i have no musical skills at all.I dont believe i'm autistic or artistic.....but i know when something just fits. My assumptions are sometimes way off...But this just sounds right to me.
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Your views and support made me the 5th most trending person on the rave website this morning.
I am amazed and totally thankful for your wonderful responses.
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That wo fingered (i,m) tremolo! (Una Limosna...)
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In all seriousness, though. Classical guitarists are criminally underappreciated.
The guitarist in one of my previous bands was classically trained, and heads and shoulders above the rest of us talent wise. She was massively into Tool, Jane's Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins and could absolutely shred along to Sepultura/Slayer/Megadeth, but her classical playing was something else entirely. The sheer expressiveness that a good classical guitarist can bring out of a performance will always impress me more than the sheer technicality that some contemporary guitarists rely upon for likes and shares.
Her older brother was also classically trained and moved to Spain to teach Spanish guitar to Spaniards (!)
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I found grade 7 harder than grade 8.
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The girl on the right can not look straight
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the more words you input, the more intricate the abstraction. Pedro, being as abstractly creative as he is, was the subject of this piece, heh.
ibb.co/8m2R1R6
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I'm seriously considering getting a few of these as actual prints.
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i like to hit the back button and reuse the words to produce a different image with a different style…steampunk and baroque are my two favorites!
(, Wed 29 Dec 2021, 2:29, Reply)
Captain Disillusion investigates a case of trademark-based VFX shenanigans.
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Nobody really cares though.
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I had always assumed it was an American format as ‘bake off’ screams septic tank to me, and that was the only reason they’d stuck British in the title, to differentiate themselves from the original show.
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We play their stuff wholesale, they play ours and then remake it in their own image. Think of The Office; Leverage, which is a perfectly watchable show; Millionaire; and poor Ann-droid for The Weakest Link.
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I wonder how long it takes to decelerate down to 0 velocity units from the given tempo and the distance.
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"The final maneuver, MCC-2, performed 29 days after launch, is designed to insert Webb into the optimum orbit around L2."
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I mean, it will depend on your frame of reference. However, even when it gets to the Lagrange point it will still orbit around that.
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Also, unless you love maths, why bother with the imperial units? Miles per second?? Who is that for?
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Millilitres per second sounds like a setting for a drip. kms-1 is more like it.
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NASA was using SI units like proper engineers and scientists, except the sub-contract Lockheed Martin team, who were working in cubits or something.
The probe entered Mars atmosphere for aerobraking at about 1/3 the altitude that was planned - about 50 km up instead of the planned 220 km - and broke up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure
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There's half a joke there if anyone wants to finish it.
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One time in the late 1970s, on a family trip back/through France, we stopped at a rest stop/picnic area, and witnessed dozens of people in climbing footwear, chalk, and gloves, climbing spectacularly tiny boulders in exquisite concentration and reverence. Now I know where that was.
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in hanging off a rock when you would be higher if you got off and stood up.
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Sport innit.
And Fontainebleau is an awesome place to do it. Really nice peaceful forest with more and better bouldering packed into it than just about anywhere in the world.
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I also fail to see the point in kicking a fucking ball around a field.
The area looks amazing though, would be nice to just wander about there.
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I mean, it's properly fucking idyllic, as long as you stay away from the bits close to the lay-bys where the whore vans park up. But even then you stop seeing Rhyl jellyfish once you're a bit away from the car park.
And all you need is a pad and a pair of climbing shoes so it couldn't be more accessible. Or a mountain bike. Or a horse. Or just walking boots. Whatever you're into.
Spent a lot of good times there but not been since the beforetimes. Itching to get back tbh.
bleau.info/ is the definitive guide.
That ball chasing shit though, never really followed that.
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That sits on same fucking stool day after day making sure that everybody knows that The Clash weren't 'real Punk' and talking exhaustively about his in-depth knowledge of the UK democratic system and why it should be abolished in favour of anarcho-capitalism whilst making the one pint he's able to afford with his dole money last the entire fucking evening.
I'm sure somebody will rush to his defense with the claims of "He's playing a character!", which I don't doubt. But it's a shit character, and it was a shit idea.
The whole effort relied on publicly calling Boris Johnson a cunt (edgy!) whilst relying on the British public to stream/download the single as some kind of act of solidarity. He could have parodied Ladbaby's fucking awful single, kept it clean and still torn Boris a new one. Enough people fucking hate Ladbaby that they would have bought it as an act of defiance on those grounds alone, regardless of their political leanings. He could have kept it clean so it might have stood a chance of mainstream airplay and he'd have avoided using a Gary fucking Glitter anthem as the backbone for thr whole thing.
Instead, we've got some bloke publicly calling Boris a cunt. It wasn't particularly funny last year, and this year it just reeked of desperation.
At least we got to hear somebody calling Boris a cunt though. That'll show him!
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His 'act' is fucking pathetic and terminally unfunny, and always has been. I don't give a fuck that he's b3ta royalty, he's Mike Flowers Pops for lolwaki pricks.
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But prick? Yea, i suppose.
I find the main source of the humour to be the unexpected rhyming couplets. He's been a bit inconsistent with his output over the years but he's got some bangers. Plus the songs are very singalongable, so even past the point where you realise what words you're* singing when you're* singing along to "Wank the Dog" it's generally uplifting.
*Well, obviously not you because you don't like it.
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I think there's a place for rude honesty. But I agree with everything you've said. Damn you b3ta and your compelling arguments.
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While I accept your point that it's not particularly articulate, it serves as one medium by which the British public can express their ire of the fucking cunt in question (without getting arrested for protesting) (for now). The options you mentioned were not needed to achieve that goal.
And you're right, the fucking cunt in question won't give a shit about this, but we could on for quite a while about the things that he doesn't give a shit about. If we were using his concern as a barometer there wouldn't be much point making any kind of statement.
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Calling BoJo a cunt is neither clever nor funny, it's just a never-was attention whore desperately trying to make people pay attention to him. It's tiresome, and more than a little sad.
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If by never-was you mean someone with a continuing fan-base who managed to get him to #5 in the UK charts, at the most popular time of the year to buy singles, 2 years in a row, despite no marketing budget or label support, then I think you might be setting your success criteria a bit high (I suspect much higher than Kunt himself).
In terms of being an attention whore, it is fairly common for people who make music for a living to publicise their work so I'm not sure what makes him exceptional there.
Regarding the subject matter, cleverness or hilarity aside, it is relevant and accurate (not necessarily in a literal sense but certainly figuratively). It's clearly a topic which resonates with lots of people, and speaking for myself, has offered a cathartic outlet to express frustration over a situation which I am powerless to change. Its success has brought a modicum of delight to my day, so attention whore or not, it has some benefit beyond the artist (including some funds being sent to charities which, as he acknowledges in his FAQ, is not the motivating force behind the pursuit but is an additional bonus).
You may say that the minor joy I have achieved in engaging in this campaign makes me as sad as the situation from your perspective, and I would agree. I, and lots of other people, would be much more happy if there was someone in charge of the UK who had any semblence of competence and/or integrity, in which case such action would not be necessary.
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rather than just shouting swears as if it's still big and clever when you're pushing... I dunno... he has one of those faces that could be 30 or 60. Whatever, old enough to know he should get a writer on board if he has no wit or creativity of his own. Plenty people here would do a much better job pro bono.
He got as far as he did just by shouting naughty words. Imagine what he might have achieved if he'd made it even a tiny bit humorous.
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The point is more who the naughty words are directed at. But yea, he probably should have led with the version with the actual lyrics.
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I always cut anyone taking the piss plenty of slack, and as george galloway said to Saddam Hussein, I admire his indefatigability. and there's a fair bit of charm about his songs, as rude as they are. personal references to the joys of wanking and simple desires. he's no soap box shouter
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Listening now, great lyricist. Quite Chas and Dave, could be more musical though.
When I was on Urban75, all they ever went on about was Half Man Half Biscuit.
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Seems a bit disingenuous. I think those are just video screens using the mechanisms as a trigger rather then 21st century shadow puppets.
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Just how ***** ********, **** ********* and *** ****** are today.
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After luring them with the promise of a week or two's summer holiday. Allegedly.
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Police received eight sightings in Northern Ireland during 2021, an increase from six such reports in 2020 and four in 2019.
In September, a report was received in the Lisburn area of “aliens in bedroom”
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Them and the sunglasses and shotgun.
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there was an advert
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The Penguin Menace
Attack of the Colonies
Revenge of the Spheniscus
A Gentoo Hope
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The Fiordland Awakens
The Last Pygosceli
The Rise of Rockhopper
Also:
The Star Wars Humboldt Special
Chinstrap of Courage
The Megadyptian
The Bad Hatch
I'm not sorry. I will pun again.
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He knows if you're a poser
He knows if you're a punk
He knows if you're sober
He knows if you're drunk
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The James Webb telescope launch. LIVE!!
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Hopefully not too many of you got the same shitty present as me: COVID-19 (had it a week).
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so realistic.
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