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Learned that a lot of people are using Taylor Swift's Wildest Dreams -- about a relationship doomed to end but the woman doesn't want to let go just yet -- as a wedding song. No one listens to lyrics anymore? This is almost as bad as using I Will Always Love You.
 
Learned that a lot of people are using Taylor Swift's Wildest Dreams -- about a relationship doomed to end but the woman doesn't want to let go just yet -- as a wedding song. No one listens to lyrics anymore? This is almost as bad as using I Will Always Love You.

Yeah people just are funny like that... I was at a wedding where they played Taylor Swift but it was that song "look what you made me do" and had to resist the urge to laugh at how inappropriate it was.
 
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Learned that a lot of people are using Taylor Swift's Wildest Dreams -- about a relationship doomed to end but the woman doesn't want to let go just yet -- as a wedding song. No one listens to lyrics anymore? This is almost as bad as using I Will Always Love You.
People haven't listened to lyrics in decades. Never mind for wedding songs.
 
Learned that a lot of people are using Taylor Swift's Wildest Dreams -- about a relationship doomed to end but the woman doesn't want to let go just yet -- as a wedding song. No one listens to lyrics anymore? This is almost as bad as using I Will Always Love You.

What's even worse is Every Breath You Take (The Police). Couples always want to use that song in their weddings. Not realizing it's about a creepy stalker!
 
What's even worse is Every Breath You Take (The Police). Couples always want to use that song in their weddings. Not realizing it's about a creepy stalker!
One of the, shall we say positives, of working retail is hearing the same easy listening music over and over and realizing that some of those songs are just straight up bizarre. So, I made sure some were not on the wedding play list.
 
People haven't listened to lyrics in decades. Never mind for wedding songs.

I think sometimes they do listen, they just don't understand what is being said.
Now, my husband was one who did not listen to lyrics and he admitted it. One time he was out with a bunch of friends and they were playing the jukebox and he chose Lola by the Kinks. His friends were making fun of him because he had no idea what was going on in the song, he just liked the music.
 
Car ads have taken over my ROKU screensaver.

The last time I had to deal with painful car ads was: Subaru ads buried in Eureka episodes, and Ford ads buried in White Collar episodes. Super frustrating. Oh, and Prius ads in my Warehouse 13.
 
One of the, shall we say positives, of working retail is hearing the same easy listening music over and over and realizing that some of those songs are just straight up bizarre. So, I made sure some were not on the wedding play list.

I want THIS song playing at my wedding:

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Cause instead of horror stories of kids being trafficked, or groomed, as I sometimes hear, there is a story of someone fighting back.

I'm not tolerating human trafficking and people need to be aware.
When I was in college I made the mistake of picking sex trafficking for the topic of a paper I had write for one of my classes. What the victims are put through by their captors is truly, truly horrific.
Car ads have taken over my ROKU screensaver.

The last time I had to deal with painful car ads was: Subaru ads buried in Eureka episodes, and Ford ads buried in White Collar episodes. Super frustrating. Oh, and Prius ads in my Warehouse 13.
It always made me role my eyes when we'd be in the middle of a TV episode and the character would suddenly spend 5 minutes talking about all the cool stuff their new Ford truck can do. I don't mind product placement in general, but at least making it subtle. I have no problem commercials either, hell there are some commercials I enjoy just as much as the shows themselves, but actually taking time out of the episode itself to promote the cars like that just felt really out of place. I find it hard to believe two cops or FBI agents or whatever they were, who were in the middle of a time sensitive case, would really stop to lecture each other about their new truck.
It's alwasy fun when I'm watching back to back episodes of old long running shows, and the first episode they show is the last episode of the series and the second episode is the pilot. It's always interesting to see how much the actors aged, especially kids, and how much the show itself evolved over time.
 
On breakfast TV they were slamming this film for misinformation
I mean, there's some dramatization, since the man doesn't operate as a vigilante. But, the history is largely accurate.

Here's some brief statistics on trafficking.

When I was in college I made the mistake of picking sex trafficking for the topic of a paper I had write for one of my classes. What the victims are put through by their captors is truly, truly horrific.
Indeed. My favorite scene in Daredevil, the Netflix Series, is him rescuing trafficked women, and taking out the bad guys.

Sorry, this gets my ire up. I have staff who have worked to keep children from being groomed and trafficked. It's a little personal for me.
 
I get it, just the little bits I learned about in the shows and articles I read for the paper really got to me. One thing that stuck with me is one of the shows said that pretty much all of the message parlors are for sex trafficking. Now every time we drive past one of those places, I can't help but wonder what's going on in them.
I think this mainly just those little places you see in bad parts of town, not the big chains like Message Envy, although I think there was at least one of them that did get in trouble because they had sex stuff going on.
 
I get it, just the little bits I learned about in the shows and articles I read for the paper really got to me. One thing that stuck with me is one of the shows said that pretty much all of the message parlors are for sex trafficking. Now every time we drive past one of those places, I can't help but wonder what's going on in them.
I think this mainly just those little places you see in bad parts of town, not the big chains like Message Envy, although I think there was at least one of them that did get in trouble because they had sex stuff going on.
Well, it operates well in plain sight yet existing in the unknown. Unfortunately, the state I live in is close to the other boarder, and one of the state highways is a corridor through Canada, which attracts that business too.
 
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