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Taylor Swift was CONFIRMED to be dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and now all the Swifties have to learn the rules of football https://twitter.com/holygroundsound/status/1706042600556274105 https://twitter.com/mattufford/status/1706172129195241629 https://twitter.com/NFL_lovers0/status/1706079051738185756 zoux has a new favorite as of 15:34 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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Sep 25, 2023 15:31
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I'm looking forward to Swifties learning where Kansas City is.
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Sep 25, 2023 15:34
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SkeletonHero posted:I'm looking forward to Swifties learning where Kansas City is. 
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Sep 25, 2023 15:39
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by god if she can get them to learn football she can get them to vote
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Sep 25, 2023 15:47
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lol I'd never seen this
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Sep 25, 2023 15:48
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What, pray, is the job of the "tight end" on the football team? Because it sounds like loving is involved.
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Sep 25, 2023 15:50
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Fat receiver.
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Sep 25, 2023 15:52
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OwlFancier posted:What, pray, is the job of the "tight end" on the football team? Because it sounds like loving is involved. They line up on the line, but tight (right next to the other linemen) instead of wide, like the wide receivers. They block and/or catch passes. Also butt stuff maybe.
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zoux posted:Fat receiver. Short but true enough
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Sep 25, 2023 15:53
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Catch passes with your wide receiver in the tight end. Got it.
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Sep 25, 2023 15:55
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One quick Google later: lmao
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Sep 25, 2023 15:57
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https://twitter.com/thatsgoodweb/status/1706291788183490895?s=20
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This is a pro-follow account btw
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Never occurred to me until right now but a lot of fantasy creatures with human bodies and animal heads have the head at an angle it isn't normally at for that animal. Like does that alligator dude ever tilt his head to look straight up and go wow, why does this feel so much more natural?
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Breetai posted:Hold the phone, fucko. It took me approximately half a second after reading this to think "but the immediately obvious negation of that sentence is "there does not presently exist a bald King of France " which it took that dumdum many sleepless nights and a tortured series of symbolic logic statements to arrive at, whatta nimrod. I know I'm super late to the Language Chat, but I just wanted to ask if you were deliberately making a meta-joke by using "nimrod" as an insult. Nimrod, of course being a biblical figure described as a great hunter, which is why Bugs Bunny facetiously asked the viewer to "get a load of this Nimrod," referring to Elmer Fudd, a famously inept hunter. The historical reference went over the heads of most viewers, who instead assumed that "nimrod" was just another word for "dummy". and here we are. Also Bugs Bunny is the reason we associate rabbits with carrots. His entire character was originally a reference to Clark Gable in It Happened One Night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcrth90C3D4 Mr. Bad Guy has a new favorite as of 16:55 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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Sep 25, 2023 16:50
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I've always felt like that one is partially on Nimrod for having such a stupid-sounding name. With zero context I would immediately assume it was an insult. It has the same bite and cadence as moron, dumbass, and butthorn.
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Sep 25, 2023 16:54
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OwlFancier posted:What, pray, is the job of the "tight end" on the football team? Because it sounds like loving is involved. You've heard of fluffers, right?
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SkeletonHero posted:I've always felt like that one is partially on Nimrod for having such a stupid-sounding name. With zero context I would immediately assume it was an insult. It has the same bite and cadence as moron, dumbass, and butthorn. Well it sounded bad rear end in Akkadian.
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Occasionally social media tries to push Swift content on me (I'm guessing because she's so popular so whatever) and I have one friend who I think is a fan but I don't get it. She's just a singer, right? Mostly pop songs about love and ex boyfriends and stuff? Like, I get it with Beyonce and Rhianna because they're powerful black women with style in a time society desperately needs role models like that, but Taylor Swift, to me as an outsider, just seems like the most basic, generic, devoid of personality as you can get. Every picture of her I've seen is just... empty. Or is that how she became such a phenomenon? She's a blank slate all the 30-something white women who ever had a breakup can identify with? Or should I actually listen to her music some time and is she really that good? I guess I'm just getting old.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:I know I'm super late to the Language Chat, but I just wanted to ask if you were deliberately making a meta-joke by using "nimrod" as an insult. Nimrod, of course being a biblical figure described as a great hunter, which is why Bugs Bunny facetiously asked the viewer to "get a load of this Nimrod," referring to Elmer Fudd, a famously inept hunter. The historical reference went over the heads of most viewers, who instead assumed that "nimrod" was just another word for "dummy". and here we are. Interestingly, Bugs Bunny never called Fudd a nimrod. The original hunter reference with Fudd is in What Makes Daffy Duck, said by Daffy Duck. Bugs does use it once to refer to Yosemite Sam years later in a more offhand way. Somehow everyone has mandela'd it into Bugs saying it in the Fudd context. Apparently there is also some further discussion over it's origin use as an insult, there are a number of pre-Looney Tunes uses of it that already seem to be sliding in context, but I think you can definitely say that the cartoon usage gives it its big shift. Language is weird.
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Taeke posted:Occasionally social media tries to push Swift content on me (I'm guessing because she's so popular so whatever) and I have one friend who I think is a fan but I don't get it. part of being old is not getting things that you've never tried and never will, judge them, and then share your opinion. Embrace it.
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Sep 25, 2023 17:11
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zoux posted:Well it sounded bad rear end in Akkadian. 
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Sep 25, 2023 17:11
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Also don’t give carrots to rabbits.
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Lobok posted:Never occurred to me until right now but a lot of fantasy creatures with human bodies and animal heads have the head at an angle it isn't normally at for that animal. Like does that alligator dude ever tilt his head to look straight up and go wow, why does this feel so much more natural? Alligators are not normally bipedal, and the head doesn't work so good if it's pointing straight out of the top of the torso on a bipedal animal.
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OwlFancier posted:Alligators are not normally bipedal *pounds fists on table* Show me the abnormal alligator!
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freeedr posted:Also don’t give carrots to rabbits. For those not in the know, the entire reason people think rabbits like carrots is because Bugs was satirizing Clark Cable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyWMOt11ceU
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Taeke posted:Or should I actually listen to her music some time and is she really that good? This is a collaboration with Bon Iver that she was the songwriter on. https://youtu.be/osdoLjUNFnA?si=_8Urj0a4OCdEQsu2 It was kindof of the line where she went from: this is empty to oh there is some substance here.
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Ror posted:Interestingly, Bugs Bunny never called Fudd a nimrod. The original hunter reference with Fudd is in What Makes Daffy Duck, said by Daffy Duck. Holy gently caress you're right. This is what I get for posting first thing in the morning. I feel like such an rear end now, with pushing-my-glasses-up-my-nose "ACTUALLY" bullshit.
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Taeke posted:Or should I actually listen to her music some time and is she really that good? She has a lot of good songs but I don't think that us olds are ever really going to get what drives her fanbase.
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Sep 25, 2023 17:33
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Bunch of dark WB revisionist history itt and I'm here for it
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Taeke posted:Occasionally social media tries to push Swift content on me (I'm guessing because she's so popular so whatever)
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Taeke posted:She's a blank slate all the 30-something white women who ever had a breakup can identify with? Or should I actually listen to her music some time and is she really that good? Both, tbh. She is talented and good, but she's also the Ur-White-Millennial-Woman, the physical manifestation of their collective unconscious.
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She's currently on tour and it's like the most successful tour of all time.
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Also fandom has become somewhat of a competitive sport with people trying to one up each other with how insanely dedicated they are to a person or K-pop group so there's a huge performative element that wouldn't exist without social media.
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minato posted:I'm seeing a lot more Swift content in my feed and I expect it's mostly due to an expensive hype machine. There is so much Content out there that it's hard to get anyone to try new stuff, so marketing leans on making something look more popular than it is, and then you'll maybe try it because of FOMO. And if it appears to come from actual fans, that feels more trustworthy than a straight up advertisement. So I suspect (without evidence) that 80% of the Swift content you see is just astroturfed marketing and you should treat it as such. No judgement on Swift's talent / music / show, it's just marketing. lol what in the world
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SimonChris posted:For those not in the know, the entire reason people think rabbits like carrots is because Bugs was satirizing Clark Cable: Oh word?
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kazil posted:lol what in the world Which part of that are you taking umbrage with? The marketing machine behind Swift any anyone of her ilk is absolutely gargantuan, and social media marketing techniques are insidious and underhanded.
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