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I didn't exactly hear Muse, but they're on the Apple website for the new iPod touch
http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/design/
Scroll down and Uprising is on the picture for multi-touch
Ditto for a Radio Shack circular from two or three weeks ago... they used the cover artwork for The Resistance in a pic of a cellphone (or maybe it was an MP3 player; I don't remember).
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There is a thing called confidentiality today... (although I do suspect colleagues will talk amongst themselves as you've said... but throughout the UK medical community...?)
Also its not really a big deal, confetti damaged his tastebuds. And it isn't as if finding out what happened and then finding a treatment will do the general population much good - as they don't eat confetti. Who is going to waste money funding a research paper on dangers of eating confetti.
Also Sanderson, just go to the doctor. They won't be so shocked and it is all confidential. Do you have any other symptoms apart from the salty taste such as fever? tiredness?
You tried MDMA?!?!?!
There's no violation of patient confidentiality when it's anonymous (and maybe somewhat discreet in other respects, as in censoring unique details that might make it possible to identify the patient.) This kind of medical human-interest story even makes the news on a regular basis, as with stories, often with X-rays, of people who improbably survived getting impaled in the head with a length of steel rebar or whatnot. The journal write-up I had in mind would be of the short blurb/humorous anecdote variety, BTW.
And there's definitely a number of doctors who keep collections of the oddball cases, and I'd guess that virtually all doctors enjoy gossiping about such cases on occasion. I've seen one such collection myself -- compiled by a radiologist aunt who had a freakshow stash of X-rays she'd quietly collected over the course of her career. And years ago I read online about one doctor (I'm pretty sure he was working in a hospital emergency room at one time, but that doesn't necessarily rule out his being a gastroenterology or proctology resident or what have you) who collected case histories of, er, unusual rectally-inserted objects that got stuck -- and eventually wrote them up (as a general phenomenon) for a journal. (And there's a lot more of those cases out there than you probably think.) Other oddball categories include: objects stuck in vaginas, huge bezoars, all sorts of swallowed objects, penile injuries stemming from kinky misuses of suction pumps, vacuum cleaners, etc., and even kinky, sometimes fatal accidents involving heavy machinery like forklifts.
[snip]That's really cool! I wanted to be an archeologist when I was a kid. Not sure why I changed my mind, really.If it's any consolation, I read once that it takes on average about twelve frickin' years to earn a Ph.D. in that field, due to the expense and difficulties (some practical, some political) of accessing dig sites. The doctoral student will select a subject and begin the dig, only to be interrupted by a military coup or civil war or an insurgency of some sort... or they get sickened by a local bug or parasite that sends them back home for medical treatment... perhaps qualifying as an oddball case for some doctor's file!
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MDMA?
Really?
Maybe he's trying to get warm & fuzzy feelings about the persistent salty taste. But yeah, this is one guy who really shouldn't be doing any more drugs.
It's easy to laugh at salanderson, but there's a very good chance he's making some unenviable medical history here, and that his case will be published in a medical journal someday (or written up in an otolaryngology blog or somesuch). Doctors love oddball cases and gossiping -- er, consulting and comparing notes -- about them, so at the very least his story will circulate through the UK medical community...
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This thread is like the best public-service anti-marijuana advert ever. Good thing salanderson didn't try a balloon fragment; he might've choked to death or succumbed to anaphylactic shock as a result of latex allergy. But seriously...
Okay, after laughing about a few minutes towards your expense and this thread......My wild guess is that how they shot out the confetti is like those party poppers. If so, the saltiness is from the potassium nitrate or whatever else is in the mixture of the gunpowder. It'll go away soon enough.
I think altrocker's definitely onto something, but after looking up a few terms in Wiki, my utterly WAG is that what the OPer is tasting is a trace of an alkali metal sulfide, potassium sulfide, left on the streamer by the combustion of potassium nitrate, aka saltpeter, a key component of gunpowder.
Wembley-goers, did any of you happen to notice any lilac-colored flames from the streamer cannons? (Lilac is the characteristic color of potassium combustion.)
It seems unlikely that the offending substance is potassium nitrate because, its likely combustion aside, that stuff is used and ingested in various ways, from curing meats to being a toothpaste additive. But the product of its combustion is readily soluble in water (or saliva), resulting in potassium bisulfide and potassium hydroxide. And that would probably taste very nasty indeed.
What troubles me about salanderson's story is the persistence of the taste; either this is unexpectedly serious (a chemical burn of some sort on his tongue maybe?) or a big wind-up. Another avenue to investigate: they say that most of our sense of taste is actually situated in our sinuses; maybe what's plaguing salanderson is some trace residue lodged in his sinus cavities, and maybe what he needs to be doing is not just swishing various substances in his mouth, but also irrigating his sinuses with a neti pot or inhaling saline water vapor or something. (But don't do anything without a doctor's instruction!)
I don't know what the OPer can do to neutralize those compounds, but he might want to mention all this to his doctors when he sees 'em.
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I'd be happy if Muse chucked some of the riffs they've played the most in recent years and used more of their own material, like "Execution Commentary". Only I'm not satisfied with the "EC" riffing they've done in the past; they should revisit the breakdown section and use that part especially; it's really heavy and it'd be a great substitute for the "Maggie's Farm" riff and maybe the "Headup" riff. See
: :50 - 1:12 for the first breakdown and 1:34 - 2:13 for the second. (Not that the original faster riffage isn't great too; it is, but I think the breakdowns would better suit what they've been doing for outro solos generally.)Question: do they have to pay other artists royalties for the in-concert riffage?
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"Starlight" on MSNBC this morning, between touting some upcoming news story and a commercial break. It played for a good ten seconds or so.
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"MK Ultra" on NBC just a couple of minutes ago, in their intro to the US/Switz men's hockey game starting now!
(This is the perfect moment for New Jersey Muse fan MK Ultra, he of the hockey-star avatars... USA Olympic hockey, "MK Ultra"... dude, where are you?)
On Edit: this was non-diagetic, BTW, added to the video montage in the studio, for the TV audience only. There's some rock music piped in the arena, too (that would be diagetic use of music)... I just heard a snatch of Bruce Springsteen a minute ago.
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Just sighted [???], er, heard, the first use of Muse on NBC's Olympics coverage, with "Uprising".
It's a start...
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I forgot to mention that the BBC piece aired on my local public radio station this morning mentioned Muse and Matt Bellamy specifically as a rare (one of only two) examples of post-millenium artists to make the list (Top 20, anyway). The BBC anchorman mentioned that he knows his daughter "is really into Muse" and added that that makes him sound really old, doesn't it?
Two more bumpers on the ABC college football game: an "Uprising" "woo-woo!" bit on an outro, and a very nice extended bit complete with identifying info for the return.
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The BBC America news program this morning had a segment on the MusicRadar.com readers' poll on the greatest guitar riff of all time, and "PIB" came in at #12 -- a result virtually identical to the Total Guitar readers' poll from five years ago. Here's the article on the poll from The Telegraph U.K.
Instead of Uprising they... they played RESISTANCE I was watching a college football game here in the US
Cincy-Illinois on ABC? I heard that too... just a few seconds' worth on the bumper leading to a commercial break, but it was nice to hear! The Illini seem to be putting up a better resistance themselves at the moment; too bad they were letting the game get out of control earlier.
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In the Miami -- North Carolina game on ESPN, Brian Griese just used the phrase "collateral damage" in his final comments on a series, followed by the bumper to the commercial break. The song on the bumper was [a few seconds' worth of] "Uprising".
Well, I wouldn't expect a sports program to use USE, now...
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ESPN college football night (USF v Rutgers) the little break before the commercial they played a small clip of 'Uprising'. Yeah awesome.
And they just did it again... woo-hoo!
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Yeah, it only took watching a few clips from the HAARP concert to convert me... I bet the typical Muse-fan conversion process has a remarkably low threshold of concert exposure. Sounds like the kind of thing that would be fun (and funny) to put to a scientific study.
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Beg pardon. I was thinking about the shout-outs you might get by wearing the logo...
You've got seven more Muse T's than I do! You could have yourself a whole Muse week!
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Wow, steved1998, you've put up a LOT of videos of both bands... good work! I've watched most of your Muse ones, and a smattering of the U2 ones. That was a nice finish by Matt on "PiB," and it's touching how he tried to move around in "SmBH," despite the tiny confines of the inner ring, everything sounded great, and you really captured the feel of being on the floor.
I noticed that generally your Muse videos have had more views than your U2 ones; out of curiosity, have you publicized your clips on the U2.com (or similar) as you have here? (If you've only posted the link in Muse.mu, then the disparity is easily enough explained. But if you've publicized them in both, I wonder if the U2 site has been so flooded with links to clips that there's not enough eyeballs per video, or if there's less 'Net savvy in that camp, or a shallower fan interest -- or a combination of the above.)
Regards,
Stephanie
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Hi again, sanduca,
You've touched upon a tricky issue there. It's great that your cousin and her husband are interested in Muse, but it wouldn't be entirely fair to the band to just "give them copies of their albums," would it?
Might I suggest you direct them to the free and legal content online, like YouTube videos (you could even supply a short list of your faves), the audio and video downloads on Microcuts.net (ditto), and of course this website... and tactfully add that perusing this material will help them to better understand what's out there and refine their choices... for when they eventually make their purchases. That way you're helping them to get an immediate fix for free, while helping Muse's bottom line in the long run.
Regards,
Stephanie
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Welcome, sanduca!
Sounds like you had a great time at the show. There's a lot of people in your neck of the woods, so I'm sure you're not the only Muse fan around... do you have any Musewear?
Cheers,
Stephanie
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Welcome, steved1998!
Great pics, man! You got really up close and personal!
Whoa, I had to look up your town on the map... you're way out in the sticks, aren't you? I bet that's lovely countryside out there, esp. this time of year.
Stephanie
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Nice pics, Jennifer! Thanks so much for putting them up here! On edit: did you have much trouble with security? Did you have to smuggle your camera?
Did you see the playlist for tonight? They got "PiB"! ::envy::
There's some approving comments by the U2 fans over at U2.com, after their first Muse exposure.
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Hi, fellow countrymen, Musers, and patriots,
I've established a new social movement/group, "Equal Representation (USA wing)" (the "Boston Tea Party" avatar).
All are welcome to join, even those who question the proposed reforms, one for the International forum, and the other for the Banter forum. As for the former, I propose the general devolving of thread control to the users of the International forum, regardless of nationality.
As for the Banter forum, I call upon the mods to enforce greater access (and respect) for Americans and other foreign nationals there, esp. with respect to publicizing our social groups (social groups being moderator Kev's proposed solution to our bantering needs). (But just in case they fail to recognize this plank, I've established an omnibus thread in "Other Muse Matters" for the announcement of all new social groups.)
I hope to see you there!
Regards,
Stephanie
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Announce the establishment of your own national chapters of the Equal Representation movement in this thread.
Further, for the time being, any further communiques, memos, proposals for combined actions, etc., words of advice, and anything else -- please post them in this thread, as well.
Thank you, and best wishes and good luck to all of you,
Stephanie ("Trilateral_Symmetry_Com'n.")
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Have the mods ever seriously contemplated just how impractical and virtually impossible it is for foreign nationals to strike up local friendships, coordinate activities, and even just banter with each other in a single omnibus thread... and how the unwieldiness of this arrangement hinders the flourishing of international communities of Muse fans?
The mods don't even tolerate our announcing the formation of our social groups in the Banter forum, which is crucial to the publicizing and growth of these networks. (Or would they permit our posting such announcements in the "Other Muse Matters" forum? I doubt it.) This whole system smacks of national double standards and, frankly, insensitivity to the needs of a rapidly growing population of overseas Muse fans!
Stephanie
Trilateral_Symmetry_Com'n.
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Kev said that really, the Social Groups route is really the only feasible way to create any sort of region/state specific network. It seems to me that those groups are rarely visited, though. I think people forget about them, and they're not as easy to access as threads.musemom's absolutely right, and the moderator's response is unacceptable. If Kev wasn't so clueless, he'd realize that by his own logic, U.K. Musers themselves wouldn't need more than a single Banter thread to serve their equivalent needs and could simply get by with their own social groups! (And I think that even he would have to see just how unworkable and unacceptable that would be.) [TBC...]
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Hi there, fellow Muse fans and patriots,
I was motivated to start this after what happened after I dared announce the existence of a New Jersey social group in the Banter forum: the quickly-closed "'Jersey Mafia" announcement of 9/22/09 in Banter (no link possible, as the thread was locked); the USA International forum thread (p. 142) for a parallel announcement and reaction to events.
I'm confident that in short order, most users of the USA de-facto banter thread in International will welcome the proposed expansion of US threads in that forum, and/or equal access to the Banter forum. Support for the former proposal has already picked up some momentum, and musemom contacted moderator Kev to get our permission to establish geographically-inspired threads in International, to be grouped in a USA subforum (see p. 143 of the thread). This was Kev's response: [TBC due to length]
Instead of Uprising they... they played RESISTANCE 
Where have you heard Muse?
in Muse In the Media
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The Jets/Bills game on CBS: Uprising and Resistance in the 1rst quarter. (And given that the game has little or no playoff implications, catching Muse tunes is arguably the best reason to watch it.)