Things that are WAAY overdue

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

That nativity drop in affluent cultures has already been described by psychologists as a natural effect caused by a combination of the decreased need to produce your own workforce (typically needed in agricultural settings), and the decreased need to produce offspring that will have to take care of their parents in later years. As more affluent people realize that they can hire workers and finance their own retirement, they can afford to have fewer children, and therefore simply choose not to have large families.

(Zits on a Ritz... are we still talking about kids?!?)

[GeoffC]

nah - kids are so last year's news ... move on ....

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

That nativity drop in affluent cultures has already been described by psychologists as a natural effect caused by a combination of the decreased need to produce your own workforce (typically needed in agricultural settings), and the decreased need to produce offspring that will have to take care of their parents in later years. As more affluent people realize that they can hire workers and finance their own retirement, they can afford to have fewer children, and therefore simply choose not to have large families.

(Zits on a Ritz... are we still talking about kids?!?)

That shows you how overdue this bunch thinks this subject is.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Feed the babies
who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
with no shoes on their feet
House the people
living in the street
I know there's a solution!

(Woke up listening to the Neville Brothers this morning.)

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Recently mentioned in another thread that may or may not have spun off of this one: Electric cars are so quiet they risk hitting pedestrians (who don't have the common sense to look both ways before crossing a street). This is actually also a problem with gas-powered cars, many of which make very little noise until they're right on top of you (literally!), as well as bicyclists.

Something that's waay overdue, then, is a personal collision detector that will signal you if you are on an interception course with anything bigger than and/or moving faster than you. Maybe it can be programmed with a familiar voice... I know if I heard my father's voice say "Look out, son!" I'd get outta that street fast!

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Recently mentioned in another thread that may or may not have spun off of this one: Electric cars are so quiet they risk hitting pedestrians (who don't have the common sense to look both ways before crossing a street). This is actually also a problem with gas-powered cars, many of which make very little noise until they're right on top of you (literally!), as well as bicyclists.

Something that's waay overdue, then, is a personal collision detector that will signal you if you are on an interception course with anything bigger than and/or moving faster than you. Maybe it can be programmed with a familiar voice... I know if I heard my father's voice say "Look out, son!" I'd get outta that street fast!

Needed urgently, I've been looking without success .....

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Feed the babies
who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
with no shoes on their feet
House the people
living in the street
I know there's a solution!

(Woke up listening to the Neville Brothers this morning.)

Great song!! Better than waking up to the coffee grinder and the dogs barking!

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Recently mentioned in another thread that may or may not have spun off of this one: Electric cars are so quiet they risk hitting pedestrians (who don't have the common sense to look both ways before crossing a street). This is actually also a problem with gas-powered cars, many of which make very little noise until they're right on top of you (literally!), as well as bicyclists.

Something that's waay overdue, then, is a personal collision detector that will signal you if you are on an interception course with anything bigger than and/or moving faster than you. Maybe it can be programmed with a familiar voice... I know if I heard my father's voice say "Look out, son!" I'd get outta that street fast!

I saw an add recently for a luxury car that determined if you were getting to close to a vehicle in front of you and made automatic corrections. I think the car was a Mercedes (way out of my price range) but at least automakers are thinking outside of the box. My dad's Escalade () has rear view cameras that project the view onto his navigation screen when he's in reverse. Considering the only accidents I've ever been in/caused were when I was less than careful backing up (and they happened a loooong time ago), it would be nice to have it on all cars.

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

Feed the babies
who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
with no shoes on their feet
House the people
living in the street
I know there's a solution!

(Woke up listening to the Neville Brothers this morning.)

Isn't there also a version of this song by the Steve Miller band? "Fly like an Eagle"?

Came out in 1974

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Isn't there also a version of this song by the Steve Miller band? "Fly like an Eagle"?

Came out in 1974

Same song, but I happened to listen to the Neville Brothers remake.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Waay overdue: New good protest songs! (How do you know they're good? When they're still relevant!)

60s and early 70s protest songs kicked a$$! Especially the Motown protests (Mercy Mercy Me, Ball of Confusion, Money, Make Me Wanna Holler, etc). Most recent protest songs I've heard are LAME. (I liked MJ&JJ's Scream, but the Temptations would have done it better.)

Woo!

[pshrynk]

Dear Mr President by Pink was probably the best protest song of this generation...

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Dear Mr President by Pink was probably the best protest song of this generation...

Even the title sounds LAME.

[Verencat]

Ok, I was replying this thread and my finger slipped and I lost ALL that I wrote! Since I was translating a fairly long song, I lost about 45 minutes of work!!!
Automatic saving of what we write is what we need! (or better control of our limbs?)

Starting again: Libérez-nous des libéraux (Free us from the liberals), by Loco Locass, is a great protest song here in Québec, that has been running since 2004 and is not about to go away, since the liberals were recently re-elected. I decided not to retranslate all, but you'll get the idea.



Prets pas prets la charrue Charest, acharnée, charcute en charpie la charpente
De la maison qu’on a mis 40 ans à bâtir.

Ready or not, the Charest (Qc's Prime Minister) whore, restless, butchers to pieces the frame
Of the house we took 40 years to build.

C’pas toi qui as milité pour Amir Khadir?
Maintenant la table est mise pour 4 ans à pâtir, à pâlir à vue d’œil,
Ahuris à la vue d’la bande d’abrutis qui bradent à bride abattue
Qui vendent à rabais, par la bande, c’qu’y a pas de prix
Une fois l’mandat fini, le pays ressemble d'un abatis.

Aren't you the one who militate for Amir Khadir? (leader of a left wing party)
Now the table is set for four years to suffer, to grow quickly pale,
Stupefied by the sight of the gang of idiots that sell off fast
That sell off cheaply, on the side, what has no price
Once the mandate is over, the country looks like gibblets.

Coupe sombre, coupe à blanc, Coupe Grey
"Alouette, je te plumerai"

Et pour couper court au courroux populaire,
Patapouf étouffe la foule et légifère à tombeau ouvert
Pis tout sourire, il sert la soupe populaire.

« C’est ca etre solidaire quand on a sacré tout à terre »

Drastic cuts, severe cuts, Grey cup
"Alouette, je te plumerai"

And to cut short the crowd's wrath
Patapouf (nickname given to Charest) strangles the crowd and legislate as fast as he can,
then smiling, he feeds soup to the homeless

"That's solidarity when you threw everything down"

Afin de faire taire, un argumentaire unique en terre d’Amérique.
Mais son affaire, ca fait ben trop l’affaire
des régents d’affaires,
du Canada pis du Conseil du Patronat.

Bâillon pas bâillon, je raille pareil, le patron des Patrons
« Ta yeule Taillon! »

And to shut you up, argument unique in America.
But his business, fits far too well
the business leaders
Of Canada and the Employers Consultency

Gag or no gag, I mock anyway, the boss of Bosses
"Shut up Taillon" (ex-leader of the Employers Consultency)

Hey si le dément démantèlement t’excites tellement que c’est comme de la musique à tes oreilles, comment t’aimes le tintamarre des barbares, dans tes tympans d’avare hagard?

Face à la menace de la braderie on brandit le poing de la Patrie à la face des bandits.
Face à la menace de la braderie on brandit le poing ...

Libérez-nous des Libéraux

Hey, if the crazy demolition excites you so much that it's like music to your ears, how do you like the barbarian's racket in your ears?

Facing the threat of the wholesale sell-off we brandish the Nation's fist to the face of the bandits.

Free us from the liberals.



Because of the French text, I have not used spellcheck - sorry for the possible mistakes!
The point I'm making: protest songs are still being written, but on small scales for particular causes.

[yvanleterrible]

Loco Locass is the most lucid, intelligent bunch I've ever heard. I do not like rap, but those guys are poets.

Hey, Cat! I thought you weren't a separatist? Those guys sure are!

[Verencat]

No need to be a separatist to understand the need to pull to the left! I might believe in Canada, but I don't believe in Harper!!!!

And it's Saint-Jean-Baptiste tomorrow, I always feel more politicized when it comes around