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- Mon Jun 03, 2024 4:46 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
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Re: Random Thread
That makes me wonder what the equivalent is for my generation. I remember music going from 'kind of expensive' to 'basically free' practically overnight. Now I'm reminded of this discussion, which I started on the old ZBB now more than 7 years ago: http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44...
- Mon Jun 03, 2024 4:41 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1945
- Views: 15033073
Re: Venting thread
Sorry! May I ask from where to where?doctor shark wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 3:01 pm What was supposed to be a nine-ish hour train trip today ended up being over 12. Yay for Deutsche Bahn.
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 5:48 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3752
- Views: 457951
Re: Random Thread
Also, well into the 70s, jazz was as pop as movie music got. E.g. James Bond or Pink Panther movies. Some of the movie and TV music of that period sounds to me like "a 1950s night club band trying very hard to play music that might sound cool to young people in the 1960s, and completely failin...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 4:07 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3752
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Re: Random Thread
What I find strange is how eclipsed earlier music seems to be. E.g. I just looked up Frank Sinatra's best album— some at least think it's In The Wee Small Hours , which came out in 1955, just 12 years before Sgt. Pepper . (I dunno, maybe you're all jazz fanatics. But I feel like there's a huge gulf...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3752
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- Fri May 31, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3752
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Re: Random Thread
Does anyone else have the impression that pool has a weird kind of cross-class appeal? That is, it seems to be stereotypically associated with both a certain kind of upper class person and a certain kind of working class person. OK, upper class pool players stereotypically own their own tables somew...
- Fri May 31, 2024 9:38 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1159
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
but I understand that minorities called upon as they are to assert a right that opposes the majority, that the concept of activism is no longer suitable to depict them, the truth, and its dick, is probably elsewhere... I'm not sure I understand correctly what you're saying there, but - are you sayi...
- Fri May 31, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1459
- Views: 450826
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
A world under Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping isn't really multipolar; what ideological difference there may be isn't terribly important. THIS. This, this, this. It's completely ridiculous to support that trio, or any one or two of that trio, and claim that you're doing it because you want a "mult...
- Thu May 30, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 719787
Re: Happy things thread!
There were a lot of dishes to do today. And now they're all clean.
- Thu May 30, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1159
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Ah, thank you!
- Thu May 30, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1159
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Now I'm wondering why, among Christian or Christian-descended speakers of English and also some other European languages, "Michael" has traditionally been so much more common than "Raphael". I mean, both are names of Old Testament archangels, right?
- Thu May 30, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 324
- Views: 341654
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
The priest who baptized my late husband in 1946 refused to accept the name "Cameron" unless it was hyphenated to "Cameron-Joseph" because there is no saint or martyr named "Cameron" recognised by the Catholic Church. Sixty years later, at my nephew's baptism, the pries...
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1949
- Views: 1023381
Re: British Politics Guide
Wow. I didn't see that coming - Tory backbenchers were trying to un-call the election:
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/05/tho ... to-an-end/
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/05/tho ... to-an-end/
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1459
- Views: 450826
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") [...] I don't have the imp...
- Mon May 27, 2024 9:44 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2869815
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Ah, thank you.
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 719787
Re: Happy things thread!
This finally went online ! (Took long enough...) Great! Do I get this right that in "It is found that perfluoroalkyl diacids and pillar-[5]-arenes rapidly and strongly complex with each other at aqueous interfaces, forming solid interfacially templated films.", "complex" is the ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:49 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 719787
Re: Happy things thread!
This finally went online ! (Took long enough...) Great! Do I get this right that in "It is found that perfluoroalkyl diacids and pillar-[5]-arenes rapidly and strongly complex with each other at aqueous interfaces, forming solid interfacially templated films.", "complex" is the ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3051
- Views: 2869815
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I had the impression that in US legal English, "whereas" means basically "because".Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 6:22 pm Perhaps we could add to the heap the practice of US legal English using "whereas" to mean "here begins a sentence."
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:45 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1159
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Isn't it the opposite? Hasn't globalization increased the need for translation, as there is now more information from different parts of the world?
- Sun May 26, 2024 4:01 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1459
- Views: 450826
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
There might be some truth in what you say, jcb, but I don't think your timeline makes sense. The rural white working class jumped ship from the Dems before the betrayal you complain about happened. They voted, three times in a row, first for Ronald Reagan himself, and then for his VP, while the Dems...