Comments on: I’m going to whine about something

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 15:53:13 +0000

I can’t remember the last time I used that word.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:22:10 +0000

You know it, and I know it. But it still has some resonance when used to discredit a valid position.
As an earlier commenter said, call it an insult and not a rational observation and move on.

By: Rufus Firefly

Rufus Firefly — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:46:35 +0000

Tom G. Good point. Now that you mention it, that is almost definitely what they mean with that lyric. Clever.

That wasn’t their only name change, but I like all the iterations and agree that Saxa is great!

By: brdavis9

brdavis9 — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:54:49 +0000

…I was watching some episode or other of Midsomer Murders, and I heard …Barnaby? …use both whine and whinge in the same sentence.

Hmm.

Odd, that.

…so I knew I’d erred somehow and at some point.

I rather suspect it was during my Georgette Heyer period.

…which has not ended in case you briefly wondered lol.

By: brdavis9

brdavis9 — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:51:32 +0000

Whinge. ...just sayin'. ...tongue firmly in cheek.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:18:09 +0000

I clicked on that link to the YouTube and as soon as it started playing my dog came into my office to see what was going on. He looked at the computer screen and did that head-tilt thing dogs do. It was really funny – until he started whining along with the rest of them, that is.

My wife and I have discovered that if we start howling together, the dog soon joins in. It’s hilarious. I have no idea what the neighbors think but I figure that a family that howls together stays together.

Dogs are wonderful creatures.

By: Uffdaphil

Uffdaphil — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:02:46 +0000

The Stroll is by far my favorite rock and roll dance and was popular for at least ten years. A formal structure, but with each couple in the aisle doing as subtle or complicated steps as they wished. It felt like an ancient tribal mating ritual.

Many of the other dances like the Twist or Jerk were short lived as our parent’s generation hipsters like Steve Allen and Frank Sinatra gave them the kiss of death appropriating them on tv and in movies.

By: Tom G

Tom G — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:40:13 +0000

@Rufus — I also love The Beat (the “English” was added because there was some other, US band with the same name), and their old Saxophone player Saxa.

In their song “I confess” there’s a fine verse:

Night after night time time after time
Done too much of both types of whining
Still wasn’t right fight after fight
To get out of my life get away from me get away from that gun

<< where I always think of wining & dining as the other type.

There's also the joke about the Jewish American Princess and her favorite wine…
.
…
"When do we go to Miami?"
(has to be done in a high, nasaly, NY accent)

But maybe that joke has been too un-PC for so long most folk don't get it, or don't think it funny.

A huge amount of humor is making fun of other people who are different. That's no longer polite in much of America.

By: Yann

Yann — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 07:55:27 +0000

In the internet political debates, I have discovered that the best way to answer is to simply state that it’s an insult, and move on.

It is indeed an insult, it’s a way to call you “whiner” which is not better than calling you “stupid” or “retarded”. Should you argue why are you’re not retarded if somebody calls you as such?.

That cases, arguing is wasting your time. State that you have been insulted and move on.

By: miklos000rosza

miklos000rosza — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:24:16 +0000

I may not do the dance / as well as you
but you can bet / you haven’t seen nothin’ yet
until you see me do
the James Brown

…..now, where were we?

Cool Jerk, by the Capitols?
Dancing in the Street, Martha & the Vandellas?
Twist N Shout, John Lennon & the Beatles?
When You Dance, the Turbans?
Land of 1000 Dances, Cannibal & the Headhunters? (or Wilson Pickett?)

Nobody can do the Shingaling
like I do
Nobody can do the Skate
like I do
Nobody can do the Boogaloo
like I do
Nobody can do the Philly
like I do

Do you wanna dance?
— even the Beach Boys and the Mamas & the Papas softly asked us that.

James Brown opens with an emphatic HUH!
then goes on to explain and demonstrate how well he can do the Jerk, the Camel Walk, the Boogaloo and the Mashed Potato.

Dig me now
Don’t worry ’bout later

…building up, after doing the splits and bouncing back up, to the aforementioned immortal boast:

You haven’t seen nothin’ yet
until you see me do
the James Brown

{watch him in his prime, before 1968}