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Someone was trying to tell me the Britney Spears song "If U Seek Amy" was an "incredibly clever" way to "sneak past" censors and "nobody knew" what was actually being said for "years."quote:But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy If it took you longer than one day to get the "secret message" you're just a goddamn idiot, and this fooled nobody.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Didn't realize it myself, but a "duh, of course" moment: Now look up “Triscuit”.
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credburn posted:Someone was trying to tell me the Britney Spears song "If U Seek Amy" was an "incredibly clever" way to "sneak past" censors and "nobody knew" what was actually being said for "years." Yeah grammatically it made no sense unless you actually read it as "gently caress me". Maybe it just got past surface-level censors just doing a ctrl-F
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FFT posted:btw the actual meaning is "hit me [up]" i.e. "call me" but the writer was Norwegian or something and they went with it anyway. On the topic of songs, we don't have the expression "hit me up" in Australia, so when I first heard that song "come hit me up" I was like "is that the same as 'come get me knocked up'?" and was very confused.
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Mar 14, 2024 08:03
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Platystemon posted:Now look up “Triscuit”. They 'tried' to make a 'biscuit'.
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Mar 14, 2024 08:13
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Recently realized it's "I wish that I had Jessie's girl" not "I wish that I was Jessie's girl". I kinda just never actually listened to the song when it was on the radio.
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Mar 14, 2024 11:23
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credburn posted:Someone was trying to tell me the Britney Spears song "If U Seek Amy" was an "incredibly clever" way to "sneak past" censors and "nobody knew" what was actually being said for "years." It's early and my brain isn't working. What am I supposed to see here?
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Mar 14, 2024 11:55
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Silver Falcon posted:It's early and my brain isn't working. What am I supposed to see here? The words spell a phrase F-U-C-K me
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Mar 14, 2024 12:00
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Hyperlynx posted:On the topic of songs, we don't have the expression "hit me up" in Australia, so when I first heard that song "come hit me up" I was like "is that the same as 'come get me knocked up'?" and was very confused. I assumed it was about blackjack or something until just now because I've never listened to the lyrics.
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Mar 14, 2024 12:06
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PancakeTransmission posted:Yeah grammatically it made no sense unless you actually read it as "gently caress me". Maybe it just got past surface-level censors just doing a ctrl-F I mean, it "gets past" the censors because she's not literally saying a vulgar word, even though it's obvious what she means. It wasn't exactly a massive hit anyway, so we can't really gauge how much she got away with it. If it was played in tons of grocery stores or kids' movie trailers or something, that would be pretty remarkable. As it stands, it's like the Onion headline of Marilyn Manson going door-to-door trying to shock people.
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Mar 14, 2024 12:46
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The Moon Monster posted:Recently realized it's "I wish that I had Jessie's girl" not "I wish that I was Jessie's girl". I kinda just never actually listened to the song when it was on the radio.
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Mar 14, 2024 13:02
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One of the repeated lyrics is "where can I find a woman like that" so I have no idea how y'all made this mistake.
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Mar 14, 2024 13:16
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FFT posted:One of the repeated lyrics is "where can I find a woman like that" so I have no idea how y'all made this mistake. I can... become her. I will be Jessie's girl.
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Mar 14, 2024 13:19
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FFT posted:One of the repeated lyrics is "where can I find a woman like that" so I have no idea how y'all made this mistake.
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Mar 14, 2024 13:29
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"Honk shoo honk shoo" is just a hosed-up way English people want to represent the "krooh pyyh krooh pyyh" of a person snoring while asleep.
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Mar 14, 2024 13:33
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Nameless Pete posted:Maalox is magnesium and aluminum oxides. I have Learned a Fact
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I have always known intellectually that the song goes "had Jessie's girl" but I also always hear it as "was Jessie's girl."FFT posted:One of the repeated lyrics is "where can I find a woman like that" so I have no idea how y'all made this mistake. Perhaps Jessie is also a woman and the singer wants a woman like Jessie, hence why he wants to be Jessie's girl.
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Mar 14, 2024 13:57
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Baron von Eevl posted:Perhaps Jessie is also a woman and the singer wants a woman like Jessie, hence why he wants to be Jessie's girl. You know what, I'm gonna play along with this charade
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Mar 14, 2024 14:01
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In a way, we are all Jessie's girl.
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Mar 14, 2024 14:05
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:You know what, I'm gonna play along with this charade Jessie's been a friend, yeah I know he's been a good friend of mine.
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Mar 14, 2024 14:09
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Buddy it's 2024 if you're still getting hung up on pronouns I don't know what to tell ya
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3D Megadoodoo posted:"Honk shoo honk shoo" is just a hosed-up way English people want to represent the "krooh pyyh krooh pyyh" of a person snoring while asleep. I’ve got some real bad news about onomatopoeia in diff languages for you
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Mar 14, 2024 15:18
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a cyborg mug posted:I’ve got some real bad news about onomatopoeia in diff languages for you Honk is categorically an outwards sound, and so is shoo. 
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Mar 14, 2024 15:28
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Baron von Eevl posted:Buddy it's 2024 if you're still getting hung up on pronouns I don't know what to tell ya "Jessie's Girl" is a genderfuck anthem!
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Mar 14, 2024 15:31
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So is Jessie, Stacy's dad?
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Mar 14, 2024 15:38
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a cyborg mug posted:I’ve got some real bad news about onomatopoeia in diff languages for you In French, bees don’t buzz. They bourdonner.
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The Moon Monster posted:Recently realized it's "I wish that I had Jessie's girl" not "I wish that I was Jessie's girl". I kinda just never actually listened to the song when it was on the radio. Fun fact: Rick Springfield has one of the most extensive collections of Star Wars memorabilia in the world.
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Mar 15, 2024 01:24
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Honk is categorically an outwards sound, and so is shoo. If you can't imagine "honk" describing an inhaling snore sound pretty well, I worry about you. Aphrodite posted:In French, bees don’t buzz. They bourdonner.  they (ils) bourdonnent, n'est-ce pas?
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Mar 15, 2024 01:42
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Harvey TWH posted:
Surely a group of bees would be "elles"? 
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Mar 15, 2024 01:47
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Surely a group of bees would be "elles"? Oh, bee is grammatically feminine? I was going to joke that you're more likely to hear the male ones buzzing, but now I can't be sure of that from a linguistic or apicultural standpoint.
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Harvey TWH posted:Oh, bee is grammatically feminine? I was going to joke that you're more likely to hear the male ones buzzing, but now I can't be sure of that from a linguistic or apicultural standpoint. All worker bees are female, aren't they? Same as ants? Bee genetics is one of those topics I remember enough about to know it is fascinating and important, but not enough to actually, y'know, talk about with anyone. Just sort of do some Pavlovian dribbling when I read the word "apiculture"
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Tree Bucket posted:All worker bees are female, aren't they? Same as ants? Sort of. If that particular science was done today the taxonomy would be much more open to calling them something third. They where defaulted to as female more from 19th c. cultural inertia than 19th c. science
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Mar 15, 2024 04:12
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Tree Bucket posted:All worker bees are female, aren't they? Same as ants? Oh, I'll bee darned. I knew there was something special with bees but I misremembered it as the queen being the only female, thus the rest being males... or something. Oh well.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Sort of. If that particular science was done today the taxonomy would be much more open to calling them something third. N-Bee?
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Sir Lemming posted:N-Bee? 
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You'll love this 
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pik_d posted:You'll love this you are correct
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Confusing shades of pink with grey is not normal and is a symptom of my deutan colour blindness.
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Qapla' is from Star Trek. It is Klingon for "hooray!". Ghafla is from Dune. It is They are not the same words.
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Hyperlynx posted:Qapla' is from Star Trek. It is Klingon for "hooray!". At least you didn't embarrass yourself in front of any cool people.
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