User:SwitChar/Sandbox
Jus' stuff.
List of anarchists[edit]
I'm revamping the list. Here. Hop to it!
"Green Day is pure punk"[edit]
A post was made (unsigned) by User:Punk83 on the genre dispute talk page regarding Green Day. The gist is recreated below. These do not represent my opinions.
- Anyone who has not been brainwashed knows Green Day are punk rock. All their albums show this, especially American Idiot.
- The Clash, Rancid and The Stooges are not punk because they are not "hard, loud and fast", which Green Day are. "Hard, loud and fast" is the definition of punk.
- Sex Pistols are hard rock, not punk, because the lyrics are incoherent screaming.
- Sid Vicious was a skinhead because he was racist. All racists are skinheads, and vice versa. SHARPies and RASHers do not exist.
- Dead Kennedys, Anti-Flag and The Exploited are not punk, because they are racist. People like the aforementioned bands just because they're racist.
- Black Flag is heavy metal and was never punk.
- Circle Jerks are more "poppy" than Buzzcocks, Ramones, Billy Idol, Descendents or blink-182.
- Bands have to be DIY to be punk. Green Day are DIY. If you "conform" to punk standards, you are not DIY or punk.
- Punk bands have to be hated. People like Dead Kennedys, which means they are the same as the Backstreet Boys and can't be punk. People hate Green Day, making them punk.
- "Real punk" bands or artists include Ramones, New York Dolls, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Billy Idol, Social Distortion, Minor Threat, Bad Religion, Green Day, first albums of Blink 182, Descendents, Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, and not Crass, Flux of Pink Indians, Conflict or Subhumans.
Green Day is punk because they play loud, hard and fast punk rock music and have punk lyrics. They are very much hated. They are anti-war and anti-racism. Plus, has anyone heard their song "Minority"? That is what punk is all about. Even their ballad "Time of your life" sounds angry.
Futurama: "Humor"[edit]
- This is an early version of a possible section in the Futurama article covering the show's style of humour. Feel free to help.
Although the series utilised a wide range of styles of humor, including self-deprecation, black comedy, off-color humor, slapstick and surreal humor, its primary source of comedy was its satirical depiction of everyday life in the future, and its parodical comparisons of which to the present.[1] The series contrasted "high culture" and "low culture" comedy; for example, Bender's catchphrase was the insult "Bite my shiny metal ass," while his most terrifying nightmare is a vision of an Arabic numeral 2, a joke referencing the binary numeral system.[1]
[[:Image:Kleins-beer (futurama).jpg|thumb|right|170px|"Klein's Beer" is sold in Klein bottles, one of many mathematical jokes]] The series developed a cult following partially due to the large number of in-jokes, most of which were aimed at "nerds".[1] In commentary on the DVD releases, David X. Cohen points out and sometimes explains his "nerdiest joke[s]." These jokes included mathematical jokes (An "Aleph-nul-plex" appearing in Raging Bender), as well as references to quantum mechanics (Professor Farnsworth complaining that judges of a "Quantum" finish "changed the result by measuring it" in Luck of the Fryrish), quantum chromodynamics (the appearance of "Strong Force" brand glue in 30% Iron Chef), computer science (Two large books in a closet labelled P and NP in Put Your Head on My Shoulders), genetics (referring to Bender's DNA as "Robot, or RNA" in Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles), and classic science fiction - often Star Trek (many soundbytes from which are used in the series as homage), but also others - for example, the existence of a robot-dominated planet called "Čapek Nine".
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Cook, Lucius (April 26, 2004). Hey Sexy Mama, Wanna Kill All Humans?: Looking Backwards at Futurama, The Greatest SF Show You've Never Seen. Locus Online. Retrieved on January 27, 2007.