chumbalumber @ chumbalumber @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Yeah, agreed.

I disagree with your sentiment, and think the examples work. If your aim was to run a coffee shop forever and you quit, then yes you have failed. If, on the other hand, your aim is to enjoy and have the experience of running a coffee shop, then doing so for two years and stopping is a success. Similarly with a relationship. You can have succeeded in having a mutually fulfilling relationship that you both have happy memories from, even if you then grow apart. It succeeded in its aims of spending time enjoying being a relationship.

Thanks!

Could you give the recipe for baked falafel? I hate deep frying just cos there's so much oil to deal with :)

Sung to the tune of Iron Maiden's 'Hallowed be thy name'

Or alternatively stuff that is unpopular, but harmless and entertaining. Like video essays about how the phantom menace is good actually

This might bring you some joy

Nice to meet you. I'm a 6-balled bearded footman.

I was waiting ages for someone to post this!

Still, better now than not at all, I suppose.

It's clearly sexual selection; high testosterone results in early baldness, which in turn is deemed unattractive.

Thus, in order to save western society as we know it, we need to start worshipping bald men as the virile hotties we all know they truly are.

Tbh any turbine likely has the potential to be blocked, if two come along at once, making one become trapped between the turbine blade and the wall.

For maximal efficiency, I would suggest a spring-loaded ring of rollers inside a solid metal ring, conforming to the shape of passing Linux users. The dynamos would need to be calibrated such that the stiction of passing users is enough to slow their fall to match the current flow rate of entering users (n.b. is this doable? If not may need to use the spring pressure for this) to ensure maximal energy extraction for available user flow.

Just move to the UK. This is the norm.

Inability to take a compliment is tied to the general cultural dislike of 'people who get above themselves'. Arrogance is the cardinal sin, and so in receiving a compliment you either a) accept it (meaning you agree with them that you're great, which is a sign of arrogance!) or b) deny it (false modesty! A sign of even greater arrogance!). The only acceptable response is to sputter and turn red with embarrassment.

If you're in my flat, you get the splat

(not really; I like moths)

Snorting books off 80 of my closest friends on my favourite park bench.

No-one has yet mentioned their fossilised towers of shit that are used as a source of musky odours for perfume?

Just want to say I entirely agree with you and that I'm really not sure why the other person doesn't get it. Any musician knows tone/timbre is really important. I play the violin; you can play really fast and that takes skill, but there's also a hell of a lot of skill involved in getting a nice sound out of a sustained note.

I don't know quite why you seem to be so hostile to the blues, or anyone that wants to defend the skill of the musicians that play it. If you want to see a skilled blues guitarist doing all the twiddly bits, then I'll happily point you in the direction of Gary Moore, or blues-adjacent Steve Vai.

And if you're a metal fan, then maybe you'll find Metallica's respect for Gary Moore persuasive.

His sound was not over-processed. It was very, very basic. It basically was a guitar, an amp, a fuzz box and his hands. I remember seeing him in Copenhagen in 1984 or 1985. We were recording Master of Puppets. He was playing a Strat, which is known for a clear, somewhat thin sound. But the sound he was getting out of that Strat was so thick and so full and just so raw. This was before you had all these guitar processors that could make the cheapest guitar sound like the most expensive guitar, so I kinda deduced that most of the sound was in his hands.

Tbh I'm happy to take the naughty bits from Ezekiel fully in context. I'm in it for the donkey dong.

You call the Lord 'Father'; I call him 'Daddy'.

Shlonkin the Lord silly