WTF Sh*t's F*cked Up and Bullsh*t - a "Who Cares" thread for news

[Dakota Tebaldi]

No idea - quite before my time. Although, I tend to think disco didn't so much "die" as evolve, possibly in a couple different directions.

 

[Romana]

Disco and funk messed around and had a baby called hip hop.
I used to think of a 'producer' as the audio equivalent of a director is film.
Now when I see people calling themselves producers than mean they make beats.

 

[Arkady Arkright]

No idea - quite before my time. Although, I tend to think disco didn't so much "die" as evolve, possibly in a couple different directions.

Indeed it did - You’ll Never Listen to Nirvana the Same After This Dave Grohl Anecdote

 

[Essence Lumin]

There was a right mix of ingredients for disco to sweep the world for a while but there will never be that recipe again.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Didn't disco actually die in 1979? I was more into electronic space music than rock at the time, but even I remember reading something about it.

I think Olivia Newton-John, as Terpsichore, in her capacity as the muse of roller-disco, finally killed it off in 1980.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Indeed it did - You’ll Never Listen to Nirvana the Same After This Dave Grohl Anecdote

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Russian supermarket faces backlash after pulling lesbian couple advert

VkusVill apologises for promotion, saying it had ‘hurt the feelings’ of customers and staff

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link because why not

 

[Isabeau]

Russian supermarket faces backlash after pulling lesbian couple advert

VkusVill apologises for promotion, saying it had ‘hurt the feelings’ of customers and staff

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link because why not

I love how they worded their response. “Sorry we hurt your feelings” (for showing some of the real people who shop our stores.) Ha ha
I’m sure they knew there would be a backlash considering the laws in Russia, but they went ahead and made the ad anyway. Good on them.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Haha, never heard this story about the death of disco from history.com.

As the 1970s came to an end, the age of disco was also nearing its finale. But for all of its decadence and overexposure, disco didn’t quite die a natural death by collapsing under its own weight. Instead, it was killed by a public backlash that reached its peak on July 12, 1979 with the infamous “Disco Demolition” night at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. That incident, which led to at least nine injuries, 39 arrests and the cancellation and forfeit of a Major League Baseball game, is widely credited—or, depending on your perspective, blamed—with dealing disco its death blow.

The rest of the story here.

Disco is dealt death blow by fans of the Chicago White Sox | July 12, 1979 | HISTORY

As the 1970s came to an end, the age of disco was also nearing its finale. But the public backlash to the genre reached its peak on July 12, 1979 with the infamous “Disco Demolition” night at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. That incident, which led to at least nine injuries, 39 arrests and the...

www.history.com

 

[Romana]

Haha, never heard this story about the death of disco from history.com.



The rest of the story here.

Disco is dealt death blow by fans of the Chicago White Sox | July 12, 1979 | HISTORY

As the 1970s came to an end, the age of disco was also nearing its finale. But the public backlash to the genre reached its peak on July 12, 1979 with the infamous “Disco Demolition” night at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. That incident, which led to at least nine injuries, 39 arrests and the...

www.history.com

I never heard that one either.
I do remember people chanting "Disco sucks!" at hapless DJs and cover bands.

 

[danielravennest]

Didn't disco actually die in 1979? I was more into electronic space music than rock at the time, but even I remember reading something about it.

If you are referring to Disco Demolition Day, that didn't kill it entirely. It has lived on as dance music for wedding receptions.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

There was a disco club that held on into the early 80s in Portland, although as I recall they broadened to play Funk, Soul, and dance-oriented New Wave and Electropop.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This.....this is fake, right? Staged. Has to be. Please tell me this was staged.

 

[Beebo Brink]

This.....this is fake, right? Staged. Has to be. Please tell me this was staged.

Apparently yes, it was faked.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Okay thanks.....like yeah, that was difficult for me to believe.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

And since I’d never heard of leadstories.com before

Lead Stories – Bias and Credibility

LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appealing to emotion or

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Checks out

 

[WolfEyes]

They may be friends but I have known women who are like that. They will take your mail out of your box and keep it even when they know it is a federal crime to do so. And if you catch one in the act, that is exactly the sort of shit they pull. You won't even have to touch them, they'll fall down on their own and scream you assaulted them while dialing 911.

It's insane but some people really are like that and not just in the south. Just moistly mostly in the south. LOL




moist=humid

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Wembley park stabbings: Danyal Hussein guilty of murdering sisters

Danyal Hussein murdered Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry in a "demonic deal", his trial heard.

www.bbc.co.uk

A man who stabbed two sisters at random in a supposed demonic pact - a "sacrifice" he seemingly believed would enable him to win the lottery - has been found guilty of their murder.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Moist

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Opinion: Texas Republicans rush to guard the Alamo from the facts

With more than 300 RSVPs, the event hosted by the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin was shaping up to be the highlight of our virtual book tour for “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth.” But about four hours before showtime last Thursday, my co-authors, Bryan Burrough and Chris Tomlinson, and I received an email from our publisher. The Bullock had backed out, citing “increased pressure on social media.” Apparently, the state history museum was no place to discuss state history.
This isn’t how things are supposed to work, even in Texas, but the truth turned out to be even worse. The state history museum wasn’t bowing to social media pressure but to political pressure from the state’s Republican lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, who claimed credit for the kill the next day.


“As a member of the Preservation Board, I told staff to cancel this event as soon as I found out about it,” tweeted Patrick, adding, “This fact-free rewriting of TX history has no place @BullockMuseum.”