Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠1d ago
Tell me some thing blasphemous and/or sacrilegious 
Show threadAccordionBruce18h ago

@catsalad
Pirates never played accordions
🏴‍☠️🚫🪗

(Because they hadn’t been invented yet)

Accordions were invented during the 1800s Industrial Revolution at the same time as the telegraph, steam engine and the typewriter

100 years after the Golden Age of Piracy 1600s–1700s

So every pirate movie with an accordionist is a science fiction movie with a time-travel sub plot 🚀⌛️

Show threadAdam Wysokiński15h ago
@AccordionBruce @catsalad I've got a theory here: accordions, like opsin genes, were invented at least twice, separately. When the golden age of piracy was gone, the memories of accordions were repressed since strongly associated with socially unaccepted piracy-related aggression and violence. Hence, no trace in later history. However, they re-appear in movies as a great example of an archetype in Jungian shared unconsciousness. Anyone recall other social groups playing accordions? I'd like to develop my theory further.
Show threadAccordionBruce10h ago

@adam_wysokinski @catsalad
The Jungian telegraph needs to be included at least

Developed by the same guy as the English concertina, Charles Wheatstone

He also measured the speed of light, did that circuit thing, and invented 3-D glasses 😵‍💫

Show threadAccordionBruce
@adam_wysokinski @catsalad
11:50pmToot!