TIL: Today I Learned

[Bamspeedy]

So you can imagine some dude having said that in public, a dude who a majority of his children formed mixed families? And in some book somewhere it said tornado sirens are lynching worship. This sounds like some New York ******* tripping on shrooms and lost in a park.

The father didn't speak much, the mother however....I thought there was studies that showed the most fanatically religious, had children who were more likely to go against their parents wishes.

I insist the sirens are more for work schedules than lychings. Hobbs says at least in one town it was to warn blacks. I would like to know which town this was, maybe you know the town, since you are in Illinois.

 

[Arakhor]

mAYBE THIS DISCUSSION WOULD BE GOOD FOR A NEW THREAD? jUST A SUGGESTION

EDIT: Crap, I hit the caps-lock.

Actually, I'm fairly certain that a discussion about racism would not be good for a new thread.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Actually, I'm fairly certain that a discussion about racism would not be good for a new thread.

While undoubtedly true, at least in a new thread when it goes off the rails it just gets closed and the TIL thread isn't caught in the mayhem.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The father didn't speak much, the mother however....I thought there was studies that showed the most fanatically religious, had children who were more likely to go against their parents wishes.

I insist the sirens are more for work schedules than lychings. Hobbs says at least in one town it was to warn blacks. I would like to know which town this was, maybe you know the town, since you are in Illinois.

Columbia, Illinois. And yes, absolutely the sirens were more about work schedules than lynchings. That's a mischaracterization of my point or at least I have misrepresented it. You find sirens everywhere. You don't find sirens with associated lynching stories, ugly public racism and an urge to pass on racism to the next generation everywhere. That is my point. People there did tell me that there was sundown laws on the books in that town against African Americans in the past but I am not sure that is true. Regardless of the legal status, it very much was a 'thing' in the town in the past.

Sundown laws are not the same as lynchings. Basically, the laws on curfew were broadly written and were used by the local police and townspeople to...discourage... African Americans from being out and about in the town after sunset. And yes, sunset moves from day to day, that's not the point either. I wasn't alive in the period where this was a thing but the stories persist and were passed on as a way of discouraging any sort of race mixing. Whether or not these stories are strictly true is almost beside the point itself as well. Racism does not have to have the rule of law backing it up to exist.

 

[Farm Boy]

The father didn't speak much, the mother however....I thought there was studies that showed the most fanatically religious, had children who were more likely to go against their parents wishes.

I insist the sirens are more for work schedules than lychings. Hobbs says at least in one town it was to warn blacks. I would like to know which town this was, maybe you know the town, since you are in Illinois.

Ah.

 

[Takhisis]

Why is the midwest in the north east? Continental drift?

Please remember that Sodor, as in the old bishopric of ‘Sodor and Man’ actually means southern isles.

 

[Josu]

TIL there is a character named Coronavirus in Asterix and the chariot race, which was published in 2017

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL: Stewart Granger's real name is Jimmy Stewart.

 

[Josu]

TIL: Stewart Granger's real name is Jimmy Stewart.

James Stewart was allready taken

Michael Keaton had the same problem, as his real name is Michael Douglas

 

[Manfred Belheim]

TIL sexuality is an ideology, apparently.

 

[Takhisis]

TIL there is a character named Coronavirus in Asterix and the chariot race, which was published in 2017

I still don't have that one. To the comic book store!

James Stewart was allready taken

Michael Keaton had the same problem, as his real name is Michael Douglas

And the Douglases were originally Danielovich. Kirk changed the name.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

An odd coincidental one is with Michael J. Fox. The J. was added as there was already an actor called Michael Fox. This actor once starred in a television anthology series called Science Fiction Theater, a series that first aired in 1955, with one episode about a couple who suspect that their neighbours are time travellers from the future.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

An odd coincidental one is with Michael J. Fox. The J. was added as there was already an actor called Michael Fox. This actor once starred in a television anthology series called Science Fiction Theater, a series that first aired in 1955, with one episode about a couple who suspect that their neighbours are time travellers from the future.

That's an awesome TIL!

 

[Berzerker]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-case-people-massively-overdosed-lsd.html

Many recreational drugs can kill when consuming too much, 3 case studies of people who accidentally took way too much LSD led to surprising results. But its a mixed bag, I've heard LSD can mess people up. Pink Floyd's epic song (~25 minutes) "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" was devoted to former member Syd Barrett who may have overdone psychedelic drugs leading him to be replaced by David Gilmour.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/was-syd-barrett-an-acid-casualty.html

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

There was also some speculation that Syd Barrett had undiagnosed schizophrenia, although I think his family denied it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Another interesting fact is that Syd came in during the sessions for Shine On, You Crazy Diamond. Except none of his bandmates recognized him.

Roger was there, and he was sitting at the desk, and I came in and I saw this guy sitting behind him – huge, bald, fat guy. I thought, "He looks a bit... strange..." Anyway, so I sat down with Roger at the desk and we worked for about ten minutes, and this guy kept on getting up and brushing his teeth and then sitting – doing really weird things, but keeping quiet. And I said to Roger, "Who is he?" and Roger said "I don't know." and I said "Well, I assumed he was a friend of yours," and he said "No, I don't know who he is." Anyway, it took me a long time, and then suddenly I realised it was Syd, after maybe 45 minutes. He came in as we were doing the vocals for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", which was basically about Syd. He just, for some incredible reason picked the very day that we were doing a song which was about him. And we hadn't seen him, I don't think, for two years before. That's what's so incredibly... weird about this guy. And a bit disturbing, as well, I mean, particularly when you see a guy, that you don't, you couldn't recognize him. And then, for him to pick the very day we want to start putting vocals on, which is a song about him. Very strange.

Roger Waters was so distressed about this that he was later reduce to tears.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Distressed that the guy showed up or distressed that he had changed so much?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That he had changed so much.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

That's really sad.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Also, in Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage" (from Dark Side of the Moon), there's a line:

And when the band you're in starts playing different tunes...

During his later years with Pink Floyd, he would sometimes start playing a different song or detuning his guitar in the middle of concerts.

Also, in his last practice session with Pink Floyd, in which he brought in a song called "Have You Got It Yet?" The rest of the band found it impossible to learn because Syd kept changing the arrangement.

(Sorry. I just like talking about music sometimes.)