• @masquenox
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    361 month ago

    When you’re young, horny and reasonably healthy it makes a lot more sense.

  • @shalafi
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    261 month ago

    How old I am:

    Translated Paradise City into French for my gf, hand written in a perfumed letter on real stationary. She loved it. Yes, I got laid, but that was happening anyway as we were 18.

    • @ReginaPhalange
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      101 month ago

      … did she know that was a translation, or you went like "here is an original French poem I wrote about you "

      • @shalafi
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        21 month ago

        She was one of two genuine genius level IQs I’ve ever met. She knew.

        Genius, looked like an 80s Marilyn Monroe, freak in the sheets, emotional quotient of a rabid possum. Loved that woman.

  • NickwithaC
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    221 month ago

    except the original lyrics didn’t go like that…

    • @[email protected]
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      631 month ago

      From Genius:

      "Guns N Roses guitarist Slash – who wrote most of the music for this song – wanted the repeat of the chorus to change to:

      Where the girls are fat
      And they’ve got big titties
      

      Lead singer Axl Rose didn’t go for it. Instead it follows with nice sights most Americans long to find. Particularly for being better than usual (after all, the grass is always greener on the other side).

      Note the alliteration: grass, green and girls."

      Thanks for the fun fact! I didn’t know this.

    • IninewCrow
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      221 month ago

      We always used to sing … “Where the girls are green and the grass is pretty”

      • @Bassman1805
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        151 month ago

        Those weren’t the original lyrics, though. Axl changed them before the song was recorded (good move, though)

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      31 month ago

      “Take me down to the paradise city where the chicks have dicks and the men have titties!”

    • @surewhynotlem
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      21 month ago

      🎵 Oh won’t you please let me bone 🎵

  • @Maggoty
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    151 month ago

    I mean… I’ve been where the grass is spray painted rocks and the girls aren’t pretty… I’d rather green grass and pretty girls.