Jurassic World did the Avatar thing where it made a gajillion dollars and left no cultural footprint whatsoever. Name your favorite Jurassic World character. What was your favorite line. It evaporated despite everyone seeing it.
WRONG fav character was the extra that ran away from the pterodactyls with two margheritas in hand
Gotta do everything myself around here
So, I went into this guy’s Wikipedia page, because he looked familiar. And there’s this big “Controversies” section, so I was preparing myself to read that even the margaritas/pterodactyls guy has sexually assaulted someone. But it turns out that he hasn’t. However, he:
– Has been sued for copyright infringement for a ‘blasphemous’ musical rendition of a monologue from the 1950s
– He was on a plane with U2′s Bono and his family, and the plane was shot by the Jamaican police, who believed they were smuggling marijuana. He wrote a song about the incident.
– He’s actually a singer, and his better known song in called MARGARITAVILLE. He also owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain. And has licensed Margaritaville Tequila, Margaritaville Footwear, and a Margaritaville Foods. He owns the Margaritaville Casino, has released a “Margaritaville Online” game, and he wrote and starred in a musical called “Escape to Margaritaville”
– He also wrote a song called “Math Suks”, which was condemned by the US National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for its alleged negative effect on children’s education.
– He was thrown out of a basketball game he was watching for using blasphemous language in front of kids.
– And he was detained by French customs for allegedly carrying over 100 pills of ecstasy. Although he was released after paying a fine, and, according to him, the pills were a B-vitamin supplement.
So, yeah, that was refreshing controversies section-wise, but now I don’t know what to do with all that information.
Maybe its my age, but i’m a little concerned that the fact he is a singer and wrote Margaritaville wasn’t prior knowledge and is considered a controversy
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Beach, booze, Buffett.
Jimmy Buffett plays the margarita guy in Jurassic World because his most famous song is “Margaritaville” and this is therefore hilarious, I thought
absolutely obsessed with jimmy buffett being called “this guy”
Love the suggestion that the song and brand Margarativille are mentioned in passing on the Wikipedia page for uncredited Jurassic World extra Jimmy Buffett
Aside from not wanting to pay to see the worst takes of my life, here’s a graphic depiction of why Tumblr+ is a terrible idea.
[id: two circles that aren’t overlapping. one is labeled ‘websites i trust with my full name and credit card info’ and the other is labeled ‘tumblr’ /end id]
The “White man with blond hair and blue eyes” originated as an “Aryan Superior Race” type of thing on like. 4Chan or something.
ok, if that’s true, that doesnt change the fact literally *nobody* uses it like that at all.
i’m not going to bother scraping through the internet to personally find examples, but here is a page explaining Nordic Gamer’s history and common use. it was made and used for racist purposes, and it’s absolutely something white supremacists and nazis co-opt. you just don’t blog where you see it happening.
Very closely related: the blue-eyed, blonde-haired girl meme.
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