Subdeacon Joe
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz030jm2z5zo
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29 March 2025, 09:05 GMTUpdated 5 hours ago
A British man has been praised for tackling a suspected knifeman to the ground in central Amsterdam.
The tourist, who does not wish to be named, restrained the suspect after five people were stabbed near the Dutch capital's Dam Square on Thursday.
Video of the incident shows the Briton, wearing jeans and a black hoodie, kneeling on his back and twisting his arm until police arrived.
Amsterdam's Mayor Femke Halsema said she was impressed by his decisive action, telling local broadcasters he showed "exceptional" instinct."
Probably doesn't want his name released for fear of being charged with a hate crime when he goes back to the UK.
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A friend of mine had one. To keep it in place you had to kind of pinch it with the base of your thumb or tape it to your hand.
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28 minutes ago, Alpo said:
When they come out of the high school, and they're in them cheap crappy looking uniforms. And then all of a sudden - POW! - they're in really amazing looking uniforms. That's a great effect. But I wonder what they did on stage? Because they couldn't do that.
I've seen it done as a scene change. Inside setting in the cheap uniforms, close curtains, move out the interior flats, move in the exterior scene flats , actors change while that's happening, open the curtains, actors come out doors in the flats or just enter from the wings. Not as dramatic as the movie.
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13 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:
But...but
Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos
The cream of ev'ry famous band
Darn you all to heck! That's going to be in my head for days!
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13 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
It was unpleasing to my ear. I just didn’t like it period!
Fair enough. The things I mentioned that I don't care for are also "unpleasing to my ear." But, I know that it's "unpleasing" mostly because I haven't been much exposed to it. Although there are some thinks that I've listened to a lot, wanting to like it, for example that South American Pan Flute. Just weird to my ear. Or Japanese flute, and the wailing discord of much Japanese vocal music. Both seem to have no order, no reason behind it. Same for a lot of classical piano. Much of it sounds to me like a cat wandering back and forth over the keys. Even some Mozart and Bach, who usually have order, structure and reason to their works.
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2 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I lasted exactly 20 seconds! OMG that was awful 😞
OK, I'll give you that the wood blocks were annoying to my ears. And that it's somewhat monotonous, being a short phrase repeated over and over. But in my mind the blocks and the short musical phrase fit in that context, so I could accept them for what they are. I'll also say that I'm not a huge fan of that style of chanting. But it's not meant as a performance piece. If I understood the comments, it's part of a funeral chant. Just as in Orthodox services I don't care for the Byzantine Chant, preferring Kievan and Znamenny Chant styles, but will be content with Byzantine because I know it belongs (and is older).
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OK.....intellectually I know that a trombone in this isn't essentially different than any other brass, e.g. a trumpet or bugle. EMOTIONALLY it really tweaks my brain to see and hear a trombone in that setting, which is some sort of Buddhist chapel and ceremony (forgive lack of proper terminology).
That said, I like it!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHYHnA2McSg/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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37 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
About to become a submarine??
She survived. In the Gulf of Tonkin Incident she provided some of the most recognized photographs.
From Wikipedia "On 2 August, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, was approached by three North Vietnamese Navy[8] torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron.[1] Maddox fired warning shots and the North Vietnamese boats attacked with torpedoes and machine gun fire. In the ensuing engagement, one U.S. aircraft (which had been launched from aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga) was damaged, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats were damaged, and four North Vietnamese sailors were killed, with six more wounded. There were no U.S. casualties.[9] Maddox was "unscathed except for a single bullet hole from a [North] Vietnamese machine gun round".[5]"
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9 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Baseball rules are like virtue among prostitutes and rank among second lieutenants: non-existent.
No, no! That's Cricket!
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Found on FB
That must have been fun
The American destroyer Maddox (DD-731) during Typhoon Cobra. Photo taken from the battleship New Jersey (BB-62). 1944.
More about Typhoon Cobra:
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/typhoon-cobra-halsey-versus-mother-nature
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Do it at a friend's house!
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Yesterday in watching Baseball (Watching Baseball!!!! YES!!!) I kept seeing the Corona commercials, almost all of which showed Adirondack Chairs.
Does anyone really find those comfortable? Hard to sit down in, back at an odd angle, arms splay out weirdly, and I give them an 11 out of 10 on "How hard is it to get out of?"
Per Wikipedia they were designed to make it easier for tuberculosis patients to breathe and to nap. Okay, that might make some sense. You're not supposed to be comfortable in hospitals. But I just can't see sitting in one to relax.
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Both girls bought the same coordinated outfits.
4 hours ago, Alpo said:But overthinking is what I do.
Ya think?
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Athletics lost 4-2.
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You're expecting baseball rules to make sense? Silly boy!
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1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:
A selfie plate I think, on visits to the UK the official commemorations were round, blue & white.
Yep. By the Anglo-Texan Society
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Padres won.
Giants won.
Dodgers won.
Red Sox won.
Athletes are 0-0 in the 3rd.
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To the point of "where is the line?"
I think it was 2018 when a bill was introduced in the California Legislature dealing with "ghost guns" that was so broad that almost any chunk of 7075 or 6061 aluminum, or 18 to 16 gauge mild steel could be considered a "ghost gun." Fortunately it didn't make it out of committee.
I cobbled this together and sent it to my Assemblyman and State Senator.
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8 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
How long is a string??
Twice as long as half of it.
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CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESS
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What is the implication for states that require no permit to carry open or concealed? Does a state like California have to recognize the right of someone from a constitutional carry state to carry in California?
If so, could California’s laws be challenged by California residents under the Equal Protection clause?