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    innuendos

    Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by katina, Oct 22, 2018.

    What types of innuendos do you encounter on a daily basis?
    For example
    Sexual innuendos
    Do they actually soften the idea rather then the act and so makes it acceptable to talk sex
    in a wider context without feeling awkward or bad about it?

    In other words do you think innuendos make conversations of any type more socially
    acceptable?
     
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    Bad innuendo is awkward as hell.
     
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    For example?
     
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    I put sexual innuendo into one of two camps. It's either awkward, or just plain lame. Neither are very likely to promote a meaningful conversation. Personally, I don't need any pretense to talk openly about sex, or any subject for that matter.
     
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    I find the only innuendoes I use or see the most are those done for comedic effect. Using innuendoes on any serious topic however usually, in my experience, lead to confusion, misunderstanding or just ambiguity
     
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    I agree about humor, it's great for fun. I also use it in writing as a vehicle for demonstrating sexual tension, fear of intimacy, misdirection. It's demonstrative of human nature, making light of something serious.
     
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    :meh:

    They're a useful tool in the chest of conversation skills. Why take it out? Finding a good one's hard but there's enjoyment to be taken by slipping one in occasionally—so long as you don't do it at length.
     
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    Guns N' Roses was playing with masculine and feminine.
    Velvet Revolver took a similar root.
    Nine Inch Nails was a penis metaphor
    so was I believe The Sex Pistols
     
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    What genre do you write in?
     
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    Sexual innuendo just seems so cheap to me. If I like a woman's smile, or her ass for that matter, I'll simply tell her. And perhaps goose her behind.;)
     
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    I bet you're so pretty she'd tumble into your pants. 'Fuck this job, Sparrow's on my case, guys.'
     
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    What does that mean?
     
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    ... :D

    Whatever pays, wants me.

    I.. Once wrote in house for Gospel when I left college.
    This was urban too, so it was like rapping morality and they wanted a song about alcoholism.
    It was a youth project designed to keep kids off the streets, but they wanted gospel and a morality track.
    I wrote a verse, it was a group effort.

    I write whatever genre comes to mind, be it rock or rap or pop or blues, I've been writing for a while now, but your question reminded me of my first gig in writing.
     
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    I have a band called Lesbian With A Gun, because I was the only guy in my Ebony Lesbian crew who were like family to me in Soho and I used to call myself a Lesbian With A Penis but thought Lesbian With A Gun was a better band name.
    This band was a lot more me.

    [​IMG]
    I also had the means and address in Soho to base it around the corner from where Jimi Hendrix recorded Purple Haze however, I found out about Purple Haze being recorded close by after I based myself there.

    ... That was cool.
     
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    Also reminds me of this song

    lmao, penis metaphor if I've ever heard one; Janie's Got A Gun by Aerosmith.
     
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    Okay, the jury's still out on Janie's Got A Gun by Aerosmith for penis metaphore, but, Rocket Queen by Guns N' Roses is a great innuendo; written by guitarist Slash;
     
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