WTF?!! More homework meh??!

@vanslaterco Ignore the meh poll?

I don’t understand?

@baqui63

just always vote Fuck This

which should always be a voting option

@KDemo
either he really seeks out great stuff in his normal life obsessions, or he does it for this job. either way, he’s a minor god to me.

@ELUNO I guess I could use this method. But then for consistency’s sake, I’d still have to do this even when I know what one or more of the songs sounds like and I’d knowingly end up voting for a shitty song just because it has a good title.

This is problematic for me.

@ELUNO That’s like choosing a wine because it has a cool label. (Have done this before myself with fairly limited success.)

@LaVikinga

@ELUNO Shades of the seventies!

@LaVikinga
@ELUNO

My preferred drink

/giphy white whine

@RiotDemon EXACTLY!!!

You sir, understand!

@baqui63 I’m not a sir though.

@RiotDemon Is there a gender list somewhere? I really dislike not knowing when someone is a he, she, or an it.

@Mehrocco_Mole
no gender list. that’s kinda deliberate.

and some people really like the ambiguity, and the difficulty in having themselves categorized.

@RiotDemon Sorry. I meant nothing genderish by it (tho I acknowledge that it is a a gender charged term). I was thinking more along the lines of a Pythonesque comment.

English is kinda lame (IMHO) with not having many socially acceptable neuter forms.

@RiotDemon I never really vote in the song polls either, and it drives me nuts leaving them unticked. I’m like the most unmusically inclined person I know, and don’t really have much interest in changing that. For now, I just ignore the song polls and continue listening to my 90s pop, alternative, and country music and pretend that it isn’t as old as it is.

@PurplePawprints
unmusically inclined vs. musically uninclined?
/giphy not musically inclined

@compunaut I knew it sounded weird the way I was writing it…

/giphy me no write good

@Mehrocco_Mole the only thing I can think of is the Show Yourselves! thread where the people that want to, show off photos of their faces.

@baqui63 no worries. I wasn’t actually offended.

@PurplePawprints I hate not voting, but some days I just can’t be bothered to listen to a bunch of music that I most likely won’t like anyway.

@baqui63
"S/he protested their pronouns that they are forced to use since English singular pronouns are gender specific and that won’t work for him/her."

Horrible and awkward, but what can you do? The most functional and powerful languages are the most extensible and flexible ones, not the prettiest ones. Besides, it’s the era of the internet and ADHD. Persons who can spell and repect traditional customs of grammer - and care very much about that, beyond the minimal requirements of intelligibility - are a tiny minority, and yet we go forward.

/giphy their there they’re

/giphy traditional customs of grammer

@f00l Let’s create our own non-gender specific pronoun. How about She-he-It? We can shorten it to SHIT if that works better.

@Mehrocco_Mole
LIKE

@f00l ambiguity? my wife said that her brother in-law’s wife’s niece did not think my husband was a very honorable uncle to his second cousins twin sister’s fiance.

/youtube i am my own grandpa

@Yoda_Daenerys
perhaps we need to complicate things by having degree-of-relationship-specific pronouns that are also gender-specific, for all conceivable genders.

if that happened, i fear i would abandon the attempt to be correct. lazy - i could never persuade myself to learn languages in which every noun seemed to have acquired a (non-sensical) gender.

@f00l You mean like German?
The Awful German Language
by Mark Twain

@Yoda_Daenerys Are you from Alabama? The home of the family stick?

@Mehrocco_Mole Very, very rude! My wife hails from Alabama, and has a vast family TREE. My paternal side of the family is deeply rooted in Alabama, and predates the revolutionary war. We also have a vast family TREE. You don’t know much about the great state of Alabama, do you?

@Mehrocco_Mole
Tried German. the efffing rules! and French. and Spanish. i found one of my many character flaws. hated hated hated trying to learn any of them. got to where i could kinda read/speak/write them a little. then i would turn my back on them for like 1 week and whatever comprehension i ever had would vanish. two weeks and i was a total “huh”?

@Yoda_Daenerys I love that song. At one point, I could sing it from memory. I can still draw the family tree for it.

@Lurker Someone’s dog pissed all over their Wheaties this morning. Dude! (or dudette as the case may be) You don’t know much about sarcasm do you? I live 4 miles from the Alabama border. Northwest Florida’s panhandle is largely considered part of LA (Lower Alabama). My wife is also from Alabama. Her family were dirt farmers and also predated the Revolutionary War. I am so tired of people taking offense over the banter found in these forum topics. Take a step back, a deep breath, and get a life.
As a token of peace I will extend to you an olive branch and allow you one cheap shot at the great state of Michigan.

Go!

@f00l Three semesters of college level German and I can no longer count to ten in German. I chose German because I figured English was a Germantic language so learning German should be easy. I wish someone had slapped the stupid out of me back when.

@Mehrocco_Mole since @ lurker didn’t take you up on the offer, here’s a tribute from a Buckeye living in the “State up North”:

 __
 --
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Hail to the Mother ****ers,
Hail to the Big **** ****ers,
Hail Hail to Michigan the cesspoll of the West,
Hail to the Fornicators,
Hail to the Masterbaters
Hail Hail to Michigan the cesspoll of the West,

Here is the "U of M lowly Trite Song"
What is a "Victors Valiant"
Who are the conquering heroes?
Fail! Fail! U. Michigan
You must be second best

Mice from the Wolverine State
Cats have decided your fate
Fail! Fail! U. Michigan
The armpit of the west"

@baqui63 i hadn’t seen the diagram before this google journey, only the movie…

@Yoda_Daenerys Hey! I said ONE!

@Mehrocco_Mole D’oh, Bart!

@duodec you could at least add a to whoever’s forum comment you most agree with.

@duodec but on the song ones, they don’t put this option!

@RiotDemon
Fuck This Poll should always be an option.

@katylava poor Katy has to tally up all the votes every day and people like @duodec refuses to star or supply one in the forums, leaving her short on numbers with no way to answer to the big boss for the company’s losses.

@TaRDy
the company’s losses are due to the failure to include “Fuck This Poll” as a choice in every poll.

i had proof, but the doge ate it.

/giphy doge ate my homework

@f00l Yeah, but 98% of people would take that choice and then it would always be the correct answer.

@f00l yep

@baqui63
that is corrrect. in both senses.

Word Of Doge

@TaRDy @Katylava - I am such a bad Duodec… sorry. If they had the forum option (didn’t notice it was missing because honestly the music polls so far have not been of much interest) I’d use it, and in the past I’m pretty sure I have starred comments in those topics even if I posted none.

My musical interests are less (common,popular)? and I don’t know many of the songs in the polls so far.

@Yoda_Daenerys
the time signature would be

"Round Midnight"

or perhaps just
"After Midnight"

@baqui63 and for your final exam, be pleased to identify the time signature here:

@Yoda_Daenerys
time sig quiz part 2 official answers

@Yoda_Daenerys I get what the numbers mean. I can read music, albeit very slowly at this point and have even tried composing.

I was not aware of the macedonian connection to 7/8 and I’m curious how you knew that vinegar was involved in the 14/27 piece.

My problem is that I hear too many patterns… and then get confuzzled and end up unsure of anything.

@f00l

oops. oh well.

@Yoda_Daenerys How about:

/youtube Take Five

@kc5rbq hmmm, is that 5/4 or 5/8 time?

@baqui63 not that kind of acid

@Yoda_Daenerys 5/4 time of course!

@baqui63

I hear too many patterns… and then get confuzzled and end up unsure of anything.

…story of my life

/giphy searching for answers

wow, i looked up and thought i had fallen asleep on my keyboard and was forehead typing.

/giphy get a grip my boy/girl

@Yoda_Daenerys
That perfect moment of confusion and near madness that you referenced?

Time to post on the Internet!

/giphy internet post

@awk That’s a jazz piece, right?

Of all the types of music to set my teeth on edge, there’s a particular style of jazz that is so discordant and jangled that any melody is lost. I guess it’s still music because there are notes being played, and it’s not that I want “pretty music,” but I do want something that has more melody than a drawer full of silverware being dumped on the floor.

There’s music to be found every where. Traffic has its own music as do the waves crashing on the beach or even a dishwasher running through its cycles. Don’t know what that particular style of jazz is called, but I know it makes me stabby.

@lajivzy I’m glad I was able to do something that was a positive thing for you.