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[–]muchonacho 21 points22 points ago

The second movement was a bit slow; they should bump it up by about 4-5 psi.

[–]TrophyPillow 80 points81 points ago

WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM WAILING TUBE ORCHESTRA coming to a colosseum NEAR YOU!

[–]insanity_sixx_kobane 26 points27 points ago

"Am I...am I supposed to conduct with my penis?"

[–]Pike1914 10 points11 points ago

Do I... Do I sculpt the penis?

[–]Breathing_Balls 7 points8 points ago

No silly. With this.

[–]Gen_McMuster 1 point2 points ago

ಠ_ಠ

[–]5HAK 11 points12 points ago

Ahem...

WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE ORCHESTRA

FTFY

[–]FreshFruitCup 3 points4 points ago

This a picture of the Quohog Pholharmonic. They don't have enough money to travel.

[–]crazyparrot94 2 points3 points ago

Quahog*

Sorry.

[–]ottoman_jerk 0 points1 point ago

Best I can do is Cherry Stone.

[–]rambopr 0 points1 point ago

Isnt it also philharmonic? Pholharmonic looks "wrong" to me..

[–]crazyparrot94 0 points1 point ago

Oh yeah

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[–]annies__boobs 10 points11 points ago

Who knew Sweet Dee could actually conduct?

[–]GhostonaRune 28 points29 points ago

This funny went full circle for me in the past half hour, 45 minutes or so. bear with me:

So, I am at a conference table redditing on my company provided iPad...while a twenty something junior executive blathers on about something I am not involved in or could care less about. (Put it this way- the kid calls a meeting of say, eight to ten people who are working different projects, not one of which relates to the other...so other than your own piece of the pie, none of the meeting pertains to you.) I click on this. I get the joke. I fail to control my impulse to laugh. "What's funny?" He demands.

"Your Idea of time management. You have almost 700K worth of salary sitting around a table doing nothing when we could be out doing our job." Was the best I could come up with. "Two hour meetings where over an hour and three quarters do not pertain to any of the people in the room is not a good meeting to have every week." He reports me to his boss. Boss Emails me asking why I said what I said. I explained my thoughts, concluding that the weekly two hour ego boost for the twenty something with the fresh MBA was a waste of time and resources. I illustrated the point with this picture.

Ten minutes later, an E-mail goes out to all inflicted parties stating that the weekly "status meeting" is hereby cancelled indefinitely, being replaced by weekly reports sent to the young MBA via E-mail. Thank you reddit for saving countless hours of my life in the near future.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

Just replying so you know I read it. Glad you managed to end such a public nuisance.

[–]KrugSmash 8 points9 points ago

For an approximation of what this would look like, here's Weird Al Yankovic conducting the Jr. Philharmonic Orchestra of California

[–]chicagobob 2 points3 points ago

best conducting ever

[–]GNG 7 points8 points ago

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[–]cannonbones 34 points35 points ago

And we would call that music dubstep.

[–]TheMagicBurro 45 points46 points ago

He would just have an inconsistent tempo, dubstep actually has a fairly constant tempo. The inflatable dude would also be fairly quick, whereas dubstep has more of a half-time, slow feeling. This is just coming from a musician, I apologize for ruining your joke.

[–]mamajamerson 11 points12 points ago

I was just snapping on my bitch hat, "Don't throw facts at me when I'm mid-laugh!" But then you apologized, so it's all good.

[–]raivahn 8 points9 points ago

And so it becomes...classical dubstep.

[–]Werro_123 3 points4 points ago

I'm on it, getting the synth ready now.

[–]RiveraMarcel 2 points3 points ago

This inflatable dude should direct experimental music, now that is something the hipsters would love to see...

[–]silent_hvalross 2 points3 points ago

Damn. You beat me to it. Well played, well played indeed.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

Probably a dozen of us thought of the same joke. Reddit has changed my mind forever and I am not sure if it is for the good or the ugly...

[–]Annarr 0 points1 point ago

Doesn't look like she's playing it.

[–]Michael_Pitt 0 points1 point ago

This just makes no sense.

[–]Covette -2 points-1 points ago

"music"

FTFY

[–]Eyce 1 point2 points ago

Hey look headless musician again

/hasseenthisfartoomanytimes

[–]lordmarkthe1st 1 point2 points ago

This should be titled 'the origins of dubstep'

[–]SpaceCadetReporting 3 points4 points ago

Gustavo Dudamel?!

[–]breannabalaam 0 points1 point ago

Nah, Gustavo doesn't use the score.

[–]efstajas 1 point2 points ago

Umm, you know that the conductor doesn't really influence how the music sounds? He's just there to give cues and get the people playing, telling them the tempo etc...

[–]jdsamford 0 points1 point ago

Have you ever seen one of these in action? They have a terrible sense of meter.

[–]UnorthodoxGentleman -1 points0 points ago

If that were true, then orchestras would use computers rather than conductors. There's a difference between Karajan and a 10 year old who can read music and keep time.

Source: I'm in an orchestra.

[–]efstajas 0 points1 point ago

Yes. But the orchestra doesn't end up playing totally different stuff if the conductor moves his arms different. He's kind of the head of the orchestra and is especially important in classical music since there are lots of pauses that aren't set, so the conductor must tell the orchestra when the music goes on, for example.

[–]Kharmaticlism 0 points1 point ago

"The music would be amazing."

My first thought, "....or terrible."

[–]robinthehood 0 points1 point ago

Waiting for gif to animate. My morning is shot.

[–]matthawis 0 points1 point ago

Until the conductor blows the music off their stands...

[–]jshortty1 0 points1 point ago

THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS

[–]djsd 0 points1 point ago

“Dee stop dancing, you look like an asshole.”

[–]skesisfunk 0 points1 point ago

Someone is missing a head in that orchestra.

[–]TheOneAndDone 0 points1 point ago

That guy has some amazing dance moves

[–]Blu3j4y 0 points1 point ago

This guest conductor blows.

[–]junzafra 0 points1 point ago

I imagined an orchestra obeying the commands of an inflatable arm flailing tubeman and I snorted out my breakfast

[–]Ryansacat 0 points1 point ago

All the conductor does is change the tempo or beats per measure, not the actual music.

[–]HORSEtheGAME 0 points1 point ago

The guy just to the left of the inflatable is missing his head. Poor guy. :(

[–]_1234567_ 0 points1 point ago

These things upset me for no rational reason.

[–]Anike42 0 points1 point ago

this reminds me of the concept of God and religion

[–]Barb0 0 points1 point ago

True origins of dubstep.

[–]claudesoph 0 points1 point ago

"I am learning some amazing moves from this guy."

[–]oxter7 0 points1 point ago

The creation of dub step?

[–]TheKillingVoid 0 points1 point ago

Paris Hilton now does symphonies?

[–]jack_wicko 0 points1 point ago

Skrillex explained

[–]ebakrevs 1 point2 points ago

People defending dubstep by downvoting... GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!! DROP!

WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB

[–]eyesofwrath 0 points1 point ago

Anyone else agree that this needs to be attempted? Purely for scientific research of course.

[–]Kaderwik -2 points-1 points ago

This is how dubstep was made

[–]turreterror -1 points0 points ago

That music is called dubstep.

[–]Werro_123 -1 points0 points ago

Why are all of the dubstep jokes being downvoted? They're JOKES people, this is /r/funny. I for one am a huge dubstep fan and producer but I think they're funny.

[–]willymo -2 points-1 points ago

Yeah, hearing a headless cello player would certainly be something.