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OwlFancier posted:I googled it and it sounds like portsmouth sinfonia hired a rock singer. Yeah, it's wonderful. Beefheart did the vocals while the band was in another room, which is why the vocals sound like they aren't where they should be in the songs. The thing is, it's meant to sound like that! They practiced a lot, despite the way it sounds there was no improvisation. I absolutely get why a lot of people find it unlistenable though, it's chaos. It sounds silly & slapped together despite being the exact opposite. One of those albums that is probably made worse for people who hate it because the people who like it can't help but go on about it.
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It's not my thing but it isn't any worse than anything else that's not my thing.
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Trout Mask Replica is one of those albums I'm only very rarely in the mood to listen to. On balance, I like it, but I haven't been someone to sit down and just listen to music for 20 years or so, and that feels like the sort of thing you need to do with TMR. I probably need to buy more Beefheart, though, 'cos I really like Safe as Milk
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Got a little life hack for you all. If you don't have a bidet, a heinz ketchup bottle serves as a good surrogate, as their fancy cap produces a pretty powerful jet of water 
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Got a little life hack for you all. If you don't have a bidet, a heinz ketchup bottle serves as a good surrogate, as their fancy cap produces a pretty powerful jet of water Some may feel this is just a step away from keeping a turd knife, but as someone who handles two small people's poo on a daily basis I simply applaud the creativity
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OwlFancier posted:There's a bunch of books basically titled "HITLER" because annoyingly a lot of people seem to like writing about him. Subtitling your book on Hitler "Hubris" is making all the hairs on my neck stand up. As if all his motivations were fine and he just got a bit over confident.
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Does hubris carry that suggestion? I generally thought that hubris was "you shouldn't want this to begin with and that you do is a sign of your ego being too big" kind of thing. I probably wouldn't agree with a lot of cases where that is applied but I thought that was the suggestion, that you're too big for your boots by half.
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https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1484111627066781696?s=20 *screams into the void*
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https://twitter.com/ghoullitine/status/1484254340692983821?t=SVRs4twhxexRBvfZkWXtug&s=19 They're just saying it now. We're back to Red Team VS Blue Team and who cares about political consistency, policies or anything else. The Sensible Centre are back in the stands with their half-and-half scarves, cheering for the referee, and all is right with the world.
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ThomasPaine posted:I'd just give him one honestly, gently caress employers. Speaking of which if anyone needs a reference I'm more than happy to pretend I used to be your boss and sing your praises to high heaven. We should normalise this behavior. Most employers would never give any actual details of performance in a reference, and only confirm the job title and dates that a person worked there. Saying anything negative in a reference opens you up to potential legal trouble so it's not worth ever risking that. The main purpose of a reference is to confirm with a 3rd party that you just haven't wholesale made up your work history. I would also doubt many companies would bother checking references unless you've already been offered a position (why would you take time to check the references of heaps of people you aren't going to offer a job) so a positive reference wouldn't even be helpful in most circumstances.
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Prole posted:They're just saying it now. We're back to Red Team VS Blue Team and who cares about political consistency, policies or anything else. The Sensible Centre are back in the stands with their half-and-half scarves, cheering for the referee, and all is right with the world. Instead of cheering for the blue or the red, Why not unite? Nika!!
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OwlFancier posted:Does hubris carry that suggestion? I generally thought that hubris was "you shouldn't want this to begin with and that you do is a sign of your ego being too big" kind of thing. Not sure if many publishers would go for a book called "HITLER: A Big oval office" tho
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OwlFancier posted:Does hubris carry that suggestion? I generally thought that hubris was "you shouldn't want this to begin with and that you do is a sign of your ego being too big" kind of thing. Possibly, but it's still very much the wrong lesson to take from Hitler
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Borrovan posted:Not sure if many publishers would go for a book called "HITLER: A Big oval office" tho This explains why my nazi-themed reverse-birth erotic fanfic never got picked up.
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o yeh for sure it was the title that was the problem
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There's no way that erotica wouldn't be a huge success
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kingturnip posted:Trout Mask Replica is one of those albums I'm only very rarely in the mood to listen to. Spotlight Kid is a way more approachable blues record while still having a bit of that Beefheart oddness. You're right about TMR though, deffo an album that works as a whole and benefits from being listened to in one sitting
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Threadmates, what's the correct procedure if we've accidentally accepted a package addressed to the former owners of our flat? We get a lot of their post and I normally just put RETURN TO SENDER on it and bung it back in the post, but this is a reasonably large book-sized thing that won't fit in a postbox. My inclination is to hold onto it for a week or two in case they drive over and ask for it (I have no idea where they moved to, and we have no contact details for them) and then… bin it, I guess? Which doesn't feel great, but on the other hand I'm not massively sympathetic to somebody who's still ordering things to the wrong address over a year after moving out.
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Keep a hold of it, they might collect it. Unless there's the possibility that it's weed, in which case open it and deny knowledge of its receipt.
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TACD posted:Threadmates, what's the correct procedure if we've accidentally accepted a package addressed to the former owners of our flat? We get a lot of their post and I normally just put RETURN TO SENDER on it and bung it back in the post, but this is a reasonably large book-sized thing that won't fit in a postbox. If you're feeling generous, you could try calling the sending company and explaining the situation? They might be able to email them. Edit: unlreated to the above since I realised when I got the delivery confirmation email, but last year I managed to get a huge H+M order delivered to my old work, which I left well over a year before. Luckily the receptionist remembered me but I was really scared I'd bump into my old boss when I went to collect it. We still occasionally get letters for the previous owners of our house and we've lived here 7 years.
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Hold on to it for 6 months until you're sure nobody is going to come and pick it up, then open it and enjoy your new 4tb harddrive.
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TACD posted:Threadmates, what's the correct procedure if we've accidentally accepted a package addressed to the former owners of our flat? We get a lot of their post and I normally just put RETURN TO SENDER on it and bung it back in the post, but this is a reasonably large book-sized thing that won't fit in a postbox. It's possible a gift someone is sending them who doesn't know/remember they've moved or a post-redirection fail. If you live near a sorting office, maybe take it there and get them to 'return to sender' - or a post office. Or maybe if you catch the post person, give it to them? I wouldn't bin it. Ed: I'm receiving mail forwarded from my mum's old address until she finds a new home and that includes one of my adult nephews. Post is coming for him from one firm - a firm of lawyers - even though they HAVE his new address! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Subtitling your book on Hitler "Hubris" is making all the hairs on my neck stand up. As if all his motivations were fine and he just got a bit over confident. It's intended as a reference to Greek tragedy, I think. That's part 1, "Hubris", that goes up to 1936. Part 2, which presumably would cover 1937 - 45, I'd imagine will be entitled: "Nemesis". (In Greek tragedy, arrogance and over-reach - Hubris - is inevitably followed by crushing catastrophe for the protaganist - Nemesis.)
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's intended as a reference to Greek tragedy, I think. That's part 1, "Hubris", that goes up to 1936. Part 2, which presumably would cover 1937 - 45, I'd imagine will be entitled: "Nemesis". A quick Amazon search tells me you're correct, except it's 1936-45. Presumably volume 1 ends with the Berlin Olympics.
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It has been proven that tories can literally have "The Racist Curve by J. Arthur Klansman, vol I (the Black, a type of Lemur) through XVII (the Irishman, a type of Black)" prominently displayed on their bookshelf and the press will fall over themselves to explain why it's important to expose yourself to a wide range of views and simply displaying them in order right underneath an old colonial flag and a signed picture of your mum meeting Ian Smith doesn't mean anything.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Got a little life hack for you all. If you don't have a bidet, a heinz ketchup bottle serves as a good surrogate, as their fancy cap produces a pretty powerful jet of water I hope you washed it out thoroughly beforehand ;p
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It's all a trick, he's getting us on board and then replacing them with squeezy bottles full of beans. 
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It ain't beans but as long as it's still Heinz.
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's intended as a reference to Greek tragedy, I think. That's part 1, "Hubris", that goes up to 1936. Part 2, which presumably would cover 1937 - 45, I'd imagine will be entitled: "Nemesis". Now I'm never gonna be able to imagine Stalin as anyone but Brick Top Tony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aocAU7nW3D8
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Guavanaut posted:It has been proven that tories can literally have "The Racist Curve by J. Arthur Klansman, vol I (the Black, a type of Lemur) through XVII (the Irishman, a type of Black)" prominently displayed on their bookshelf and the press will fall over themselves to explain why it's important to expose yourself to a wide range of views and simply displaying them in order right underneath an old colonial flag and a signed picture of your mum meeting Ian Smith doesn't mean anything. e: there's a step missing in my reasoning from Guava's post->the above, I'm sure u can fill it in
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Maugrim posted:Some may feel this is just a step away from keeping a turd knife, Just don't confuse it with your nutella knife
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:They didn't leave you a forwarding address? Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's possible a gift someone is sending them who doesn't know/remember they've moved or a post-redirection fail.
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TACD posted:Threadmates, what's the correct procedure if we've accidentally accepted a package addressed to the former owners of our flat? We get a lot of their post and I normally just put RETURN TO SENDER on it and bung it back in the post, but this is a reasonably large book-sized thing that won't fit in a postbox. If you have no forwarding address and you've been in the property for a while I'd just open it and have whatever's inside tbh. They'll get refunded and you get a free surprise gift.
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What the hell is psychodrama supposed to mean anyway?
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Mebh posted:What the hell is psychodrama supposed to mean anyway? Psychological drama. Wikipedia lists famous filmmakers who dabble in the genre as PT Anderson, Tarkovsky, Charlie Kaufman & Darren Aronofsky
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In this context, it's "airing your dirty laundry" but phrased as if you've read the cliffs notes for a bunch of Edwardian cocaine addicts and are therefore smart.
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Mebh posted:What the hell is psychodrama supposed to mean anyway? Well, there is a dictionary definition, but I think in this case it's being repurposed to mean "internal drama that is now externalised" i.e. making your problems everyone else's. For example, Brexit from end-to-end was entirely a result of Tory party cowardice, hubris and incompetence (the vote wasn't supposed to succeed, remember), and now we all have to live with the consequences of their internal failures. Who had Meat Loaf in their deadpool?
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Mebh posted:What the hell is psychodrama supposed to mean anyway? It's a therapy term for using role play to work through deep seeded issues. Which seems apt in relation to the Tories because all of their party disputes are mainly performative.
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