02-16-2021, 08:11 PM
This thing is awesome!
I used to be able to pick up Radio Havana (or la Rrrahdio Habaana Coobah" as they called it) here in the night time. I'd listen to it in the evenings for seriously slanted news of the world news from down there so I could point and laugh at the radio after I got back from Nicaragua, and later, El Salvador. My Dear Old Dad used to look at me and shake his head "You can understand that gibberin'? 'Cause it looks like you can understand that gibberin..." 'Twas his own fault for trying to teach me German and explaining that folks "out there" don't all talk like me. The German didn't take well, but when you gotta speak a different language to try to make sure your own precious body and soul stay in the same package, it provides a bit of incentive. It's kind of important to know if a particular phrase in localspeak means "stop and get on the ground!" or "stop and take off your clothes!"!
I tried the station in Nuuk, but Eskimo isn't in my repertoire. Tuned in to a station in Scunthorpe, UK, and was horrified to hear what I thought was salsa, but which turned out to be some kind of... South African maybe?... some song about freeing Nelson Mandela. That sumbitch is already as free as he's gonna get, at least in this Mandela Effect 'Verse. Anyhow, then they moved on to 70's disco. I think that's what they call "eclectic".
Altogether, a great resource - if you can speak the language. US news is increasingly sliding off into fantasy land, and it's becoming more important to tune in to foreign news to get any "real" news. It's getting to be like the old days of the Cold War, when Radio Free America was the only real news people behind the Iron Curtain could get... but in reverse. Now foreign stations are returning that long ago favor to Communist Occupied America.
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I used to be able to pick up Radio Havana (or la Rrrahdio Habaana Coobah" as they called it) here in the night time. I'd listen to it in the evenings for seriously slanted news of the world news from down there so I could point and laugh at the radio after I got back from Nicaragua, and later, El Salvador. My Dear Old Dad used to look at me and shake his head "You can understand that gibberin'? 'Cause it looks like you can understand that gibberin..." 'Twas his own fault for trying to teach me German and explaining that folks "out there" don't all talk like me. The German didn't take well, but when you gotta speak a different language to try to make sure your own precious body and soul stay in the same package, it provides a bit of incentive. It's kind of important to know if a particular phrase in localspeak means "stop and get on the ground!" or "stop and take off your clothes!"!
I tried the station in Nuuk, but Eskimo isn't in my repertoire. Tuned in to a station in Scunthorpe, UK, and was horrified to hear what I thought was salsa, but which turned out to be some kind of... South African maybe?... some song about freeing Nelson Mandela. That sumbitch is already as free as he's gonna get, at least in this Mandela Effect 'Verse. Anyhow, then they moved on to 70's disco. I think that's what they call "eclectic".
Altogether, a great resource - if you can speak the language. US news is increasingly sliding off into fantasy land, and it's becoming more important to tune in to foreign news to get any "real" news. It's getting to be like the old days of the Cold War, when Radio Free America was the only real news people behind the Iron Curtain could get... but in reverse. Now foreign stations are returning that long ago favor to Communist Occupied America.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’