Cultcow Russell Greer / Mr. Green / @ just_some_dude_named_russell29 / A Safer Nevada PAC - Swift-Obsessed Sex Pest, Convicted of E-Stalking, "Eggshell Skull Plaintiff" Pro Se Litigant, Homeless, aspiring brothel owner

[DrJonesHat]

He's familiar with stuff that was around when I was a kid, but he's 15 years younger than me. He wouldn't have been alive to appreciate the 80s. Why does he have Gen-X tastes?

 

[lemongrab]

I gave it a bash with some NIN samples and creepy effects. Here is Trent Russnor (feat. Hongourable Madisha): Yo, Yovanna!

Why you gotta do Trent Reznor like that... It's fantastic, great work.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

He's familiar with stuff that was around when I was a kid, but he's 15 years younger than me. He wouldn't have been alive to appreciate the 80s. Why does he have Gen-X tastes?

It's probably from his parents and how he was raised. What I'd give for an unbiased account of his childhood.

 

[Andrew Neiman]

I gave it a bash with some NIN samples and creepy effects. Here is Trent Russnor (feat. Hongourable Madisha): Yo, Yovanna!

Beautiful. I'll put it on my driving mix right between "So Need a Cute Girl" and "I Love Reshiram Married to Reshiram."

What we really need now is for @The Great Citracett to do an accompanying music video drawing from the opening credits to "Se7en."

 

[WhaleOilBeefHooked]

Bravo! I can't wait for the "Kidz Bop" version.

Frankly, "hot like a sauna" sounds like a Kidz Bop-ified version of a song lyric.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Genius.

If you choose to do another NIN/Russhole mashup in the future, may I request Suck (Me My Penis Remix)?

Not Copy Of A Copy(right lawsuit)?

 

[The Un-Clit]

I think if we're going to go gunning for manipulative and predatory stuff, we ought to start with payday loans. That shit is seriously nasty and it traps people really fast into a vicious cycle they can't reasonably escape from (if you're in a position where you think you need a payday loan, you're not in a position to be able to pay your way out of it soon enough to avoid needing another payday loan to pay off the first one).

Fam, you know it. The payday loan industry is ursury pure and simple, repackaged for the 21st century. My best friend's little brother got himself into such a bad spiral with oweing one of these and borrowing from Peter to pay Paul and after several rounds of this his hair was falling out and guts were aching with the stress. He felt so trapped that despite having never committed a criminal act before, he ripped off his employer for thousands to pay everyone back.

Of course as the only suspect he was soon busted, and got time even being a first offense, as it was theft over $1000. (grand larceny, for you Americunts) All because once he was short to pay his bills and went to one of these fucking sharks.

The casino industry is predatory to those succeptable no question, but not NEAR as vile and evil as payday loans. That shit should be regulated either out of existence or tied to rates of major banks. They should still profit due to their hours compared to banks, but they won't be allowed to ruin lives any more. (as per @DumbDude42 below, this may not be the best method to control the problem, but I am sure there are others. Many others. Thanks fam! )

Also Dr Jones' hat sez:

He wouldn't have been alive to appreciate the 80s. Why does he have Gen-X tastes?

With today's music and non vidya-game entertainment being absolute shit, it's not rare at all. The 80s was the last high-point of GOOD music, embracing the end of Disco and Punk while giving birth to multiple genres like New Wave, Synthpop, House and early Techno, Hip-Hop, earliest Grunge and more while cresting 70s creations like Hair Metal, the above mentioned Disco and Glam Metal as well.

My daughters grew up appreciating 80s and some 90s (Avril Lavigne, etc) music. To this day my youngest daughter's favourite musician is Larry Gowan (A Criminal Mind, Strange Animal, Moonlight Desires etc) an 80's Canadian and American radio staple who is currently the keyboardist and vocalist for Styx, another GenX legend of a band.

When the current crop of 'top 40' is the same mindless drivel (and often written by the same one or two people but performed by assorted musicians) with only the occasional flash of brilliance amidst the bubblegum, where else are you going to go but the last generation's best music? Like us GenX'ers grew up loving Boomer late 60s to early 70's works from the Animals to the Beatles to Rush to Led Zeppelin, our kids love our music.

 

[DumbDude42]

That shit should be regulated either out of existence or tied to rates of major banks.

then the result would just be that these dudes cant get a loan at all, ever, cause they're not trustworthy enough to warrant a loan at reasonable interest rates

basically, if you think a dude has 50% chance of not paying you back, you have to take at least 100% interest on the loan in order to break even in the long term.
if you think he has 66% chance to not pay you back, now you gotta take 200% interest. 75% chance to not pay, 300% interest. and so on.

 

[JustSomeDong]

He's familiar with stuff that was around when I was a kid, but he's 15 years younger than me. He wouldn't have been alive to appreciate the 80s. Why does he have Gen-X tastes?

Personally, I had many summers and long roadtrips filled with dadrock and mompop as a child. I even still like and appreciate a lot of it, but its not gonna be in any daily playlist for me. I know a lot of people my age (mid to late 30s) have a similar nostalgia about it. But lumpy definitely has a weird fixation.

 

[moocow]

then the result would just be that these dudes cant get a loan at all, ever, cause they're not trustworthy enough to warrant a loan at reasonable interest rates

Then, bluntly, they shouldn't be given a loan, and they need to take the "L" and pick which bills aren't getting paid this month so they can pay the most important ones with what they have. You're not entitled to a loan just because you're broke. That is, in fact, the worst possible time to loan someone money.

The circa-2008 subprime mortgage crisis happened because banks gave loans to people who weren't qualified for them. Then, shock shock horror, enough of them couldn't keep up with the payments and subsequently defaulted that the banks were about to eat a shit sandwich until the government bailed them out. Political retardation aside, this was the best example in history of how stupid it is to loan people money who don't have the ability to repay it.

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

They do even crazier shit like scenting the air and laying down those god-awful patterns on the carpeting all in the name of luring more people in to gamble and stay at it longer.

There's definitely psychological aspects to casinos like not having any clocks or windows showing the outside. But I always understood the gaudy carpets were to hide any chips that might have been dropped to prevent somebody from picking them up? It's basically an extra source of revenue for them.

Frankly, "hot like a sauna" sounds like a Kidz Bop-ified version of a song lyric.

To be fair it was the only word that he could think of that rhymed with Yovanna that implied how hot she was. Pipsqueak is hardly a master wordsmith.

 

[T.J. O'Pootertoot]

I gave it a bash with some NIN samples and creepy effects. Here is Trent Russnor (feat. Hongourable Madisha): Yo, Yovanna!

Fucking brilliant.

 

[DrJonesHat]

To be fair it was the only word that he could think of that rhymed with Yovanna that implied how hot she was. Pipsqueak is hardly a master wordsmith.

Of course he is! Just look at his megahit "I don't get you" or his breakout smash "I get you."

 

[AbraCadaver]

Getting rid of the big metal clinking bins was a seriously hard sell when the push for coinless machines was just getting started.

Casinos have spent an absurd amount of time and money over the years studying every aspect of gambling psychology and how slot machines can best exploit it. All the various beeps, dings and melodies emitted by the older style (non-video) machines were almost always in the key of C (and that's still fairly common on new machines unless they're playing licensed music) because they learned that people found that key to be the most calming and "feel-good" for players.

That trademark clink-clink-clink sound those metal bins make isn't an accident. They're deliberately made (from the shape all the way down to the metallurgy) to be as loud and distinctive as possible, making the sound easy to hear and pick out over all the other noises in the casino. The casinos want people to hear slot machines paying out winnings. It encourages them to start playing, hoping to hear that same sound from their chosen machine.

They do even crazier shit like scenting the air and laying down those god-awful patterns on the carpeting all in the name of luring more people in to gamble and stay at it longer.


I can't wait to hear what he has to say about the weather out there in August.

Casinos are even specifically designed to keep gamblers inside. They rarely have windows, so the changing light outside won't key in what time of day it is. The interior layout is specifically designed to get people lost and lead them back to the gaming areas. There is almost never any clocks visible from the casino floors, again so players will lose track of time. There's actually a LOT of psychology and science that goes into running casinos.

I LOVE casino tactics...it’s like how grocers put all the most common staples all over the shop so you have to walk by every aisle before you get to all of them. Or how the bakery section is ALWAYS very close to the front door, so the smell will make you veer into it and impulse shop out of hunger.

There's definitely psychological aspects to casinos like not having any clocks or windows showing the outside. But I always understood the gaudy carpets were to hide any chips that might have been dropped to prevent somebody from picking them up? It's basically an extra source of revenue for them.

I’ve read that casinos want your eyes at a natural level, right at the height to see all the machines and enticing flashing lights. A lot of people walk with their eyes downward out of habit. So the carpets are as off-putting to look at as possible and the ceilings are nothing special, forcing your eyeline into the exact middle height to be focused on the machines.

 

[StinkySnack]

Someone please send me a cool life changing DM when the casino talk is over and things are back on topic.

 

[Bridgeburner]

Every time I get the feels to move back to Vegas, I remember why I love visiting but hate living there.

The crowds, the weather, the smell on the strip, the unsettling energy.

Now I can add Russ. Oddly the smell was there before him

You should count yourself lucky. I'd kill for the opportunity to see pipsqueak in the flesh! It'd be like seeing the Bigfoot. I imagine they have similar body odor and charm.

 

[StraightShooter2]

Frankly, "hot like a sauna" sounds like a Kidz Bop-ified version of a song lyric.

I re-listened to "I Get You Taylor Swift", and it was a piece of shit from the get-go.

The lyrics were completely out of sync with the rhythm, and he couldn't be bothered to come up with rhymes (which is the case in pretty much all of his songs) - and this was the one he said he spend years on and thought that Taylor Swift would publish. The fact that not only is he inept, but he's completely lazy and doesn't even care is one of his most defining traits.

 

[L. Ron Hubbard's Cat]

I re-listened to "I Get You Taylor Swift", and it was a piece of shit from the get-go.

The lyrics were completely out of sync with the rhythm, and he couldn't be bothered to come up with rhymes (which is the case in pretty much all of his songs) - and this was the one he said he spend years on and thought that Taylor Swift would publish. The fact that not only is he inept, but he's completely lazy and doesn't even care is one of his most defining traits.

That's the one where he tried to cram as many Taylor Swift song titles and references in, whether they made sense or not.

Pure artistry, that.

It's kind of like his insane legal arguments. He thinks he's a genius, so of course he can make these brilliant legal arguments that have never occurred to anyone before, and if the judge would just let him explain, it would all make perfect sense.

Likewise, no one's ever made the connection that girls are hot and saunas are hot and -- omg -- 'sauna' rhymes with 'Yovanna'. No one's ever made this connection or this rhyme before, because Russ is the only intellect capable of putting it all together.

This isn't really news, I know. I'm just reflecting on how it's kind of amazing someone can go through life like this. At least he's slowly being beaten down. There's some good in the world after all.

 

[StraightShooter2]

That's the one where he tried to cram as many Taylor Swift song titles and references in, whether they made sense or not.

Pure artistry, that.

It's kind of like his insane legal arguments. He thinks he's a genius, so of course he can make these brilliant legal arguments that have never occurred to anyone before, and if the judge would just let him explain, it would all make perfect sense.

Likewise, no one's ever made the connection that girls are hot and saunas are hot and -- omg -- 'sauna' rhymes with 'Yovanna'. No one's ever made this connection or this rhyme before, because Russ is the only intellect capable of putting it all together.

This isn't really news, I know. I'm just reflecting on how it's kind of amazing someone can go through life like this. At least he's slowly being beaten down. There's some good in the world after all.

"I Get you, Taylor Swift" and Other Feel Good Pop Music. by Russell Greer :: Kicktraq

I seek to flatter celebrities with my music and get

www.kicktraq.com

So I just noticed this - one of his old "pledge drive" pages, and apparently someone donated $100 dollars to it - I wonder if there really is someone that stupid, or if he just donated it to himself to make it look like it actually had donors.

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

That's the one where he tried to cram as many Taylor Swift song titles and references in, whether they made sense or not.

Pure artistry, that.

I've seen legitimate bands do this too. Megadeth's "Victory" and KMFDM's "Inane" come to mind, where they cram in as many of their own album titles into their song as possible. The difference, besides success and musical talent, is of course that they're using their own titles, not those of someone else who they're trying to flatter. Surely there has to be a name for this sort of composition but I have no idea what it might be.

This isn't really news, I know. I'm just reflecting on how it's kind of amazing someone can go through life like this. At least he's slowly being beaten down. There's some good in the world after all.

More like slowly running out of gas. Time catches up with us all sooner or later, and Russ's autism, bad diet, lack of real exercise, and whatever else is wrong with him means that time will catch up with him sooner than most. There's a fair amount of debate on just how dumb he really is, and I think in this debate it's important to keep in mind that Russ's brain is rapidly shrinking and the skills that he's acquired reflect a higher IQ than he actually has now. He's for sure getting tired more easily and has a harder time concentrating too.