The Random thought thread

[old man emu]

I need martial music to get myself moving.

[onetrack]

Jazz is all discords, not harmonious chords. It sets you on edge. I'd go for 60's and 70's and 80's rock any day. Billy Joel, Bob Seger, Jackson Browne, the Eagles, that period was the best rock era.

[spacesailor]

I liked those ' big bands ' of the 40s .

Glen Miller , moonlight sonata, & In the mood .

I think it was called " swing " .

spacesailor

[willedoo]

I don't mind good jazz, which I guess is the traditional jazz Nev mentions. What I really dislike is that idiotic form of jazz where it seems like every player is trying to lead solo and all outdo each other at once. It's just a vanity project for the performers and results in a stupid sounding din. You get more musical sound coming from a chook broiler farm.

[Litespeed]

Jazz is cool baby..

 

 

But when in the mood ..Murder ballads by Nick Cave

[nomadpete]

5 hours ago, red750 said:

Nah. Get with it. Acca Dacca or Cold Chisel.

Which kind of jazz can they do?

 

I once worked alongside a capable muso - when I asked him to play jazz, he said nah, I'm not that good!

[nomadpete]

Some modern jazz, and some modern 'classical' sounds to me like random din and discords. I'm just not sophisticated enough to appreciate them.

 

I love most kinds of music. Just don't play country or western. Or opera for same reason as OT's.

[willedoo]

12 minutes ago, nomadpete said:

I love most kinds of music. Just don't play country or western.

Remember at Bob's place in the Blues Brothers movie when they asked Bob what sort of music they normally had. Bob told them they have both types of music - country and western.

[red750]

Enjoy anything you can get. Music to me is now just noise. If I now hear anything I used to enjoy, it now sounds nothing like what I remember. I don't use the radio in the car, it's just waffle waffle waffle. The CD player rejected every disk I put in it. Even a lot of TV sounds like quark quark quark.

[spacesailor]

Hearing Aid ! .

Just had my ears checked, they have lost a little more then last year . They told me " using my hearing aid  helps retain the hearing & lessons rhe chance of dementia " .

So I have one in , just in case they're right .

Might even put the other one in later .

spacesailor

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[pmccarthy]

You might get dementia on one side only.

[spacesailor]

I did say , I will pop the other one in at a later time .

spacesailor

[onetrack]

He'll pop the other one in, when he feels a bout of dementia coming on.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Will have forgotten which ear...

 

Edited November 15 by Jerry_Atrick

[red750]

Some Porsche owners have been told not to drive their luxury cars as the manufacturer issues a recall to thousands amid the risk of wheels falling off. 

 

Around 1,000 drivers in the UK have been sent letters or emails with the warning telling them 'not to use your vehicle until further notice'.

 

The price for the top-end cars, the drivers of which have been sent the notification, ranges from about £100,000 to £200,000.

[facthunter]

That's a Porsche Oh!    Nev

[onetrack]

So ... it looks like the wheels just fell off the Porsche bandwagon?

 

Oooohh, Look!! I just found the new Porsche company song!!

 

 

[red750]

I got a real blast from the past on Facebook this morning.I was born in 1944, and my parents shared a dairy farm with my grandparents at a place call Jindivick North, in Gippsland. We had to leave the farm and move into Warragul in 1950, because the government wanted the valley to construct a reservoir, the Tarago Reservior. On FB this morning, a post from Better Boating Victoria, saying they are about to build a boatramp, effectively 50 metres from where our gate used to be. You can look up Tarago Reservoir on Google Maps. The red arrow points to where our farm gate was.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[spacesailor]

reservoir  .

Power boating leaving it's oil in a reservoir doesn't sound good .

It should be fish shitting in the water only.

spacesailor

[facthunter]

TCW3 oils are for outboards. Usually at a very low %.  The propwash oxygenates the water.  Nev

[nomadpete]

Sales of new outboard motors must all be 4 stroke.

Oily residue in the water is not such a problem as all the old 2 stroke wear out and get replaced with 4 strokes.

[old man emu]

Nasty animal cruelty thought:

 

I wonder what would happen if you put a large mirror in a frame into a chimpanzee enclosure at a zoo where the chimps could see their reflections, and leave it there until they got used to it and began to ignore it. Then one night while they were not out in the enclosure, remove the mirror but leave the frame where it was. Then watch what they did next morning.

[facthunter]

Het help. It may be contageous.  Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

 

[old man emu]

The evil thought that I had was that, after the chimpanzees got used to seeing their reflections in the mirror and accepted the concept, what would they do if suddenly their reflections were not there.