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Re:Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbe... by rlucas on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:59PM (#8540798)
My circle of friends used to joke about the "Republican Test." You administer it like this: play the song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," ideally the Marvin Gaye version, and ask the subject to "clap along with the music" however he or she feels.

Our unscientific observations showed a high correlation with 1/3 clapping and being old, square, uptight, or an alien from an unfunky and obsolete dying planet.

Re:Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbe... by javert on Friday October 31, 2014 @09:39PM (#8541924)
Conversely, how do you detect a Democrat?

Don't worry, it's easy. They go around calling anyone who disagrees with them names, like "old, square, uptight, or alien."

Re:Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbe... by rlucas on Friday November 07, 2014 @01:34PM (#8573941)
Easy, bud. You're risking seeming uptight ;)

The alien thing is a reference to "Unfunky UFO," by Parliament. I recommend you listen to it. And don't clap on the 2s and 4s.

Re:Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbe... by bonjovial on Saturday November 01, 2014 @12:06PM (#8543507)
Oh.

And we all just learned not to expect Republicans or Libertarians to understand the concept of..."joke".

You just confirmed the parent comment's point.

Re:Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbe... by javert on Saturday November 01, 2014 @08:08PM (#8545092)
Democrats definitely think that Republicans are morally inferior to them, and vice versa. You can't really make jokes in a context like that because there is no distinction between a joke and an actual malignment. I definitely make jokes about Democrats, just not around Democrats, because there is just no point in maligning people to their face.
Re:Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbe... by rlucas on Friday November 07, 2014 @01:35PM (#8573944)
That should read culturally inferior, not morally.
Re:Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbe... by sliverstorm on Friday October 31, 2014 @05:16PM (#8541183)
Maybe it's more accurate than it appears at first glance. I consider myself centrist. I just did your test fur fun and found myself regularly switching back and forth between 1/3 and 2/4, depending on the part of the song.
Re:Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbe... by conitpicker on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:25PM (#8540931)
I bet Lee Atwater would have failed that test..
Re:Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbe... by mynameishere on Friday October 31, 2014 @06:53PM (#8541492)
I didn't know this, which I assume is what you're referring to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hq2VQ8P_9o