A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..

[hellymedic]

Today’s Facebook ‘Short Reel’ feed brought me a a jolly band, singing in ‘What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor’ in German.

I didn’t know of any FOREIGN provenance of this shanty.

Maybe it’s been adopted...

[SteveC]

Lots of shanties can be found with the same tune, but in different languages.
Seafaring was a multinational occupation and the shanties were work songs. Didn't really matter if you couldn't understand the words as long as the rhythm was there so the team could all work together.

[T42]

According to the radio, today is the 70th birthday of Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock.

[mrcharly-YHT]

They'll probably cut out all the physics. <sigh>

Did you mean the programming references? All the stuff about powerpoint presentations, excel; many of the jokes would pass straight over people's heads.

[Steph]

This may interest folk
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cubicle-7-games/the-laundry-roleplaying-game-second-edition?ref=ksr_email_mktg_auto_user_watched_project_launched

[MattH]

There's been a fair amount of coverage on news websites about The Killers and their 2003 song Mr Brightside. Apparently it's the biggest single that didn't reach number 1, now having overtaken Wonderwall (that's sales, streaming etc. all added together since release, with the formula about a certain number of streams equalling a sale).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68920975
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tense-angry-universal-why-mr-brightside-is-song-of-the-century-3q8fw62ps

Stories say it's a cross-generational thing, that is played everywhere, and even saying it's the UK's unofficial national anthem.
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/why-hate-mr-brightside-uks-unofficial-national-anthem-3048420

I couldn't place it (the only Killers track I could name off the top of my head is Human), so went and found it on YouTube, assuming I knew it but just not the real name.
Nope. Can honestly say I don't think I've ever heard what is apparently the biggest song in the UK over the last 20 years before.

Seems like I'm turning into Wowbagger.

[citoyen]

Stuart Maconie read out my joke on the radio this morning. It's an oldie but...

He played Paul Simon's Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War. So I messaged in to say I love the song but I always thought After The War was a very strange name for a dog.

[perpetual dan]

Somehow I wasn't listening earlier, but that's surely a claims to fame post

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