The 2023 Random Meme Thread

It's becoming clearer that you weren't so much dropped on the head as a baby but repeatedly slammed against the floor intentionally, and the authorities sided with your parents.

Hey Eric, how your dad doing?

You might wanna give some thought to why you seem to find "hurr hurr, I think this Black woman looks like a man" memes so appealing.

Just sayin'.

I actually have one question: When will I be able to add Weird Al to my catalogue of symphony composers?
And can we have Daniel Radcliffe conduct the ensemble while cosplaying Weird Al?

Whilst there's no disputing Al's talent, I wouldn't say he was our Mozart. Not because he's less talented than Mozart, but because unlike Mozart, Al's able to easily slip between musical genres better than Mozart was. A better version of a modern Mozart would be Barry Manilow. Hear me out.

If you asked Mozart to compose something like Beethoven's work (shaddup, I know Mozart was worm food before Beethoven showed up), it wouldn't have had the kind of sturm und drang that Beethoven could do. Just as Barry Manilow couldn't whip out an incredible death metal song that'd be mistaken for a Scandinavian death metal song. Weird Al? That motherfucker would be, "I thought you'd never ask" and immediately play something that sounded precisely like it was written by DěäthCøck.

On the otherhand, Western Classical didn't have the repertoire it does now, so Mozart, Haydn and Haydn were literally forging Classical from the rejected carcass that was Baroque (although they did dabble in fugal episodes; and the 'rejection' of Baroque-Rococo was more of a cultural shift than musical), such that Beethoven began the metamorphosis of Classical into Romanticism. (I wonder how much a certain Corsican influenced the transition from Classical into Romanticism in a general if not a musical sense)
Speaking of Baroque, JS Bach perfected the form.

FTFY

I meeeeeaaaannn...

I'm going to save this post for the next time I can't sleep.

I don't think you're comforting me at all!

I think you're just depressed that my knowledge of the history of the symphony and by extension how European geo-politics affected it makes me more of a historian than our resident historian

Most of us find Bick quite comforting.

It's honestly a little bit of a turn on.

I have to ask, what emoji is that? I have been wanting to use it for years now, and every time I look I can't find it.

: itsokay :
eta: hovering your mouse cursor over it should have shown the code, although that might not be universal for all of our emojis.

This one deserves an outing:

Narrator: That was, in fact, a trumpet.

Not sure which one of these should be the shot, and which one should be the chaser, but they definitely go together.