I've posted the remedial thread for the not calc-inclined. Buncha dorks over there.
3: I found a song that teo likes!!!11one!!
Whoa, scary hair.
Don't hate on his hair, (). There's a song and everything.
Is there particular significance to the phrase "white wine in the sun", or is it just there to rhyme?
11: I would never presume to hold back the unbridled hate that is nosflow.
I love ginger people (seriously, in Britain, it would appear to not just be a hair color but an entire identity). I'm just not fond of that particular hair style, even on non-ginger people like Russell Brand.
It's not a bad song, but then neither was "Brick" the first seven times I heard it.
12: I figured it was that they were meeting in Australia and that it's summer. But yeah, a rhyme thing, I guess. Don't know.
Further to 16: white wine being a wine I associate with summer, that is.
re: 16 (and 14)
That'd be because Minchin is Australian [and a 'musical comedian'], not British.
He's good at the melancholy/sweetness with laughs things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHJl711OTCI
[The youtube posters misheard lyrics are a source of unintentional comedy...]
18: My whole experience with the ginger stigma comes from my time in Scotland; I assume (perhaps wrongly) that it is much the same throughout the former British empire.
Wherever redheaded stepchildren are beaten.
So, Stanley, do you guys sing the traditional Polish Christmas carols (kolędy)? There's zillions of them. I think my mom once counted up around a hundred that she knew. They range from sickly sweet odes to the baby jesus to stately archaic bourgeois hymns, to rough peasant carols including drinking carols and ones mocking the idea of the virgin birth. As a little kid they drove me crazy since you don't get presents until the carol singing session that follows the Christmas Eve dinner.
Last week, there was a radio station in Florida with an all-Christmas hits playlist. Is it possible the rental car radio was tuned to Radio Christmas, the all-year round Christmas station? Oddly enough, it actually amused me quite a lot - I usually find that kind of "ironic" bollocks bollocks, but it seemed to fit the genius loci rather well.
There's an actual "ginger" stigma anywhere on Earth outside of South Park episodes?
re: 25
There is the odd joke. Some of which can be cruel.
Reginald D. Hunter, starting at 7min 30 [plus McNulty, with his own accent].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7aYM9jI_ug
There's an actual "ginger" stigma anywhere on Earth outside of South Park episodes?
Oddly enough, yes. I've even heard a low grade racist git have a go at a passing Hajji with his hennaed beard by shouting "Ginger!" at him. The upside would be that the victim almost certainly had no idea what he was on about, or even that he was being addressed.
27: Wow, even Wild Man Fischer wasn't as daring. I am in awe. Holy awe.
My favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg
Good Christmas music! More here.
Who decided these were hostile corners for Christmas music?
So, Stanley, do you guys sing the traditional Polish Christmas carols (kolędy)?
No, but you should feel free to post or send me some examples. I'm intrigued. The only things that delayed our Christmas Eve gift opening was the washing of all dishes and the insistence of my Uncle John that we play what he called The Quiet Game (brilliant, in hindsight) in which all the kids stay as quiet as possible for as long as possible.
McNulty, with his own accent
Probably late to the party on this one, but I had no idea he was a Brit.
Who decided these were hostile corners for Christmas music?
I might be overly extrapolating from apo's more or less yearly pronouncement that his job plays holiday music non-stop starting in, like, August and it drives him nuts.
I am led to believe that John Fahey's The New Possibility is the ne plus ultra of non-crappy xmas tunes.
McNulty, with his own accent
Probably late to the party on this one, but I had no idea he was a Brit.
Really? His accent comes and goes a bit in the Wire -- sometimes it's noticeably 'false'. There are several Brits in the Wire, of course. Stringer Bell, McNulty, and Mayor Carcetti.
Idris Elba's is the only one that sounds consistently convincing to my non-American ears.
His accent comes and goes a bit in the Wire
I knew about Stringer Bell, but McNulty's accent going off the rails a bit fell on my ears as someone, say from the Midwest, slightly goofing up the Baltimore accent. I didn't catch the English bit of it at all. Huh. (In fairness, I'm stalled on Season Three, awaiting the next bit of discs. Give me time, people!)
re: 37
Yeah, I can see that. I hear Americans doing crap American accents all the time, so I can easily imagine someone not realizing he was English.
and it drives him nuts
It would drive me less nuts if my wife didn't luuuuuurve the Christmas music and start playing it incessantly around the same time. I did like the song in the post, however. My real issues are 1) there are about 15 songs that every artist on god's green earth feels obligated to cover and consequently get sledgehammered into my brain stem several hundred times each during December and 2) the fucking horrible Lawrence Welk-style schlocky arrangements that dominate the genre.
I typed two paragraphs here before realizing I had said the same exact thing 26 months ago.
39: Surely this doesn't mean we will be deprived of a Christmas Unfunkked!
I play the role of the annoying Christmas music luuuuurver in my household. I think the thing that's really baffling to my wife is that we're both Jewish.
In lieu of Christmas Unfunkked, I recommend this album, which is actually quite fun.
I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for your both being Jewish.
46: No, but that does help me understand why the piano in the original post is backwards.
45: Just to be sure, we should throw k-sky and his wife in a lake to see if they float.
Stanley, you can look up koledy on youtube, though the quality will be very uneven. I'm off to catch a plane to Europe. So, Wszystkiego Najlepszego i Wesolych Swiat to everyone.
After reading this thread, I was randomly passed a link to this ginger flare-up. I still don't understand what the stereotype is supposed to be, though.
Yeah, I've been confused about that too. In the US, if there's a redhead stereotype it's sexy, for women only, and hot-tempered for men and women. But it's not terribly intense -- I went red for a couple of years in an attempt to exploit the sexy bit of the stereotype (and I'm basically the right color of pale to make it look plausible), and no one ever made a comment about my temper, expected or actual.
I'm not sure if the UK stereotype is the same, just more intense, or if there's something different.
I went red for a couple of years in an attempt to exploit the sexy bit of the stereotype
While talking about the weakness of the stereotype, I should note that this also had no discernible effect on anyone.