The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

Which was the greater Anglo-American musical collaboration, Fleetwood Mac or Derek and the Dominoes?

[Eddie Teach]

How about the Jimi Hendrix Experience?

[Josquius]

Hadn't seen this before but incredible interview about an "unsafe" road from early 80s County Durham (I think)
https://twitter.com/Meliden/status/1597303153497554950?s=20&t=JW7OprUT1cQAHGGTpLiSmg

Now I'm fascinated to know more about where this road is and what was wrong with it.
 

[Tamas]

It seems the main problem was people not caring about roadworks closing one of the lanes and driving like nothing could be in front of them. I guess there might be a bend behind the camera we are not seeing.

[mongers]

How about the Jimi Hendrix Experience?

Oh that's a good one, maybe the best answer??

[frunk]

How about the Jimi Hendrix Experience?

Oh that's a good one, maybe the best answer??

I was going to say Talking Heads.

[Sheilbh]

Wings, the band the Beatles could've been.

[Valmy]

Wings, the band the Beatles could've been.

If they had put Paul in charge of everything?

[Sheilbh]

What?

[Syt]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kanye-west-alex-jones-i-like-hitler-1234639617/

Kanye to Alex Jones: 'I Like Hitler'

The rapper and virulent antisemite sat down with the Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist alongside white nationalist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes

KANYE WEST PRAISED Adolf Hitler and Nazis, denied the Holocaust, and attacked Jewish people at length during a disturbing Thursday afternoon interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

"Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler," Ye said. "Also Hitler was born Christian."

"I see good things about Hitler also" said Ye, who wore a full face mask throughout the interview. "I love everyone. Jewish people are not going to tell me you can love us, and you can love what we're doing to you with the contracts, and you can love what we're pushing with the pornography. But this guy that invented highways, invented the very microphone that I use as a musician, you can't say out loud that this person ever did anything good, and I'm done with that."

When Jones said he didn't like Nazis as the show moved to a commercial break, Ye interjected.

"I like Hitler," he said.

"We got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time," Ye said after the show returned from break.

Throughout the show, Ye blamed several subjects mentioned in the broadcast, including suppression of free speech, on "zionists." At one point, he said that "it's Satan that gets inside of the zionists and makes them do evil things." At another, he mocked former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a bottle of Yoo-hoo and an aquarium net.

"You've got a little bit of a Hitler fetish going on," said Jones, who seemed uncomfortable by the intensity of Ye's antisemitism. "I'm not on the whole Jew thing," Jones said later in the stream.

Ye was undeterred by the pushback. "I don't like the word 'evil' next to Nazis," he said. "I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis." (Hours after the interview, Ye tweeted an image of a swastika intertwined with a Star of David. "YE24 LOVE EVERYONE #LOVESPEECH," he wrote.)

There's weird parallels between Ye's ramblings and German singer Xavier Naidoo's who went down a very similar rabbithole during the pandemic. 

[celedhring]

Wait, Hitler invented highways and the microphone? Is that a thing among nazis?

Also, Ye needs help.

[The Brain]

His yes-men bubble must be a weird place to live in.

[Sheilbh]

Also, Ye needs help.

Yeah. It feels like if this was a normal person who wasn't incredibly rich and famous his loved ones would have staged an intervention a while ago.

And I think there's a fair amount of pretty shameful behaviour from people in the media/getting him on to do an interview right now. They might not owe him a duty of care or anything like that but it's not on.

[The Larch]

Wait, Hitler invented highways and the microphone? Is that a thing among nazis?

Not even amongst Nazis, I think, it's truly puzzling. The highway thing is normally refered to the creation of the "Reichsautobahn" system, that the Nazis tried to take credit from but actually predated them, as it was started out during the Weimar Republic, in fact the Nazis initially opposed them, but ended up embracing them once they got into power. If anyone can be called the "Father of the autobahn" it's actually Konrad Adenauer, during his time as mayor of Köln, as he was the main promoter of the construction of the first German highway,

As for the microphone, I think that Hitler is credited as being responsible for its popularization in public speaking for his speeches, as previously they were only used in studios, but of course he didn't invent them.

Also, Ye needs help.

Desperately, but I don't think he's going to get it.

[The Brain]

Also, Ye needs help.

Yeah. It feels like if this was a normal person who wasn't incredibly rich and famous his loved ones would have staged an intervention a while ago.

And I think there's a fair amount of pretty shameful behaviour from people in the media/getting him on to do an interview right now. They might not owe him a duty of care or anything like that but it's not on.

Shameful how (non-rhetorical)? Helping him spread his Nazi propaganda?