Kiddy fiddler
Skip to 1:15, you impatient bastards.
Chloe Chua, aged 11 strumming "The Four Seasons" (Winter) by Tony Vivaldi. Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, "L'inverno"
Rabbit-hole: 2SetViolin are talented fiddlers, who make nice videos (even if you're not into classical/violins). They talk about her being "Ling Ling" - the fictional Asian-that-is-better-than-you-at-everything. They also do stuff like getting top musicians to play left-handed/double speed, explain when TV fakes playing and suchlike.
More of Chloe.
Joint winner, Christian Lee (age 10).
(, Wed 1 May 2019, 0:07, Reply)
Ty
Rabbit-hole warning
I'm not a music expert; far from it. I don't understand the nuance of bow technique or anything else. I'm not really that interested in it.
However, weirdly, beautiful music like the above makes me cry. That's really strange, but it's just something that happens.
I think we don't need to study music to appreciate it. It's guttural, ephemeral, even illogical. I'm not interested in studying the theory, but that shouldn't preclude appreciating the result.
I think that musicians, like teachers, are greatly under-appreciated. I've really enjoyed watching "2SetViolin" recently. Sure, they are young and arrogant..but they spend like 100 hours a week practicing, and then are blown away by a 10-year-old playing far better than they can... if they hadn't put in that effort, they wouldn't appreciate her amazingness.
Maybe we can all learn from that.
Maybe not.
IDK.
It's nice music.
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Completely agree
about the rabbit hole.
I ended up looking for more of Maxim Vengerov (via a couple of click-bait japanese vio-you-tub[a|er]-linists , and came up with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrRAgv1b4
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Wed 1 May 2019, 1:38,
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[Linkage: your MV is this.]
He's in TwoSetViolin's ""Imitating Famous Violinists". Quite fun.
I mean
a) That's a rabbbit-hole shortcut,
b) "TwoSet" are young and a bit up themselves sometimes. But hey. They're kids. They are ridiculously talented, but showcase people far more ridiculously talented. Kudos.
c) I found Maxim Vengerov down that same hole, last night. IDK anything about it, but it makes me feel all tingly downstairs.
d) I've forgotten what I was going to say for this point, Your Veng video is playing, so it's emotional.
And now, the "Ray Chan" rabbit-hole beckons...
(, Wed 1 May 2019, 1:47, Reply)
Now I want to see a violin tuba.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 1 May 2019, 13:38,
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I'm awful at guitar.
It does help me appreciate those who are good and I understand music far better than if I didn't play.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 1 May 2019, 13:42,
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what a fucking racket!
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Wed 1 May 2019, 13:19,
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Me too. A new version just came out; tell your kids to go find a fox. They're in Taiga - where the spruce trees grow.
(, Wed 1 May 2019, 18:16, Reply)
For an 11 year old, the skill and confidence displayed there are astonishing.
(, Thu 2 May 2019, 0:54, Reply)
Dutch Profanity
Even for a list of swear words, this is grim reading.
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Zuowan, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 20:55,
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Beftekkel, whilst only mentioned in passing, is now my favourite swear word.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 21:22,
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Grim for snowflakes.
It's a list of insults. What were you expecting?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 21:51,
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Sphincter Musketeer!
(an easy winner for me)
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ousgg is not seeking approval, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 22:54,
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I like it!
I think all they've done is gone "oh these could really hurt someone who might also already be hurting".
....imagine calling an already over stressed cop "cancer" on the day he finds out?...
...this kind of thinking - about the real world people of your country; is what governments should be doing. Make no mistakes about that.
However what they shouldn't be doing is stopping us from saying that the black unicorn from the farside of mars is actually the cause of most insults, and that prostitution causes degeneracy. So yeah, the imagination and ethics, there shouldn't be laws on talking about those two... ever. Full stop.
(, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 23:34, Reply)
At this point...
...the thought can be extended to someone who either imagines things that run parallel to society as obvious and crass political satements - such as the white-revenge fantasies found in the Turner diaries... but also; one can imagine a politician who appears to be making political statements about politics and their sociological standpoint (whatever that might be); but then chooses to mix that rehtoric with other rehtoric, such as saying "Prostitution causes degeneracy... which is a cancer on our society".
Due to the proximity of the illegal insult 'cancer' - the reality of sex workers as people and citizenry, and previously given reasons for preventing real-world medical terms being used against people in a free and egalitarian society (namely those people are emotionally vulnerable already)... well.... I mean, you can start to see some Donald Trump stuff being prevented or at least; critically addressed by these laws.
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I recall a Dutch friend teaching me neuken in de keuken as an impressionable youth
leading to much juvenile hilarity
(, Wed 1 May 2019, 17:04, Reply)
Reek
is a word that is used to refer to men who are deprived of their masculinity. Made popular in the TV show and books of Game of Thrones.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 1 May 2019, 17:05,
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Interstellar Buckyballs Found in Deep Space
"The confirmation of interstellar [buckminsterfullerene] represents a breakthrough in our understanding of chemical complexity in the diffuse interstellar medium"
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 16:19,
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I hate EVERYTHING about this
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 15:40,
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I'm holding out for Minesweeper: The Movie.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 16:01,
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(I was going to say Solitaire: The Movie, but that's basically Live and Let Die, isn't it?)
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 16:02,
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Quarter of a century too late.
And his hands are fucking terrifying. No need.
(, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 16:08, Reply)
I guess the smell from Super Mario Bros has finally dissipated from cinemas
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 16:31,
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One day there shall come a videogame movie which isn't terrible
But it will not be this day.
(, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 16:55, Reply)
Detective Pikachu looks like it might be fun
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 17:10,
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Yeah, if you like Ryan Reynolds doing voice acting over naff CGI.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 1 May 2019, 0:05,
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That worked for Deadpool
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 1 May 2019, 8:32,
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That would be good if done well
but then I guess anything would.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 20:45,
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Have you seen Lost Alpha version.
Sadly, many of the silliest bugs have now been fixed from the original.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 1 May 2019, 18:48,
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Okay let's be clear, the only good Sonic movie would be a 30 second speedrun of 1991's Green Hill Zone act 1 rendered out at 320×240
any variance from this exact specification will Rape My Childhood like a million times over, probably
(, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 19:00, Reply)
Green Hill Zone Act 1
Is certainly a classic.
I'd put it up there with Doom's E1M1.
(, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 21:18, Reply)
Doom Remake 4, in case you haven't seen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cozPE6eqYU
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I like it.
There seems to be a ton of these sorts of things... like GLDoom and ZDoom. It just shows what a great formula that game has... it's still just excellent gameplay.
(, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 21:37, Reply)
I think it looks like they made a fair attempt at it
I guess
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 21:11,
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Chances are this is the most positive review it will get, they should put it on all the posters
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I decided to watch with the intention of finding something to like.
I like that he does warm-up exercises before running. In the film. I hope there is a long warm-up scene before each running scene and that he does some of those awkward pelvic ones whilst staring at the camera.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 22:19,
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I hope he breaks the fourth wall constantly, that's what people like these days, apparently.
(, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 22:31, Reply)
Japanese culture seems stupid.
So does Jim Carrey. I see zero appeal here, and I was raised on Sega and Sonic. Maybe it's just me tho... not judging anyone who likes this or has some other opinion.
(, Wed 1 May 2019, 6:07, Reply)
So, those aren't bunches of spines on his back,
They're fleshy protruberances that are then covered in short fur?
What sort of hedgehog..?
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 1 May 2019, 14:35,
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It's on like donkey kong in Venezuela. Maduro or Guido? Who will win?
Betting starts......NOW!
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 14:31,
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I'll wait until a youtube conspiracy theorist tells me what to think before I make a judgement
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$$ ✅, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 15:07,
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Want to feel bad about yourself? Find out what better people than you had achieved at your age.
I'm currently wondering how I got peri-peri sauce on my jeans, but in 3 days I'll be the exact age John Glenn was when he first blasted off, beginning his journey around the Earth, becoming the first human to orbit the planet.
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JimmerUK Everyone's Favourite Jim, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 13:22,
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The first human to orbit the planet was Yuri Gagarin, on the 12th of April 1961.
Glenn was the first American to do so, in February '62. (Shephard went to space in May '61, but didn't orbit.)
On the bright side, Glenn went on to became the oldest astronaut at age 77, on the Space Shuttle, so there's still hope for us.
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In a smidge over two months, I'll be the age that Johnny Knoxville was when "Bad Grampa" came out.
I think that I'll be able to sleep soundly despite this revelation.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 13:54,
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was that genuinely what it gave you?
It seems to use weird boring recent-celebrity-based examples.
Apparently Elon Musk did something or other that came to nothing and was nowhere near as important as he thought it was when he was about my age. Or any age really.
This is a slightly better one:
Who old are you
(, Wed 1 May 2019, 10:40, Reply)
Microplastics ingested by zooplankton make their shit float
This means more CO2 is released back to the atmosphere instead of sinking to the sea floor.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 11:41,
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Video I made (and a night I run)
I made this!
So I've been running a night in London. It's basically a curation of wicked video content from the web (and other places)
All the videos are numbered, and the audience picks digits out of a hat, to determine what gets played, and when.
PLUS there are silly games and prizes.
On and it's FREE!
If you wanna come down, just click attending via https://www.facebook.com/events/870931236587604/ (or drop me a line)
Location - The Curtain hotel, Shoreditch.
I made this vid to promote it. Sorry for facebooks.
(, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 10:12, Reply)
The B-flat at 45s! I was hoping kitty would play it
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thecrapgatsby isn't listening LALALALALALA, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 11:16,
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In soviet russia car is shoehorned round engine
"5th gear also wouldn't engage - can't imagine why"
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 29 Apr 2019, 22:59,
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A Zil?
They put the engine from a Zil into a lada?
Those engines run on anything, you can just mix petrol diesel, cooking oil, whatever and they go OK and chug along. Multifuel, designed for the military in case you didn't have your preference of fuel wherever you were taking over.
I knew of a guy with one and he had a deal buying the diesel/petrol mix from when people put the wrong fuel into their car. Got the cost equivalent of 50mpg, although those engines only do 6-8mpg from what I remember.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 0:55,
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A lot of cold war military engines were designed to be multifuel,
the Chieftain tank (when it ran) supposedly was, the American's used them in the M35 REO amongst other things too.
(, Wed 1 May 2019, 17:19, Reply)
Well they say
you are what you eat so you wouldn't change a bit!
Read a story about this sort of thing, a doctor was in a plane crash and all he had with him was his medical bag and a suitcase of heroin, because he was in cahoots with the mafia or something, and he ended up on a desert island with hardly anything to eat and nothing to make a boat from.
He decided after a while to take just enough heroin to chop bits of himself off and eat them. He decided to lose the bits that could be replaced by prosthetics easiest first and leave him with most function.
It was a story in diary form and the last few entries do a good job of showing he was going insane. He didn't get rescued.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 29 Apr 2019, 20:20,
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Very likely
*clicks*
Yup, that is the one. I had forgotten it was a ship. You don't forget
"lady fingers they taste just like lady fingers"
though
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 29 Apr 2019, 21:33,
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That's an unlikely scenario.
In real life he would have the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare to eat, while listening to Rachmaninoff.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 29 Apr 2019, 22:45,
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Some relaxing yoga
I made this!
My better half is a yoga teacher and she has started making videos and posting them to youtube. Well I'm making the videos, learning the camera and the production stuff :-)
She has a lovely relaxing voice (slightly drowned out by the horrible hiss coming off the DSLR). If anyone has any recommendations for lapel mics that might make that better I'd love to know!
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Octo I ruin everything., Mon 29 Apr 2019, 18:03,
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I just did a quick scroll through without listening at all.
She certainly appears to be extremely relaxed.
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Application re: Video title assistant.
The second video on the channel is labelled s01e02, so is presumably the second episode of the first of many seasons/series (delete according to taste) to come. The first is not labelled accordingly; it exists in a seasonless limbo. This one - the third upload, which seems to be unlisted - seems to be the entirety of season 103.
Yours faithfully,
A self loathing pedant
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George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Tue 30 Apr 2019, 21:02,
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Seems like the sort of task you'd give to an administrative assistant.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 29 Apr 2019, 14:53,
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Well, to be fair,
they did at least print it out.
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The Togaboy The world will end on, Mon 29 Apr 2019, 14:53,
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Seems to be people just posting jobs they see in windows etc when out and about
Which is nice.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Mon 29 Apr 2019, 14:56,
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"Above average IT skills"
They've not set a very high bar!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Mon 29 Apr 2019, 17:48,
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I like that I've just learned a new word: timeously
From experience, I guarantee whoever gets this job will be shit at it, but slightly less shit than their manager...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Mon 29 Apr 2019, 23:47,
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Tat Vision Episode 14 Sword
I made this!
Went back to my favourite shop in Shirley, the mecca of charity shops. Went for a Heman, Zardoz look, thought I looked cute...
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