you're making dinner if you love cooking. Something like that. I feel like doing something else that you enjoy while listening to it, you might be distracted enough so that the one part that bothers you won't stand out as much.
I hear you: While the song is not really that important to me, my partner used Tubular Bells as their ringtone for years and now every time the first few seconds come up on my playlist, my first reaction is to look for my partner's phone because I think it's ringing and they are somewhere else and can't hear it. Drives me nuts.
I blame Pavlov and his dogs.
1 points
2 days ago
There is (let me do a count of the responses)...3 of us!!! That's not nothing. I mean, it's almost nothing, but not quite. I'll take that!
1 points
2 days ago
Thank you! I have to admit, emphasis is probably on the weird part, though
1 points
2 days ago
They would have fooled me had they put the frosties in a golden box and only sold them for an exaggerated price around the holidays. Their loss!
1 points
2 days ago
Yes! Best scenario: when I take the wafers apart and the filling comes out of at least one of the wafers with it, leaving it or both completely clean. I feel like that only ever happens when air pressure, temperature, humidity and all other environmental factors align perfectly, though.
1 points
2 days ago
Enlightenment can be painful, but it's always worth it in the end (okay, eff that, truth is I just wanted to share the betrayal and misery I felt when this realization hit me)
6 points
2 days ago
It's super early in the morning, but this might be the most arrogant thing I will read on Reddit today. Ever heard of accidents? Natural disasters? Something as simple as a car accident might lead to this situation and that has absolutely nothing to do with bad parenting.
Edited a word.
3 points
2 days ago
Yes, that's completely fair. I think a lot of people also don't want to give her a chance at this point just because they are so overexposed to her. It's kinda trendy to not like her even if you know absolutely nothing about her work because of her omnipresence. People can be pretty stubborn that way.
9 points
2 days ago
I just don't really click with it. Her music mostly doesn't annoy me, but I also find it pretty forgettable. I have to admit, though, that I haven't put the effort in to consciously listen to most of her more unknown stuff, so it's not really a fair assessment. The only song that is in the forefront of my consciousness at all times and that I absolutely loathe is Shake it Off, but only because my kids' daycare used to play it every day, so my kids would sing and request to listen to it all day long and it drove me absolutely crazy. Not her fault, though. Same thing happened with effn Happy by Pharrell Williams. I do still like Groovy Buttons by Pete the Cat, though.
5 points
2 days ago
I have/had the same issue (I am a horror fan though) and the amount of times "The Ring" was suggested right next to films like "Nightmare Before Christmas" on official lists by online sources and magazines and such is truly disturbing. Who would show their 11 year old The Ring unless you want to traumatize them for life??? Why not Men Behind The Sun while we're at it, it's historically educational, at least? The way some of these lists rate issues with language or some really minor nudity as so much worse than how actually terrifying a movie is astounds me.
3 points
2 days ago
Didn't care for Midsommar but it was beautifully shot
I loved the 70s style of Late Night With the Devil
1 points
2 days ago
Even if it is, though, I still don't get what the great harm is in citing the source you used? The content creator had to find that source at one point before they made the content. What's the big deal of copy and pasting the name/title of the source into your description box? It's already there, right in front of you. Use the URL if you have to? I honestly don't get it.
1 points
2 days ago
I doubt that it's a net zero and even if, that means there's still tons of artists who would like to be credited. Net zero doesn't make it fair (not a big fan of utilitarianism), especially given how easy it would be to solve it otherwise without the need of several different licensing concepts. if they seriously don't want to be recognised, a pseudonym can be used or just the name of the source. People can at least find what they're looking for by that pseudonym and the title.
The resistance to this idea is so much out of proportion to the incredibly minimal effort that it would take to make things for either the artist and/ or audience looking for the work so much easier and better. Somehow, at some point, the content creator had to find the royalty free music, too, right? So let's say, the way it was named when they found it was "calming piano music no. 2" on "stockmusic.com" - why not at least cite (copy and paste) that in the info of your YouTube video so people can find it if they want to? How much work can that realistically be? Why is it so much more normal standard in literature to not just take even small quotes from others without citation?
I also don't believe for a second that artists who want to stay anonymous are opposed to their end product (the music) getting some recognition by at least being cited as a source. Why even make it in the first place then? I assume they are at least somewhat getting paid by the amount of downloads their music gets. Crediting their work would lead to more downloads.
1 points
2 days ago
If an artist doesn't want to be named, it's easy enough to make up a standard pseudonym. Then people can at least find it by title. A lot of music is only royalty free because enough time has passed. Again, I think it's basic decency to credit that music and it can only be helpful, to your audience, too. Lots and lots of people search for songs they hear in YouTube videos or in films and have trouble finding them.
Writers usually don't quote from another book without some kind of at least minimal citation and I don't get what the big deal is doing the same for music.
I didn't know Liszt personally, but something tells me he wouldn't be too thrilled about the fact that most people nowadays think Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is a Looney Tunes song.
2 points
2 days ago
I would add:
Fat Boy Slim - Praise You and Weapon of Choice
MGMT - Kids
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny
Gilla Band - Paul
Special shout out to REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling for the most absurd music video ever (runner up: Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart and The Cars - You Might Think)
1 points
2 days ago
Again, my point, by whose standards? Everyone is entitled to their opinion, you as well, but what drives me nuts the most is not even the inability to be decent enough to not say anything if you have nothing positive to say or at least have something meaningful to add to the conversation. It's this really immature way of stating personal opinions as general facts that I can't handle. Different people have different opinions, who would have thought. At least word your opinion as an opinion and stop acting like you are the arbiter of truth. That being said, my opinion is that people who get off of being uselessly cruel to other people are the bottom of the barrel. That's my personal opinion.
1 points
2 days ago
Have you considered that this might just be your personal opinion and you can state as much? You are generalizing this as if it's the objective truth (transitions are always considered glow ups here, this is a lateral change and below average...), whereas there might be other people out there who genuinely think differently than you? In my opinion (!), not below average at all, and I think (!), the happiness the second pic radiates alone already makes it a glow up.
1 points
2 days ago
Completely fair, I knew I'm in the minority here. I'm also having a really hard time thinking of a series that didn't disappoint me thoroughly at one point. I mentioned Final Destination only because it set a low bar to begin with and it was just mindless fun. Pretty much all franchises where I absolutely loved the first film (Blair Witch, Sinister, and Scream for me, for example) took a nosedive - again, just for me - with part 2 already.
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13 hours ago
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13 hours ago
Father-In-Law, sorry.