In The House 2018-12-03

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Parents, embarrassing children since time immemorial.
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MC Kath regrets nothing!

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Um... what?

I suspect this is a generational joke, and I'm too old to get it.
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Kate, please think of the children before you start flashing gang signs.
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Well, if it is a generational joke, I should be able to get it, yet I don't. At least, not if it's something specific.

What I do get is that Katherine is using rapper style talk to announce the pizza, and it's embarrassing and annoying Castela like crazy. That, in and of itself, is funny enough. If there is more to it, I simply don't know.
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I got no idea either. I just know that kids got no sense of humor when it comes to parents
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jeffepp wrote: Sun Dec 02, 2018 8:27 pm MC Kath regrets nothing!

For those of you too young to remember... Get off my lawn.
And for those of us to old to have been aware of it when it passed by? :(

My only excuse is that I was honoring the next generation's sacred right to have its own music and language, which is completely foreign to the previous generation. So, if you asked me who the five greatest MCs or DJs were, or the distinction between house and dubstep, I truly cannot tell you.

(I'm glad that Kath is tuned in enough to goof with it, though - after what she's been through in her life, she certainly deserves a solid opportunity to goof.)
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Kath is so cute when she does shit to embarrass her kids...
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Parents.

Embarrassing kids since at least the invention of language.
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Castela is just jealous cuz she Cant Touch This!
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Here are some lyrics, but you really need the actual music & performance to breath life into them...

https://genius.com/Sugarhill-gang-rappe ... ght-lyrics

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I think a similar situation for you old folks would be along the lines of your parents trying to act like Angus Young of AC/DC, or perhaps Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osborne, etc, and doing a very campy and very bad job of it.

How does that translate?
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GlytchMeister wrote: Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:03 pm I think a similar situation for you old folks would be along the lines of your parents trying to act like Angus Young of AC/DC, or perhaps Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osborne, etc, and doing a very campy and very bad job of it.

How does that translate?
Eeesh. The adjective "shirtless" comes to mind, and in that context I think some brain bleach may be required.

On the other hand, our parents may have had it even worse. To their generation, Elvis impersonators were acceptable... nay, they were even an attraction.
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Hey, a good Elvis impersonator makes for a fun evening. Mind you, I haven't seen many _good_ ones. I grew up in the 70/80/90's, and listened to everything from Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, to Glenn Miller, Swing, various big bands, the Era of Teen Death Ballads, Folk, Jan and Dean, Beach Boys, Beatles, Blue Ridge Mountain Boys (Bluegrass), Country (and, unfortunately, C&W), through Disco (Please, no more Rod Stewart!), Hair Bands, and so forth. There's something in almost everything worth listening to.

Unfortunately, 'Rap' that claims to be music is one of the genres that has little to no redeeming qualities. Rap isn't music. It's an art form, sure, but it's not music. It takes more than a rhythm to be music - it takes something you can use as a melody.

One form of music I've never found any redeeming qualities is "Industrial" music. I had a roommate in college from Ann Arbor that listened to that. It sounded like someone beating metal trash cans to death with a chainsaw. I've heard finer sounds from a trash compactor.
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Actually, Pickle's reaction reminds me of my sister the time that dad demonstrated the proper technique for using a grain cradle . . . I don't think she ever focused on the video camera!

No, I'm not that old . . . dad had learned to use a grain cradle about 1950 for trimming up and where the towed reaper or sickle-bar mower couldn't reach safely. There was a patch that grew a lot of good grain, but was too steep for mechanical harvesting so they cut it by hand - when we went back around 2000, that patch was woodlot.

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FreeFlier wrote: Mon Dec 03, 2018 11:07 pm Actually, Pickle's reaction reminds me of my sister the time that dad demonstrated the proper technique for using a grain cradle . . . I don't think she ever focused on the video camera!

No, I'm not that old . . . dad had learned to use a grain cradle about 1950 for trimming up and where the towed reaper or sickle-bar mower couldn't reach safely. There was a patch that grew a lot of good grain, but was too steep for mechanical harvesting so they cut it by hand - when we went back around 2000, that patch was woodlot.

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Bookworm wrote: Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:07 pmthe Era of Teen Death Ballads
Oh dear Lord... what just bubbled up to the top of my brain:
  • Teen Angel
    Running Bear
    Last Kiss
    Dead Man's Curve
    Laura
And that's just off the top of my head after 50 years. That's how bad an earworm they were!
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Teen death ballads ... and having fun with current {when the album was released; 1991} popular songs ... Big Daddy does "The Living Years":



...and another, more recent BD track:

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Atomic wrote: Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:29 am
Bookworm wrote: Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:07 pmthe Era of Teen Death Ballads
Oh dear Lord... what just bubbled up to the top of my brain:
  • Teen Angel
    Running Bear
    Last Kiss
    Dead Man's Curve
    Laura
And that's just off the top of my head after 50 years. That's how bad an earworm they were!
I don't recall hearing Teen Angel . . . and I don't recall the opening riffs from Last Kiss, so I must not have heard it much.

The others, however . . .

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