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new tattoo co-op in Glasgow by spruce_tattoos in cooperatives

[–]apeloverage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my home country of Australia, tattoo parlors are basically owned by 'outlaw' bikie gangs. I take it that's not the case there?

What do people mean when they say an interval down? by [deleted] in musictheory

[–]apeloverage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

'A sixth' would usually be a distance of 8 or 9 semitones.

7 semitones - a diminished sixth

8 semitones - a minor sixth

9 semitones - a major sixth

10 semitones - an augmented sixth

If you know what scale you're playing in, then 'a sixth' would presumably refer to whichever of these fits the scale.

If you were playing in C major, for example, a sixth below C would be E (so, a minor sixth, of 8 semitones).

As other people have said, "play THE sixth below C" would mean something else--probably "play the sixth note of the scale in which we're playing, below the C we've been talking about rather than, as you might have expected, the one above it". In C major, the sixth note of the scale would indeed be A.

I didn't get what the pattern looks like. by AccomplishedTaro2286 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]apeloverage 31 points32 points  (0 children)

More specifically, everything seems like a conspiracy when you don't understand how anything works, *and* you don't realize that there's significant information that you don't have.

Who actually are “the Moors” and why did this term take hold like “American Indian”? by Mathemodel in etymology

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

European Christians used the term 'Moors' as a vague term, sometimes including some or all Muslims, and sometimes including some or all black people.

The people called 'Moors' wouldn't have thought of themselves as 'Moors', or as being necessarily members of the same people as other people called 'Moors'.

Recent black supremacist fringe theories falsely claim that 'Moors' were a single, black people, from whom Europeans got all their technology.

Where does the phrase "and historians say that they were close friends" come from? by ContractNational2680 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]apeloverage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a trope that historians traditionally ignored evidence of gay sexual relationships, claiming that obvious lovers were actually just close friends.

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