fire, water, air and dirt / fukkin magnets / how do they work?

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Everyone is aware that life is parodic and that it lacks an interpretation. Thus lead is the parody of gold. Air is the parody of water. The brain is the parody of the equator. Coitus is the parody of crime.

An umbrella, a sexagenarian, a seminarian, the smell of rotten eggs, the hollow eyes of judges are the roots that nourish love.

A dog devouring the stomach of a goose, a drunken vomiting woman, a slobbering accountant, a jar of mustard represent the confusion that serves as the vehicle of love.

^^ hipster juggalo georges bataille bringing it right dere

just went through the thread can't find the kubla khan one :( perhaps it was only in a vision I once saw/it was a juggalette maid/and on her 808 she played...

re: hipster juggalism, I can't believe ICP aren't self-aware about what they're doing.

And the Pelican begins to be avenged.

Faygo, faygo, every where,
And all the hipster boards did link ;
Faygo, faygo, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

Glad for two lines of Poison Tree

There's a one-eyed yellow pelican to the north of Khatmandu,

There's a little faygo stall below the town;

There's a broken-hearted Juggalo tends the grave of Violent J,

And the Yellow Pelican forever gazes down.

A juggaloaf and thou.

am really tempted to e-mail this thread to my romantic poetry TA :(

So I have a Juggalo on my caseload now. I found this out last week and managed to say "Oh so you're down with the clown, huh?" with a straight face. He whipped out his ICP wallet as proof that he is, in fact, down with the clown. So today I asked him how magnets work and he said, "IDK, magic?" I LOLd. Turns out he didn't know this song yet. Sent him home with instructions to view vid and report back with a detailed review tomorrow.

!!!

See if he likes our poetry.

I like that he knew the right answer without having heard the song.

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2429/screenshot20100412at809.png

Bloody teeth.. yuck.

And I don't wanna talk to an orthodontist

Always telling me to floss, getting me pissed.

I wonder how Violent J feels about the miracle of gum disease?

fuckin how does that work

jonah weiner weighs in.

i don't think this is a terrible song, silly lines excepted. "seeing miracles everywhere" is a common lyrical trope, and i like some of its lines (85000 people in one place, the fatherhood ones).

I've never thought ICP were terrible per se, just boneheaded, and this video is no different

Aren't they deliberately terrible, like the guy who plays Larry the Cable Guy?

They are deliberately cultivating this image, if that's what you mean.

i like the jonah weiner piece.

Yeah that was a good article. Couldn't access the linked Vice feature bcuz of workplace filter but i fucking despise vice so nm.

That Vice article is worth reading.

"They are deliberately cultivating this image, if that's what you mean."
right, and this image doesn't allow for them to put their full intellect on display. instead they play down to their crowd, and revel in it, like the weiner article says.

I said this upthread but several of their earlier songs have references to being straight-A goody-two-shoes before being claimed by the Dark Carnival

so.... do they know how magnets work, or...?

max = does not notice and appreciate miracles.

i just want to know how magnets work

At the risk of sounding like a judgmental, classist jerk, I definitely take issue with the whole "Scientists are liars! Miracles are the real explanation!" element of the song. I don't care if underneath the make-up, Shaggy is a physicist and Violent J is a neurobiologist; encouraging people to discard actual facts about the world in which we live in favor of attributing things to "miracles" is not good. Encouraging skepticism? Definitely. Encouraging people to explore and question? Absolutely. But just straight up insisting that scientists are liars and everything is really just due to MIRACLES OMG is troubling as a world view.

If their encouragement to disbelieve scientists and instead attribute all "unexplained"* phenomena to God is all a part of their crypto-Christian agenda, well, I think that's pretty deplorable, too. I'm not even saying that I begrudge them their religious views. I don't. I'm saying that encouraging people to regress back to some dark age as far as their knowledge of the world is concerned is a bad idea and absolutely worth mockery, regardless of whether these Clowns actually mean it or are actually smart or whatever.

*Unknown to them, I mean. Most of what they are singing about is actually pretty well explained, ie magnets and how the fuck they work - regardless of how many people on ILX know how magnets work, the point is that it is known and pretty easy to look up should one be so inclined. Actually, the first Google search result for "how magnets work" - http://www.coolmagnetman.com/maghow.htm - consists of information presented in 1952. So humans have had a pretty good understanding of magnets for some time now.

no one itt has stepped up to describe how magnets work

And I'm not sure how one is supposed to earn straight As in school if one insists that science is a lie and instead believes that commonly understood natural phenomenon, such as rainbows, magnets, the phenotype of human offspring, and crows are in reality nothing more than inexplicable miracles.

dude we're talking about middle school in MICHIGAN

anyone that thinks that scholastic achievement in grades 5-8 somehow correlates to actual intellect is....a clown

MI used to have good schools, though?

the uberhipsters at Slate are now officially all over this story: http://www.slate.com/id/2250217/

s'late

so can I maybe put forward the opinon that you might be taking this a tad too seriously, Jenny, or will you bite my head off

no one itt has stepped up to describe how magnets work

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

the movement of charged electrons create magnetic fields (these fields exert force on other magnetic objects)

The song is funny—imagine Wordsworth gone rock-rap, dropping f-bombs aplenty in praise of the natural sublime.

i think you are describing this thread, slate dude

I'm gonna fess up and say if I ever knew how magnets worked exactly, I don't remember how. I do remember wondering why magnets don't decay over time.
(for example, you can rub a paper clip with a magnet which will make it temporarily magnetic as well -- but why doesn't the magnet lose its magnetism [perhaps more slowly] as well?)

Fukkin stock market how does that work?

did wonder whether the slate person might have read this thread xxp

haha I started reading that "how magnets work" link and let me assure you, MN public schools did not go into that level of detail, not even in middle school

no one itt has stepped up to describe how magnets work

iirc: magnetic force is due to moving electrical charges; a linear magnetic force is produced when electrical charge moves in a circular direction; therefore the electron orbitals of each atom produce tiny magnetic forces as they orbit the atom; magnetic metals are magnetic because in those metals the electron orbitals can easily line up in the same direction, and the billions of atom-sized magnets thus work together to produce a huge force. it's kind of a miracle when u think about it

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Fukkin stock market how does that work?

looooooool earlier today i did quip 'fucking banks.....*pause*....how do they work'

this is the meme of '10 whether we like it or not

as someone unfamiliar with any wider icp eschatology 'miracles' just seems shorthand for the sort of 'look at the carpark' strain of weak optimism that's more or less nondenominational, maybe it is more sinister but the song alone is insufficient evidence