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Lady Disdain posted:I also just found out that "spendthrift" means the exact opposite of what I thought it meant. Yeah the natural assumption is that it's someone who is thrifty about their spending but 'thrift' used to mean 'savings' or 'prosperity' or 'wealth' so it actually means 'someone who spends their savings'. There's a few words with pretty much the same meaning that also use -thrift as a suffix but have fallen out of use: wastethrift, slipthrift, dingthrift. I guess an antonym would be a "savethrift" but as far as I know that's not an actual word
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Dec 24, 2021 14:33
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Lady Disdain posted:I also just found out that "spendthrift" means the exact opposite of what I thought it meant. Isn;'t that one of those words that's switched back and forth a bunch over the years as people keep misusing it
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Dec 24, 2021 14:37
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Lady Disdain posted:"The first Noel the angel did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay" Yeah it's a tortuous sentence structure to preserve the rhyming scheme. You see it a lot in Christmas songs, and to a lesser extent other old timey songs. I don't notice it a whole lot in newer songs, so maybe that practice fell out of favor. 
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Dec 24, 2021 14:44
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Silver Falcon posted:Yeah it's a tortuous sentence structure to preserve the rhyming scheme. You see it a lot in Christmas songs, and to a lesser extent other old timey songs.
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Dec 24, 2021 14:47
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Little drummer boy is pretty awful; a combination of very religious and loving insane. "Holy poo poo, this newborn will be our savior and kings have come from far and wide bearing gifts like gold? I know, this newborn needs a rad drum solo."
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Dec 24, 2021 14:58
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Hell yeah! The livestock's keeping the backbeat, time to work on my cadences.
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Little Drummer Boy has long been my least favourite Christmas carol because it's a billion verses long and they're all exactly the same without a fun chorus or anything to break it up and it's monotonous as gently caress. I do like the tunes of a lot of religious carols but. Not that one.
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Dec 24, 2021 15:08
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RoboRodent posted:Little Drummer Boy has long been my least favourite Christmas carol because it's a billion verses long and they're all exactly the same without a fun chorus or anything to break it up and it's monotonous as gently caress. Absolutely, it's a dread march. They should have made the beat start very simple and slow and then it would have gotten more and more complex with entwined rhythms and poo poo, really drum it up Like this is a godbaby we're talking about, pa-rum-pum-pum ain't cutting it
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Dec 24, 2021 15:11
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But but but it's the only gift he had for the newborn king! And he did ask first. Once Mary nodded, any resulting cacophony was on her.  (I hate it, too)
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Dec 24, 2021 15:29
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Brawnfire posted:They should have made the beat start very simple and slow and then it would have gotten more and more complex with entwined rhythms and poo poo, really drum it up Bolero but make it Christmas.
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Brawnfire posted:Absolutely, it's a dread march. They should have made the beat start very simple and slow and then it would have gotten more and more complex with entwined rhythms and poo poo, really drum it up Just add some words to King Crimson's Talking Drum, boom! New Christmas classic
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Dec 24, 2021 18:02
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Brawnfire posted:Pigs with chicken's talons Chickens just have claws, too short to be called talons. Just like fwiw or whatever.
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My new favorite Christmas carol is Deck the Halls sung to the tune of War Pigs
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RoboRodent posted:Little Drummer Boy has long been my least favourite Christmas carol because it's a billion verses long and they're all exactly the same without a fun chorus or anything to break it up and it's monotonous as gently caress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWahO6rIW6s Phy posted:My new favorite Christmas carol is Deck the Halls sung to the tune of War Pigs oh poo poo I can sing that one hahahaha
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"What Child is This?" has the same tune from Greensleeves, and I never noticed it until recently, despite my big ol' personal Christmas playlist including several different renditions.
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An Argentinian housemate made me a milanesa once. I just realised it's the exact same thing as a schnitzel
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:"What Child is This?" has the same tune from Greensleeves, and I never noticed it until recently, despite my big ol' personal Christmas playlist including several different renditions. Except for the one note they usually change for some reason, which bugs me every time 
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Carol of the bells is good. That's all I got, happy holidays
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Most old carols/church hymns are from someone taking preexisting folk music then replacing the lyrics with Jesus. Greensleeves/What child is this? is just one where the secular version survives
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Carol of the Bells is one of those, too, it was taken from a Ukrainian song to celebrate the New Year.
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Foxfire_ posted:Most old carols/church hymns are from someone taking preexisting folk music then replacing the lyrics with Jesus. Greensleeves/What child is this? is just one where the secular version survives Most of the Australian Football League team songs are like this. An old marching or band song, with lyrics changed to match the team. The newer teams have original songs, and they all suck
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Which team has You Are Everybody
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This is the only version of Little Drummer Boy I can tolerate. But that's because Bad Religion rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IScpH3jXtEA
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Memento posted:Most of the Australian Football League team songs are like this. An old marching or band song, with lyrics changed to match the team. The newer teams have original songs, and they all suck The Minnesota state song "Hail Minnesota" is basically a random college fight song re-purposed. It's terrible and I had to learn it in 6th grade. I still remember all the words, and it sucks.
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Memento posted:Most of the Australian Football League team songs are like this. An old marching or band song, with lyrics changed to match the team. The newer teams have original songs, and they all suck Protip The old ones are poo poo too
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mostlygray posted:The Minnesota state song "Hail Minnesota" is basically a random college fight song re-purposed. It's terrible and I had to learn it in 6th grade. I still remember all the words, and it sucks. I just looked up to see if Maine had a state song, and apparently it does. I have never, in my entire life, heard it even once, but the tang of those salty seas will surely call us home.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Little drummer boy is pretty awful; a combination of very religious and loving insane. "Holy poo poo, this newborn will be our savior and kings have come from far and wide bearing gifts like gold? I know, this newborn needs a rad drum solo." To be fair, rad drum solos are a cool gift.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:To be fair, rad drum solos are a cool gift. Especially if they raise the dead, much like Christ would years later. What if Neil Peart was the little drummer boy this whole time??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn4IprJww8w
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Speaking of Christmas music... last night I just figured out something about one of those songs that gets played all the time. It's the one by John Lennon. You know the one. I finally asked my husband why everyone hates that song. Is it because children singing is annoying? So I just figured out the screeching falsetto part of the song isn't some children John roped in to record a Christmas song. That's Yoko Ono.  And that's why everyone hates that song.
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"The yellow and red ones" is kind of a weird line as well
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Brawnfire posted:"The yellow and red ones" is kind of a weird line as well  Lol I don't even remember listening closely enough to hear that in the lyrics, more proof that it's a trash song. It's literally the same level of terrible as the "Jesus loves the little children" song that I cringe about when remembering it from sunday school as a kid.
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dustin.h posted:I just looked up to see if Maine had a state song, and apparently it does. I have never, in my entire life, heard it even once, but the tang of those salty seas will surely call us home. Of course we got a kinda douchey Jack Mormon to sing ours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCXSB7KIIi4 SgtScruffy posted:Especially if they raise the dead, much like Christ would years later. What if Neil Peart was the little drummer boy this whole time??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQxveh2d-Js Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 23:17 on Dec 25, 2021 |
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Brawnfire posted:"The yellow and red ones" is kind of a weird line as well Let's stop all the fight
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah the natural assumption is that it's someone who is thrifty about their spending but 'thrift' used to mean 'savings' or 'prosperity' or 'wealth' so it actually means 'someone who spends their savings'. There's a few words with pretty much the same meaning that also use -thrift as a suffix but have fallen out of use: wastethrift, slipthrift, dingthrift. Thank you for this. I read the wiktionary entry, and didn't really understand it.
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Wasabi the J posted:I just found out today at the age of 35 that drumsttes are actually wings.
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I didn't figure this out and I guess it's not unbelievable that someone just figured this out but: you can control the enemy soldiers in some scenes of Metal Gear Solid with a controller in the second controller port 
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