Don't stand, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me.

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NewTime
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14 Feb 2026, 11:04 am

You're standing too close, back away.



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14 Feb 2026, 11:14 am

I'll be watching you.
Every move you make, every breath you take.
I'll be watching you. :nerdy:


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14 Feb 2026, 11:41 am

I'm looking through you. You're not the same.


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14 Feb 2026, 2:51 pm

I'm going to jump straight to "starts to shake and cough"



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14 Feb 2026, 3:34 pm

I started seeing this song as a way of socially distancing from people who are infected. Even before covid, because the world was telling us non-stop about how every flu strain was going to kill us, including young and healthy people, and SARS, which covid is a novel strain of, and at the beginning of Covid I was sure there were going to be dead bodies in the streets and the local hockey arena would be turned a morgue and mass graves would have to be dug. Avoiding the disease no matter what did seemed impossible, and one night I flew into a rage so bad the landlord called my mother and she talked to me afterwards and I was scared to death of being kicked out of my apartment. It's kind of surprising how quickly I adjusted, though. But the world will never be the same again and any minute now there might not even be a world left.

But I digress. I used to hear that song for years and had no idea it was supposed to be about a teacher who is attracted to or having a relationship with an underage girl in his class, or something creepy like that. I feel bad sometimes for not reading between the lines. My brother use to make fun of me for not understanding the hidden "deep meaning" of a song or a poem.



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14 Feb 2026, 4:25 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
But I digress. I used to hear that song for years and had no idea it was supposed to be about a teacher who is attracted to or having a relationship with an underage girl in his class, or something creepy like that. I feel bad sometimes for not reading between the lines. My brother use to make fun of me for not understanding the hidden "deep meaning" of a song or a poem.


I was always under the impression it was a one-sided relationship. A student fancies him enough that people think there's something going on, but there isn't really.


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If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. —Malcolm X
Just a reminder: under international law, an occupying power has no right of self-defense, and those who are occupied have the right and duty to liberate themselves by any means possible.