That's bizarre! or maybe total borrox ...

[@Lee]

This is totally bizarre. I have never seen this sort of escort before. 

 

 

 

[mac11irl]

38 minutes ago, @Lee said:

This is totally bizarre. I have never seen this sort of escort before. 

 

 

 

 

theres a lot to unpack in that 83seconds...

[@Lee]

I've not been able to verify this but apparently it took three years of toing and froing for Porsche and their design team and clients to approve this 75th anniversary badge design. It's the one one the left.

TBH I can believe it. Soton Uni took forever and 1000s in fees to change their title from Southampton University to University of Southampton. 

 

 

 

[J.R.]

Would you have preferred a 72nd anniversary one then?

 

@MikeTheThinker  A very timely change of title!

[Lady Elanore]

When you look at that picture as if it was one of those spot the difference jobbies, there are a huge number of differences. All the background textures are different, the horse has changed as well as the additional script, even the antlers are subtly different. Mind it would take a kid with a decent set of crayons about half an hour to come with that  Only kidding. 

[J.R.]

It is way improved without losing any of the past heritage, in fact some of it has been brought to the fore.

 

Good on the Germans for taking the project seriously and with plenty of advance, I reckon they worked studiously during that time.

[MikeTheThinker]

1 hour ago, Lady Elanore said:

the horse has changed

I think the new horse is suffering from flatulence.

 

[Lady Elanore]

35 minutes ago, MikeTheThinker said:

I think the new horse is suffering from flatulence.

 

 

 

But it does look like it's had a wash and a brush

[MikeTheThinker]

2 hours ago, Lady Elanore said:

 

 

But it does look like it's had a wash and a brush

Let's hope the groom was stationed upwind ...

 

Edited 2 June, 2023 by MikeTheThinker

[Breezy_Pete]

 

[mac11irl]

is that ai generated??

[Breezy_Pete]

That or someone's hallucination video'd somehow!

[Graham Butcher]

53 minutes ago, Breezy_Pete said:

 

Very good, that reminds me of this as well.

 

(17) The Eagles - Hotel California - Reimagined on the Traditional Chinese Guzheng | Moyun - YouTube

[Graham Butcher]

Wait and there's more...

 

 

[Lady Elanore]

If you want bizarre...

 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Trumpet Marine (s).

 

As I recall they are in the key of C major (I think it's also known as the Lonian mode) and that's your lot. it should have a single string and several hidden or semi hidden resonators that when played proficiently, give a sort of brass sound. They were really popular in France several hundred years ago i believe, but there aren't many people able to even begin playing them these days. Stick with the video though, it is interesting from a musical point of view, assuming you don't mind a 'bit' of dissonance. I've heard them and even been involved in a recording of them, they are nuts, but in a good way  

 

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

11 hours ago, Lady Elanore said:

If you want bizarre...

 

Have we had this...?

 

 

[Gaz]

21 hours ago, Lady Elanore said:

If you want bizarre...

 

Them's curious.  This is an advertising poster for a musical instrument from around 1915.  The poster's been in the family years (as it happens, over a Century in fact), and Mrs Gaz had it restored, preserved and mounted after her Mum died.  It's linked to her Granddad, but we're not certain in what context.  He lived in Lonato, Italy (one of the reasons we drove down there in 2019), and possibly invented it, made it, played it, or all three:

 

 

 

Mrs Gaz has tried to find out more, including where in the UK her Grandad is buried, but every new lead so far eventually dries up.  She's still searching.

 

Gaz

Edited 27 June, 2023 by Gaz
added the year

[Ootohere]

@Gaz   Is the surname Bozza relevant to Grandad ?

 

 

 

[Graham Butcher]

This lady keeps using a unfortunate phase/word who thinks she needs to find another way of conveying her message, no s******ing please 😇

 

 

[Graham Butcher]

Very unusual and pleasing at the same time these musicians get a physical workout.

 

 

 

[Gaz]

6 hours ago, toot said:

@Gaz   Is the surname Bozza relevant to Grandad ?

 

No, we believe C.Bozza was possibly the musician who sent the poster from Paris to Mrs Gaz's Grandad (last name Baldassare) in Lonato.

 

I'd forgotten, but Mrs Gaz's Grandad held the Patent for the instrument - Mrs Gaz has the (very fragile) original copy of the Patent!

 

Gaz

 

[Ootohere]

OT other than Carlo Bozza.

If in Edinburgh and you want the best of pizza,s check out here.

http://pizzologist.co.uk

 

[mac11irl]

18 hours ago, Graham Butcher said:

Very unusual and pleasing at the same time these musicians get a physical workout.

 

 

 

i could be wrong but based on other traditional dances etc, i wouldnt be surprised if this style of drumming was based around their combat drills or Katas. when the ordinary people were banned from practicing their martial arts under dynasties trying to avoid uprisings after invasions the arts were hidden in dance and music as a way to keep practicing. there are fan dances and cane dances that are actually knife and sword katas. (fans at one point had bladed ends for use by women to protect themselves, in particular Geishas, and im not opposed to that bringing brought back...)

[Ttaskmaster]

On 28/06/2023 at 11:36, mac11irl said:

i could be wrong but based on other traditional dances etc, i wouldnt be surprised if this style of drumming was based around their combat drills or Katas. when the ordinary people were banned from practicing their martial arts under dynasties trying to avoid uprisings after invasions the arts were hidden in dance and music as a way to keep practicing. there are fan dances and cane dances that are actually knife and sword katas. (fans at one point had bladed ends for use by women to protect themselves, in particular Geishas, and im not opposed to that bringing brought back...)

Other than the notion of using a set of stances and movements based on sound body mechanics, generally referred to as Kata, there's no such connection. It's often assumed simply because these and many other activities simply follow the same mentality and approach.

The martial arts idea is often used for marketing foreign things to clueless Westerners. When kids started using Poi a few years back, they were all claiming it was some kind of Maori martial art codified into a performance dance, but it's all about as martial as Morris Dancing and juggling balls.

 

[@Lee]

Fighter jets that shot themselves 

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Many believed it was impossible for an aircraft, no matter how fast it could fly, to actually outrun its own bullets. After all, the speed of the average bullet is roughly around 1,700 mph. Mach 1, which Attridge had been traveling at, was 768 mph. That’s nearly a 1,000-mph difference. Clearly, this proved the damage had to have been caused by something like birds or even small meteorites. And, yet, that theory was wrong.

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/pilot-talk/grumman-f11-tiger-shoot-itself-down/