The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Is there an award for pedantry? Because someone is certain there is one.

 

[CleverNickName]

Well, here's my entry. Even though I'm not playing to win, I still had fun writing it.

 

[Hussar]

What is this pumpkin spice of which you speak?

Heh. I know what it is but living outside of North America means you never actually see it.

 

[darjr]

Oh. It’s real? Oh no.

 

[Ryujin]

What is this pumpkin spice of which you speak?

Heh. I know what it is but living outside of North America means you never actually see it.

Check out the "Try" channel on Youtube and watch Irish people be confused about the stuff.

 

[trappedslider]

 

[ichabod]

"Hey you! Yeah you! Stop having fun!"

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

"Hey you! Yeah you! Stop having fun!"

Fun fact: There is a finite amount of fun in the world. So the more I reduce your fun, the more fun I can have!

 

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[Mannahnin]

Yeah, the initial backlash was largely gendered or even sexist. That doesn't mean anyone tired of it now is sexist -- it's become so omnipresent, that "help, help, everything smells like pumpkin spice" is a perfectly rational response.

Similarly, the initial backlash against disco music in the late 1970s and 1980s was because of who popularized that music. (Not straight White dudes from the Midwest.) Regular people tired of a music genre that saturated the airwaves were independent from the people who staged burnings of LPs popular with the LGBT community and minorities living in cities, though. (The culture war is a lot older than we sometimes realize.)

Disco was mostly in the past (though I remember "Disco sucks!"), but I also remember being a kid parroting that "I like all music except Rap and Country" line, not realizing the sociological and demographic underpinnings of that meme statement.