The AH person I would most like to meet IRL is…

[EmilyMiller]

@Emilymcplugger

Just so I could find out if she's actually @EmilyMiller

No, wait. That would mean I'd have to have met @EmilyMiller first.

But, then, what if @Emilymcplugger just showed up in disguise? And how would I know that?

Maybe it was @EmilyMiller in disguise to throw me off when
@Emilymcplugger shows up NOT in disguise.

There's a simple solution to this I just can't put my finger on.

It's too early. I need coffee.
#EasilyConfused

So you want a three-way with me and my alt?

Right!



Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

In the U.K. this song by Charlene was a one-hit wonder.

I always read this line as abortion rather than contraception, TBF.

Sorry - I don’t know why I am letting a song that I naively quoted from upset me. It’s an old song. I hope we have grown.

Em

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Sorry - I don’t know why I am letting a song that I naively quoted from upset me. It’s an old song. I hope we have grown.

Em

Let’s face it…it’s no COMBINE HARVESTER by The Wurzels

 

[Djmac1031]

So you want a three-way with me and my alt?

Right!



Em

Hey now, my comment was based strictly on my need to Scooby-Doo this mystery.

Besides, if it turns out you're both the same person, I think there's too many people inside you already...

 

[EmilyMiller]

Let’s face it…it’s no COMBINE HARVESTER by The Wurzels

That sound is your comment whooshing over my head.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Hey now, my comment was based strictly on my need to Scooby-Doo this mystery.

Besides, if it turns out you're both the same person, I think there's too many people inside you already...

So if you have multiple personality disorder and masturbate, does that count as group sex?

[Way to display ND solidarity, not!]

Em

 

[Emilymcplugger]

So if you have multiple personality disorder and masturbate, does that count as group sex?

[Way to display ND solidarity, not!]

Em

No.

If it did I could cross it off my bucket list, rather than being stuck at one…including myself.

 

[HordHolm]

That sound is your comment whooshing over my head.

Em

It's a cultural icon in the UK, a tour de force for the rural community, a protest song for the ages. Freedom for Somerset!

 

[Djmac1031]

So if you have multiple personality disorder and masturbate, does that count as group sex?

More important; since you're related, does that make it incest?

(ATTENTION ALL PASSENGERS: TRAIN WILL BE DERAILING IN 15 SECONDS. PLEASE SECURE SAFETY HARNESSES. HAVE A PLEASANT TRIP.)

 

[djrip]

I had this drivel on my mind. Yes, I’m obsessive, so sue me. So they either mean:

1. She’s actually an escort - in which case, blame the supply for the demand, that makes sense!
2. She sleeps with men she is not married to, so: “Hi, I’m Emily, you can call me whore” - WTF the lyricists would make of a woman sleeping with a woman she is not married to is anyone’s guess.

It slut-shaming either way.

It’s just totally fucked up. I mean, I’m getting married and I want to have children, but that’s my choice, not because of some fucked up morality story masquerading as a song.

Is the “unborn children” an anti-contraceptive / anti-abortion stance, or am I reading too much into it.

Em

I read it as, living a life of casual sex without real relationships or family/children ends up having a cost - the character in the song realizes at the end that the cost was ending up alone without a partner or children/family. The unborn children line could certainly refer to abortion, or simply to having decided not to have children, and later wishing she had. (Referring to casual sex as whoring is pretty stupid and slut-shaming, yes, but if the word had just been 'fucking' the point could be made without that aspect.)

As a statement about how all women should be, yes, of course it's misogynistic crap. Not everyone wants kids or a long term partnership. But as the premise of a story about an individual regretting her choices, I think it could be ok. Fleshed out to a story, one could make it clear that it was just about a particular person's regrets, not a statement about women in general. And one could avoid calling casual sex 'whoring.' I guess now I'm thinking of an idealized version of the story in the song rather than the song itself. Clearly the concept is not executed well in the song.

 

[alohadave]

So if you have multiple personality disorder and masturbate, does that count as group sex?

[Way to display ND solidarity, not!]

Em

That's more of a time share situation.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I read it as, living a life of casual sex without real relationships or family/children ends up having a cost - the character in the song realizes at the end that the cost was ending up alone without a partner or children/family. The unborn children line could certainly refer to abortion, or simply to having decided not to have children, and later wishing she had. (Referring to casual sex as whoring is pretty stupid and slut-shaming, yes, but if the word had just been 'fucking' the point could be made without that aspect.)

As a statement about how all women should be, yes, of course it's misogynistic crap. Not everyone wants kids or a long term partnership. But as the premise of a story about an individual regretting her choices, I think it could be ok. Fleshed out to a story, one could make it clear that it was just about a particular person's regrets, not a statement about women in general. And one could avoid calling casual sex 'whoring.' I guess now I'm thinking of an idealized version of the story in the song rather than the song itself. Clearly the concept is not executed well in the song.

The whole thing is framed as a warning to women who are unhappy in their marriages. It’s right there in the first verse.

I know hubby is a pig, but you might end up being a hooker without him.

I guess it was a different time, with different sensibilities.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

It's a cultural icon in the UK, a tour de force for the rural community, a protest song for the ages. Freedom for Somerset!

What I said before

 

[HordHolm]

I’ve been vaguely aware of this dirge since childhood, but I just looked up the lyrics. What misogynistic BS. Written by two men!

I read it quite simply as.... 'Conform, damn you! Conform or live a life of abject misery you worthless worm....'

 

[EmilyMiller]

I derailed my own thread

 

[djrip]

The whole thing is framed as a warning to women who are unhappy in their marriages. It’s right there in the first verse.

I know hubby is a pig, but you might end up being a hooker without him.

I guess it was a different time, with different sensibilities.

Em

But if we just changed all the words...

 

[EmilyMiller]

I read it quite simply as.... 'Conform, damn you! Conform or live a life of abject misery you worthless worm....'

 

[HordHolm]

Let’s face it…it’s no COMBINE HARVESTER by The Wurzels

About a year before Woolworths bit the dust I was wandering around it with a mate looking for abstract birthday presents for his step-dad when I found a 'Best of The Wurzels' (!) cd for about three quid. Of course, I immediately snapped it up and presented it to my mother on my next visit. She gave me a 'look' (think Lady Bracknell).

 

[EmilyMiller]

About a year before Woolworths bit the dust I was wandering around it with a mate looking for abstract birthday presents for his step-dad when I found a 'Best of The Wurzels' (!) cd for about three quid. Of course, I immediately snapped it up and presented it to my mother on my next visit. She gave me a 'look' (think Lady Bracknell).

Now I get the Lady Bracknell reference, the rest????

Em

 

[Djmac1031]

I’ve been to paradise, but…

Holy fuck.

I just listen to all 3 minutes, 54 seconds of this vile piece of musical excrement.

I was a DJ for over 20 years.

I've had to listen to some of the shittiest songs ever recorded.

But this thing is simply...disturbing. On so many levels.

The message seems to be "Women, why be free to travel the world and explore multiple loves and relationships when you can be happy and content barefoot and pregnant and living in a trailer with a husband who beats you while the babies scream at you from the other room?"

Seriously, fuck this song.

 

[NoTalentHack]

So you want a three-way with me and my alt?

Right!



Em

There's a story in this somewhere.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Holy fuck.

I just listen to all 3 minutes, 54 seconds of this vile piece of musical excrement.

I was a DJ for over 20 years.

I've had to listen to some of the shittiest songs ever recorded.

But this thing is simply...disturbing. On so many levels.

The message seems to be "Women, why be free to travel the world and explore multiple loves and relationships when you can be happy and content barefoot and pregnant and living in a trailer with a husband who beats you while the babies scream at you from the other room?"

Seriously, fuck this song.

What he said!

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

There's a story in this somewhere.

I think we need to have me, EmcP and DJm tri-author it .

Em

 

[MrPixel]

Seriously, fuck this song.

Huh. Never heard this song before that I know of, and it came out when I was recently married to my first. Gawd. Totally screwed-up shit. Clicking on the trashcan icon in my cerebral cortex. [poof!]

 

[oneagainst]

Let’s face it…it’s no COMBINE HARVESTER by The Wurzels

No... damn you....

Going to bed with that song in my head. How... how could you?