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  • 5th grade music (singing) class. We’re practicing a song for an upcoming assembly. It’s cheesy. An excerpt:

    We can fight all the evil, we can fight all the hate
    If we do it together, it won’t be too late
    If we do it together, it won’t be too late

    During the song, two adjacent kids start laughing every time it says “We can do it together” because “do it” = “have sex” even though most of us don’t know what it entails at this age, myself included. The teacher glares at them but does nothing else. Several other kids including me chuckle at the scene. This goes on for 3 weeks.

    Now comes the dress rehearsal. Today is special because two 5th grade classes are having a joint rehearsal. All of us are a little giddy because there are double the kids crammed into the same space.

    In anticipation of getting caught up in the infectious laughter, as the words “do it” approach I hide my face behind my sheet music. Suddenly, the backing CD track cuts out. I lowered the paper from my face she was already halfway to the clown kid sitting beside me. Except… she comes to me. In this abrupt silence she explodes at me, point blank, index finger brandished:

    “YOU NEED TO GROW UP! IT IS NOT ABOUT HAVING SEX!”

    She singled me out. I was embarrassed.

    Only after class did I learn from my homeroom teacher that the two instigators had recently been given a very stern talking to, such that the music teacher thought it was resolved until my hiding face gave her the impression it was not. Thankfully my homeroom teacher understood and I received no further consequences other than all of this living in my head for the next 30 years and forever.










  • SuperEars@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlReminder—
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    19 days ago

    +1 Sudden Urge!

    I slept on most of the post-Endgame catalogue except for maybe 5 songs, and this was not one of them. I eased up on the skip button one day in the car recently and got to hear it again, for what felt like the first time. It gave me chills.


  • SuperEars@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlReminder—
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    19 days ago

    My read on it was that onstage he’d ogle underage girls/attendees, really flexing the rockstar swagger or whatever. He’d somehow relay to them an invitation to meet him after the show, and he’d bring them onto the tour bus where he’d pressure or trap them into having sex.

    A silver lining is, as I read it, the rest of the band immediately disavowed him. Some fans/ commenters alleged the other band members had to have been aware he was doing this, particularly citing the close quarters of the tour bus. Yet, the band holds its stance that they really did not know.





  • SuperEars@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldWatermelon
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    28 days ago

    I’ve pondered frozen hot dogs. You can get a pack of 36 and whip’em from your car into recipients’ homes and driveways. If you don’t actually break anything you minimize how much anyone else will care, and you might force them to decide whether to whine to the cops/courts about vandal hot dogs or just relish their new reality.