Shortlisted from suggestions by myself and friends....
1. D.I.V.O.R.C.E. - Tammy Wynette
2. I Hate You, Fuck You, Leave Me Alone - Reel Big Fish
3. Unfaithful - Rihanna
4. In Love With You - "First Date: The Musical" (which has the line "You're a bitch with no heart....")
5. Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
6. Ex-Girlfriend - No Doubt (suggested by Andrew L)
7. You Suck - The Murmers
8. Song For The Dumped - Ben Folds Five (suggested by Marty)
9. You Suck At Love - Simple Plan
10. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division (suggested by Andrew E)
11. A Quick One While He's Away - The Who
12. Love Stinks - J Geils Band (suggested by Andrew L)
13. Saving All My Love For You (suggested by Peter)
14. Not Fair - Lily Allen
15. Gold Digger - Kanye West
16. One Night Stand - Janis Joplin (suggested by Mark)
17. Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe (suggested by Robyn)
18. That Don't Impress Me Much - Shania Twain (suggested by Steve)
19. Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley (suggested by Jacqui)
20. Yesterday - The Beatles (suggested by Corinne)
21. I Don't Love You Like I Did Yesterday - My Chemical Romance (suggested by Jacqui)
22. It Must Have Been Love - Roxette (suggested by Renee)
23. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2 (suggested by Steve)
24. I Never Really Loved You Anyway - The Corrs (suggested by Jana)
25. This Ain't A Love Song - Bon Jovi (suggested by Aleta)
Thanks for all the suggestions. There were so many good ones, it was hard to narrow them down! :)
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Inappropriate Post No 1: Worst songs to play at a nursing home concert
The 25 Worst Songs to play at a nursing home!
Shortlisted from suggestions made by myself and friends...
1. Death Is Just Around the Corner - from "The Addams Family Musical"
2. Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
3. The Final Countdown - Europe
4. The Stripper (suggestion courtesy of Nadia)
5. Horny - Mousse T (suggestion courtesy of Nadia)
6. Highway To Hell - AC/DC
7. Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead from "The Wizard of Oz" (suggestion courtesy of Corinne)
8. Nearer My God To Thee (suggestion courtesy of Kevin)
9. Knocking On Heaven's Door - Guns N Roses (suggestion courtesy of Dave)
10. Dementia - Owl City (suggestion courtesy of Jana)
11. Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees (suggestion courtesy of Corinne)
12. Grandma - The Hee Bee Gee Bees
13. Every Day A Little Death - from "A Little Night Music"
14. Do You Hear What I Hear (suggestion courtesy of Steve)
15. A Good Heart - Feargal Sharkey (suggestion courtesy of Hannah)
16. I Want To Break Free - Queen (suggestion courtesy of Corinne)
17. Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel (suggestion courtesy of Valerie)
18. Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Duke Ellington (suggestion courtesy of Ben)
19. Harder To Breathe - Maroon 5 (suggestion courtesy of Corinne)
20. So Young - The Corrs (suggestion courtesy of Jana)
21. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat - Herman's Hermits (suggestion courtesy of Jana)
22. Remember The Time - Michael Jackson (suggestion courtesy of Jana)
23. End of the Line - Travelling Wilburies (suggestion courtesy of Ben)
24. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Bob Dylan
25. All By Myself - Eric Carmen/Celine Dion
Thanks for all the contributions! :D
Shortlisted from suggestions made by myself and friends...
1. Death Is Just Around the Corner - from "The Addams Family Musical"
2. Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
3. The Final Countdown - Europe
4. The Stripper (suggestion courtesy of Nadia)
5. Horny - Mousse T (suggestion courtesy of Nadia)
6. Highway To Hell - AC/DC
7. Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead from "The Wizard of Oz" (suggestion courtesy of Corinne)
8. Nearer My God To Thee (suggestion courtesy of Kevin)
9. Knocking On Heaven's Door - Guns N Roses (suggestion courtesy of Dave)
10. Dementia - Owl City (suggestion courtesy of Jana)
11. Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees (suggestion courtesy of Corinne)
12. Grandma - The Hee Bee Gee Bees
13. Every Day A Little Death - from "A Little Night Music"
14. Do You Hear What I Hear (suggestion courtesy of Steve)
15. A Good Heart - Feargal Sharkey (suggestion courtesy of Hannah)
16. I Want To Break Free - Queen (suggestion courtesy of Corinne)
17. Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel (suggestion courtesy of Valerie)
18. Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Duke Ellington (suggestion courtesy of Ben)
19. Harder To Breathe - Maroon 5 (suggestion courtesy of Corinne)
20. So Young - The Corrs (suggestion courtesy of Jana)
21. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat - Herman's Hermits (suggestion courtesy of Jana)
22. Remember The Time - Michael Jackson (suggestion courtesy of Jana)
23. End of the Line - Travelling Wilburies (suggestion courtesy of Ben)
24. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Bob Dylan
25. All By Myself - Eric Carmen/Celine Dion
Thanks for all the contributions! :D
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Stupid Online Trends
This post is going to sound like I'm a whinging old person wishing for the olden days but it's really not about that. I use Facebook, I follow people on Twitter, I blog, I do a LOT online. I try to keep up with what's new and trending - although not having a Smartphone means I haven't really accessed things like Instagram yet etc. I'm not the MOST online-savvy but I'm certainly not a pensioner who hasn't worked out how to get 'on the email'. I don't mind that new sites keep popping up and I will try to get a handle on them.
I don't mind text speak in the right context. I don't approve of it on job applications (I have actually seen a job application cover letter that was signed 'C U L8R') nor in emails in a work context but if it saves on cost, go right ahead. As long as I understand it, it's fine. It doesn't belong in certain situations but it's okay in others.
But here are some of the things that really get on my nerves in social media.
1. The phrase "Said no one ever" and variants on that phrase! NOT FUNNY! It is a stupid fad and it needs to stop! It's not even clever sarcasm.
2. People who start their statuses with "That awkward moment...". There are two reasons why this irritates me. The first is that in 75% of cases, the scenario they are talking about is not awkward. It might be annoying, stupid or funny, but not awkward. I don't think many people who use this phrase understand what the word means. Secondly, just because one person writes a status starting like that and you found it funny doesn't mean you should do it too.
3. Amazeballs, Cray Cray, and the worst one.....Ermagherd! Who invented these? As if OMG wasn't moronic enough, ZOMG popped up! Probably created by the same person in Essex who started the term 'well jell'. Once person started it and a whole heap of additional idiots (or should I say "eejits") followed like rats following the Pied Piper.
4. People who write LOL as a response because they can't think of anything witty to say. Before you use the term LOL, did the comment/picture/joke you're responding to actually make you 'laugh out loud'? Because if it didn't, it doesn't warrant an LOL. There's a time and a place for that abbreviation.
5. People who use 'rape' or 'rapey' colloquially. This is a real problem area that bothers me a lot. I have seen so many comments saying 'he has rapey eyes' or 'she raped my Facebook' or using either term casually. Rape is not funny. It is not a term that you should use loosely.
6. Hashtags! When the status is shorter than the amount of Hashtags you're using, you're overdoing it!
7. Om nom nom. Nobody ever says this. In fact, nobody has ever said this out loud. It is one of those irritating catch phrases that originally popped up on memes about funny cats which was okay.......
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........but then caught on by just about everyone.
8. Sharing bullshit stories such as FB privacy warnings, warnings about products, heartwarming tear jerking stories and other chain mail. Firstly, if the story says at the end, "share with all your friends", it's probably crap. Secondly, it literally takes a few seconds to Google the first line of the story and find out if Snopes or Hoaxslayer have disproven it. Most of the time, they are fake and you will see it pop up as the first item in the Google search! The reason these stupid things get passed around for 10 years is because people will believe anything they read. I'm sick of my news feed being flooded with them, to be quite frank, and I've started hiding the posts of the serial offenders, the ones who refuse to check before sharing.
9. Creating 'Demotivational posters' that defeat the purpose of parodying the Motivational posters. They used to be funny. They are not funny anymore because too many people with too much spare time, juvenile sense of humour, very poor grammar/spelling and access to Microsoft Paint create them. Same goes for the old parody of the 'Mastercard - Priceless' ads. They were clever, once, and when the first ones came out, it was fun to forward them on. But nowadays, some are just in bad taste, racist, sexist or bordering on pornography. There is such thing as too much of a good thing. Furthermore, what is so funny about changing the spelling of words and using the incorrect tense on pictures of funny cats. For example, "U iz workin' too hard. iz makin' me tired". Or this one, a PRIME example:
Spelling words wrong = not funnier. Grammatical errors = not funnier. Incorrect tense = not funnier. It just makes you seem like an ill-educated sheep.
10. "So many feels." Why make yourself sound stupid and childish? I don't get it. No wonder literacy is at an all-time low when this is what the next generation is hearing!
11. "Like for an inbox". Talk about fishing for compliments. If somebody hasn't posted on your wall and you need to write this, maybe you're just not interesting enough for them to communicate with you.
12. Using overcomplicated emoticons. The smiley face, sad face, crying face, winky face, poking tongue out and maybe a heart/broken heart are all you need. Enough with the horses and flowers and the Homer Simpsons and the Octopuses (and before you correct me and say 'Octopi', I looked it up and it is possibly a myth!). The emoticon is to convey emotion. That's all. But while I'm there, if you are going to use an emoticon, make sure that you mean it. Don't put a winky face on something you know is going to offend someone. Putting a winky face on a clear insult doesn't make it less insulting.
And I'm done.
I don't mind text speak in the right context. I don't approve of it on job applications (I have actually seen a job application cover letter that was signed 'C U L8R') nor in emails in a work context but if it saves on cost, go right ahead. As long as I understand it, it's fine. It doesn't belong in certain situations but it's okay in others.
But here are some of the things that really get on my nerves in social media.
1. The phrase "Said no one ever" and variants on that phrase! NOT FUNNY! It is a stupid fad and it needs to stop! It's not even clever sarcasm.
2. People who start their statuses with "That awkward moment...". There are two reasons why this irritates me. The first is that in 75% of cases, the scenario they are talking about is not awkward. It might be annoying, stupid or funny, but not awkward. I don't think many people who use this phrase understand what the word means. Secondly, just because one person writes a status starting like that and you found it funny doesn't mean you should do it too.
3. Amazeballs, Cray Cray, and the worst one.....Ermagherd! Who invented these? As if OMG wasn't moronic enough, ZOMG popped up! Probably created by the same person in Essex who started the term 'well jell'. Once person started it and a whole heap of additional idiots (or should I say "eejits") followed like rats following the Pied Piper.
4. People who write LOL as a response because they can't think of anything witty to say. Before you use the term LOL, did the comment/picture/joke you're responding to actually make you 'laugh out loud'? Because if it didn't, it doesn't warrant an LOL. There's a time and a place for that abbreviation.
5. People who use 'rape' or 'rapey' colloquially. This is a real problem area that bothers me a lot. I have seen so many comments saying 'he has rapey eyes' or 'she raped my Facebook' or using either term casually. Rape is not funny. It is not a term that you should use loosely.
6. Hashtags! When the status is shorter than the amount of Hashtags you're using, you're overdoing it!
7. Om nom nom. Nobody ever says this. In fact, nobody has ever said this out loud. It is one of those irritating catch phrases that originally popped up on memes about funny cats which was okay.......
........but then caught on by just about everyone.
8. Sharing bullshit stories such as FB privacy warnings, warnings about products, heartwarming tear jerking stories and other chain mail. Firstly, if the story says at the end, "share with all your friends", it's probably crap. Secondly, it literally takes a few seconds to Google the first line of the story and find out if Snopes or Hoaxslayer have disproven it. Most of the time, they are fake and you will see it pop up as the first item in the Google search! The reason these stupid things get passed around for 10 years is because people will believe anything they read. I'm sick of my news feed being flooded with them, to be quite frank, and I've started hiding the posts of the serial offenders, the ones who refuse to check before sharing.
9. Creating 'Demotivational posters' that defeat the purpose of parodying the Motivational posters. They used to be funny. They are not funny anymore because too many people with too much spare time, juvenile sense of humour, very poor grammar/spelling and access to Microsoft Paint create them. Same goes for the old parody of the 'Mastercard - Priceless' ads. They were clever, once, and when the first ones came out, it was fun to forward them on. But nowadays, some are just in bad taste, racist, sexist or bordering on pornography. There is such thing as too much of a good thing. Furthermore, what is so funny about changing the spelling of words and using the incorrect tense on pictures of funny cats. For example, "U iz workin' too hard. iz makin' me tired". Or this one, a PRIME example:
Spelling words wrong = not funnier. Grammatical errors = not funnier. Incorrect tense = not funnier. It just makes you seem like an ill-educated sheep.
10. "So many feels." Why make yourself sound stupid and childish? I don't get it. No wonder literacy is at an all-time low when this is what the next generation is hearing!
11. "Like for an inbox". Talk about fishing for compliments. If somebody hasn't posted on your wall and you need to write this, maybe you're just not interesting enough for them to communicate with you.
12. Using overcomplicated emoticons. The smiley face, sad face, crying face, winky face, poking tongue out and maybe a heart/broken heart are all you need. Enough with the horses and flowers and the Homer Simpsons and the Octopuses (and before you correct me and say 'Octopi', I looked it up and it is possibly a myth!). The emoticon is to convey emotion. That's all. But while I'm there, if you are going to use an emoticon, make sure that you mean it. Don't put a winky face on something you know is going to offend someone. Putting a winky face on a clear insult doesn't make it less insulting.
And I'm done.
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