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Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong LoveRegistered User regular
edited December 2008 in Social Entropy++
i was reading my paper today as i always do

there was this headline about detainees in guantanamo bay bein' tortured by listening to crappy rock, the sesame street theme, "I Love You" from Barney, and the worst fate a man can endure:

David Gray's "Babylon"

those poor bastards!

now, i can listen to shitty music at a high volume as well as the next guy

but some of these cats were exposed to little or no music whatsover and have been going crazy, hitting their heads off of walls and shit

got me thinking

you know, i wouldn't try to replicate the same on myself and doing so wouldn't have as traumatic to me (TO MY KNOWLEDGE) as i ain't a virgin to music, as many of these cats have been...but!

i can't help but wonder what psychological catalysts in the mind go shooting around during the breaking down of the human spirit

not out of some morbid need to observe and chuckle, beavis and butthead style

just curiosity!

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  • redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    that 99 red balloons bullshit

    hate that song for no good reason

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  • JunpeiJunpei Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I wonder why they make child proof caps so hard to open for an adult

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    man, i love that david gray song. boooo

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  • Stormin JoeStormin Joe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    The barney theme is inhumane

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    Tossrock: Somolia, you know Mogadishu, Blackhawk down?
    Qorzm: I'm sorry, I don't follow hip-hop
  • Stormin JoeStormin Joe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    also why do cats love laps so much

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    lostwords wrote: »
    man, i love that david gray song. boooo

    i only hear it phonetically

    WEGOONNAANNN HAAAHN

    WEEGOONAAAAH HAAAY

    WEFAAAHY IN AHHH BAAAHBILAHN

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  • the wookthe wook Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    the song that doesn't end

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Switching people to a high fiber diet and then giving them a laxative would be pretty awful

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Making them listen to Cher and Celine Dion is worse.

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  • itswebitsweb Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i think if you looped peter bjorn and john's young folks enough

    anyone would go crazy

    edit: holy shit and now it just came up on pandora

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  • Stormin JoeStormin Joe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fiz wrote: »
    Switching people to a high fiber diet and then giving them a laxative would be pretty awful

    oh man

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    lostwords wrote: »
    man, i love that david gray song. boooo

    i love your taste in pretty much everything

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Sociology?

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    When I was a kid riding my bike home from school, I started thinking about how the faster I ride, the less time it takes to get home

    and then I thought that if you keep going faster and faster, you reach a point where traveling a given distance takes no time at all, and then less than no time; it would take negative time

    this all made sense to my 13-year-old brain but of course now I know that it doesn't work like this

    I was an odd kid

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  • Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I knew you made this thread as soon as I saw the title

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    man, i love that david gray song. boooo

    i love your taste in pretty much everything

    hi5

    i actually remember putting babylon on a mix cd i made for a girl back in high school (because i am a big vagina). some other songs on that mix were inoj's time after time and eagle eye cherry - save tonight. i was awful

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    like, it gets me thinking about language and culture barriers like crazy

    a man who might've never have heard music hears the barney end theme and to him it sounds plodding, slow and menacing

    he doesn't know what tone the goofy voiceover actor from that show has so for all he knows it could be a warning to give up information as soon as possible or a painful death awaits him

    like, go to youtube and jot down that theme song

    and try listening to it with your eyes closed now

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    itsweb wrote: »
    i think if you looped peter bjorn and john's young folks enough

    anyone would go crazy

    edit: holy shit and now it just came up on pandora

    it will never leave

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i have eagle eye cherry's cd, lost
    i love save tonight :<

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I've always wanted to acquire an orphan and raise it retarded

    then when they turn eighteen jokes on them they don't need the helmet and they can't get rid of the speech impediment

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  • itswebitsweb Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    itsweb wrote: »
    i think if you looped peter bjorn and john's young folks enough

    anyone would go crazy

    edit: holy shit and now it just came up on pandora

    it will never leave

    when that song first came out I was working at Noodles and Co.

    and I must've heard it at least 10 times a shift

    once a customer commented on how much he liked it and i nearly ripped a chunk out of the counter I had to grip it so hard to keep from saying anything

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    mully wrote: »
    i have eagle eye cherry's cd, lost
    i love save tonight :<

    yay hi5. i felt like i was the only one to get suckered into buying his cd based off that one song. i also love falling in love again and still put it in random mix cds whenever i get a chance

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    itsweb wrote: »
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    itsweb wrote: »
    i think if you looped peter bjorn and john's young folks enough

    anyone would go crazy

    edit: holy shit and now it just came up on pandora

    it will never leave

    when that song first came out I was working at Noodles and Co.

    and I must've heard it at least 10 times a shift

    once a customer commented on how much he liked it and i nearly ripped a chunk out of the counter I had to grip it so hard to keep from saying anything

    at my job the mario kart double dash theme is constantly played

    the only time i don't hear it is on break and lunch

    the worst thing is when someone starts whistling with the theme and they whistle it wrong

    it just fucks with my head

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    I highly dislike Alanis Morrissette and Jewel.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Make them listen to Dave Matthews Band. Now that's torture.

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  • JunpeiJunpei Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Butters wrote: »
    Make them listen to Dave Matthews Band. Now that's torture.

    They just want to break their spirits Butters, not their minds. It's pretty hard to interrogate a guy who has swallowed his own tongue

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    shit I have not listened to Pandora in forever

    let's go see what it turns up

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Make them watch a Uwe Boll film.

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    this is a good thread

    would've been better without those last two lines in the first post though

    i wish threads didn't need to all have a discussion topic nowadays

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I thought about getting some water balloons and making a sign saying "FREE WATER BALLOONS FOR USE AGAINST PROTESTERS ON STRIKE WHO ARE MAKING AN AVERAGE OF 48K A YEAR" and sitting around brandishing my sign over at the City Hall here in Ottawa.

    It's also like -13 degrees, 5 for you unmetric folk here outside during daytime.

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  • Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    itsweb wrote: »
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    itsweb wrote: »
    i think if you looped peter bjorn and john's young folks enough

    anyone would go crazy

    edit: holy shit and now it just came up on pandora

    it will never leave

    when that song first came out I was working at Noodles and Co.

    and I must've heard it at least 10 times a shift

    once a customer commented on how much he liked it and i nearly ripped a chunk out of the counter I had to grip it so hard to keep from saying anything

    I don't think I've heard this song. On a scale from Fred Durst to Celine Dion, how bad is it?

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  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    There have been lots of studies done on brains and how crucial a wide range of experiences are to cognitive development.

    For example, apparently there was a jungle-dwelling tribe in Africa that, due to the high tree density, never experienced extreme depth perception. So when they were taken out of the jungle and saw an elephant, they thought it was just really tiny (they couldn't understand that it was small because it was far away.)

    And one about cats raised in cylindrical boxes marked with black and white vertical stripes, who could barely function when removed from the boxes because they couldn't grasp the concept of a horizontal surface, and vice versa.

    Those are all about occipital lobe development, though, since the brain fills in visual patterns and forms a massive library in the developmental stages. I think that auditory studies would be very different, since even if you've never heard music you'd still have heard all of the different vibrations that comprise music individually through speech and other noise.

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  • itswebitsweb Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Caulk Bite wrote: »
    itsweb wrote: »
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    itsweb wrote: »
    i think if you looped peter bjorn and john's young folks enough

    anyone would go crazy

    edit: holy shit and now it just came up on pandora

    it will never leave

    when that song first came out I was working at Noodles and Co.

    and I must've heard it at least 10 times a shift

    once a customer commented on how much he liked it and i nearly ripped a chunk out of the counter I had to grip it so hard to keep from saying anything

    I don't think I've heard this song. On a scale from Fred Durst to Celine Dion, how bad is it?

    obnoxious whistling ensues

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  • Stormin JoeStormin Joe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I had to listen to "big country" every 15 minutes when i worked at kohls

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  • SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Meiz wrote: »
    I thought about getting some water balloons and making a sign saying "FREE WATER BALLOONS FOR USE AGAINST PROTESTERS ON STRIKE WHO ARE MAKING AN AVERAGE OF 48K A YEAR" and sitting around brandishing my sign over at the City Hall here in Ottawa.

    It's also like -13 degrees, 5 for you unmetric folk here outside during daytime.

    wait, the OC transpo strike?

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited December 2008
    Fallout wrote: »
    this is a good thread

    would've been better without those last two lines in the first post though

    i wish threads didn't need to all have a discussion topic nowadays

    so, SE++, as gamers...

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    also sometimes they play nice music but with subliminal messages in it

    FUN FACT: During the siege at Waco, Charlton Heston was hired to play the voice of God, to be played subliminally over telephone conversations with David Koresh. The only reason that they never played the messages was that the guy who knew how to make subliminal messages refused to sign a liability waiver in case all the waco people went krazy and shot themselves or something.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Fallout wrote: »
    this is a good thread

    would've been better without those last two lines in the first post though

    i wish threads didn't need to all have a discussion topic nowadays

    if i don't somebody gets confused like "dude livejournal :arrow:" and lately there has been an emphasis on more direction

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    i mean, i am right with you fallout but i am but one boss

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  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Anjin who is your avatar

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