I Cast Fist@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days agoWhat are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse?message-squaremessage-square160linkfedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up111arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse?I Cast Fist@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square160linkfedilinkfile-text
No need to name names or sources. Mine has to be some dude that insisted that advertising is a “30,000 year old technology”
minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoPeople fixate on certain lyrics and kinda ignore the rest of the song. I knew someone who swore “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen was a dirty song because two lines could be interpreted as innuendo.
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days ago“Hallelujah” is a song about sex — but it’s not dirty sex, it’s holy sex.
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoI wouldn’t say “holy.” David’s actions with Bathsheba were explicitly not holy.
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days ago“Hallelujah” has an overt reference to the story of David & Bathsheba in the Bible, which is a story about a king watching a woman bathe and then sending her husband into an unwinnable battle so he could steal her from him.
People fixate on certain lyrics and kinda ignore the rest of the song.
I knew someone who swore “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen was a dirty song because two lines could be interpreted as innuendo.
“Hallelujah” is a song about sex — but it’s not dirty sex, it’s holy sex.
I wouldn’t say “holy.” David’s actions with Bathsheba were explicitly not holy.
“Hallelujah” has an overt reference to the story of David & Bathsheba in the Bible, which is a story about a king watching a woman bathe and then sending her husband into an unwinnable battle so he could steal her from him.