aggelalex

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[–] aggelalex 25 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Time was when an American about to go abroad would be warned by his friends or the guidebooks not to drink the water. But times have changed, and now a foreigner coming to this country might be offered the following advice:

If you visit American city,

You will find it very prett

Just two things of which you must beware

Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!

Pollution, pollution!

They got smog and sewage and mud.

Turn on your tap

And get hot and cold running crud!

  • Tom Lehrer
[–] aggelalex 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

Oh yes, please, older people, maybe I'll have my late great grandma run a campaign for the democrats from her grave.

Edit: not that I prefer a republican after trump. I'm certainly not far right. But I'm tired of seeing running leaders being this old. Can you americans get AOC to run for once?

[–] aggelalex 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'd ask Bartok or Rautavaara. But I guess I'm a little too late...

[–] aggelalex 2 points 3 weeks ago

If you wanna add that, put all the German einer, eine, einen, eines, einem, etc. into the mix

[–] aggelalex 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Singular male, female, neuter, Plural male, female, neuter

Nominative: ο, η, το, οι, οι, τα

Genitive: του, της, του, των, των, των

Accusative: τον, την, το, τους, τις, τα

Callitive: (no article)

[–] aggelalex 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So what does he listen to? Messiaen? Rautavaara? Or some cringe american band whose whole material is the blasphemous doctrine of some megachurch? If the answer is something like the first two, they certainly know how to open portals to hell and heaven and back while being extremely religious.

[–] aggelalex 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unavailable due to legal reasons. Site doesn't serve for GDPR countries. Care to copy the article for people like me?

[–] aggelalex 4 points 4 weeks ago

They already did. It's called tariffs

[–] aggelalex 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Guantanamo bay was a thing ever since 2002. Biden and Obama tried to make it smaller. Trump is trying to grow it. If there was a clear action to be done that ended this abhorrence it would have been done by now already, but it has proved too resilient already. So no, there isn't anything that's gonna be done about it, except grow it as per Trump's request.

[–] aggelalex -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You know what? Maybe we should give them a nice place to live in the west bank. A prime Palestinian ground. Where, you ask? Oh don't worry, we'll find some other population over there to suppress.

2047: Oh no, the Palestinians are committing genocide! Let's give the genocides population a different place to call home

[–] aggelalex 1 points 1 month ago

You need to buy a good vacuum, honestly. Ever since I dumped my old dilapidated vacuum and bought a cheap but respectable new one online, I gotta say vacuuming has become a pleasure. If you consider your wants and needs carefully on your next purchase and I do believe it won't go to waste

[–] aggelalex 2 points 1 month ago
 
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Hej från Grekland! Min mor kom igår från Stockholms flygplats och köpte en låda med fika till mig. Jag vet inte var ska jag lägga den, går det i kylskåpet? Jag frågar därför att här är väldigt varmt och jag läste att det har choklad. Jag har inte haft fika förut. Vad tror ni? Tack!

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A short masterpiece from the Icelandic composer Jón Leifs! One of the few of Iceland. He has written four such orchestral pieces, all relatively short, rumbly and nature-derived:

  • Hekla, for the volcano Hekla in Iceland
  • Geysir, for, well, Geysir! The thing that shoots water from the ground hindreds of meters up.
  • Hafis, which means drift ice
  • Dettifoss, a waterfall in Iceland and the second most powerful in Europe, after the Rhine falls.

They are all very loud, grandiose and powerful pieces, with Hekla being the loudest in my opinion. It has musical elements derived from Norse music tradition and interesting instrument choices, like an anvil banged by hammers or literal rocks taken from Hekla itself! Jón Leifs would be especially protective of that reportedly. Check out this video for an explanation of all the pieces:

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=HNdutACsIT8

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