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[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I think we're heading into the season which is a bounty of some of the worst songs in the world.

I haven't worked in retail for so long but I still get the ~~thousand mile~~ thousand yard stare when the Christmas tunes start blaring.
(How do you do, fellow Americans? Today while driving my pickup truck down the freeway to the gun range this morning, I was eating my usual breakfast hamburger with Starbucks when a deer hit the hood of my car. The cops pulled me over, outraged at the harm I had caused to my car so they engaged in the typical amount of police brutality against me before I was rushed to hospital whereupon I was promptly declared bankrupt, so now I am suing the hospital, the police department, and the fish and wildlife service for damages. Just another day in America, amirite?)

There's only so many 8 hour shifts with a Christmas song rotation of like 20 songs that are all at best marginally better than this Christmas song.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 2 points 17 hours ago

Good answer. Christmas songs mostly suck already and hearing that shit starting from mid October just seals the deal.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

All I Want for Christmas is You was my nemesis. It's overproduced that when it also gets overplayed it feels like violence.

[–] rentasonder@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't beat "little drummer boy"

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why? Because baby Jesus would see your act of violence against some little kid who just wanted to play music for him?

[–] rentasonder@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean, like, you can't get worse than the little drummer boy song. Not sure if that was clear.

But yeah, I'm down to beat the little drummer boy. Either way.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're good I was just making a bad joke

[–] rentasonder@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's what i suspected! I'm just kinda bad at reading tone sometimes

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm with you there. The ability to read tone and I are acquaintances but we never got close enough to become friends.

What I did is a pretty classic jaded autist joke - so often autistic people just take so many knocks with being misinterpreted that they can go a little bit jonkler mode about it so when they see something that can be wildly misinterpreted they sometimes do so just as a kind of deep satire, like saying "This whole over-interpretation of meaning thing sucks and there's nothing I can do about it but at least I can laugh at it sometimes by misinterpreting someone else's statement to mean something outrageous as a little in-joke to myself, if nothing more"

[–] rentasonder@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I understand that! I think that's a nice way to describe it.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Little drummer boy isn't as bad as some other spanish folk Christmas songs

[–] rentasonder@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Lol fair play!

[–] someone@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

I haven't worked in retail for so long but I still get the thousand mile stare when the Christmas tunes start blaring.

Same and same. No-one who hasn't been in that situation can truly understand the trauma.

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