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Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy being like, "I am 100% committed to respecting your 'no', but I heard you wouldn't promise my aunt not to marry me so I had to come and check just one (1) more time."

schizoauthoress

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract. And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

darkfrog24

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio. Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons. We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

gobbochune-deactivated20241018

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them.

thesylverlining

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

ceevee5

reading-writing-revolution

I wouldn't even use 45; use 34 -- the number of felonies.

naamahdarling

#6 tho

When I hear someone saying all is lost, for us, for for them, all I hear is someone giving up on every single person in a worse position than them.

It HURTS.

Both in a wider sense, and personally, because I am almost always more vulnerable than these people, and when I am not, I do always have loved ones who are.

I have never advocated for this before, not EVER, but:

Be very careful and extremely selective where and how and with whom you process your strongest difficult feelings. Do find an outlet, you need that, but be selective, and open to the possibility that it may look different than what you are currently doing.

I am not saying this because you should be silent, or to drive you away. I'm saying it because we are heading into a difficult (not impossible) situation that's very different anything most people from the USA have experienced before, and very different rules about how we talk about things and treat each other are going to apply.

It sucks and I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm struggling with this SO MUCH. But right now you need to try, and to stand beside others, and that means not fueling their hopelessness...or causing them to push you further away because you are hurting them.

If you can't find anything to say besides something negative or hopeless, try "we are all in this together". Because it's true. And you must remember that.

We all must remember that.