Scullery maids like Sophie from 'Bridgerton' season four were responsible for taking care of the tasks the rest of the household—even the servants—avoided.

Although Bob Dylan is mainly regarded as one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time, he is also a really good guitar player. Of course, he is not in the same league as the greatest guitarists in history, but he had the opportunity to meet and even work with some of the most influential players during his career. They were fundamental in helping him find the right chords and arrangements for some of his most influential recordings. Over the decades, he has spoken about many incredible guitarists and praised as some of the greatest of all time. 2 guitarists Bob Dylan considers to be among the best of all time Mike Bloomfield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtt4XquYCH4 "Well, Mike Bloomfield, I always thought he should have stayed with me instead of going to Paul Butterfield. That was his point, that was his life to lead, you know. I first heard him when I went to a club in Chicago, (a club called) 'The Bear'. He came and introduced himself, told me who he was and he said he heard my first record (laughs) and said he wanted to show me how the Blues were played (laughs)." "(He said) listen to this, listen to that and I didn't feel much competitive with him. I mean, he could outplay anybody even at that point. When it was time to bring in a guitar player (to play) on my record, I couldn't think of anybody but him. I mean, he was just the best guitar player I ever heard on any level. He could flat pick, he could fingerpick, he looked like he was just born to play guitar, you know. He came into the session carrying his guitar in his paper bag," Bob Dylan said in an interview with Jeff Rosen in 2000 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). A couple of years later, when asked if as a bandleader he had ever played with the perfect guitarist he once again mentioned Bloomfield. "The guy that I always miss, and I think he'd still be around if he stayed with me, actually, was Mike Bloomfield. He could just flat-out play, he had so much soul. (Mike) knew all the styles and he could play them so incredibly well." Bob Dylan continued: "He was an expert player and a real prodigy too, (he) started playing early. But again a lot of good guitarists have played with me. Freddy Tackett, Steve Ripley - Mick Taylor played with me for a minute," Bob Dylan told Rolling Stone in 2009. One of the most talented guitarists of his generation, Mike Bloomfield sadly had a short career compared with his peers. He was a professional musician from 1959 until his death in 1981, at the age of 37, from an accidental overdose. He played electric guitar player on Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited", which had classics like the title-track, "Like a Rolling Stone", "Desolation Row" and "Ballad of a Thin Man". Bloomfield released many solo records and was part of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and The Electric Flag. He also collaborated with several other artists like Peter, Paul and Mary, Moby Grape, Muddy Waters, Janis Joplin and Chuck Berry. George Harrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjzTf9BVLR4&pp=ygUeaWYgbm90IGZvciB5b3UgZ2VvcmdlIGhhcnJpc29u Another guitarist Bob Dylan admired was George Harrison, who was also his bandmate for a time, since they were both members of the supergroup Traveling Wilburys. One of the things that impressed the American songwriter the most about the Beatle was his ability to play unusual chord sequences and find great melodies. Dylan also believed that, he hadn't been part of the Fab Four, Harrison could have been as big as other major acts of that era. “George got stuck with being the Beatle that had to fight to get songs on records because of Lennon and McCartney. Well, who wouldn’t get stuck? If George had had his own group and was writing his own songs back then, he’d have been probably just as big as anybody. George had an uncanny ability to just play chords that didn’t seem to be connected in any kind of way and come up with a melody and a song." "I don’t know anybody else who could do that, either. What can I tell you? He was from that old line of playing where every note was a note to be counted. We’d known each other since the old days, really. I knew the Beatles really early on, all of them,” Bob told Rolling Stone in 2007. Dylan often said that he loved the way Harrison played the guitar, which he described as “restrained and good.” The British musician was a huge fan of Bob, and according to Tom Petty, even used to make his own Dylan bootlegs. “George quoted Bob like people quote Scripture. Bob really adored George, too. He continued: "George used to hang over the balcony videoing Bob while Bob wasn’t aware of it. Bob would be sitting at the piano playing, and George would tape it and listen to it all night. Yeah (he had his own Dylan bootlegs). One day George was hiding in the hedge at the house where we were recording. As everybody flew off, George would rise up out of the bushes with his video going. And he did that with Bob. I think George frightened Bob. When the Wilburys started, George was so reverent of Bob. At the end of the first say, he said, ‘We know that you’re Bob Dylan and everything. But we’re going to just treat you and talk to you like we would anybody else.’ Bob went, ‘Well great. Believe it or not. I’m in awe of you guys. It’s the same for me.'” “I said to George, 'That is really amazing. How you said that to Bob.' George goes, ‘I can say those sort of things. But you can’t.’ (laughs) George adored Bob Dylan, like ‘Dylan makes Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.’ George absolutely adored the Wilburys. That was his baby from the beginning. He went at it with such great enthusiasm. The rest of his life, he considered himself a Wilbury,” Petty told Rolling Stone in 2002. George Harrison passed away in 2001 at the age of 57. One year later, as a tribute, Bob Dylan covered "Something" during a concert in New York.The post 2 guitarists Bob Dylan considers to be among the best of all time appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon on Wednesday sentenced Ryan Routh to spend the rest of his life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump on his Florida golf course in September 2024. Before handing down the sentence, Cannon rebuked Routh's actions and called him an "evil" man, West Palm Beach ABC affiliate WPBF reported. Cannon issued a life sentence plus an additional seven years in prison based on the second count of the indictment...

As a kid, we want fun stuff for Christmas—and we can't fathom a day where we'll grow up and starting asking for boring things like vacuums and new dish towels. But the day inevitably comes when your wish list changes. As we get older, way may want video games, make up or skincare, clothes, or whatever water bottle all the kids are using (anything to fit in, right?) But even still, it's almost impossible to wrap your head around the mindset of a true grown up. Sweaters? Gift cards to Home Goods? Candles? Boooooooring!Seventh grade teacher Mr. Frakes routinely asks his students to give their observations on various aspects of adulthood to post on his TikTok—everything from “things parents love to say” to reactions to old school songs to guessing the “worst parts about adulting." The answers are always hilarious…if not a little brutal to us olds. His Christmas edition from 2023 is no different. Middle schoolersCanva PhotosMr. Frakes asked his students, “What do you buy someone in their 30s for the holidays?” And the adults who saw the video can’t help but commend the accuracy.Frakes had the kids write their ideas on green sticky notes and edited together a TikTok video showing them all in succession. The list is as follows, verbatim:“Measuring cups…bwahaha.”“"Signs that say ‘Bless The Home.’”“A Dyson vacuum.”“A bottle of wine and hip implants.”“Panera bread gift card. People in their 30s love soup!”“Bingo cards.”“You give them Bath & Body Works stuff. That’s what my mom wants!”“Expensive meats.”“Hard Candies.”“Candy Crush Premium.”“You get them old people candles that smell like ‘home’ or ‘back then.’”“T.J. Maxx gift card.”“The wrinkle creams.”“Heated blanket cause their muscles be hurtin.”“A coffee mug that says ‘don’t talk to me til I’ve had my coffee’ because they’re all coffee obsessed millennials.”“A lawyer for the divorce attorney. (fight for the kids).”The entire video is a worth a watch: @7thgradechronicles Its me. I’m 30s.

Learning a new skill, such as playing an instrument, gardening, or picking up a new language, takes a lot of time and practice, whether that means scale training, learning about native plants, or using flashcards to memorize new words. To improve through practice, you have to perform the task repeatedly and receive feedback so you know whether you’re doing it correctly. Is my pitch correct? Did my geraniums bloom? Is my pronunciation understandable?However, a new study by researchers at the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon shows that you can speed up these processes by adding a third element to practice and feedback: passive exposure. The good news is that passive exposure requires minimal effort and is enjoyable."Active learning of a... task requires both expending effort to perform the task and having access to feedback about task performance," the study authors explained. "Passive exposure to sensory stimuli, on the other hand, is relatively effortless and does not require feedback about performance." A woman reading a book.via Canva/PhotosHow to pick up new skills faster?So, if you’re learning to play the blues on guitar, listen to plenty of Howlin’ Wolf or Robert Johnson throughout the day. If you’re learning to cook, keep the Food Network on TV in the background to absorb some great culinary advice. Learning to garden? Take the time to notice the flora and fauna in your neighborhood or make frequent trips to your local botanical garden.If you’re learning a new language, watch plenty of TV and films in the language you are learning. The scientists add that auditory learning is especially helpful, so listen to plenty of audiobooks or podcasts on the subject you’re learning about.But, of course, you also have to be actively learning the skill as well by practicing your guitar for the recommended hours each day or by taking a class in languages. Passive exposure won't do the work for you, but it's a fantastic way to pick up things more quickly. Further, passive exposure keeps the new skill you're learning top-of-mind, so you're probably more likely to actively practice it. What is passive exposure?Researchers discovered the tremendous benefits of passive exposure after studying a group of mice. They trained them to find water by using various sounds to give positive or negative feedback, like playing a game of “hot or cold.” Some mice were passively exposed to these sounds when they weren't looking for water. Those who received this additional passive exposure and those who received active training learned to find the water reward more quickly. A woman tending to her garden.via Canva/Photos “Our results suggest that, in mice and in humans, a given performance threshold can be achieved with relatively less effort by combining low-effort passive exposure with active training,” James Murray, a neuroscientist who led the study, told University of Oregon News. “This insight could be helpful for humans learning an instrument or a second language, though more work will be needed to better understand how this applies to more complex tasks and how to optimize training schedules that combine passive exposure with active training.”The one drawback to this study was that it was conducted on mice, not humans. However, recent studies on humans have found similar results, such as in sports. If you visualize yourself excelling at the sport or mentally rehearse a practice routine, it can positively affect your actual performance. Showing, once again, that when it comes to picking up a new skill, exposure is key.The great news about the story is that, in addition to giving people a new way to approach learning, it’s an excuse for us to enjoy the things we love even more. If you enjoy listening to blues music so much that you decided to learn for yourself, it’s another reason to make it an even more significant part of your life. - YouTube www.youtube.com This article originally appeared last year.

American accents are a ton of fun, and they're far more varied than most of us even realize. For example, the Baltimore dialect shares some dialectical DNA with the accent you find in other Northeastern cities like Philadelphia. Baldamor, hon! There's the New England dialects, most famously the Boston accent: Pahk the cah at Havahd yahd! The New York accent is world famous, as is the deep Southern twang, which gives way to a thick Cajun accent the closer you get to the water in Florida and Louisiana. These are all different versions of the greater American dialect. But there is one place, a tiny island off the coast of North Carolina, where a few residents speak in such a unique way that it's not even identified as American by most people around the world. If you thought you'd heard it all, wait until you get an earful of this one.Ocracoke, North Carolina, is home to a unique dialect called the Brogue: A strange blend of American Southern, Old Elizabethan English, with little bits of Irish and even Australian thrown in. The Ocracoke light station.Kari Nousiainen/FlickrThe Brogue, also known as Hoi Toider, is absolutely fascinating to hear in action. When you watch interviews with the locals of the island, they at first appear to be speaking a form of deep American southern—you can hear the twang the way you might in parts of Georgia of Alabama. But then, without warning, a word or phrase will slip out that sounds distinctly British. Old English even. Then you'll swear you hear a bit of Irish. - YouTube www.youtube.com The dialect owes its roots to a surprising source: Pirates.Pirates loved to hide out on Ocracoke as the island is incredibly remote, about 20 miles from the mainland of North Carolina. Even today there are no bridges or flights to Ocracoke; it can only be reached by a (quite lengthy) boat ride. Eventually, the island was actually purchased by the Blackbeard's quartermaster (yes, that Blackbeard), William Howard, where he created something of a pirate settlement. English sailors and Native American tribes also passed through and had their own unique impact on the culture and developing language of the island.In case have your doubts about the island's buccaneerish roots: "In one popular island legend, Ocracoke comes from the phrase, 'Oh, crow cock,' which was spoken by the infamous pirate Blackbeard as he waited to do battle at sunrise with the governor’s forces that had come to capture him," writes a guide from NC State University.The dialect had a lot of room to develop without much outside influence. The BBC's Brian Carlton writes, "Howard's community lived in near-isolation for almost two centuries. Electricity didn't arrive at the island until 1938 and a ferry service didn't start until 1957, leaving the islanders cut off except for the occasional supply trip to the mainland."That's why Hoi Toider is still alive to this day, although its speaking population has dwindled.Here are a few hallmark phrases of the unique dialect: A "dingbatter" is anyone not from the island; a tourist. An "O'Cocker" is anyone born on the island of Ocracoke. A "buck" is a good male friend, while a "puck" is a female friend. The Brogue uses "weren't" liberally for singular nouns ("The sun weren't out yesterday.") and frequently adds an "a" in front of verbs. ("We went a-fishin' this morning.")But to fully appreciate Hoi Toider, you've got to hear it in action: - YouTube www.youtube.com Experts say that as awesome as the Brogue is, it will likely disappear within the next 50 years.Though the island remains about as remote as it comes, in 2025 there's no escaping the influence of social media, television, and film. Every generation born on the island is a smidge less-adoptive of the Brogue than the one that came before.It will probably be mostly gone in the next couple of generations, which feels like a tragedy. Instead of "dingbatter" and "buck," the kids will be saying "Skibidi toilet" and "rizz." OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but young people growing up on the island won't be as immersed in the language as their elders and will begin to speak more and more like your average American. - YouTube www.youtube.com There's a concept called culture homogenization. It's the idea that over time, because of technology and globalization, unique individual cultures from around the world will all start to look more and more the same. It's why you see fast food restaurants directly next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and people all over the globe listening to the same handful of musical artists. The Ocracoke ferry.Kari Nousiainen/FlickrOcracoke has managed to hang on longer than most places due to how difficult it is to reach. Here's hoping that the Ocracoke Brogue can survive somehow, some way, in little pockets of the island. It's just too dang cool and interesting to go away just yet.This article originally appeared last year. It has been updated.

Spray tans are seemingly the perfect answer for people who want a summer glow year-round. Not only is the application time quick (some take as little as 5 minutes), sprays tans also deliver sun-kissed skin without excessive UV exposure, essential for reducing the risk of skin cancer and premature excess wrinkles.If you've never had a spray tan before, you may have lots of questions like: how long does a spray tan last? How do you care for your skin after getting a spray tan? And how can you make your spray tan last longer?These are exactly the queries a woman on TikTok named Miss Redacted had after getting her first spray tan. But when given the instructions for how to extend the life of her spray tan through "proper care," she was left flabbergasted. @awalmartparkinglot Spray tan aftercareSpray tans take time to "develop" on the skin, so she was not surprised to receive the rundown on making sure her skin remained glowingly sun-kissed for as long as possible. What she wasn't expecting was the lack of care. Or maybe the better description would be the lack of hygiene required to maintain her newly tanned skin."Recently I got a spray tan for the first time because I really like being tan but I don't want to have wrinkles later because I'm obviously very vain. So I went the first time and I expected that I wouldn't be able to shower normally for the first 12-24 hours, and that didn't bother me that much because I'm like, okay, I understand the tan has to set in. I can be gross for a half a day, a day max, whatever, it's not that serious," Miss Redacted says before explaining the woman who did her spray tan began talking her through the process. - YouTube www.youtube.com The confused woman recalls a roommate in college who used to get spray tanned all the time as she put the pieces together on hygiene and spray tans. She tells the person doing her spray tan that she generally showers twice a day using soap and a silicone scrubber to wash her entire body, to which the spray tan artist immediately tells her not to use the scrubber on her body because it will take her tan off."I was like, 'Oh so don't use it the first shower?' and she was like 'No, like not at all.' And I was like 'What should I use instead of that?'" the first-time customer explains.She was shocked to hear the artist tell her that she needed to switch to a washcloth and only use it to wash her, "underarms, your bikini area, and under your bra line." Again, Miss Redacted clarifies that means for the first shower only, but the artist reiterates not to put soap on your body "at all" for the first shower, only using a washcloth in the areas she previously mentioned. Once again, the woman was dumbfounded and asks again, what the spray tan artist means. A woman gets a spray tan applied to her skin.Photo credit: Canva"Because I got down this rabbit hole, I started reading about it on Reddit and some of the ways that girls were saying they maintained their spray tans is absolutely insane. Absolutely insane. Like y'all need a bath. Y'all need a...actually a hose down. Let's like put you in the yard with some Dawn, like you're one of the ducks in an oil spill. I think that's what's needed at this point," the woman jokes before clarifying that she doesn't think every woman getting spray tanned is avoiding bathing.But when it comes to the ick factor over the ones who have been skipping the shower for weeks at a time, the woman isn't the only one feeling the heebie jeebies. Commenters are also shocked and a little grossed out.This article originally appeared two years ago. It has been updated.

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