Random Green Day Thoughts

[unextraordinarygirl]

On 11/19/2016 at 8:21 PM, letsdanceon said:

Usually, my daughter (she's 2.5) likes to tease me by saying Green Day is "yucky" because she knows I pretend to get upset.

The other day we were in the kitchen baking a cake for my mom's birthday and I said "I think we need some music to listen to, don't you? What should we listen to?" She thought for a moment and replied, "Deen Day, maybe?" Haha maybe YES baby girl  Proud parent moment right there! 

You taught her well Obi Wan Kanobi! 

[Wretched & Divine]

I'm trying to find something specific in my twitter history and I just found this. Which... well... I don't even know 

 

[DeJennsitized]

Is Green Day still in the Facebook trending topics because they're actually still trending or because Facebook just knows I like them? They were gone for a bit but they're back again.

[Leni.]

3 minutes ago, Jenn. said:

Is Green Day still in the Facebook trending topics because they're actually still trending or because Facebook just knows I like them? They were gone for a bit but they're back again.

Facebook collects information such as which websites you've visited or collects info about what do you like on FB even if it's just using those reactions/faces instead of liking, at least I think so, it's for them to be able to give you the adverts and it's more about who is the potential buyer, even Google do this, and other social sites I guess too

[DeJennsitized]

Just now, Ellen Caulfield said:

Facebook collects information such as which websites you've visited or collects info about what do you like on FB even if it's just using those reactions/faces instead of liking, at least I think so, it's for them to be able to give you the adverts and it's more about who is the potential buyer, even Google do this, and other social sites I guess too

Yeah, I know that's why they put posts by pages I haven't liked on my feed because they think I might like it (even though it's normally those scam shirt company things) but I wasn't sure if it affected what they showed me what was trending or not...I love the guys but I couldn't really imagine that they'd still be trending at this point  

[Leni.]

Just now, Jenn. said:

Yeah, I know that's why they put posts by pages I haven't liked on my feed because they think I might like it (even though it's normally those scam shirt company things) but I wasn't sure if it affected what they showed me what was trending or not...I love the guys but I couldn't really imagine that they'd still be trending at this point  

It's hard to say  Who knows maybe they're really trending, but I agree with you that it's hard to imagine  

[Thatsername]

I had a total cello moment yesterday Feeling like a cello is just so cool, I don't know how we ever did without the definition of this exact feeling. It should be included in a dictionary.

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

2 hours ago, MMwhatsername said:

 It should be included in a dictionary.

That's what I'm trying to accomplish.

(Seriously, this needs an urban dictionary entry.)

[RougeRogue]

So...given that I wasn't around here in the trilogy era, I've always wondered if everyone on here has a widely accepted origin for Billie's trilogy phrase "Stop When The Red Lights Flash"?

Because, in case it hasn't been discussed previously, that is the phrase that is printed on the back of all american school buses and I am 99% sure that he came up with that while sitting behind a school bus in traffic.

I have literally never seen that anywhere else.

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

I guess it's quite literal. Stop doing whatever bullshit you are doing when people around you signalize you should/you realize you're going in a wrong direction. 

[UNICORN VOMIT]

2 hours ago, RougeRogue said:

So...given that I wasn't around here in the trilogy era, I've always wondered if everyone on here has a widely accepted origin for Billie's trilogy phrase "Stop When The Red Lights Flash"?

Because, in case it hasn't been discussed previously, that is the phrase that is printed on the back of all american school buses and I am 99% sure that he came up with that while sitting behind a school bus in traffic.

I have literally never seen that anywhere else.

I thought it was about prostitutes 😋 But I will go with your version. 

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

2 minutes ago, Tinkle said:

I thought it was about prostitutes 😋 But I will go with your version. 

Or this 

[End Of The World]

6 hours ago, Jane Lannister said:

That's what I'm trying to accomplish.

(Seriously, this needs an urban dictionary entry.)

Feeling like a cello:

in my opinion it literally means "experience a wide range of feelings". You know, the cello has a great extension in term of notes. It goes to C2 to G5 if I remember well. So it is like "you can experience everything, from bad feelings (low notes) to orgasms (high notes), but all this at the same time". It's incredible.

I hope it's crazy enough to be a "feeling like a cello" explanation.

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

5 minutes ago, End Of The World said:

Feeling like a cello:

in my opinion it literally means "experience a wide range of feelings". You know, the cello has a great extension in term of notes. It goes to C2 to G5 if I remember well. So it is like "you can experience everything, from bad feelings (low notes) to orgasms (high notes), but all this at the same time". It's incredible.

I hope it's crazy enough to be a "feeling like a cello" explanation.

This is another wonderful take at that line! I love it 

[RougeRogue]

1 hour ago, Jane Lannister said:

I guess it's quite literal. Stop doing whatever bullshit you are doing when people around you signalize you should/you realize you're going in a wrong direction. 

I mean he may mean it however he wants, but as a phrase I promise you that is the only place it comes from and the only thing it's used for. Because, literally, when the bus' red lights flash, that means stop. He interpreted it however, but that has got to be the origin there.

[MaraGreenDay]

56 minutes ago, Tinkle said:

I thought it was about prostitutes 😋 But I will go with your version. 

Yeah, I always thought it was about sex lol 

[RougeRogue]

Moreover, was this seriously never thought of on here before because ??? how ???

[MaraGreenDay]

4 minutes ago, RougeRogue said:

Moreover, was this seriously never thought of on here before because ??? how ???

I remember someone posted about it and we all agreed it was about sex, that'sall I can remember, but I don't remember where or when, that was like 3 years ago  

Also, he said that on the That's Alright cover. 

[RougeRogue]

For reference:

[I don't care]

Just listened to Working Class Hero (Green Day version, obviously) and I just realized that I grew up (well, I was seven when it was released) thinking that it was a Green Day song. If have no idea when or where I learned that it was made by John Lennon.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

1 hour ago, RougeRogue said:

Moreover, was this seriously never thought of on here before because ??? how ???

Because we are not all American 

 

 

rejects😉

[Wretched & Divine]

1 minute ago, Tinkle said:

Because we are not all American 

 

 

rejects😉

Yeah, aren't those lights orange here? Doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Too many syllables 

[RougeRogue]

56 minutes ago, Tinkle said:

Because we are not all American 

 

 

rejects😉

Not everyone, but there are some and it baffles me that none of the american fans on here have realized this nor shared it with everyone.

[belinda jane]

i was thinking before that i find it weird seeing green day on tv shows (like james cordern).
i feel like i know them, and it's strange to see them on tv.
is that weird? i feel like it doesn't really make sense. hahaha.

[Thatsername]

16 hours ago, RougeRogue said:

So...given that I wasn't around here in the trilogy era, I've always wondered if everyone on here has a widely accepted origin for Billie's trilogy phrase "Stop When The Red Lights Flash"?

I always thought the red light thing is a very personal metaphor and some kind of central theme of the trilogy. It could be about Billie's condition at that time, like he already realized that his situation got more and more out of control and he knew that he should stop (he saw the red lights flash), but he couldn't stop, he wasn't able to change anything yet. But maybe I'm reading way too much into this and it's really only about sex

Thinking about the song Stop When the Red Lights Flash, I just remembered that it is GREAT live! I don't like it too much on the album, but it rocks like hell on stage. I hope they'll play it again some day in the future.