Roger Waters is a English songwriter, singer and bassist who was born on this day in 1943. His most famous work is with Pink Floyd’s 4 concept albums, DSOTM, WYWH, Animals and The Wall. He, along with David Gilmour is the “leader” of the band, though they collaborated much more in their earlier albums.
His father was a communist who died in WW2 during the battle of Anzio, which inspired the album The Wall, also inspired by his over-protective mother and feeling of isolation from performance.
The albums he most prominently wrote on were Animals, The Wall and The Final Cut (which did not realize nearly the same amount of praise as the other albums.)
Roger Waters is a avid socialist advocate and anti-Israel person, who raises money and posts videos about various humanitarian issues in the world. A lot of his work on “Animals” is anti-cop, anti-capitalist and pro-revolution, often very obviously.
Roger was inducted along with the rest of Pink Floyd in 1996, and continues to tour to this day.
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In 24 hours the watch gained 1/2 - 1/3 = 1/6 minute. It would seem it would be 5 minutes fast in 5 times 6 = 30 days; that is, the morning of May 31. But already on the morning of May 28 the watch was 27/6 = 4 1/2 minutes fast. At the close of that day the watch gained 1/2 minute more, so it was 5 minutes fast on May 28.
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Andryusha’s first 2 shots got 22 points and Volodya’s first shot got only 3 points. Who hit the bull’s-eye?
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an interesting trend in British politics has been how long parties have been staying in power for the past 40 years. Thatcher was elected in 1979 and stayed in power until 1991, she didn’t even lose an election it was an internal party coup against her. the tories STILL won the GE after that TWICE. Blair came in in 1997 and was PM for a solid 10 years in his own right, where Gordon Brown took over after him, and although Labour had been steadily losing votes every election they were in a strong position, until the financial crisis. David Cameron started off shakey with the first peacetime coalition British government, but stayed as PM for 6 years and won 2 elections, only falling to internal politics over Brexit, Theresa may was much weaker mind you but she still won an election for the tories, and then Boris brought in a massive tory majority and tbh looking at the current opposition is going to be PM in his own right for at least 10 years if you ask me. the fixed term parliaments act was brought in which means elections go from shrug whenever the government calls one, to them being set as 5 year terms now, and Boris won in 2019 and will win in 2024 against Starmer or whatever fucking clown leads labour
so we had tories from 1979-1997, labour 1997 -2010, tories 2010-at least 2029 (reposting this from the old mega because it’s stuck in my brain how weird this is to me)
the only other similarities to this I can think of is the CDU in Germany. but the thing is that the CDU is not one party with an outright majority, it’s a large party within a much larger centre right coalition that has even been in coalition with the SDP. the fluid coalition nature of European politics means that no one party typically can have these huge blocs of power that a majority in the British Parliament gives
US politics you get those 8 year blocks due to how your system works with term limits, but those tend to be very back and forth. there also have been a few modern 1 term presidents like the dang cheeto and Bush Sr
Interesting here in Mexico we had 71 years of PRI, 12 of PAN, 6 of PRI again and now 6 of Morena
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