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It’s one thing to see the woke agenda taken down a peg, but when they resort to stunts like this…

It’s one thing to see the woke agenda taken down a peg, but when they resort to stunts like this Bill, Steve and Scott each express nothing but anger at the organizers and sympathy for the victim of their virtue signaling.


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Okay, certainly the Finnish committee in charge of this event was stupid enough to put this person out there for whatever reason. But also remember that this person put themself into that position very intentionally, and quite possibly threatened the “committee” with charges of discrimination if they did not provide him the spotlight! Furthermore, it must be remembered that the belief in transgenderism actually making a person into something they are not, is quite simply a delusional behavior, that psychology has long identified as a serious and often dangerous mental disorder.

I was particularly proud that I support your voicing conservative outlooks when I heard you all voice compassion for this victim of transgenderism. Thank you.

I watched this and thought it was supposed to be funny. When it became obvious that these people were all dead serious and that this guy was fulfilling his(her?) lifelong dream of being an ice princess, I turned it off.
How have we allowed crap like this to become commonplace? Don’t believe your eyes, believe what we tell you to believe. What they did to this guy(he’s a guy) was pathetic.

Dude got more HONEST compassion in the few seconds that young lady helped him up than in anything since he decided to be something he’s not. The ones who allowed him to skate should be drawn and quartered, and hung in a cage to rot. This is just another case of chickening out in the face of PRIDE mafia, mobs of weird people pushing their weirdness on the world.
Scott, I’m sure had they even tried they could have found a 3 or 4 year old who could skate better. This poor guy was obviously scared to death. Lucky he didn’t p his panties, the victim of leftist sexual abuse … at his age.
I cry for the people of Finland.

I wonder if the people in charge of deciding whether he would perform were afraid of the backlash they would receive if they told him “no” for any reason.

This is the likely reason. Everyone is afraid of backlash from the unknown mob. This seems like an episode of the prankster show (Impractical Jokers) with the 4 guys making each other due silly things to win a bet.

I had no idea that this happened until y’all spoke on it and showed the clip. I will say, I came to feel the same level of embarrassment for that person as I feel when Biden gets up on a stage somewhere and loses his bearings… I have a deep amount of hatred for those who are behind this soul destruction of another person simply to push an agenda… Yes, I feel pity FOR Biden… He needs to be helped, not put on display to promote some abhorrent agenda. Same with the person who wanted to skate.

On the same vein as my comment above, I feel zero sympathy for Biden*. He is a genuinely horrible person who somebody else pointed out, “has nobody in his life who loves him enough to put a stop to this”. Nobody has contributed more than him to the current toxic political climate, and his daily embarassment is the perfect final act for him.

This is the “Look at me!” egocentricity of children. Anyone who’s raised a child or children is familiar with it. You watch your daughter pirouetting around the living room in a ballerina costume, you watch your son miss basket after basket playing HORSE on the pad in front of your garage and you tell them “You’re doing great kid!” because you want to encourage them. That’s a good thing and something you absolutely should do for your kids. It’s not lying either, because for the skill level and coordination of a child it really is doing pretty good and you KNOW that they’ll get better and better as they learn how to handle their bodies.

That egocentric “Look at me!” ceases to be positive and makes the full transition to pathetic when you see an adult doing it. “Pathetic” is always sad. Seeing this person eagerly participate in his own humiliation makes this person pathetic. He clearly never matured to the point where self respect overruled his “Look at me!” childish egocentricity.

Even more pathetic are the people who encouraged him to do that to himself. That’s not love, that’s not regard or esteem, that’s just sick and it is completely cruel. Those people should be condemned in the most vigorous terms so that they learn they didn’t ‘virtue signal’ but accomplished exactly the opposite of virtue.

This is someone’s psychosis. If it causes them embarrassment and harm I must be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove in my reaction to it. The real issue here is that a man thinks he is a woman when he is not. THE “WISE” PART ALWAYS ALWAYS COMES FIRST!
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As, to be hated needs but to be seen. Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, WE FIRST ENDURE, THEN PITY, THEN EMBRACE. Alexander Pope.

I believe ALL the woke agenda blooms from a seed of cruelty. The weapon used is fear. Using fear to “win” something for yourself is cruel, bullying and thuggery. The Left cannot win in a fair contest, so they use shame and fear, the ugly arrows of conquest.

Once again, mental illness is rampant around the world and we have no idea how to deal. Saying it’s normal isn’t kind, it’s mentally ill too.

I have an avocation that puts me in front of a moderate sizes group of people frequently. Sometimes all on my lonesome performing. I have been doing it in my amateurish way since I was in elementary school. I have been told that I am good at it and not just by my mother or my wife.
I still get quite nervous. If I miss an entrance or make a mistake, well Bill is correct, seconds seem like minutes.
I say the previous to say this. I am an amateur and have been doing it for over 5 decades. I know my skill level and would never try to perform in that type of environment. The people who encouraged this man really were cruel as they knew he was likely to fail but the woke points were worth more to them than his dignity.
That stated, as politically incorrect as it is to say but as they say where I grew up: It took some serious balls for him to get out there.
Oh, and I don’t think the young lady was coached to help him. I think she was just supposed to hand him the flag at some point but saw his distress and went in early out of compassion. Maybe the adults could learn something from her.

I wonder at some of the TV talent shows that let on people that really don’t have any skill. I thought they had off camera evaluations which should weed out these people, but wonder if they pick some that they think will make for good TV when they fail or are laughed at by the judges.

Don’t know … Maybe they just don’t get enough people with real talent? Real talent is a rare thing, much of it goes to waste.

There is also the universal truth that what looks like real, natural talent is in fact a combination of natural ability and a crap ton of hard work. This is especially true of those who make something look easy. If being proficient at something takes 10,000 hours, being in the top 1% of something takes what, 50,000 hours and even then you still need to practice and learn.
There are in fact many talented people out there and the difference between the really famous ones and the ones who eke out a living is quite often the “luck” of being in the right place at the right time. We saw a regional theater production pre-covid. The male lead had done the role on Broadway, but was now doing regional. Why he wasn’t a “star” I have no idea: he was super talented.
One of the best singers out there, most people don’t know. Her name is Morgan James and she has done some Broadway but is mostly known (now) as a featured singer for Postmodern Jukebox, a group most people don’t know but has uber talented people. They take hit songs and turn them on their sides into a different genre. Here is one featuring Morgan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq4KA0mUnC8
These folks have decent careers and she is easily a better singer than most of the hit singers out there, and she still takes lessons every week. Few would call them stars.

I heard her sing and Morgan James is awesome. She is a star. Her voice and styling are superior. Loved it. Thanks for the link.

Thanks for the link, that was great. About 5% into the video I realized it was worth flipping over to 7 channel stereo which is usually the best configuration for my system to listen to music on YouTube. YouTube’s audio is very compressed and lossy but that generally makes it the best it can be. Which is to say easily listenable.

So then, addressing Karl’s query are you saying that there are plenty of talented people out there and TV talent shows are purposely picking duds for gags and giggles? Or that the people who end up bombing have some talent but just haven’t put the work into it to get really good at it? Or something else?

I confess that entertainment as a pursuit and industry are not among the things I’d say I know a lot about.

A buddy of mine was over the other night and we were discussing the topic of period music. He was naming a bunch of artists he assumed I’d know and I had never heard of a single one of them. Total blank. Then I asked him what years those artists were popular and it turned out to be the years when I was in non-Western countries (that’s being kind btw, Trump calls them shitholes) where pop culture from the West doesn’t penetrate very far.

All the artists my friend was naming had apparently come and gone in the period when I was not where I was going to hear them. Even if I had heard their music it would have been covered by a more local group singing in the local languages.

You have never been well and truly tortured until you’ve had to hear “Undercover Angel” over and over and over again in Arabic or Hebrew. I still don’t know the original Western artist that recorded that particular earworm, it had dropped off the scene by the time I got back and I can’t generate enough interest to look them or that gawd-awful song up.

Then there’s also the ‘time warp’ factor. I haven’t listened to an FM commercial radio music broadcast in decades. So I don’t hear much music outside what’s in my collection. That collection is over 50,000 audio tracks so it’s not like I don’t have a wide variety. Still, it’s mostly stuff I’ve heard and liked at some point previous to the point where I didn’t have to listen to FM and suffer through commercial ads every 5 minutes. Every once in a while I’ll hear a tune in TV show or movie I like and I’ll go snag it.

So when it comes to things like your thread is addressing I am generally more in learning mode than sharing mode. Suggestions are always appreciated.

In the early days (maybe even first season) of American Idol, there was a guy so bad that he became a sensation. He got to audition for the judges (Simon, et al) which is a big deal as that cut is about 1% of the people who show up at a given venue. I think he was even in the finale that year (Huang, maybe)
So, yes, they let in some real duds just for the “entertainment value” of having someone who is really bad, but may not know they are really bad. Never liked this as it felt to me they were making fun of (laughing at, not with) the contestant. But people who are objectively bad keep trying out to get their 15 minutes, so what do I know about human psychology, I am just an engineer.
The other aspect is the backstory. These shows may let someone audition who has a particularly compelling back story just so they can do a three minute piece on them before they sing. Whether they get through or not is beyond the point. They want social media to blow up at the story. They frequently do get through, but sometime just miss. They want the cute story that goes viral the next day.
Guess that comes under the no pub is bad pub heading.
If I put on a radio station, it is generally the one playing classic rock, but my saved streaming stuff is much more eclectic. I truly can’t listen to today’s stuff when my kid is around. This is not a “back in my day” rant, I just think they are so worried about making hits that they forgot about making music. I can listen to a group like Postmodern Jukebox, and even if I don’t really like the song, the arrangement and talent on display and the musicality of it can be its own enjoyment.
My daughter mentioned a particular singer and how talented she is. So I listened. She has a very nice range, clearly trained, but the auto-tune is so obvious it just doesn’t sound real. (Wow, this does sound a little back-in-my-day ish) Screw it. Bring up an Ariana Grande and I will jump back with Aretha, Glady Knight, Linda Ronstadt, Ann Wilson. Heck there is a clip on YT of Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme scatting when they were announcing an award. Both in their 70s I think. Spontaneous and brilliant. These people could sing.

Thanks for explaining the process that goes into putting those people on TV. That’s interesting. It’s something I didn’t know.

Living alone, I don’t watch things that other people can watch too so I don’t see things like American Idol or Dancing With the Stars at all. I.E. if I had a wife sitting on the couch with me she’d probably get really tired of The Expanse, Yellowstone, etc. pretty fast and would want to watch something of a lighter vein now and then. Depends on the wife I suppose. I don’t have enough interest in the talent oriented shows to pick up the habit. Never got into reality TV either, except The Curse of Oak Island which I watch religiously and share that bad habit with Tyrus from Greg Gutfeld’s shows. I’m not saying I wouldn’t like them and would only watch them because that was what I and someone present could both enjoy. I just never get exposed to them.

Noone has ever said “Honey, I’m tired of science, space, swords, blood and guts and guns and bad guys and heroes, let’s watch Dancing With the Stars” … Then made me sit through an episode with them.

I can’t stand today’s music even a little bit. That might be a ‘back in my day’ thing but the only person who is near enough often enough to listen to that crap is my college age nephew. Strangely The Boy has developed a taste for my music too. He’s even got a fairly good vinyl collection and turntable. I hooked him up with some speakers (used) and a decent receiver (also used) for his apartment and he says he listens to that more than he listens to his contemporary music. So there may be some hope for the younger generations too.

My own collection includes a very wide gamut from Wagner, Bach and Mozart to Muddy Waters, Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) and Kenny G to Linda Ronstadt (her entire discography) and All the Classic Rock favorites, a big slug of Classic Country from back before they tried to make it rock-and-rollish and out to things like Chris Whitley (sorta like folk music) and Nine Inch Nails. 50,000+ tracks is a lot and it’s all stored locally. I tried streaming music and decided I couldn’t afford it and it wasn’t worth the subscription. I already have most of the things I’d listen to on a streaming service and if not, it’s easier and cheaper just to go get them and add them to my collection.

I had not thought about the bio segments they do but that is a good point. I had already found Postmodern Jukebox though I haven’t liked all of the arrangements I’ve watched. Personal taste I would have to say, already having a favorite version of a song they did and preferred the way someone else did it. Some of the a capella singers and groups I’ve found on Youtube have been amazing, the people that record a song 15 times for different voices, background sounds and effects are impressive. Home Free, Peter Hollens are two on the top of my head.

Home Free is excellent. I also like Voice Play and especially their bass singer Geoff Castellucci. He has quite a few arrangements where he sings all of the parts. Most are exceptional. Pentatonix is quite possibly still the gold standard these days of a cappella groups, and their version of “Sound of Silence” is ridiculously good, but I miss their original bass, Avi Kaplan.
Postmodern Jukebox does have some misses, I just like the concept of taking a great lyric and song and giving it a drastically different stylization. When it hits for me I frequently have a new favorite version of a song.

The style mix-up concept is one I also enjoy especially when someone takes a non-rock song and rocks it up a bit since rock my preferred style. Geoff doing four parts is one of the people I had in mind but was missing the name, (Peter Hollens does the same thing but without the base ranges) and Geoff must be multi talented since Home Free credited him with arrangements on some of their videos. He does have a thing he does sometimes that I don’t like, however… he will drop to a base range and then come back up in a way that doesn’t sound smooth. It sounds like he can hit the low notes but not hold them, while I know he can from his other songs.

When he does either a “growl” note or what he calls “vocal fry” those are hard to sustain. He also can do subharmonics, which is so wickedly cool. Basically hits a low note and then drops it an octave. Not for long, but it is an amazing thing.

Sorry, but I feel zero sympathy for this guy. Some girls I know skated while growing up and I remember the hours they gave up for practice, the too early wake ups to get to the rink, and the inconvenient travel their parents handled for their daughters. I see this dude out there and I see someone stealing an opportunity for a young woman who worked her butt off to actually earn that spot. For whatever mental issues he has, he’s also old enough to know better. I have no problem with such a selfish person getting every bit of scorn and ridicule he’s earned.

Fair points, and I’m still feeling no pity. At some point this guy has a duty to get help, and if lacks the moral compass and sees nothing wrong with a grown man stealing a once in a lifetime opportunity for a young lady then the humiliation is completely deserved.

And I’ve saif this more times than I’d care to count, but where the f*** are the feminist groups to defend women getting erased?

J.K. Rowling is making a pretty big stink about this sort of stuff. She caught hell for it at first and went dark for a while but she’s back and ticked off big-time. She’s been lighting into anyone who gives her grief about being anti-trans while still being a feminist.

So the weirdos call people like her a “TERF”, an acronym for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Well …

I don’t see how that’s an insult. Except maybe the ‘radical feminist’ bit, that’s an insult coming from me but I’m sure people like J.K. Rowling consider it a compliment. I also don’t see how any feminist of any flavor can be anything but trans-exclusionary. Those men are not females and being a effeminate male doesn’t change a single thing.

Effeminate and feminine are not synonyms. I think we should give them all a new title like DeMen (proun. DE-men) for “Deviant Effeminate Men”. Which sounds like the unmanly image they project and rhymes with Demon.

Or, instead of De-men, they are generally referred to as “Writers for The Bulwark” Ahoy!

Why not? A half black man was given a Nobel Peace Prize when he got elected POTUS and he’d done even less at that time than Twinkle Toes the Klutzy Skater Man did in this video.

10,000 ????? Wow! I’m impressed.

I had heard about some trans skater was featured somewhere. I didn’t know the full story because I didn’t care. Had no idea that this ended up happening.

That IS sad.

Gotta admit, what you ended up covering was not the first thing that came to mind when I read the headline. But you’re right. It is cruel.

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