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Posts by foxfeeder
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Worthwhile poll, I've long said some of their best stuff didn't make the cut, particularly post-Hackett's departure.
My 6, from best down:
Evidence of Autumn
It's Yourself
Submarine
Open Door (almost seems like a companion to What Am I Doing Here? By the Moody Blues)
Vancouver (nice little tale reminiscent of For Absent Friends)
You Might Recall.
Honourable mention for Twilight Alehouse, not mad about most of it, but it end's well.
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Who decided to paint the room I work in purple?
Prince?
In olden days, purple was the colour of nobility, because purple dye was the most expensive to produce. So, clearly, they are complimenting you!
If they leave a pineapple on your desk, they think you are royalty.
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let him finish a new album first
Don't be ridiculous. I'm 62, so I've only got maybe 30 years to live!
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They have a giant model head for sale now
Pretty cool..For £1000, I'd want Peter's actual head!
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Are you thinking of this documentary about a Tiger Moth Air Race which was made by Nationwide reporter Bernie Clarke? It also includes a snippet of Hackett's Spectral Mornings at 40:30
Well done. As soon as I read the initial post about Nationwide I thought "I'm sure there's a Hackett clip in it too" but couldn't recall what, OR find the clip on youtube.
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Kinda thanks to Tommy Vance ("TV on the radio!" as I'm sure he either used to say, or had a jingle of)) that I'm here. He played Steve Hackett's 1979 Reading Festival performance on the show, (On 2 occasions actually, in 1979 and again in 1980) which got me hooked on Steve, and thus onto Genesis.
My friend Guy (discussed only the other day on the PG2 thread) used to know him a little, from memory, they were both on BFBS in Gibraltar in the 1980's.
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This is a 6 hour drive from me. Could I say I'm going out to get some milk?
You could if you said you were going in a British Milk Float. Look them up on Google. Frankly, 6 hours would be opyimistic!
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Please don't label people you disagree with as misinformed/misguided conspiracy theorists, you are stitching a lot of completely different viewpoints together by doing so. It's easy to lump everyone together as crackpots, but it doesn't advance the discussion.
Why should I comment on events in Brazil when it has no relevance whatsoever to anything I've said. It's a diversion, which I have no intention of wasting time on. I've yet to see anyone say it's a non-existent virus.
Many people have noticed the downfall of the once highly regarded media outlets of late, maybe you will one day, there's been a few scandals in the news lately that you may have missed.
That particular journalist is one of the few I respect, though his segment is limited to covering mostly Westminster tittle tattle. It was much better when Paxo and Steve Smith were around.
Steve's segment was a nice bit of light relief that is clearly missing from the show, he even interviewed the lads for the last reunion.
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Haven't foreigners been stopped from coming to the 60K euro's, doesn't bode well. You have to be careful following the media with their scary narrative about Delta getting out of control in the uk, the numbers currently in hospital are much lower than the peak, and the vaccinated numbers much higher, that's why all you hear are percentages and it's affecting younger people, to scare young people into getting the vaccination.
Fuuny! You have scandals, I have diversions.
Still, at least we agree on something: Not wasting time on each other.
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Hopefully! But they are not, I guess. Everyday now there is more evidence that most measures taken are based on nothing but false (or better: irrelevant) numbers.
Anyway, as the US is opening up everything to full capacity as many European countries do - why not UK, too? Germany will - as always - be the last in line.
Still trotting out the party line, eh? Coronavirus rallies: Germany′s growing anti-lockdown movement | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 06.08.2020
DW (Deutsche Welle) is Germany's equivalent to the BBC World Service, and has a similar, highly regarded, high standard of reporting. And as seen in this article, they have had a reporter harangued by the protesters, just like the BBC did last week I believe, at an anti-lockdown rally.
I commented on Brazil the other day, in reply to another misguided commenter, and was "told"
it was irrelevant to the issue. Odd! The country whose leadership has done nothing about the pandemic now has the biggest death rate currently ravaging the country, having failed to tackle this "non-existent" virus.Isn't it ironic that information technology has enabled the misinformers and the misinformed more than anyone.
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Very clever, and well spotted. Though not Palindromic, just as Notlob isn't a Palindrome of Bolton (A Monty Python reference, and not because of Michael Palin!)
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Probably my favourite PG album, I voted for On the Air, Wonderful Day..... and Home Sweet Home, the latter largely due to it's story. Other standouts are DIY, but the chorus is a tad annoying, (too repetitive), White Shadow, and Exposure.
I remember buying it, in a branch of "Our Price" in Cambridge in 1981. Didn't know Our Price was a chain at the time.
The album brings back other memories of a friend of mine, Guy Starkey (guystarkey.com) who was at Bath University at the time. Already radio and Broadcasting focused, he had a show on University Radio Bath, and they, in turn, had a slot on the new ILR station Radio West, who chose their name for the alleged £250k worth of free publicity it brought thanks to the BBC TV series "Shoestring" which had aired a year or two earlier. By strange coincidence, Guy bore a strong resemblance to Trevor Eve, who played Eddie Shoestring, which led to several amusing moments. Anyhow, from memory, I believe Guy was present when PG was interviewed on the station, and among other things, discussed how "Wonderful Day...." had been inspired by, though was not about, the one-way system in Bath.
Sadly, I can't confirm the details with him, as he died Aug 2018 from the effects of Von Hippel-Landau syndrome.
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The experts and powers that be:
all seemed to catch it, while lecturing us on how not to
said no evidence of human to human transmission
said it wasn't airborne, then it was
said little risk of spread at large indoor events, then outlawed them
said little risk of spread at large outdoor events, then outlawed them
put perspex screens everywhere which block airflow, and do nothing for airborne particles coming over the top
said masks are useless then enforced the wearing of them
decided public health policy with mathematical models which routinely get it wrong
patronised the public with silly slogans and songs to wash your hands to
over ventilated people, and bought shedloads of unused machines
built nightingale hospitals which were clearly never going to be used
went around shaking people hands in a pandemic
allowed the infected into old peoples homes
allowed the uninfected to get infected in hospitals.
have moved the age at which you can get certain approved vaccines due to safety worries, another mathematical model.
have as far as I know done little or nothing to assess the cleanliness,safety,airflow,practices of the hospitality/leisure industry which is about to open up.
People who question this aren't the same people claiming the vaccinated can stick spoons to their heads. You don't need any expertise or hindsight to question it, it was obvious from the start.
next slide please.. Smart motorways.
Smart motorways are, indeed, a dumb idea. But they are purely a political decision, no one forced it on anyone. A virus however, doesn't follow a political agenda, it follows biology.
So, given your "clear" expertise on the subject, explain Brazil, and how no action at all has been better or worse than your (factually inaccurate in places) assessment of places that have dealt with the pandemic.
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I think I created a minor tangle here. I was trying to be cute by showing my intelligence by questioning his or her assertion that questioning everything was a sign of intelligence. Or something like that.
I completely agree with what you said. Questioning is what science is. I think this concept has been misappropriated though - most prominently by Trump - to mean that a random individual who has zero knowledge or expertise in a field can decide they don't like the opinion/theory/knowledge of someone has expertise, and by the mere fact of 'questioning' said opinion, feel like they are legitimately participating in the scientific process somehow because that's what science is. It's a catch 22 for those like yourself and myself who are open to anything being questioned as long as the basis of said questioning is valid somehow. Life saving, foundational discoveries have been made in this way. Truthfully, anyone can ask any question about anything that legitimately occurs to them, an expert can be blinded and not see the obvious.
Unfortunately, "they" don't give a shit about validity. As long as the old process of knowledge-communication is disrupted and their target audience comes away from any news article about the topic raging about Bill Gates, 5G, Covid, Soros, or the minotaur itself: COVID-5G. (That's the version where Bill Gates has fused with George Soros, and they have miniaturized themselves and replicated billions of copies of the resultant virion and infect every cell of every living thing on earth. The head of the DUP is the last remaining human too toxic to be infected by this extinction-threatening virus and is consequently the last remaining hope for humankind. Unfortunately his response is "NO" and we are done for).
I think we need some baseline level of trust in experts among the population, otherwise in the example of a pandemic or a climate catastrophe, how can we communicate knowledge to people? I don't know the right answer here.
I think the right answer for those who question the advice of experts is to move to Brazil, where there are no restrictions.
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Well I think we know the answer to that: no.
The notion of questioning is vital, it's at the very root of our existence, it's essentially what science is. Then it becomes a matter of how you question, on what basis, and what you do with the answers. At that point, some of the time any alleged intelligence goes out of the window. We're seeing a dispiriting amount of that in relation to covid.
Exactly. Questioning things with a degree of intelligence might very well be, but just questioning because some other people are, is just being a puppet.
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So this is a lie. You think you are for freedom of choice, but you are not. We are in a global pandemic where I give the virus to you, and you give it to your Granny who dies, because it's a virus and it doesn't care. A vaccine is created and made at breakneck speed by scientists who work long hours and aren't paid very much, who are employed by large multinational companies that are headed up by directors and CEOs who work (long hours? Short hours? Who cares?) and are paid disgustingly large amounts of money. The vaccine greatly lowers the risk of me getting the virus, which greatly lowers the risk of you getting it from me, which lowers the risk of your Granny dying in this way. There's a vanishingly tiny risk of the vaccine turning my face inside out. I decide to get the vaccine. You, and your Granny, are welcome. I didn't compromise your freedom of choice, I don't think, but I played a small role in protecting you (not a big deal, you were at low risk anyway) and your Granny (a bigger deal. The poor soul is a sitting duck).
But wait. You exercised your freedom of choice and didn't get the vaccine. Wonder of wonders you get infected with the little blighter. "Pfft, who gives a shit! 0.2% chance of dying, me! FREEDOM OF CHOICE!!". But would you believe your luck, because nature's copywriting system makes mistakes all the time, and some of those mistakes are serendipitously advantageous, you generate a variant within the temple that is your godlike structure. That's right - dun dun dun! - the seven-eight variant. It's a squillion times more contagious than the omega variant (that's the one where the nanobots from the vaccine were fused by 5G to the virus, total nightmare). The seven-eight variant has an R0 of 9,000. But you don't give it to 9,000 people, you just give it to me, and I get it because the seven-eight variant has a mutation that makes the spike protein turn purple and grow balls, and not care that I'm vaccinated. I don't feel sick - I guess I'm lucky like you - so I don't know any better and I give it to my Granny. The seven-eight variant is a Granny-eater and she dies.
Now I'm confused. I thought I was exercising my freedom of choice to protect my Granny. I never really cared that much about protecting myself, because I have a 0.2% chance of dying, but Granny was much higher risk. Someone, without my knowledge, took away the choice to protect my Granny from me. Who was it? Oh, it was you.
On a sidenote, an "alternate view" to the truth is a falsehood. Common examples include "of course a person can eat more than 4 Jacobs cream crackers within a minute without drinking anything", "yes, Kim-Jong Un led the first manned mission to Neptune last week" and "ivermectin could have ended the pandemic".
Thank you. You just saved me half an hour's typing!
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Could be bass pedals? Tony doing bass on keys?
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It did feel good.
New job is still working for the University but at a different location - working with nicer people, so all good
I hope the old people don't see this post, or you'll come out of work to 4 flat tyres!
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😂 One of my favourite characters.
"Why, she's flouting society's conventions"
"You ever seen a balm? You even know what a balm is? You put a balm on, you don't know what it's gonna do. They're unpredictable!"
Reminds me of a friend of mine, who, on seeing a pot labelled "Balm of Gilead" in a shop said "I don't know what Gilead is, but they've taken it, and made a Balm of it!"
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Really? Neat. I'm not sure if I want to buy it though, given that most of these songs likely used their single edits for the set. I'm one who prefers the original intended length. Maybe I could find a good quality vid on YT that's not adjusted weirdly. Idk.
From the DVD, times for the 3 tracks are:
ATOTT: 4:27
R: 8:05
RAAB: 6:22
