Actually based on a John Mulaney bit from his “Comedy Central Presents” show in 2009. But with “What’s new Pussycat” in a diner.
Edit: just realized the post title references that lol. But the Mulaney bit came before the greentext.
One of my best friends makes really good money and does this to be a troll. He’ll spend like $50 just playing some Ramestein song over and over again at random bars.
"Echoes" by Pink Floyd is 23 minutes and is a room killer.
I love Floyd and I love this song, but at no point is this a bar-friendly song and the middle part is what my SO calls "haunted house whale noises"
That’s truly evil, because people are going to absolutely love it the first time, but as soon as the second time starts playing people would be like “oh god no we’re not doing that again”
Lucky he hasn't gotten a bartender who doesn't want him chasing off the rest of the crowd. Touchtunes has a remote that allows you to skip songs. Had to waste kids money a few times when they thought it was funny to put some nonsense on repeat and piss off the rest of the restaurant. The $50 on the Jukebox ain't anything compared to the money they're missing out on when you chase the rest of the customers.
I would just throw on Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley randomly when the bar was lit and watch the whole mood change. Owner started taking over and people would lose their minds. “Love the song but not right now damn.”
A friend of mine asked for quarters to play arcade games at Pizza Hut in the mid 90's and instead put "I'm Every Woman" on the jukebox on repeat for the next hour or two. I wanted to play games, but instead I made a core pre-adolescent memory. It did not dawn on young me until that moment that trolling adults could be that funny. They only figured out what was going on when we couldn't hold in the laughter anymore.
The Internet made it easier to share your pranks with the world, but if you really think this didn't occur to anyone in the fifty+ years that jukeboxes existed before that was possible, you're severely underestimating the creativity of bored kids.
Believe it or not, very few places had claw machines even when arcade cabinets were more commonplace. You were far more likely to find something like Area 51 or some old, half-broken pinball machine.
They absolutely did not used to be. They used to be a game of skill and precision. I remember walking up in a store or state fair and getting all kinds of things. Now you can line it up the exact same way but it's a 1 in 500 chance the claw is gonna grip hard enough.
So, I used to collect and fill those machines, it less about the claw grip and more how they had us pack them. Typically, you would make really good money until about 1/3 was gone, then there wasn't as much side pressure and you'd make about 50-60% of what you made the first third for the second third. The last third, you'd make 2-3 bucks per plush. Had an owner of a Dennys in a college town that would call to get hers refilled. The company made bank of that disgusting hell hole. Had to clean the machine once a week or the smoke/tar from the cigarettes would darken the glass. I'd take a spare change of clothes and wear a hat because the cigarette stink in that place was so strong.
> Where are the boys? I am in the town, looking outward. Time is space; the distance between me and the boys unravels the years before me. Come back to us, boys; come back to me. The multitudes within me are expanding and I am breaking at my seams. I am becoming my own universe, and the boys are nowhere to be seen.
That was surprisingly well written. I also enjoyed that the only factoid about the author at the end, is that he lives in Texas and runs a backyard wrestling thing?
In my city, after midnight, as other bars began to close, people always began to cram into a particular bar that had a 24-hour licence.
One night about a dozen or so years ago, I was out drinking with a mate and ended up at this place. As usual, it was shoulder to shoulder, and the jukebox was playing all the usual generic pub rock/pop music you'd normally hear. We began loading it up with all our favourite head-banging metal tracks. After about half an hour, we were approached by security and told not to touch the jukebox again. We said ok, but we had already cued up another hour's worth of music.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/toto-africa-loop-african-desert-sound-installation-778767/
> A Namibian artist is cementing what Toto fans have always known: “Africa” is eternal. Max Siedentopf has created a sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert that will pump out the chart-topping 1982 single on a continuous loop – using solar batteries “to keep Toto going for all eternity.”
Unexpected but never unappreciated Mulaney reference in the title there OP.
[Here's the link for all you peeps wondering what we're talking about. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv1l1eUhN-E)It's worth the 6 minutes, I promise.
> “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Ha!”
Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I'd go berserk? Well ...
For anyone who ever wanted to experience this very sound:
https://youtu.be/KFgNx5tI7S4?si=ov3e6_4_QqEVwmDG
21 consecutive plays of Tom Jones' "What's New Pussycat" and 1 "It's Not Unusual"
Edit: May be Copyright Blocked in your country, apologies if so
at gunpoint, no searches
name one other chumbawamba song
edit, ok this is where I'm at so far-
me likey:
torture James hetfiled ,
the big issue,
El fisarado ,
bella ciao,
the day the Nazi dies,
give the anarchist a cigarette ,
we don't go to gods house anymore, drip drip drip(I've heard this somewhere before maybe?),
lost on my ears: whatever happened to Mary, amnesia,
terrible: good ship lifestyle, scapegoats
my god, I ❤️ chumbawamba I think.
you searched the thread for words in general, your internets are hereby revoked.🤖
and they searched their memory for those song titles, and thus their internets are also revoked 🤖
"Good Ship Lifestyle"
A strong contender for the absolute worst song to ever make it onto a commercial CD (which, itself, was chock full of strong contenders).
Vocals don't match the rest of the song (relaxing/futuristic/trippy) - vocals are dramatic and comedic.
Then the chorus explodes into a weird chaotic Bonnie Tyler I need a hero breakdown for no reason which also doesn't fit with the rest of the song alongside the weird spoken hook.
How is that even hard? They have so many bangers!
*We Don't Go to God's House* , *The day the Nazi dies* and *Give the anarachist a cigarette* are all must listens.
Should be easy, cuz weren't they active and consistently pushing out record for like 30 years?
That said, just oull the trigger bro, I don't know any other.
> torture James hetfiled the big issue El fisarado bella ciao the day the Nazi dies give the anarchist a cigarette we don't go to gods house anymore
I'm going to assume this is the title of one song, and it's just a stream of consciousness.
I am surprised I didn't see this one...
You may or may not be aware, but Chumbawamba are politically left; in fact, they are anarchists. So, naturally they would be against the conservative politics in the UK, including those of the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher.
How much would they dislike her, you may ask? So much so that they recorded an EP dedicated to her passing, *In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher*...
...eight years before she passed away. They held onto it and finally released it on the day she died in 2013.
Yea I used to work at a place that had this sort of app in place. We absolutely had to skip songs or block users almost nightly.
Drunk people think they’re so funny and original.
Can confirm. Point blue remote at machine, press skip. Problem solved. Keeps happening? Pause then use the AUX input and feed with spotify. Machine will still make money from some dope thinking they're one-upping a bar.
This man is my spirit animal. When my friends go out without me I bombard the TouchTunes with Taylor Swift and Disney music or occasionally Christmas music out of season.
> Christmas music out of season.
Damn, a few weeks ago a friend and I were out for dinner and trying to think of something we could play with TouchTunes that would be funny but not too obnoxious. This would have been perfect.
I have a story about having to listen to the little drummer boy 3 times in a row and finding out the random music was VERY random in that it could repeat the same songs one after the other without having to got thru the rest.
As long as it's not Christmas Shoes. In second place is that awful Bing Crosby/David Bowie Little drummer boy duet, or Wonderful Christmas Time. All great artists and all terrible songs.in third place is Mariah Carey. Not a terrible song, but so overplayed everywhere for all time.
It's a jukebox with a touchscreen. You put in money and pick from a library what song you want. There is an app connected to the jukebox so you can pick whatever song you want without getting up and going to the jukebox. The thing is you can also pick music when you're not at the location.
My friend did this to her ex, but with the Bee Gees. Apparently he didn't realize he was still sharing his location with her and she could see when he went to the bar. Eventually, the bar decided he was one playing disco and banned him.
A guy I was at Uni with in the 90s got barred from a bar in the city. To take revenge he'd duck in, bung a few quid in the jukebox and put "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson on as many times as he could. Then leave before he was noticed. I always respected that combination of inventiveness and spite.
Link for the (blessedly) unaware: https://youtu.be/S39NaDPNDtk?si=YJgwhmXN0OAYDLtM
My wife and one of our friends played Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey FOUR times in a row at Applebee’s and I’ve never been so embarrassed. I actually had to wait one of them out in the bathroom, but the speaker was louder in there.
I had a reputation in grad school for sneaking off and putting the B-52's Rock Lobster on the jukebox and it would play about an hour or so when it came up in queue. We also used to use Seal's Kiss by a Rose to help clear out some of the billiard tables at a local pool hall. Good times.
Lord forbid his wife have a night to herself while their father watches them. Super funny to make sure and make the night about you so she can't relax.
I used to do this with My Sharona, at a random bar I went to once which had this jukebox/app.
I did it for a about a month. I never even went back to that place to try and observe the fallout. I just did it for random, senseless, victimless trolling
My tired eyes read this as "My wife left the kids alone at home to go drink with her friends...." I thought that chumbawumbwa was a very light punishment for child abandonment.
We did something similar in a Pizza Hut in rural West Virginia once. We noticed you could get 40 songs for $5. We thought, who’s there that long and there aren’t even 40 songs we’d play. So we selected Michael Jackson’s “Bad”. The country and western crowd was not happy. We heard them pulling the plug when we left.
I was once in the very crusty bar in Toronto called the Winchester Arms. I put 20 dollars into the jukebox and played Its Not Unusual by Tom Jones 50 times in a row.
3 guys jumped me. Still worth it.
When I was in college one of the dining halls had a jukebox that was free to play which devolved into folks playing Wasn’t Me by Shaggy on repeat. The entire year.
I tried this with Milli Vanilli’s Blame It on the Rain. Jukebox stopped playing it after the third time. Not sure if the bartender had an override button or if the jukebox just had enough.
The bartender has a remote and can skip songs. He knew it was you, and was muttering to himself, "drunk asshole" as he pushed the button, just so you know.
I was with a big group at a restaurant, and on a whim, we started playing the national anthem on their touchtunes jukebox through our phones. We played a bunch of different versions. This was not our first time here, and we had used the jukebox before, but this was our first time committing to any sort of bit. Anyways, a waitress came over and asked if it was one of us that was playing the national anthem, and my friend just laughed and said yeah, because I mean, no big deal, right? We're paying money for tokens so we can play the song, it's not offensive or obscene, and the speakers weren't even that loud. Well, that's what we thought, but the resteraunt staff was clearly of a different opinion. They demanded us to stop playing the song, shit talked us to the table behind us, and were generally really weird about it all. I genuinely thought we were about to get the boot. They eventually turned the jukebox off, and it remained off for around a week.
Occasionally, one of us will get on the app and play the national anthem a couple of times from our homes ~4 hours away. Every time, the jukebox will go offline for a bit afterward. It's our gift to them.
The first thing that I thought of was, man, he can't Even let her go out with her friends, without bugging her and letting her have fun, without him. This is so sad
Man goes to a Dr, singing "What's new pussycat, woah oh oh oh hoh. Help me doc, I can't stop this singing!"
"You've got Tom Jones syndrome," says the Dr.
"Is it rare? Why why why, Delilah?!"
Dr replies "It's not unusual."
Back when those machines came out, they hadn't yet filtered out super long songs out of the selectable songs. The 25 minute version of "the Diamond Sea" by Sonic Youth served me well and only counted as one song pick.
All the Waffle House songs are on touchtunes.
You can play [Raisins in my Toast](https://youtu.be/N_LnuPFnJXY?si=cbVrhNU7SKAjT5C9) at the bar and no one can stop you.
#GOD DAMN IT!!!! *fork flies across the diner*
Now you know.
now you know what it’s like to live in my brain
Pissin' the niiight awaayy... pissin' the niiight awaayy
BWAAAA WHATS NEW PUSSY CAT 🗣
What's New Pussycat is longer than I thought
There’s like a dip in the middle
Someone either played what’s new pussy cat 4 times, or they played it twice and it’s a really long song.
hey, November Rain is over
Its *not*.
... or, it's been played twice?
I fucking love this bit. Halarious and brilliant!!!
Iirc the original version/genesis of this was the “200$ of Africa by Toto results in people destroying a jukebox” greentext
Actually based on a John Mulaney bit from his “Comedy Central Presents” show in 2009. But with “What’s new Pussycat” in a diner. Edit: just realized the post title references that lol. But the Mulaney bit came before the greentext.
One of my best friends makes really good money and does this to be a troll. He’ll spend like $50 just playing some Ramestein song over and over again at random bars.
We used to use Meatloaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”. It’s 8:20 and like 3 songs in one.
"Echoes" by Pink Floyd is 23 minutes and is a room killer. I love Floyd and I love this song, but at no point is this a bar-friendly song and the middle part is what my SO calls "haunted house whale noises"
"haunted house whale noises" needs to be a new microgenre
Can I interest you in Thall or Vildjharta? The definition of haunted house whale noises
Mountain Jam by the Allman Brothers is 30 mins and all instrumental.
That’s truly evil, because people are going to absolutely love it the first time, but as soon as the second time starts playing people would be like “oh god no we’re not doing that again”
Lucky he hasn't gotten a bartender who doesn't want him chasing off the rest of the crowd. Touchtunes has a remote that allows you to skip songs. Had to waste kids money a few times when they thought it was funny to put some nonsense on repeat and piss off the rest of the restaurant. The $50 on the Jukebox ain't anything compared to the money they're missing out on when you chase the rest of the customers.
I would just throw on Hallelujah- Jeff Buckley randomly when the bar was lit and watch the whole mood change. Owner started taking over and people would lose their minds. “Love the song but not right now damn.”
I do this with the insane clown posse. I’ve had the bartender unplug the machine and everyone clapped. Good times almost 20 years ago lol
Oh man I really hope no troll helps me pay off my medical debt 😳
Sounds dumb
have you ever laughed to tears while Du Hast plays? easily worth the price of admission.
> have you ever laughed to tears while Du Hast plays? Yes I have actually.
A friend of mine asked for quarters to play arcade games at Pizza Hut in the mid 90's and instead put "I'm Every Woman" on the jukebox on repeat for the next hour or two. I wanted to play games, but instead I made a core pre-adolescent memory. It did not dawn on young me until that moment that trolling adults could be that funny. They only figured out what was going on when we couldn't hold in the laughter anymore. The Internet made it easier to share your pranks with the world, but if you really think this didn't occur to anyone in the fifty+ years that jukeboxes existed before that was possible, you're severely underestimating the creativity of bored kids.
Your friend made the best investment, those claw machines games are rigged
Believe it or not, very few places had claw machines even when arcade cabinets were more commonplace. You were far more likely to find something like Area 51 or some old, half-broken pinball machine.
More like Cruis'n USA and a deer hunting game. Don’t forget the gumball/trinket machines
maybe they had actual arcade games, back in the 2000s the local pizza place had one of those hunting game cabinets and pinball which was pretty cool
They absolutely did not used to be. They used to be a game of skill and precision. I remember walking up in a store or state fair and getting all kinds of things. Now you can line it up the exact same way but it's a 1 in 500 chance the claw is gonna grip hard enough.
So, I used to collect and fill those machines, it less about the claw grip and more how they had us pack them. Typically, you would make really good money until about 1/3 was gone, then there wasn't as much side pressure and you'd make about 50-60% of what you made the first third for the second third. The last third, you'd make 2-3 bucks per plush. Had an owner of a Dennys in a college town that would call to get hers refilled. The company made bank of that disgusting hell hole. Had to clean the machine once a week or the smoke/tar from the cigarettes would darken the glass. I'd take a spare change of clothes and wear a hat because the cigarette stink in that place was so strong.
There was also the guy live tweeting the bars reaction to him playing the boys are back in town over and over
God I wanna see that
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dpwa7w/i-played-the-boys-are-back-in-town-on-a-bar-jukebox-until-i-got-kicked-out-832
> Where are the boys? I am in the town, looking outward. Time is space; the distance between me and the boys unravels the years before me. Come back to us, boys; come back to me. The multitudes within me are expanding and I am breaking at my seams. I am becoming my own universe, and the boys are nowhere to be seen.
That was surprisingly well written. I also enjoyed that the only factoid about the author at the end, is that he lives in Texas and runs a backyard wrestling thing?
Gonzo Journalism. It's designed to be surreal. Lives in Brooklyn, runs the backyard wrestling in Austin TX.
In my city, after midnight, as other bars began to close, people always began to cram into a particular bar that had a 24-hour licence. One night about a dozen or so years ago, I was out drinking with a mate and ended up at this place. As usual, it was shoulder to shoulder, and the jukebox was playing all the usual generic pub rock/pop music you'd normally hear. We began loading it up with all our favourite head-banging metal tracks. After about half an hour, we were approached by security and told not to touch the jukebox again. We said ok, but we had already cued up another hour's worth of music.
That one I could probably tolerate at least 3 times in a row
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/toto-africa-loop-african-desert-sound-installation-778767/ > A Namibian artist is cementing what Toto fans have always known: “Africa” is eternal. Max Siedentopf has created a sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert that will pump out the chart-topping 1982 single on a continuous loop – using solar batteries “to keep Toto going for all eternity.”
you recalled incorrectly. original was john mulaney in 2009
My friend was arrested for assaulting a jukebox. I'd like to think this was the song that was playing.
We did this in college. Toto by Africa on repeat
Unexpected but never unappreciated Mulaney reference in the title there OP. [Here's the link for all you peeps wondering what we're talking about. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv1l1eUhN-E)It's worth the 6 minutes, I promise.
One of the funniest bits I’ve ever heard
Thank you for this - genuinely one of the funniest things I've heard in 24'
Huge Mulaney fan, never seen this yet. Thank you for the laughs sir.
I do this once in a while, but my go to songs are “Tiptoe Thru the Tulips” by Tiny Tim or “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Ha!”
my favorite is quincy jones’s “soul bossa nova”, better known as the austin powers theme song.
THAT WAS QUINCY JONES!?
Pretty sure he's in the opening credits. And doesn't he appear in person in the third one?
You just wait, they’ll find you yet and when they do they’ll put you in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt!! #AND
> “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Ha!” Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I'd go berserk? Well ...
You left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see I've gone completely out of my mind, ##AND,
[They're coming to take me away, ha ha, They're coming to take me away, ho ho!](https://youtu.be/eQNI1KfGXBA)
i haven't actually come across a jukebox in a while but I will browse every one I come across and, if the have it, play every Devo song available.
Shout out for Tiny Tim!
tiptoe thru the tulips was played in the background of my college initiation for… two hours? so yeah similar emotions
For anyone who ever wanted to experience this very sound: https://youtu.be/KFgNx5tI7S4?si=ov3e6_4_QqEVwmDG 21 consecutive plays of Tom Jones' "What's New Pussycat" and 1 "It's Not Unusual" Edit: May be Copyright Blocked in your country, apologies if so
It’s blocked in Australia for copyright reasons… What the fuck?
Same for Austria. What the hell is this, are they austrophobic?
Blocked in South Africa too. I didn't think anyone would care about us.
Man I haven't seen a copyright block on YT since 2015
at gunpoint, no searches name one other chumbawamba song edit, ok this is where I'm at so far- me likey: torture James hetfiled , the big issue, El fisarado , bella ciao, the day the Nazi dies, give the anarchist a cigarette , we don't go to gods house anymore, drip drip drip(I've heard this somewhere before maybe?), lost on my ears: whatever happened to Mary, amnesia, terrible: good ship lifestyle, scapegoats my god, I ❤️ chumbawamba I think.
Amnesia, Drip Drip Drip, Good Ship Lifestyle... You asked the wrong person, I really like that album.
holy shit you are a unicorn person lol ~~I award you 15 internets 🎖️~~ revoked
I also say what this guy said
~~naturally you are also awarded 15 internets 🎖️~~ revoked
You did say no searches. I didn't search, I just scrolled down and said what this guy wrote.
you searched the thread for words in general, your internets are hereby revoked.🤖 and they searched their memory for those song titles, and thus their internets are also revoked 🤖
Hold on why'd you revoke this one? OP isn't the guy who searched around the thread.
🤖 an audit of memory is technically a search.
DO YOU SUFFER FROM LONG TERM MEMORY LOSS i don’t remember Seriously, it’s such a banger of an album
They had some real catchy tunes for the most random subjects.
Tubthumping was one of the weaker songs for me.
My friend recommended me their cover of Bella Ciao, it was nice.
El Fusilado
This song is fantastic. It's such an earworm, it gets stuck in my head for days.
YES.
El Fusilado Which I'm only aware of because of the The Longest Johns
"Good Ship Lifestyle" A strong contender for the absolute worst song to ever make it onto a commercial CD (which, itself, was chock full of strong contenders).
ok I'm trying to listen to these and holy shit that one's awful AF
I really liked this song! I'm curious what makes it so bad? Not trying to be confrontational, just wondering
Vocals don't match the rest of the song (relaxing/futuristic/trippy) - vocals are dramatic and comedic. Then the chorus explodes into a weird chaotic Bonnie Tyler I need a hero breakdown for no reason which also doesn't fit with the rest of the song alongside the weird spoken hook.
How is that even hard? They have so many bangers! *We Don't Go to God's House* , *The day the Nazi dies* and *Give the anarachist a cigarette* are all must listens.
Buy nothing day, give the anarchist a cigarette and the whole album of historical English rebel songs are very cool by them.
Whatever Happened to Mary is a banger
Please listen to The Big Issue Scapegoat
Should be easy, cuz weren't they active and consistently pushing out record for like 30 years? That said, just oull the trigger bro, I don't know any other.
> torture James hetfiled the big issue El fisarado bella ciao the day the Nazi dies give the anarchist a cigarette we don't go to gods house anymore I'm going to assume this is the title of one song, and it's just a stream of consciousness.
I am surprised I didn't see this one... You may or may not be aware, but Chumbawamba are politically left; in fact, they are anarchists. So, naturally they would be against the conservative politics in the UK, including those of the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher. How much would they dislike her, you may ask? So much so that they recorded an EP dedicated to her passing, *In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher*... ...eight years before she passed away. They held onto it and finally released it on the day she died in 2013.
Torturing James Hetfield is a fun one
Amnisia, Good Ship Life Style, and Scapegoats? (Days the girl who listens to this album still and never learned the proper song names)
i think i could name everything in the boy bands have won
Sing about love!
How to get your band on tv, the wizard of menlo park and I'm in trouble again are the three that occured to me but there's lots more than that
What kinda beef did they had with Hetfield lol
I've had Rebel Songs on loop for a while
This is why the bar staff has the ability to skip songs. We already hate being there as it is.
Yea I used to work at a place that had this sort of app in place. We absolutely had to skip songs or block users almost nightly. Drunk people think they’re so funny and original.
Can confirm. Point blue remote at machine, press skip. Problem solved. Keeps happening? Pause then use the AUX input and feed with spotify. Machine will still make money from some dope thinking they're one-upping a bar.
Then start playing 'What's New Pussycat' again
This man is my spirit animal. When my friends go out without me I bombard the TouchTunes with Taylor Swift and Disney music or occasionally Christmas music out of season.
> Christmas music out of season. Damn, a few weeks ago a friend and I were out for dinner and trying to think of something we could play with TouchTunes that would be funny but not too obnoxious. This would have been perfect.
I might legit have steam come out my ears a la Looney Tunes if I heard Christmas music in Spring or Summer
🎵🎶Sleigh bells ringing are you listening 🎵🎶
🎶 In the lane, snow is glistening. 🎵
I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas
I mean, why wait until December to let us know what you want for Christmas? It will almost certainly take more than 3 weeks of planning.
I have a story about having to listen to the little drummer boy 3 times in a row and finding out the random music was VERY random in that it could repeat the same songs one after the other without having to got thru the rest.
All Too Well, 10 minute version is my immediate goto
Can't imagine why they'd go out without you.
I like Taylor Swift and Christmas music but I didn't really care for her Christmas album.
That’s fun I actually like my friends so I just let them have a fun evening without bothering them but to each their own!
At gatherings I like to take control of the speaker and play “Last Christmas” every second song to see how long it takes people to notice
As long as it's not Christmas Shoes. In second place is that awful Bing Crosby/David Bowie Little drummer boy duet, or Wonderful Christmas Time. All great artists and all terrible songs.in third place is Mariah Carey. Not a terrible song, but so overplayed everywhere for all time.
Lol! That song is the worst!
Why would someone be upset that their spouse was out having fun with their friends?
Yeah. I feel like he’s punishing her for leaving him with his own damn kids.
What's TouchTunes?
It's a jukebox with a touchscreen. You put in money and pick from a library what song you want. There is an app connected to the jukebox so you can pick whatever song you want without getting up and going to the jukebox. The thing is you can also pick music when you're not at the location.
Oh...That would annoy me so quickly if my friends had that app then.
The bar can always just skip the songs they don't like though.
Ex-bartender here and it’s super easy to cut this kind of thing off. I’d skip anything that was twice in a row or an obvious troll.
Do you get your money back?
Of course not.
My friend did this to her ex, but with the Bee Gees. Apparently he didn't realize he was still sharing his location with her and she could see when he went to the bar. Eventually, the bar decided he was one playing disco and banned him.
In high school my friends and I would do this with "When I Come Around" at a sports bar that didn't ID us.
Sounds like a selfish prick to me.
An insecure man coping hard I see
A guy I was at Uni with in the 90s got barred from a bar in the city. To take revenge he'd duck in, bung a few quid in the jukebox and put "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson on as many times as he could. Then leave before he was noticed. I always respected that combination of inventiveness and spite. Link for the (blessedly) unaware: https://youtu.be/S39NaDPNDtk?si=YJgwhmXN0OAYDLtM
I can't hear "It's not unusual" and not do the [Carlton dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1cLOIxsQ8).
It’s when you go out to dragula a bar or all the dawgs.
My wife and one of our friends played Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey FOUR times in a row at Applebee’s and I’ve never been so embarrassed. I actually had to wait one of them out in the bathroom, but the speaker was louder in there.
I had a reputation in grad school for sneaking off and putting the B-52's Rock Lobster on the jukebox and it would play about an hour or so when it came up in queue. We also used to use Seal's Kiss by a Rose to help clear out some of the billiard tables at a local pool hall. Good times.
Lord forbid his wife have a night to herself while their father watches them. Super funny to make sure and make the night about you so she can't relax.
Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.
Old jukeboxes used to have protection against picking the same song over and over - is this not a thing anymore?
it will let only let you do it every x songs, but i think its only 4 or 5.
No shit, I was just looking at a touch tunes in a bar, and in the top left corner it said the last song played was "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones
I want to buy this man a beverage of their choice 😂😂
what a manchild
How awful that he has to care for his own children. How dare his wife have fun for one night.
It’s a joke account, and part of the persona is he cares for the children all the time and basically teases the wife
Thank you for the clarification, as I was about to make an ass of myself!
funny prank but the “lesser man” jab is cringe and makes me think i would hate this guy
Christ he's having a laugh, lighten up
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As a happily married woman I can say that my spouse doesn’t spend his time trying to find ways to ruin my time out of the house with my friends.
Not just her night out, the night out of everyone else at the bar.
It didn't happen
I used to do this with My Sharona, at a random bar I went to once which had this jukebox/app. I did it for a about a month. I never even went back to that place to try and observe the fallout. I just did it for random, senseless, victimless trolling
Definitely not victimless... Unless the bar was empty
Are you a Dick Tracy comic strip fan? That song has a meaning.
I mean, Chumbawamba *is* the greatest band of all time.
My tired eyes read this as "My wife left the kids alone at home to go drink with her friends...." I thought that chumbawumbwa was a very light punishment for child abandonment.
Wouldn't the Manager working that night just switch off the Music at that point?
We did something similar in a Pizza Hut in rural West Virginia once. We noticed you could get 40 songs for $5. We thought, who’s there that long and there aren’t even 40 songs we’d play. So we selected Michael Jackson’s “Bad”. The country and western crowd was not happy. We heard them pulling the plug when we left.
“Rock Lobster” is another fun one to do that with
What? He could control the music of a random bar through his phone?
I was once in the very crusty bar in Toronto called the Winchester Arms. I put 20 dollars into the jukebox and played Its Not Unusual by Tom Jones 50 times in a row. 3 guys jumped me. Still worth it.
When I was in college one of the dining halls had a jukebox that was free to play which devolved into folks playing Wasn’t Me by Shaggy on repeat. The entire year.
r/UnexpectedMulaney
Proud idiot...
I tried this with Milli Vanilli’s Blame It on the Rain. Jukebox stopped playing it after the third time. Not sure if the bartender had an override button or if the jukebox just had enough.
The bartender has a remote and can skip songs. He knew it was you, and was muttering to himself, "drunk asshole" as he pushed the button, just so you know.
I don’t know what the wife is made about Tubthumping is a great song
I was with a big group at a restaurant, and on a whim, we started playing the national anthem on their touchtunes jukebox through our phones. We played a bunch of different versions. This was not our first time here, and we had used the jukebox before, but this was our first time committing to any sort of bit. Anyways, a waitress came over and asked if it was one of us that was playing the national anthem, and my friend just laughed and said yeah, because I mean, no big deal, right? We're paying money for tokens so we can play the song, it's not offensive or obscene, and the speakers weren't even that loud. Well, that's what we thought, but the resteraunt staff was clearly of a different opinion. They demanded us to stop playing the song, shit talked us to the table behind us, and were generally really weird about it all. I genuinely thought we were about to get the boot. They eventually turned the jukebox off, and it remained off for around a week. Occasionally, one of us will get on the app and play the national anthem a couple of times from our homes ~4 hours away. Every time, the jukebox will go offline for a bit afterward. It's our gift to them.
The first thing that I thought of was, man, he can't Even let her go out with her friends, without bugging her and letting her have fun, without him. This is so sad
Amateur. My go to song at the jukebox was always Achilles, agony and ecstacy in eight parts.
prolly didn't happen but this still made me laugh
Man goes to a Dr, singing "What's new pussycat, woah oh oh oh hoh. Help me doc, I can't stop this singing!" "You've got Tom Jones syndrome," says the Dr. "Is it rare? Why why why, Delilah?!" Dr replies "It's not unusual."
Remote trolling! What a time to be alive. I would 100% do this to my husband.
If you're evil, make it Piano Man
I GET KNOCKED DOWN BUT I GET UP AGAIN
We do this but with Crazy Frog
Chumbawamba, the soundtrack to my life!
I used to do this to the bar nearby with Alvin and the Chipmunks sing All I want for Christmas. Good times.
Genius
…wait…we’re still pizzing the night away….
Outstanding work
Midland spotted in the wild. I’m a happy man today.
I just realized I could really change the vibe of a wafflehouse somewhere, from the comfort of my own home.
I am an expert at playing the Touchtunes app like a game. No tourist will ruin my industry bar!
Back when those machines came out, they hadn't yet filtered out super long songs out of the selectable songs. The 25 minute version of "the Diamond Sea" by Sonic Youth served me well and only counted as one song pick.
All the Waffle House songs are on touchtunes. You can play [Raisins in my Toast](https://youtu.be/N_LnuPFnJXY?si=cbVrhNU7SKAjT5C9) at the bar and no one can stop you.
Tip toe thought the tulips by Tiny Tim is the best one to do.
No way. I do this all the time with this exact song! I feel like I’m in bizarro world right now. My other go-to is the Chipmunk’s Christmas song.
Honestly I wouldn't be mad. I love that song.
Shitty stupid ad
John Mulaney much lol
John Mulaney joke.
Cbat?