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  • Stoatmilk [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Imagine walking into a gay bar and it's just Keir Starmer dancing alone to Sweet Caroline

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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        2 months ago

        My mom went to a Sting concert a number of years ago, and I remember she told me about how she kinda laughed when the basically all-elderly audience all started dancing when the man went "♫ Who-oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York... ♫"

      • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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        2 months ago

        When I was in middle school, our gym class had a "ballroom dance" unit. The teacher was obsessed with Neil Diamond, and this was one of the songs. Another was "Beautiful Noise."

        I am still traumatized.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 months ago
    How do you get boomers to support Palestine?

    Get them to sing "Free Palestine" to "Sweet Caroline".

    • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      that actually slaps

      Free Paaaalestinee
      BAH BAH BAHHHHH
      FROM THE RIVER, TO THE SEAAAAAA (THE SEA! THE SEA! THE SEA!)

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Palestinian support suddenly massively increases among Boston Red Sox fans.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    doubt this man has never been around a non-cishet person that didn't immediately grimace the second he turned away, i guarantee it. that answer was so straight i could build a level house with it.

    • regul [any]
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      2 months ago

      "Sweet Caroline" is legit the most straight people song I can think of. Like, there are other songs (like Eminem's entire oeuvre) that may be more appreciated by specific sub-demographics, but in terms of wide-ranging straight (white) appeal, it's got to be hard to beat Sweet Caroline.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        2 months ago

        there are like three songs that every single person in a straight, white club of any variety will know the words to: "All the Small Things," "Mr Brightside," and "Sweet Caroline." ok there are more than that, but watching a lot of hammered undergrads screaming along to all three in a row at the end of a night was formative.

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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        2 months ago

        Honestly I don't think I've ever heard the original version of "Sweet Caroline" in full, I swear I have only ever heard other people referencing it

        Edit: honestly pretty good, I liked it well enough

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Surprised he didn't say Irish car bomb and "HOT TO GO!"

      ...but I guess that's more how you get thrown out of a lesbian bar in Belfast

  • Egon [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Politician who is trying to appeal to "the gays": Daiquiry and "Toxic" by Britney.

    Real answer: Negroni (it tastes bad which makes me sip it) and "Lay All Your Love On Me" by ABBA (it's fun to sing along to).

    Realest answer: Beer (it's usually cheapest by the sip) and Sweet Caroline (it's fun to sing along to)

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Hard to say what's more embarrassing between this and when he went on a BBC radio show where you choose what songs you'd take to a desert island and pretended he'd pick Stormzy.

    RE: the original question I'd get a mojito and do the whole dance from the end scene of Beau Travail comfy-cool

  • BlueMagaChud [any]
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    2 months ago

    lol, that not a gay bar Keith, that's a fucking baseball game

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    2 months ago

    I keep reading "Queer Harmer" as "Queer Hammer" and that makes me think of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer"

  • pooberbee@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Hot sake poured by a cute twink in a kimono and idk some grindcore or some bossa nova. I've never been to a gay bar, but I think I'd go to that one.

  • 2812481591 [any, it/its]
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    2 months ago

    I think I know enough about gays to say "Ranch water and Shut up kiss me", would this trick them into voting for me?

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    dancing queen, but i would only dance with a drag queen.