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Paul Fairie

A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz

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Jan 10, 2023 at 2:29amWeb
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A shortage of farm labour
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Warts on the feet
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Dull pupils
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Bad teeth
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Girls leaving home
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An increase in heart failures
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Small families
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Elephantine ears
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Difficulty recruiting college athletes
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Ruined legs
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Indigestion
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The increasing tendency toward divorce and ruined marital happiness
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Everything
Show threadbrooklynmarieJan 10, 2023
@paulisci Hell yes elephantine ears
Show threadbendaJan 10, 2023
@paulisci this is an absolutely incredible thread. I wish I could repost the whole thing.
this conservative mania has existed as long as media has been a thing.
take all of society problems. now blame all of it on any one thing that has anything to do with people of color and/or poor people.
if these articles were written at a different time, it would rock n roll. or the Internet. or stimulus checks. or video games. or metal.
i guess what really surprises me is how little it has evolved.
Show threadKatLSJan 10, 2023
@benda @paulisci also interesting how people with supposed scientific credentials are quick to embrace whacko theories that feed the misinformation and bias and embolden the self appointed moral crusaders.🫤
Show threadPDJan 10, 2023
@benda @paulisci In the 70s they blamed heart disease on disco. The rhythm is exactly the opposite of normal human heart rhythm, you see, and so is inherently dangerous.
Show threadbendaJan 10, 2023
@Pdlobster @paulisci well if my heart beats perfectly out of phase with disco whenever it plays, that seems like my heart is to blame 🤣🤣
Show threadSedunkerJan 10, 2023
@paulisci Today's "jazz" is "Hunter Biden's laptop"
Show threadKit Rhett AultmanJan 10, 2023
@paulisci I really wonder what "American drinks" he's talking about there.
Show threadKatLSJan 10, 2023
@roadriverrail @paulisci surely moonshine, whiskey and bath tub gin…this was Prohibition after all.
Show threadKit Rhett AultmanJan 10, 2023
@KatLS @paulisci This was a thought I'd had, but the use of the word "American" suggested to me the speaker wasn't American and perhaps not one to look favorably on Prohibition? IDK, something about specifying "American" there just threw me off that idea.
Show threadPaul Marques MotaJan 10, 2023
@roadriverrail @paulisci probably coca cola when it had cocaine
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Jan 10, 2023
@roadriverrail @paulisci Cocktails. Invented during Prohibition.
Show threadKit Rhett AultmanJan 10, 2023
@JaneinNJ @paulisci I'm not so sure about that part. Harry Johnson's "Bartender's Manual" was published in 1888 and already describes a number of cocktails, including an early martini. Guides for making the "dry" formulation were published in 1904 and 1907, and many mixologists discuss "pre-Prohibition cocktails".
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Jan 10, 2023
@roadriverrail @paulisci I stand corrected! Thanks for clarifying!
Show threadKit Rhett AultmanJan 10, 2023
@JaneinNJ @paulisci It was a quality guess, for sure! And it still might be right. I don't know who this quoted person was or what they might have been thinking!
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@JaneinNJ @paulisci Some casual digging and guessing suggests it's Paul Whiteman, who himself was American, so the phrase "American drinks that you aren't supposed to drink" reads even more strangely to me now. I mean, it's most likely he was talking about illicit liquor, but the turn of phrase is just so weird to my mental ears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Whiteman

Paul Whiteman - Wikipedia

Show threadwednesday the valkyrjaJan 10, 2023
@paulisci jazz this, jazz that. just say Black people atp.
Show threadRaven LuniJan 10, 2023
@paulisci *hides all my jazz sheet music*
Show threadKazii The AvaliJan 10, 2023
@RavenLuni @paulisci but jaz
Show threadFox MoxinJan 10, 2023
@paulisci This is why Henry Ford saved us all by pushing for Line dancing classes as part of school Gym.
Show threadchemcarlJan 10, 2023
@paulisci I thought my life got better once I started listening to Jazz :)
Show threadPhilip BrewerJan 11, 2023
@chemcarl @paulisci Most of those things sound to me like life getting better. Except the warts on your feet. Those suck—but I blame them on flapping overshoes.
Show threadLogan 🏳️‍🌈💾🌹Jan 11, 2023
@paulisci I'll have to hold on to that Nero line for whenever I hear something I don't like
Show threadMatildaJan 10, 2023
@paulisci Cannot wholly disagree with that last paragraph there though.
Show threadMichaelJan 10, 2023
@paulisci I'm sensing a "once you've gone black..." vibe here.
Show threadRicardo HarvinJan 10, 2023

@michaeljoseph @paulisci This is it, exactly.

Followed by Harry Anslinger's attack on cannabis.

Show threadHunter KingJan 10, 2023
@paulisci I hope to one day be referred to as a jazzing man
Show threadHunter KingJan 10, 2023
@paulisci ruminating on this further, let's use Jazz as a verb more often
Show threadproedieJan 10, 2023
@paulisci Great advertisement claim: ‘No one remains normal after dancing to Jazz!’
Show threadjerryJan 10, 2023
@paulisci the real reason Jazz was attacked is hinted in that article.
Show threadLeon BambrickJan 10, 2023
@jerryD @paulisci sounds about white
Show threadObjkshnJan 10, 2023
@paulisci @Npars01 It certainly didn’t help, any! LOL
Show threadBoots ChantillyJan 10, 2023
@paulisci What.
Show threadAunt EefJan 10, 2023
@paulisci this explains everything
Show threadAnn FJan 10, 2023
@paulisci I'm feeling kind of downcast that nobody at school ever suggested "Viennese aurist" to me on career days.
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@afeeney Seems like a great, if nonspecific, job. I did look into Dr Pfuffer a bit... seems like he was a microcelebrity for about a year who basically just predicted various things (jazz, traffic noise, modern life) would cause big ears.
Show threadKatLSJan 10, 2023
@paulisci @afeeney and he dares to claim Viennese aurist with such sincerity.
Show threadRob SmithJan 10, 2023
@paulisci @SickosCommittee
Show threadStephen ColesJan 10, 2023
@paulisci Dr, P. O. Pfuffer, Viennese aurist
Show threadAbbie HarrisJan 10, 2023
@paulisci This one is my favorite!!🐘
Show threadLunar 🛸 ♾Jan 10, 2023
@paulisci Quite like the phrase "verbal grenades", though!
Show threadTiberius GracchusJan 10, 2023

@paulisci

Never understood Evangelicals' fear of cartoonish Heavy Metal when Jazz seems so much more attuned to the Devil's appetites

Show threadMatunosJan 10, 2023
@paulisci promiscuous automobile riding
Show threadTimmy O'DanaosJan 10, 2023
@paulisci Lol, Heidelberg Man, there weren't even pharaohs when you existed
Show threadHalf Cocked LawJan 10, 2023
@paulisci Luckily I have a German remedy that cures Jazz-related problems.
Show threadRandi Byrnes Jan 12, 2023
@paulisci
🤣 🎶Thanks, didn't know . . .
Show threadhammancheezJan 10, 2023
@paulisci I would definitely rather listen to smooth jazz than pick broccoli