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When people refer to The Beatles as The White Album , this really pisses me off. It’s one thing if different pressings refer use different titles, such as how Led Zeppelin’s 4th album is referred to by 5 different names:

 (UK)

[Image Can Not Be Found] (USA)

The New Led Zeppelin Album (Mexico)

Led Zeppelin Vol. IV

Led Zeppelin IV (ATCO)

But that’s not the case here, all pressings of The Beatles label it as The Beatles, there is not one pressing of the album that calls it the White Album . I personally make sure to refer it to The Beatles almost always, the only time I would refer to it otherwise is either if someone is confused or if I think just referring to it as The Beatles will cause confusion but even then, I will refer to it as The Beatles (also known as the White Album ).

WeepingAtlasCedars said
I think I can agree with that one. It can be so hard to find a good pair of shorts that aren’t super short. 

I recommend you wear men’s shorts, it’s not like men have to wear men’s clothing and women have to wear women’s clothing. Just be warned, it will put less emphasis on your posterior but if you’re fine with that, then you should really try it.

Necko said
A local independent single-location pizza place near me has it’s own app!

That’s because it’s so easy to make an app that just about anyone can do it, it’s like one of those cheap knockoff DVD’s.

The Hole Got Fixed said in response to an earlier post written by Silly Girl
Easy solution: Don’t floss.

OR

Don’t get braces.

Problem solved!

That’s how I would go with it but there are reasons why people would say otherwise:

1. Getting braces straighten out your teeth, so if you don’t want your teeth to look stereotypically British (I know you guys don’t all have bad teeth), then braces are for you.

2. I don’t personally floss but it helps get stuff out of your teeth, such as small pieces of food.

3. Try saying that to a dentist, she wouldn’t be happy.

Here’s quite a few:

Side A:

1. Guitar Hero’s lefty flip

Just because I’m left handed doesn’t mean I read backwards.

2. Strip clubs being referred to as gentlemen clubs

A gentleman is the gentle version of a man, someone that sits down on his porch and reads the paper while having a cup of tea, I wouldn’t use this label on someone who shoves $20 bills in a girls thong so he can get a lap dance.

3. Being left handed in a guitar store

This really sucks because despite the fact that there are hundreds of guitars to choose from for most people, you can only pick from 2 or 3 or you have to play the righties with an incorrect string order.

4. Female specific guitar books

I actually saw this at Guitar Center, How To Learn Guitar For Girls it said. The only difference between a male and a female is that a male has a penis, which has absolutely nothing to do with playing guitar, if I were going to teach a boy and a girl how to play guitar, I’d use the same method on both of them and if I did choose separate methods, it would be for different reasons like skill level or age.

Side B:

5. Donating to charities

This one may make me look like a dick but I think it’s stupid to donate to charities, especially with money and especially if it’s a charity involving a group of people that are generally accepted in society. If I’m going to give someone something, it’s going to be someone I know, I wouldn’t dare give away my money to some children’s hospital where I know nobody there, I could be using that money for something more important like paying my rent or buying food for my family, I’m not going to let my family starve and be homeless because I gave my money to help children with cancer, it’s especially stupid because money doesn’t save people’s lives, if I handed a child who’s dying of caner a $50 bill, she wouldn’t be well again, she’d still be dying.

Also, if you’re going to donate to a charity, donate to one that most people think is taboo or immoral but you support. For example, if you donate money to a gay rights charity you’re not doing much because these people are generally accepted in society and the only people who hate them are devout Christians and you’re never going to change their opinion. On the contrary, if you donate to a charity that is trying to legalize all drugs, you’re actually making a difference because most people think that legalizing drugs would be wrong and you could convince people that there are good reasons to legalize drugs, which there are, but I’m not going into it.

6. Valet parking

If TIME magazine had a top 10 most stupidest inventions of all time list, this would be at #1, what the hell is the point of having some guy drive your car 500 feet into a parking lot. Imagine driving 500 miles to go on vacation and when you’re finally at the hotel, some guy comes and drives your car into a parking lot. What’s the point, I could do that myself and there’s just as much of a chance of the valet driver messing up as me messing up. What especially pisses me off is that this guy expects a tip, like I am going to give this guy a tip for driving my car the length of a school gymnasium.

7. 8 tracks

There’s 2 things that really piss me off about 8 tracks:

A. Track rearrangement

I hate how 8 tracks feel the need to rearrange tracks around and sometimes this can break the flow. For example, the 8 track version of Sgt. Pepper doesn’t end with A Day In The Life and they split up Flick Of The Wrist and Lily Of The Valley on the Sheer Heart Attack 8 track. They say this is because they can only fit so much on each program and want to include as little silence as possible, but that’s bollocks because some 8 tracks have it where a program starts in the middle of a song, some even have both rearranged tracklisting and a song or 2 split in half.

B. Only in stereo

They really should’ve made mono 8 tracks. To understand why, you first need to know how 8 tracks work. An 8 track tape is a tape running in an endless loop that contains 8 tracks, which is 4 stereo tracks or 4 programs, you cannot start at the beginning of a track but have the option to fast forwards as well as switch between the 4 programs, at least pick one or the other.

In theory, this means they could’ve made a mono version that has 8 mono tracks and 8 programs, which you could either use at normal speed so you could put a double album on a single 8 track (similar to how The Beatles has a single reel to reel version), or for single albums you could play it at double speed, resulting in higher quality audio. I will show multiple versions of Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band for comparison:

Another good thing about this would be that it would give us 8 programs instead of 4, meaning we can switch between more points if we want to.

If you’re thinking to yourself “8 tracks were a 70’s thing, mono was non existent in the 70’s, everyone used stereo”, well then you’d be surprised to find out that 8 tracks, originally known as stereo 8 cam out in 1964, when almost everybody was mixing with mono in mind and The Beatles first released 8 tracks in 1966, so they definitely could’ve made mono 8 tracks using the above method and it would also give superior quality, so you’d be getting the best of both worlds, better audio quality and a better mix.

The phrase “everything happens for a reason”

I could understand why somebody would want to believe this if they’re going through a hard time in life, but they are lying to themselves. I do believe that sometimes bad things happen to people and good can come out of it and they can come out of the situation stronger than they went into it, but there are cases where you really can’t get any good out of the situation. Would somebody who has the belief that “everything happens for a reason” say that to a parent whose child had been kidnapped? Probably not. The reason why is because nothing good can come from a child (or really anybody) being kidnapped, and it also can’t be justified. Some things happen for no reason.  

Also, the saying “God gives His hardest battles to His strongest soldiers”

I hear this said by Christians pretty often, and to me, it makes no sense. According to the Bible, we have free will. God does not, and cannot control us. I have heard this said by assault victims, and while it’s great that they can tell themselves this and feel better about what happened, the quote is still not logical. God did not assault them; somebody else who God has no control over assaulted them. I think maybe I just don’t fully understand the saying, so one time I asked somebody who said this “if we have free will, then how does God give you the battles that were created by another human being?”, but that question got shut down by somebody else and I never got an answer. ):