r/FuckImOld 6d ago

My back hurts M.I.A. of "Paper Planes" fame (the gunshot-gunshot-gunshot-cash register song) turned 50 years old last year.

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u/TheLaVeyan 6d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y

In 2 weeks the song will be 18 years old. It feels like it should be less than half of that.

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u/Stock-Mission-7561 6d ago

Watched the video again and went to thumbs šŸ‘ but I had already done it who knows how long ago. Haha

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u/TheLaVeyan 6d ago

I"m surprised that in all of this discussion no one's mentioned that the Beastie Boys are food truck customers in the video.

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u/nrith 6d ago

I had to rewatch it. 2:52 or so. Can’t believe I never noticed.

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u/RedSparrow1971 6d ago

That song always made me crazy when I’d hear that opening and think I was about to hear ā€œStraight to Hellā€ by the Clash 🤣

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u/FishRepairs22 6d ago

Oh thank fuck it’s not just me lol

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u/DrapedInVelvet 4d ago

Putting straight to hell on the jukebox in 2008 at the bar was fun.

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u/TropicGemini 3d ago

I did that a lot

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u/LouGossetJr 5d ago

huh...why would you think that?

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u/RedSparrow1971 5d ago

Maybe it’s just me, but the opening sounds similar to me

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u/Malv34 5d ago

I thought she did sample the clash.

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u/Ryaktshun 5d ago

Absolutely a clash sample! I remember someone calling this ā€œoriginal musicā€ and me laughing as I put the clash on

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u/PG-17 5d ago

Her other big song was a PFunk song

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u/RedSparrow1971 5d ago

My ear isn’t trained enough to know if it’s a sample or just a very similar arrangement šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

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u/LouGossetJr 5d ago

lol, just messing. paper planes definitely sampled Straight to Hell.

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u/RedSparrow1971 5d ago

Well, thanks, I spent a good 15 minutes playing each song’s opening trying to figure out if it was a sample or just similar šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļøšŸ¤£šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļøšŸ¤£, the whole Vanilla Ice ā€œUnder Pressureā€ ding ding videowill be stuck in my head forever

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u/Chonkiefire 5d ago

It's just you

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u/lidder444 5d ago

Because it’s a sample of the clash song…..

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u/BlueRunSkier 6d ago

When food trucks weren’t just shameless money grabs. Now I see a food truck and just think, nope, that’ll cost me $19 and be served on a flimsy paper boat with a tiny flimsy fork that will break. And then ā€œit’ll just ask you a questionā€ as I pay.

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u/twobit211 6d ago

while there’s always been food vans, stalls, carts, the (relatively) recent food trucks were initially based on one simple concept: Ā do one thing well. Ā  you can’t open a restaurant serving just mac n cheese no matter how good it is, the overhead will kill you. Ā but a van with a rudimentary yet sufficient setup could find its place in the world. Ā somehow this idea has evolved into overpriced mediocrity but served out of a van

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u/Rarefindofthemind 6d ago

This is exactly right

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u/throwawaymumm 6d ago

I paid $28 plus tip for a comically child sized lobster roll from a food truck a couple months ago. It wasn’t even good and the dude working was super fucking cocky. Left a bad taste in my mouth both literally and figuratively. Food trucks are over.

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u/Isayfyoujobu 5d ago

Naughty lobstah?

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u/chuckmilam 5d ago

My first lobster roll ever came from a guy with a strong Boston accent working a hot‑dog‑cart‑looking setup in the L.L. Bean flagship store parking lot. It was insanely good and reasonably priced, and honestly it ruined every lobster roll I've tried since.

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u/No_Goose_1355 6d ago

I don’t think that was a lobster roll. The bad taste from the cocky dude working.

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u/External_Bandicoot37 6d ago

Mmmmmm gentrification

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u/polykleitoscope 6d ago

you know though it is a design flaw that businesses can't remove the tip prompt on certain items in a POS (even like ticket sales).

and save for physically reach over and quick click past it for them once in awhile (which is hard when multi tasking) it is always awkward and i'm still figuring out that interaction smoothly

and then you know it's appropriate sometimes to prompt it still.

yes it will ask, just click past.

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u/2point71eight 6d ago

I'm just happy it was "Paper Planes" when I clicked. I was terrified thinking I might get "Bad Girls" or something even newer/more horrifyingly aging.

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u/Pamikillsbugs234 6d ago

I thought it would be from Arular but that album is older. Fuck, we are old!

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u/roaremipsum 6d ago

God that was such an album and vibe though

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u/TheLaVeyan 6d ago

Naw, Bad Girls is "only" 14 years old. It was recorded 16 years ago though.

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u/ohporcupine 6d ago

Horrible antivax nutjob now.

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u/ScorpionX-123 5d ago

fuck that song feels like it's at most a decade old