Afternoon Delight, another icky song like Having My Baby is. I never thought of dessert.

@lily316 Most of us also never thought of dessert but here’s that backgound tidbit in the words of an AI search ”The song's title itself was inspired by a happy hour menu at a Washington D.C. restaurant, adding to its playful ambiguity. “ AI also said the song was a one hit wonder for the Starland Vocal Band.

Afternoon Delight, another icky song like Having My Baby is.

I'm adding to the list: 'Girl, you'll be a woman soon'

That plays frequently on my playlist from Pandora, and I agree. Kinda creepy and pedo-like.

I like Afternoon Delight, it's a fresh and bouncy pop song.

"Afternoon Delight" was THE song one summer when I carpooled with two friends to work. We loved singing along. It's so bright and bouncy, good for getting us in a happy mood to work at the theme park.

I don’t mind Afternoon Delight, either.

It’s a fun, flirty little song.

A fun song that has been ruined for me is YMCA.

roxsolid - yes, me too. I wonder why…..?

I don't think there is anything in the Afternoon Delight lyrics that could be misconstrued!

I nearly choked LOL when upthread someone (can't find it now) identified 'Who let the dogs out', OMG I hadn't heard that one in ages, hope not too anytime soon....a cringe-worthy song for me despite it's happy upbeat tempo is Sweet 16 by Neil Sedaka - It's the from now on your gonna be mine to a girl who was 15 the day before. Edited to remove incorrect date.

Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, composed and sung by Neil Sedaka, was released in 1961. I looked it up only because the reference above to the 1970s seemed wrong, placing it in the wrong era of my own life.

The "from now on you're going to be mine" is not out of place in the context of the melodrama of teenage intergender relationships. Puppy love.

@roxsolid: A fun song that has been ruined for me is YMCA.

Not for me. I think it's SO funny that they don't know it's a gay anthem!

Olychick, I think it’s the visual of the new double hand movements that have been added that turns me off. 😳

Roxsolid, I guess I never watched long enough to know what those are, but I suspect they are as ridiculous as everything else of theirs. I refuse to allow co-opting of things I love.

I don't know what double hand movements are but rather than YMCA being a gay anthem, I always thought it was funny how naive people were when the group became known with YMCA and other songs, to not realize that Village People was a group of gay men. Private lives aren't my interest or concern and don't matter to me. But their getups advertised with subtlety what they wanted people to know. Most especially the guy dressed as a Leatherman with leather clothes and hat, an exposed hairy chest, chains and rivets. Duh!

YMCA is a gay anthem? I didn’t know.

But who cares? I don’t. It’s a catchy tune.

“It’s a catchy tune.”

It’s a great tune to pump up a crowd. It’s often played at sporting events! It was a great song to bring people together. And very fitting as a gay anthem.

I just feel a bit disappointed at how people have stopped acting out the letters and now just do the US prez’ and convicted felon’s double fisted pumping motion. ☹️ To me, it’s lost the fun and spirit of it and has become a joke.

@ KW PNW Z8 we can just be kindred spirits with different tastes in music. 🙂

Oh! I didn’t know about the political use of YMCA!

So yeah, it lost its appeal for me too.

Oh yes, it came out in the late 70s and The Village People most definitely had gay appeal - their other hit at the time was 'In The Navy'. We used to frequent gay disco nightclubs back then because they were so much fun and had the best dance floors.

Late 70s was the disco era and this group's sings were for sure dance songs in the disco style. . I'm sure you also heard a lot of Saturday Night Fever music, Donna Summer and songs like Funky Town, Le Freak, and so many others.

Elvis Presley's Blue Christmas. The caterwauling makes my skin crawl.

(Our botanical garden has an orchid show on, and the theme is ”Feelin’ Groovy”. The soundtrack playing is very late ’60s and 70s, and there definitely some humming along going on.)

Mainly for me it’s two commecials, one for donating your car and the other for Christmas trees. I turn the radio off or change station.

Lucille...I forgot about that, OMG!

I love S&G's "Feeling Groovy."

I was a kid when the Village People were big, we kids had no clue about them being gay we just had such fun dancing to the music and laughing and having a ball!

Sorry to interrupt this fun thread but when floral spoke about 'the' before Imperial, and I said it would sound strange to say 'the' before Stanford, why did this diatribe happen?

" it sounds strange "

The list of things like that, differences between British usage and American usage and back, can fill multiple volumes. And so what? Most are aware there are differences of expressions, word usage, grammar practices, not immediately comprehensible pronunciation (especially regional differences on both sides), and on and on.

I have a lifetime of exposure to the differences and have no interest or need to know their practices. Nor do I expect them to know ours, To suggest that our usage here is "wrong" is unnecessary and rude, and shows a lack of awareness.

A trivial example - you know the clothing/shoe brand Nike? Next time you're over there, ask someone to say brand name. For many, it's a one syllable word that rhymes with "bike". Resist the urge to say "you're saying it wrong" or "it's an American company, that's not how they refer to themself". Wrong? No, that's just how they pronounce it.

I am again, sorry to interrupt a fun thread.

Editing: I guess my point is , why be mean??

Please admit it would sound strange to hear somebody say 'the Stanford University' ... that is all.

Attempting to join in: I rollerskated to YMCA, it was very fun, I guess I was 15 or so ?

@lat62 did you do the hand motions while skating to YMCA?

Yes I did, that was so cool to me !

I was thinking that would be some impressive skating!!

High praise, thanks ! But really just silly roller rink antics , easy peasy stuff , nothing at all impressive ...just our local roller-rink

I remember a song that my dad hated and would turn off -- "Words" by Missing Persons. It's the only song I remember him doing that. (it's a great song, I always turn it up not off LOL!)

" sound strange to hear somebody say 'the Stanford University' .. "

lat 62, your question is polite and I will respond to it.

The Peanut Gallery is always on the lookout to find a comment or style issue of mine to disagree with and seems to persist even when the allegation is wrong.

You said " sound strange to hear somebody say 'the Stanford University' .. "

Here's what I said, changing the institution name to conform to what my point was

" he went back to his studies at XXX University of Minnesota and earned a PhD in Astrophysics "

Where XXX appears, would you put in a word or not? What word? I put in "the". It's awkward without it.

American language style. Nothing more or less. What's done in Britain is irrelevant because we're not there and we speak differently. The Peanut Gallery gets the day off.

Elmer, you can say the Stanford, the Harvard, the Imperial - it's okay

All I want to do is point out that if you would nicer in your responses that would be good.

The comment you made to floral is still there. When floral said her dh went to Imperial, I took it as her saying that's why it caught her eye and she was just 'clueing' you in based on knowing you cared about details. If it were me, I'd say, 'interesting, thanks for sharing' rather than what you said. I'm only trying to help, but sorry to get this thread off track.

It's been fun reading about people's 'turn it off asap' songs ! I know I have some but maybe I only know them when I hear them, if that makes sense:)) . My dh can't stand 'the little drummer boy' at christmas time, it's become a joke - I bet I have 10 versions (including a reggae number) on our Christmas ipod just to tease him :)) . He's a good sport about it

Neither name famliarity nor speaking habits should be assumed with an ocean in between. I don't think the spin you're putting on it is what happened because she persisted.

Some of my ancestors went to the School of Hard Knocks. Or did they go to The School of Hard Knocks? It really, really, really doesn't matter in either case.

Where's that dead horse meme when you need it (again)?

The Peanut Gallery collaborated to mark several of my comments and they became no longer visible.

Houzz allows for the flagging of individual comments (as opposed to a whole thread) that are hurtful, inappropriate and offensive, thereby saving a nice thread and not allow one member to deliberately bully and hurt another. It is my opinion though that flagged off threads are reviewed by Houzz and only stay flagged off (invisible) if Houzz decides they are, in fact, hurtful, inappropriate and offensive.

(We do not actually know if the allegations that the posts mentioned above were flagged by members is true, or if a moderator happened to see them and removed them sua sponte, or if indeed it happened at all).

I suggest an experiment. Collaborators, my next post will be an innocent post. Please flag it off. If it becomes invisible, it should be returned after review.

I flagged it, Lucille, and it's gone for now.

Someone paranoidly thinks there is a vast conspiracy against him having his say by an imaginary "peanut gallery" flagging things they don't agree with. I've only seen abusive, targeting posts disappear (thank you flaggers) and have no knowledge of any group doing so (tho I suppose they could exist and I haven't been invited to join).

People who don't post abusive things don't have their comments flagged it seems. Might be the way to go to avoid being flagged.

Lily thank you for participating but I still see it. I believe if it is possible to do it must be flagged by multiple people.

Okay, I just flagged it. It’s gone for me.

Lucille, I believe you (the poster) will always see it until the moderator actually removes it.

Can you see it if you sign out? You’ll then see what everyone else can see.

This is what the thread looks like to me now.

LOL Olychick! I haven’t been invited, either.

The goal of the experiment is to see whether the post, being innocent, is returned once reviewed. (If it goes into a queue it might take some time for the review to happen). I think it is removed from view of the flagger but not from everyone or else there could not be two plus flaggers, because the second flagger has to see it in order to flag it.

Those of you who no longer see it, please post if you see it returned.

Thank you to all who participate.

You’re welcome, lucille .

I realised after what you were trying to do. 🤓

I’d just like to see this nonsense stopped. ”peanut gallery” ”cool kids”…….how childish.

Oh Elmer, for heaven's sake, just stop!

Here you go, Oly.

I didn’t realize it was Troll Season again already..

I think would be helpful if those of us who came late to the conversation knew what that innocent flagged post actually said, so we can know whether we're seeing it or not.

And IMPO, it's better not to hide ugly comments - let everyone know who said what and judge accordingly.

And also IMPO, the nuances of pro-social behavior seem to be lost on some folks.