21. The song "Stop Copying Me" concerns some of the downsides of social media. In the final verse, apart from getting into debt, what has the singer been doing for three years?
From Quiz Show of Hands are Waking the Union
Answer:
Cutting and pasting
The whole song refers to various ills of the modern computerised society. Starting with ripped off music, carrying on to cc e-mails, facebook and twitter. Finally, the song moves on to student life, and the only usage in song of the word "plagiarisation" that I have encountered.
The relevant lyrics are:
"Plagiarisation dissertation, I take another essay from the net.
I've been three years wasting cutting and pasting.
Now I'm £30,000 in debt."
Things have changed since my time at college, drinking it up would have been appropriate then. Tweaking Facebook is also referred to in the song but not with that particular phrase.
The oxymoron "peace riot", is taken from a song by Fred Wedlock.