Ok, so this is not an OFFICIAL Trump slogan, at least not yet. But this pic, evidently real, has been making the rounds on social media today, and if nothing else it might provide some fledgling metal band with an awesome name.
Or just a nice bumpersticker:
(I made this with Little Green Footballs’ Trump bumpersticker generator.)
I do feel obliged to note that “vagenda” isn’t original to this particular sign-maker: There was a short-lived but fairly widely loved feminist site called The Vagenda that (alas) went on what now seems to be a permanent hiatus last summer. Though I suspect that the sign-maker was not actually a fan of the site.
Meanwhile, I found this on Urban Dictionary:
Now this would be sort of super cool if it were a real thing in the world, but it’s a Fringe reference:
@ pitshade
Well that’s what she told the pick up artist, but she was probably making it up to get rid of him.
@Head
Wait, is you Bajan!? Mom’s whole side is expats in the US and UK with a few back on the island. Hiya, I’m Axe! Welcome package on the right
Thx, I try 🙂
I married an exclamation point. We’re very happy.
“Vagenda Of Manocide” would be a great name for a band.
Human library is such a great concept.
I remember hearing of a lady whose child had recently come out as trans, and she got to talk to a transman at a human library event. Apparently it was a big help, since the thing was still so new that she didn’t feel comfortable discussing it with her child directly.
Awww. I see Lars still has a little crush on me. That’s sweet, Lars!
@pitshade
So you’ve just sent me into an Iron Maiden binge. For that, I thank you. I thank you.
MAIDEN!!!
https://youtu.be/WxnN05vOuSM
I want to be Bruce Dickenson.
@ lindsayirene
Ah, but you’ll need a pilot’s licence.
(Cool pic a mate took of Ed Force One. Note Air Force One in the background)
http://i.imgur.com/8iuxWat.jpg
This pic.
I was at a Maiden concert in 2008, where they showed various footage relating to songs (ie, Cold War stuff on 2 Minutes To Midnight) on huge screens on both sides of the hall while playing. Before the show started, some of the footage was of Ed Force One landing at the CDG Airport near Paris… and Nico McBrain heading up the airport escalators with his arms loaded with bottles of wine and the largest smile I’d ever seen on a living face.
You do not get any more rock’n’roll than piloting your own tour jet. The next step is an aircraft carrier or a zeppelin. Your move, Maiden.
In retrospect, I hated the sheer amount of people in the audience (I’m used to 200 people max in the room, not 35 friggin THOUSAND) but the show itself was one of the best I’d ever seen. And I’ve been to A LOT during this short life of mine.
ETA : Also, Lauren Harris. She was there, played before her dad’s band, and it was just as awesome as the main course. She’s a freaking stage demon.
@ sinkable john
When he’s not on tour, Bruce flies planes for a small airline just for the fun of it. It’s a fine line between rock and roll and nerdy 🙂
(Not that there’s anything wrong with nerdy)
My mate works for them so I’ve tried to blag onto the plane. Not managed it yet but I have been to the place they store their gear a few times. They’ve got all the Eddies going back over the years. It’s like a cool version of Rapa Nui!
Next: Maiden is the first band to play in space. Bruce pilots Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo.
I’d heard that Bruce Dickinson moonlighted as a pilot because why the hell not. Somehow that never really surprised me. I guess Maiden was a huge part of my nerdy childhood and teenage years, that may explain all. It just… adds to the myth, y’know.
By the way, blatant bragging incoming : I actually wrote Blood Brothers before it came out. Okay, to be fair, something very similar to the bass riff from Blood Brothers, except on a guitar, and without repeating some of the notes. But basically the same notes, same pattern, different rhythm (mine was a blues song) and it’s also the only thing I wrote in my childhood that I can still play on the guitar. TWO YEARS BEFORE BRAVE NEW WORLD CAME OUT.
It’s normal for young musicians to channel Steve Harris. When Steve Harris channels you, you know you must be doing something right.
@ sinkable john & lindsayirene
This is my mate doing an impromptu photobomb.
http://i.imgur.com/au2j4qY.jpg
He had to sneak on stage when Bruce had forgotten his microphone.
That’s the level of attention to detail you want in a pilot.
ETA: You should sue for copyright infringement; it’s not like they’re short of cash 🙂
At this point they could sue me, since there’s no proof of when I wrote it. Plus with my crippled left hand, it really does sound like I learned to play two months ago, which wouldn’t help my case. Also me-from-the-past would hate me for that, because teenage crush on Lauren Harris.
Word fail:
“reflections” should really have been “illustrations”
@Axe:
Wow!
I never thought that I would “butt-up” on another Bajan here!
Good to meet you.
(I guess the “punani” bit should have been a clue, since you used it so cleverly and easily! LOL)
@Head
Cool! Grandparents moved to Murica in the 50s. I’ve only been down there once when I was 2ish. Don’t remember a damn thing unfortunately 😀
@ Axe
Is there like an American version of the Windrush generation or is your grandparents experience just a general moving thing? (if you don’t mind me asking?)
@Alan
1)you simply must stop askin me about some random British shit like I know what the fuck that is. Explain, drop a link, help a brother out 🙂
2)apparently there was a windrush deal here too (New York is closer). Couldn’t tell you whether the grands were part of it. Very late 50s early 60s (the timeline is muddled). Nor can I say why they moved except that they’d gotten married not long before
@ Axe
Heh, yeah sorry. Managed the double whammy of being the white guy telling the black guy about black history and assuming you’d know like the experience of every black person on the planet. 🙂
If you need me I’ll be on Tumbler explaining to Native American peeps what the Sundance is. (I read Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee so I can really identify you know :-))
@Alan & Axe
Much less offensive but spectacularly splainy, I recently taught a Polish guy how to drink vodka. In garbled drunk english. Because neither of us spoke the other’s language. My last name is polish and I’ve been there like… 2 weeks… when I was 7… CREDENTIALS.
@Axe specifically (it sounds like there could be a pun here but I’m too tired to find it)
Been dropping clues all over, you may eventually be able to reverse-anagramgineer my pseudonym, and thus win the whole internet.
@ Handsome Jack, regarding Leslie Jones “getting Dickhead kicked off Twitter”… (I know that’s others’ words, not yours).
My usual reply to this bullshit is to point out that all Leslie Jones did, was to bring Dickhead’s behaviour to the attention of Twitter. That’s a completely neutral action. Twitter’s reaction to Dickhead was due to Dickhead’s behaviour and was nothing to do with Leslie.
Let’s say Dickhead was not a dickhead, but a respectable person who had encouraged his followers to congratulate Leslie on her success. Let’s say she contacted Twitter and said “Because of this person, my Twitter feed is being deluged with positivity and love!” Would he have been kicked off Twitter? No, no he would not.
So why did he get kicked off Twitter? Because his behaviour was abhorrent to all decent people. Leslie Jones didn’t “get” anything done to him, he did that all on his own.
@Alan
Im imagining a hilarious blaxploitation Captain Planet. Beating up altright caricatures and callin em jive turkeys. ‘Your wokeness combined…’ ?
@John
I got your forename narrowed down to 39 possibilities and your surname to 52. Doesn’t sound like much, but those numbers started way the fuck higher. At this point it’s just guessing and checking combinations til 1 of em works…