Vuvuzela

It took me a couple hours to buy a couple vuvuzelas locally. I'm more impressed with the markup they get.. got to be 4000%.

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Our kids already regret talking my wife into buying vuvuzelas for them. We use the vuvuzelas to wake them up in the morning :-)

Tell them it could be worse. Army: Trumpet, followed by a LOUD whistle. Then doors banging open and if anyone was found inside still in his bunk bed this whistle was blown at full lung volume, right next to the bunk bed. Worked, made the guy sit straight up, every single time :-)

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Too late. The Queen Mary University of Londen developed an effective filter already.

petrus bitbyter

In the US Army it was Reveille followed by an angry drill sergeant tipping over your bed, if you were still in it.

Did the follow the Reveille with a cannon shot?

Yikes. Ours never did that. Would have been mildly problematic because we had bunk beds, the top part was around 5ft high and heavy steel. But there was talk about the occasional bucket of cold water sloshing into some faces.

What is a "partial". If you mean second harmonic, it is at 470, not

Jim

I didn't mean anything by it, that was a line from wikipedia.

How about a few hemholtz resonators near the tv, And how would that work with thousands of signals out of phase? I added sci.physics.acoustics for their input. MikeK

Reveille and Taps were played over the base wide PA system from a worn record, on a timer. On a base the size of Ft. Knox, a cannon shot wouldn't carry very far. Add in the fact that there was gunfire & grenades going off pretty much around the clock, no one would notice if they did.

It took several times rocking a rack to take it over. The few lazy SOBs that got caught still in their rack jumped out as soon as it started to move.

Who wanted to do that in a W.W. II wood building? Instead, you just went on your Sergeant's shit list for a week. Any dirty job that came up was yours, if you were caught. Not only that, but the other soldiers would get pissed if someone kept screwing up. Fighting got you into more trouble that not getting up fast enough.

That could be fixed but first you'd have to do a welding job on the barrel:

That wouldn't have work at our barrack. We were eight to a small room so the bunk beds were all jammed into each other.

Oh, ours was from the 50's and had wooden floors. The drill sergeant just mad the guys mop it up, and pronto.

Fighting also got you to the top of the shit list with our brass. Earned you challenging jobs such as grout cleaning. With a toothbrush. But across from us there was a tank battalion and those guys had pretty loose fists so occasional fights were sort of normal.

Wowzer!!! You can multiply by two!! Must be some feat of unnatural intelligence going on there!

Is the program close captioned? Turn off the TV sound and turn on the captions.

If you're really industrious, adapt a voice synthesizer to the captions.

A tone that is part of a sound. The first partial is the fundamental. The second partial is the second harmonic (and so on).

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Rooms? These had a platoon on two open floors. There was a pair of metal lockers beside each set of bunk beds. with just enough room to make your bunk, nd for the officer to inspect.

The only time any water was allowed on the floor was to mop the floors, or to put out a fire. They had used so much paste wax on the floors that by the early '70s, it had soaked all the way through the floor boards. i was told that from the time an old barracks caught fire, it was a total loss in nine minutes.

... Instead, you just

Fighting while in Basic earned you another complete cycle in Basic. After that, you would be cort martialed, and spend time behind bars.

BTW, I found this, today:

Was it loud enough to wkae everyone up? Or did some people bring their own loud alarm clocks set go off a few minutes ahead just to be sure they actually woke up?

I would think there'd be more people sitll in their racks due to a prior night's excess alcohol consumption that folks who were just truly lazy? :-)

---Joel

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Oh, I take it that conditions were more spartan at your basic training than ours.

Yeah, they shouldn't have allowed that wax soaking to happen. All it takes is a cigarette and ... whoosh it goes.

We weren't formally charged but there was this dungeon where nobody wanted to go, and of course that episode would be on your records.

Nice. Unfortunately they don't want to play on my PC.

Joerg > Nice. Unfortunately they don't want to play on my PC.

MP3 files??

Quite loud, and an old system with a hum. It was built during W.W.II. The Army didn't allow you to have a radio, electric razor or anything else to tax the electrical system in those old builings. They had a single, 120 V 20A circuit. If some idiot blew he fuse, there was no heat until base maintainence arrived to replace it. It was all part of teaching you to follow the rules.

There was no alcohol availible when you were in basic.

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I doubt the buildings were expected to outlive W.W.II. They were built with what was availible, and mostly by local farmers, and others who were too old to serve. The lumber was rough cut, since there wasn't time to plane everything and make it pretty. They were intended to house soldiers from their first day on base, till they were shipped overseas to fight.

... Instead, you just

You have to click on the little red speaker icons by the text links to hear the bugle calls. The text links take you to more information about each call.