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posted 15-03-2010 16:47
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Not people presented as such. But the people we're supposed to like and to be like.
There can be only one, really.
She's presented as our sympathetic gateway character into this world of thwarted dreams and stifling mundanity. Confronted by the limitations of conformity and the humdrum our heroine wants more. Oh so much more. Who wouldn't?
Trouble is, she's ghastly.
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posted 15-03-2010 16:54
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I somehow managed to miss this video when it came out.
There's just so much to hate about her, from her smug face and her pseudo-lesbian dress sense onwards.
It's all very well being anti-fur, no problem with that, but the old lady's coat she rebelliously knocks onto the floor is blatantly faux so what's her problem?
Her mum's decent enough to give her a lift home, and all she can do is sit and privately sneer at her for showing a tacky floral dress she's bought to her mate.
Oh and she blatantly only got into The Smiths circa Strangeways.
I remember loads, loads of people like her at uni, and I fucking hated them all.
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posted 15-03-2010 16:55
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I guess she's the female equivalent of those quiffy twats on bicycles in that late-period Smiths vid.
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posted 15-03-2010 16:58
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We've all run away from chickens though, haven't we? She should have had her hand over her mouth, to suggest she was about to be violently ill, even though she wasn't (because chicken had been her favourite food until she'd got into Morrissey, four months previously).
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posted 15-03-2010 17:00
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This is a great guess-the-video game, for people who haven't clicked the link. Um... I'm getting an Alanis Morrisette kind of vibe; but then again, I'm not sure that the character you're describing is actually the singer, so perhaps not. I'm trying to recall instances of (faux) fur coats being knocked to the floor in pop vids, but my mind's gone blank.
[edit: chickens, huh? Curioser and curioser.]
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posted 15-03-2010 17:02
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Also, what the fuck is "greased tea" anyway? I've always wondered that. I can think of lots of ways of describing cups of tea, positive, negative and neutral, but "greased" wouldn't be anywhere near my mental Family Fortunes top 10 board.
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posted 15-03-2010 17:07
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Spearmint Rhino wrote:
Also, what the fuck is "greased tea" anyway? I've always wondered that. I can think of lots of ways of describing cups of tea, positive, negative and neutral, but "greased" wouldn't be anywhere near my mental Family Fortunes top 10 board.
I think he means tea the meal - like, greasy spoon food from a seaside caff. Except that this is mostly meat, and even the chips have probably been fried in the same oil as a bunch of animal products, so he might want to rethink that.
EDIT: describing caff sausages as "mostly meat" is pushing it a bit, I know...
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posted 15-03-2010 17:08
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Now I'm completely stuck.
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posted 15-03-2010 17:13
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"Everyday Is Like Sunday", surely?
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posted 15-03-2010 17:18
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This has potential to be a great thread, but we're gonna have to be quite tough on ourselves and restrict the scope for it to work properly.
So, no nominating the artist themselves. It has to be a third party fictional character who is blatantly intended to be noble and cool and heroic but is actually a twat.
I vaguely want to say "Alicia Silverstone in those Aerosmith videos", but I can't remember if she does anything sufficiently hateable. But the point is that videos with fictional protagonists in them aren't as common as you'd think, so it's already a limited field.
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posted 15-03-2010 17:35
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I know she might have been wronged, but I reckon Lilly Allen's a bit out of order here
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posted 15-03-2010 17:49
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So, no nominating the artist themselves. It has to be a third party fictional character who is blatantly intended to be noble and cool and heroic but is actually a twat.
There goes my Pat Benatar idea.
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posted 15-03-2010 17:50
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Did the Cars chick end up having a future in acting?
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posted 15-03-2010 17:50
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Alright then, scrap that stipulation. E10's already broken it, and it's not even my thread to be laying down the law.
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posted 15-03-2010 17:55
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I reckon SR is right on this one, the remit must be strict and narrow.
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posted 15-03-2010 17:57
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do you think that negligees were common in 1980s english mental asylums?
Watching that first video is stunning how like the burka 1980's fashion was in that it enabled you to avoid thinking about how attractive the person was. Certainly every haircut in that video seemed designed to quench your lust.
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posted 15-03-2010 18:01
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Rick Ocasek is a really odd-looking man, isn't he? The juxtaposition of "Who's gonna hold your ears when you scream?" and his scary face appearing next to the woman's hospital bed probably wasn't intended, but it made me chuckle.
Also, who's the singer with the bad hair? I thought Rick Ocasek was the singer in The Cars.
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