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antigravitytapes78 karma

THIS! I lost a green party hat and a bunch of masks/santa hats back in the day (they were worth around 20 mil each and i got the money from getting 99 wc) and it really messed 12yo me up for a while. I stopped playing entirely and was devastated. the idea that kids could fall prey to scammers trying to move partyhats around for RL money is so sad. honestly it was a bit traumatizing at the time and im still sour that i had to quit playing the way i did.

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In a BBC documentary i remember how the castrati have larynxes of a boy and yet vocal tracts and lung capacity of a man, allowing them to do physically impossible feats only accomplished today with falsettos.

https://youtu.be/S8ZAraf5wMc?t=9m6s

Does someone like Jimmy Scott have the same situation anatomy-wise? Because if one's voice "breaks" then you arent really castrati, correct?

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thanks for the reply! i didnt expect an answer and was hesitant to ask, but ive always been fascinated by the castrati. its just amazing to me that there are pieces of music out there that modernity cannot experience simply because there arent castrati anymore.

I can see why one would continue treatment, but there is part of me that wishes i could hear such a voice in my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjvfqnD0ws

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can you hit high notes like a castrati?

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Jefferson and Washington weren't threatening treason/succession if they didn't get to have their racist ways. Maybe given the opportunity they would have, but they didnt because they were alive 70 years before the Southern states really gained a sense of independence and culture/economy rooted in slavery. Just look at a map of the colonies vs what Robert E. Lee was dealing with, and then rethink the situation.

In this thread I've already ran across 3 or 4 notable people that are myth worthy that arent racists, so its not that hard to find. Personally I like certain Southern singers like Blaze Foley. And sorry but you cant ignore the pain that blues and country music inherently contains, because thats just the history of it all. it isnt pretty but you make things better by being better and not holding onto old bigoted ways or statues.