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Christmas Music
- Thread starter charles1234
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@Kelly A I don't get it.
Yes, what he did to women behind the scenes was wrong, and he deserved to be punished for it, but that shouldn't detract from his accomplishments as an actor and comedian. Yet, it's like everything that he was ever involved with has been cancelled, and it's a taboo to even mention his name.
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Yes, what he did to women behind the scenes was wrong, and he deserved to be punished for it, but that shouldn't detract from his accomplishments as an actor and comedian. Yet, it's like everything that he was ever involved with has been cancelled, and it's a taboo to even mention his name.
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Remarkable that people don’t care for people who drug and rape women.
We don’t as humans compartmentalize the atrocious, horrific acts and say, yeah, but they tipped their delivery guy really well at Christmastime. At least many of us don’t. What I see when I see his face is someone who raped multiple people and then set his lawyers and publicity hacks loose to destroy their lives when he knew damn well what he did. So would I want to watch his sitcom knowing that’s what he is? Hell no.
We don’t as humans compartmentalize the atrocious, horrific acts and say, yeah, but they tipped their delivery guy really well at Christmastime. At least many of us don’t. What I see when I see his face is someone who raped multiple people and then set his lawyers and publicity hacks loose to destroy their lives when he knew damn well what he did. So would I want to watch his sitcom knowing that’s what he is? Hell no.
South Park did a version of "Baby It's Cold Outside" featuring Bill Cosby and Taylor Swift:
Ah, my plan worked perfectly!
Evidently it did!
Other than his performance on I Spy, I've never really cared for his style anyway.
@AbrahamJSimpson You make an excellent point.
However, Phil Spector, for a somewhat relevant example, was also pretty ugly and atrocious behind the scenes (especially later in life), and he even ended up killing someone, but the public at large still regards highly his "Wall of Sound" and numerous other contributions to the music industry. Apparently people sometimes can compartmentalize these things?
Nevertheless, I have said what I said.
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Getting back on topic, I've heard "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" and "Snowfall" on Serenade Radio. Both are normally just part of a Christmas format.
Since Baby, It’s Cold Outside was brought up, how do any of you feel about it or Winter Wonderland being played on the radio after Christmas? Neither one really mentions anything about Christmas. It is cold outside and is a winter wonderland in many parts of the country right now. I would play them if I programmed an AC station—as long as it’s cold outside.
I'm personally offended at any Christmas music being played after January 1. If a radio station plays it, they should lose their license.
In my vehicle, there's this row of buttons on the infotainment system which I always have the option to press, should a song that doesn't appeal to me get played. Same on older 'radios' too, except those buttons are mechanical.
I still see Christmas decorations some places. I think it's legal until this Friday because Orthodox churches still haven't celebrated the Wise Men.
It's legal to have them up year-round unless you live in an HOA that limits them to the holiday season, and I'm not even sure that can be done without running afoul of the First Amendment.
Or because people have lives and can’t always get to putting away decorations based on some inane arbitrary deadline?
I finally took mine down yesterday. My neighbors across the street did so the day before.
Busy happens.
Didn‘t get to mine last weekend due to family obligations. Snow on the way this weekend. Screw it, they can stay out til Valentine‘s. Several of us clustered near each other still have them up, and still turn them on. Some brightness in the otherwise gray pile of suckitude that is January.
Careful! You've just opened the door to another inane "Radio should play Christmas music through all 12 days of Christmas" argument.
Let’s just go all-in and start the speculative posts about which date most stations will have started on for 2024. We’ve got like 10 months to invent reasons such-and-such will happen by such-and-such day.
I've seen more Christmas decorations still up later this year. There are some people who run them for a week or more into January, and some people don't take them down until they have time off and the weather is better, so it may still be a while considering the current conditions most places. But it looks like they could at least shut them off. And then there are the people who leave their lights up all year and just unplug them. I think that was the idea behind one of Jeff Foxworthy's You might be a redneck jokes.
I’ll leave mine on.
I have a fiend the is Greek Orthodox, and his parents still do Christmas Jan 5th like their Grandparents did. You add in the twelve days, is still Christmas.
My family kept our Christmas lights up all year and no one ever hassled us about it.