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02-12-2018, 07:59 AM | #1 | |||
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02-12-2018, 08:50 AM | #2 | ||
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To be fair the lyrics are hilariously dodgy ... But as always, it wasn't written yet aterday and "banning history" because it doesn't fit with modern society is daft.
I also do worry about whether or not baby would have died if she had tried to walk home because it sounds like it was a real risk . |
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02-12-2018, 08:51 AM | #3 | ||
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It can also never beat "Young Girl"
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02-12-2018, 08:55 AM | #4 | |||
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Tom Jones trying to date rape Cerys Matthews on VH1 is a bloody Christmas tradition!
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02-12-2018, 08:59 AM | #5 | ||
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02-12-2018, 09:00 AM | #6 | |||
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02-12-2018, 09:02 AM | #7 | |||
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Not a war on Christmas
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02-12-2018, 10:46 AM | #8 | |||
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This pissed me off. The song may sound a little severe out of context but it was never intended to be a Christmas song about sexual assault. Anything can be twisted for it to sound bad. It's like banning Santa Claus because 'he sees children when they're sleeping or awake, he knows when they've been good or bad' and that he climbs down chimneys in the middle of the night. See how wrong it sounds with a negative spin on it? This is just another overblown unnecessary decision
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02-12-2018, 11:08 AM | #9 | |||
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Good grief...
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02-12-2018, 11:19 AM | #10 | |||
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02-12-2018, 11:25 AM | #11 | |||
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Yeah! Chevalier's obviously a paedo. It's disgusting how those old songs are so dodgy. I'm glad we now live in a time where that kind of thing doesn't happen.
Meanwhile, I'm off to listen to Smack My Bitch Up my Prodigy. |
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02-12-2018, 05:23 PM | #12 | |||
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I think the true offense here is the song contains the most triggering word of all: "outside"...
Have we already forgotten this gem? |
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02-12-2018, 05:37 PM | #13 | |||
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I've read that it is being misinterpreted now, and the song is not about coercion, but rather the woman is worried about damaging her reputation if she stayed with the man -as that was the social convention at the time.
And the line 'What's in this drink?' was a common phrase then, that means something different from what it sounds like now. |
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02-12-2018, 05:41 PM | #14 | |||
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Hey, me too movement, why don't you fook off!
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02-12-2018, 05:46 PM | #15 | ||
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And I guess the logic in not allowing it to be played now would be worries that, even though the song is from anothet era, the lyrics could still be seen to normalise "applying gentle pressure" and "the game / chase" aspect of things (i.e. The pursuer believing that, although the pursuee has said no, they really do want to and just need to be convinced to say yes). That said I think it's massively over thinking the issue and no one is realistically getting life lessons from old crimbo bops. |
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02-12-2018, 05:51 PM | #16 | |||
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Little Mix to release a anti Christmas album called
"Mary , my Hoe years in Nazareth" track one being "God, suck my dick, you gender neutral sexist PIG"? |
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02-12-2018, 05:52 PM | #17 | ||
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02-12-2018, 05:52 PM | #18 | |||
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02-12-2018, 06:04 PM | #19 | ||
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Good.
Have never been able to abide it, especially the Tom Jones version. |
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02-12-2018, 06:06 PM | #20 | ||
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And your wide-of-the-mark sexist and homophobic diatribe is allowed?
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02-12-2018, 06:07 PM | #21 | ||
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02-12-2018, 06:08 PM | #22 | ||
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That's also going on 20 years old. Showing your age.
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02-12-2018, 06:18 PM | #23 | |||
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02-12-2018, 06:25 PM | #24 | |||
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Mariah Carey invented Christmas all the other flops could never!
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02-12-2018, 06:32 PM | #25 | |||
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Nice strawmanning. No-one sensible is using this as an example of the "regressive left" or "war on Christmas", I've only heard the decision being derided as bloody stupid in its own right.
Last edited by Oliver_W; 02-12-2018 at 06:41 PM. |
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