Post something just for the heck of it

[belamyi]

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[borg69unimatrix]

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"Would you please pass the salt?"

 

[belamyi]

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"Would you please pass the salt?"

That happens when you get Hollywood meet old New Money American yokels aping European ways: what idiot would ever think of having two people sit alone for dinner (or supper, if you prefer it that way ) at a gala diiner table, and each of them at one different end?

 

[star-warrior]

 

[borg69unimatrix]

That happens when you get Hollywood meet old New Money American yokels aping European ways: what idiot would ever think of having two people sit alone for dinner (or supper, if you prefer it that way ) at a gala diiner table, and each of them at one different end?

I assumed it was poking fun at rich people's having a "formal" prestigious dinner, and the (perceived) importance of putting each at the head(s) of the table... even if it looked ridiculous to 'commoners'. There are many such customs of formality I find ridiculous. Cumberbuns, neck ties, cuff links, top hats and tails... history is full of them. Corsets!

 

[belamyi]

I assumed it was poking fun at rich people's having a "formal" prestigious dinner, and the (perceived) importance of putting each at the head(s) of the table... even if it looked ridiculous to 'commoners'. There are many such customs of formality I find ridiculous. Cumberbuns, neck ties, cuff links, top hats and tails... history is full of them. Corsets!

They are poking fun at their own preconceived clownish idea of what is formal and prestigious... like when in the Bible the Israel-Jewish people always made the other nations descend from bastards, or simply be more stupid and wicker than they themselves were.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Why wonder..?

Are you telling me I should stop seeking novelty, or be a sphinx or a nihilist or one of those 'Lilies of the Field'

 

[carey579]

EDITED - Thanks borg69unimatrix
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[belamyi]

Are you telling me I should stop seeking novelty, or be a sphinx or a nihilist or one of those 'Lilies of the Field'

no........ I was quoting her.

 

[belamyi]

I assumed it was poking fun at rich people's having a "formal" prestigious dinner, and the (perceived) importance of putting each at the head(s) of the table... even if it looked ridiculous to 'commoners'. There are many such customs of formality I find ridiculous. Cumberbuns, neck ties, cuff links, top hats and tails... history is full of them. Corsets!

We talked about that with carey before: it is a very wrong and yokelish way of considering formality, like those who believe that fashion means suffering: they lack imagination and, most importantly, the real sense of what what they are talking about actually means, and they only get, like most people concerning anything considered aesthetically, the most superficial, flashy part of it, and that's what they get as the essence... like people who only get from Mozart the trills and a vague sense of sweet melodicity that they can't actually tell from that of his father or anyone else from the same era, or those for whom Beethoven is just noisy orchestras with people singing "waaaaaa....waaaaa..waaaaaa", and mix him with Jarre (Jean-Michel, not even Maurice) ... as my dad once did.

 

[belamyi]

 

[pat grimshaw]

Wiki tells me a ripieno concerto has no dominant soloist, and thus resembles an early symphony.

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

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What was he talking about, borgie, "what did you do - with him tooodaaay?"

 

[GreyUnderscore]

 

[eastofeden]

I think I love Sisaundra Lewis

 

[borg69unimatrix]

This is kind of amazing/fascinating:

 

[dpnice]

Wow! Just wow. I have seen the starling clouds before but never in that density.

Thanks for that.

 

[frankfrank]

Wow, I think I need to add that sight to my Bucket List. I assume it's in UK, correct? Where? Is it seasonal?

 

[star-warrior]

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