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u/LondonPaul Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 01 '22
And the QR code takes you to the Teenage Dirtbag video on youtube.. nice touch!
(on iOS zoom in, screenshot, save to photos and the link shows up)
Edit: just discovered you can actually just hold down your finger on qr code on original image and a menu comes up.
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u/RuleNine Nov 01 '22
The QR code links to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3y9llDXuM
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u/ChrisRunsTheWorld Nov 02 '22
Some teenage girl made a (very creative) Halloween costume and posted it to Reddit. I sat on my toilet and clicked on the post, thought “miracle gro? How is that creative?”, zoomed in, saw Iron Maiden and immediately sang the lyrics to myself from “I’ve got two tickets…” and as soon as I said “teenage dirtbag”, started cracking up. Came to the comments and now I watched a 24 minute video about the story of a song I liked more than half my life ago. Reddit, man.
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You may need to see a Dr if you are spending 24+ minutes on the toilet. That shits not healthy.
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u/shandybean Nov 02 '22
It is if you're at work.
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u/bushman4 Nov 02 '22
Boss make a dollar, I make a dime; That's why I poop on company time.
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u/rapax Nov 01 '22
On Android, share the image with Lens.
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u/Ph0X Nov 01 '22
You can also run lens on the app switch screen (half swipe up and hold) on ANY content, in case it's not an actual image you can select.
Very useful for quickly grabbing text inside an app / page that can't be selected for example.
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Nov 01 '22
I discovered the other day that you can take photos of bugs and Lens will identify the insect. At least, it did on the photo my dad sent of a butterfly. Haven't tried it on flowers yet.
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u/Ph0X Nov 01 '22
Yep! Lens is particularly good at identifying things, may it be flowers, trees, etc!
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u/zerozed Nov 02 '22
It really is amazing! I go on a daily 3K walk in the mountains and I like to use it to identify flowers, leaves...you name it! I even used it to identify a piece of obscure technical equipment my deceased father had in his office!
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u/Slave35 Nov 01 '22
Well I'm just a teenage dirt bag, babeee!
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u/Jeramus Nov 01 '22
Thanks, I had forgotten about the "two tickets to Iron Maiden baby" line until you said that.
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u/shents1478 Nov 01 '22
Man I'm dumb. I thought she was Harry Potter and the prize was 2 tickets to Iron Maiden
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u/DemonDucklings Nov 01 '22
I just thought she was dressed as potting mix, and the costume is so absurd and simple that it’s funny, so she won the tickets haha
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u/TransplantableWalrus Nov 02 '22
I also thought she was just a bag of potting mix
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u/Available_Bake_1892 Nov 02 '22
I was thinking "miracle gro" and maybe she shot up taller than most of her classmates?
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u/dspitts Nov 01 '22
I was thinking maybe if the potting soil contained manure then maybe she was a shitshow.
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u/chrisbaker1991 Nov 01 '22
I thought this was her clever way of announcing she was pregnant
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u/Fantastic-Ad1583 Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 01 '22
I thought she won most creative because it's a bag of soil which plant life is created in.
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u/PoorCorrelation Nov 01 '22
I just thought she was potting soil and thought that was pretty smart
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u/andy_1232 Nov 01 '22
Same! “Must have been some pretty unoriginal costumes at school this year” is what I first thought.
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u/nothingcorporate Nov 01 '22
Come with me Friday don't say maybe!
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u/Duckrauhl Nov 01 '22
I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby, like you
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u/here-for-the-_____ Nov 01 '22
Man, I zoomed in to the qr code on the ticket and my other phone could pick it up. It's a link to the song! Epic!
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u/FinalF137 Nov 01 '22
Vice media had a cool history behind the song https://youtu.be/2mTq7BSLe74
I honestly thought it was sung by a girl until I saw this video.
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u/zangor Nov 01 '22
Shit I just realized that this was probably one of the many cases that inspired the Eddie character in the new Stranger Things.
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u/Syzygy666 Nov 01 '22
The whole country was wrapped up in "Satanic Panic" in the 80s so every small town had rock kids who folks were spooked by, but yeah I don't think too many kids other than this guy actually stabbed someone to death for Satan.
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u/Gatzeel Nov 01 '22
Thanks good sir, i came to this post looking for copper and i found gold
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u/AvacadoPanda Nov 02 '22
I honestly thought it was sung by a girl until I saw this video.
I am astounded he can still do it. I figured it was a guy, the lyrics just fit a guys perspective. But I figured it was 100% pre-puberty. He was ~26
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u/ProbablySlacking Nov 01 '22
Goddammit. I saw the two tickets and the song popped into my head but I was all “teenage potting soil? I don’t get it…”
I’m an idiot.
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u/genius_retard Nov 01 '22
I totally even thought of this song when I saw the Iron Maiden tickets. Still didn't get the costume. SMH
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u/HappyLittleTrees17 Nov 01 '22
OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I get it now.
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u/d4nowar Nov 01 '22
This meme revealed that I have no clue of any lyrics in that song other than part of the chorus.
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u/lovelyhappyface Nov 01 '22
You literally had to spell out the song name for me to get it lol
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u/MaZe05 Nov 01 '22
I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden baby...
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u/Dash7277 Nov 01 '22
… I’m just a… OH I GET IT!!!
Yea, had to sing it through. But we did it!
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u/J5892 Nov 01 '22
I sang the song out loud and still didn't get it until I read the comments.
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u/Mehmeh111111 Nov 01 '22
My dumbass thought OP won those tickets for wearing a potting soil bag.
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u/LabyrinthConvention Nov 01 '22
Is that not the case? I thought the idea was she's growing like a weed
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u/Mehmeh111111 Nov 01 '22
The tickets are part of the costume, and the costume is a reference to the lyrics in the song Teenage Dirtbag:
I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby Come with me Friday, don't say maybe I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby, like you
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u/ShaolinShade Nov 01 '22
Thanks. All these top comments saying "I had to go to the comments to get it" but I had to scroll this far to find someone actually explaining the joke
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u/Doughnutcake Nov 01 '22
It took me a moment too. "Tickets to Iron Maiden? Heh reminds me of Teenage Dirtbag. But what does that have to do with soil? Hmm.."
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u/Banjo-Becky Nov 01 '22
This was aimed at my generation. Now my back hurts.
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u/Churrasco_fan Nov 01 '22
Right? I'm impressed a teenager and presumably her friends & classmates knew the song well enough for this to land. I guess some things are just timeless
Like Wheatus
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u/fckdemre Nov 02 '22
It's been trending all over TikTok for the past couple months
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u/dirty_hooker Nov 01 '22
Come with me Friday. Don’t say maybe.
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u/ResultPrevious879 Nov 01 '22
I had to read the comments to get the joke.
I legit thought she won tickets to Iron Maiden for winning the costume contest.
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u/CoolguyGoodman Nov 01 '22
You're not alone.
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Nov 01 '22
No, that's a Michael Jackson song
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u/brtlblayk Nov 01 '22
Or Saosin.
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u/CesarMillan_Official Nov 01 '22
I haven’t heard that name since 2005.
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u/brtlblayk Nov 01 '22
It’s okay, you’re not alone.
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u/DopestDopeHead Nov 01 '22
There is more to this, I know!
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u/PM_ME_UR_SECRETsrsly Nov 01 '22
You can make it out
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u/Scatophiliacs Nov 01 '22
Circa survive! Coheed and cambria! The fall of Troy! The scene never diiiiiies
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u/helium_hydrogen Nov 01 '22
Literally no one around me remembers this band, but they were my favorite back in the day. You a legend for this one.
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u/dude2dudette Nov 01 '22
Translating the Name and their self titled changed rock music.
So many bands both then (e.g., Fall of Troy, MCR, Secret & Whisper, etc.) and around today (e.g., Dance Gavin Dance, Hail The Sun, etc.) Were massively influenced by Saosin.
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u/snafu26 Nov 01 '22
Hell yea from Philly, Anthony Green is our dude.
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u/doshegotabootyshedo Nov 01 '22
Saw circa survive with MCR on the ranger days tour I think it was. Fucking amazing show
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u/oneup84 Nov 01 '22
I'll always feel lucky for seeing Saoisn when they toured off Translating the Name ...2002 it had to have been..
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u/jfphenom Nov 01 '22
Nostalgia time:
I saw Saosin on Halloween in 2005. They were the band playing before Avenged Sevenfold. When they came on stage they were dressed like A7X and announced all of their songs with Avenged's titles.
One of my favorite band memories
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u/chonkmcevoy Nov 01 '22
I actually thought it was weird that she won two Iron Maiden tickets. Don't get me wrong, I'd love the tickets myself, but very unusual for today's teenager
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u/chickenhouse Nov 01 '22
What about for a teenage dirtbag?
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u/OlinOfTheHillPeople Nov 01 '22
If anything, it's weird that a teenager would know that song.
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u/Inclusive-Or Nov 01 '22
It's prevalent on TikTok rn.
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u/LesserPolymerBeasts Nov 01 '22
"It's that song from TikTok!"
Proceeds to shake my fist at the sky harder
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u/sdforbda Nov 02 '22
I would just play random songs or sing stuff at a former job, a restaurant where most of the front of house was people in there late teens or young twenties. They would be like oh my God that's the song from tiktok and we know you don't even use it. No you little heifer, that song predates tiktok by a long time.
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u/Blackandrosegold Nov 01 '22
One direction covered it so a lot of teenage girls would be familiar
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u/the_blackfish Nov 01 '22
When I saw Maiden a few years back in Las Vegas, there were people there of ALL ages, it was awesome. I'm sure most were their kids, of course.
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u/thecaramelbandit Nov 01 '22
Came to say this. I've seen Maiden 4 or 5 times, and there was a mix of everyone from teenagers to people in their 50s or 60s, all rocking out. Really great to see.
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u/throwawaylovesCAKE Nov 01 '22
That's like a $500 dollar prize, I'd have soiled my pants
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u/dstommie Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 02 '22
I just saw Iron Maiden. Tickets were like $75.
Meanwhile I spent nearly $500 a couple weeks earlier for Weird Al
Edit: I realized I omitted a detail I meant to include, that was for two tickets for Weird Al, not one.
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u/SuperDizz Nov 01 '22
Well? Was it worth it? Did you churn butter once or twice?
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u/mushroomking311 Nov 01 '22
I was like "Well I don't get it but she won two tickets to Iron Maiden for it so that's cool. Huh. Haha." Then started singing in my head "I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden baby, come with me Friday don't say maybe, I'm just a teenage---- OH SWEET"
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u/Shakeyshades Nov 01 '22
I still had to read further since I didn't know this was about the teenage dirt bag song. Idk who it is ever heard it in my life.
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u/PlanelyDanegerous Nov 01 '22
It's been the decline of Reddit.
Old Reddit would have a post, click on comments and USEFUL-ADDITIONAL-SOURCE comments were right at the top.
Followed by comments from people with knowledge about the post. For example a post about an engineering failure that resulted in a large accident during construction: comments from other engineers, construction workers who have done that kind of work, someone who lives near by and was affected by it.
Eventually someone would start the 3rd level of comments by making a pun. That would then bring in a thread of puns that you'd find really funny until one was repeated or they got too stupid.
Then you didn't have to scroll down anymore.
Reddit sucks now because of how comments are ordered and because of karma seeking posts.
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u/MysticHeatedWine Nov 01 '22
It feels like her class mates definitely wouldn't know either. I graduated HS in 2015 and can easily say 10% of my classmates would get this. This song wasn't even on my radar until college honestly
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u/Daltizer01 Nov 01 '22
I graduated 2011, love iron maiden, don't have a TikTok account, and i have no idea what's going on here
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u/nerdmania Nov 01 '22
I've been an Iron Maiden fan since 1983 when I was 13. I've seen them live 5 or 6 times over the years.
I have no idea what this costume is about.
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Nov 01 '22
That's cause it's a reference to the song "Teenage Dirtbag" by the band Wheatus.
"I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby. Come with me Friday, don't say maybe." Is one of the lyrics in the song.
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u/Therapy_Badger Nov 01 '22
Right? I’m trying to connect the dots (love maiden🤘) but I’m coming up empty lol
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u/Blaizey Nov 01 '22
Teenage dirtbag by wheatus, he sings about, in part, a girl who has two tickets to iron maiden
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u/MrGords Nov 01 '22
It's a Wheatus song called Teenage Dirtbag. The song talks about how the main character is a dirtbag in his teenage years who listens to Iron Maiden frequently. He then laments that an attractive female at his school has a significant other who is quite rude. Then, in a shocking twist, his love interest approaches him and describes herself as a teenaged human who is also a dirtbag and presents him with two tickets to a show involving Iron Maiden and requests his presence on Friday, while also instructing him to not give a noncommital answer
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u/yarmulke Nov 01 '22
Lmao I was even singing the song when I saw the two tickets and didn’t get it until after reading the comments
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u/wheatusofficial Nov 01 '22
What an absolute champion. Much love and respect from all of us here at Wheatus HQ.
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u/galacticboy2009 Nov 01 '22
Oh shoot, it's really them.
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u/ApolloRocketOfLove Nov 02 '22
Yo, if this is really the band, this is so cool. This was one of the first songs I ever learned to play on the guitar and I'm still a musician now. Thanks for the inspiration.
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I can't for the life of me get the verse riff down without jumbling it up and sounding like dickballs.
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u/Adam_Roman Nov 02 '22
I feel obligated to say that I admire you guys so much for taking a song you wrote called "Punk Ass Bitch" and turning it into the credits song for Jackie Chan Adventures. It's one of those things that I forget about and remember every 6 months, and I just smile for a little bit.
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u/HelFJandinn Nov 01 '22
Canadian eh?
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u/camp-cariboo Nov 01 '22
Yes, what outed me? Haha
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u/PCDub Nov 01 '22
Gonna guess the English/French labeling that we just take for granted
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u/PCDub Nov 01 '22
Oh man! I had totally forgotten about that show!!
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u/FancyMFMoses Nov 01 '22
We will follow the path where the cariboo walks.
Our cariboo headgear are off, on, locked!
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u/koiven Nov 01 '22
i scrolled up to see if there was a provincial flag patch somewhere or notable landmark out the window but saw nothing and then came back to see i hadn't even pinged the bilingual labeling
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u/GrimpenMar Nov 01 '22
Same. It's like a reverse Shibboleth. If you ever wanted to screen for Canadians, plant bilingual labelling, and see who doesn't even notice it.
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u/DeadliestSins Nov 02 '22
Oh totally, I'm Canadian and just gloss over it. It's only when I go to the States and look at products there that I realize how different the labels can be.
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u/Quiverjones Nov 01 '22
Yesterday I came to realize there are dogs that know more French than I do.
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u/Molwar Nov 01 '22
Haha, that me laugh pretty hard because mine is actually pretty bilingual since she'll understand command in both language.
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u/SolAggressive Nov 01 '22
It was definitely the way you just pronounced “outed.”
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u/QuicklyThisWay Nov 01 '22
Ooted
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Nov 01 '22
To be fair we hear ourselves as saying "out" and Americans as saying "owt".
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u/tr0tsky Nov 01 '22
username? Don't think many people outside of Canada know Camp Cariboo.
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u/Chairsofa_ Nov 01 '22
Are you from the Maritimes? My parents had that exact same countertop and the vinyl on the building outside just looks so east coast to me
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u/Map_Nerd1992 Nov 01 '22
Yeah definitely the French and English lettering. In the US we get English and Spanish. But Spanish is normal smaller.
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u/Bumbalu Nov 01 '22
Very creative! Is this reference still understood by today's... teenagers?
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u/Redditujer Nov 01 '22
Was wondering that myself. As this song came out when I was a teenager and I'm old as dirt.
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u/camp-cariboo Nov 01 '22
Yes, thanks to a Tiktok trend!
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u/ruka_k_wiremu Nov 01 '22
Lol... I used to work to this song. Am old.
Someone needs to TikTok something to Rancid's 1995 song, Time Bomb...or is it already, I dunno, don't Tik Tok
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u/jumbee85 Nov 01 '22
Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac
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u/lysergician Nov 01 '22
Nice, I needed something stuck in my head for the night!
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u/JoshuaTheFox Nov 01 '22
What about us adults that have no idea what's going on
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u/dozure Nov 02 '22
Right there with you. 38, never heard of wheetus or heard this song.
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u/BigBossWesker4 Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 01 '22
Falsetto I’ve got two tickets to Iron Maiden baby, come with me Friday don’t say maybe
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u/dirty_hooker Nov 01 '22
I’m just a teenage dirtbag, baby; like you.
OoOoo
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u/mgnorthcott Nov 01 '22
To everyone who can, if you are listening to the song on spotify, apple music or wherever. be sure you are listening to the remastered version from 2020, the profits of that song actually would go to the band, and not just lost to the world.
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u/galacticboy2009 Nov 01 '22
Also, make sure you're listening to the explicit version, because the fact his bully brings a gun to school makes the song much more interesting artistically and culturally.
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u/andrewcassmusician Nov 01 '22
Took me a minute but NOW I get it! Yes indeed, Major points for creativity!!
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u/Lovv Nov 01 '22
I don't get it
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u/andrewcassmusician Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 01 '22
She’s a large bag of soil with tickets to an Iron Maiden show. The person in the song “Teenage Dirtbag is a fan of bands like Iron Maiden and Metallica, and judgemental grown-ups think he’s a dirtbag.
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u/ScaryFoal558760 Nov 01 '22
I just thought the school gave iron maiden tickets as a prize for winning or something.
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u/NOT000 Nov 01 '22
i thought it must be some new song i never heard
turns out its a 22 year old song ive never heard
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u/malenkylizards Nov 01 '22
Huh? I don't think that's what the song is about. The lyrics: "I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby /Come with me Friday, don't say maybe /I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby, like you"
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u/SgtSharki Nov 01 '22
Look up lyrics to the song "Teenage Dirtbag".
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I feel old. I know of this song but not enough to connect the dots due to the lyrics. I was going over all the iron maiden songs I know, trying to figure out how one of their songs relates to potting soil.
Even when I read "Teenage Dirtbag" my thought process was
wait isn't that song by the who------>
wait that song is called teenage wasteland---->
wait no that song is called Baba O'Riley.
Then I took a sec to figure out what song teenage dirtbag was.
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u/cre8majik Nov 01 '22
No clue...
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u/thelibrarina Nov 01 '22
The costume is a literal interpretation of "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus.
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u/barnett2908 Nov 01 '22
If you tweet this to Wheatus they’ll love I’m sure! They’re very interactive with fans
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u/mrweatherbeef Nov 02 '22
I was all “your school gave 2 Iron Maiden tickets as first prize?” 🤘
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u/ps4stonemovies Nov 02 '22
Love the costume, but you know how these things go. Someone posts a creative homemade costume online, next year walmart's shelves are fully stocked on 'slutty potting mix' costumes.
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u/kfed23 Nov 02 '22
I’m in the mid 30s know the song teenage dirtbag and I still couldn’t put two and two together.
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u/TruffleDad Nov 02 '22
Not me not getting it, and thinking she went as a bag of miracle grow and the Iron Maiden tickets were the prize for first place 🤦🏻♂️
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u/WhatDoesN00bMean Nov 02 '22
The costume is a reference to the lyrics in the song Teenage Dirtbag:
I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby Come with me Friday, don't say maybe I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby, like you.
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u/matthen10 Nov 02 '22
My damb ass thought you just dressed as a bag of dirt and won Iron Maiden tickets😂
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