Imagine being so starved for intellectual stimulation that you’d stand and watch a seven-hour Presidential debate. I might possibly be able to do that today, but I would have eaten my own eyeballs by hour three.
When one of the “debaters” is trump or any other politician like him, enduring even fucking 10 minutes is a torture
That genuinely sounds great even in <current year>
Still happens all the time, but few people know about it. The US and Canada have such dead, sterilized cultures that most people aren’t even aware of old time, bluegrass, Quebecois, Métis, or Irish and Cape Breton music beyond thinking they’re just something quirky for a half-dozen rural people. There are public jams in even the biggest cities, and there’s usually at least one person either there or walking by who dances a silly little dance.
Not surprised, in Ireland the Dance Halls Act was literally designed to kill music in people’s homes so that they couldn’t gather in the same way and could only do so while being watched by the English. You kill off community cohesion and you kill off its ability to fight back.
Exactly. No solidary and you get modern day USA
1880?
Their brains weren’t pure, they were thoroughly pickled in various distilled liquors. Which since most transportation of the day knew its way back home, that was fine.
The laudanum helped.
My brain ain’t pure but a fiddle and a campfire work for me. Compared to staring at a computer screen my brain will hit that reward signal so hard.
Same. I go to weeklong medieval reenactment events twice per year, and I generally rarely check my phone. I’d rather walk around merchants, chat with friends, working on projects in camp, or just chilling doing nothing.
Hmm…
The best thing to come out of Appalachia is the music. Let’s go clogging!
Cocaine was legal in the United States until 1914…
Late 1800s was also peak alcoholism in the US, if I recall correctly
I wonder if Trump’s golden age (robber barrons) had anything to do with that?
“Legal” does not mean “widely available”
I mean why does that seem weird, I could totally see that happening today
Hang out with punks or hippies and it’s the norm
Or if you have a soul
I was going to say you can dance if you want to but he seems to be wearing a hat
Home home get em home He’s had too much to drive
That could happen even in 2026. Especially if the fiddle player busts out a sick rendition of Devil Went Down to Georgia.
I would settle for 56 cable channels, FM Radio, and a Sega Genesis levels of stimulation.
Now I’ve gotta have 3 screens simultaneously (phone, laptop, and TV) and a 20 oz Red Bull to feel anything
Amazing sax and violins.
I like to imagine that when the band formed, they played really slow and each time they practiced, they picked up more speed.okay my fingers felt slow before watching that, now they feel really slow
Can I ask where are you from? Not often I see people mentioning traditional romanian music
I live in the US and I love the band Csokolom.
I live in Australia and love the band Monsieur Camembert.
America! I started digging around in that sort of music after seeing a local-ish band play a song described as ‘metal meets eastern European’ - I knew what metal sounded like, had to look up some euro folk.
Lead me down a rabbit hole, learned I love the energy of Romanian folk.
Thats gold ahahaha, nice
Is this Manele?
Sick!!
bad ass! that eastern european fiddle music is awesome
You can dance now, too. This isn’t footloose.
Well, Cher is doing that to me right now.
She does transcend time, though.
