Rotterdam or Anywhere Song meaning

According to Paul Heaton from the Band the Beautiful South, He wrote the song 'Rotterdam or Anywhere' when he went to a very unfriendly bar in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. They didn't like him and were trying to make excuses to make him leave because he was dressed a bit scruffy and looked a bit drunk. 

He was pointing out that people are like pickles, dull and all the same. They have a khaki personality. People in most modern cities value superficial things like being well dressed and all behaving the same and don't like people that match up to their status. 

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When I was a young boy, I thought the song was about bricks and concrete. I'm not sure why, perhaps because bricks are used in every city and made all the buildings look the same. They played that song often in the '90s.  

Cashew Apple

Cashew nuts come from the Cashew tree with an accessory fruit attached to it. The fruit is commonly known as a cashew apple. 

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They're not exported to the north western countries because they don't last very long. 

People that eat them consider them to taste like a mixture of a pear and cucumber with lemon juice added. Cashew apples are often boiled in water to make them into a juice drink or Chutney. 

In the Air Tonight Lyrics

Phil Collins claims he wrote the song 'In the air tonight' as a response to the breakdown of his first marriage and divorce in 1980. 

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The song is filled with strong emotions and phrases. 

Hotel California

According to Don Fedler and Don Hendly, eagles band musicians, the Song 'Hotel California' is not about a hotel or the state of California. It is about transitioning from innocence to maturity in a materialistic society. 

The song is about the ups and downs of living the American lifestyle and is filled with metaphorical phrases. Some of the lyrics reflect the life experiences of the band members. 

The beauty of this song is that it is like a poem, people listening can add their own meaning to it. 

I recall wondering what they meant by "she's Tiffany-Twisted". Perhaps it means their partner is obsessed with expensive designer items. 

Scratch Card AI

I asked some AI systems to draw a cat playing a scratch card. These ai systems weren't originally designed to draw images, they are language models. 

Gemini (New Google Assistant) 

chatGPT (Open Ai ) It even gave the cat a coin to scratch with. 

Grok (X.ai) 

What do you think? 

Fastest Spacecraft

According to NASA, the fastest spacecraft ever made is the Parker solar probe going very close around the sun on a highly elliptical orbit. It is traveling 430,000 miles per hour, over a million kilometres per hour. There is a shield on it made of carbon foam that is stopping the  spacecraft from melting in the sun's intense heat, but it is very close to the star. 

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If you go within 4 million miles of the sun's surface, you need to be moving fast to achieve orbit. Otherwise the intense gravity of the sun you pull you down. The speed is to stop the probe cascading down to the surface of the sun. 

London Underground

The Metro rail system in London is largest in the world when the overground network is also considered. 

The standard tube network alone consists is of 402 km of railroad. This makes it the 3rd largest in the world. 

There is also a large overground network throughout London. 

There are many instances when a street will have two train stations on it with a 5 to 10 minutes walk between them; Places like frogmore and Eastcoat. 

Plus there are trams and lite robotic trains(DLR). London is so crammed with trains that there is always a station nearby.