I love you @Polyphemus . 
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Likely the same most places. You canāt understand what they are saying anyway
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Some years ago, the singer Gala released a song called āFreed From Desireā. I could never understand the lyrics - but hey, the tune was catchy.
Oddball Times worked out she was singing about a Trumbalese - and, since no-one then or since has known what a Trumbalese is, itās no wonder we were all confused.
Hereās the song, for those interested. The lyrics go:
āMy love has got no money, heās got his Trumbalese
My love has got no power, heās got his Trumbalese
And so onā¦
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Like all those anti war songs that people going to war love to play because it was in their favourite war movie, not realising that was also an anti war movie.
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Generally speaking, the people actually going to war know full well that they are anti-war songs, and that is exactly why they love them. The people who do NOT love those songs would be the guy quoted in the classic line from Pink Floyd; āForward!ā he cried, from the rear, and the front ranks died.
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The Kingsmenās recording was the subject of an FBI investigation about the supposed, but nonexistent, obscenity of the lyrics that ended without prosecution. The nearly unintelligible (and innocuous) lyrics were widely misinterpreted, and the song was banned by radio stations. Marsh wrote that the lyrics controversy āreflected the countryās infantile sexualityā and āensured the songās eternal perpetuationā, while another writer termed it āthe ultimate expression of youthful rebellionā. Jacob McMurray in Taking Punk To The Masses noted, āAll of this only fueled the popularity of the song ā¦ imprinting this grunge ur-message onto successive generations of youth, ā¦ all of whom amplified and rebroadcast its powerful sonic meme ā¦ā
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In 1968 the heavy rock band Iron Butterfly released an album entitled āIn A Gadda Da Vidaā. A whole generation of hippies pondered the meaning of these cryptic words.
Many years later, It turned out that the vocalist Doug Ingle had been trying to sing āIn The Garden Of Edenā - but during the recording session, had been too drunk and stoned to say more than incoherent noises. So āIn A Gadda Da Vidaā it remained.
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A true classic. I saw them in a pretty intimate (600 seats) bar/club concert in the early 80s. Had replaced some members by then, but still awesome.
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Omfg this has blown my mind wide open.
For years, i thoufht it WAS in the garden of eden.
And a friend corrected me.
This has been my misheard lyrics story for decades now.
I need to track that school friend down and tell them i was right!!!
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Perhaps youāve discovered your special power. Maybe the Garda have a job for you -ā Interpreter To Drunks and Druggiesā
āWell, Todd, has he confessed to a crime?ā
āNo, Officer. He says the world is made of jelly babies, but not to worry, because a big goat is coming to eat them allā.
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I love Spumante. 
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Big changes coming to tech modules in No Mans Sky.
X class are no longer the highest tier class of tech upgrades.
Trump-Class has entered the fray
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The Golden Fleet. Just seeing the sun reflecting off of them is enough to blind the enemy and send them running
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Trump has apparently missed that battleships are strategically outdated. Carriers are better at inland support, and smaller missile cruisers are way better at taking out other ships (including battleships). Oh well. Thereās not much details about their strategic role and loadout, but if theyāre āthe biggest, fatestā, then they have a serious problem in todays warfare scenariosā¦
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Heās so busy that you canāt expect him to keep up on every little thing. I mean, thatās only been true for eighty-five years.
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Money and ego does something to the brain where boats become the superior form of transport.
Might have something to do with how advantageous international waters can be for his ilk 
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They want to regain the glory of WW2. But we donāt live in a WW2 world. Of course the goal may be ships run by AI and able to launch the Space Forceā¦
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In the late 1980s we gat involved in a minor war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands. In terms of loss of life, and monetary cost, by far the greatest losses were to ships and their crews.
In these days of cruise missiles, a warship is just a big, slow-moving target. Hard to defend, almost impossible to miss.
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They carry troops and supplies. Itās still the main way to deploy tanks and helicopters across the water.
Things like that may still be useful for invading Venezuela. Ground equipment is still needed for mopping up.
But to be clear, T just really disliked the rust on the current ships and he may be trying to boost the big industrial boom he promised.
Just wondering where they will get the materials needed. What will they pay in tariffsā¦
And the biggest question of all, will he demand they be painted gold?
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You remember a while back he said he was having someone chack whatās actually in Fort Knox?
Thereās clearly a reason heās called it the āGolden Fleetā. He canāt buy Chinese steel - so heās going to build the ships out of gold.
Of course, theyād be too heavy to float - and gold is so soft you could sink them with an air rifle - but that doesnāt matter. Heās got no intention of ever sailing them anywhere. These are not warships for fighting - these are warships for putting your name on, and admiring.
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