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1. seachange says

   March 14, 2024 at 4:21 pm

   There was a soccer match among many nations in Qatar recently. Because of this, it was in the news and we got to see people try to pronounce the name. The name of the country, it’s not pronounced the pun way. For myself, I had the correct pronunciation I stored in my brain and dumped the old one I had in the past mildly thought was correct.

   I had to stare at this a minute to figure it out.

2. sonofrojblake says

   March 14, 2024 at 4:48 pm

   2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction show. Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison & Prince pay tribute to George Harrison. Dhani looks more like his dad than his dad did, and Prince shows why, when someone asked Eric Clapton what it felt like to be the best guitarist in the world, he said he didn’t know and that they’d have to ask Prince.
   (watch to the end to witness Prince’s amazing evaporating guitar).
   

3. John Morales says

   March 14, 2024 at 7:46 pm

   I remember.

   https://time.com/6237677/qatar-migrant-deaths-world-cup/

   The death of migrant workers erecting infrastructure for Qatar’s World Cup over the past decade once again made headlines earlier this week. In an interview, Hassan al-Thawadi, secretary general of Qatar’s World Cup organizing committee, told British TV presenter Piers Morgan that “around 400, between 400 and 500” migrants died. “I don’t have the exact number. That’s something that’s been discussed,” he said.

   The estimate is drastically higher than any other previously offered by Qatari officials.

   Yet the World Cup committee that al-Thawadi steers swiftly walked that comment back, echoing prior Qatari statements that 37 non-work related migrant deaths and three work-related ones took place from 2014 to 2020. Rights groups have criticized both estimates, viewing them as vast undercounts of the human tragedy of the tournament.

   Ah well. They weren’t Qatari, so gentle weeping is all that is due.

4. Silentbob says

   March 15, 2024 at 4:37 am

   @ 2 sonofrojblake

   Clapton surrendered to Hendrix decades earlier. Legend has it the first time Clapton saw Hendrix on stage he was enraged because there was no way Cream could possibly compete.

   Hendrix had just been in London for a week. He went to a gig where Cream would perform. In Regent Street Polytechnic, Chandler asked Cream if they would allow Hendrix to go onstage. Hendrix went up, plugged the bass amp, and played Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killin’ Floor”, a track that Clapton was having a hard time playing.

   Hendrix’s version simply wowed the audience. Eric Clapton writes in his biography: “Everyone was gobsmacked. I remember thinking that here was a force to be reckoned with. It scared me because he was clearly going to be a huge star, and just as we were finding our own speed, here was the real thing.”

   Hendrix played “Killing Floor” at an astounding pace, three times faster than anyone else did. Everyone was stunned. They had never seen anyone play as Hendrix did.

   Clapton walked backstage, lit a cigarette, and told Chandler: “You didn’t tell me he was that fucking good.”

   @ 1 seachange

   Interesting. For those anglos curious: