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Post by billhammond on Sept 30, 2016 12:31:07 GMT -5
If I am understanding this "trigger" business correctly, it sounds like we should be issuing a trigger warning prior to one of Doug's performances at IJam: "Warning, following songs may contain references to itty bitty titties or great big titties, or both." Or maybe Howard as well: "Caution, following song references a dirt poor Appalachian farmer who strangles his wife and then hangs himself due to monopolistic commodity pricing by Cargil and Archer Daniels Midland. Plus, the farmer grows corn, a very, very nasty grain that should no longer be grown." And for Russell: "Caution, this song is about a man who wants to get a woman on a slow boat to China for sexual purposes, a boat the woman is trapped on and can not get off of should she choose to redefine the relationship or, very likely, didn't understand the implications of getting on that slow boat in the first place. While the end result of this boat trip is unstated, there is the clear possibility that if she doesn't "put out" in the way the man desires, she may be left in China." I'm still so traumatized by a certain song about a certain river pirate that I cannot even consider taking a fall foliage boat tour.
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Post by drlj on Sept 30, 2016 12:48:48 GMT -5
Willie Nelson has done well with Trigger.
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Post by AlanC on Sept 30, 2016 14:23:59 GMT -5
If I am understanding this "trigger" business correctly, it sounds like we should be issuing a trigger warning prior to one of Doug's performances at IJam: "Warning, following songs may contain references to itty bitty titties or great big titties, or both." Or maybe Howard as well: "Caution, following song references a dirt poor Appalachian farmer who strangles his wife and then hangs himself due to monopolistic commodity pricing by Cargil and Archer Daniels Midland. Plus, the farmer grows corn, a very, very nasty grain that should no longer be grown." And for Russell: "Caution, this song is about a man who wants to get a woman on a slow boat to China for sexual purposes, a boat the woman is trapped on and can not get off of should she choose to redefine the relationship or, very likely, didn't understand the implications of getting on that slow boat in the first place. While the end result of this boat trip is unstated, there is the clear possibility that if she doesn't "put out" in the way the man desires, she may be left in China." I'm still so traumatized by a certain song about a certain river pirate that I cannot even consider taking a fall foliage boat tour. Ever wonder why I haven't been back to IJam? I went to that little bar in Garrison expecting a nice, safe evening with friends only to be humiliated by an insensitive, stereotypical, un-authorized approbation of the Midwestern River Pirate Culture. I'm not used to such insensitivity and it was all I could do to keep from weeping. I. Was. Outraged. This micro-aggression must not stand!
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Post by aquaduct on Sept 30, 2016 14:41:09 GMT -5
Willie Nelson has done well with Trigger. But he was warned.
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Post by lar on Sept 30, 2016 17:35:47 GMT -5
Paul,
While it's true that Doug ought to come with a trigger warning just because . . . he's Doug your other examples go beyond my personal test of what's reasonable. I won't try to hold anyone else to my standards but isn't there a continuum from what's reasonable to what becomes absurd. That's what bothers me about all of this. My suspicion is that originally someone had the idea that at certain times it might be a good idea to give the audience a head's up. I frequently see that sort of thing on the televisions news. Then a committee got hold of the idea and twisted it all out of proportion.
I also understand the other end of this argument. We live in a world in which it seems that people are becoming increasingly thin-skinned about everything. If you warn people that they might be offended there will be people who will be offended for no other reason than they've been primed for it. The fact is that something that may be offensive to me may not be offensive to you. I reserve the right to disagree but I do not have the right to force you to be offended too.
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Post by epaul on Sept 30, 2016 18:02:42 GMT -5
I forgot to include my trigger warning: "Post uses absurdity in service of both irony and humor. Also the word titties is used twice."
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Post by Fingerplucked on Oct 1, 2016 8:46:43 GMT -5
We’d see more trigger warnings if not for the NRA’s campaign against them.
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Post by coachdoc on Oct 1, 2016 13:56:56 GMT -5
If I am understanding this "trigger" business correctly, it sounds like we should be issuing a trigger warning prior to one of Doug's performances at IJam: "Warning, following songs may contain references to itty bitty titties or great big titties, or both." Or maybe Howard as well: "Caution, following song references a dirt poor Appalachian farmer who strangles his wife and then hangs himself due to monopolistic commodity pricing by Cargil and Archer Daniels Midland. Plus, the farmer grows corn, a very, very nasty grain that should no longer be grown." And for Russell: "Caution, this song is about a man who wants to get a woman on a slow boat to China for sexual purposes, a boat the woman is trapped on and can not get off of should she choose to redefine the relationship or, very likely, didn't understand the implications of getting on that slow boat in the first place. While the end result of this boat trip is unstated, there is the clear possibility that if she doesn't "put out" in the way the man desires, she may be left in China." That might be the best post I've read on Soundhole. ROFL.
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Post by epaul on Oct 1, 2016 17:52:09 GMT -5
This thread has led me to consider some of my assumptions, assumptions I wasn't aware of being assumptions. It started with racism and moved to dogism, which is rampant, insidiously so in our culture. Look inside yourself and ask yourself this, if the Devil or some demon has a dog at his side to do his bidding, is it a Golden Retriever? No, it is a Rotteweiler or Doberman. Any evil dude with a dog, is it Yellow Lab? Nope, Rotteweiler or Doberman. Or Pit Bull. The devil's buddies all three.
Folks, this is doggism and it is real and perpetuated daily in our culture. Goldens bring you slippers. Rotteweilers bring Beelzebub and swarm of nasty flying things.
I would never own a Rottereiler or Doberman, can't stand the damn things... any German dog, for that matter, but at least now I have an inkling why. Cultural programming and a lack of proper trigger warnings.
Trigger warning. This post is meant to be 7% thought provoking, 62% personal indulgence, 74% entertaining for those that share my quirks and fondness for the absurd.
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Post by AlanC on Oct 1, 2016 19:21:33 GMT -5
I can never tell when you are serious.
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Post by Dub on Oct 1, 2016 19:41:25 GMT -5
I can never tell when you are serious. If he's posting here, he's probably not (too) serious. The only subjects he really goes off on are herbicides and GMOs.
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 1, 2016 20:15:56 GMT -5
And the Maki brothers.
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