I had no idea about the phenomenom of that horrible song until just now when I saw the url for one of those pictures. I thought it looked like pictures of Christine O'Donnell doing silly stuff.
Do y'all say "drawers" like the Fresh Prince? I remember that episode and being surprised that people actually call underwear "drawers" and also that they would pronounce it that way.
three seconds into the song she just yells from across the room "Oh my god, we are NOT listening to this right now, are we?!"
this is at least the third time something like this has happened, although the past couple times have been passive aggressive masterstrokes. once, while me and my roommate (not her boyfriend) were watching a live Bowie concert and she went to her boyfriend "WHAT are you roommates watching?" from our kitchen, which is in the same general area as our living room, about 15 feet away from us. another time we were listening to some legit weird shit and it was understandable. but we were having fun messing around and listening to weird shit and she doesn't even fucking live here.
what really makes it worse, on a more legitimate level, is that i've seen her start fights with him that have just blown up into the worst couple fights i've ever seen. it's unquestionable that they should break up. but here we are.
no offense but you are everything that's wrong with America
I'm coming up empty on this. I'm trying to find some academic literature that deals with the effect "take it or leave it" incentives or rigid incentives have on risk taking. A psychology study or an economics study would work. A behavioral economics study would be a home run.
I guess I'm not using the correct terminology or something, because an hour and a half of searching should have produced something. Best I've got so far is a short paragraph from an ethics journal and a mention from Stiglitz in the 70's.
"Everybody's a critic. This wasn't an aesthetic endeavor."