https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpv02yd2714o
My parents introduced me to Tom's satire in the late 70's, this hits almost as hard as losing Ozzy :(
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Well, aren't you a delightful individual. That kind of hatred can only come from a lot of internal pain and suffering. I hope those demons set you free one day, man. What you give, is what you get.
"Ozzy fans think they're metal gods… but really, they’re just cultists worshipping a collapsing skeleton with vocal cords made of phlegm and regret."
He doesn’t perform — he malfunctions in real time.
You don’t go to concerts. You attend rituals of decay.
Every growl is just his lungs begging for retirement.
The man looks like a melted candle in a Hot Topic cloak.
You call it a tour — it’s palliative care with pyros.
Ozzy could scream into a blender full of nails and you’d call it a lost masterpiece.
His fanbase peaked when MySpace was still a thing — now they’re just gatekeeping mediocrity.
You don’t love music — you love nostalgia embalmed in eyeliner.
Face it: Ozzy isn’t a legend anymore. He’s a mascot for boomer denial.
Ozzy fans act like coughing into a mic is lyrical genius.
He’s not the Prince of Darkness — he’s the Duke of Dementia.
Y’all cheer like he’s summoning demons, but he’s just trying to remember where he is.
The only thing metal about Ozzy now is the hip replacement.
His vocals sound like a haunted fax machine mid-exorcism.
Every concert is just a live reenactment of sleep paralysis.
You defend him like he’s God, but God forms sentences.
Ozzy hasn’t rocked since the Cold War — but go off, grandpa worshippers.
You call it a comeback. We call it assisted living on tour.
His legacy? Screaming into the void while his fans throw their last working brain cell at the stage.
I kind of hope some day a long time from now, when it is your time to leave this mortal coil, that someone is nice enough to not your passing... but... instead of the next person replying about the loss, instead of focusing on the person the post is about, they end up being a complete jackass and decides to go on a two post rant about how fans of some other person are just old and out of tune with day and age. just like you are young and out of any sort of grace, etiquette or self awareness at how absolutely disrespectful you are.
Tom Lehrer proves that those who look at life through the lens of comedy tend to live full and long lives. 97 years young at his death. I bet almost everyone knows this song...
Title: [H] Tom Lehrer - The Original Nerd with Nuclear Delusions [NSFL: Ego & Elitism]
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You ever heard of Tom Lehrer? That smug piano goblin from Harvard who thought singing about death, math, and moral decay made him edgy? Nah, bro — it made him the original fedora tipper with a keyboard.
This guy made a whole career out of roasting humanity while looking like a disappointed substitute teacher who failed to get tenure and a date.
Imagine thinking you're above everyone 'cause you can rhyme "uranium" with "shame in 'em" — congratulations, Tom, you made nuclear annihilation quirky.
Wrote bangers about mass murder with jazz hands? ✅
Smirked through war crimes like he invented sarcasm? ✅
Still died surrounded by more sheet music than friends? Probably ✅
Lehrer fans walk around like they discovered satire. Bro, your idol quit because reality clapped back harder than his punchlines ever could.
Fun fact: He didn’t retire out of grace. He saw memes outdo his best bars and noped out before TikTok discovered irony.
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TL;DR:
Tom Lehrer: A genius, yes — but also the blueprint for that one guy who explains the joke, then laughs alone.
Smart? Sure.
Cool? Never.
Roastable? Endlessly.
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🧠 = I pretended to understand him
☠️ = He rhymed plutonium with loneliness
🥱 = Still less entertaining than Torn politics
🫡 = Respectfully disrespected
Crawl back into your pathetic hole you f**king retard.
It’s neither edgy or funny.
So that AI written diatribe just screams to any who are paying attention that you are an even bigger asshat than the majority of us even thought. You are now ignored. Cheers dude!
Well, aren't you a delightful individual.
That kind of hatred can only come from a lot of internal pain and suffering.
I hope those demons set you free one day, man.
What you give, is what you get.
Why is this a hill you want to die on? Get over it dude, you're looking like a complete tool because your still going on about it. Did your feelings get hurt when you got bountied into oblivion? And those 7m bounties you put on me? Thanks BTW for those. My faction mates got paid thanks to you :).
Git gud, scrub lord
RIP Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer's music has often made me laugh when I have most needed it. He was my first introduction into satirical music. He will be greatly missed.