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Good to hear that!
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Anyone, did you get to hear the Radio 6 broadcast of MOFO the other day??
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no, tell us, did we miss something.
Did you tape it?
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Forgot Punky, sorry. 
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it's ok. I just don't know if y'all have got to hear any of it yet as well, y'know, there have been . . . obstructions.
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Obstructons? 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DED
I need 2 tyres on a car
Problem is that it is in fact a very old car
An not only old, small as well
It is a rare Dinky Toy
Austin Cambridge A50
I'm scanning the net, but haven't found anything yet.
The car I own (somewhere in an aircraft between California and Amsterdam) , it only misses two tyres. |
BTW the car has new tyres and has reached its final destination.
Money is returned by TNT. I had to pay tax for 99$ instead of 99 cents.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by yoko
in the north it goes clockwise
in the south hemisphere it goes to the left
it's like if you move a spoon in a glass
if you move it clockwise and you see it from the top it goes to the right
but if you look to the glass from downunder with out stoping moving it
you'll see it going to the left side...
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Actually the effect of the Coriolis effect is not nearly as important as the shape of the sink, or so I saw on Brainiac.
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Just finished reading The Balcony, by Jean Genet. Complicated, symmetrical, symbolically structured about symbolic offices of state and society
corrupted by . . . the oldest profession, a brothel, but all of the johns are wanna be's: their fantasies are to be judges and bishops and generals.
But this is all happening while an ACTUAL revolution is going on outside. and one of the girls at the brothel is actually working for the rebels .
. . and so on. Interestingly the madame at the brothel ends up becoming queen so her hero the chief of police can have his mausoleum enactment,
strange all in all, but lots of good points I think are made . . .
but its hard to represent the image of a thing without making fun of it, at least
as well as see how necessary it is . . .
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Sounds a lot like a book by Bordewijk, called Rood Paleis (Red Palace). Not his best work, but enjoyable.
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this is what I've been doing the last few days:
a random sample
press day for Dev Patel of new Slumdog Millionaire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Mh-9mtO-U&feature=channel
Danny Boyle and Darren Aronofsky, current film directors talk about directing; one of a series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWP9F8UGhGQ&feature=channel
hill88 short on reality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGWbWX8f8c&feature=related
how to make a track dolley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcMPhuhqVO4
old and new in Ahedabad India with bobtheseoguru
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGmqadHdrp4&feature=related
walking in market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnETR0AWk4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo1yiOVVVLI&feature=related
Kankaria lake, Ahmedabad India, before reclamation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJcfOjufXYY&feature=related
(:
and why did Tomah Tokay do this here at this location?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3PbHAhtUR8&feature=related
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At this picture you see me between my two older brothers. On this pic I was aprox. 15 months. (summer 0f 1956)
The next picture you see my youngest older brother playing with a car and car station. On the left you see part of an old radio. That radio I bought
again last saturday.
[Edited on 8-2-2009 by DED]
[Edited on 8-2-2009 by DED]
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Cute pictures. Must have been Sunday, because you're all wearing your church clothes.
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Were you a churchgoer Dad? You've come a long way since...
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those are really good pictures.
amazing how old pictures take me away
far away.
maybe it's the near sepia tone that does it, almost brown of the black and white photo?
Anyway, church was forced on me as a child.
We moved from the center of suburbia in southern california to very rural (forests and hills and creeks) West Virginia when I was nearly eight.
There we most often went to a single room church several miles out a dirt road. They had a single wood burning stove in the rear of the place and
rarely more than 30 people would attend on a Sunday service. Methodist churches and there were two that we went to. One on the ridge and one in the
holler. They weren't more than 10km apart, three as the crow flew. Rarely did the different church groups ever meet though they certainly knew each
other. Had to have grown up and gone to the same school. One church had music, the other didn't much at all.
But the one that did, the only woman who did play the piano and lead the singing couldn't do either and had a poor sense of rhythm as well. It was
embarassing for me to try and sing along. So I wouldn't, only maybe squeak a little out and mostly mouth the words.
As an adult, for the longest time, when I was supposed to sing along with something, my memory would tell me that MY singing was wrong, when what I
was doing was remembering my early memories of singing along at that church. That lady that couldn't sing and so would only do it loudly!
Also, my father would give me a dollar a week and expected me to put some of it in the bowl they passed around. So that was the day I got my
allowance, too. And I had to wear my nicest clothes early in the morning and go and listen to boring old men talk and pray and smelly women hug me
and sing too loud and out of tune. I knew that a piano could sound a LOT better than THAT. Is that what it was supposed to sound like praising
God?
Well, no, I found out later.
None of it made any sense to me at the time at all.
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Does it make sense now? It never has to me I must admit.
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Not here either. Fortunately I grew up in a home of atheists. But I did go to church on occasions, usually after being dragged there.
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I understand that a great deal of faith, however it's organized, can help people through the hardest of times. And provide a world view that gives
them some space to sort things out. Whichever system however it is organized certainly may not be for everyone, but there is something very human
about the willingness to trust in something unfathomable. There are so many examples.
A few years ago when the Bush Admin wanted to cut National funding for the Arts, someone made the claim that it was all well and good when we had lots
of money to go and cut funding for the arts, but if the economy should drop and everything else falls apart, the one thing everyone will want is the
one business that will survive nay downturn:
theater and entertainment shows. Like in the Depression in the '30's.
Interestingly Pope John Paul II was a lifelong theater advocate, an actor, director and even going so far as to say that the Sacrament offering at
High Mass was the best kind of theater.
But for something completely different:
WORD. A couple days ago, this chick put up as the ugly word of the
day, the word 'crust' and asked for submissions in the text comment
section for a new ugly word. here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPjlJjeZWe0&feature=channel
but there are at least seven different topics that she mentions as
well as her standard outro where she excerpts a few of the many
thousand comments she gets and talks briefly to/at them. She claims
to read all of those text responses and watch all of the video
responses. But as you can tell, she's just some chick talking about
her stuff.
What makes it especially funny is the responses she gets. A few
months ago there was a new button on the youtube page that will read
whatever you've typed in the text comment box. But in a computer
voice with its funny pronunciation and often incorrect emphasis on
certain words in a phrase, makes the distraction at least a passing
laugh. But she asked her viewers to use it and send her the good
ones. Well, she got over a hundred videos sent, many hours of human
hilarity generated and shared all from a simple request.
So as she's been on quite a run of fantastic viewer response (200,000
views in a day, several thousand text comments and top ratings in
Australian internet usage) for several months now, what does she do to
keep it going? The same shtick she always has, she just gets better
at it: using multiple shots and angles of herself to play different
parts in the little skits she makes up to illustrate her stories, in
different environments, getting the light and audio right, more and
more showing a finesse in the editing technique.
But this next one she seems to take it a step further, still I'm not
sure how. In the comment time towards the end, someone asks, 'why so
many views', and she's like 'mate, I don't have any idea'. At the
very least an astounding anthropology study!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4u0YYkGJc4&feature=channel
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I agree with you that religion can help people through tough times. Even so, I don't think it's reasonable to be religious just for that reason. I
think a commitment to what is reasonable and natural (as opposed to supernatural) is more important than pursuing a worldview that is in contradiction
with reality, even if it is consoling. There are other sources of consolation. I'm not accusing you Punky of advocating it at all, just saying.
I also agree that it is very human to want to trust in something unfathomable. I also think that it's completely irrational to do it and that people
would be better off if they searched for non-mystical answers to their problems.
As for Ms Channel - she's quite the phenomenon ain't she. I think people find self-deprecating humour really refreshing. I'm sick of the opposite,
which is all around us. I'm sick of every motherfucking hip hop star telling me how good they are in every one of their songs.
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yeh, crazy, innit?
When I was in high school, studying the brain and studying religion were two of the most fascinating subjects to me. Why would so many hang so much
on so little? How could people justify so much vicious behavior over centuries on a guide that was seemingly or supposedly so caring? And their
proof were things like what the preacher told me then, like "I believe that Jesus died for my sins more completely than I do in the existence of this
chair I'm sitting in. If I had to choose, then I'd have to say this chair does not exist."
Crazy talk.
A couple years later my eldest brother became a born-again Pentecost. It was and still is a kind of shock to all the rest of us. He was always
supposed to be the smartest of us kids with the biggest grasp on how stuff really works.
But as one thrashes around in life there is much to see that doesn't make sense. 'Rational decisions' that beget irrational consequences.
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