The Off Topic Topic

[Eddie Teach]

Ah, a true Trumpist, he would never support a Loser.

[Tamas]

In case you haven't seen it already, Boston Dynamics' robots now even dance better than you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw

This is how humanity ends.

Not now, but when self-aware AIs discover this video.

It is pretty awesome, though.

[Syt]

The Musikverein which organizes the Vienna New Years Concert uploaded this year's concert to YouTube, and, well ...

[Duque de Bragança]

As long as you get it on ORF site, one may survive.
Works here, incidentally.

[Maladict]

Looks like they took it down completely.
I did watch it on TV, and actually liked it better without the clapping herd.

[Duque de Bragança]

It really felt like a rehearsal without the audience on TV though.

PS: available on the catch-up service of state-owned TV France Television here (Eurovision/UER network).

[celedhring]

Yeah, I missed the audience too. That said, I feared they would pipe in the clapping for the Radetzky March but fortunately they abstained from that.

[Duque de Bragança]

Never thought the traditional clapping for the Radetzky March would be so feared by some people. 

[Sheilbh]

Yeah, I missed the audience too. That said, I feared they would pipe in the clapping for the Radetzky March but fortunately they abstained from that.

In terms of uncanny valley piped in or not - I've been watching the darts on TV and it is so weird without an audience. The atmosphere at darts is what makes it so fun (primarily because the price of your ticket includes access to an open bar ). It's very disconcerting - far more so, weirdly, than football or other sports I've watched.

[The Larch]

In the days before the concert I saw the Radetzky march being described as the Marsellaise for the right. Opinions? 

[Duque de Bragança]

I guess this will really confuse post-modern French leftists who see the Marseillaise as a right-wing symbol. 

[Sheilbh]

In the days before the concert I saw the Radetzky march being described as the Marsellaise for the right. Opinions? 

It's moments like this when I really do feel we are not European in the same way (our equivalent for Marseillaise of the right would, obviously, be Land of Hope and Glory) - slightly different reference points etc

[The Larch]

In the days before the concert I saw the Radetzky march being described as the Marsellaise for the right. Opinions? 

It's moments like this when I really do feel we are not European in the same way (our equivalent for Marseillaise of the right would, obviously, be Land of Hope and Glory) - slightly different reference points etc

Well, the Radetzky march definitely has a historical background in the context of the liberal revolutions of 1848 that I doubt that many people are aware of nowadays. Don't know about the associations of Land of Hope and Glory in the UK, besides generic patriotism and maybe some drops of old school imperialism, but I'd say that outside the UK it's more associated with graduations (or as Macho Man's Randy Savage entrance music  ).

[Sheilbh]

Well, the Radetzky march definitely has a historical background in the context of the liberal revolutions of 1848 that I doubt that many people are aware of nowadays. Don't know about the associations of Land of Hope and Glory in the UK, besides generic patriotism and maybe some drops of old school imperialism, but I'd say that outside the UK it's more associated with graduations (or as Macho Man's Randy Savage entrance music  ).

Land of Hope and Glory is just Last Night at the Proms as far as I'm aware - that is all I associate it with. I think there's been talk about using it as a national anthem for England (e.g. for sports) so England stops stealing the British anthem - but no-one knows the words

The best patriotic UK song is obviously Jerusalem but it's very associated with the Labour Party who sing it (and The Red Flag) every year at conference - another point of divergence! The left here generally doesn't know the Internationale or Bella, Ciao ().

[The Larch]

Well, the Radetzky march definitely has a historical background in the context of the liberal revolutions of 1848 that I doubt that many people are aware of nowadays. Don't know about the associations of Land of Hope and Glory in the UK, besides generic patriotism and maybe some drops of old school imperialism, but I'd say that outside the UK it's more associated with graduations (or as Macho Man's Randy Savage entrance music  ).

Land of Hope and Glory is just Last Night at the Proms as far as I'm aware - that is all I associate it with. I think there's been talk about using it as a national anthem for England (e.g. for sports) so England stops stealing the British anthem - but no-one knows the words

England "stealing" the British anthem doesn't help either in the perception of the UK being little more than England plus some random attachments.

The best patriotic UK song is obviously Jerusalem but it's very associated with the Labour Party who sing it (and The Red Flag) every year at conference - another point of divergence! The left here generally doesn't know the Internationale or Bella, Ciao ().

I'm going to chalk down to British weirdness that you use as a patriotic song what basically sounds like a church hymn. And that it's a song associated with Labour makes it even weirder (Satanic mills!).