#y.m.c.a

[dduane]

...Oh really.

Willis said he wrote “Y.M.C.A.” based on what he knew about the worldwide youth organization at the time, particularly the YMCA branches in the urban areas of San Francisco. “When I say, ‘hang out with all the boys’ that is simply 1970s black slang for black guys hanging-out together for sports, gambling or whatever. There’s nothing gay about that,” he said of one of the song’s most notable lines. 

"Particularly" the branches in San Francisco??

OH COME ON NOW.

[newstech24]

A Helicopter, Halibut, and ‘Y.M.C.A’: Inside Donald Trump’s Memecoin Dinner

As US president Donald Trump left the stage at his golf membership close to Washington, DC, on Thursday evening, he pointed to the group, introduced his index finger to his temple—as if to say: You realize what’s coming—then started to bounce. To the beat of “Y.M.C.A” by The Village Folks, Trump shimmied, gyrated, and pumped his arms above his head. Wanting on had been greater than 200…

[bleedingcoffee42]

[taviokapudding]

Idgaf about Carrie Underwood

Nothing could've prepared me for The Village People choosing to perform for Trump and claiming there's nothing gay about Y.M.C.A.; they literally banned him from using their music before & claiming they don't make gay bangers is EXTREME US music history erasure

I know Republicans been erasing US history as far back as the Daughters of Confederacy, but Y.M.C.A. is explicitly a time capsule of summarizing when gay US men were cruising at YMCAs & the LGBTQ+ disco scene

Like imagine Chappel Roan saying Pink Pony Club isn't about The Abbey 40yrs later, wtf?!?

Carrie Underwood is just trying to revive her dead career with a $1 necromancer move and failing miserably, but full on US culture, disco, and LGBTQ+ histories are intentionally being altered in real time & it's horrifying

I'm genuinely flabbergasted. Maybe it's because I'm more aware about LGBTQ+ history in general than most around my age but how can elders- born from WW2 witnesses and survived multiple epidemics & pandemics, learn nothing?

Money & deals with fascists are temporary but guarantee your death in all outcomes

Bruh

[stormbreaker-290]

🎶🎵It's fun to stay at the:🎵🎶

[acrosstheuniverse02]

Walk off the Earth, Y.M.C.A

[xtruss]

The Talk of the Town: Jackie Robinson’s Second Job

By day, he played second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. By night, he sold televisions in Queens.

— By John Graham and Rex Lardner | Published: January 1, 1950 | September 3, 2023

Jackie Robinson, March 4, 1946. Photograph By Bill Chaplis/Associated Press

On learning that Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ second baseman, is spending Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings each week as a television-set salesman in the Sunset Appliance Store in Rego Park, Queens, we hurried over to the place to see how he is making out. From a talk we had with Joseph Rudnick, president of Sunset, just before Robinson appeared, we learned that he is making out fine. Rudnick, a small, alert-looking man, graying at the temples, whom we found in an office on a balcony at the rear of the store, informed us that the accomplished young man had been working there, on a salary-and-commission basis, for five weeks, and that if he liked, he could work there forever, the year around. “Business booming like wildfire since Jackie came,” Rudnick told us, looking down at a throng milling about among television sets, washing machines, and refrigerators. “Sports fans flocking in here,” he said with satisfaction. “Young persons, curious about the National League’s Most Valuable Player and one of the best base-stealers since Max Carey. Jackie signs baseballs for them and explains about the double steal. Since he’s been here, he’s sold sets to Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson, among others. The newsreel people shot him selling a set to a customer. He’s a natural salesman, with a natural modesty that appeals to buyers. The salesman wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. Campanella, Hodges, and Barney dropped by to wish him luck. Campanella’s his roomy. There’s Jackie now! With his business agent.” Robinson and a bigger, more strapping man with a florid face were making their way along the floor, the big man in the lead. “He’ll be right up,” Rudnick said. “Hangs his coat here. One other thing we do,” he went on, “when a bar buys a television set, we send Gene Stanlee over to the bar—the wrestler. Mr. America.”

Robinson and his manager for radio and television appearances came up, and we were introduced, learning that the latter’s name is Harry Solow. “Jackie don’t have to lay awake nights worrying about his condition, bucking that mob three times a week,” Solow said. Rudnick told us that Solow also manages Joe Franklin and Symphony Sid, and Solow explained that they are radio personalities. “Jackie’s all lined up for his own radio program,” he continued. “He’s mostly interested in boys’ work, though. Spends all his spare time at the Harlem Y.M.C.A.” “How I keep in shape is playing games with kids,” Robinson said in a well-modulated voice. “When I quit baseball, I intend to give it full time.” We learned that the Robinsons have a television set with a sixteen-inch screen and that their only child, three-year-old Jackie, Jr., likes Howdy Doody, Mr. I. Magination, and Farmer Gray better than anything else on video. As Robinson was about to go down to the main floor, it occurred to us to ask him if he’d developed any special sales technique. He looked surprised and replied that he didn’t think so. “If a customer is going to buy a set, he’s going to buy it,” he said philosophically. “You can’t twist his arm.” “On the other hand,” Rudnick observed, “the right angle for a salesman is the try-angle.”

We bade Rudnick and Solow goodbye and followed Robinson downstairs. A short man in a heavy overcoat got him first. He wanted to see a twelve-inch set. “There’s a bunch of them in the basement,” Robinson told him. “All playing at once.” He led the man down to the basement. We followed. It was quite dark there, but we could make out rows and rows of sets and see customers being herded from one model to another by spirited salesmen. Robinson conducted his man to a twelve-inch set, turned it on, adjusted the picture, and in rather a shout, to get his voice above the hubbub of the amplifiers, named the price and outlined the guarantee. “I like it!” the man hollered. “Could my wife work it—all those knobs?” “A child could work it,” said Robinson, and it was a deal. ♦

— Published in the print edition of the January 7, 1950, The New Yorker Issue, with the headline “Success.”

[best-of-geniusdotcom]

[on talking jive, from The Village People's "YMCA"]

[clueless-anon]

Just spent about ten minutes compiling every instance of "men" or "boys" in Y.M.C.A.

[newstech24]

A Helicopter, Halibut, and ‘Y.M.C.A’: Inside Donald Trump’s Memecoin Dinner

As US president Donald Trump left the stage at his golf membership close to Washington, DC, on Thursday evening, he pointed to the gang, introduced his index finger to his temple—as if to say: what’s coming—then started to bounce. To the beat of “Y.M.C.A” by The Village Folks, Trump shimmied, gyrated, and pumped his arms above his head. Wanting on had been greater than 200 individuals who had…

[contemplatingoutlander]

This is an amazing compilation of 1056 awful things that Trump has said or done from Feb.10, 2011 to Jan. 20, 2021. (Although it does not include the hundreds of other awful things from the past 3.5 years, the list is long enough--the PDF version is 360 pages!)

The catalog starts with Trump's questioning Obama's educational credentials on Feb. 10, 2011:

During a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump said, “Our current president came out of nowhere. Came out of nowhere. In fact, I’ll go a step further: The people that went to school with him, they never saw him, they don’t know who he is. It’s crazy.” This is false. Numerous accounts from Obama’s college classmates refute Trump’s claim, including Obama’s Columbia roommate, Phil Doerner. [color emphasis added]

And the catalog ends with Trump's behavior on Jan. 20, 2021:

On his final day in office, Trump did not invite Joe and Jill Biden to the White House, rejecting a longstanding tradition among presidents and their successors. Rather than attend the inauguration of his successor — making him the first president in modern history to skip the ceremony — Trump headed to Joint Base Andrews. There, a small crowd gathered to see him off. Not among them was Trump’s vice president. “We were not a regular administration,” Trump said in unscripted remarks. “Have a good life, we will see you soon.” As the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” played in the background, Trump then boarded Air Force One and returned to his resort in Florida. [color emphasis added]

After seeing the entire list, it is simply mind boggling that a huge segment of the American population STILL wants this guy to lead our nation--and STILL wants to give him access to nuclear codes.

Never underestimate the denial and willful ignorance of large segments of the American public.

[mahoushojo]

It's Fun to Stay at the D.W.M.A. Lyrics:

Meisters, there's no need to feel down I said Meisters, pick your Weapon off the ground I said Meisters, 'cause you're in a new town There's no need for that big frown

Miesters, there's a place you can go I said Meisters, when you're short on your dough You can learn how to use your best friend's power And then make those witches cower

It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. They have everything for Meisters to enjoy Just watch that scythe before you destroy

It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. You can hang out with Lord Death Your weapon can have a good meal, You can do whatever you feel

Meisters, are you listening to me? I said, Weapons, what do you want to be? I said, Meisters, you can make a Death Scythe of choice, But you've got to share your true voice

Meisters, you can't do it alone I said, Meisters, it's time to jump into the unknown And just go there, to the D.W.M.A. I'm sure they can help you today

It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. They have everything for Meisters to enjoy Just watch that scythe before you destroy

It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. You can hang out with Lord Death Your weapon can have a good meal, You can do whatever you feel

Meisters, I was once in your shoes, I said, I was down and out cold, turning blue I felt, no one cared if I were alive That's why, as a zombie, I arrive

That's when Lord Death came up to me And said, young Sid, take a walk up the street There's a place there called the D.W.M.A. You can teach the kids your way

It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. They have everything for Meisters to enjoy Just watch that scythe before you destroy

D.W.M.A. It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. It's fun to stay at the D.W.M.A. Meisters, Weapons, there's no need to feel down Meisters, Weapons, pick your friend off the ground

D.W.M.A. Just go to the D.W.M.A. Meisters, Weapons, I was once in your shoes, Meisters, Weapons, till I was out and turning blueee

D.W.M.A. D.W.M.A. D.W.M.A.

It's fun to stay at the DWMA.

[album-tourney]

[acrosstheuniverse02]

Walk off the Earth - Y.M.C.A.