For a themed mix like that, how would you say that the theme is manifest in the track selection?
I haven't listened to the mix yet, but what about it would you describe as summery?
Stuff White People Like: mix lists, bragging about what (European) languages they have the (limited) ability to understand.
I think White People like bragging about having the (limited) ability to understand Japanese far more, actually, or anyway it once was so.
Posting foreign-language texts without translation is highbrow. Praise you, w-lfs-n.
2: BUT LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IS GREAT!!1!!!
2: You know, there are plenty of people who learn languages who are good people, and sneering at them only emboldens the culture of anti-intellectualism in the country.
In America German is properly speaking not a foreign language, but the true ancestral language of the majority of Americans, especially Jews.
Fuckin' Jews.
Not being anti-intellectual is so enwhiteled, Cala.
I think White People like bragging about having the (limited) ability to understand Japanese far more
そう思うわない。
Fucking Japanese-language word processing. That should be そう思わない。
You know, there are plenty of people who learn languages who are good people, and sneering at them only emboldens the culture of anti-intellectualism in the country.
Yes, but admitting that nuance only shows weakness in the War on w-lfs-n.
OT: An obscure provision of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act allows the federal government to collect a massive DNA library based on samples collected from anyone who gets arrested for anything. Go here and tell them they suck.
That war hasn't made you or yours any safer, stras.
11 sugoi, nihongo mo kakerun da
tokoro de doushite roshiyago mo wakaru no?
omoshiroi hito
typekey ga nakute kanji wo kakenai n desu.
romaji de yoroshii desu ka?
nihongo ga mata katai n desu. douzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu.
In America German is properly speaking not a foreign language, but the true ancestral language of the majority of Americans, especially Jews.
Do most Americans really have German ancestry? A substantial minority, sure, but a majority?
Jews don't count as real Americans, ben.
if i knew i won't get any reply :(
i recognized 9, 12, 14
can't open 2, 3, 8, 10, thanks
The ones you can't open are ogg files; if you're using iTunes, you should do the dance described here.
Jews are basically Germans, which is why they spoke Yiddish.
Only about 20% of Americans are primarily German, but another 30% have some German ancestry, but them ahead of the British. One-drop rule.
I have my facts. Other people may have their own facts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_demographics_of_the_United_States#Racial_makeup_of_the_U.S._population
My beloved goddamn 3 1/2 y.o. grandnephew is pecking away at his little computer like a blogger. He's completely absorbed and won't respond to what you say.
23: Just to note that those are from the census, and are self-reported (note for instance the big swath of "American", whatever the hell that means, I think it means racist, nativist asshole).
More maps from the census here, at the bottom are individual maps for a lot of different ancestries. (I'm not clear on whether you can pick more than one in the census.)
25: Probably 'no recent immigrants' + 'so far assimiliated no one knows really or cares', rather than racist, I'd guess.
Yeah, self reported is sketchy. As it notes, the self reported numbers for "English" are certainly way too low.
26: I think it is probably a mix, I was being a bit harsh and was influenced by the geographic distribution (mostly in the South, but heaviest in eastern Kentucky ands southern West Virgina (where in one county Hillary beat Obama 88% to 9%)). It is mentioned that most of those are probably English, Welsh or Scottish background.
real Americans speak Dutch, I thought that was settled.
Welsh-Americans. While a considerable number of Americans have some Welsh ancestry, there are few concentrations, thus avoiding the worst of the associated social problems.
I'm pretty sure that multilingualism is pretty much *not* a characteristic of white Americans.
Lots of fucking Mormons too.
Mormons are OK when not associatred with the Welsh, JM, Swift, et al. Don't get me wrong.
All the evidence is that I don't have any Welsh ancestry. For a long time I though that I did. I'va had to recalibrate my prejudices.
I have kept to my late habit of including Scott Walker in every imaginable context
Are you familiar with ex-Revolting Cock Chris Connelly? He covers a Scott Walker tune or two.
The real hotspot for Welsh ancestry is NE Pennsylvania, the anthracite coal country. Hard people for hard rock.
The Welsh gravitate toward places where natural beauty can be destroyed.
allows the federal government to collect a massive DNA library based on samples collected from anyone who gets arrested for anything
Public comment submitted! Everybody scroll back up to 13 and follow stras's link. It only takes about 30 seconds.
(Well, it took me four minutes, but that's because I like to edit. Also I like analogies, when I am not forbidden by an evil overlord to use them.)
Seriously, guys, go comment.
And the deadline is Monday! You only have 36 hours.
Also, they take comments from non-Americans. So all you furriners who would be affected by this if you want to jaunt over here for vacation or work or whatnot, go comment.
I know it's Saturday night and all good blog readers are vegging out, but go.
All right, enough cheerleading. I'm going to go read Barack's poetry.
Quick visit from the daughter, stopping in for dinner before heading out to hang with her friend, whose band is headed to the Midwest on tour. Not impressed with the interest the boyfriend's housemates are showing in Rock Band.
OK, now I'll go register on that DNA thing.
The goddam theme is "you can't download this file, no matter how many times you bang your head against the server."
(temporally and thematically) summer
It's not summer yet, Tom Skilling.
You're having a high self-image day, aren't you ogged?
I couldn't download either. I assumed it was just my firewall, acting up for some reason.
Also works for me. Try, try again!
Both this mix and your last one, Ben, simply wouldn't unarchive fully. They download, I open them, and they stall right before finishing unarchiving, and lock up my computer and I have to restart. Yes, I've tried downloading them again.
Are you on windows? One of the files has a colon in its filename, and it wouldn't surprise me if the unzipping software is too stupid to rename it. I'll replace the archive with one with safe filenames.
The other one also had a coloniferous filename.
Oh, you did put Age Old Hunger on it. I was going to say that that's better than Time, but I see that you're down.
"Age Old Hunger" is, perhaps, better than "Time", though.
Oh, wait, is Age Old Hunger the name of the album? Nevermind.
And on that warbly high note, I'm off to bed.
So much for the high self image day.
I'm on a Mac. Does that mean your mixes just hate me?
It means try again anyway, the colon's a special character on the mac too, though I thought it was more sophisticated about attempts to create files with colon-containing names.
Nope. Locked up my computer again.
I have a mac! I will look into this.
Works fine. I'm using unzip, from the terminal.
And double-clicking the archive on the desktop works too.
You did download the file again, right?
It's only your mixes that this happens with, Ben. I guess you simply can't give me happiness.
And yes, I downloaded it afresh.
Well, that's bizarre, because I on my mac can open it fine in two of two ways.
Doesn't work on mine either. Double clicking brings up Archive Utility, which hangs as AWB described. Stuffit fails and quits. Unzip gets this message:
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive.
But I've never had this problem with any of yours before.
yesterday i could now can't listen to 2, 3, 8
itune gives dance parties (mechanised) instead of them
other files work fine
e:\>dir summer*.zip
Volume in drive E is E drive
Volume Serial Number is 44A3-DE3F
Directory of e:\
05/17/2008 08:37p 70,119,420 summer.zip
05/17/2008 10:57p 19,555,240 summer2.zip
05/17/2008 11:17p 13,956,140 summer3.zip
05/18/2008 12:17a 53,243,280 summer4.zip
05/18/2008 07:57a 85,672,800 summer5.zip
05/18/2008 08:17a 101,687,540 summer6.zip
05/18/2008 08:37a 98,218,580 summer7.zip
7 File(s) 442,453,000 bytes
0 Dir(s) 68,649,197,568 bytes free
I'll give up now before I eat up all your bandwidth quota for the next month.
b/c i downloaded it again following the instructions
though i have no idea why i downloaded the mix again if it worked yesterday, just mechanically perhaps
Jews are basically Germans, which is why they spoke Yiddish.
Several years ago, the editor for Let's Go Germany hired a Yiddish-speaking student to do part of the research in Germany, 'cause hey, it's pretty close!
Eiiii.
Jews, like the Amish, speak a dialect of German and practice a Hottentotish religion. Source: Philip Roth.
md5sum: 9c46501f68edd28a1d8540f7e713553a
