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stand by your man

― Giulia De Filippo (Giulia De Filippo), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

will do

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Giulia, stand by the JAMs

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

to the left or right side? Tammy never clarified this.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I know a woman who is he standing by her man right now. But he is a complete and total asshole. So it's not always good advice.

― Debito (Debito), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're gonna live your life by Tammy's advice, you're gonna need a solid jaw.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"to the left or right side? Tammy never clarified this."

She did suggest that you "give him two arms to cling to" 'though; which (assuming that both of the arms in question are your own and fully attached) is actually quite difficult to do when you're standing to one side of someone - so perhaps what she actually meant was that you should stand in front of your man....

.... unless she actually meant that you should give him two arms to cling to one at a time of course....

.... although if that were the case, why did she not just sing "give him an arm to cling to", rather than running the risk of alienating the entire one-armed, man-standing-by females in her audience?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 June 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

good point

― Buster (mokey), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

You could always stand BEHIND your man.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

How would he be able to cling to her arms if she was standing behind him? He'd need arms that jointed backwards at the elbows and could easily injure himself were he to attempt to do so! Why don't you stop and think before you spout such ridiculous and potentially dangerous nonsense?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, what if someone tried to shoot him? What use would she be to him then if she was standing behind him, eh?

.... Unless someone tried to shoot from behind of course.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I CANNOT BELEIVE you are discriminating against people with backwardsbending arms, you body fascist.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ME a body fascist? ME?!?

What if the man had extremely short arms, either as a result of a genetic inheritance or some tragic accident? What then? Answer me that my friend, and THEN we'll ALL be able to see who's REALLY the body fascist!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

You and your friend Tammy Wynette and her callous and insensitive insistence that a woman can't stand by her man properly unless she has a full compliment of arms; that's who!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I have it on good authority that the original lyric was "stand behind your man / give him a reach around to fling from" but it didn't scan.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmmmm. OK, well I must admit that if she was supposed to be standing behind him (thus being rendered unable to see what he was doing), it would at least make sense of the lines:

"You'll have sad times
And he'll have good times
Doin' things that you don't understand"

Although of course it's all still sexist crap and demeaning to men.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

What stuff is he doing: motor maintenance, football, politics, parking? *ducks*

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"'Cuz after all he's just a man...."

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

[c'mon everybody, join in the chorus, you know the word; two three four....]

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Standby Germans!"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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