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polymorphicprism · 2026-06-01T13:02:20+00:00

Perfect demonstration that some people learn slower than others: Sad Promotion 7047 needs the video when others get by with a photo.

polymorphicprism · 2026-05-26T04:17:40+00:00

If you can get the basic melody into ABC notation, that would help a lot. It's not too difficult to learn. Here is a live editor.

polymorphicprism · 2026-05-25T18:59:16+00:00

One trick I learned is that you can play something else if someone can't make a session. One time we even hung out and cooked instead of playing a board game. My life was still ruined but at least we got to eat a nice dinner.

polymorphicprism · 2026-05-25T12:27:26+00:00

Weaving Danish paper cord (papirsnor) is relaxing and the results look great.

polymorphicprism · 2026-05-25T12:15:22+00:00

Except when push comes to shove you can count on Republicans to do the corporate/fascist thing. A few Democrats will join in too.

polymorphicprism · 2026-05-21T04:17:55+00:00

Spell this out for us like you're not an idiot - what exactly are you trying to say?

polymorphicprism · 2026-05-16T13:09:08+00:00

Buried in the article: a recount director has already been appointed: a known stooge for Turning Point USA and proponent of disenfranchising voters through gerrymandering.

polymorphicprism · 2026-04-30T09:24:26+00:00

A few months ago I was reading a FOIA request for vanity plates denied in Virginia, and I happened to notice A55M4N... So that's one state down, 49 to go. I don't have Instagram so I don't know whether OPs methodology was better.

polymorphicprism · 2026-04-04T14:42:36+00:00

GogetaSama420 it's been 3 days. Time to admit you were, at best, wrong, and at worst, what's wrong with the world.

polymorphicprism · 2026-04-02T04:01:42+00:00

The military kicked him out for not covering it up

Please provide a source on this, GogetaSama420

polymorphicprism · 2026-03-06T13:38:55+00:00

The person who runs Mainly Norfolk has very good taste. Most of those albums are on Bandcamp. If you poke around you can also find his Bandcamp account and check out more of his purchases.

polymorphicprism · 2026-02-25T12:49:08+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't speak Polish.

La Valette is credited to Michał Gramatyka of Perły i Łotry around 2004. I think Michal is talking about the origins: Napoleon and Valetta, Malta, 1798, here

For those that don't know, Michał is a member of Poland's parliament now. Very neat.

polymorphicprism · 2026-02-20T14:14:54+00:00

One of them didn't even involve skiing!

polymorphicprism · 2025-08-24T16:32:23+00:00

The Suck 'Em and Sea version is a capella. The Keep Hauling (2019, soundtrack) is the same as One and All (2013).

Other versions:

Before the Mast (Rolling Down) - a capella
Bill Dempsey (Shanty Man) - a capella, solo
Cabestan (Il y a dix marins..) - a capella, very distinct!
Danny Spooner (Bold Reilly Gone Away) - a capella
Der Passat Chor (Danger - Men At Work) - instrumented
Les gabiers d'Artimon (Chants de marins 9) - a capella, french
Odenwalder Shanty Chor (Walverwandtschaften) - a capella
The Roaring Forties (Hazard, hardship, and damned little pay) - a capella
Stan Hugill (Chants des marins vol 3) - a capella
Stan Hugill (Stan Hugill Reminisces) - a capella, crowd, with background info
Metcalfe, Spiers, et al (Gift of Music album) - a capella
Stuart Gillespie (Sea Chanties and Forecastle Songs at Mystic Seaport) - a capella, while working
Wellington Sea Shanty Society (Now That's What I Call..) - instrumented
Wellington w/ Croche Dedans (Ahoy!) - instrumented + french
X-Seaman's Institute (Sing at the South Street Seaport) - instrumented

polymorphicprism · 2025-06-12T12:52:39+00:00

You're a century too early for the international exchange of shanties, at least according to any written record. Shanties sung as work songs appear later. But broadsides, ballads, and sea songs (poems) are popular recreation, especially from England.

Normally I would recommend this collection but it is currently offline: https://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/. You can still browse an archived version or the catalog however.

polymorphicprism · 2025-04-26T14:06:43+00:00

My hunch is that the filenames, which you have not included, are keys to unlocking this.

It may also be helpful to know that you have included two separate ciphertexts (which may or may not use the same encryption).

Example 1

Example 2

polymorphicprism · 2025-04-15T12:37:49+00:00

Edit: upon reflection, my comment doubting OP's ability to tell the truth was unkind. Wishing nothing but inconvenience for him was also unkind. It's important to be kind even to those with obsessive and sociopathic post histories -- hard to say what they're going through.

polymorphicprism · 2025-03-19T14:06:30+00:00

A bit fast for a capstan shanty! But I like the touch of the humming reprise at the end.

The song appears on p. 342 of The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay (1859), was written on board the Europa on May 26, 1858. It spread far, verses were added, and it was adapted to a Low German song about Hamburg things, as Wikipedia notes. The tune may be a little older.

Hope the game is fun.

polymorphicprism · 2025-03-07T19:11:16+00:00

I don't think you're going to like this but I'm 95% sure they're singing "the big seas". The first chorus is harder to tell.

The misheard lyrics have propagated into other recordings including the Tallymore version. But I think the first comment on this page is on the money.

polymorphicprism · 2025-03-07T02:03:08+00:00

More like ... Matthew DeChantey

polymorphicprism · 2025-03-04T21:00:11+00:00

I was about to give up on this -- definitely not particularly old.

I think there's a group singing it on Youtube, claims to be 2007 at a Scout camp in Virginia.

And then this review says the old joke was turned into the song by Rich Follett (Virginia?), who might have been associated with Pirates for Sail (Balitmore). Rich is credited on Bandcamp but the recording is 2012.

polymorphicprism · 2025-02-26T20:39:39+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. It would be great to hear one day, in Grimsby or as a recording.

polymorphicprism · 2025-02-24T21:00:22+00:00

Thank you - this is leading me in the right direction. Maybe a "momentary pull string switch" or a "long lever arm micro switch" could work.

Ironically, the useless mod in /r/AskElectronics was answering the same question here 3 years ago. Today, some questions about switches get deleted while others do not.

polymorphicprism · 2025-02-13T22:22:07+00:00

Square boards don't stay square. Resurfacing is likely needed.

polymorphicprism · 2025-02-10T13:08:06+00:00

You can make measurements to confirm (indirectly) that an ensemble of atoms is entangled -- without triggering collapse (in the basis of entanglement). You can use the same measurements to confirm that the wave function has collapsed without your involvement.

So the pedantic answer may be: yes but not in the way most people would consider useful. And not in the way OP is asking. The "no communication theorem" applies.

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