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RIP Mr. Loaf.  Don't really know his stuff other than radio hits and being "Bob" in Fight Club.  I don't keep up w/celeb stuff well at all anymore, so didn't know he was anti-vaxx.   

 

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7 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Meatloaf died as an antivaxer? I guess we finally know what "that" is

I didn't get that vibe.  He was (allegedly) surrounded by his family when he died -- that's pretty unusual for covid, unless the patient just refuses to go to the hospital.

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I think I recall him just passing out on stage a few times in last few years.  I would think being a lifelong hefty person, with rock star indulgences, and still making 75 isn’t that bad.  

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22 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I didn't get that vibe.  He was (allegedly) surrounded by his family when he died -- that's pretty unusual for covid, unless the patient just refuses to go to the hospital.

it's not a "vibe"

 

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also, did anyone really like Meat Loaf? i mean, other than maybe drunkin' karaoke or to earworm torture a friend, did we really lose a bright one? I'm thinking no. Most people under 40 have probably never heard of him. Oh well, moving on.

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56 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

also, did anyone really like Meat Loaf? i mean, other than maybe drunkin' karaoke or to earworm torture a friend, did we really lose a bright one? I'm thinking no. Most people under 40 have probably never heard of him. Oh well, moving on.

If you're at a college bar and "Paradise" comes on, every sorority girl in the place will lock arms and sing it.

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7 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

If you're at a college bar and "Paradise" comes on, every sorority girl in the place will lock arms and sing it.

that is not what I am looking for when I go to a college bar. in fact, it would cause me to leave

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I thought he did more than just play a part in Rocky Horror Picture Show so I was going to say maybe that for a very small subset of people (mostly a certain type of person in  Gen X and older), but I never really understood that phenomenon either, so yeah, I'm with you.  I have periodically since they passed thought of a Prince or a George Michael or a Kenny Rogers and been sad they died and played one of their songs in tribute.  That won't ever happen for anything he ever did.

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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

So, apparently the thing he wouldn't do for love was.....get vaccinated?

Maybe he's running right into hell and back?

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4 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I didn't want to step on the tribute thread in Music, but man, I hated that guy's music.  Don't wish dying on anyone, but it happens.

Rocked up Show Tunes. 

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11 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

 

She capitalized almost every word and didn’t use spaces after commas.  Covid is too good for her.

why are or, every, and other not capitalized?

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11 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

 

 

Acording to wikipedia Cher is 75 now.  She's not imagining more people of her generation and older within the arts dying.  Covid related or not.   I'm in early 50s and have already noticed it.  Getting older as the inevitable dead end roller coaster approaches its final stop isn't all that fun to think about. 

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also, did anyone really like Meat Loaf? i mean, other than maybe drunkin' karaoke or to earworm torture a friend, did we really lose a bright one? I'm thinking no. Most people under 40 have probably never heard of him. Oh well, moving on.
On of my ex girlfriends back in the day loved his shit. Kinda of a large part of why I ended things.
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On 1/18/2022 at 5:49 PM, bolverk said:

 

What We Know About COVID and Penis Size as Man Says It Shrunk His Genitals

Anecdotal reports have emerged from men who say their penis has decreased in size after having COVID—but it's uncertain how widespread it is.

The topic was highlighted this week in the How To Do It sexual advice podcast by Slate, in which a man got in contact to say that he had lost "about an inch and a half" of length from his penis after catching COVID.

He added: "It's apparently due to vascular damage, and my doctors seem to think it's likely permanent."

It's not the only such report. A study published in The Lancet medical journal last year looked at over 3,700 people with confirmed or suspected long-term COVID with illness lasting over 28 days. It identified more than 200 potential symptoms from several different areas of the body.

Among them were reports of "decrease in size of testicles/penis," though these were reported in a small minority of respondents—less than 10 percent.

Charles Welliver, a men's health specialist and urologist at Albany Medical College, said on the How To Do It podcast that COVID has been linked to erectile dysfunction, which itself is linked to a decrease in penis size.

"Probably every guy that has significant ED… probably gets some shrinkage. We see that, particularly in guys after they have their prostate out for cancer and have zero erection for 6 to 12 weeks. They all get shrinkage," he said.

Ashley G. Winter, a urologist at the Kaiser Permanente healthcare company, also spoke on the podcast to state that negative effects of COVID on the penis may be to do with something called endothelial dysfunction—a term referring to impaired functioning of the lining of blood vessels.

This relates to the penis and erections because erections are blood flow events. Winter said: "You get hard because a whole bunch of blood moves into your penis and stays there. When those blood vessels are affected, you know, then you can get the erectile dysfunction."

A May 2021 study on COVID and erectile dysfunction published in The World Journal of Men's Health concluded that it had found evidence of COVID-19 in the human penis long after the initial infection had occurred, and suggested that the virus' effect on blood flow in the penis could result in impaired erectile function.

Still, Welliver noted that it is not known exactly how widespread the issue is since the total number of males with COVID is uncertain due to asymptomatic cases.

Conversely, there was a report in 2020 of a man who experienced a long-lasting erection for hours due to a blood clot linked to COVID.

 

So add COVID and LA weather dipping down into the brisk fifties to the list of weenie shrinking events.

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UPDATE: they are just keeping my uncle 'alive' on life support until all of his children can get there to say their goodbyes. my wife and i were up late last night talking about all of this and i asked her to go to their FB pages so i could see what they were posting...my aunt's last post was some meme about folks with vaccines getting conned. it had one like, from my uncle.

ignorance kills.

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UPDATE: they are just keeping my uncle 'alive' on life support until all of his children can get there to say their goodbyes. my wife and i were up late last night talking about all of this and i asked her to go to their FB pages so i could see what they were posting...my aunt's last post was some meme about folks with vaccines getting conned. it had one like, from my uncle.
ignorance kills.

Jesus.

Willing to literally die instead of admitting you were wrong.

There are a thousand future PhD dissertations about that phenomenon just waiting to be written.

I’m sorry to hear this for your family.
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On 1/18/2022 at 9:30 PM, Lobo said:

Isn't there some other metric where you "gain" like an inch for every 30 pounds you lose?  I mean, your dick doesn't actually grow but the lower pelvic fat around it shrinks away, revealing a previously dormant portion of your dick.  I dunno if that's late-night extenze bullshit, but does seem somewhat valid.  Maybe that counteract the inch you lose to Covid?  

Asking for a friend.  

 

On 1/18/2022 at 9:35 PM, Gil Bang said:

Having recently dropped 40 lbs, the answer is "no".

But it is nice to see it again.

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21 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

If you're at a college bar and "Paradise" comes on, every sorority girl in the place will lock arms and sing it.

I’m 52 and meat loaf was never cool, and I don’t recall anyone my age really liking his music. I think people slightly older than me have the awareness of when bat out of hell was big, but middle-to-end genx? Nah, no one listened or sang any of his music.

to me, his only post-1978 highlight was his part in fight club. Which I think he stole the show with his character. 

is there some millennial love of him that I’m unaware?

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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I’m 52 and meat loaf was never cool, and I don’t recall anyone my age really liking his music. I think people slightly older than me have the awareness of when bat out of hell was big, but middle-to-end genx? Nah, no one listened or sang any of his music.

to me, his only post-1978 highlight was his part in fight club. Which I think he stole the show with his character. 

is there some millennial love of him that I’m unaware?

He was never big with anyone I don’t think.  Just in the consciousness and if his name wasn’t the comical “Meat Loaf” he’d have been much less relevant.

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31 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

he has one of the top 10 (5?) biggest selling albums of all time? can that be right?

Yeah it’s fucking nuts. Top 10 I believe. 

Sorry about your uncle. RIP. 

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Jesus.

Willing to literally die instead of admitting you were wrong.

There are a thousand future PhD dissertations about that phenomenon just waiting to be written.

I’m sorry to hear this for your family.

It sorta makes sense.  Nobody ever wants to believe they were so stupid they actually killed themselves and it was easily avoidable to boot. Much easier to just blame something else on your death bed.  

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To Fuck Around is interesting.

To Find Out is divine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60050996

"Hana Horka, 57, was unvaccinated and had posted on social media that she was recovering after testing positive, but died two days later.

Her son, Jan Rek, said she got infected on purpose when he and his father had the virus, so she could get a recovery pass to access certain venues."

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On 1/21/2022 at 1:29 PM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

also, did anyone really like Meat Loaf? i mean, other than maybe drunkin' karaoke or to earworm torture a friend, did we really lose a bright one? I'm thinking no. Most people under 40 have probably never heard of him. 

5 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I’m 52 and meat loaf was never cool, and I don’t recall anyone my age really liking his music. I think people slightly older than me have the awareness of when bat out of hell was big, but middle-to-end genx? Nah, no one listened or sang any of his music.........

is there some millennial love of him that I’m unaware?

4 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

He was never big with anyone I don’t think.  Just in the consciousness and if his name wasn’t the comical “Meat Loaf” he’d have been much less relevant.

4 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

he has one of the top 10 (5?) biggest selling albums of all time? can that be right?

It's a really weird thing about Meat Loaf.  He had an album that sold a shit-ton of copies, but I don't actually know anybody that owned a copy, and yeah, I knew the lyrics to a few of his songs, but it was never a situation where somebody came over and was like "hey, put on a Meat Loaf record (or CD later on) and let the whole thing play!"

I think him getting into the movie business (I don't mean Rocky Horror, I mean later on) and the novelty name kept him relevant far longer than he would have been otherwise.

I still can't explain the sales of that album though.

I think Meat Loaf is the musical equivalent of out kicking your coverage.

 

 

 

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Well, fuck.

This is what happens when you step in to the thread & start reading again but from the last post & go backwards.

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On 1/21/2022 at 12:44 PM, jimmyjazz said:

I didn't want to step on the tribute thread in Music, but man, I hated that guy's music.  Don't wish dying on anyone, but it happens.

 

On 1/21/2022 at 3:22 PM, NameAlreadyInUse said:

I thought he did more than just play a part in Rocky Horror Picture Show so I was going to say maybe that for a very small subset of people (mostly a certain type of person in  Gen X and older), but I never really understood that phenomenon either, so yeah, I'm with you.  I have periodically since they passed thought of a Prince or a George Michael or a Kenny Rogers and been sad they died and played one of their songs in tribute.  That won't ever happen for anything he ever did.

 

What if I told you he was doing a Bruce Springsteen parody....in 1977? Punk as fuck, right. 

(He wasn't.)

Like a much shittier version of David Bowie and/or Queen, his music appealed to the drama club crowd. I guess Meat Loaf was the god of drama club music at the short bus schools. 

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I was in Meat Loaf's target demo when his first album came out. As noted, there were a couple of kids in high school who were really into him, and for the rest of us, he was part of the late-70s ambiance. Pretty sure we had just survived The Great Overplaying of Frampton.

This was when you turned on whichever 3 radio stations you could get, and what they were playing was what you listened to.

I don't have specific memories of his music, it's just the sort of thing I associate with sitting in the car at Sonic, or maybe the bowling alley or the skate place. Kind of like being skinny or having hair, it was just something you assumed would always be that way.

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4 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

I was in Meat Loaf's target demo when his first album came out. As noted, there were a couple of kids in high school who were really into him, and for the rest of us, he was part of the late-70s ambiance. Pretty sure we had just survived The Great Overplaying of Frampton.

This was when you turned on whichever 3 radio stations you could get, and what they were playing was what you listened to.

I don't have specific memories of his music, it's just the sort of thing I associate with sitting in the car at Sonic, or maybe the bowling alley or the skate place. Kind of like being skinny or having hair, it was just something you assumed would always be that way.

That whole musical comeback in the mid '90s was based on him simply refusing to say what "that" was.

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26 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

That whole musical comeback in the mid '90s was based on him simply refusing to say what "that" was.

. . . and in spite of the total contradiction of the lyrical hook.

(Hey Jim Steinman, you meant "except" not "but".)

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On 1/21/2022 at 9:43 AM, Aqua Buddha said:

I like these people who profess to distrust the government and media but will believe anything Trump or Fox News tells them.  They trust the government and media plenty.  

Well, you see, they are disingenuous liars.  Probably in every facet of life.

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On 1/21/2022 at 12:44 PM, jimmyjazz said:

I didn't want to step on the tribute thread in Music, but man, I hated that guy's music. 

Never really stuck with me either.  I mean I can watch videos and shows now and see that the guy was vlearly super talented. But it just was not in my parents music mix and so never really entered my consciousness front and center growing up.  And didn't really creep in later.  Seemed too dramatic. 

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