An outstanding film! I first saw it at an animation festival about the time it came out, and I tend to jumble it up with "The Point," which I saw around the same time. The 70s were a great time for animation, which seems to have kicked off with "Yellow Submarine". Great suggestion!
Yikes! Rufus, if I traveled with you, I'd be carrying a fire extinguisher.
I saw a photo of Kamalatoe when she was about one-year old. Dude, she was one ugly baby.
You are right. I also feel dirty watching any of the political spectacle. So, I quit watching.
I watched a video yesterday, a really cool video, about the copper and also the later on, gold mine at 14,000' in Irian Jaya. Good Lord! What a crazy story that is! The largest gold deposit in the world and damn near impossible to get to.
Put one Indonesian in a bulldozer at the top of a mountain and then tell him to bulldoze a road to the bottom without dying. Those were can-do folks. Here is the link:
I have yet to make it to Papua, but it's on my F**kit List. They are some crazy folks over yonder. A few years back, several Papuans were brought to court here in Jakarta, but the judge wouldn't hear the case until they took off their "koteka" (penis gourds) and put on proper suits. Well, all hell broke loose and the judge got straightened out.
When I was playing at a gold mine in northern Sulawesi a few years back, four guys carried a large electric generator with two bamboo poles on their shoulders through 18 miles of hard uphill jungle. Nothing stops access to gold in these parts.
Rufus, Great story about the Papuans with Penis Gourds in a Jakarta courtroom. That would get the attention of the ladies on the jury (and the gays, too I reckon.)
In the Amazon, the local men wear leather "dick and balls" bags. I looked all over Belem to try and buy such fine men's genitalia wear, but never found it.
Islam was founded around AD610, and Arthur Pendragon lived roughly 300 years later, so you could be right, though Islam was founded by Judeans fleeing the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in AD77, so technically the rituals could be much older. However, Old English took shape around AD300, when Angle, Saxon and Jute dialects began to merge, so I would say England is older than Islam, though the British kingdom is younger, and London dates to at least Roman occupation of the British Isles. I have to call you out on this one.
Depends on how you measure it. Sumer and Babylon are certainly much older. The British isles in geological terms broke away from the European continent at the end of the Younger Dryass about 10,000-12,000 years ago, and that is certainly younger than the region inhabited by the Arian race, which was more or less dead center of the original supercontinent. Using that metric, I would have to say that the Arians, who appeared a couple of hundred years BC, are probably just about the same age as the Angles and Saxons, who colonized Britain in the same time frame.
England has never, to my knowledge, been a democracy. As a Constitutional Monarchy, it has certain resemblances to democratic forms of government, although the Parliamentary system cannot be said to be a pure democratic form, either. It more closely resembles a representative republic, though it is dominated by the House of Lords, which bows to the Crown and peerage.
What Britain calls a constitution is merely the entire sum of their legislated statutes, which would be like America calling the US Code and Codes of Federal Regulations its constitution. The members of the US Senate used to be chosen by the states' legislatures, insuring states rights, which are largely disrespected under the creeping federalism of Americas Constitution.
Yes, the British and Texas Constitutions are much the same in that respect. As for the US, Lincoln destroyed the Republic, and I have maintained for a long time that the 16th and 17th Amendments need to be repealed before any serious reform can begin. After that, the interstate commerce clause needs to be severely limited to keep the feds in their place.
Britain has no Constitution, Texas' allows for majority selection of secession.
Bill Benson proved in a session of the SCOTUS that the 16th Amendment was never lawfully ratified, but the justices let it stand on tradition. The whole purpose of the Constitution was to let the fascist federalists have their way.
Just watched the trailer of Liquid Sky.
Not quite my cup of tea.🤣
It's an acquired taste, to be sure. Even though it's 40 years old now, it could have been made yesterday.
Also an acquired taste but far more my style of sci-fi.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_fantastic%2520planet
An outstanding film! I first saw it at an animation festival about the time it came out, and I tend to jumble it up with "The Point," which I saw around the same time. The 70s were a great time for animation, which seems to have kicked off with "Yellow Submarine". Great suggestion!
Yikes! Rufus, if I traveled with you, I'd be carrying a fire extinguisher.
I saw a photo of Kamalatoe when she was about one-year old. Dude, she was one ugly baby.
You are right. I also feel dirty watching any of the political spectacle. So, I quit watching.
I watched a video yesterday, a really cool video, about the copper and also the later on, gold mine at 14,000' in Irian Jaya. Good Lord! What a crazy story that is! The largest gold deposit in the world and damn near impossible to get to.
Put one Indonesian in a bulldozer at the top of a mountain and then tell him to bulldoze a road to the bottom without dying. Those were can-do folks. Here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAVuOOlW5Y
I have yet to make it to Papua, but it's on my F**kit List. They are some crazy folks over yonder. A few years back, several Papuans were brought to court here in Jakarta, but the judge wouldn't hear the case until they took off their "koteka" (penis gourds) and put on proper suits. Well, all hell broke loose and the judge got straightened out.
When I was playing at a gold mine in northern Sulawesi a few years back, four guys carried a large electric generator with two bamboo poles on their shoulders through 18 miles of hard uphill jungle. Nothing stops access to gold in these parts.
Great vid, by the way.
Rufus, Great story about the Papuans with Penis Gourds in a Jakarta courtroom. That would get the attention of the ladies on the jury (and the gays, too I reckon.)
In the Amazon, the local men wear leather "dick and balls" bags. I looked all over Belem to try and buy such fine men's genitalia wear, but never found it.
There are probably Muslim rituals being practiced in London that are older than Great Britain.
Islam was founded around AD610, and Arthur Pendragon lived roughly 300 years later, so you could be right, though Islam was founded by Judeans fleeing the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in AD77, so technically the rituals could be much older. However, Old English took shape around AD300, when Angle, Saxon and Jute dialects began to merge, so I would say England is older than Islam, though the British kingdom is younger, and London dates to at least Roman occupation of the British Isles. I have to call you out on this one.
Is Persia younger than Great Britain?
Depends on how you measure it. Sumer and Babylon are certainly much older. The British isles in geological terms broke away from the European continent at the end of the Younger Dryass about 10,000-12,000 years ago, and that is certainly younger than the region inhabited by the Arian race, which was more or less dead center of the original supercontinent. Using that metric, I would have to say that the Arians, who appeared a couple of hundred years BC, are probably just about the same age as the Angles and Saxons, who colonized Britain in the same time frame.
If age were important, we would all be Chinese.
Wo an ni.
Keyboard problems?
Are you talking about England the region or England the democracy?
England has never, to my knowledge, been a democracy. As a Constitutional Monarchy, it has certain resemblances to democratic forms of government, although the Parliamentary system cannot be said to be a pure democratic form, either. It more closely resembles a representative republic, though it is dominated by the House of Lords, which bows to the Crown and peerage.
What Britain calls a constitution is merely the entire sum of their legislated statutes, which would be like America calling the US Code and Codes of Federal Regulations its constitution. The members of the US Senate used to be chosen by the states' legislatures, insuring states rights, which are largely disrespected under the creeping federalism of Americas Constitution.
Yes, the British and Texas Constitutions are much the same in that respect. As for the US, Lincoln destroyed the Republic, and I have maintained for a long time that the 16th and 17th Amendments need to be repealed before any serious reform can begin. After that, the interstate commerce clause needs to be severely limited to keep the feds in their place.
Britain has no Constitution, Texas' allows for majority selection of secession.
Bill Benson proved in a session of the SCOTUS that the 16th Amendment was never lawfully ratified, but the justices let it stand on tradition. The whole purpose of the Constitution was to let the fascist federalists have their way.
Dude, we need to party together. You are hard core.
Ha! I used to be hard core, but I'm more squishy core now. I can still hold my own, though. Bring it on!