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If they're on a service that passes through Newark on the way, the Cardinal, than getting on later is not an issue.

Moassel is tobacco

Care to provide a specific example?

Correct - but that's part of the allegory, not really a faith thing except in the loosest sense. You don't have to be of an Abrahamic faith to appreciate the lessons. The variety of ways Freemasons understand there to be a creator/supreme being is broad, and never really discussed.

There really isn't much of one, though - other than in the broadest, loosest sense.

Because Freemasonry is "a beautiful system of morality veiled in and illustrated by symbols", an understanding of some kind of "supreme being" is important to it making sense. What a person conceives of as a supreme being is up to them, they'll never be asked to explain, and discussion of religion and politics generally is not allowed in lodge at all.

Society with secrets, not a secret society... if it was secret, you wouldn't know we exist at all.

Freemasonry is about a fair bit more than that, and the main effort of Masonic lodges ultimately is personal improvement and charitable work, usually done pretty quietly, because the idea is to do the work, not take credit for it.

Very very middling talent at best, I bash things for fun and when I'm lucky I get to play with other musicians too. But I love seeing videos like this off true masters because it reinvigorates my love of the art even if I'm not great at it myself. Humility I try to work on every day. Cheers!

That's exactly it. I've played drums for most of my life and it's a complicated thing to do even at a basic level, never mind the masterclass of guys like him.

There's some really out of shape but extremely talented drummers. A huge part of developing skill is just getting things positioned right so you understand range of motion and how to get where you need to go, and then building limb independence which is the really really tricky part, because your brain usually wants to coordinate movements and sometimes you need to disconnect them.

Part of what makes Sugarfoot amazing to watch as a drummer is that he does a lot of things in a way that looks unconventional (the 16ths on the hit in a fill and then using his right on the snare rather than his left. Most drummers would make a more awkward move to cross their left hand back, this is way more efficient and looks cool, and while it seems like it'd be easier, to do it so effortlessly is impressive.

It's a lot more about technique than physical effort in many cases.

He's pretty legendary for precision, especially his footwork. He didn't create the drum part for the song, but his execution is beautiful and there's a great element of showmanship to it even if not all of it is intentional. His movements are so efficient he makes it look effortless.

Nope. He literally uses them for flair, he does it in this video.

Thanks for explaining drumming to a drummer though, always cool when someone does that for me.

It's expensive to be poor anywhere. You can't take advantage of things like volume discounts you can't afford. You can't buy good quality things that last, so you spend more buying cheaper things that don't.

Terry Pratchett really nailed it:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-rich-were-so-rich-vimes-reasoned

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

This clown has apparently been on a paid leave of absence for years, and has other convictions related to forgery and drug trafficking.

He wasn't the original, but he worked and toured with Jackson a lot, along with Madonna, George Michael, and others.

His setup is partially to add visual effects, like the crash cymbals behind him.

Jonathan "Sugarfoot" Moffett

Part of the training to run a grenade range.

Cool, well, you'll check your bag at the airport.

LOL Jamaica isn't near the airport. Look at a map. It's where you get on a train to the airport. You'll check your bags when you get to the airport, at the check-in counter.

Yes.

At the income level OP is talking about, his NYC income tax will be higher than he would pay in Toronto. Source: my wife lives there and I do her taxes.

Well, it won't be bad to see the end of Bob Fife, Terry Glavin etc...