Cugel wrote:(It's frustrating trying to dip a soldier into a hard-boiled egg).
yes, but is it as bad as washing your windows with a soft-boiled one?
Cugel wrote:(It's frustrating trying to dip a soldier into a hard-boiled egg).
Pastychomper wrote:Cugel wrote:(It's frustrating trying to dip a soldier into a hard-boiled egg).
yes, but is it as bad as washing your windows with a soft-boiled one?
mercalia wrote:DAB radio frequencies
(snip)I dont want to listen to Punjabi radio or some Christian bleating out when I press the preset for to radio 3 or LBC. I had to do that just over a month or so ago. SO who ever is it charge make up your minds and stop <expletive deleted> me around
Cugel wrote:mercalia wrote:DAB radio frequencies
(snip)I dont want to listen to Punjabi radio or some Christian bleating out when I press the preset for to radio 3 or LBC. I had to do that just over a month or so ago. SO who ever is it charge make up your minds and stop <expletive deleted> me around
You may be confused as BBC R3 has a habit of putting out the "Christian bleating" of an afternoon time, in the form of miserable dirges moaned out by a "choir" along with even more miserable sermonising about how we're all doomed sinners who need to be chastised and made even more miserable. I believe it's "the afternoon service".
My own R3 consumption is generally in the workshop as I spoil murdered tree bits. I enjoy all the strange noises it makes - the hootings and parps as well as the melodious traditional stuff in which things are in tune and there are few unidentifiable creaks, ratter-tatts and sounds like a drain gone wrong.
When the Christian moaning and dirging comes on, I take those jobs saved for the occasion, which require the use of loud motors in planer-thicknesser, tablesaw, router or even belt sander. The motor racket plus the screams of the abused wood drown out the dirging entirely.
I would like a reverse R3 where the motor + wood-screams noise could be piped into the moaning-halls of them Christians. Taste of their own medicine - with knobs on!
Cugel, not a fan of High Church miserable moaning ministries.
Oldjohnw wrote:I'm both a Christian and a musician. I love singing choral evensong.
I can't stand happy clappy inane rants
Oldjohnw wrote:I'm both a Christian and a musician. I love singing choral evensong.
I can't stand happy clappy inane rants
Cugel wrote:Well, I am a Christian too - not of the organised type and not one that believes the obvious mumbo-jumbo, fairy stories and so forth .... just a recipient of the long and multifarious cultural and mental underpinnings of centuries of Christianity. All that ten commandments stuff has somehow stuck. Perhaps it was all the exuberant hymn singing of a morning at school? In truth I find a lot of meaningful and even inspirational stuff in CHristian writings (as well as in those reacting to or attempting to reject aspects of Christianity).
My daughter spent three years at Durham Uni, in Hatfield College digs, on the top floor. The college abuts the cathedral and she spent many a happy morning & evening enjoying the fine choral singing, not to mention the regular organ blasts, emitted from the cathedral to enter the window of her college garret room. Even today, 30 years later, she enjoys choral of the Christian kind and even a bit of organ .... as I do myself. (I enjoy Victoria and Du Fay most of all, though).
I don't know whether you listen to the afternoon service broadcasts of Radio 3. I have always found them to be miserable, depressing and seemingly constructed to induce those feelings. The droning sermons of doom! The mournful dirges chosen as "the music". They could be far more inspiring; much less Victorian; something for Christians other than the High Church doomsters.
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