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Crossants or some other pastry (Good enough for Brun...)

Ice Cream (Specify flavour, please!)

Candy (M&Ms, etc.)

Potato Chips or Corn Snacks

Fast Food

Chocolate

Tea/Coffee

Alcoholic drink

Spathe Ham

Other

[Gyrre]

But... why so little love for candy?

Because chocolate already had its own category? Sure, candy that isn't chocolate still gets bought and eaten, but probably not in anywhere near the same quantities.

That and the broad and tasty variety of candies Japan has aren't really available abroad.

[Tova]

Candy is dandy...*, but doesn't really fall into the "comfort food" category for me.

* You know the rest, I'm sure.

[Method of Madness]

You know, I don't think I ever critically looked at that idiom, but...ew.

[Mr_Rose]

You know, I don't think I ever critically looked at that idiom, but...ew.

Isn't it just?

Also, I thought it was a lyric, not an idiom, though those may converge over time…

[sitnspin]

To be fair, if one is attempting to woo me, a bottle of scotch will win you far more points than any amount of candy. However, the intent behind the lyric is bit squick.

[Mr_Rose]

To be fair, if one is attempting to woo me, a bottle of scotch will win you far more points than any amount of candy. However, the intent behind the lyric is bit squick.

Oh yes, if we're talking gifts, sure, though my tastes run more to vodka than whisky but whatever. The context of the line however… just yikes.

On a similar but more recent note, there was a popular song recently that carried massive emphasis on the line about "never ever letting [their lover] go" which always troubled me given the tone of the rest of the track. Too many overtones of the jealous ex/stalker for me to accept it as romantic. I still don't really understand how it got so much airplay.

[bhtooefr]

There's quite a lot of popular media out there that frames stalking as proper romantic behavior.

[Morituri]

It's the sort of thing that some folks call a misaimed fandom.

Like the way Rowling wrote Malfoy as a character with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, but then a million idiots started having fantasies about him. 

Similar; Phil Collins wrote a song about a creepy stalker, and a million idiots thought it was romantic.

[DarthSox]

I think Dora's comment is strange if you think about it for more than a second. Most of what Emily explains could pretty easily be deduced from context, no? Also, I (incorrectly) thought Dora was one of the people that spotted Fairy Girl the very first time. But Hannelore, Martin*, and Claire have seen her, but none of them would have told her about this? Okay.

Unrelated, but there are more songs titled "Never Let You Go" than I knew about (I knew the Third Eye Blind one, fwiw).

*I thought longer than I needed to about whether I needed this Oxford comma or not.

[bhtooefr]

Oxford comma, yet you misspelled Marten's name.

[DarthSox]

I thought that might be the case, but Martin is a much more common spelling. Also, I just realized that I posted in entirely the wrong thread anyway.

[JimC]

I thought that might be the case, but Martin is a much more common spelling. Also, I just realized that I posted in entirely the wrong thread anyway.

Honestly, it only needed a bit if ferreting around to get the right spelling. No point pining about it now though.

[BenRG]

There is nothing more ironic than the British Army using Status Quo's You're In the Army Now, an explicitly anti-militarist and anti-war song, as the soundtrack of a recruiting advertisement.

[Method of Madness]

"Hey, Neko Ali, what have you done?"

[comicalArchitect]

There's quite a lot of popular media out there that frames stalking as proper romantic behavior.

To be fair, this very comic hasn't exactly been too hard on stalkers.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

"This is Stupid!"

-- happens to be Atomic Robo's battle cry. Just saying.

[sitnspin]

"Little sister" is slang for girlfriend.

What the absolute fuck? That's literally the LAST thing "little sister" should be slang for!

What about "daddy" and "mama"? Those are frequently used terms of endearment for couples. Then there's the weirdness of "old lady" and "old man" being used for both parents and romantic partners. Slang is even more bizarre than proper English

[Morituri]

What the absolute fuck?

I just wanted to take a moment here to thank you for not using the word 'literally' figuratively.  It literally irritates me when people do that.

[bhtooefr]

Then there's amateur radio.

Old man (or OM) == a male amateur radio operator, regardless of actual age.
Young lady (or YL) == an unmarried female amateur radio operator, regardless of actual age.
Ex-young lady (or XYL) == a married woman (whether she's an amateur radio operator or not), often in the context of a male amateur radio operator's wife. (As in, "A1BC, how's your XYL?")

(Also note that even in in-person speech, amateur radio operators will use the abbreviations. And, XYL will be used even in morse code, even though -..- -.-- .-.. (XYL) is longer than .-- .. ..-. . (WIFE) to transmit.)

[anahata]

Then there's amateur radio.

Old man (or OM) == a male amateur radio operator, regardless of actual age.
Young lady (or YL) == an unmarried female amateur radio operator, regardless of actual age.
Ex-young lady (or XYL) == a married woman (whether she's an amateur radio operator or not), often in the context of a male amateur radio operator's wife. (As in, "A1BC, how's your XYL?")

When I first saw XYL, I looked it up and found
X = interference
YL = Young Lady
...and it still made perfect sense to my youthful mind.

[sitnspin]

Ah yes, the inherent sexism that defines women by their marital status, just like the culture at large.

[Kugai]

Context is everything

(Stuck behind Spoiler Tag just to be on the safe side)

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[Perfectly Reasonable]

How often does that girl change her hair?

Guess she really likes the coffee -- since she puts up with being called 'Bleminda'. (And it's Dora who uses the name...)

(And I now make it my practice to never give my real name at coffee shops.)

[Gyrre]

To be fair, if one is attempting to woo me, a bottle of scotch will win you far more points than any amount of candy. However, the intent behind the lyric is bit squick.

Oh yes, if we're talking gifts, sure, though my tastes run more to vodka than whisky but whatever. The context of the line however… just yikes.

On a similar but more recent note, there was a popular song recently that carried massive emphasis on the line about "never ever letting [their lover] go" which always troubled me given the tone of the rest of the track. Too many overtones of the jealous ex/stalker for me to accept it as romantic. I still don't really understand how it got so much airplay.

'Payola' (sp?)

It supposedly doesn't exist and there's laws in place to try to prevent it. But half-hearted enforcement can't beat big label bribery.

[Is it cold in here?]

Global Moderator Comment

Anyone coming along later: this thread may seem incoherent towards the end because about twenty posts were split out to make a thread in ENJOY about song meanings.