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#1
Laid Back Lounge / Re: What's on your mind today?
Last post by Icarus - Today at 02:02:25 AM
Have not seen posts from Bruce or Hermes for quite a while.
#2
Politics / Re: UK General Election 2024
Last post by zorkan - November 02, 2024, 12:17:29 PM
The next prime minister once the trade unions have brought down Labour will be:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2e7xgx11mgt
#3
Miscellaneous / Re: Useful links
Last post by Tom62 - November 02, 2024, 01:07:35 AM
Quote from: Tank on October 26, 2024, 08:21:45 AMI'm getting to hate the news. Doom scrolling at its worst.

I agree. I've switched off any news about the coming US election.
#4
Politics / Re: UK General Election 2024
Last post by zorkan - November 01, 2024, 11:37:10 AM
If the earth is moving in space at about 60,000 mph and 1.4 million miles an earth-day then the liquid oceans should blow off, but they don't.
Gravity is a myth. It's the indirect cause of the warping of space-time.
We don't have a proven theory of quantum gravity and time is only a form of energy.
That's why it's impossible to explain.
#5
Music / Re: Origins of the British Bra...
Last post by Tank - November 01, 2024, 08:32:11 AM
One poignant film worth watching on this subject is Brassed Off.

"The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band."

Brassed Off
#6
Laid Back Lounge / Re: What's on your mind today?
Last post by Tank - November 01, 2024, 08:26:28 AM
Ready for Halloween last night.

#7
Laid Back Lounge / Re: What's on your mind today?
Last post by Tank - November 01, 2024, 08:25:34 AM
I have seen Saturn and the moon so far. The weather is my enemy here. I use the 22mm eyepiece for the moon and 10mm for Saturn.
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Music / Re: Origins of the British Bra...
Last post by Recusant - November 01, 2024, 04:28:46 AM
Quote from: Icarus on November 01, 2024, 01:42:01 AMBrass bands are quite capable of producing remarkably pleasing music....of course that depends on one tastes.  Many of them are committed to martial type music but the capable ones can do justice to almost any kind of composition.

Yes indeed. The programmes/"set lists" of the brass bands that I saw were appropriately varied. A march or three certainly, but dominated by arrangements of classical tunes, traditional tunes, and old and modern pop as well.

I had known of the phenomenon of the colliery bands and hadn't really speculated on how they came into existence, so appreciated the information in the article.

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Music / Re: Origins of the British Bra...
Last post by Icarus - November 01, 2024, 01:42:01 AM
Brass bands are quite capable of producing remarkably pleasing music....of course that depends on one tastes.  Many of them are committed to martial type music but the capable ones can do justice to almost any kind of composition.
#10
Politics / Re: Fake News.
Last post by billy rubin - October 31, 2024, 05:16:03 PM
when i vote i have to present an id. to be registered, i have to present more stringent papers.

never had to do that when i started voting. i just told them who i was and that was that.