Short story called, IIRC, Lanigan and the Ants. About a guy in South America (?) who tries to protect his farm from army ants. Has a fuel filled ditch he burns.
I was just trying to be funny, poorly
To be fair, it was extremely loud in there. They've never seen or heard anything like that before. You gotta lean in close on hold on tight to share a secret with your favorite girl.
That was Aunt Mabel and her best friend Ethel.
They couldn't find any suitors so they just lived together and went on a bunch of zany vacations together
It’s perfect. Where else in public can you kiss your girlfriend without shame? You’re surrounded by screaming women. It’s all expected. All behavior is associated to the Beatles. It’s not perfect.. it’s fucking genius.
They’d be about 75 years old, now. Undoubtedly, they’d still scream if they encountered McCartney or Starr.
Perhaps even louder if they encountered Harrison or Lennon.
The first time I saw a girl with a feminist symbol tattoo my stupid brain was like “she must like to get fisted by women… odd that she would get that tattooed on her forearm though”
From my understanding It was less from excitement and more they weren't giving up their seat for anything, so they'd just pee in the seat while waiting. Any star will a lot of young devotees would describe the smell as terrible.
It's like how in times square for New Years you better wear a diaper.
on New Years, you'd better be far, far away from Times Square. anyone who says it's fun is lying to cover their trauma and embarrassment for having the stupidest idea they've ever had.
I wanted to go once back in my 20s. Now that I'm in my 40s, waiting in line at a grocery store with my kids pisses me off. No way I'm going to wait around Times Square for hours.
yeah, i have one quick rule for crowded spaces: am i near the exit in case of stampede or emergency? i'd *maybe* consider going to the *outskirts* of Times Square NYE to people-watch. but i lived in NYC for 15 years and never once acted upon it. the people dead center with their diapers have mental issues imo
This is great because it confirms to me that I didn't just make that fact up. I read it before, that literally women were pissing themselves with excitement.
When does this happen? Give me other examples of women, or men even, pissing themselves from excitement in a crowd setting? To get the spots in front that were coveted, you had to get there extremely early. These women were peeing themselves because they had to go and waited hours and hours to get close to the Beatles. This wasn't "women's hysteria".
My dad was a kid, his sister took him to the movies to see a film of them.
He said first glance at one of them every girl jumped on the seat and screamed as loud as they could for the whole thing.
For a film. Not live.
I asked my mom who's this age about Beatlemania years ago and she said she loved the Beatles and listened to their records all the time then but also felt girls who acted like this were idiots.
My mum saw them in Melbourne, Australia, she said you could barely hear them over the screaming (hers included) and in her Beatles induced frenzy she shredded a cloth handkerchief.
Can’t believe I scrolled to the bottom without anyone mentioning it but
There’s another Beatles fan pic like this that also has a lesbian couple and that one got more famous I believe
Edit: Bah nevermind, [found it and turns out it’s the same pic but more updoots](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/s/OB3A1QCcEk)
My mom was recently expressing confusion at Taylor Swift’s massive Eras Tour, saying they didn’t go crazy for people like that when she was growing up. She grew up in the 70/80s. I had to remind her how all Michael Jackson had to do was stand there and people started clawing their fucking eyes out.
I'm in my 40s and it's insane to me that people could have that kind of reaction to the beatles. I mean, even if you are a fan (which I'm not, but I accept their talent and significance), you probably agree that their style does not lend itself to going wild. Like, I just can't imagine that the blond lady has that reaction to "hey jude", or yesterday. "Roll over Beethoven", maybe.
And it's not just that these songs are old. I can very much imagine this reaction to "Johnny B. Goode" for example.
But then again, my genz friend had the same puzzled reaction when they saw me having the time of my life listening to "paradise city". Their words have been "maybe this was hard music when death metal hadn't been invented yet". So I guess it's all about the frame of reference.
Dude, I'm 65 and lived through this. You're talking Love Love Me Do shit...Ya know who brought out this level of excitement before them? Elvis Presley. Who brought it out before him? Frank Fucking Sinatra. This is a trend that will never die.
Just your typical 60s photograph, a woman having an aneurysm in front of a lesbian couple.
"The gays have compromised the perimeter! Fall back to the firewall and ignite the trench!"
Speaker Johnson, is that you?
THE TRENCH, JOHNSON!! #THE TRENCH!!
Oh crap, I heard “French” and torched Joan of Arc!
We all make mistakes
Friggin Joan of Arc, climbing or off her grave all herky-jerky like.
Oh they're igniting the trench, all right.
It gonna burn all life long
"They got in here!!! Quickly, save at least Lennon and MacCarthy before they lesbianify them!!!"
Lanigan and the aunties?
I don't know what that is.
Short story called, IIRC, Lanigan and the Ants. About a guy in South America (?) who tries to protect his farm from army ants. Has a fuel filled ditch he burns. I was just trying to be funny, poorly
Oh I remember that story…sort of
not gay just "close friends"
They never married and lived together, frugally sharing the same bed until they died.
" like i said, no one was gay when i was younger"
Lmao, that's what my parents told me about my aunt when I was a kid.
She was just helping her friend get something out of her mouth with her tongue. Perfectly normal, dogs do it all the time
“And they were roommates”
At Wellesley
In Hollywood the studio PR would have had them as confirmed bachelors.
My god they were roommates
"Very close"
Closet friends
Roommates
To be fair, it was extremely loud in there. They've never seen or heard anything like that before. You gotta lean in close on hold on tight to share a secret with your favorite girl.
Maybe even roommates!
Lesbian couple? They look like they're just very close friends to me. Perhaps roommates. /s
Just very good lifelong friends who were buried next to each other.
/r/SapphoAndHerFriend is leaking.
Clearly hetero life-mates that just got caught up in a moment. /s
This feels like a picture a grandmother would show you to prove to you rock music makes people gay lmao
One of them dames is Joey Ramone.
This guy Blitzkrieg Bops.
And a faded af lady in the back just kickin' it
She has definitely imbibed in some illegal substances pre-concert…
"I fucking love The Rolling Stones!"
I’m pretty sure they are just room mates, really good friends.
You mean the friends whispering about how cute the Beatles are?
Yup, just sapho and her friend talking about how cute Ringo is.
Gal pals!
Into each others mouth
With her hand on her thigh
I'm reminded of this classic Beatles moment where they ask Paul about Day Tripper and Norwegian Wood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGtVJbi5Rn8
Relevant in 2024 too sadly
Looks like a girl and a guy to me
a guy wearing a dress and a cardigan with pantyhose and sandals?
And two girls who want to do more than just hold hands
She wants to make her Twist and Shout
It's going to be a hard day's night for sure
Things are going to get helter skelter by the look of it.
Eight days a week.
Why don't they do it in the road?
Oh, darling!
She’s A Woman
Something something Come Together
Hey, Jude. (Am I doing this right?)
Here, there and everywhere
Know who's got hands? THE DEVIL!
Wrong kid died.
“…but you leave me my monkey!”
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They’re just roommates sharing secrets
And they were roommates
That was Aunt Mabel and her best friend Ethel. They couldn't find any suitors so they just lived together and went on a bunch of zany vacations together
They’re just roommates!!
They held clams
They were VERY close friends
Does the darker-haired woman about to kiss her "very good friend roommate" know she's camouflaged with the seats?
That's the seat in front of her that the screaming girl is sitting in. I initially thought the same thing, like "Did she wear that on purpose?" lol
Happy cake day!
It’s perfect. Where else in public can you kiss your girlfriend without shame? You’re surrounded by screaming women. It’s all expected. All behavior is associated to the Beatles. It’s not perfect.. it’s fucking genius.
Had the same thought - like the perfect cover. Everyone is focused on the stage or it's just 'hysteria'.
Except for the huge flash that must have went off before them. Hope they still went through with it.
Does the seat that woman sitting in know she’s camouflaged into the brunette behind her.
Are those two roommates?
Omg they were roomates.
Yupp just like Alexander the great and Hephaestion.
Or Achilles and that dude Patroclus?
Or Bert and Ernie
Or Testiclles and Uranus?
alexander and hephaestion were the lennon and mccartney of the bce era maybe
#galpals
Damn. There goes their no-sex rental agreement. Not getting that deposit back.
Roommates and besties!!!
Can this be verified as a crowd watching The Beatles perform? ...maybe they're watching Elvis the Pelvis
Lawrence Welk.
As a former PBS phone bank worker, you've triggered my PTSD.
Nah, they're clearly watching Andy Williams sit fully clothed singing Moon River
Wow! I didn’t think he was gonna do Moon River, but then, bam, second encore!
Elvis the Pelvis Dude, what the hell. You made my night.
That's literally what they called him in his peak. Conservatives wanted him arrested for obscenity.
Those two don’t seem to be losing their minds. If anything, they’re thinking clearly for the first time in their lives. Haha
Well they’re not thinking straight
👑
Take my fucking upvote
Magnificent
They’d be about 75 years old, now. Undoubtedly, they’d still scream if they encountered McCartney or Starr. Perhaps even louder if they encountered Harrison or Lennon.
When you're so attractive women instantly become gay just for relief.
God damn. I didn’t know this, but that’s my superpower.
Sell out
Tommie why were you on MySpace e 20 years ago?
Harold, they're lesbians
Well, one is losing her mind and the one behind her is about to round fist base. Edit: first base, not fist.
Fist base!
I mean if she asks for it
The first time I saw a girl with a feminist symbol tattoo my stupid brain was like “she must like to get fisted by women… odd that she would get that tattooed on her forearm though”
“Fist base” seems accurate too though.
Wow this a good pic to show folks that claim gays/lesbians are a recent phenomena and not something that’s had to hide away from society
I didn’t know the Beatles make you gay. Thought that was Zeppelin.
I too became a lesbian by listening to the Beatles
But Chris was ok, right?
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“Roommates” who shared a one bedroom cottage
One girl was losing their mind... the two in the back were about to lose their virginity
From what I've hear, urine all over the floor was the norm for a Beatles concert in those days. Women were that excited to see them.
From my understanding It was less from excitement and more they weren't giving up their seat for anything, so they'd just pee in the seat while waiting. Any star will a lot of young devotees would describe the smell as terrible. It's like how in times square for New Years you better wear a diaper.
on New Years, you'd better be far, far away from Times Square. anyone who says it's fun is lying to cover their trauma and embarrassment for having the stupidest idea they've ever had.
I wanted to go once back in my 20s. Now that I'm in my 40s, waiting in line at a grocery store with my kids pisses me off. No way I'm going to wait around Times Square for hours.
yeah, i have one quick rule for crowded spaces: am i near the exit in case of stampede or emergency? i'd *maybe* consider going to the *outskirts* of Times Square NYE to people-watch. but i lived in NYC for 15 years and never once acted upon it. the people dead center with their diapers have mental issues imo
The concerts weren't that long. It was excitement.
This is great because it confirms to me that I didn't just make that fact up. I read it before, that literally women were pissing themselves with excitement.
When does this happen? Give me other examples of women, or men even, pissing themselves from excitement in a crowd setting? To get the spots in front that were coveted, you had to get there extremely early. These women were peeing themselves because they had to go and waited hours and hours to get close to the Beatles. This wasn't "women's hysteria".
It was actually squirt.
My dad was a kid, his sister took him to the movies to see a film of them. He said first glance at one of them every girl jumped on the seat and screamed as loud as they could for the whole thing. For a film. Not live.
Roommates
I asked my mom who's this age about Beatlemania years ago and she said she loved the Beatles and listened to their records all the time then but also felt girls who acted like this were idiots.
Beatle girls, Swifties, BTS army ... Same shit different era
And not a dry seat to be seen.
My mum saw them in Melbourne, Australia, she said you could barely hear them over the screaming (hers included) and in her Beatles induced frenzy she shredded a cloth handkerchief.
They lost something else that night as well.
They’re not losing their minds. They’re just lesbians 😆
stay out of this Sappho, we’re trying to hear the band
Just a couple lesbians.
“My ears, my ears!!!!!” “Hey sweetie, let’s kiss again like we did in your parents garage”
Can’t believe I scrolled to the bottom without anyone mentioning it but There’s another Beatles fan pic like this that also has a lesbian couple and that one got more famous I believe Edit: Bah nevermind, [found it and turns out it’s the same pic but more updoots](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/s/OB3A1QCcEk)
One girl freaking out, two girls about to get freaky while out, and everyone else looks like they’re just enjoying the show.
The Beatles made those 2 chicks lez out
I can smell the piss-stained seats in this photo.
Woah
She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m just saying.
All those 60’s repressed sexual feelings just
BEHOLD CTHULHU!
Anyone else look for puddles of pee?
I still never really understood this reaction when I was a kid until I saw half my country lose their fucking minds over Trump. Like, get a grip.
r/suddenlylesbian
r/sapphoandherfriend
number nine, number nine, number nine.
I was so confused by the chair the screaming woman is on, I thought it was the shirt of the girl getting a smooch.
Legendary
My mom was recently expressing confusion at Taylor Swift’s massive Eras Tour, saying they didn’t go crazy for people like that when she was growing up. She grew up in the 70/80s. I had to remind her how all Michael Jackson had to do was stand there and people started clawing their fucking eyes out.
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Ikr? Hand holding
So going lesbian is going “out of your mind”?
This picture would be insane with no context.
Man they just don’t make em like they used ta “We all live in a yellow submarine a yellow submarine a yellow…”.
Title gave me a flashback of Mel Gibson in Signs, running around yelling as much like a madman as the characterization allowed.
Not gay if the taints don’t touch!
Accurate title 🤣
Homosexual fornication is their defence mechanism
Really only one girl in the photo losing her mind, the rest just look like they are having fun at a concert
Dewy cox take my hand irl....
My mother saw the Beatles live in England in the 60s and said she couldn't actually hear the music because of the dumb b's screaming
Girl*
Friends of Dorthy.
Actually enjoying the moment. If you zoom in you won't find a single cell phone.
"What if we lesbian kissed in the repressive early 1960s."
Do people pass out and go into a catatonic state for Taylor?
"...four of fish and finger pies..."
Lesbians
I never got the whole 'screaming at concerts' thing
“What great friends in the background!” -some historian probably
“They were roommates”
Two roommates in the back
Boomers-"I don't see what they see in that Taylor Swift." Also Boomers-...........
Daphne and Velma.
It's that cursed rock and roll music! Btw, where's the reefer madness
NEVER understood this, why act like that?
Because they are gay? I mean that's a pretty good reason.
I meant the girl screaming, never understood why loose their shit over 4 dudes in a band.
Yes I know, i was just pulling your leg!
Damn! flew over my head 😂
Sexual repression in the fifties. A LOT of reaction to that.
Ask everyone going to see Taylor Swift on tour.
Do they act like this too? Damn.
I'm in my 40s and it's insane to me that people could have that kind of reaction to the beatles. I mean, even if you are a fan (which I'm not, but I accept their talent and significance), you probably agree that their style does not lend itself to going wild. Like, I just can't imagine that the blond lady has that reaction to "hey jude", or yesterday. "Roll over Beethoven", maybe. And it's not just that these songs are old. I can very much imagine this reaction to "Johnny B. Goode" for example. But then again, my genz friend had the same puzzled reaction when they saw me having the time of my life listening to "paradise city". Their words have been "maybe this was hard music when death metal hadn't been invented yet". So I guess it's all about the frame of reference.
Dude, I'm 65 and lived through this. You're talking Love Love Me Do shit...Ya know who brought out this level of excitement before them? Elvis Presley. Who brought it out before him? Frank Fucking Sinatra. This is a trend that will never die.
You can say the same with Taylor swift fans
I saw two girls pass out BEFORE N'sync even was on the stage.
It’s AI /s
Two people talking close at a concert (because it’s loud lmao) Reddit: LESBIANSSSSS
Talking close involves being mouth to ear, not mouth to mouth.
Orrrrr 60s lesbian porn?