29/31 by Garfunkel and Oates
Garfunkel And Oates0 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
5M views · music · evergreen · Uploaded 2012-05-29
A comedy song by Garfunkel and Oates in which both play the same woman at 29 and at 31, charting a swift slide in her romantic prospects.
Cited in threads on dating, loneliness and the shortage of eligible partners as a song that captures the dilemma.
18:09Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop
Landon Proctor
36:47Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
suckerpinch
6:18Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek - The Original Economics Rap Battle!
Radical Discourse
9:04Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
Every Frame a Painting
5:09George Carlin Talks About "Stuff"
CappyNJ
3:40Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
Le Pietre Rotolanti
41:44Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018
Captain Disillusion
15:42Where in the world is it easiest to get rich? | Harald Eia | TEDxOslo
TEDx Talks
3 comments from Hacker News
Garfunkel and Oates cover the dilemma some women find themselves in related to suddenly realizing you have no partner and no prospects [VIDEO]
You're ignoring a lot of subtelties here. > I'd love to live in a place where this were true. Which cities exactly have such thing going on? Warsaw is a great example, but ironically these womens' standards are pretty high - all in all they didn't leave their 30k-something-souls towns for the Big City to marry a man who doesn't enjoy a decent social status himself. > Or is there? Also, either there is stigma for being single woman or there are vast numbers of single women. Both at the same time cannot be true in even somewhat stable system, and it's hard to argue that Polish cities are in total chaos. Anecdata: my sister was born in 86' and is currently single and childless, just like a few of her friends. On one hand they're pressured to do something about this, on the other there aren't many eligible bachelors available because well, they're taken. This song[0] illustrates this point beautifully. Hell, the problem is so visible right now that a TV show dedicated to making couples out of (most of the time)well-off farmers and city-dwelling women[1] was created. [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]
So, basically this[0] and this[1]. If the author just needed to vent and sympathetic ears, then the columnist's 2000+ words platitude is fine. However, if she really wants out of the situation, then a more pragmatic[2] -- tldr; treat finding a SO like a job; she already professed that she's found no fulfillment on her current job, so might as well -- approach would be more useful. [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK]