Meaning that his pinkie was in a woman's vagina. Are you serious?

I wonder if this dude is related to the woman that brought 2 kids to see Scream and then kept telling them not to look at the screen, but to color in their coloring books in a dark theater filled with the sounds of teenagers being disemboweled?

Incorrect.

I hate Train and I advise any other Train haters to revel in this Village Voice article "The 20 Worst Songs of 2012, #1 Train 'Hey, Soul Sister.'"

Uh no. Your analogy is apt though. Like this call to stop blaming white women, the duck dynasty guys also really liked the status quo (pre Jim Crow laws according to the interview) when it meant they were in power and could choose to ignore the needs of PoC. The thing about unity is that it calls for compromise and…

And it is just a solidly cool band name.

Oh, completely. And I don't see it as a denigration of culture necessarily. But, I do see a divide between having two equivalent cultures developing and adapting in tandem and one dominant culture picking through others and taking what suits them. I think what makes this particular phrase troubling is that it is a…

I can see your point of view. One of my students who is black said he doesn't mind if anyone says the "N" word (I can't figure out how to write that in a way that doesn't make me type the word and doesn't seem super dramatic). I think, in general, we all have different relationships with our own culture. But, I get…

But, is taking something of deep religious significance and making it into shorthand for people to use when they really like something considered a simple transformation? I would argue that it isn't and I think that is where issues of appropriation become more significant that mere adaptation.

There are at least a dozen other ignored cultures in there too. Thank you for not defending them?

Oh, no. I totally get that. Read my later replies.

Fact. I suppose forgot about the international nature of the internet.

Seriously, we have Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians to thank for the association between Auld Lang Syne and NYE.

It is a question.

That's the point of the song. The start is a rhetorical question and the song responds that you should take the time to think about times in the past and those people. The Burns poem it is a adaptation of is just about sitting down, having a pint, and giving a moment of your life to times gone by. That's why people…

Why are you repeating back to me the exact thing that my post as if we are having a conversation? And who are you disagreeing with? My comment doesn't say anything about appropriation (which it is regardless of which culture claims the greatest right to the term).

Totem doesn't feel like it could be used appropriately in this context because a totem (originally) means and animal or natural object considered as the emblem of a family or clan. That's not how spirit animal is used.

I guess he made it for a mustache competition. That is commitment

Don't ever let a good mustache go bad.

There is a pretty thorough board about it here already. Enjoy NYE as well.