I! GET! KNOCKED! DOWN! butIgetupagain

[extemporanea]

One of the advantages of driving the Evil Landlord's old car, mitigating somewhat the exhaust fumes in the cab, the non-operational inside catch to the driver's door and the lack of rear bumper, is that the radio works. I've ended up listening to 5FM on the way to and from campus a great deal, the best of a non-perfect set of options given my music

Comments

[strawberryfrog]

Leopards being leopards, I suspect that it invalidates your argument by virtue of leaping out of the box and playfully chasing you down as if you were the red dot from a laser pointer if you dare to argue with it. Awwwwwww!

[extemporanea]

It looks so completely smug about it, doesn't it? And, yes, laser-pointer leopards invalidate most arguments. But leopards in boxes materially improve most days.

[wolverine_nun]

Interesting. I stopped listening to 5fm some years ago because 2 songs out of every 3 was rap. They must have toned it down a bit. I changed to kfm (much less rap at the time. hmm) but my stress levels in the last few years necessitate nothing more alarming than fmr. fmr soothes the shattered nerves.

[extemporanea]

My problem is that, all things considered, I'm probably more annoyed by R&B than I am by rap, so KFM simply wasn't doing it. 5FM certainly don't give us two out of three rap songs, probably one in three at the moment. Some kinds of rap, with their rapid-fire linguistic cleverness, I actually enjoy. ("Thrift shop" being one of them, and the video's rather fun).

I've swooped past FMR a few times, but it's never given me anything I've enjoyed enough to linger. Probably bad timing on my part.

[vesta_aurelia]

I play an online MMO called "Pirate 101" and it's rife with hilarious puns--one of them based on this very song! There's a boss called Chumbawumba, he's an enormous platypus (called "water mole") and the characters say "He gets knocked down, but he gets up again!" (in a terrible Scottish accent) and "We never going to keep him down (in a terrible Jamaican accent, but I suppose if I were a skeletal witch doctor, I wouldn't have good pronunciation skills either).

Leopard in a BOX!