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Worth waiting for the drop on Stairway! But what is Denton playing just after, ca. 2:40? Didgeridoo? Chapman stick variant? Something else? The hypnodancers go

Worth waiting for the drop on Stairway! But what is Denton playing just after, ca. 2:40? Didgeridoo? Chapman stick variant? Something else? The hypnodancers got away that time, but if they ever did get nicked, "it'll all (in not so russian Ukraine) be OK": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Am5AEPHd6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Am5AEPHd6k

defrost 3y ago
You got me re: Denton - it's not a broomstick or commonplace air guitar physical cheat, bit long for a clap stick, bit red for a vacuum cleaner pipe ... it's quite likely something he found down a city street. Heh. Those degenerate drag acts are probably why Putin Puts out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wFKNy0MZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wFKNy0MZQ
- 082349872349872 3y ago
  The tradition of New Slovenian Art is alive and well! No official residence is worthy of the name until it's had a pony ridden through a roofed area: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2EBH0MF/president-kennedy-with-caroline-kennedy-cbk-john-f-kennedy-jr-jfk-jr-u0026-macaroni-the-pony-president-john-f-kennedy-walks-with-his-daughter-caroline-kennedy-as-she-rides-her-pony-macaroni-along-the-walkway-from-the-south-lawn-to-the-west-wing-colonnade-the-executive-office-building-is-visible-in-the-background-west-wing-lawn-white-house-washington-dc-2EBH0MF.jpg https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2EBH0MF/president-kennedy-with-car... (bonus points if saloon doors are involved) > He was used to messes, and men’s bedrooms, and places where ponies are not usually encouraged, and in his youth had jumped on and off a mess-table for a bet. So he behaved himself very politely, and ate bread dipped in salt, and was petted all round the table, moving gingerly; and they drank his health, because he had done more to win the Cup than any man or horse on the ground. —JRK
  - defrost 3y ago
    It wasn't until I was 18 that I first rode a horse into a hotel in Gippsland, I've always been law abiding and didn't want to get carded and tossed out. Ponies in roofed areas are surprisingly common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYjB2L6G9fE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYjB2L6G9fE Charging with bayonets across four miles of open ground to jump machine gun nests is less common, so there's one for the day (April 25th): https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-charge-of-the-4th-light-horse-brigade-at-beersheba https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-charge-of-the-4th-l... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9kN6AHX37E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9kN6AHX37E
    - 082349872349872 3y ago
      Wow, you all really do ride in "australian stock saddles" (interesting to see some had horns; have ropes been taking over from whips?) Sorry about the gall; normally the string girths are very good against that sort of thing. (it also struck me how often "proud" came up: my wife asks me "why do americans always have to be proud of things?" when she's watching TV, but maybe it's not just us seppos, but more a general anglophone thing?) Back to the Ottomans: (could've been much worse, could have been the Dardanelles and Gallipoli?) 2 days stiff march to get told the only water is behind enemy lines is, I guess, a form of motivation. At least it's a little more creative than burning the bridges behind you? And the turks knew the 4th was there, too, if they were already shelling and sending aeroplanes. I'm guessing the only reason this could possibly have worked is because the turks had expected they'd fight as dragoons, dismounted? (I had heard of this charge before, but not the detail that they were using bayonets as makeshift sabres. The only bayonets I've seen from that period are much smaller than sabres, more kindjal sized) > the last 200 yards or so was good going and those horses put on pace and next were jumping the trenches with the Turks underneath That's maybe a bit under 15 seconds — which sounds like a long time to be in the open charging repeating rifles, let alone emplaced MGs. Yikes. As to Totilas, my wife is a fan; it's a shame they broke that pair up. A very lucrative shame, but a shame nonetheless. (I myself barracked for Fuego at the time. Lusitanian and hispanic horsemanship owes a lot to the moorish influence [hmm... might moor be cognate to italian "morena"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRDZjj7-tOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRDZjj7-tOk ] and therefore they do a lot more to put a handle on a horse [what Kipling —another admirer of Walers— would call being bridle-wise] and aim for a bit more spirited stock than in the "doma clasica") In other news I was trying to figure out how to rejigger "American Pie" for Down Under and I think I have the chorus: So, bye-bye, Miss Straya-an Pie Drove my Holden to the station, but the station was dry And them battler blokes were drinkin', swatting the flies Singin', "This'll be the day that I die This'll be the day that I die" but the verses are a bit of a slog, eg: I was a lonely teenage outlaw beaut With a pink corella and a tradie ute But I knew I was ??? ??? ??? The day the music died EDIT: just checked the The Lighthorsemen (1987) scene. They have the bayonet detail; I don't know how accurate the rest is but unlike the real time of Star Wars IV, it seems too extended: final charge as depicted is started over 1km from the trenches and they had already picked up pace 3:20 away (another 1,5km?). EDIT 2: according to the map they assembled (at 16.30) 1,6km from the trenches and according to the text departed after 17.00 with 400 m to the ridge, so the real charge would've been 900m at pace and 300m flat out; I guess that to be about 1:10 to the trenches, not the 4:30 of the movie.

defrost 3y ago

You got me re: Denton - it's not a broomstick or commonplace air guitar physical cheat, bit long for a clap stick, bit red for a vacuum cleaner pipe ... it's quite likely something he found down a city street. Heh. Those degenerate drag acts are probably why Putin Puts out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wFKNy0MZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wFKNy0MZQ

082349872349872 3y ago
The tradition of New Slovenian Art is alive and well! No official residence is worthy of the name until it's had a pony ridden through a roofed area: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2EBH0MF/president-kennedy-with-caroline-kennedy-cbk-john-f-kennedy-jr-jfk-jr-u0026-macaroni-the-pony-president-john-f-kennedy-walks-with-his-daughter-caroline-kennedy-as-she-rides-her-pony-macaroni-along-the-walkway-from-the-south-lawn-to-the-west-wing-colonnade-the-executive-office-building-is-visible-in-the-background-west-wing-lawn-white-house-washington-dc-2EBH0MF.jpg https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2EBH0MF/president-kennedy-with-car... (bonus points if saloon doors are involved) > He was used to messes, and men’s bedrooms, and places where ponies are not usually encouraged, and in his youth had jumped on and off a mess-table for a bet. So he behaved himself very politely, and ate bread dipped in salt, and was petted all round the table, moving gingerly; and they drank his health, because he had done more to win the Cup than any man or horse on the ground. —JRK
- defrost 3y ago
  It wasn't until I was 18 that I first rode a horse into a hotel in Gippsland, I've always been law abiding and didn't want to get carded and tossed out. Ponies in roofed areas are surprisingly common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYjB2L6G9fE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYjB2L6G9fE Charging with bayonets across four miles of open ground to jump machine gun nests is less common, so there's one for the day (April 25th): https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-charge-of-the-4th-light-horse-brigade-at-beersheba https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-charge-of-the-4th-l... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9kN6AHX37E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9kN6AHX37E
  - 082349872349872 3y ago
    Wow, you all really do ride in "australian stock saddles" (interesting to see some had horns; have ropes been taking over from whips?) Sorry about the gall; normally the string girths are very good against that sort of thing. (it also struck me how often "proud" came up: my wife asks me "why do americans always have to be proud of things?" when she's watching TV, but maybe it's not just us seppos, but more a general anglophone thing?) Back to the Ottomans: (could've been much worse, could have been the Dardanelles and Gallipoli?) 2 days stiff march to get told the only water is behind enemy lines is, I guess, a form of motivation. At least it's a little more creative than burning the bridges behind you? And the turks knew the 4th was there, too, if they were already shelling and sending aeroplanes. I'm guessing the only reason this could possibly have worked is because the turks had expected they'd fight as dragoons, dismounted? (I had heard of this charge before, but not the detail that they were using bayonets as makeshift sabres. The only bayonets I've seen from that period are much smaller than sabres, more kindjal sized) > the last 200 yards or so was good going and those horses put on pace and next were jumping the trenches with the Turks underneath That's maybe a bit under 15 seconds — which sounds like a long time to be in the open charging repeating rifles, let alone emplaced MGs. Yikes. As to Totilas, my wife is a fan; it's a shame they broke that pair up. A very lucrative shame, but a shame nonetheless. (I myself barracked for Fuego at the time. Lusitanian and hispanic horsemanship owes a lot to the moorish influence [hmm... might moor be cognate to italian "morena"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRDZjj7-tOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRDZjj7-tOk ] and therefore they do a lot more to put a handle on a horse [what Kipling —another admirer of Walers— would call being bridle-wise] and aim for a bit more spirited stock than in the "doma clasica") In other news I was trying to figure out how to rejigger "American Pie" for Down Under and I think I have the chorus: So, bye-bye, Miss Straya-an Pie Drove my Holden to the station, but the station was dry And them battler blokes were drinkin', swatting the flies Singin', "This'll be the day that I die This'll be the day that I die" but the verses are a bit of a slog, eg: I was a lonely teenage outlaw beaut With a pink corella and a tradie ute But I knew I was ??? ??? ??? The day the music died EDIT: just checked the The Lighthorsemen (1987) scene. They have the bayonet detail; I don't know how accurate the rest is but unlike the real time of Star Wars IV, it seems too extended: final charge as depicted is started over 1km from the trenches and they had already picked up pace 3:20 away (another 1,5km?). EDIT 2: according to the map they assembled (at 16.30) 1,6km from the trenches and according to the text departed after 17.00 with 400 m to the ridge, so the real charge would've been 900m at pace and 300m flat out; I guess that to be about 1:10 to the trenches, not the 4:30 of the movie.