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The “Halifax Pop Explosion” name really bothers me. I doubt there will be a “9/11 Band Terror Battle” in New York any time soon. Really stupid to name a music festival after a tragic event. —Sensitive
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2010.
41 Comments
It’s not even the same thing, OP. For one, the Halifax Explosion was over 100 years ago whereas 9/11 was 9 years ago. Also, the Halifax Explosion was an unfortunate accident whereas 9/11 was a deliberate attack by a bunch of crazed lunatics.
Maybe the Halifax Explosion was an ‘inside job’?
I honestly never connected the name with the event.
I would totally attend the Chernobyl Nuclear Rock Fest, the Hiroshima Heavy Metal Meltdown or the Great Boston Molasses Disaster Folk Festival.
If anyone wants to join me, should be a fun trip.
what an odd bitch. it never entered my mind that this would be distressing to some. are you a survivor op^^^
I didn’t either, DG! But the Chernobyl Nuclear Rock Fest would be awesome.
Fun fact: you can actually go tour Pripyat, the town affected by the “accident.” I saw a picture tour from a couple years back and it’s creeeepy.
It’s a level in COD4 too, PK. 😛
weird – I never thought about it either – maybe it wasn’t deliberate?
are you fucking jokes; get a life!
Lame bitch. Who cares what they call the gathering of no-talents.
Most young people aren’t going to get the 1917 Explosion reference – Jesus H. Christ on a hang glider – isn’t the fucking world politically correct enough as it is? A lot of problems in this world could be solved if people weren’t so goddamn sensitive to the point of insanity.
I believe there was to be a sports team called the Halifax Explosions that got ditched for insensitivity.
This reminds me of that air-filled Titanic slide bouncy castle type thing.
There must be a statute of limitations on bad taste.
you are one of those whack jobs that’s all up in arms over like: sports teams jersey’s with native logos and tribal chants etc. stfu!
Because I remember something happening?
This is my last post you angry losers.
toodles:)
I see your “sensitivity”, and raise you “awareness”.
We NEED to prevent future collisions involving munitions ships, and if this is the only way to keep it on people’s minds, then so be it!
Julian & Sean Lennon had similar thoughts, right before joining Yoko for the “Smith & Wesson Grassy Knollapalooza 2008 in Dallas.
I’m thinking the OP would go into a catatonic state over : jonestown massacre;dead kennedys ; the battered wives(now that’s old school) etc. etc. etc. 🙂
I spit out tea on that one No Dogma!!! tears in my eyes!!
Fuck, talking about being oversensitive. PC is definitely out of control. The OB must go to MSVU.
Wow, some people just LOVE to be offended.
A lot of my ancestors were killed of blinded by glass in that Explosion, and “Halifax Pop Explosion” doesn’t bother me at all, because I’m smart enough to know that it’s just a weird coincidence and that the name doesn’t actually have anything to do with the real explosion. But even if it did I still wouldn’t care.
I didn’t even connect the two until I read this bitch.
If you look hard enough for things to be offended by you will find them in just about anything.
I see the posters all the time and never made the connection :|
@ devil_girl
@ Pretty Kitty
@ snoop
@ Minty Fresh: Now you know, so call your counsellors, MLAs, and MPs! More money for harbour piloting NOW, and thicker containers for explosives!
I didn’t even connect the two until I read this bitch. – Get out of my head snoop.
My mum & gran survived the explosion, I’m not offended.
Snu, you’ll be back.
stupid is as stupid does o.p.
OB, let me make this easy for you.
Halifax – the place where the event takes place
Pop – the type of music at the said event
Explosion – a methaphor. Explosions spread out in a wide area. Coverage of area. ie the hopes that the event gets known wide and far.
So suck it up Buttercup. Get a life and stop listening to shit professors spew out.
Jews did the Halifax Explosion.
There used to be a shooter called the ‘Halifax Explosion’ – you could get it at Scoundrels, my fav hangout in the high-haired 80s.
I’m really psyched for next year’s Halifax SleepWatching, Peter Kelly Swarming, Unwanted Convention Centreing Malfunctioning Pop Sewage-A-Rama.
(Cleveland Voice) It’s gonna be tight, y’all.
Scoundrels was my fave bar in the 80’s/90’s too! Did you go down for Alternative Mondays? Watching The Cure and Skinny Puppy on the big screen was totally awesome.
It’s fascinating how many people never connected the names before.
I wonder in 100 years if people will be so disconnected from 9/11 that similar puns are used.
I have seen Halifax Explosion shots as lately as just a few years ago.
…but I think Blow Job shots are the same ingredients, and most people call them that now.
By the way, there is NO WAY the Halifax Explosion was not the inspiration for the name “Halifax Pop Explosion”. Come ON! You’re all smarter than that…
@Ivan: you forgot: Late bus Dog Shit No Tip I’m Going Hunting Friday O Rama!
Oh em gee OB, get a fuckin’ life.
I’m bitter and angry tonight. WATCH OUTTTT
No way at all, No Dogma? I had always assumed the one was named for the other. If it was not the inspiration, what was?
What about a special type of camp where you go to concentrate?
Pop explodes only when you put it in the freezer. From what I have been hearing, pop in Halifax kind of simmers with low heat rather than explodes.
Funny, never thought of the Pop Explosion as being insensitive, and my family history is very much linked with the Halifax Explosion. However, in the same vein, I do find naming a condo/apartment complex, Mont Blanc Terrace, in the area of the city that suffered the most, to be very tacky, bordering on insensitive.
@ Pavillion:
Actually, we’re agreeing here. 😉 I said:
“there is no way the Halifax Explosion was NOT the inspiration for the name “Halifax Pop Explosion””
My bad for going all double-negative, but yes…of course it was the inspiration.
FUCK this bitch pisses me off.
I think people LIKE being offended. This is why our society is fat and stupid everybody’s too fuckin busy bein offended!
All those indie kids and hard rock bands AND the organizers are all secretly haters of early 20th century culture in Halifax. They hate it so much, they BUILT A TIME MACHINE AND WENT BACK IN TIME and rigged the the whole explosion thing. Then they came back and named their music festival in honor of their acheivement. It’s like, the best inside joke ever peeps!
Yeah still I don’t think the name has anything to do with the event.