The post funny stuff thread v.Aleph-naught

[Stadler]

How did I get thrown under the bus here?   

[Lonk]

Silence is literally the opposite of actual notes, though. There is no transition from one moment of silence to the next. Six seconds of silence sounds identical to 3 seconds of silence followed by another 3. That's just five measures of silence no matter how you notate it, I'd think.

Well yes, on the surface is all the same. But for counting purposes is difference.

Are two tied eight notes the same as a quarter note? sound wise, yes, but not on paper or for the purpose of what is written down. Is the same as C# or Db, it all depends on the context of the music which one you will use, but the sound will be the same.

[Lonk]

Silence is literally the opposite of actual notes, though. There is no transition from one moment of silence to the next. Six seconds of silence sounds identical to 3 seconds of silence followed by another 3. That's just five measures of silence no matter how you notate it, I'd think.

Are you Stadler?  You're dissecting the funny.

All this plus the chess crap and my bloody Aussie ones completely get glossed over........cunts! 

I pictured this guy saying this:

[Orbert]

The problem is that C# or Db depends on the context.  Not just the key you're playing in (although that's usually enough) but also where the note falls in the scale and what you're doing with it at the moment.

There is no reason to note a full measure of rest as anything other than a full rest.  Two halves, four quarters, etc., does work out the same and "sounds" the same, but there's no reason to note it that way.  That's the "joke".  Only musicians will get it, and not all will think it's funny.


Edit: Okay fine, I can think of one time you might subdivide a measure of rest, but the notation would make it clear why that's happening and again it's all about the context.

[Indiscipline]

Orbert Is right. To expand, C# and Db are two different entities and are treated as such in harmonic analysis; they just happen to be enharmonic (representing the same frequency) and it may even be argued that is valid only inside a temperate system, not inside a purely natural one.

That subdivided bar of silence is musically and practically the same as the "correctly" written one. Philosophically, it's a funny meme we have proceded to DTFock dry.

[jingle.boy]

How did I get thrown under the bus here?   

it's a funny meme we have proceeded to DTFock dry.

^THAT'S how.   

[Stadler]

I'm down with that. 

[Orbert]

Down under the bus, you might say.

[King Postwhore]

[faizoff]

That's a pretty good Photoshop.

[DragonAttack]

A bit behind the times.  The reporter is from WKZO Channel 3.  Climax is between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek.  I could share a story, but it would not have a PG rating.

[jingle.boy]

This isn't a PG community!

[Stadler]

That's a pretty good Photoshop.

You're not kidding; especially at that next level below Steven.

[jingle.boy]

I'm not sure why Splent is in there, though. 

[pg1067]

I recognize Petrucci and Myung, but I have no idea who the other guys are.

[jammindude]

This isn't a PG community!

[Lonk]

I recognize Petrucci and Myung, but I have no idea who the other guys are.

Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders), Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth) and Lonestar (Neal Morse).

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

I recognize Petrucci and Myung, but I have no idea who the other guys are.

Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders), Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth) and Lonestar (Neal Morse).

And Gavin Harrison

[pg1067]

This isn't a PG community!

Wow...I see how it is!

[jingle.boy]

This isn't a PG community!

Wow...I see how it is!

I thought about putting a "except for Paul" footnote there, but forgot.

[DragonAttack]

This isn't a PG community!

 

[YtseBitsySpider]

I didn’t get the dog one. Other than it seemed the positions we’re inverted or something ?

[wolfking]

I didn’t get the dog one. Other than it seemed the positions we’re inverted or something ?

Look at the heart monitor.  It was inverted so the man was coming back to life as opposed to going into flatline.

[DragonAttack]

[Stadler]

I want to meet the man/woman who wrote that sign. That's an Olympian level shit stirrer. 

[Orbert]

Our daughter was still in elementary school when our son started learning to drive.  As with many things her brother did, she was trying to be as "into" the experience as possible, watching the other cars on the road and seeing how things work for the first time, as we were all in the car driving around.  At some point, she exclaimed "Everyone stays on the right, just like at school!  If you always stay on the right no matter which way you're going, you won't bump into each other."

So whoever made that sign really is a shit-stirrer, or dumber than a fifth-grader.

[El Barto]

I'm thinking you've got to be over 35 to get the pen and tape one.

[hefdaddy42]

[gmillerdrake]

Holy crap 

[cramx3]

 

[TAC]

Totally!!

 

[Stadler]

I'm thinking you've got to be over 35 to get the pen and tape one.

But for those of us that do, we really GET IT.  I can't tell you how many times I've had to do that.

[DragonAttack]

Probably the same meeting where the walking down the stairway rules was presented, and objections ignored.

How many times have we all wished we could shout out that response?   

[wolfking]

That's me?! 

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]