Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best Comments

I hope that, for the sake of our future building a coalition, that misunderstandings when it comes to issues as divisive as "puberty blockers", we can move to inform and unite, rather than labeling as "transphobic" and pushing aside. Im sure Roisin has nothing but love for all LGBT people and her concern about this comes from a place of love and not hatred.

During that first awful Covid winter of 2020-21, I’d lost my job and was (like millions of others around the world) stuck back at my parents for the foreseeable. The U.K. went back into a months-long lockdown on 4 Jan, then two days later I remember sitting watching CNN as the Capitol riots unfolded. The future seemed pretty bleak. A few days later West Yorkshire got hit with a freak snowstorm that blanketed the whole area around my parents in a few feet of snow. I remember going out as the sun rose around the moor near them, listening to The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid for hours and trudging through snow, freezing cold but feeling alive in a way I hadn’t since before covid hit. It was my first deep dive into their music and I just remember being overwhelmed with the beauty of the landscape, the music and this feeling of contentment that came over me. I felt like crying and laughing at the same time, and those beautiful sounds from Requiem For Dying Mothers that ring out over and over will stick with me forever. Thanks Brian for the amazing music of the years and rest in peace, truly.

My gf, when i asked why she was playing the new Ratboys album for the third time in a row

Meanwhile over at tnocs.com... so this is what pop music was like about twelve and a half years ago. But have you ever wondered what it was like 100 Years Ago?

Well, wonder no more! For I have written a guide to the pop sound of 1923!!!

https://www.tnocs.com/getting-down-to-the-sounds-of-1923volume-one-thats-what-i-call-jazz-dance-orchestra-music/

Why have I written a guide to the pop sound of 1923?

Turns out I'm writing a book series (!!!) (haven't got a publisher or anything yet so don't get too excited) on the History of Pop!

First volume, "From Thomas Edison to Duke Ellington" will take the story from the first record that Thomas Edison ever made - you could only play it once before it wore out but people were still pretty excited - all the way to 1930, when the Great Depression pretty much destroyed the entire industry and they had to dream it up all over again.

Which means I'm now pretty well qualified to answer all your questions about the Jazz Dance Orchestra Scene, The Sound of 1923!

Hi friends. The band I play in and write music for finally released music on streaming services. Our record comes out 9/4, but there are two songs available now, one of which I've shared below. You can also hear them wherever you stream music. As a longtime commenter, was super excited to share with the community here. Hope you enjoy! https://open.spotify.com/track/26UM8UwnMnrqvC6Z5mUf1U?si=00de308b4ae743b1

This is like a reverse milkshake duck in that he came onto the scene in the douchiest way possible and then we discover he’s a reasonable guy

Hi, this is Tom Breihan, and I just wanted to correct the record and say that David Bowie's "Jump They Say" is an 11.32.

Also, can people give me money? Thanks!

--The Real Tom B

I do give him some credit for torpedoing what could be a very profitable long-term career of pandering to the Fox News crowd.

Jumping into this mess of a comment section with a UK trans person perspective. I've been on a Gender Identity Clinic waiting list for 5 years now. 5 years, without even speaking to someone about what I'm going through. I'm an adult. I did what people like Roisin would want me to, in that I waited until I was in my early twenties, hoping that these feelings would go away. They never did. But I still can't get any support from our healthcare system, because this debate has blown up in such a heated way, specifically because of conspiracy theories like 'big pharma trying to trans your kids'. That's not happening. The waiting times are far too long for that to be the case. The reason so many queer people get so angry so quickly when a public figure jumps in on trans issues, to talk about something they admit not to know a lot about, is that it makes things even harder for trans people. And ironically, now that I'm transitioning at an older age, I get aggression in the street for how I look, for not looking feminine enough, which is a direct result of me not having control and access to healthcare when I probably should have. It's a lose lose for trans people, and if it seems like 'the nuance has gone' from this discussion, it's because we're pretty sick of having our lives dictated by people without any real skin in the game. If you really wanted kids going through gender dysphoria to be supported, you'd campaign for better healthcare systems, not try to take away what little already exists.

Oh, for fuck's sake.

It is so incredibly easy for cis people to shut the fuck up about trans issues and just let us live our fucking lives.Beyond easy, in fact.And, as a good rule of thumb: if you find yourself agreeing with Graham Linehan about something, you're probably on the wrong side of that conversation.

Lol. Me standing on stage dodging a barrage of rotten fruit being hurled: “I’m very pleased with this strong audience response”