It has some limited use in the United States, most commonly in measuring the displacement of ships, and in trade of elemental sulfur, and was the unit prescribed for warships by the Washington Naval Treaty 1922âfor example battleships were limited to a displacement of 35,000 long tons (36,000 t; 39,000 short tons).
Whether von Trier is a prankster or a visionary is open to debate, but âThe Idiotsâ â which he wrote in four days â is a disturbing, provocative film that at the very least provides further proof he is a true original playing strictly by his own rules.
There is also the Fool/Jester part of James Booker. In Shakespeareâs plays and others, the Fool is the character who via humor and outlandish behavior and provocative statements points out the truth to which other characters are oblivious or of which they are in denial. hear confidence and hesitationâI hear James, the greatest ever.â. Ideas and emotions like that are all in Bookerâs music. Questions of life and death, genius and madness, tragedy and comedy, oneâs deepest feelings all are present.