(also, that song is so messed up; he keeps changing who he’s mad at, or perhaps who he is. Maybe it’s meant be a duet?)
GoblinScribe
He’s just mad.
Also, the “forget you” censored version is a crime against humanity on par with soft waffles.
Keulen
I hate how so many songs with swearing in them get censored for the radio stations.
CJ
Though I find the beeping of swear-words rather ridiculous (unknown in Germany),
I do wish I could kick some sense (and empathy) in all those women and gay hating rappers (the Echo, a German music award was just discontinued after they awarded a prize to some dumb group who made jokes about Auschwitz in their lyrics, because lots of people gave their awards from previous years back in protest).
It’s not swearing that is obscene but hate mongering is.
Needfuldoer
I’ve heard at least three different attempts to censor Money for Nothing: dropping the word in question, dropping the entire verse, and splicing an M sound from a completely different part of the song to turn it into “maggot”. (That last one awkwardly throws the song’s cadence off, because they made the edit from the finished mixed song instead of just editing the vocals. It sounded like Mark Knopfler tripped.)
Daibhid C
BBC Radio 1 edited out “You an old slut on junk” and “you cheap lousy faggot” in “Fairytale of New York” one year. It got so many complaints from listeners, plus the Pogues themselves and Kirsty MacColl’s mother, that they concluded it was clearly less offensive to leave it alone.
(For non-Brits, “Fairy Tale of New York” is a song about a drunk remembering a blazing row with his ex that for some reason is one of our Christmas pop standards.)
NelC
In The Beautiful South’s single Don’t Marry Her radio edit, the next line after the title line is “Have me”. In the album version the line is “F*ck me”. I’ve always preferred the radio edit; with Jacqui Abbot’s sweet delivery, it just seems to say more.
I’m undecided whether swapping “sweaty b*ll*cks” for “Sandra Bullocks” is an improvement or not.
Hari
I love Fairytale of New York!
nightshade
oh we hear it every year on the edgier stations here in the us too
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Eh. As another Brit, I can say that Fairytale Of New York is a pretty good Christmas song for some reason, but the real Xmas pop song standards are as follows:
Merry Christmas Everybody
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (It’s CHRIIIIIISTMAAAAAAS!)
Last Christmas
All I Want For Christmas Is You
In a way, it’s a Mark Twain situation with that song. It was written from the perspective of a rather rough blue collar worker (an animated appliance mover in the video) in the early ’80s complaining about how much money rock stars made. The word “faggot” was something that would have been said in that era by someone projecting machismo. Knopfler wasn’t endorsing the word, he was documenting its common useage.
It was censored from the beginning, I remember seeing the video on MTV (they used to play videos, they didn’t have reality shows then, some of you won’t remember, it was a long time ago) and the word wasn’t distinguishable. It was already considered quite rude.
You could not be more wrong. >_> The censoring makes it way better.
GoblinScribe
Bad take. Forget this take.
GoblinScribe
Seriously, the whole point of the song is the bluntness of the chorus contrasted with the smoothness of the song’s delivery. “Forget You” is just bland and unmemorable, and it misses the whole point of the song, which is that sometimes, you just don’t want to be elegant or “higher-ground” or any of that nonsense. You just wanna say, “**** you.” In censoring it, the song just evaporates into a toothless mischaracterization.
I blame Glee.
But hey, like what you like!
3oranges
That’s true about the meaning of the lyrics, but I found the extra note fits the structure of the song better. If anyone ever covers it they should go with “well **** you” or something.
Beef
He hates his ex and the guy she’s making kissy face with.
Faz qualifies under the Romeo and Juliet laws he brought up earlier, if I’m remembering correctly.
Not that it makes things much better, because…well, it’s Faz.
Pablo360
And also he is a child, pedophilia-promoting legislation notwithstanding.
thejeff
He’s 15. Almost 16. I remember being 15. Plenty of kids my age were having sex. I would have been quite happy doing so with a girl a few years older, had the opportunity come up.
An actual adult woman would have been weird and out of my depth, but college freshmen aren’t that far out of the peer group.
It can be predatory – older kids seducing the naive young ones, but it doesn’t have to be. And that pattern can happen just as easily with college seniors targeting the freshmen.
Unusually Angry Hippie
How the hell can R&J laws promote pedophilia when the entire concept is predicated on allowing teenagers to have (sober, consensual) sex with each other and barely-adults to have (sober, consensual) sex with older teenagers without anyone going to jail over it.
Jon Rich
^This.
GoblinScribe
In all fairness, calling them “Romeo and Juliet laws” is super, super creepy and gross.
HeySo
For what it’s worth, the official, legal name is actually “[a] close-in-age exemption [to age of consent laws]”. Doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily, however, I suppose. 😛
I dunno, I’m pretty sure I know more than one parent who’s had a moment where they would be only mildly perturbed by the kid spontaneously combusting. Especially if they didn’t have to clean it up.
As a parent I can confirm that there are indeed times where if I was told my kid had spontaneously combusted my response would have been “he better not have done it on my furniture”
Most hiding spots suffer from four significant problems:
1) Tight confines.
2) Difficult egress.
3) Lack of witnesses.
4) If Faz could be anywhere, he could be in the hiding spot of your choice RIGHT NOW.
The best approach is clearly to park yourself in the middle of a wide meadow, without tall grass, where you can see him approaching from half a mile away.
Well, that does kind of undermine the “spontaneous” part.
Stellar
What? Sure, like you have never been walking past a foul mouthed kid in their early teens and just decided on the spur of the moment to set them on fire…
Beef
I did light him on fire your honor but in my defense or was all very spontaneous. The heat of the moment if you will.
I’m glad that Sarah seems to be letting go of her Captain Ahab mission, at least in so far as the role she put Joyce into without her knowing. she isn’t playing dumb about Joyce confronting her, so that’s nice.
I kinda forgot Faz’s current placement. Hope he’s alright, even if he is a pest.
Sarah’s trying to abort the mission, but I dunno that Joyce would have been willing to just let the matter drop, IF NOT FOR a very conveniently timed priority interrupt, thank you Amber.
“Here is the graaph showing how efficient my penis is. Note that its majestic sweep is upwardly inflected, much like the physical arc of my p-”
*Billie gags him and throws him in closet*
120 thoughts on “Sweetly”
Ana Chronistic
“and forget Faz”
“–and FORGET YOU”
why do you just accept these answers, Amber
butts
i see you walkin’ round the quad with the man i harbor perverse sexual lust for, and i’m like, forget youuuu
Cholma
+1
(also, that song is so messed up; he keeps changing who he’s mad at, or perhaps who he is. Maybe it’s meant be a duet?)
GoblinScribe
He’s just mad.
Also, the “forget you” censored version is a crime against humanity on par with soft waffles.
Keulen
I hate how so many songs with swearing in them get censored for the radio stations.
CJ
Though I find the beeping of swear-words rather ridiculous (unknown in Germany),
I do wish I could kick some sense (and empathy) in all those women and gay hating rappers (the Echo, a German music award was just discontinued after they awarded a prize to some dumb group who made jokes about Auschwitz in their lyrics, because lots of people gave their awards from previous years back in protest).
It’s not swearing that is obscene but hate mongering is.
Needfuldoer
I’ve heard at least three different attempts to censor Money for Nothing: dropping the word in question, dropping the entire verse, and splicing an M sound from a completely different part of the song to turn it into “maggot”. (That last one awkwardly throws the song’s cadence off, because they made the edit from the finished mixed song instead of just editing the vocals. It sounded like Mark Knopfler tripped.)
Daibhid C
BBC Radio 1 edited out “You an old slut on junk” and “you cheap lousy faggot” in “Fairytale of New York” one year. It got so many complaints from listeners, plus the Pogues themselves and Kirsty MacColl’s mother, that they concluded it was clearly less offensive to leave it alone.
(For non-Brits, “Fairy Tale of New York” is a song about a drunk remembering a blazing row with his ex that for some reason is one of our Christmas pop standards.)
NelC
In The Beautiful South’s single Don’t Marry Her radio edit, the next line after the title line is “Have me”. In the album version the line is “F*ck me”. I’ve always preferred the radio edit; with Jacqui Abbot’s sweet delivery, it just seems to say more.
I’m undecided whether swapping “sweaty b*ll*cks” for “Sandra Bullocks” is an improvement or not.
Hari
I love Fairytale of New York!
nightshade
oh we hear it every year on the edgier stations here in the us too
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Eh. As another Brit, I can say that Fairytale Of New York is a pretty good Christmas song for some reason, but the real Xmas pop song standards are as follows:
Merry Christmas Everybody
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (It’s CHRIIIIIISTMAAAAAAS!)
Last Christmas
All I Want For Christmas Is You
Victor
In the recent-ish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CB9OrGZ7-c, the word “mother” is substituted. I’m assuming it’s short for “motherfucker”.
In a way, it’s a Mark Twain situation with that song. It was written from the perspective of a rather rough blue collar worker (an animated appliance mover in the video) in the early ’80s complaining about how much money rock stars made. The word “faggot” was something that would have been said in that era by someone projecting machismo. Knopfler wasn’t endorsing the word, he was documenting its common useage.
It was censored from the beginning, I remember seeing the video on MTV (they used to play videos, they didn’t have reality shows then, some of you won’t remember, it was a long time ago) and the word wasn’t distinguishable. It was already considered quite rude.
Victor
Argh. I suck at HTML. That was recent-ish live version, linking to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CB9OrGZ7-c
Roborat
Yes, I remember when the “M” in MTV still made sense.
EvilMidnightLurker
…soft… waffles? D8
Deanatay
It’s true. Even stale waffles are better.
Kamino Neko
You could not be more wrong. >_> The censoring makes it way better.
GoblinScribe
Bad take. Forget this take.
GoblinScribe
Seriously, the whole point of the song is the bluntness of the chorus contrasted with the smoothness of the song’s delivery. “Forget You” is just bland and unmemorable, and it misses the whole point of the song, which is that sometimes, you just don’t want to be elegant or “higher-ground” or any of that nonsense. You just wanna say, “**** you.” In censoring it, the song just evaporates into a toothless mischaracterization.
I blame Glee.
But hey, like what you like!
3oranges
That’s true about the meaning of the lyrics, but I found the extra note fits the structure of the song better. If anyone ever covers it they should go with “well **** you” or something.
Beef
He hates his ex and the guy she’s making kissy face with.
GoblinScribe
Yeah, just, fuck both of ’em, y’know?
TrueVCU
Because Amber is physically incapable of acting in her own best interest
Opus the Poet
Faz is a pile of ashes now that he has been seduced by the sweet things of Forest Quad?
Pablo360
He is a child so I should hope the fuck not
King Daniel
Faz qualifies under the Romeo and Juliet laws he brought up earlier, if I’m remembering correctly.
Not that it makes things much better, because…well, it’s Faz.
Pablo360
And also he is a child, pedophilia-promoting legislation notwithstanding.
thejeff
He’s 15. Almost 16. I remember being 15. Plenty of kids my age were having sex. I would have been quite happy doing so with a girl a few years older, had the opportunity come up.
An actual adult woman would have been weird and out of my depth, but college freshmen aren’t that far out of the peer group.
It can be predatory – older kids seducing the naive young ones, but it doesn’t have to be. And that pattern can happen just as easily with college seniors targeting the freshmen.
Unusually Angry Hippie
How the hell can R&J laws promote pedophilia when the entire concept is predicated on allowing teenagers to have (sober, consensual) sex with each other and barely-adults to have (sober, consensual) sex with older teenagers without anyone going to jail over it.
Jon Rich
^This.
GoblinScribe
In all fairness, calling them “Romeo and Juliet laws” is super, super creepy and gross.
HeySo
For what it’s worth, the official, legal name is actually “[a] close-in-age exemption [to age of consent laws]”. Doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily, however, I suppose. 😛
3oranges
It’s appropriate yet still strange-seeming that we object to a child being seduced, in the midst of a conversation about a child dying in flames.
Agemegos
Yeah. “A fate worse than death”.
Reltzik
No, Amber, you’re going about this wrong.
Faz shows up when you LEAST want to see him.
Doctor_Who
Then by actively seeking him out, she will never see him again.
Sounds like she’s going about this just fine.
shadowcell
he is, of course, still great, though
Screwball
He is currently showing Forrest Quad graphical evidence of why that is so…
das-g
graphical and graphic
Clif
with charts.
TooOldToBeCool
Who knows? Maybe everyone in Forest Quad needed to sacrifice a virgin.
Reltzik
…. Also, Sarah might want to rapidly rescind that hastily-granted Mom Credential.
Pablo360
I don’t see why, it’s not like she’s specifically using the term to denote moralizing passive-aggressiveness — oh.
Oruncrest
To be fair, I don’t think Sarah knows about Carol (Joyce’s mom) at this point…
… and fortunately, I think Joyce has forgotten about what happened a couple of weekends (and books) ago as well…
MM
I dunno, I’m pretty sure I know more than one parent who’s had a moment where they would be only mildly perturbed by the kid spontaneously combusting. Especially if they didn’t have to clean it up.
Mydnyt
As a parent I can confirm that there are indeed times where if I was told my kid had spontaneously combusted my response would have been “he better not have done it on my furniture”
hof1991
Sadly, they tend to melt down, which leaves a nasty residue.
Opus the Poet
From my previous studies on SHC the more body fat in the victim the less mess to clean up. They go up like candles when the fat % hits 25%.
Passchendaele
Oh god, he could be anywhere now.
HIDE
Marsh Maryrose
RUN! RUN! FORGET YOUR CHILDREN AND LEAVE BEHIND THE WEAK! RUN!
If you have doors, lock them. If you have windows, board them up. If you still have ears, cover them, and crouch wherever you are.
It is Faz Is Great Day. Please remain calm!
Reltzik
Why hide?
Most hiding spots suffer from four significant problems:
1) Tight confines.
2) Difficult egress.
3) Lack of witnesses.
4) If Faz could be anywhere, he could be in the hiding spot of your choice RIGHT NOW.
The best approach is clearly to park yourself in the middle of a wide meadow, without tall grass, where you can see him approaching from half a mile away.
Cattleprod
The courts wont accept ‘spontaneous combustion’ if you help it along. Don’t ask how I know.
Screwball
I know, right? Just because of the petrol…
Wizard
Well, that does kind of undermine the “spontaneous” part.
Stellar
What? Sure, like you have never been walking past a foul mouthed kid in their early teens and just decided on the spur of the moment to set them on fire…
Beef
I did light him on fire your honor but in my defense or was all very spontaneous. The heat of the moment if you will.
Beef
It*
Damn it Willis I’ll pay for an edit button
DSL
Turns out it’s important who’s being spontaneous about it.
DailyBrad
I’m glad that Sarah seems to be letting go of her Captain Ahab mission, at least in so far as the role she put Joyce into without her knowing. she isn’t playing dumb about Joyce confronting her, so that’s nice.
I kinda forgot Faz’s current placement. Hope he’s alright, even if he is a pest.
Pablo360
He’s fine, Nash is just teaching him how to covertly invade someone’s space without them becoming aware of it.
YES I’M STILL MAD ABOUT THAT MICROWAVE COMMENT
Needfuldoer
Stealthy Creepy Faz is worse than regular Creepy Faz…
StClair
Sarah’s trying to abort the mission, but I dunno that Joyce would have been willing to just let the matter drop, IF NOT FOR a very conveniently timed priority interrupt, thank you Amber.
Delicious Taffy
Joyce is a fundie, so of course she’d resist Sarah’s attempt to abort something.
newllend(henryvolt)
Did Faz really go that long without showing anybody a graph about the efficiency of his penis ?
vlademir1
Willis should do a one panel Slipshine of just that graph…
Deanatay
“Here is the graaph showing how efficient my penis is. Note that its majestic sweep is upwardly inflected, much like the physical arc of my p-”
*Billie gags him and throws him in closet*
Stephen Bierce
*plays The Trammps’ “Disco Inferno” on the hacked Muzak*
Abel Undercity
Request for “Sarah Smile” by Hall and Oates.
Remmington Steele
Also Fire by the one and only Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Remmington Steele
Requests Billy Joel’s I didn’t start the fire
Lingo