downvote_hunter

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Cake day: March 20th, 2025
  • downvote_hunter@midwest.socialto Memes of Production@quokk.au•boomer failEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Someone put it to me like this once.

    Imagine a path to the top of a mountain, the trail you describe is on a slow ascent towards the top, clearly marked, has rope guides to hang on to, rest areas, people to carry your backpack as needed.

    For many others there is no trail, no guides, steep climbing, few if any rest areas, little to no help

    I chose to help the latter up the mountain.

  • downvote_hunter@midwest.socialtoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Wise horseEnglish
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    29 days ago

    That’s The Blues

    The phrase “the blues” was written by Charlotte Forten, then aged 25, in her diary on December 14, 1862. She was a free-born black woman from Pennsylvania who was working as a schoolteacher in South Carolina, instructing both slaves and freedmen, and wrote that she “came home with the blues” because she felt lonesome and pitied herself. She overcame her depression and later noted a number of songs, such as “Poor Rosy”, that were popular among the slaves. Although she admitted being unable to describe the manner of singing she heard, Forten wrote that the songs “can’t be sung without a full heart and a troubled spirit”, conditions that have inspired countless blues songs.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues