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Oh no, it's real. Venues in the UK are openly pissed off about it and the bands that have opened for him have openly talked about it too. I think this guy has mental issues like the many who audition for TV talent/music contest shows but unlike them he actually has money. I kinda' feel bad for the guy if that's the case. Also you won't hear anything from the promoter because as far as I'm aware he's the promoter.
That's what I thought at first but he's been at it for over two years, though I think this is the first time he actually done shows. I think he just has the same kind of mental issues as those who enter TV talent shows have.
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Oh, I get that he's really out there playing and exploiting these venues. I just feel like he's not doing it just as a narcissist wannabe rockstar who wants to go on tour.
I feel like no one could be that oblivious, there must be a layer of irony here.
I guess I just want to think it's some kind of sub-warhol comment on fame in the self promoting age or some such.
Faggot Gift
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Seeing Malibu and all those bougie fucking homes go up in flames is bringing me way more satisfaction than it should.
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Is this down to the Australian eucalyptus trees again, it's so much more satisfying to realise they're getting torched by a present from Australia
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Australia gave us melaleuca and schefflera as invasive species here in Florida, which make the environment more miserable than it already is. The Australian pine is also extremely invasive, but at least it's a nice tree in the right places.
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Source:
https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/07/eeri...txbkjpteZxu7x5w45LzhmYlT_G2Fd596-QHznf1R8JBQY
Passage from Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel:
“The odd thing was that the little birds in the forest seemed quite untroubled by the myriad noise; they sat peaceably over the smoke in their battered boughs. In the short intervals of firing, we could hear them singing happily or ardently to one another”
https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/07/eeri...txbkjpteZxu7x5w45LzhmYlT_G2Fd596-QHznf1R8JBQY
On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent.
It brought an end to four years of war which crippled Europe, leaving 17 million dead including 888,246 British or Colonial servicemen.
As we approach the centenary of the Armistice on November 11, the Imperial War Museum has released a recording of the moment the war ended, patched together using recordings from their collections.
The artillery activity it illustrates was recorded on the American front near the River Moselle, one minute before and one minute after the war ended.
Imperial War Museum approximate the end of WWI
After listening to the piece, Tom Davidson said: ‘This soundpiece took me completely by surprise. So moving. I never realised the big guns were firing right up to the hour.
‘I can only wonder at what the silence of the ceasefire meant to those in the trenches. This, then silence, then then The Last Post. Imagine.’
Another woman wrote on Twitter: ‘I spent 15 minutes listening to this over and over, feeling it rattle my bones and thinking about how those involved would have felt upon hearing the silence.’
The audio exhibit was created by sound designers Coda to Coda using a bone conductor, which converts sounds into vibrations.
It makes up part of the Imperial War Museum’s exhibition for the centenary of the Armistice, Making a New World.
“The odd thing was that the little birds in the forest seemed quite untroubled by the myriad noise; they sat peaceably over the smoke in their battered boughs. In the short intervals of firing, we could hear them singing happily or ardently to one another”
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"There will come soft rains..."
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That sent an actual chill down my spine. I can't imagine what it must have been like to be in one of those trenchs, and having the terrifying background noise to my life just quietly melt away.
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Even in war there's one arsehole who had to get the last shot off.
Jokes aside, it is rather eerie.
Jokes aside, it is rather eerie.
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Tanzania threatens to deploy military over cashew nut crisis.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46166985
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46166985
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It's one thing to read about something that happened 100 years ago, but it totally different to hear it.
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See, that's cool and all, but the actual video itself says:
"Video: Imperial War Museum approximate the end of WWI Sound designers Coda to Coda used the graphic record from the IWM collections to recreate this audio of what the end of the First World War could have sounded like."
This recording's just a stitched-together simulation that uses stock sound effects, it's not remotely an actual WW1 recording or even a recreation from the information on that paper. You can very clearly hear the same stock explosions several times in a row. An actual WW1 recording would sound more like this:
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I had a feeling something was up, damn near sure I've heard all of those stock explosions used elsewhere. Starcraft maybe.
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Oh come on, next you will be telling me this BBC produced reconstruction of the last moments of WW2 is inaccurate too
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Exactly. Conceptually it's still pretty powerful, but that's painfully obvious when you listen to it. It's not even particularly well done as a recreation.
This is the epitome of "really makes you think" memes. It's custom-made to go viral on Boomer Facebook pages just in time for Thanksgiving.
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Okay I was thinking "This sounds way too clean and synchronized for a recording 100 years ago when audio recordings were still in their infancy". Also, explosions sounded staged and the distance of the sides seemed to be coming from the same spot.
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I knew it was too good to be true
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Post the whole thing, don't be a coward.
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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Of course it wasn't real. Do you know what it would've taken to record even just sound back in the early 20th century?
Talk about an easy target.
Talk about an easy target.