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Post by LazBro on Feb 24, 2020 10:50:49 GMT -5
I kind of want to learn to play the trumpet, and I'm not sure why. I wanted to do band when I was in lower school (we had to do either band or chorus), and I got trumpet. I don't remember much about why I did trumpet at the time, but my parents later told me that it was the cheapest one. I was roughly okay with it, after a few years of it. I never really learned an instrument, and assumed I wasn't talented with it. I took guitar lessons at one point, and the teacher told me I should play right-handed, that I'd actually have an advantage. It didn't occur to me until much later that if that was advantageous, right-handers would play the other way. Again, I got to semi-competent on it and quit. Later, as an adult, I learned that the trumpet is considered one of the hardest instruments for left-handers to play. And I restrung a guitar at one point, tried to self-teach, and found it much easier to pick up if I was playing left-handed. Ever since then, I've wondered if I ever had the opportunity to learn on an actual left-handed instrument as a kid, if I actually would have had some talent. Right before sixth grade started they had this elective day where you could go in and pick which of the big three musical routes you wanted to take: choir, band, orchestra. I specifically wanted to play saxophone, but when they tested me on the instrument, we discovered that my hands were too small to really work the keys well (*bitter to this day*), so I ended up doing percussion instead. But the funny thing is that as the years passed I continually made friends with and shared a sense of humor / personality with saxophone players. Time and time again. All of my best friends through middle and high school excepting one and Mrs. Snape (clarinet, pshhh), were saxophone players. At my current job my two coworkers are also band nerds, and while I like them both, when we met I instantly jived with one of them more. Before I even knew he played. His instrument? Saxophone. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Feb 24, 2020 11:11:22 GMT -5
I kind of want to learn to play the trumpet, and I'm not sure why. I wanted to do band when I was in lower school (we had to do either band or chorus), and I got trumpet. I don't remember much about why I did trumpet at the time, but my parents later told me that it was the cheapest one. I was roughly okay with it, after a few years of it. I never really learned an instrument, and assumed I wasn't talented with it. I took guitar lessons at one point, and the teacher told me I should play right-handed, that I'd actually have an advantage. It didn't occur to me until much later that if that was advantageous, right-handers would play the other way. Again, I got to semi-competent on it and quit. Later, as an adult, I learned that the trumpet is considered one of the hardest instruments for left-handers to play. And I restrung a guitar at one point, tried to self-teach, and found it much easier to pick up if I was playing left-handed. Ever since then, I've wondered if I ever had the opportunity to learn on an actual left-handed instrument as a kid, if I actually would have had some talent. That's odd to me -- the trumpet seems like it could be played with either hand? I know the French horn is fingered with the left hand, but supposedly the right hand mutes the bell and even more supposedly that's the more important bit but I think that's just right-hander bias. As for guitar, what I learned is that guitar is more in the fretting hand and bass is more in the picking hand. Since I started on bass and am right-handed, I play righty. I learned to play left-handed guitar upside down (righty), but trying to play lefty is a mindfuck for me because I know where my fingers should go and what they should do, but my fingers don't know how to do it. I still want to learn sax and/or flute, but for some reason trumpet is just sticking out in my mind. Maybe because I dislike my downstairs neighbors. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 26, 2020 1:11:50 GMT -5
I wanted to do band when I was in lower school (we had to do either band or chorus), and I got trumpet. I don't remember much about why I did trumpet at the time, but my parents later told me that it was the cheapest one. I was roughly okay with it, after a few years of it. I never really learned an instrument, and assumed I wasn't talented with it. I took guitar lessons at one point, and the teacher told me I should play right-handed, that I'd actually have an advantage. It didn't occur to me until much later that if that was advantageous, right-handers would play the other way. Again, I got to semi-competent on it and quit. Later, as an adult, I learned that the trumpet is considered one of the hardest instruments for left-handers to play. And I restrung a guitar at one point, tried to self-teach, and found it much easier to pick up if I was playing left-handed. Ever since then, I've wondered if I ever had the opportunity to learn on an actual left-handed instrument as a kid, if I actually would have had some talent. That's odd to me -- the trumpet seems like it could be played with either hand? I know the French horn is fingered with the left hand, but supposedly the right hand mutes the bell and even more supposedly that's the more important bit but I think that's just right-hander bias. As for guitar, what I learned is that guitar is more in the fretting hand and bass is more in the picking hand. Since I started on bass and am right-handed, I play righty. I learned to play left-handed guitar upside down (righty), but trying to play lefty is a mindfuck for me because I know where my fingers should go and what they should do, but my fingers don't know how to do it. I still want to learn sax and/or flute, but for some reason trumpet is just sticking out in my mind. Maybe because I dislike my downstairs neighbors. I find guitar to be *easier* to play left-handed. I mean, use a right-handed guitar as a left-handed person. This means all the fingering skills on the fret board are done with the hand I already use for fine motor skills, and the strumming and picking is done with the hand that does not do as well with fine motor skills.
On a trumpet, the way they are designed, you hold the instrument with your left hand, and the valves are manipulated by the right hand. I would think that would be somewhat challenging for someone who is left-handed. Then again, as you say, the Horn uses the left hand for the fingering, so it shouldn't be too hard for someone to learn an instrument that is oriented toward their opposite hand. Most left-handed people are ambidextrous to some degree. If only because it is necessary to function in society.
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Post by haysoos on Mar 6, 2020 11:21:42 GMT -5
I wanted to do band when I was in lower school (we had to do either band or chorus), and I got trumpet. I don't remember much about why I did trumpet at the time, but my parents later told me that it was the cheapest one. I was roughly okay with it, after a few years of it. I never really learned an instrument, and assumed I wasn't talented with it. I took guitar lessons at one point, and the teacher told me I should play right-handed, that I'd actually have an advantage. It didn't occur to me until much later that if that was advantageous, right-handers would play the other way. Again, I got to semi-competent on it and quit. Later, as an adult, I learned that the trumpet is considered one of the hardest instruments for left-handers to play. And I restrung a guitar at one point, tried to self-teach, and found it much easier to pick up if I was playing left-handed. Ever since then, I've wondered if I ever had the opportunity to learn on an actual left-handed instrument as a kid, if I actually would have had some talent. Right before sixth grade started they had this elective day where you could go in and pick which of the big three musical routes you wanted to take: choir, band, orchestra. I specifically wanted to play saxophone, but when they tested me on the instrument, we discovered that my hands were too small to really work the keys well (*bitter to this day*), so I ended up doing percussion instead. But the funny thing is that as the years passed I continually made friends with and shared a sense of humor / personality with saxophone players. Time and time again. All of my best friends through middle and high school excepting one and Mrs. Snape (clarinet, pshhh), were saxophone players. At my current job my two coworkers are also band nerds, and while I like them both, when we met I instantly jived with one of them more. Before I even knew he played. His instrument? Saxophone.  |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 13, 2020 9:34:33 GMT -5
Rush Limbaugh was one of the first (that I remember) to use "Nazi" to mean "person I disagree with" (see "feminazi"), and he is also one of the ones who benefits from that usage, since now the Nazis are back and they are fans of his, but he's already softened the term. Was he playing the long game, or just a lucky idiot?
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Mar 13, 2020 10:46:55 GMT -5
Rush Limbaugh was one of the first (that I remember) to use "Nazi" to mean "person I disagree with" (see "feminazi"), and he is also one of the ones who benefits from that usage, since now the Nazis are back and they are fans of his, but he's already softened the term. Was he playing the long game, or just a lucky idiot? Lucky idiot. |
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Post by Hachiman on Mar 13, 2020 19:57:49 GMT -5
Rush Limbaugh was one of the first (that I remember) to use "Nazi" to mean "person I disagree with" (see "feminazi"), and he is also one of the ones who benefits from that usage, since now the Nazis are back and they are fans of his, but he's already softened the term. Was he playing the long game, or just a lucky idiot? Lucky idiot. Most of these shock jocks aren't long term thinkers. In a better timeline, Rush would have been fired earlier in his career and gone on to sell used cars. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Mar 15, 2020 14:05:41 GMT -5
One nice thing about living in the county is that I can still wander around about a quarter mile in any direction and still practice social distancing.
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Mar 15, 2020 18:01:32 GMT -5
It has been rainy & chilly & grey here since Thursday? or Friday, and I am so fucking sleepy I can barely make myself do anything. I was planning on moving stuff around on the walls- art & shelves & what have you- and so far, I have only managed take everything down, fill in the holes, & spot paint. That took less that 30 minutes, and all that shit is scattered all over place. The house is a wreck otherwise as well, laundry needs to folded, I need to drag stuff under the sink in prep for the plumber tomorrow, and man. I just. Don’t wanna do anything.
I’m off tomorrow too, so it’s not like I have the “better do it gotta work Monday” deadline that normally convinces my executive function to, y’know, function. Just wanna sleep & eat unhealthy snacks.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Mar 16, 2020 23:30:20 GMT -5
There have been threats of the collapse of civilization, and of widespread doom for as long as I can remember. My very first memory, before I even started school, involving the larger world outside my immediate family was of my dad, who rarely watched the news, worried, staying up late because the US and the USSR were playing atomic chicken in the warm waters off Cuba. I didn't understand then how close we came getting nuked all to hell, I just knew something was real bad. But we got through it.
I was barely in grade school when they decided to blow the president's head off all over his wife's pretty new dress. But we got through it.
From the time I was in grade school, all the way until I was in high school, it was accepted knowledge that most guys of my age and social ranking were headed for the meat grinder of Vietnam. We were totally caught off guard when it ended. We got through it, and we threw the 70's to celebrate. Throughout my lifetime there have been wars, rumors of wars, the cold war, natural disasters, global warming, diseases. There have been rumors of impending natural disasters, the coming ice age, peak oil, asteroid strikes, EMP's. There have been assassinations, political turmoil, elections, and other horrible, horrible events. And so far we're still here.
The one thing I have learned through all these years and all these disasters and potential disasters is this:
When you look at the big picture, you'll see that most of the time, most people are eventually going to get through most things, mostly alright. There are no guarantees, but overall, our chances are good. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 21, 2020 20:29:25 GMT -5
Bumper sticker thought:
KEEP CHRIST IN "Christ, what an asshole."
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Post by Trurl on Mar 22, 2020 8:09:43 GMT -5
There have been threats of the collapse of civilization, and of widespread doom for as long as I can remember. My very first memory, before I even started school, involving the larger world outside my immediate family was of my dad, who rarely watched the news, worried, staying up late because the US and the USSR were playing atomic chicken in the warm waters off Cuba. I didn't understand then how close we came getting nuked all to hell, I just knew something was real bad. But we got through it.
I was barely in grade school when they decided to blow the president's head off all over his wife's pretty new dress. But we got through it.
From the time I was in grade school, all the way until I was in high school, it was accepted knowledge that most guys of my age and social ranking were headed for the meat grinder of Vietnam. We were totally caught off guard when it ended. We got through it, and we threw the 70's to celebrate. Throughout my lifetime there have been wars, rumors of wars, the cold war, natural disasters, global warming, diseases. There have been rumors of impending natural disasters, the coming ice age, peak oil, asteroid strikes, EMP's. There have been assassinations, political turmoil, elections, and other horrible, horrible events. And so far we're still here.
The one thing I have learned through all these years and all these disasters and potential disasters is this:
When you look at the big picture, you'll see that most of the time, most people are eventually going to get through most things, mostly alright. There are no guarantees, but overall, our chances are good. There is a difference this time though - all those times when we were dealing with truly existential threats life just went on for the vast majority of people, there were no changes to people's day-to-day lives. While living with the threats of nuclear annihilation or terrorist bombings or war or all the computers in the world suddenly turning into death machines, businesses and schools stayed open and people could live their lives pretty much the way they always did. I think of October 70 when Justin's dad declared *martial law* in Canada - even with that level of social upheaval it didn't have a broad effect on everyday lives. People just went "huh, guess I'm living in a police state now" and went back to work. There was always a fear that what we accepted as social norms would break down, but they didn't because there people could just keep doing what they always did, that option was always on the table. The difference is that the corona virus isn't a threat, it's a reality. Schools are closed, businesses are shuttered, the only things that are going on are "essential services" and people are confined to their houses. A better comparison for the pandemic isn't to threats to the social order, it's to something that actually breaks down the social order, something like hurricane Katrina - most people are going to live through this, but a lot of them are going to be displaced and it's going to be a very long time before things go back to the way they were before, if they ever do. And they might not, because if the pandemic has taught us anything it's that there are fundamental problems with the way society and the economy work. Hopefully we'll learn from this. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Mar 27, 2020 22:22:07 GMT -5
There is a difference this time though - all those times when we were dealing with truly existential threats life just went on for the vast majority of people, there were no changes to people's day-to-day lives. While living with the threats of nuclear annihilation or terrorist bombings or war or all the computers in the world suddenly turning into death machines, businesses and schools stayed open and people could live their lives pretty much the way they always did. I think of October 70 when Justin's dad declared *martial law* in Canada - even with that level of social upheaval it didn't have a broad effect on everyday lives. People just went "huh, guess I'm living in a police state now" and went back to work. There was always a fear that what we accepted as social norms would break down, but they didn't because there people could just keep doing what they always did, that option was always on the table. The difference is that the corona virus isn't a threat, it's a reality. Schools are closed, businesses are shuttered, the only things that are going on are "essential services" and people are confined to their houses. A better comparison for the pandemic isn't to threats to the social order, it's to something that actually breaks down the social order, something like hurricane Katrina - most people are going to live through this, but a lot of them are going to be displaced and it's going to be a very long time before things go back to the way they were before, if they ever do. And they might not, because if the pandemic has taught us anything it's that there are fundamental problems with the way society and the economy work. Hopefully we'll learn from this. We (at least most of us here in the so-called First World) have been incredibly fortunate for a very long time in that, as you said, life has pretty much gone on without major society-wide disruption during our lifetimes. We aren't used to worrying day in and day out if our loved ones are going to get sick, if we will still have jobs in a few months, or if we will even be able to get food, medicine, and other necessities. We have experienced relative comfort and stability for as long as we can remember. That hasn't always been the case, however, in other parts of the world the world, or even here, in times not too long before our own. My parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, all lived through the grim reality of the great depression, and the time of the dust bowl. Banks failed, people lost their homes, millions were out of work. People starved to death. My own dad was born in the midst of the worldwide flu epidemic of 1918. My mom told me her grandma remembered the chaos and destruction the Civil War. Those events were reality here, and affected everybody's life every day. Around the world, every day since the beginning of humanity, there have been unfortunate people somewhere suffering through wars in their midst, plagues, famine, and all sorts of disasters that uproot their everyday existence. I don't say this to contradict what you said, or to somehow imply that your points aren't valid. I'm just saying that while this level of danger and uncertainty is unfamiliar to us in our lives, it always exists for someone, somewhere, and yet I still believe that overall, most of the time, most people eventually get through most things, mostly alright. I understand all the dread and worry, believe me. I'm just saying we mustn't let it overwhelm us. We have to do all we can to look after each other, and eventually will get here eventually.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Apr 13, 2020 19:50:32 GMT -5
In a little over two hours from now, apolloinrealtime.org/13/ will receive the order to stir the cryotanks and things will go downhill rapidly. 55:54:53 ship time / 03:08 UTC on April 14 / 11:08 PM EDT on April 13. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Apr 20, 2020 13:56:47 GMT -5
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 23, 2020 12:19:28 GMT -5
Is there any interest in a Lego discussion thread? I know I'm not the only big Lego fan here but I don't want to start a thread if no one else wants to take part in it.
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Post by Hachiman on Apr 23, 2020 19:40:05 GMT -5
Is there any interest in a Lego discussion thread? I know I'm not the only big Lego fan here but I don't want to start a thread if no one else wants to take part in it. I can rap about Lego all day. I'm pretty sure there's a few others with opinions on Lego as well. I think you should put it together. |
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Post by President Hound on May 4, 2020 17:15:09 GMT -5
lol at Amanda Palmer dumping Gaiman
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Post by songstarliner on May 4, 2020 17:44:59 GMT -5
lol at Amanda Palmer dumping Gaiman Did she really?! *quick google* Hahahahahaaa! And she told her Patreon followers before she told Gaiman ... |
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Post by President Hound on May 4, 2020 18:53:11 GMT -5
lol at Amanda Palmer dumping Gaiman Did she really?! *quick google* Hahahahahaaa! And she told her Patreon followers before she told Gaiman ... my back has been cursed ever since she touched it |
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Post by Not a real doctor on May 5, 2020 9:42:35 GMT -5
I need help finding a meme. It's the one where it's like "white people want to reopen the country just so they can get haircuts like this" and it has a guy with flattop-type cut and a woman with "speak to the manager hair"
I need it to make fun of a guy I know and my googling is not working fast enough. Help me Obi-wan TIF, you're my only hope...
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on May 5, 2020 9:46:31 GMT -5
I need help finding a meme. It's the one where it's like "white people want to reopen the country just so they can get haircuts like this" and it has a guy with flattop-type cut and a woman with "speak to the manager hair" I need it to make fun of a guy I know and my googling is not working fast enough. Help me Obi-wan TIF, you're my only hope... Not the right one, but start with
ETA: further googling just made me sad
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Post by Not a real doctor on May 5, 2020 10:11:43 GMT -5
Found it!  |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on May 19, 2020 16:22:11 GMT -5
We live in a world where a manufacturer of frozen pressed-meat slabs is giving advice on how to properly vet one's sources.
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Post by ganews on May 27, 2020 14:16:51 GMT -5
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Post by President Hound on Jun 6, 2020 23:21:44 GMT -5
why doesn't Ellen Page, the best of Ellens, defeat Ellen DeGeneres in combat
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jun 8, 2020 13:28:03 GMT -5
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jul 4, 2020 14:50:01 GMT -5
Why are so many states determined to claim the mosquito as the “state bird”?
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Post by ganews on Jul 4, 2020 18:44:25 GMT -5
The 4th of July: the day on which we celebrate being from a country that does avoidably stupid things, by ourselves doing avoidably stupid things.
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Post by ganews on Jul 4, 2020 22:32:53 GMT -5
The 4th of July: the day on which we celebrate being from a country that does avoidably stupid things, by ourselves doing avoidably stupid things. On the other hand, I did see something lovely tonight I've never seen before. Wifemate and I walked up the high train overpass a mile from the house and watched municipal (and surely some wildcat) displays of fireworks in over 270 degrees of surroundings from some 15 sources. |
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