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Uplifting Thoughts for the Isolated and Depressed in Times of Plague

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For those who need something to pass the time with exercising your minds ...

But you have to explain why!
 

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Gibbs505 said:
For those who need something to pass the time with exercising your minds ...

But you have to explain why!
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2581 = 2

Values: 0=1, 1=0, 2=0, 3=0, 4= ?,5=0,6=1,7=0, 8=2, 9=1

I'm sure in my rapidly disintegrating memory banks I remember this puzzle from somewhere, and there was a solution for 4 as well.

Edit: to do with the number of enclosed spaces in the numeral?
 
old slave said:
2581 = 2

Values: 0=1, 1=0, 2=0, 3=0, 4= ?,5=0,6=1,7=0, 8=2, 9=1

I'm sure in my rapidly disintegrating memory banks I remember this puzzle from somewhere, and there was a solution for 4 as well.

Edit: to do with the number of enclosed spaces in the numeral?
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Yes congratulations!! But 4 can be written two ways so it defaults to zero!
 
The American Blue tradition has been an antidote for depression for over 100 years. For anyone who's ever had a relationship go bad, here is a great blues cover of Bob Dylan's masterpiece from 1964 (long before these talented ladies were conceived.
 
Praefectus Praetorio said:
The American Blue tradition has been an antidote for depression for over 100 years. For anyone who's ever had a relationship go bad, here is a great blues cover of Bob Dylan's masterpiece from 1964 (long before these talented ladies were conceived.
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my favourite Dylan song ... hard to say why, it just hits me in the gut, it's just 'so right'
 
Praefectus Praetorio said:
Funtime Music!
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That somehow reminded me of an interesting Youtube channel that I'm currently following, called "PostmodernJukebox". The gist of the channel is, covering popular songs in a very different style, mostly Swing and Bebop:


Praefectus Praetorio said:
The American Blue tradition has been an antidote for depression for over 100 years. For anyone who's ever had a relationship go bad, here is a great blues cover of Bob Dylan's masterpiece from 1964 (long before these talented ladies were conceived.
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Eulalia said:
my favourite Dylan song ... hard to say why, it just hits me in the gut, it's just 'so right'
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And here's my favourite rendition of the song :) :

 
fallenmystic said:
I liked the song but it's not a blues, technically speaking! :p
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Quite true, though it was Leadbelly's signature tune, the first one he recorded for Alan Lomax.
But here's some lockdown blues

 
Praefectus Praetorio said:
The lyrics are full of wid-western American idiom. "if in you don't know by now"
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I'd just say, "nae problem!" But that's not quite got the bitter edge of "Don't think twice, it's all right."
 
OK! I challenge anyone here. No, I take that back. I double-dog dare anyone to turn up their speakers to an almost painful level and listen to this clip and not come away with a grin on your face. As fun as music can get and some righteous girls getting on down (Batgirl looks like she belongs on CF!)
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For @Apostate - Original recording 1953 from writer James "Sugar By" Crawford and his Cane Cutters of Louisiana. The song that tells of a parade collision between two tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the traditional confrontation.
And for @Eulalia - the Scottish songstress, Natasha England, from Glasgow, 1982, with an Alice in Wonderland interpretation
 
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OK! I challenge anyone here. No, I take that back. ...​
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Too late! I already accepted the musical challenge on every level at any time in every kind of music after your use of the word "here".


("No fight and no battle is so sadly and dishonorably lost as the one which was evaded by one of the opponents!" => Spanish proverb from the Middle Ages)


So, I add some music which I found very "uplifting" during the last week because of very different reasons, two of them in different versions.

By the way, If you listen closely to the last video of these four ones, you'll notice there's really music in it ...






 
By the way "Swords": There are even today some European sword smiths who say the European swords were equal or better than the Japanese sword "Katana". The Japanese only used swords for a longer time than the Europeans, so that there developed the "cliché" that their swords were better but a German swordmaster in this video from minute 15 on compares the swords and cannot find a real quality-difference of a European or German long-sword compared to the Japanese "Katana". He would even have preferred the European long-sword because it is harder, because of its length and its different use possibilities in fighting: as a sword, as a hammer and as a strangling device in close combat:
 
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