It’s New Year’s Eve (at least in my time zone) and I’m sure none of us want to spend it thinking about MRAs or PUAs or GamerGaters. So here’s an open thread, and an assortment of 80s dance classics, to distract you! Well, they’re classics to me, anyway.
Videos after the jump.
If you’re not up and dancing by now, maybe these guys will inspire you:
Happy New Year!
Oh, and if any trolls show their heads in this thread, email the mods and we’ll get the bouncers to remove them.
And the Flying Pickets ? I think we have a lot of the same memories, Schwadevivre
Best wishes for Auntie Alias. She is definitely missed.
Alex, I’m sorry to hear about last year and happy for this one.
schwadevivre , Aww. Back when we were going to the bar Psycho Killer was our song. I played it on the jukebox every time Hubster and I went.
I also liked to play Problem by Natalia Killz. No reason. *shifty eyes*
@ gilshalos there is so much – remember “In the Air Tonight – with the gorilla on drums?”
I keep thinking of more recent covers of 80’s songs
The only one I really prefer to the original is Shake the Disease by Hooverphonic.
and I can’t think of Tainted Love without thinking of this commercial
@Schwadevivre Who could forget it 🙂 And the Spitting Image uppets for Land of Confusion video.
@opium4themasses Well, I much prefer Tears For Fears’ Mad World to Gary Barlow’s!
Oh! Sorry, misread. Thought you had said you mainly prefered the remakes :/
Haha, it’s okay. It’s not like you accused me of preferring Limp Bizkit’s “Faith” or anything.
Limp Bizkit did a cover of Faith??!!??
=O
Next think people will be saying Morrissey and the Smiths did a cover of “Oh! What a Beautiful Morning”
Huh. Apparently our old friend Peter-Andrew: Nolan (c)(tm)(r), now under a different name, has been busy.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/manbook-founder-threatens-lives-of-women-who-sign-up-for-his-men-only-facebook-clone/
And yes, manbook is about as hilarious as you might imagine, and about as terrible.
(totes relevant because for some reason he’s been flooding his site with music videos recently, because I guess only A MAN could create music videos…)
Oh my god he’s using something called “WangGuard” to block spammers. This is a thing that exists. WangGuard is being used to protect his male-only site. I am dying.
So he’s really going to piss off spammers? It is one of the times i am okay with people being a dick. I wonder if they will need to sandbox the site with condom-shield. Though you have to be careful to clear out the condom-shield cache. If you don’t clear or poison the cache with some hot source code, they might use it to spawn copies of you.
*laughing*
opium4themasses no!
*gasp*
I can’t!
*falls over laughing*
Ow!
*continues laughing*
Sandboxing would be a great idea, to protect rageful ejaculations! I’ve gotta be careful though, if I infringe on his new name he might sue me for 20 troy ounces of liquid-fucking-gold!
* “would be a great idea to protect his”
To do otherwise would be a real boner.
Auntie Alias! Let her know we miss her, and also Happy New Year! 🙂
My favourite Canadian song from the 1980s:
http://youtu.be/nM4okRvCg2g
And I forgot Nina Hagen (I have this album on CD, I wanted it on record when it originally came out):
http://youtu.be/nIDnN34ZZaE
Ooh, thanks for all the videos! I don’t remember who posted it, but prisencolinensinainciusol is one of my favorite songs ever; it’s got a great “these boots are made for walking” groove and the pseudo-American English gibberish lyrics are brilliant.
http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/Dr_33b847_376665.gif
Happy New Year, everybody!
I hope Auntie Alias feels better soon!
And I hope our friends Down Under don’t roast too long. Do you want some of our sub-freezing temperatures?
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view3/1535463/11th-doctor-dances-o.gif
(Dance like you’ve just been remembered back into existence! In time for a wedding!)
And even
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/files/2014/12/shonadance3.gif
Yes plz!
Facts I observed in a Western Australian pet kennel, holy shit, WA cats are huge. Seriously, I saw this one cat that was just an expanse of black, like space itself decided to forge itself into a kitty shape.
Also the new kitten will probably be called Abbadon, for the sheer variety of diminutives.
[pretend this is an embed of Strawberry Switchblade’s “Since yesterday” video]
http://media.tumblr.com/a225a6583a0420e05c749939976a7253/tumblr_inline_nhf498zpqw1qdlnse.gif