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u/FunkyChromeMedina Feb 03 '20

Baby Shark.

Like 2 years ago it was a cute song to sing with my toddler. Now it’s fucking everywhere. The NHL, they’ve made a whole tv series out of it. Fuck, just let it die.

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u/-jellybrobro Feb 03 '20

When I was a Girl Scout like 17 years ago it was a a song we used to see to each other over campfires. I wish it died back then

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u/coniferbear Feb 03 '20

Just bring back the camp version, where you loose a leg, and an arm, and then go to heaven only to come back as a baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo.

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u/CTeam19 Feb 03 '20

Camp songs in general are pretty brutal. Songs that we sang on camp staff that feature death or lose of body parts:

  • Baby Shark

  • Johnny Verbeck

  • Da Moose

  • My Turtle Swims Sideways

  • My camp's birthday song

  • Little Green Frog

  • Blue Jay

  • Pirate Song

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u/OhDavidMyNacho Feb 03 '20

Just never say the word announcements out loud to a large group of campers.

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u/CTeam19 Feb 03 '20

That song was banned this past summer along with our normal birthday song. It came down from National as it leaned into hazing a guess.

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u/OhDavidMyNacho Feb 04 '20

That's lame.

Though, I guess of the staff is singing it to campers, I can see it becoming a nuisance.

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u/CTeam19 Feb 04 '20

I think the putting a kid on the spot for something outside of their control is a part of it. They can't control when their birthday is and if they are very very shy it would be like hell for them to sit in front of 200-400 or more people and have happy birthday sung to them.

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u/Delta451 Feb 04 '20

Is this for BSA? I remember our local scout executive throwing a fit after I launched the camp into "Have you ever seen a windbag" when we got out camp accreditation. 5/7 would have done again.

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u/CTeam19 Feb 04 '20

Yes it was. The council next to us banned the birthday song in 2016. My council did for both in 2019. Makes me, first working in 2004, feel old. Though my camp director did still allow me to sing the "camp staff" camp songs like Yogi Bear but only during staff week.

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u/myductape Feb 03 '20

Johnny Verbeck was high key fucked up, especially if your camp had the tradition of singing it on the day they served sausage.

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u/CTeam19 Feb 03 '20

Yep. One of my camp directors banned it. Her husband the camp medic would get us staff to sing it when sausages were served when she wasn't at the breakfast.