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Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, September 10, 2013, 08:31:45 PM

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Faust

#75
September 11, 2013, 03:11:37 PM
She stole Lady gaga's dick?

The Futa Queen is dead, long live the Futa Queen.
Sleepless nights at the chateau

The Good Reverend Roger

#76
September 11, 2013, 03:13:01 PM
Quote from: Faust on September 11, 2013, 03:11:37 PM
She stole Lady gaga's dick?

The Futa Queen is dead, long live the Futa Queen.

To physically exhausted to type it out again.

Will try later.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#77
September 11, 2013, 04:10:17 PM
http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.ca/2013/08/miley-cyrus-miley-cyrus-miley-cyrus.html?m=1

QuoteIf you thought that Teacher Tom's blog was the place to get away from reading about Miley Cyrus, you were wrong. For those of you who don't know, the 20-year-old pop star has apparently outraged the entire internet by her performance on MTV's Video Music Awards on Sunday night. I don't really follow popular music any longer so it takes something really big to catch my attention and apparently this was huge! My Twitter feed, which is usually, embarrassingly, overrun with tweets about baseball and breastfeeding suddenly started filling up with comments vilifying and ridiculing "Hannah Montana," a character of whom I am aware since I'm the parent of a daughter who, when she was little, watched the girl's TV show.

So I watched the offensive video. After the first few seconds I started laughing and couldn't stop until it was over. I am, frankly, overjoyed that young people can still outrage old people. Good on her. I mean think about this for a second. I did a little research and discovered that she took the stage after Lady Gaga and before Kanye West: never in anyone's wildest dreams could we have imagined that she would be the most scandalous one on that stage, but being the youngest it was certainly her turn. I keep waiting to read some quote from Kanye accusing her of corrupting someone's morals or something. That would make it about perfect.

I'm not saying that Miley Cyrus is destined to be the next Sinatra, but I am saying that it is perfectly meet, right and salutary that young people outrage their elders, especially when it comes to art. You don't think it's art? Well, most people didn't think what Duchamp was doing was art either. Most people thought the Beatles were just making a bunch of noise. What I saw on that video was a dance, and not even the most sexual dance I've ever seen: that was Madonna's 1984 VMA performance of Like A Virgin. What made me laugh was how joyfully she pulled it off, sticking that tongue out of her mouth like a kind of crazy jester. She reminded me of Keith Moon kicking over his drum set or Ozzie Osborn evoking Satan, just having a grand time sticking a finger in the old folks' eyes.

What outrages me far more than a 20-year-old gyrating her young body, was that she was performing on stage with an older, married guy named Robin Thicke (of whom I've never heard) yet she received at least ninety percent of the criticism. Talk about slut shaming.

Oh, and what about the "example" she's setting for those young girl fans of hers? My own daughter is now 16-years-old, a former fan of her Disney Channel TV show, no longer a little girl. I asked her what she thought about Miley Cyrus. She answered, "I think she's talented and cool. I like her new hair, although I don't really like those top knot things she's doing." And about the VMA video: "It was funny. She's a comedic actress, remember? Of course it's not serious. That's what the VMAs are for. She's a performer trying to entertain people."

So good, she didn't mistake the performance for an instructional video on how to live life. I also don't expect her to start wearing those top knots. As an aspiring artist herself, I hope that she is someday in a position to really outrage her elders, including me.

And I, for one, am glad everybody's talking about her, because it's a little bit of goddamn FUN in a world that currently has a scary and dismal political and financial outlook.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#78
September 11, 2013, 04:12:01 PM
World's a weird place.  Let's keep it that way. 
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cramulus

#79
September 11, 2013, 04:15:02 PM
Telling people to stop talking about Miley Cyrus because of Syria/PRISM is the new "I don't own a television"

-my buddy HAL PHILLIPS

The Good Reverend Roger

#80
September 11, 2013, 04:16:14 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on September 11, 2013, 04:15:02 PM
Telling people to stop talking about Miley Cyrus because of Syria/PRISM is the new "I don't own a television"

-my buddy HAL PHILLIPS

I got rid of my TV before it was cool to do so.  :hipster:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#81
September 11, 2013, 04:18:55 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on September 11, 2013, 04:15:02 PM
Telling people to stop talking about Miley Cyrus because of Syria/PRISM is the new "I don't own a television"

-my buddy HAL PHILLIPS

:lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#82
September 11, 2013, 04:21:02 PM
So far, there have been a few common responses via social media and blogs.

1.  GAH!  SOMEONE STOP THAT MONSTER!  SHE'S TELLING KIDS TO FUCK A TOPKNOT!  SHE'S MAKING HERSELF AVAILABLE FOR TEH SEXXORZ, BUT THERE'S NO GUY!  I CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS!!!11
2.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
3.  I am far too sophisticated to issue an opinion on this sort of plebian activity.
4.  STOP DISTRACTING US FROM OUR UPCOMING WAR PORN.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#83
September 11, 2013, 04:35:31 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 11, 2013, 04:21:02 PM
So far, there have been a few common responses via social media and blogs.

1.  GAH!  SOMEONE STOP THAT MONSTER!  SHE'S TELLING KIDS TO FUCK A TOPKNOT!  SHE'S MAKING HERSELF AVAILABLE FOR TEH SEXXORZ, BUT THERE'S NO GUY!  I CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS!!!11
2.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
3.  I am far too sophisticated to issue an opinion on this sort of plebian activity.
4.  STOP DISTRACTING US FROM OUR UPCOMING WAR PORN.

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: pretty much sums it up.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

LMNO

#84
September 11, 2013, 05:50:35 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 11, 2013, 04:16:14 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on September 11, 2013, 04:15:02 PM
Telling people to stop talking about Miley Cyrus because of Syria/PRISM is the new "I don't own a television"

-my buddy HAL PHILLIPS

I got rid of my TV before it was cool to do so.  :hipster:


If by "getting rid of my TV" meant emptying your Bisley into it.

The Good Reverend Roger

#85
September 11, 2013, 05:57:28 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2013, 05:50:35 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 11, 2013, 04:16:14 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on September 11, 2013, 04:15:02 PM
Telling people to stop talking about Miley Cyrus because of Syria/PRISM is the new "I don't own a television"

-my buddy HAL PHILLIPS

I got rid of my TV before it was cool to do so.  :hipster:


If by "getting rid of my TV" meant emptying your Bisley into it.

Also, laptops.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#86
September 11, 2013, 09:04:54 PM
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/pop_star

Ugh.

I hate how condescending it is. I hate the "she's just a product" mentality that gets applied to female pop stars, while male ones are assumed to have creative control and responsibility for their work.   
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Don Coyote

#87
September 11, 2013, 09:08:07 PM
My wife wants to watch it a few more times to analyze it.

The Good Reverend Roger

#88
September 11, 2013, 09:09:11 PM
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 11, 2013, 09:04:54 PM
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/pop_star

Ugh.

I hate how condescending it is. I hate the "she's just a product" mentality that gets applied to female pop stars, while male ones are assumed to have creative control and responsibility for their work.

Takes the fangs out of her.  Makes her harmless.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#89
September 11, 2013, 09:10:42 PM
It is ESPECIALLY fascinating how many people seem to want to strip her of her agency when the message of the songs that have been criticized so far are entirely about her control and responsibility, on a project she has been vocal about her pride in having complete creative control over.

NO YOU DON'T MILEY, YOU'RE JUST A LITTLE GIRL AND A PAWN OF MEN, RIGHT? PLEASE TELL ME I'M RIGHT I NEED TO BE RIGHT OH GOD THE WORLD IS SCARY I CAN'T.

:lol:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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