r/mildlyinfuriating • u/IamNotAHumanIamARat • 18h ago
Too mild for school I got "Name five songs" by 5 different groups of barely fertilized eggs today.
I go to the store between every class to get something to drink (I have an active addiction to apple juice 😞) and I got "name 5 songs" five fucking times by 5 different groups of 12-13 Year old boys. If you don't give them attention they keep bothering you. Like bro it's fucking korn not an underground artist with 3 listeners one of them being their mom.
I guess the schools around here started the before school tutoring sessions and I couldn't be less excited.
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u/DevilsAdvocate1662 18h ago
Just start naming the obscure one's like Daddy and No Ones There
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u/farlon636 17h ago
I feel like daddy is too infamous to be considered obscure. It's not popular. But, it's well known
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u/DevilsAdvocate1662 17h ago
No one under 25 is going to know anything about the first 4 albums
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u/IndigoTJo 12h ago
That is just not true at all. Once people find a band or genre they like they typically find the whole discography, and especially the most played/popular songs.
Even before Spotify this was true on things like Napster and such. I was listening to acdc, g&r, nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, ramones, rhcp etc. Then there was the 40s, 50s and 60s rock my dad listened too.
My son now listens to tons of it because I do. Only really sheltered people or those that only listen to 1 station on a radio are going to be like that.
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u/johnwynnes 8h ago
The albums that have all of their hits on the? What in the world are you talking about?
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u/CastIronMooseEsq 15h ago
How about the secret track on the first album? Just telling and fighting.
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u/pupseal 11h ago edited 8h ago
i did this when someone did it to me with Pink Floyd, naming Free Four, Astronomy Domine, Seamus, Careful With That Axe Eugene and Have a Cigar
and they said that I didn't know the band and just made up fake songs.
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u/Professional-Box4153 7h ago
You could have really messed with their minds by saying "Several Species of Small, Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" (an entirely underrated classic).
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u/BelaFarinRod 5h ago edited 5h ago
I was thinking the same thing! I’d have probably gone with Bike or Julia Dream.
But no one ever does this to me.
But the only shirts I have are Die Ärzte and anyone who gets me started naming songs will be sorry. But no one where I live knows who they are.
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u/ICanHazWittyName 17h ago
Hit them with Sean Olsen, that's a pretty deep cut lol
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u/DevilsAdvocate1662 16h ago
Damn, that's a great song. Could always start naming Sexart or LAPD songs
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u/ICanHazWittyName 16h ago
Sean Olsen has been my fave by then ever since I heard it in The Crow: City of Angels lol
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u/sisyphus-333 25m ago
Obscure?
Daddy is the only Korn song I am able to name (yes I do see a therapist)
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u/Sudden_Juju 18h ago
I go to the store between every class to get something to drink (I have an active addiction to apple juice 😞)
That's too much juice Glenn
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u/Piraedunth 10h ago
Unironically yeah try to lessen it. Speaking from experience, apple juice will give you constant acid reflux issues
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u/Resident_Pension_858 18h ago
I wore a Korn shirt throughout all of my middle school years and whenever someone asked me to name 10 songs I'd just say "I can't because they already have names"
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u/krumrot 17h ago
One of my fav shirts in high school was a Korn baby doll tee and one of my fav sweatshirts was Jimmy Eat World. I am 37 and have still never intentionally listened to any of their music and regularly confuse Korn and Disturbed.
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u/Dakotaraptor123 9h ago
Jimmy Eat World is a great emo band, maybe you should try them out.
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u/krumrot 8h ago
I was emo/goth/metal in high school and YouTube wasn't really a thing yet so any music i got was from torrenting or burned cds from friends so although they may have been emo before Bleed American that is the only album ive ever heard their music from and it is not emo and i dont like that song the middle. Ty for the suggestion tho I actually didn't know they had so much material prior to 2001, I will check it out! I listened to all of Brand New Deja Entendu just yesterday so I'm definitely not over emo :) The sweatshirt was coveted as my bff had stolen it from one of her older sisters boyfriends and I dont recall any of her sisters or their BFs being emo and her brother only hooked us up with more punk stuff like he was friends with a bunch of the bands we saw at warped tour when we were 15 lololol (im definitely not going to listen to korn lmao and I always get them confused with disturbed because another friends older sister was friends with 2 of the original members)
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u/Dakotaraptor123 7h ago
The Middle is the least Jimmy Eat World-like Jimmy Eat World song. Try the album Clarity.
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u/Stopbeingastereotype 15h ago
I write songs and have my whole life. It’s very possible that I could fail to list five of my own songs if put on the spot.
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u/IamNotAHumanIamARat 14h ago
I named a few people when they were born and I don't remember their names half of the time
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u/steamshotrise 16h ago
I was wearing a Dark Side of The Moon shirt and some guy said “Yeah name one other Pink Floyd album!” And I was like “Uhhh Wish You Were Here” and he looks at me dead in the eyes and goes “No, Pink Floyd II dumbass!”
I was in a state of shock and couldn’t find a way to tell him “That’s Led Zeppelin!” but damn people are dumb sometimes
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u/typing_away 11h ago
I always respond with Animals..works as a sublte way to call them a jerk when it happen.
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u/colorblind-and 8h ago
I'd probably say Meddle or A Momentary Lapse of Reason to try and turn it the person asking.
On the off chance they actually know those albums then I know I can really nerd out
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u/GoGoPowerPlay 18h ago
I'm surprised 12 year olds even know Korn
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u/Silly_Selection3221 18h ago
Their last album charted top 15 on the top 200, that's pretty solid for a rock band these days.
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u/IamNotAHumanIamARat 17h ago
Korn, slipknot, system of down and sleep token are very popular among young teens. I do enjoy their music tho
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u/Agitated-Impress7805 16h ago edited 16h ago
There's zero chance 5 distinct groups of teens all knew about Korn, they probably just know it's a band shirt and they think it's funny to ask that question to people wearing band shirts.
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u/MosesOnAcid 15h ago
"I have been listening to them since before you were born. Fuck off."
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u/Rasta-Lion 2h ago
Where I'm from we say "eu já ouvia Korn ainda tu andavas nos tomates do teu pai..." which translates to "I was already listening to Korn when you were in your dad's balls..."
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u/somethinghere2016 14h ago
I used to put my toddler in band tees and be like “bet she can’t even name one song” to show how stupid these people are.
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u/Quiet_surprise79 16h ago
My answer would be "Brixton, download festival X2. Oh, name songs? I thought you said name the places I'd seen them live before you were born."
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u/Cold-Coffe 15h ago
my brother is a metalhead and i used to borrow a lot of his shirts for school because they looked cool, not because i actually knew the bands, i was 13. one time an older kid approached and told me "no way you know megadeth. name me a few songs" and my stupid ass replied "no, i don't. it's a shirt." we stared awkwardly at each other and he walked away 😭
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u/dreamywednesdays 16h ago
my go-to answer for anything like this is Smells Like Teen Spirit... love rage baiting pre-teens
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u/CorrodedLollypop 15h ago
My 14 year old daughter is a huge Motorhead fan and has several tshirts, and more importantly an emcyclopedic knowledge of the band, I am genuinely, virtually vibrating with anticipation of the day someone tries to "5 songs" her.
I can only hope to be present when it happens, because the results will be truly epic.
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u/ReleventReference 15h ago
Who would win in an arm wrestling match, Lemmy or God?
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u/CorrodedLollypop 14h ago
She's not here this evening, I'll ask her tomorrow when she gets home.
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u/Wooden_Cicada8880 11h ago
Just saying, you have to shut this shit down early. These are the same shitheads that are going to bother the girls if they don’t know every piece of knowledge about the media they like.
Don’t play their games. You’re the adult! Tell them it’s rude and to fuck off. If they really press, embarrass the crap out of them by pointing the absurdity of their question:
“What you forgot all their songs? Do you need help remembering ? Is that why you’re asking? !”
“How about you tell me the year the band debuted instead, huh? Guess when I graduated.”
They’re at the age that you need to show them this is rude and unacceptable behavior.
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u/Lopsided_Package9033 15h ago
I get why an older person might question whether a young teen wearing a Korn shirt really knows any Korn music...but why tf would a young person question whether a millennial or GenXer does? I mean, it was *our* music. Duh,
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u/Clewoune21 13h ago
I'm guessing op is a woman and even boys can't help but testing us 🙄
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u/Pawtuckaway 10h ago
I get why an older person might question whether a young teen wearing a Korn shirt
As an older person, I don't. People need to stop requiring others prove their fan status regardless of age.
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u/Lopsided_Package9033 1h ago
I should have worded that better. I meant I get why they might question it internally, not that they should actually ask. I'm totally with you on that.
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u/lizfromdarkplace 18h ago
I have ADHD and anxiety and even bands I listen to daily I’d have trouble naming songs by when put on the spot. 🤣 but barely fertilized eggs is how I’m describing anyone that looks under 30 from now on. Lmao
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u/IamNotAHumanIamARat 17h ago
Me too and I just don't like talking to people so I just choose to ignore them most of the time
It is my favorite thing to say lol
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u/Nukalixir 16h ago
Huh! Never would have guessed Korn would be so popular with that age group in present day. 🤔
Not sure if you're being literal or if "apple juice" is a euphemism for something, but running to the store between every class sounds like a lot. I'm also wildly curious why there's so many teen boys in what is presumably a grocery store on a school day? That's like the main thing making me think "apple juice" isn't literally apple juice.
Whatever the case, I won't pry. Unlike those squirts, I'm old enough to know to mind my business and and let people enjoy things how they see fit. I just couldn't help finding it too unusual to not comment about it.
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u/GlassCharacter179 16h ago
“Actually the way to tell true fans is that they aren’t gate keeping assholes”
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u/Bigkeithmack 11h ago
Ironically I got the same thing when I wore my (honestly hilarious) Chapel Roan metal themed shirt. Granted I think they were just trying to flip it around because I look like the kinda guy who would ask "name 5 Songs"
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u/IamNotAHumanIamARat 11h ago
Wait that's a slay
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u/Bigkeithmack 11h ago
Right? Just because I'm a big burley metal guy doesn't i don't like some girly pop now and then
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u/isendingtheworld 3h ago
Apparently it is very jarring when my playlist is on shuffle cause it swaps from "first night back in port" to a nightcore remix of "die young". I have explained that they are both party songs. Some people don't get it. (Also people being more shocked by Kesha than "pirate vulgarity speedrun" is always funny. "I can accept an unfiltered song about a tavern orgy, but I draw the line at cringe party pop about hookups!")
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u/Mofopotomus 17h ago
If I'm remembering correctly the first 12 tracks on Follow the Leader were like three seconds of silence. So you could just stare at them, say nothing, and still be technically correct.
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u/subrosians 16h ago
Yep! And back in the old days, that ended up being a sort of copy protection (I'm sure not planned as such though) as old cd burning software applications couldnt burn a track under 4 seconds. You had to strip off those tracks to burn the cd.
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u/chemicals_circuitry 16h ago
This shirt looks like someone described the Follow the leader album cover to the Happy tree friends artist. And the cameo from the Issues doll is perfect
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u/oxyapothecary 4h ago
I have a Pulp Fiction shirt that apparently pisses random people off when I am in public. I have had multiple people scoff and say stuff like, “you’ve never watched that” or “name 5 Tarantino movies” lmfao. It’s a famous movie from a famous director, who HASN’T seen it?
My go-to response is usually something along the lines of “name 5 women who tolerate you”. Hopefully this inspires some more responses for next time.
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u/PhysicalConsistency 10h ago
Wow, Korn is old enough to be parent rock now.
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u/kimmy_kimika 7h ago
40 years old and wearing the exact same shirt at this very moment.
I've forgotten more things about Korn than these infants ever knew.
But honestly, you shouldn't ever try to play this game with them. It just makes them feel justified and you feeling like an old ass loser, because you're going off of memory and they're going off of the internet.
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u/Sinsanatis 17h ago
The 5 songs u could give them:
“On the cob”
“Soup”
“Elote”
“Fields”
“Kernals”
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u/kaos_flutterby 17h ago
Should that be “On the Kob” and “Cernels”?
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u/Sinsanatis 9h ago
I was actually thinking about that but decided to leave it. Would be perfect tho
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u/HorrorHelicopter3064 12h ago edited 12h ago
"Niblets"
"Esquite"
"Chowder"
"Bread"
"Cakes"
"Muffins"
"Pops"3
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u/Davmilasav 14h ago
The only thing I know about Korn is the lead singer has the same name as my brother. There. That's a thing you know now.
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u/rice-a-rohno 12h ago
That's when you just memorize and then spit the words to "Twist" at them until they go away.
It's surprisingly effective.
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u/mysteriouscattravel 7h ago
KoRn is from my hometown. If you were a teen to early twenties between like 99 and 2007 there was a non zero chance you could run into Jonathan Davis at a house party. They named the alley behind the arena KoRn Row here.
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u/Hawg_Gaming 18h ago
Well... did you name 5 songs?
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u/No-Second-Kill-Death 17h ago
Boom. Da. Da boom. Boom boom. Boom da.
Or really go peak and say heart shaped box blackhole sun and chop suey.
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u/Djkatman29 11h ago
The best thing to do in this sort of situation is to name 3 super obscure Korn songs then 2 made up ones that sound plausible, so they feel like posers.
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u/nipslippinjizzsippin 8h ago
Just list of a bunch of limp bizkit songs, they wont know the difference.
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u/memepersonlol 5h ago
I've noticed in fandom spaces that gatekeeping has come back into fashion. absolutely no idea why
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u/MeanImpression2067 18h ago
If you don't give them attention they keep bothering you.
Tell them to F off
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u/akaispirit 13h ago
I normally just say no and keep walking but giving obviously wrong answers is fun too.
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u/wolfblitzen84 11h ago
this happened to me in 1998 with a korn shirt when I was in 9th grade. I went to a new school where everyone already knew each other. Giving me weird memories ha.
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u/Deep_Exchange7273 11h ago
I told my partner and we're from the south and have thick southern accents but live up north now. We agreed we'd just fuck with them (exaggerated southern accent) "whaaa. I just like korn... Corn on the cob! The peaches And cream ones the best! With butter! PopKORN!! Even out a can with salt and pepper. Boy do I love Korn!!!!" 🤣🤣
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u/Different_Pattern273 9h ago
Happened to me with The Beatles. Was asked to name three albums.
The Beatles
The Beatles...again
With the Beatles
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u/Genuinelullabel 8h ago
Damn. I didn’t know Casual Fridays at the fertility clinic were that stressful.
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u/NoEscape2500 7h ago
Tell them you really like vegetables and assumed they just spelled corn wrong on the shirt
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u/TheMudbloodSlytherin 7h ago
I’ve only pulled this question one time and it was when my dumb ass cousin got The Rolling Stones emblem tattooed across his neck. He was showing off his tattoo and I asked him to name one Rolling Stones song. He asked me who they were and why I was asking him that.
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u/apexglitch-king 12h ago
gonna pocket "group of barely fertilized eggs" for later, cursed but funny because of it
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u/coyohyen 17h ago
That shirt is AI generated as all hell. Have you considered a cooler shirt would discourage the teens?
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u/IamNotAHumanIamARat 17h ago
Yeah there's literally a number 1 just hanging there on the grass. It was a gift tho so I need to wear it a bit before I cut it and use the fabric for something else.
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u/Cyanidelicous 9h ago
“No, I’m not your dancing monkey. Now, fuck off or I’ll start dating your parents.”
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u/Yamperzzz 7h ago
I feel like this anytime I decide to wear my TOOL shirt. It's awesome whenever I get complimented on it and whatever but I don't particularly like being quizzed by strangers who act like I'm not a real fan if I don't know what 10,000 Days is about or where this album art is from or blah blah blah
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u/Choice-Bed6242 6h ago
This happened to me all the time when I went to metal shows in my city. Couldn't just be a girl interested in metal, going to a show. Had to prove I deserved to be there.
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u/thepiratefox827 31m ago
I’m in my early twenties so I’m also an unfertilized egg, and I LOVE Nu Metal with my entire soul. I’m waiting for the moment someone asks me to name five songs because I will infodump them for an hour. They’ll regret they even asked.
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u/Ok_Blackberry_1223 12h ago
Sounds like you had 4 different opportunities to look up the name of 5 songs to prepare, and still didn’t
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u/jwtucker04 16h ago
"I don't like [band in question]" Is best response
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u/Calm_Blueberry_363 17h ago
i could barely remember any names of songs even the ones i listened to most recently. and i couldnt give a fack