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Some of these 'festival' traditions are a bit spooky. Where I come from, a part of the country dominated by industry, the closest to a festival was when the factories closed for a week (ostensibly for maintenance) and everybody went away to the seaside. Looking at wiki even those Wakes Weeks had ancient roots.
I now live in an area originally dominated by farming - we have 'carnivals' where everybody comes together from towns and villages for miles around. The focus of the carnival is the carnival queen - even in my time here she would be the prettiest girl of the right age (a virgin) - the carnival queens are still paraded through the streets with the other carnival queens from the area. There's a 'something odd' about this - I could easily be wrong but I suspect this a group memory of a time when those carnival queens were intimately tied up with the fertility of the land and probably wouldn't have had a very long life expectancy.

As a teen I snuck into my mom's bedroom and read the dirty parts of my mom's novel Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon. Then it came out as a made for TV movie starring Betty Davis. I can certainly understand the creepy pagan connotations of that holiday.

I see Elon Musk got away with calling Unsworth a "Pedo guy.". If Unsworth had stopped at $90,000 I might have thought 'Maybe,' - as Unsworth was seeking $145M I'm pleased to see the American jury went with 'No way Jose'.

The story so far (that I remember).
Book,deodorant,facecloth,glasses,money,rat,shoe,soap,sock,toothbrush,toothpaste,towel,watch.

Two shoes, two socks, zip ties, duct tape, gloves, flashlight and ski mask.

(Dec 12, 2019 06:06 PM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]The story so far (that I remember). Book,deodorant,facecloth,glasses,money,rat,shoe,soap,sock,toothbrush,toothpaste,towel,watch.

Don't forget the dash of lemon balm and bay leaf for a real tingle.

Or, back on the farm:

"Do you remember what happened in the last season of Doc Martin, Pa?"

"What's that, Ma?"

"The last season..."

"Hell, no. It takes them two years just to produce and release eight episodes or less, and by then you forget what the damned thing is about or why you were ever bothering to watch the banal thing to begin with."

Oh, silly me. 

Since he already made it clear that a friendship with a woman is utterly impossible, I thought he was packing for a friend with benefits trip. It’s the only time that I’m submissive.

This just goes to show that no meaning can be attached or derived from any list (or mathematical series).
Any Do-It-Yourself enthusiast would be using all the items on SS's list so I (naturally) assumed SS's momma simply forgot to say 'Always put the lid down before reaching for the ski mask.'.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

(Dec 14, 2019 12:28 AM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]This just goes to show that no meaning can be attached or derived from any list (or mathematical series).
Any Do-It-Yourself enthusiast would be using all the items on SS's list so I (naturally) assumed SS's momma simply forgot to say 'Always put the lid down before reaching for the ski mask.'.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

It’s random thoughts. Your list had a pattern. Aww, no worries, C2. Just messing with you.

You know a lot about the electromagnetic field. Why not make yourself useful and give me a hand in understanding color. Simple enough, right?

So, tell me, if light doesn’t absorb itself, and it doesn't, how is black produced? If you subtract blue then red+green= yellow. Subtract green and red+blue=magenta. Subtract red and then green+blue=cyan. Superimposing all three, Cyan, magenta and yellow produces black. How does that happen, if nothing is absorbed, C2?

Any help or idea would be appreciated. It's really bugging me. 

(Dec 14, 2019 01:18 AM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [ -> ]

(Dec 14, 2019 12:28 AM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]This just goes to show that no meaning can be attached or derived from any list (or mathematical series).
Any Do-It-Yourself enthusiast would be using all the items on SS's list so I (naturally) assumed SS's momma simply forgot to say 'Always put the lid down before reaching for the ski mask.'.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

It’s random thoughts. Your list had a pattern. Aww, no worries, C2. Just messing with you.

You know a lot about the electromagnetic field. Why not make yourself useful and give me a hand in understanding color. Simple enough, right?

So, tell me, if light doesn’t absorb itself, and it doesn't, how is black produced? If you subtract blue then red+green= yellow. Subtract green and red+blue=magenta. Subtract red and then green+blue=cyan. Superimposing all three, Cyan, magenta and yellow produces black. How does that happen, if nothing is absorbed, C2?

Any help or idea would be appreciated. It's really bugging me. 

Note that SS isn't referring to those subtractive primary colors in their usual reflective context as in inks, dyes, or pigments where molecules do the selective absorbing to yield the colors we perceive in printed media. But as in emissions of light like the additive system of red, green, blue primary colors used in color television or colored beams of light mixing (but via subtractive process, not additive).

You'd also do me a big favor, C2, if you could supply a video or some illustrative documentation that actually demonstrates such a phenomenon. Due to lack of that, I keep defaulting to conceiving this proposed situation as people trying to explain Bigfoot before anyone has straight-up and in unadulterated fashion produced Bigfoot as a fact.

Don't get me wrong -- I do want to witness Bigfoot directly. I'd love to be the equivalent of some hick living under a rock who has, say, never encountered a potato peeler before or is simply experiencing a loud overhead boom in terms of understanding what a potato peeler is. But I do need to see the bloody potato peeler straight-up in the context it seems to initially be introduced in.

EDIT: In a later post, Syne has submitted a response in the different interference category below. That's another matter. If one of these isn't finally, definitely selected as the context truly being discussed here or in the other thread -- and a nail driven into that one in terms of staying put there -- then this is going to remain a tower of babel in terms of confusion (at least for me). Can I finally take it that this topic has never had anything to do with the emission and reflective categories -- that is, certain of their aspects being conflated or hybridized, along with interference amply tossed into the maelstrom? It's just a red-herring I've been wandering down trying to make sense of -- the interference category has always been the actual or only context this centers around?

Color Production Methods supplied by: https://physics.info/color/

emission
continuous spectra: hot stuff
the sun, fire, incandescent light bulbs
incandescence
discrete spectra: excited electrons
lasers, phosphors, fluorescent tubes, LEDs, neon tubes, sodium & mercury vapor lamps
luminescence, fluorescence, phosphorescence (reemission)

reflection
opaque bodies
paints, inks, dyes, pigments
hemoglobin
chlorophyll a is bright blue-green and is twice as common as the olive colored chlorophyll b; carotenoids are yellow orange (carrots, squash, tomatoes) two kinds of carotenes have nutritional significance; anthocyanins provide the red purple blue color of red grapes, red cabbage, apples, radishes, eggplants; anthoxanthins pale yellow of potatoes, onions, cauliflower;

transmission
transparent bodies
stained glass, photographic filters, tinted sunglasses, red sunsets

scattering
small suspended particles
nitrogen molecules make the sky blue
foam, froth, clouds, smoke
a colloid is a mixture of small particles of one substance suspendend in another substance: clouds, smoke, haze
emulsions are suspensions of one liquid in another: mayonnaise, cosmetic creams
milk (fat globules 1–5 μm diameter reduced to <1 μm after homogenization, micelles of milk protein casein 0.1 μm diameter)
gels are liquids dispersed in a solid: pudding is water dispersed in starch
sols are solids particles dispersed in a liquid: flour and cornstarch thickened sauces

dispersion
variations in transmission speed
rainbows, diamonds, flint glass, chromatic aberration

interference
path length differences
thin films, insect wings & shells, pigeon necks, peacock feathers, mother of pearl, heat stains on metals, spider webs, halos, bubbles, watered silks, mist on glass, photoelastic stress,
iridescence, opalescence, pearlescence