well I mean generally you don't give specific names of kids in situations like this at the outset
― katherine, Friday, 16 August 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
HarryMyCatDied has the count escalating gradually from 14 to 100
― a solitary sext (sic), Friday, 16 August 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
The thing about all the Larry stuff is that yes, at worst it's a weird form of fetishizing homosexuality that mostly straight people do, and at best it's based on very spurious to the point of being nonexistence evidence. However, as an idea, is it really all that different from Britney and Justin having to pretend they were virgins, or certain J-Pop groups' no-dating causes, or Lance Bass or Rock Hudson? This isn't, like, Illuminati conspiracy theories; morality clauses are things that exist.
― katherine, Friday, 16 August 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
there are no reports of any suicides. there are reports that people on twitter have said they heard about suicides.
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 16 August 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
xp: of course, but it's valid to be bemused at anger that the puppet show being presented by management doesn't match the one this subset of fans have written in their heads
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
However, as an idea, is it really all that different from Britney and Justin having to pretend they were virgins, or certain J-Pop groups' no-dating causes, or Lance Bass or Rock Hudson? This isn't, like, Illuminati conspiracy theories; morality clauses are things that exist.
lance bass being gay:larry stylinson being real::the cia supporting groups that also trafficked drugs in foreign countries:the cia inventing crack cocaine
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
please point out the part in that where I ever suggested it was real, as opposed to "plausible to a 13-year-old with a basic understanding of what is generally heard of and not"
― katherine, Friday, 16 August 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not saying you suggested it was real! rather, that it is of an order of magnitude that is actually pretty similar to illuminati conspiracy theories.
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
do you even understand what orders of magnitude are?
― katherine, Friday, 16 August 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
"these two people might actually be dating rather than these two people" = "the U.S. government, for decades, has been kidnapping babies and brainwashing teenage girls using magical technology that works by conspiracy theory logic, for reasons nobody really gives a shit about explaining, in a manner that is suspiciously similar to anti-semitic tracts or bad porn"
― katherine, Friday, 16 August 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, let me rephrase:
the extent to which "lance bass stayed in the closet while in nsync" is like "larry stylinson is real, louis' girlfriend is a beard, anyone who expresses the idea that this is not true is being paid off by management to hush up their true love (but they nevertheless keep showing it in their body language so that we True Believers can recognise)" is of a comparable order to the extent to which "jay-z has made a lot of canny business deals in order to have success" is like "jay-z has taken a blood oath and joined the devil-worshipping illuminati in order to have success (but he nevertheless keeps showing it in his accessories and aesthetic choices so that we True Believers can recognise)".
i.e. the order or magnitude i'm talking about is how much the conspiracy theory has exploded beyond the part that relates to known fact. i don't feel like i'm saying something very controversial?
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Friday, 16 August 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
in that case then yeah
― katherine, Friday, 16 August 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
The thing about all the Larry stuff is that yes, at worst it's a weird form of fetishizing homosexuality that mostly straight people do, and at best it's based on very spurious to the point of being nonexistence evidence.
Spurious?
http://static.tumblr.com/68031e1cdf744a70cb3b828689b6f7ae/1vge2nl/XGmmmxs43/tumblr_static_a99cj4lccaeqbd_.jpeg
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30900000/Larry-larry-stylinson-30903893-470-345.jpg
etc.
― -- A smile on a dog, Stephen answered, (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 16 August 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
Those aren't even the steamy ones
― -- A smile on a dog, Stephen answered, (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 16 August 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Like, I'm pretty sure Larryshippers, mostly have a reasonable level of belief that This Relationship Exists. "Spurious evidence" is kind of beside the point. Like I said upthread, these guys are deliberately allowing fans to cultivate their shipping fantasies. Evidence isn't an issue.
― -- A smile on a dog, Stephen answered, (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 16 August 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
(apologies for shitty punc)
hazel robinson:
http://piratemoggy.tumblr.com/post/58456757322/five-posts-about-that-one-direction-fan-documentary
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 16 August 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
also http://piratemoggy.tumblr.com/post/58443637677/five-posts-about-that-one-direction-documentary-part and http://piratemoggy.tumblr.com/post/58451917375/five-posts-about-that-one-direction-fan-documentary and the next two whenever she posts them
basically just read everything hazel ever says
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Saturday, 17 August 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
also Amanda Hess who wrote about Larry shipping months ago: http://tomorrowthemag.com/articles/slash-and-burn
― Roz, Saturday, 17 August 2013 07:48 (eleven years ago) link
So what song are they talking about? You know, "the best song ever"? They dance to it ALL NIGHT. What song could possibly be good enough to play again and again and again AND AGAIN AND AGAIN? AND DANCE TO? ALL NIGHT?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
That one about Lucky.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
we're up all night to dance to get lucky, all night
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
"Like, I'm pretty sure Larryshippers, mostly have a reasonable level of belief that This Relationship Exists. "Spurious evidence" is kind of beside the point. Like I said upthread, these guys are deliberately allowing fans to cultivate their shipping fantasies. Evidence isn't an issue.
yeah, an interesting thing about one direction is how shipping-aware they seem to be. not sure whether this is a new thing -- shipping was around (HOLY SHIT WAS IT AROUND) for bsb/nsync but I'm not sure how much they played to it. for all I know they totally did and I just didn't notice it.
― katherine, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
It's like these 1D fans have never heard of fanservice or something
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 22 August 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
"Best Song Ever" debuted in Billboard at number two, but then sunk into the bottom part of the top twenty in week number two and is now out of the top twenty in week number four. Haven't heard it on the radio.
― timellison, Monday, 26 August 2013 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
It hasn't left the top 20 on iTunes since release, so at the very least, it's weekly sales have been relatively strong and consistent. But yeah radio seems hesitant to fully jump on board.
― Greer, Monday, 26 August 2013 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
Came expecting to see a picture of a Joy Division t-shirt. Leaving disappointed.
― Matt M., Monday, 26 August 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
idg why VMA audience would boo them
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 26 August 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
Disgruntled Joy Division fans.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 07:58 (eleven years ago) link
"best song ever" is surely their best song since "what makes you beautiful"
― dyl, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
nah, "kiss you" is their best work
― monotony, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, i do like that one too
― dyl, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
We have a "Hit Music" station and a "Star" station in the city where I live. Looks like it's #43 on the former and not in the top 100 on the latter.
― timellison, Saturday, 31 August 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
so what's this movie like, is anyone going to go see it
i didn't go see the justin bieber movie or the katy perry one either
― dyl, Saturday, 31 August 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
these movies are all 'recent concert footage interspersed with adorable home movies of the performers singing as little kids' right?
― some dude, Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
Why can't we have another spiceworld is what I'd like to know
― rooibos in disguise (wins), Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
you want Elvis Costello in a One Direction movie?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Idk itvwas a pretty fun movie! As brit films of the nulab era go I like it more than oh trainspotting
― rooibos in disguise (wins), Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
YES spiceworld is kind of wonderful
― dyl, Saturday, 31 August 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgHWvu9rlG8
Gabriel AgbonlahorFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTaking Out Twats is What This LAD does.Gabriel Imuetinyan "Gabby" Agbonlahor (born 13 October 1986) is an English footballer of Nigerian-Scottish heritage who plays for Aston Villa and also an arsehole for hurting our louis
Taking Out Twats is What This LAD does.
Gabriel Imuetinyan "Gabby" Agbonlahor (born 13 October 1986) is an English footballer of Nigerian-Scottish heritage who plays for Aston Villa and also an arsehole for hurting our louis
― 2 ℜ 4 u (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 9 September 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
A spew-inducing reducer. Beautiful.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 9 September 2013 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
Shame that guy's knee joint only works in one direction.
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Monday, 9 September 2013 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― ... Jenkinson ... ... military spending ... snkkt! ... Özil ... ... (imago), Monday, 9 September 2013 09:28 (eleven years ago) link
I am privileged to have witnessed this first hand. Also, he runs like a girl.
― ailsa, Monday, 9 September 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
he must be in the bottom 5 players to have donned the hoops in your time, surely
― ... Jenkinson ... Neu! military spending ... snkkt! ... Özil ... ... (imago), Monday, 9 September 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
idk there ought to be some unwritten rule that random slebs in a charity football game are not to be treated the same as (ex)professionals or targeted for bantz inducing comedy violence
although im sure having spent a year in chemotherapy stiliyan petrov appreciated watching an emaciated dude being sick in front of him
― 2 ℜ 4 u (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 9 September 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
the camera angle just doesn't seem to show the impact.
― Wantaway striker (LocalGarda), Monday, 9 September 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
agbonlahor had 3 different women pregnant at the same time when aged 20 or something iirc, he's not known for reserve
― ... Jenkinson ... Neu! military spending ... snkkt! ... Özil ... ... (imago), Monday, 9 September 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Right down there with Gerard Butler, aye.
― ailsa, Monday, 9 September 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link