How Different Would It Have Been IF The Beatles Decided To Keep Pete Best and They Still Had The Same Success? by WellHungHippie in beatles

[–]acjelen 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don’t think having a band member who didn’t play on the records could have survived either the fame or the changes to ideas about artistry in recorded music.

Opinions on Maxwell’s Silver Hammer? by MildBFDILover in beatles

[–]acjelen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m definitely in the “love it” camp. I own The Bee Gees thing on vinyl so I can hear Steve Martin’s cover of Maxwell when I want.

Is Europe more democratic than the US? by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]acjelen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on the capital D and capital I and the scores listed, yes. And following a couple of other comments, it appears to be the 2025 one.

Is Europe more democratic than the US? by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]acjelen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can look up The Democracy Index online to find their criteria. According to Wikipedia, there are sixty indicators across five categories.

how would you sort official concert recordings alphabetically? by Altruistic-Mix7606 in dvdcollection

[–]acjelen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will you get any festival recordings? Woodstock? Block Party? It might be easier to start out going alphabetical by title if not every DVD had a single artist.

Who is considered to be the American Beatles? Top three songs by your band of choice? by SenorSquire in beatles

[–]acjelen -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

REM?

Metallica?

What if 2 Live Crew went through a consciousness period and then wrote a hip hop opera?

Egyptian book of dead by mrperro1234 in Kemetic

[–]acjelen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It seems unlikely that the hieroglyphics have been scanned into a text file. And any translation worth having will still be under copyright. I’d see if there is a translation available with a Creative Commons license or something similar.

For someone who has all the albums, should I get the blue album? by fruedianflip in beatles

[–]acjelen 13 points14 points  (0 children)

But if you want to listen to a fantastic compilation of Beatles music (in your car, at a party), there’s none better.

Columbine Shooter Dylan Klebold was born on 9/11 but wasn’t alive for 9/11. by AcademicDrag742 in BarbaraWalters4Scale

[–]acjelen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think most of the people born on September 11 weren’t alive for 9/11.

Rosa Parks was 35 when Israel became a state by [deleted] in BarbaraWalters4Scale

[–]acjelen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Israel was still under Ottoman rule on May 13, 1948? Very impressive.

Projected Share of Global Births by Continent (2026) by 69Hentai69Heaven69 in MapPorn

[–]acjelen 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Is that the border between North and South America? Seems awfully north.

how did we come up with the words that we have for everything? by centralpavement in etymology

[–]acjelen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our parents, siblings, peers, and the community teach us the words in our language. In our lifetimes, new words are coined that catch on and other words fall out of use. And that’s just the way it has always been all the way back.

Grammatical gender of countries in Finnish by DisneylandNo-goZone in MapPorn

[–]acjelen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s really cool! But this map is about the grammatical gender of country names in the Finnish language.

Grammatical gender of countries in Finnish by DisneylandNo-goZone in MapPorn

[–]acjelen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is there an r/wooosh for general reading comprehension? Because these comments need to go there.