• lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    What happened to make it peak in the mid 70s level off for a while and then spike in the mid 90s?

  • De_Narm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Given this data, I think I can reasonably predict that lyrics of pop songs in about 20 or 30 years will mostly consist of cursing. Maybe even sooner given my personal impression of pop songs repeating their lines more often each decade.

  • kwomp2@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I never understood how “hell” and “damn” are considered forbidden words by christian-conservatives. The stem directly from their own vocabulary, they are all about those categories, yet they don’t want to see them in discourse

    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      5 months ago

      It’s the irreverence with which they are used. If the average European medieval peasant affirm their sincerity and honesty by saying “May God damn me to hell if I lie”, that’s an (implicit) oath. They’re putting their salvation on the line. That’s how serious the matter at hand is.

      If I casually say “damn, that ass”, I’m using a boiled down version of that (when the oath formula becomes so widespread, people start omitting words because everyone knows what you mean anyway, even if you just say “God Damn me” and eventually just “damn”). But I’m not doing it out of a devout belief that the thing I’m saying warrants reinforcement by invoking divine wrath. I’m abusing the sanctity of good for an entirely profane matter. I’m reducing God’s power and wrarh to a colloquial tool.

    • Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I don’t know for sure, but I believe it’s a context issue.

      There’s nothing wrong with discussing the size and consistency of my bowel movements with my doctor, but it’s probably not OK for me to do that with a stranger on the bus.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I find Frank Zappa’s opposition to censorship pretty inspiring and hope this trend continues:

    “The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened during the Regan administration is steering us right down that pipe. […] When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun.”

    • MorrisonMotel6@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, the OP (fossilesque) posts “neither meme nor science” shit all the time. Also, they’re a mod, and post their totally off topic/not meme posts regardless of complaints and reports.

      Edit:

      In fact, I believe fossilesque changed the rules of this community today or yesterday to allow infographics after I reported a post here. It was only today that I learned this person is also a moderator

      • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
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        5 months ago

        There was a time when every meme in this community felt like I was either learning something and the all the memes were of a spectacular quality. Now it just feels like shit posts mark 2

  • xionzui@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    So some time between 1975 and 2000. If only the graphs had some labels near the relevant part of the data…