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FreudianSlippers posted:He was Greek but the Greek royal family was Danish so he was a lot of things. I bet ol Daisy cried salty tears... her third cousin, her second once removed, and her third and fourth cousins all dying on the same day...
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A greek danish is baklava
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:(I think that's right; UTC-11 is exactly 24 hours behind UTC+13.) Well now I’m confused as to why there is a UTC +13 time zone, or two time zones with the same time on different dates.
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Dross posted:Well now I’m confused as to why there is a UTC +13 time zone, or two time zones with the same time on different dates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B13:00 A few islands use it all the time or in winter or for daylight savings. It’s only used in the Southern Hemisphere
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Helith posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B13:00 On the opposite end, UTC -12 is the only time zone that nobody lives in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9212:00
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It's "Wandavision" because Wanda Maximoff is married to the Vision. (Never seen the show, just the memes.)
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It's also "One Division" because the show is about a couple being torn apart. J/k , it just reminded me of when people misheard "One Direction" as *Wand Erection"
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's "Wandavision" because Wanda Maximoff is married to the Vision. (Never seen the show, just the memes.) And also Wanda Vision because it's a tv show reference
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Failed Imagineer posted:J/k , it just reminded me of when people misheard "One Direction" as *Wand Erection"
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Dross posted:Well now I’m confused as to why there is a UTC +13 time zone, or two time zones with the same time on different dates. American Samoa is on one side of the date line to be closer to the American date and Samoa is on the other side to be on the same day as it's closest neighbors.
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There are recordings of the last castrati singer singing. He sounds like poo poo lmao.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:There are recordings of the last castrati singer singing. He sounds like poo poo lmao. In fairness, the recordings were made in 1902 and 1904. (And he doesn't actually sound bad at all, he's just not a female singer.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjvfqnD0ws
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He sounds good, he just doesn’t sound “chop of my balls” good
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christmas boots posted:He sounds good, he just doesn’t sound “chop of my balls” good Hey! If you've got a better idea about how to hit notes that naturally occur in the female vocal range, I'd like to hear about it!
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Trans vocal training Or letting women sing
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His voice is fine, he just can't sing very well.
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bony tony posted:
what the gently caress!!!
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verbal enema posted:what the gently caress!!! The acoustics in the kitchen are great
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CleverHans posted:Hey! If you've got a better idea about how to hit notes that naturally occur in the female vocal range, I'd like to hear about it! Step 1: Be Dimash Kudibergen. Step 2: Don't be NOT Dimash Kudibergen
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When Cartman is calling himself Awesome-O it's a take on the crappy Honda robot.
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bony tony posted:Trans vocal training The idea was that they'd be able to hit the highest notes while still having the lung capacity of a man. There's no reason why a trans woman couldn't do it though, as long as they transitioned before their voice changed. From what I've read, Moreschi was old and far past his prime when that recording was made.
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Is 'male lung capacity' such a game changer though? Seriously I have no idea about that poo poo at all, but the difference between male and female lung capacity is really big enough to make a practical difference? It kinda feels like 'women can reach notes men can't so we gotta invent a way males are naturally superior anyway'-bullshit to me.
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I mean, free-diving for pearls and assorted mollusks is traditionally a woman's job in Japan because of their supposed greater lung capacity.
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Supposedly the lack of testosterone caused the epiphysis to harden improperly which led to unusually long limbs and ribs, which in tandem with the intensive training they would get as singers, led to the high lung power and breath capacity
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I imagine the lungs of people not wearing corsets would have higher capacity
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Big lungs suck anyway, nothing like having to repeat every x-ray because "we, uh, didn't get the lower parts".
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I somehow never noticed the legless army recruiter from Starship Troopers is the coroner from CSI and somehow never noticed that said coroner does not have legs because the actor is an actual double amputee.
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rodbeard posted:I somehow never noticed the legless army recruiter from Starship Troopers is the coroner from CSI and somehow never noticed that said coroner does not have legs because the actor is an actual double amputee. Huh! I always had him in my mind as Red from That 70s Show.
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rodbeard posted:I somehow never noticed the legless army recruiter from Starship Troopers is the coroner from CSI and somehow never noticed that said coroner does not have legs because the actor is an actual double amputee.   It had nothing to do with Pistorius being a cold-blooded murderer.
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Humphreys posted:Huh! I always had him in my mind as Red from That 70s Show. This made me look up Kurtwood Smith's IMDb article, and dang that guy's active. 156 acting credits, from 1980 to today. No real gaps either, just a real workhorse.
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No disrespect to Kurtwood Smith but when I first saw him I imagined that some casting director was like "get me Jack Nicholson! Wait, how much? Ok fine, Michael Ironside. Wait, really? Well, how about Kurtwood Smith then?"
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I just found out Biden's secretary of state is Antony Blinken. A. Blinken.
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Phy posted:I just found out Biden's secretary of state is Antony Blinken. That's also how he styles himself for his lovely buttrock band made up of other ageing lanyards
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Phy posted:I just found out Biden's secretary of state is Antony Blinken. Did you say "Hey, Blinken?"
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There are natural castrati -- men who never went through puberty because of one disease or another, usually Kallmann syndrome -- singing today. They were much more common fifty years ago. Nowadays, boys with such disorders typically get hormone therapy to induce puberty and they lose their child-like voices. A natural castrato's voice isn't absolutely the same as a surgical castrato, though. Natural castrati's bodies produce no testosterone at all whereas surgical castrati still have the small amount from their pituitary gland. It's debatable how much difference that makes, if it's even detectable, but people have strong opinions about male sopranos. Here's Radu Marian singing the same piece Alessandro Moreschi sings, Ave Maria, for comparison between a natural and surgical castrato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrxOKcAkNI The big issue with appreciating Moreschi today, aside from the acoustic recording technology distorting the hell out of the sound and losing the lower frequencies entirely, is that singing styles have changed. Those scooping grace notes that sound like he's singing out of tune and correcting himself were the fashion at the time -- he's very much doing it on purpose. There were other castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir in Moreschi's time. There aren't any solo recordings of them, but they can be heard in some of the choral pieces, like "Laudamus Te". I have a couple original records of Moreschi pressed in 1904 and that's one of them. Castrati are most associated with Baroque opera and there's been a changing attitude as to what to do about them in modern performances. Before the 20th century it was fairly easy: they just didn't perform Baroque operas at all. It was only in the 1910s that there was any real renewed interest in early music. Then, male soprano roles were usually pitched down to baritone. By the 1950s, that was abandoned as a horrible idea and the roles were performed by women en travesti. That's still occasionally done today, but by the turn of this century, castrato parts are almost always performed by countertenors and sopranists (both are changed males, as they're called, who sing in falsetto). Many productions of Italian operas even maintain the tradition of all the roles, male and female characters, being performed by men, as it was legally forbidden at the time for women to appear on stage. It makes a big difference. Sopranos, trebles, countertenors/sopranists, and castrati all have distinct sounds particular to them, though they may be singing the same notes. There may be better examples -- this is the first the turned up when I went searching -- but an example of a sopranist singing Ave Maria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eor8tazO11U
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Wow that's terrible.
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It was literally the first result YouTube gave for a sopranist singing Ave Maria -- I'm sure there are much, much better examples. If you want to hear a good sopranist, here's Franco Fagioli signing "Vo solcando un mar crudele" from Vinci's Artaserse. Stick around for the high C at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXmF6h3Yd_A
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PersonFromPorlock posted:It was literally the first result YouTube gave for a sopranist singing Ave Maria -- I'm sure there are much, much better examples. If you want to hear a good sopranist, here's Franco Fagioli signing "Vo solcando un mar crudele" from Vinci's Artaserse. Stick around for the high C at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXmF6h3Yd_A No I hate that too. The Radu Marian one sounded good, these sound like me singing in the shower. Stuff I found out: I don't like how sopranists sound, in general.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I like rock opera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA
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