Barrel organ tweets for July 2017

Twitter’s death agony probably won’t continue for very long, so I’ve written a PHP script to parse their JSON output and post it here. I’ll improve presentation when I’ve got a mo.

SingingOrganGrinder
@elorganillero

Bio: Kazoo Academy & Barrel Organ Disco/Yorkshire Almanac/translator Romance & Germanic languages & Russian/old-style jazz trombone & vocals/brass bands/allotmenteer

Sat Jul 01 11:19 Windows Media Player Rich Preview in Windows 10 is a monstrous pain in the posterior
Sun Jul 02 07:05 Rol's Top Ten Pedantic Songs
Sun Jul 02 12:56 Conversational filler "Yep, we're all monkeys, innit" works better on Nepalese Buddhist than on Somali Muslim Addison Lee drivers
Sun Jul 02 12:57 Likewise, suggesting that Planet of the Apes is really about FOXP2
Sun Jul 02 18:47 Siesta wildlife Walthamstow Marsh: minibikes, drones, fornicators, also reed warbler 3 feet from my ear, wonderful
Mon Jul 03 09:46 No way of getting the filth deposited by kiddy hands off the piggy bank, so sacrifice it or lacquer it black with demonic red trimmings?
Mon Jul 03 13:10 From great collection of early Russian records, proof that socialism didn't entirely eradicate organ-grinders:
Mon Jul 03 13:41 Genuine 1910-ish Russian organ, i.e. Germanic: Marusya's love goes (by train!) to the wars, dies, she dies of sorrow
Mon Jul 03 19:32 1912 La Banda Municipal de Barcelona con Celestí Sadurní en Celos de Amor
Mon Jul 03 20:40 Brilliant pre-WWI Moscow novelty male voice quartet - 20 years before Comedian Harmonists: Jewish Quartet (Pundik)
Mon Jul 03 20:55 But then there's this purported chorus of inmates of Tobolsk prison, Siberia, with falsetto comb chorus:
Mon Jul 03 22:24 Lifelong learning: Siberian prison choirs were a fashion, and Song of Volga Boatmen was used for revolutionary ends
Mon Jul 03 22:24 Comment: Chaliapin is amusing:
Tue Jul 04 09:02 Off to Walthamstow Marsh to shoot and BBQ any Guardianista foragers found
Tue Jul 04 13:10 Hackney Citizen is doing a great job on the Grenfell fallout = why we need independent local media
Tue Jul 04 13:21 Comment: @CanalRiverTrust @gloswaterways Looks like the 10 years younger Friesland in the Dutch National Dredging Museum Does yours sail?
Tue Jul 04 15:23 But there IS a magic strawberry tree: Arbutus unedo, fermenting fruit beloved of alcoholic ants. But I don't think there's a magic beer tree
Tue Jul 04 16:20 Oh dear: Macron to be to Hollande as organ-grinder is to monkey. Not even Bon Jovian.
Tue Jul 04 17:24 Glad to see that—along with tapas (aka binge drinking) & fake boobs—the Brits are adopting the Spanish approach to consonant congestion
Tue Jul 04 17:27 Comment: Google asks whether I meant constant indigestion. Well, yes, kind of.
Tue Jul 04 21:49 Comment: @Transblawg @GermanAtPompey @swissinfo_en It's the right of Swiss big cheeses To talk about holes as they pleases
Wed Jul 05 10:51 Comment: @Transblawg I always said they should have painted it green and sold the resulting chard to the Swiss
Wed Jul 05 11:15 What is the point of Sweden? The Kattashians should at least be equipped with helmets
Thu Jul 06 07:45 Had the most terrible nightmare: NYT fiction list composed 100% of works called The Facts extracted from legal claims. How nice to wake up
Thu Jul 06 07:46 This is all very pretty
Thu Jul 06 11:31 Gem from M Bragg: Ideas re migration developed in C19th when, in Germany, a stork was noticed with an African spear in its neck
Thu Jul 06 15:24 Comment: @Transblawg Haha, silly boogers
Fri Jul 07 08:02 Putin/Trump's West: 3 items spaning the 1054 Orthodox/Catholic schism: beer, blackberries, barrel organs
Fri Jul 07 08:03 Comment: neither spaning nor spaining: spanning
Fri Jul 07 10:45 Surely the Adolf Hitler church bell should stay: long & fine tradition of beating effigies of enemies cf Caga Tió
Fri Jul 07 10:50 Comment: Alibech putting the devil back in hell is quite different, so I don't know why I'm thinking about that.
Fri Jul 07 23:06 Trevor's not a dog's name
Sat Jul 08 08:05 Let It Gibbon's Kids Top 5: Funky Gibbon (Goodies), Laughing Policeman (Suspicions), Tiger Feet (Mud), Mah Na (Um...
Sat Jul 08 08:19 Comment: @MarkF60 @razibkhan @WSJ The world is being reborn in the image of my favourite Yiddish jokes.
Sat Jul 08 08:25 García Márquez vs Vargas Llosa: siempre una delícia
Sat Jul 08 08:27 Comment:
Sat Jul 08 09:39 Coating blackberries in flour before adding to batter seems obvious - once you've been told
Sat Jul 08 11:13 No longer v uncommon to see Londoners with acid burns (400 pa), but still have ca 6.4 times as many new FGM reports
Sun Jul 09 12:57 Lovely to bump into my favourite @hackneycouncil market inspector, Mohammed S, at @chatsworthroad market this morning
Sun Jul 09 14:09 Long chat with Cliff ex Royal Irish Rangers last night, but still no wiser re the shout in Killaloe
Sun Jul 09 20:56 On swimming in the River Lea (tune: Isle of Capri). Made someone laugh today
Mon Jul 10 10:26 Best you can hope for in Victorian house is that it will be cold (as built, vents working) OR damp (vents blocked eg by insulation). No?
Mon Jul 10 18:57 2 young men with, as is customary, hand down front of pants watch me blackberrying in horror. Then: "Man, what are you doing in that bush?!"
Mon Jul 10 19:00 Comment: I asked them whether the hand-down-pants thing was about guns or dicks. Turns out it's to counteract effects of gravity on baggy trousers
Mon Jul 10 21:40 Comment: @Transblawg It's just weird that the Brits thought of Brexit before the rest of Europe did.
Mon Jul 10 21:57 Comment: @Transblawg Have to look that one up. Losing the number 6? The Helvetians to become even more snooty?
Tue Jul 11 07:44 Comment: @Transblawg It's about the quid pro quo: we'll stay if you make us London Borough of Culture. Never sure whether rhymes with slavering
Tue Jul 11 07:51 Comment: @Transblawg His glottal stop has certainly developed along with his political career.
Tue Jul 11 07:59 Comment: @Transblawg Have ring, will wrestle.
Tue Jul 11 08:01 Comment: @Transblawg Two words: Ian Dury. And, perhaps, the guy who founded Georgia
Tue Jul 11 08:09 CRISIS! Cash functionality on Lidl self-service tills broken. Folks don't think that Matthew Taylor's cashless economy will make them richer
Tue Jul 11 08:11 Comment: @Transblawg I suspect that this would calm them down a tad
Tue Jul 11 08:12 Comment: @tombcn Yes!
Tue Jul 11 09:13 Comment: @Transblawg It seems that to find out about her I'd need to find out about Gordon Ramsay and television.
Tue Jul 11 10:10 Back for a few days to Barcelona, scene of initial crimes
Tue Jul 11 11:01 Comment: @Transblawg That is something of a relief.
Tue Jul 11 11:16 Petersburg Organ-Grinders defend Katie Price's decision to let kids eat mud. Translation finished, on the footnotes
Tue Jul 11 12:37 Comment: @Mr_MichaelLewis @FCBStudios @FeildenFowles Looks like a Spanish building site 20 years ago.
Wed Jul 12 08:11 Zwarte Pieten
Wed Jul 12 08:28 Passing teens enquire on the basis of colour & morphology whether raspberries are just unripe blackberries.
Thu Jul 13 07:08 Comment: @Transblawg "Bush" probably too specific. That poor old serpent might have struggled to offload an apple on them.
Thu Jul 13 10:06 More literature generated from uniformity by Google Translate
Thu Jul 13 10:48 Heart-breaking
Thu Jul 13 17:21 Iceberg size relative to geographical entities familiar to Germans
Thu Jul 13 20:43 Das toch een erg mooi filmpie
Thu Jul 13 22:12 Romance was a train where, if you fell asleep, your Hansel & Gretel carriage might end in Moscow. I woke in Bentheim, and a loco returned me
Thu Jul 13 22:15 Comment: @Transblawg Endzeitessen
Thu Jul 13 22:28 Comment: @Transblawg But is the Roding tidal as it passes the western neighbour of Doggingham?
Thu Jul 13 22:47 Feeling a vague affection for baby mosquitos? Kill, kill, kill
Fri Jul 14 09:16 Killer tunez
Fri Jul 14 23:28 Alternative fiestas in Barcelona: impression of unbelievable decline in artistic & technical quality. Partly generational, what else?
Fri Jul 14 23:32 Comment: OK, they didn't book me.
Fri Jul 14 23:35 Theodor Holman evokes Zwarte Riek
Sat Jul 15 00:10 Marvellous piece about the death of Tim Marten's shop & by implication Denmark Street and East Soho. Cui bono?
Sat Jul 15 07:47 RT @DebBeebuzz: @theJeremyVine @alistaircoleman This one by our house made me smile
Sat Jul 15 20:35 Would you eat a (Spanish bar) sandwich if it arrived with a telephone number written on it in ketchup?
Sun Jul 16 10:41 Napoleon's bollocks
Sun Jul 16 21:29 Barea Forja - splendid souvenir of how TV dramas were made 30 years ago
Sun Jul 16 21:58 They say George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) is no more, but who's going to fall for that?
Mon Jul 17 19:59 I know a man with 48 grandchildren. 70-yo Haredi, but still pretty impressive. 7*7
Mon Jul 17 20:20 Critical reactions to the translation into Andalusian of Le Petit Prince (PDF)
Mon Jul 17 21:49 @Transblawg
Mon Jul 17 23:05 So that's where Stravinsky nicked it from
Mon Jul 17 23:39 Font Linyac, Montseny particularly Dutch Golden Age today: last drops of water from spring, myriad butterflies, rotting boar, keen-eyed jay
Tue Jul 18 15:10 Comment: @oobr @Piceapicea In Barcelona we cycle downhill but not up, to work not back. I proposed micropayments to load-balance - the African illegals fancied it.
Thu Jul 20 13:41 New candidate for the vacant post of monkey
Thu Jul 20 13:42 Comment: From
Thu Jul 20 19:38 Si Ada Colau se tomara en serio el medio ambiente y la restricción del turismo en Barcelona, prohibiría el aire acondicionado
Thu Jul 20 19:39 Comment: Es un desastre para la calle y para los ciudadanos que no tienen
Thu Jul 20 21:03 Comment: @tombcn Sólo los empadronados tendrán derecho
Thu Jul 20 21:18 Slippery slope to small girls having beards: lemonade > shandy > craft beer
Fri Jul 21 07:33 Curious to see mainland Britain becoming more like one's natal Ulster
Fri Jul 21 21:28 @SPAB1877 @BRE_Group etc state damp-proof courses mandated by Public Health Act 1875. Untrue: So whence the impetus?
Sat Jul 22 11:08 El Mundo Today has found the key to writing all those difficult foreign names.
Sat Jul 22 11:54 Is the new London designed for the enjoyment of people who travel in helicopters?
Sat Jul 22 12:53 Harpo's still my favourite, but this: Mel Tormé began his professional career singing with the Chico Marx Orchestra
Sat Jul 22 13:00 Deliciously dumb Chico Marx piano compilation
Sat Jul 22 16:57 The Olden Times, when everything sounds like Kurt Schwitters
Sat Jul 22 22:49 Uniform, photos, (Russian) great-granddaughter of Cape Verdean servant of the Tsars prior to the Revolution (in NL)
Sat Jul 22 22:49 Comment: Ties into the Moors used in Pulcinella shows
Sun Jul 23 07:30 BBC gender pay gap to be resolved by Gary Lineker declaring himself a woman under the new legislation.
Sun Jul 23 07:38 Comment: @lynneguist @Transblawg Apparently Jamaicans don't:
Sun Jul 23 07:50 Comment: @lynneguist @Transblawg Maybe a case of ignorance being king
Sun Jul 23 08:40 Likely actual value of 25-year guarantee given now by plumber using typewriter? His will probably specifies that it accompany him to grave
Sun Jul 23 19:22 Very few celebrity chef recipes that can't be fixed by the addition of two fried eggs and Rapture Trinidad Scorpion Pepper Hot Sauce
Mon Jul 24 07:33 Cant couldn't: frabjous Hackney service charges case with links to Hampstead Satanic abuse
Mon Jul 24 07:48 Comment: I also feel for him: I would struggle if I lived where he does.
Mon Jul 24 12:39 Would it be cruel to bury a mole alive?
Tue Jul 25 06:18 Only time I suffer class envy is in Barcelona walking past gardens with lemon trees. Fortunately most owners don't care about the fruit
Tue Jul 25 08:31 Comment: @anne_goldgar Look like robots to me.
Tue Jul 25 14:30 Brutal uprights
Wed Jul 26 07:15 I was an unqualified teacher, a long time ago. Not all pupils turned out bad - found this quite moving:
Wed Jul 26 07:48 Comment: @Transblawg Yes, feeling quite embarrassed: he's done the business, while I've really strayed from the path
Wed Jul 26 07:50 Comment: @Transblawg "Quite" is obviously a Britishism
Wed Jul 26 08:28 Comment: @Transblawg Double figures, I think. V fortunate in 1st teacher - lovely man at top of his game (Sgt Pepper, Ldn orchs) who'd retired thru heart trouble
Wed Jul 26 08:29 Comment: @Transblawg But who, perhaps unfortunately, seduced me from my true calling of minor government clerk.
Wed Jul 26 08:30 Comment: And now I discover that Pushkin may have had a Moorish great-grandfather
Wed Jul 26 08:45 Comment: @Transblawg We could have savings, pensions, & not wake up in the middle of the night shouting in a language more feared than comprehended by care nurse
Wed Jul 26 08:47 Best voice in radio is back, briefly: Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison
Wed Jul 26 11:41 Green bits on tube platforms are confusing my sheep. Tried putting sunglasses on em but then they bring prosecco & alight at Hyde Park Crnr
Thu Jul 27 05:09 Holding a bike outside a Chinese yesterday evening, small boy wheelies past: "Gimme your grips or I'll kill you innit" #HackneyCharm
Thu Jul 27 08:21 Comment: @PolemicTMM Natural deselection of tweeting drivers?
Thu Jul 27 09:50 Hackney Council's Wick Road improvement plan v2 redistributes traffic from rich street to poor one, kills waterway
Thu Jul 27 13:26 Playlist evoking 20th century wet-led pubs. Memory: putting Strangers in the Night x 10 on E'burgh pub jukebox & watching drinkers lose it
Fri Jul 28 08:11 Jamaican Pulcinella ("Remember wa your name: Punchinella"). I hoped the wire scammer would have a squeaky voice
Fri Jul 28 08:38 Amidst the shambles re Stan @ Life of Brian and transphobia, a Spaniard discovers the true meaning of Loretta
Fri Jul 28 15:30 Terrifying prospect
Sat Jul 29 06:37 Battlefield soundscapes/aesthetics: missing the sound of riot police beating their shields. Guess it was banned, but feels wrong without
Sat Jul 29 06:39 Comment: Did the (Hollywood ) Romans do it?
Sat Jul 29 06:58 Nice simple piece on where we are on Indian genetic ancestry will do nothing to mitigate Persian hubris
Sat Jul 29 08:47 Wanna be a successful serial killer? Practise by trying to remove all traces of blackberry jam making