126: Tie a Snarky ribbon ‘round the old Durp thread
 

Any criticisms about the thread title end at Post 39 or there will be severe repercussions.

That sounds fun.

Well crap. Now I have "Snark Three Times (On the Ceiling if you Want Me)" stuck in my head.

Oh lawdy, the earworms...THE EARWORMS!!! :gah::astonished::yuk:

"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" is one of my mom's favorite songs. Although she is disapproving of the line about the whole damn bus cheering, because there is no need for that sort of language.

REPERCUSSIONS!

Shouldn't that be "Snark Three Durps (On the Ceiling if you Want Me)"?

This thread title should be changed immediately to something less ear-wormy.

I mean seriously, [Kirk]hajario!!!![/Kirk]

This is almost as bad as Khan's earworms.

@hajario please box yourself. :box::box::box:

Tie a stinky ribbon around this derp thread.

Now you made me look up the lyrics and THE WHOLE DAMN RIBBON INDUSTRY IS BASED ON A SONG ABOUT AN EX-CON????

I don't like The Sound of Music. I don't know why anyone would.

Okay thread title.

ftfy

Durp Three Times (On the Celing if you Snark Me)

Why the heck did the old thread get closed so early? I was all excited to tell elmwood that he was totally wrong, but the thread is closed and copy/pasting and adding quote tags seems entirely too onerous.

♪♫ "Oh oh Durpita....we can snark it together"

Kinda scary that I know so many Tony Orlando and Dawn songs.

"The Master speaks" or "obligatory XKCD?" Which is worse? Probably should be a poll. There's probably enough of these type of annoyingly repetitive phrases to get a Megapoll going.

Say, has anybody durped my sweet snarky rose?

Sea lions: BARK BARK BARK BARK! [Translation: "We need to have a serious discussion of gender right now, and any other time that someone uses the words 'men' or 'women.' It's too bad we have to do this, but you liberals started it when you decided that gender was 'fluid' or whatever, so this is totally on you."]

Even scarier is that so many Tony Orlando and Dawn songs work as Durp titles.

She should join One Million Moms. They're up in arms over this Impossible Whopper commercial where one guy says, "Damn, this is good."

doesn't everybody? :ninja:

If I ever did, the horror of that memory has been erased by liberal doses of Audioslave.

How did GB make it through that, while the Durp crashes if you look at it wrong?

Anyhow, rock in the 2010s = crooners in the 1970s. Still alive and popular in a way, but no longer a part of contemporary popular culture. I wish it wasn’t that way, and I hope I’m wrong about it.

Time for a new earworm.

Una paloma blanca
I'm just a bird in the sky
Una paloma blanca
Over the mountains I fly
No one can take my freedom away

Master Wang-Ka bumped into somebody at the top of an escalator. Not much of a story there, so he pads it out with 800 words of purple prose and turns it into an epic tale of fighting his way through a family reunion being held on an escalator landing. The derpers lap it up like soft-serve.

That goes over so well that he grants his fans an encore in the same thread: an anecdote about someone blocking the entrance to a parking lot, also inflated into an operatic story.

Does anyone actually believe this shit? (That's a rhetorical question—obviously some Dopers do believe it.)

Incidentally, he horked up four stories in less than 24 hours. The others were another tedious geezer story and something about tabletop gaming.

I’m not talking about leftovers from earlier decades that are still doing their thing. I am talking about newer bands making awesome and creative rock music. I gave my kid an excellent education in classic rock, and he has returned the favor by introducing me to great newer rock.

Rock had a golden age. That golden age is long past. And that is ok. The rock scene is a lot smaller and lesser known in 2020 than it was in 1975. It’s different, not dead.

This is my current earworm (found by me, not by the kid) It’s from 2013, so not exactly new, but close enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ocyk0OgyWY

Meh, this kinda stuff doesn't really bother me. Unpopular opinion time::boredstoned: these kinda ":pure: dank durper memes" (or :pure: DDMs for short) are part of the charm that the Dope still has left, despite the hostile environment that the dope has now developed.

D'Asshole is being an asshole again. Also, too stupid to link to the thread in question.

ETA:And he gets backhanded across the room.
Colibri
The warning.

The stupid fucker doesn't know when to quit.



D'Asshole
Then please change the forum description. "I hope" is NOT factual information.

:ohdear:

I've always found "The Master speaks" mildly irritating, because it's usually presented without comment as if it's the last word on the subject. Many of those columns are decades old and contain outdated information.

"Obligatory XKCD" doesn't bother me; I don't follow that webcomic and most of them are new to me, and often they're very amusing. Also, Randall Munroe is a real person.

The GB has management that's technically competent, and thus, a technical staff that actually gives a shit about the board. The Durp has neither, and thus has software that's been kluged together repeatedly and carelessly.

For better or worse, Giraffe gives us complete access and freedom to the back end of the board. None of us are really experts but it’s not all that difficult either. The Mods at the Durp are handcuffed and always have been. It’s not their fault.

I was talking about the admin(s), not mods. Tuba, and Ed before her, are/were total technopeasants. I'm quite aware that mods there are not trusted with the slightest hint of technical buttons, and don't blame them for their powerlessness. Tuba and Ed don't deserve or get that same consideration.

What about criticisms of the criticism process?

39 is too long. Make your criticisms 10 posts in or STFU, I'd say.

The Master speaks.

I think there's always been a lack of awareness of how little of a shit some of us give for the connection to the books or newspaper column. Usually outdated, and often not funny. Don't get me started on the ugly cartoons...

And in return, I present Every Time I Die. Yes, I actually kinda' like them. Any punk/metal band that has both a mosh pit and curling at their concerts is okay with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gau6SL-Xt0

And Colibri's mod instruction amounts to "stop being you," so one can only hope this represents a significant step toward the years-overdue flushing of the li'l turd.

Why in the name of God did I have the delusion that lingyi was a Charter Member?

Welp, he's not. [must have a handle similar to a Doper who is]

Speaking of lil turds, lingyi (the energy balls guy) tries his hand at trolling. He really, really sucks at it.

::kabongs Ydobon for beating me to it::

Today's word: pettifogging, from the impeachment drama currently playing on daytime TV. Defined: derpers bitching about petty shit.

Back to the insanity. today.

I have to agree with Green Bean here. The era of the rock star is pretty much over. You don't have the Stones or Led Zep flying on their own 707s, with mountains of blow and underage groupies. (In some ways that's not a bad thing.) The last credible rock stars were arguably U2, though they did it without the decadence.

But Rock is still going on in a variety of different genres. There are still young people playing it and listening to it. It doesn't really compare to the old style crooners, where it was the same aging singers doing their Vegas acts for the same aging crowd. It's smaller and more niche, but metal or indie bands can still sell out large venues here and abroad. Look at the crowds at Wacken festival. They're big enough to need their own medical tent.

Also pop has always been more popular than rock. Even in the sixties. As is often pointed out, while you can hear "Fortunate Son" or "Gimme Shelter" or "For What it's Worth" on the soundtrack to just about every Vietnam movie, the number one song for a while was "Sugar Sugar"

Also, the best selling album of 2019 was Tool's Fear Inoculum, not that album sales mean so much these days. They were selling out sports arenas.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled snark thread, already in progress.

Rock has died and revived a few times now, but I think one thing is dead: Chart domination by bands full of White males. That's been the undercurrent of a lot of this "Rock Is Dead" debate, the unspoken argument-behind-the-argument, and the demographics are such, and the culture is such, that monochrome monogender charts aren't going to happen again.

Not that it was all that monotone in the past, necessarily. However, there's the real past and then there's the Consensus Past, and you can insert your own Lionel Hutz shaking-and-glowering and smiling-and-nodding GIFs. For example: In the real past, the 1970s was a flowering of genres, including disco, funk, rap, punk, post-punk, and lots of others, resulting in a whole rainbow of different groups of people making different kinds of music. In the Consensus Past, the 1970s had a few good Classic Rock albums but it quickly became clear that the 1960s were over and Southern Rock was going to be what we were listening to and a Southern Man don't need no Neil Young telling people about what the South had been getting up to, anyhow.

That kind of Consensus Past is what people have in mind when they talk about rock declining: They hear the albums of decades ago, curated by people so rockist they won't even include most of the Ramones, and they hear what's going on now, and they can't believe rock's fallen so far. Sure, the curation saves us from ever hearing "Disco Duck" ever again, but at what cost?

Let's play another round of Guess the Moron!!!

FTFY. :science:

There is good rock being made, but...

1. It's lost its relevance as any kind of marker for youth rebellion nad upsetting parents.
2. Sorry, but a lot of it sounds derivative of something that in turn was derivative of what happened in the 60's and 70's. I mean Greta Van Fleet does a good job of emulating Purple circa '74 or maybe G'n'R circa '86, but it doesn't excite me like the first time I heard Pretty Vacant, which felt like someone had attached jumper cables to my spine. I'm probably too old. :lawn:

I guess: someone arguing with iiandyiiii for the billionth time.

I feel you might have cheated. :foil:

:linky:?

Hey, did you guys know that there's a more appropriate forum where you can continue your rock discussion? It's called "Arts and Entertainment," and it's down the hall that way ----->