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OK, if you want something from not the 80's ...
Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (August 1998)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Verse 1]
The future teaches you to be alone
The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shoot rabbits
Then I can shoot fascists
Bullets for your brain today
But we'll forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper
Turns me into a gutless wonder
[Chorus]
And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next
Will be next, will be next, will be next
[Verse 2]
Gravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain?
Holes in your head today
But I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas
But not with real intent
[Chorus]
And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next
Will be next, will be next, will be next
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Interesting tune, it is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Tolerate_This_Your_Children_Will_Be_Next#Background
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Background
A propaganda poster reading "Madrid ' The 'military' practice of the rebels" at the top, and "If you tolerate this your children will be next" at the bottom; in the middle, a photomontage of a dead young child under a formation of bomber aircraft
The 1930s poster that inspired the song's title
The song's theme is inspired by the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of Welsh volunteers who joined the left-wing International Brigades fighting for the Spanish Republic against Francisco Franco's military rebels. The song takes its name from a Republican propaganda poster of the time written in English and displaying a photograph of a child killed by the Nationalists, under a sky filled with bomber aircraft, with the song's titular warning written at the bottom.[3]
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@#23 ... You are Spudworthy, bud. ...
I've no clue what that means.
But then you cite Erasure. Another fav of mine from the 80's.
Erasure - Sometimes (1986)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Verse 1: Andy Bell]
It's not the way you lead me
By the hand into the bedroom
It's not the way you throw your clothes
Upon the bathroom floor
[Pre-Chorus 1: Andy Bell]
Been thinking about you
I just couldn't wait to see
Fling my arms around you
As we fall in ecstasy
[Chorus: Andy Bell]
Ooh, sometimes
The truth is harder
Than the pain inside, yeah
Ooh, sometimes
It's the broken heart
That decides ...
As another data point in this discussion ...
A third of fatal crashes in CT in 2022 were caused by alcohol-impaired drivers, latest data shows
www.ctpost.com
... Connecticut has among the highest rates of fatalities related to alcohol-impaired driving in the nation, according to 2022 data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
As Connecticut grapples with another deadly year on the roads -- at least 329 deaths in traffic crashes in 2024 -- the General Assembly may take a look at bringing the drunken driving blood-alcohol threshold down to .05 from the current .08.
This is the third year in a row the state transportation department has asked to lower the drunken driving threshold. Utah passed a law in 2018 to lower their drunk driving threshold to 0.05 BAC, but all other states maintain a 0.08 threshold.
While the bill has been well received by the transportation committee over the past two legislative sessions, there has yet to be a vote in either chamber of the General Assembly, said Josh Morgan, a spokesperson for Connecticut DOT. ...
Is this thread about songs that express distaste and/or hate towards others? If so, let me begin ...
Jefferson Airplane - We Can Be Together (1969)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Intro]
We can be together
Ah, you and me
We should be together
[Verse 1]
We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
In order to survive, we steal, cheat, lie, forge, ----, hide, and deal
We are obscene, lawless, hideous, dangerous, dirty, violent
And young
[Chorus 1]
We should be together
Come on all you people standin' around
Our life's too fine to let it die
We should be together
...
We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are, we are
And we are very proud of ourselves
[Refrain]
Up against the wall
Up against the wall, -----------!
Tear down the wall
Tear down the wall
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@#10 ... "Why Is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?" ...
Trump signs more executive orders in first three years than Obama despite calling them 'power grabs' (2019)
www.the-independent.com
... 'The country wasn't based on executive orders' president told campaign rally in 2016
It wasn't too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as "power grabs" and a "basic disaster."
He's switched sides in a big way: In each year of his presidency, he has issued more executive orders than did former President Barack Obama during the same time span. He surpassed Mr Obama's third-year total just recently.
Back in 2012, Mr Trump had tweeted: "Why Is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?"
That criticism continued once he entered the presidential race.
"The country wasn't based on executive orders," Trump said at a South Carolina campaign stop in February 2016. "Right now, Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can't even get along with the Democrats, and he goes around signing all these executive orders. It's a basic disaster. You can't do it." ...
@#9 ... Honestly, none of you seem to have any knowledge of gay culture whatsoever, so I bring a little of what I grew up with. ...
The area college station and a trail-blazing regional FM station both aired what you call "gay culture" music back in the day.
Another example of what I heard back then ...
Smiths - This Charming Man (1983)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Verse 1]
Punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
When in this charming car
This charming man
Why pamper life's complexity
When the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?
I would go out tonight
But I haven't got a stitch to wear
This man said, "It's gruesome
That someone so handsome should care"
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@#9 ... I'm just exhilarated to not be mistaken for a bad AI.:] ...
That thought never crossed my mind.
But back to the thread ...
You mentioned Bronski Beat, this was the more popular tune of theirs on college radio around here ...
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 1984)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Intro]
To your soul
To your soul
Cry
Cry
Cry
[Verse 1]
You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face
[Verse 2]
Mother will never understand why you had to leave
But the answers you seek will never be found at home
The love that you need will never be found at home
[Chorus]
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away (Oooh)
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Animotion
en.wikipedia.org
...Following the departures of Antonelli and O'Brien, Smith became an official member of the band, along with new drummer Jim Blair, prior to the recording of the follow-up album, Strange Behavior (1986).
While several singles were released from this album, its success in the US paled in comparison to the debut album, whereas the band became very famous in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Africa, thanks to the LP's single "I Engineer", another Holly Knight composition which was co-written with Bernie Taupin and Mike Chapman. "I Engineer" reached the Top 20 (and sometimes as high as the Top 5) in those countries.
During 1986 and 1987 Animotion toured extensively, appearing alongside such performers as Phil Collins, Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, Genesis, Howard Jones, INXS, and Simply Red. ...
@#1 ... Hernandez had a blood-alcohol content of .20% after the crash, authorities said " more than double the state's legal limit. ...
Whoa.
blood alcohol content
www.utoledo.edu
...
Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) is a measure of alcohol in the blood as a percentage. It is calculated in grams per 100 mL of blood, so a BAC of 0.08 means your blood is 0.08% alcohol by volume. Using a breathalyzer, BAC is measured as grams per 210 Liters of breath (since the ratio of breath alcohol to blood alcohol is 2,100:1).
What do you experience at different BAC levels?
The following are predictable effects we'd expect to see at different BAC levels for a drinker who has not developed tolerance. Some of these change with tolerance; others don't (see the page on tolerance). ...
OK, the article lists the various levels, and their effects.
For 0.20% it lists ...
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.20-.24% Dazed and confused -- Gross disorientation to time and place, increased nausea and vomiting, may need assistance to stand or walk, impervious to pain, blackout likely
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And, fwiw, the chart goes up to ...
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.31% and up Coma -- Level of surgical amnesia, onset of coma, possibility of acute alcohol poisoning, death due to respiratory arrest likely in 50% of drinkers
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@#90 ... Buttigieg would have expertly handled this. ...
Apparently, he did.
I do not know of any such incidents under his watch.
So this seems to be on the Trump administration, no?