Dying to Say This to You is an EP by Swedish rock group The Sounds. It was sent out as a promotional tool for their album, Dying to Say This to You, released on March 21 2006.
Track listing
# "Song With a Mission" – 2:56
# "Queen of Apology" – 3:05
# "Tony the Beat" – 3:10
Track listing
# "Song With a Mission" – 2:56
# "Queen of Apology" – 3:05
# "Tony the Beat" – 3:10
The Flag Game, otherwise known as Flag Collecting or The Flag Metric, is played among travelers, particularly backpackers or English teachers. Participants try to collect as many flags as they can.
Game play
In order to be awarded a flag, the player must engage in sexual intercourse with a person of the opposite sex who is a citizen of that country. A flag can only be awarded once for each country - e.g. Sleeping with five French girls only counts as one French flag.
Certain regions, such as Hong Kong, Quebec, or the Palestinian Territories, can be counted as separate flags if their population base is ethnically or culturally distinct. However, the person with whom you earn that flag must be a member of that particular ethnic group. So a player can only claim a Quebecois flag through a French-Canadian Quebecois, French Canadians from other provinces or Anglophones from Quebec do not count.
Bonus points are awarded for particularly rare or obscure flags, as well as having a strong diversity in your flags collected.
Disqualifications
A flag cannot be acquired if the player pays for the sex through cash or gifts. Flags cannot be purchased, and must be earned. However, drinks or dinner can be purchased for the potential flag, since this is part of standard dating procedure in many countries.
Transvestites cannot be counted towards a flag, no matter how convincing they appear.
Culture
Due to its informal nature, it is impossible to determine the origins of this game. Like many cultural phenomena, the main benefit to playing is to accumulate "bragging rights." Although it is widely known in backpacker circles around the world, the game has no organized international structure. Because of this, as well as the game's general seediness and the transient nature of its participants, the game is rarely mentioned in traditional media outlets. In other words, those who play rarely admit to it except in the presence of other backpackers. It's not the sort of thing you would expect to crop up on a CNN crawler ("In other news, Chris Sutherland of New Zealand has just shattered the international record for flag collecting").
However, this does not in any way diminish the game's veracity, nor its significance as a cultural phenomenon. Some backpackers live their lives by the game, organizing trips based on the highest density of different nations to enable more efficient flag collecting. Though hardly a tasteful way to spend your holidays, the game is an interesting comment on where the sexual dynamic of the first world has led. Discussions of the gender war or the dating war suddenly come to mind when considering how commodified sexual conquest has become - it's now being outsourced. On the other hand, the existence of such a sordid underground culture leads to questions about sexual repression in Western societies. Promiscuity, in many ways a natural human drive, has become so frowned upon that members of society feel the need to travel halfway around the world in order to escape the social castigation that comes with sexual openness.
Game play
In order to be awarded a flag, the player must engage in sexual intercourse with a person of the opposite sex who is a citizen of that country. A flag can only be awarded once for each country - e.g. Sleeping with five French girls only counts as one French flag.
Certain regions, such as Hong Kong, Quebec, or the Palestinian Territories, can be counted as separate flags if their population base is ethnically or culturally distinct. However, the person with whom you earn that flag must be a member of that particular ethnic group. So a player can only claim a Quebecois flag through a French-Canadian Quebecois, French Canadians from other provinces or Anglophones from Quebec do not count.
Bonus points are awarded for particularly rare or obscure flags, as well as having a strong diversity in your flags collected.
Disqualifications
A flag cannot be acquired if the player pays for the sex through cash or gifts. Flags cannot be purchased, and must be earned. However, drinks or dinner can be purchased for the potential flag, since this is part of standard dating procedure in many countries.
Transvestites cannot be counted towards a flag, no matter how convincing they appear.
Culture
Due to its informal nature, it is impossible to determine the origins of this game. Like many cultural phenomena, the main benefit to playing is to accumulate "bragging rights." Although it is widely known in backpacker circles around the world, the game has no organized international structure. Because of this, as well as the game's general seediness and the transient nature of its participants, the game is rarely mentioned in traditional media outlets. In other words, those who play rarely admit to it except in the presence of other backpackers. It's not the sort of thing you would expect to crop up on a CNN crawler ("In other news, Chris Sutherland of New Zealand has just shattered the international record for flag collecting").
However, this does not in any way diminish the game's veracity, nor its significance as a cultural phenomenon. Some backpackers live their lives by the game, organizing trips based on the highest density of different nations to enable more efficient flag collecting. Though hardly a tasteful way to spend your holidays, the game is an interesting comment on where the sexual dynamic of the first world has led. Discussions of the gender war or the dating war suddenly come to mind when considering how commodified sexual conquest has become - it's now being outsourced. On the other hand, the existence of such a sordid underground culture leads to questions about sexual repression in Western societies. Promiscuity, in many ways a natural human drive, has become so frowned upon that members of society feel the need to travel halfway around the world in order to escape the social castigation that comes with sexual openness.
alchemist was a British power metal band formed in 1985 by bass player Paul Green and drummer Antony Marshall. originally from Monk fryston in North Yorkshire the band stepped up a gear when Antony moved to Flamborough in east Yorkshire. Recruiting Guitar players Nik Schofield and Craig Fletcher and Vocalist Ricky Day. the band had a specialist practice room built for them in late 1989 and from that point they really took off. There first gig was booked just 6 weeks after there first ever practice a fact exacerbated by the fact Ricky Day had not yet joined. the first song written was perennial set opener Soothsayer. this was follower by crowd favorites Tiananmen Square, Nations Health, Built Upon Sand, and Ravens of war. after the first gig singer Ricky Day Left to,as the band puts it 'Pursue his love of good Drugs' and After A support stint with British Thrash Metal Band Reanimator and German's Extreme Noise on which lead guitar Player Nik Schofield sang they Recorded Former Roadie Steve Barker. At this time also Guitar player Craig Fletcher was Fired and Bridlington Based Guitar Player Stuart Gilliland replaced him so forming what is widely regarded as the 'Classic' Line up.
Alchemist recorded in total 9 demos and were never afraid to tackle difficult subjects Built upon sand (Drugs), One by One (teenage suicides), Catalogue of Disasters (environmental issues),Stick and Stones (bullying),Raven of War (the hopelessness of war), and The Classic Lighter shade of Darkness (depression).
Continuing until early 1991 the band eventully disbanded when work commitments and life in general took over. They had attracted interest from Food Records, Roadrunner Records, and Music for Nations in there short life span and although ultimately unsuccessful there songs remain as relevant today as they were then.
As a foot note to all this in 1993 the members of the last incarnation of the band (with the exception of Stuart Gilliland who could not be contacted) Briefly Formed a Hardcore Band Named Rhythm of Fear. Recording a Self titled Demo in 2 days they promptly sold nearly a 1000 copies and had requests for additional material from 2 Major Record Labels. Again they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and the deals offered were not attractive enough.
the Classic line up met up in 2007 for the first time in 16 years and hope to met in 2008 and play a live gig playing both Alchemist and Rhythm of Fear Songs.
Today the members are all in good health.
Alchemist recorded in total 9 demos and were never afraid to tackle difficult subjects Built upon sand (Drugs), One by One (teenage suicides), Catalogue of Disasters (environmental issues),Stick and Stones (bullying),Raven of War (the hopelessness of war), and The Classic Lighter shade of Darkness (depression).
Continuing until early 1991 the band eventully disbanded when work commitments and life in general took over. They had attracted interest from Food Records, Roadrunner Records, and Music for Nations in there short life span and although ultimately unsuccessful there songs remain as relevant today as they were then.
As a foot note to all this in 1993 the members of the last incarnation of the band (with the exception of Stuart Gilliland who could not be contacted) Briefly Formed a Hardcore Band Named Rhythm of Fear. Recording a Self titled Demo in 2 days they promptly sold nearly a 1000 copies and had requests for additional material from 2 Major Record Labels. Again they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and the deals offered were not attractive enough.
the Classic line up met up in 2007 for the first time in 16 years and hope to met in 2008 and play a live gig playing both Alchemist and Rhythm of Fear Songs.
Today the members are all in good health.
TBR , last edited in 2006, is an alternative to Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity. TBR postulates the necessity of force dependence for motion to occur, thus denying that observed relative motion is necessarily real motion. Another postulate being that there is no linear motion in the Universe. Includes a new interpretation of The Lorentz Transformation,
which coincides with the results of the Haffle and Keating Experiment of 1971.
Also, the velocity of light is theorized to be other than constant for observers in all states of motion.
The theory proposes that in the conversion of mass to energy, one half of the mass involved has not been considered and that there is twice the energy released, as previously thought, one half being in a passive state. Theory is given as to how the passive energy may be accessed. One access technique being the utilization of the delay time of the extension of a magnetic field.
Theory is published at:
which coincides with the results of the Haffle and Keating Experiment of 1971.
Also, the velocity of light is theorized to be other than constant for observers in all states of motion.
The theory proposes that in the conversion of mass to energy, one half of the mass involved has not been considered and that there is twice the energy released, as previously thought, one half being in a passive state. Theory is given as to how the passive energy may be accessed. One access technique being the utilization of the delay time of the extension of a magnetic field.
Theory is published at: