I Cast Fist@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWhat are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse?message-squaremessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1103arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse?I Cast Fist@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square101fedilinkfile-text
No need to name names or sources. Mine has to be some dude that insisted that advertising is a “30,000 year old technology”
minus-squarerenegadesporkAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 days agoPeople fixate on certain lyrics and kinda ignore the rest of the song. I knew someone who swore “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen was a dirty song because two lines could be interpreted as innuendo.
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 days ago“Hallelujah” has an overt reference to the story of David & Bathsheba in the Bible, which is a story about a king watching a woman bathe and then sending her husband into an unwinnable battle so he could steal her from him.
minus-squareUsernameblankface@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoMixed with references to Samson and Delilah
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoYeah, which was its own level of toxic, but maybe doesn’t have the super gross power imbalance?
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days ago“Hallelujah” is a song about sex — but it’s not dirty sex, it’s holy sex.
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 days agoI wouldn’t say “holy.” David’s actions with Bathsheba were explicitly not holy.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoHell, I can make an innuendo with the word innuendo.
People fixate on certain lyrics and kinda ignore the rest of the song.
I knew someone who swore “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen was a dirty song because two lines could be interpreted as innuendo.
“Hallelujah” has an overt reference to the story of David & Bathsheba in the Bible, which is a story about a king watching a woman bathe and then sending her husband into an unwinnable battle so he could steal her from him.
Mixed with references to Samson and Delilah
Yeah, which was its own level of toxic, but maybe doesn’t have the super gross power imbalance?
“Hallelujah” is a song about sex — but it’s not dirty sex, it’s holy sex.
I wouldn’t say “holy.” David’s actions with Bathsheba were explicitly not holy.
Hell, I can make an innuendo with the word innuendo.