You want to fuck a midwestern butch who says stuff like, ‘jump my bones’ and, ‘ope, lemme scooch behind ya there’ soooooo bad
“Dammit, the neighbor’s flashing us again”
“Dammit, the neighbor’s flashing us again”
The band, the music, the dance.
puts on sound 📣🎶🎵
Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.
1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.
2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.
3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT. To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.
4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!
5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.
All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.
I will. I will say ONE thing. As a wind instrument player, and very drunk atm for unrelated reason.
Most of the point above are correct, save for the first.
Playing in syncs with other is actually easier (Imhe, ymmv) due to a stronger base beat/rhythm/placement to follow and the ability to drop out when you need a breath knowing that there is plenty of volume to cover you and and that when you pop back in, you’ll know where you are thanks to following the players around you (and which point you then provide th same opportunity to your band mates)
The other points of course stand as posited.
They are the Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School Band, and they have the nickname “Orange Devils” (オレンジの悪魔) bc of their full-orange uniform and bc they keep wining band competitions.
And yes, these are HIGH SCHOOL KIDS.
whenever I sneeze fart I feel like a neutron star
Isn’t that a quasar
No a quasar comes from active galactic nuclei/black holes. The picture shown is a neutron star but more specifically a pulsar, which makes the original joke even funnier bc it implies that op is spinning really fast while theyre sn'farting
whenever I finally realize that one of my mutuals is a sideblog and that the random user that’s been liking my posts was my mutual all along I feel like bruce willis at the end of the sixth sense
"boohoo obi wan was such a stickler as a padawan he was all by the books and wouldn't break a rule to save his life"
my brother in christ. he was the worst one out of his entire lineage. he just learnt to poker face. man stayed behind on child soldier planet as a kid because he told qui gon to fuck off. he has never followed any rule but his own, he just knew how to lie. and also to be a bit more refined about it than his master and padawan
can people with harry potter urls just not fucking follow me
the way i am losing followers over this. GOOD. bye
just sayin'
This should be taught in school.
BTW, the high corporate and income tax rates didn't stop innovation, it spurred it.
Think about it for a moment. Do you really think that companies in the 1950s were just like "Sure, take all of our profits, Federal and State Governments! It's perfectly okay!" No, they did just as much to avoid paying taxes as they do now.
There's a thing with corporations you may have heard of called "fiduciary duty". Note: This is the simplified version and, as a legal principle, it's way more nuanced than this. But basically, It means that a corporation has a legal obligation to its shareholders to do as much as possible to make money. If they take actions that they know will lose money, this is a breach of the fiduciary duty. This is often used as an excuse for why corporations can't do obviously beneficial things because they would cost the corporation profits.
This is also precisely why higher tax rates for corporations are actually good for corporations.
Because they have a fiduciary duty to maximize their brand for shareholders, and that paying taxes to the government offers no tangible benefit to the shareholders, a corporation's best action is to avoid paying taxes.
What's the best way to maximize the brand while avoiding taxes? Spending money.
Operating expenses are deductable. That means expansions, new constructions, new products, research and development - AKA hiring more people. It also means increased wages and benefits for employees because giving workers more money gives them more spending power and improves morale and productivity, which is better than giving that money to the government.
Low tax rates discourages all of these things. Because they cost money, which reduces profits, which is a breach of fiduciary duty. So pay the workers the least you can, reduce facilities, do only the bare minimum R&D, etc.
The reason that high tax rates are better even if the corporations don't actually pay any additional tax to the government is that it forces the corporations to put money back into the economy. Sitting on cash reserves like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold actively harms the economy, but spending it helps the economy because it means the money passes through more hands.
Expansion means more people are employed. More workers means more demand for workers, which means workers can get more pay (which corporations are more likely to give because they can write it off). More pay for workers means the workers are also spending more money. This means all the companies they spend that money at also need to spend it on employee raises and benefits or expansion or other operating costs if they want to avoid paying taxes.
And yes, it does mean more revenue for the government because they can't spend all their profits on operating expenses and expansion.
[ ID 1: tweet by rachmonroe: "During the post WW2 housing crisis, when the US was short ~3.5 million homes (similar to now), President Truman signed a law capping new home prices at $10,000 - the equivalent of around $133,500 in 2022. Rents were capped at $80/month, or around $1000 in today's money."
ID 2: a set of tags by @givemeunicorns : "Eisenhower also had a 52% corporate tax rate and a 92% tax rate on people who earned more than 400k per year, about $5 million yearly in today's dollars. so when Republicans glorify the post-war era, remind them that it was good (fiscally) because those presidents taxed the rich" /ID ]
i can’t stop watching this i’m …
what the fuck
brief reminder that humans are among the best vocal mimics on Earth
This is what posting your artwork after a mutual posts a big life update feels like
i like the genre of animal photos where you can tell they just dipped their face into a carcass and they dont even care (artistic interpretation)
my tummy hurts but at least i have a medical professional (baby cat) accompanying me
hi baby cat here. we hvae to cut you in to ten million pieces with my claws forever
are yhou sure about this doctor
pawsitive