IIRC, this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rg1w88ekqw clip was related. Also, the episode's ending was hilarious (no spoilers!). /me puts his hand in his pants like Al Bundy.

No, definitely Al Bundy.

Here's one of the bits from that episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxCJycikpQI

I guess they all killed themselves.

Seriously, though. What's wrong with the Titanic song? I like it.

This reminds me of the episode of Married with Children where Al Bundy is trying to exterminate a rabbit in his garden. I think he resorts to a shotgun and finally dynamite if memory serves correctly. Anyone else remember this?

WOW! I'd say entertaining works. A bit Weird Al-ish to me.

*related=https://videosift.com/video/Weird-Al-Yankovic-77-Cover-Songs

"Weird Al" Yankovic - 77 Cover Songs has been added as a related post - related requested by PlayhousePals.

Also interesting:

The town of Point Roberts Washington, just south of Vancouver, BC, as well as the not exactly populated Northwest Angle, in Minnesota, both American exclaves.

The only overland routes from America to either location require crossing two borders.

*related https://videosift.com/video/Canada-The-United-States-Bizarre-Borders-Part-2

Similarly, I find this to be a prime example of how borders are really, meant to be broken down. The only ones that truly care are xenophobes et al, politicians and corporations.

I knew some of this stuff, but not that. But that seems ... problematic.

Cobain's lyrics were pretty famously difficult to understand. I had no clue what most of the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit were until like 20 years after I first heard it when I was 10. Weird Al's parody of the song directly jabs at this, which a whole verse being:

"It's so unintelligible
I just can't get it through my skull
It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss???
With all these marbles in my mouth"


Considering all of that, if you're listening to "Polly" or "Rape Me" but only hearing half of the words, is it any surprise that people might not fully grasp the message? Might even interpret the songs as being pro instead of anti?

I love Nirvana. I agree with the intended messages of their music (at least, to the extent that I understand them). But any time that a band thinks that they don't want fans who don't agree with their "message", I tend to think it is just pointless.

Lots of bands take very clear political / ethical stances in their music. I can like the music without being fully on board with those messages. Even if I'm utterly opposed to them. I can like Rage Against the Machine without fighting the system. I can like System of a Down without being ... psycho? You might be a registered Republican who likes NOFX, or a registered Democrat who likes Kid Rock or Brooks and Dunn.

Basically, if I like what you're doing musically I don't give two shits about what your message is. The extent to which it might make me like you more or less is very negligible.

I'm not totally sold on the AR-15 to save the country line of reasoning either, but it's not entirely without merit.

flowers are beat by knives are beat by guns are beat by tanks are beat by airpower

Sure a population armed with AR-15s isn't going to prevent a guy like Bashar Al Assad who's willing to use helicopters to drop chemical weapons on you. At the same time, try resisting or overthrowing a guy like that WITHOUT AR-15s...

Al Jazeera has a terrific visualisation of the Saudi war in Jemen:
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2018/Saudi-Arabia-air-raids-on-Yemen/index.html

And to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, the supreme crime for which none of those reponsible have been hanged yet, Jeremy Scahill outlines how the US have been piling up Iraqi corpses for 55 years:
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/us-war-iraq-legacy-of-blood/

Pretty much instant upvote for anything Weird Al!

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I like the ending with Weird Al's music video.

"Escher is my favorite MC."

LMFAHS. Never noticed that line before.

I ♥ Weird Al.