My favorite was when I was in Prague right after the inauguration and they did the "oh the city wide fire alarm test happens on wednesday at noon" and it was indistinguishable from "Trump decided to start the war less than 2 weeks after taking office this is an air raid"
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The bells started again at 10:50. They are still ringing at 10:57. I have no idea what this means.
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Years ago, when I was at 4-H camp, a big storm, possibly with a tornado, came through. I was assigned to ring the bell to call people to shelter. So I did but no one told me to stop and it was a while before I realized I was the last one left outside. And they locked the door.
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It's a tornado, Richard, not a band of vandals you don't have to lock the door.
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"Come to service ... or we keep ringing the bells"
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I lived my first 8 years near a church in dorset with ringers who would practice peals every Sunday after service for an hour. It took me years to stop missing it.
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Believe it or not, there's a code (like w. the sirens). From "we're at war" or "someone died" to "begin/end of workday". Sunday at 10:30, most likely: "service begins". All of this predates clocks and tv.
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In 1423, somebody donated 8 florins and a cheese a year for 25 years in exchange for us ringing bells in perpetuity. Nobody considered how long that really was.
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Yet Europeans are horrified about the potential noise a single mosque might add. Maybe just ban church bells?
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