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Perun said:
In Berlin, a child died of the measles. :facepalm:
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In the debate pages of the newspaper I subscribe to (Aftenposten), there was a post the other day from a guy calling the measles a "harmless" disease. He also claimed that the reduction in deaths from this and other diseases had much more to do with better hygiene and health care and not with vaccination (as if an efficient vaccination program were not an integral part of "better health care" ...), and he asked rhetorically whether Andrew Wakefield would become the next Semmelweiss.

I was happy to see that today they printed a reply where each of his points were put in their right place (i.e. the nonsense drawer).
 
You know, this is one of those moments when you lose hope for mankind. I'm sure the parents of this child thought of themselves as truly critical minds - this meaning being critical of everything except their own viewpoint. I wonder when we'll get a smallpox outbreak.
 
Well, the smallpox are considered truly eradicated - people aren't vaccinated against it anymore because it simply isn't necessary. If some terrorist gets hold of the virus though ...
 
Today I bought day tickets to a festival in Kent called Ramblin Man Fair so my friend and I can go to see Dream Theater (Scorpions, Saxon and Blue Oyster Cult are also playing). Afterwards we're going to mess around in Maidstone overnight and get the train to London in the morning.

In the last hour I bought a day ticket for Reading festival so I can see Metallica again. I spent a lot of money today.
 
After being on and off with my album reviews - and after catching up on some classics that I've never heard - I'm probably going to start a 2015 series catching up with some new releases (Venom, Blind Guardian, Napalm Death namely).
 
It's the critical instrument, along with the vocals of course. Once you get past the bass solo at the start - which is a very easy solo, the whole song is easy - no one cares about the bassist after the bass solo. No one cares about the drummer. But every person in the joint knows the words and guitar solos note for note. Every person there can sing along, and some will (guitar solo too). If you stray too far, you blow it - and this song gives you one of the shortest leashes you'll ever be tied to. If it wasn't such a great song, the perfection required would actually be annoying.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
It's the critical instrument, along with the vocals of course. Once you get past the bass solo at the start - which is a very easy solo, the whole song is easy - no one cares about the bassist after the bass solo. No one cares about the drummer. But every person in the joint knows the words and guitar solos note for note. Every person there can sing along, and some will (guitar solo too). If you stray too far, you blow it - and this song gives you one of the shortest leashes you'll ever be tied to. If it wasn't such a great song, the perfection required would actually be annoying.
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Fortunately, our guitarist is a huge G'n'R fan, he'll practice that solo until he can play it in his sleep.

We're actually planning a music quiz. We'll play medleys from different genres, Sweet Child is going to be a bonus afterwatds. I'll play guitar in the metal medley, keyboards in the others, and bass in the "encore" :)
 
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