Tone of Voice

Lone Star Parson posted a video about soldiers of the Gloucestershire Regiment. I tried watching the video, but the narration repulsed me. I can't explain why exactly, perhaps it sounds like a marketing spiel. Tone of voice has a lot to do with whether I will watch or post a video. Can anyone explain this?

Funnies

10 Video Shorts #6104

10 Video Shorts #6104

L’été des Quatre Saisons de Vivaldi prend vie avec panache [The Summer from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons comes to life with panache.]

Bonhoeffer: Evil and Stupidity

Yuriko Kotani id Brit-ish

Ham Cleaning IX Ham Cutting Competition of Monroyo, Teruel [Spain]

Неофициальный Царь зверей [The Unofficial King of Beasts - Honey badger versus python]

Funny Snooker Frame

Quando lo stampo si rompe… nasce una campana! [When the mold breaks… a bell is born!]

Wake up dude

Rock crushing

Ashley Ottesen questions for God

Lighthouses

It's 90% more efficient. You probably won't like it.
Chris Spargo and 2 more

We've been watching Turn of the Tide which is set in the Azores. There is a big shootout at a lighthouse, and then this video pops up. So now I'm looking at lighthouses in the Azores and there are a bunch of them, so a plotting we go.

Azores Lighthouses

There might be more, this is all of the ones listed on Wikipedia.

Turn of the tide - Netflix

Turn of the tide | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

Pretty great story. A couple of mafiosi from Sicily are trying to sail their sailboat loaded with cocaine from South America to Europe. They run into bad weather near the Azores and their boat is damaged. They eventually anchor near one of the islands. Not quite sure what they were thinking here, but they offload the drugs and stash them in a cave on the shore. Don't want the police to inspect the boat and find a bunch of cocaine on board, I suppose. The bad weather is not quite done and soon packages of cocaine are washing up on the beach, and boy howdy, do things change in town.

The story follows four friends as they attempt to capitalize on this windfall. The four are one smart guy,  our hero Eduardo, Rafael, a local soccer star, his girlfriend, Sylvia, and Carlinhos, a flaming queen. As you might expect, the local police, the mainland police, the local thug and the mafia are all interested in recovering the drugs. Chaos ensues.

The Azores are a long way from anywhere and the dozen or so islands stretch over 400 miles of ocean.

Rabo de Peixe, Azores

Eduardo and Rafael manage to get a hold of several hundred pounds of this coke and stash it in a hole on the Vila Franca Islet:

Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo
Appears at the 1:20 mark in episode 3
Former site of Red Bull Cliff Diving

Azores Whale Watching has a page with several photos of this islet.

Taxes

The Beatles - Taxman
The Beatles

Quotes about taxes stolen from Flares into Darkness:

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

- Calvin Coolidge -

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

- Thomas Paine -

A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.

- Anonymous -

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

- Albert Einstein -

We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

- Leona Helmsley - 

Millwright

Industrial centrifugal water pumps driven by electric motors

Busted nuckles has a fascinating post up about industrial bearing alignment. Your're thinking 'how could industrial bearing alignment be fascinating?' Go read the horror stories in the comments. You might think differently.