WHATEVER WORDS I SAY

Really, Glee?

edwardspoonhands:

For those of you who haven’t heard, Glee blatantly and without pity ripped off Jonathan Coulton’s hilarious arrangement of “Baby Got Back” this week. Not like “these sound very familiar” kinda ripoffs, but a note-for-note, same banjo track, exact same tempo, also used the phrase “Jonny C’s in trouble” despite the fact that no character in the show is named Jonny C ripoff. Listen to them together on this video if you’re not convinced.

The crazy thing is…oh god, there are like seven crazy things…the MOST CRAZY thing on the list of crazy things is that Coulton’s arrangement is in the creative commons, all Fox would have had to do to make this OK would be to give attribution…they don’t even have to ask…JUST GIVE CREDIT! But apparently that was too much…real classy Fox.

Other crazy things include:

1. How lazy the cover is…clearly recording on top of Coulton’s tracks at the exact same tempo.
2. How any creator could use something so fantastic and hilarious as Coulton’s cover and not feel the need to give attribution EVEN IF IT WAS NOT LEGALLY MANDATED
3. How no one wondered, during recording, what “Johnny C’s in trouble” was referring to, as if they thought JoCo’s version was the original.
4. How no legal action will follow, because Fox is big and has lots of lawyers, and Jonathan Coulton is small and does not
5. How most people who watch Glee will think “LoL, those Glee folks are so clever” and have no idea.
6. How none of that really matters because now we all know how lazy and callous the people who produce that show are and, if we hadn’t stopped watching before, we certainly will now.
7. How they ever ever ever thought they could get away with this without catching the intense wrath of the internet. WRATH PEOPLE WRATH!!

UGH! So terrible and disappointing. And another example of how copyright law in America does nothing for anyone who needs it, and everything for the people who don’t. 

sly-mcp:

whothefuckisalexturner:

abhortion:

ginnifergoodwins:

foodtrucker:

‘it’s not cold’ said the PE teacher with a coat on

#glad to know it’s international

#’it’s just drizzling’ said the PE teacher opening an umbrella

“running for 20 minutes isn’t that bad”, said the PE teacher from the chair

‘you’ve got to stay healthy’ said the PE teacher eating a mars bar

“Being on your period is no excuse.” said the male PE teacher with no uterus.

“Exercise is important,” said the schools and they got rid of PE.

defiantdefinition:

Today, my 11 year old nephew came home from school crying. Apparently, he said he liked boys and several kids called him a faggot. I tried to comfort him, saying he was no such thing. And you know what he said? “I’m not crying for me. They just called me faggot. I’m crying for them cause they don’t understand love, and that’s sad.”
I’ve never been so fucking proud of anyone in my life.

aboutmaleprivilege:

male privilege is “i have a boyfriend” being the only response that might actually stop a guy from coming onto you, because he respects another man more than he respects your actual opinion/lack of interest. 

Except when guys get off by stealing other guys’ girls. Fuck guys.

(Source: all-about-male-privilege)

So.

I think “male privilege / whatever you wanna call it” is really about how the ‘Knocked Up’ synopsis is not about Allison. It’s about Ben.

For fun loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she’s pregnant.