5434a
3d ago
See if you can find any of those mythical dust mites that are supposed to be living in our eyebrows.
Pollen grains. Crumbs of various minerals, rust, graphite, chalk etc.
@George_E_Hale has already suggested sperm so I'll add on blood and tears. In the interests of science you could also test for the presence of sperm in precum and post-ejaculatory urine. You could also try chilling, freezing, and then reanimating them.
5434a
7d ago
I've watched the first hour in two half hour sittings, yet to make it to the end.
best film of the year, ahead of the likes of the Substance, Challengers, and Mad Max
Pretty limp competition. I think my picks for best of the year are Late Night With The Devil and Strange Darling, neither of which are unmissable.
5434a
9d ago
Same way you handle the oppressive summer heat, try to take the opportunity to do the nice things that make sense.
In summer it's things like barbecues and days in the park. When it's cold and dark that means staying in where it's warm, warm clothing, thick blankets, strong drinks, rich food and pretty lights, etc. No amount of bathing in simulated daylight is going to cheer you up if you're cold and eating an imported salad.
5434a
9d ago
masturbation slightly less than daily
Step one would be refraining from masturbating and directing that drive towards your new partner.
If nocturnal erections are trouble free could you arrange your encounters around that somehow?
5434a
9d ago
That link is a handy demonstration that breasts of any size large enough to count as breasts will be prone to the appearance of sagging. It goes with the territory of growing fat tissue with little more than dermal tension for structure, and after the fat has finished rapidly developing at puberty to a bigger or smaller degree the skin gradually catches up to accommodate it.
All else being equal I personally prefer natural/saggy breasts over pert breasts with surgically circumscribed nipples.
the whole page is called "breast lifting without scars"
If that's without I'd hate to see the page with.
5434a
10d ago
The 3D era games. To be honest I only played Ocarina of Time as it's rated so highly and since I didn't enjoy playing that one I don't see much point in trying any others. I'll admit that I use a walkthrough for handholding when I get really stuck, at this age I don't have the time or the patience, but I like to give the puzzles an honest try first. It's embarrassing to admit but for OoT I literally had to look up a walkthrough just to get out of the introduction and training area after scouring every inch of it, and it continued in the same vein until eventually the telecomms workmen repaired our broadband connection and I happily switched it off forever.
I think it might be because the 2D worlds are broken up into discrete screens and so you can mentally map the world to a series of separate tiles that you travel between, each one with at least some kind of distinct feature, while the 3D ones largely just roll on and on in every direction. That works well in an action game but in a puzzle game it ends up feeling like looking for a correct sequence of needles in a haystack.
5434a
11d ago
I recently gathered up all the major 8bit and 16bit Zelda games to play through via emulator. I've tried playing the later games before but lacking the rose coloured glasses of childhood nostalgia meant I couldn't get into them and found them to suffer from the familiar issue with open world games of using a map that is too large for the amount of content. Combined with the Zelda games' approach of making everything a multistep puzzle resulted in time spent mostly travelling from one side of the map to the other searching high and low for whatever tiny clue I'd overlooked to unlock the next level.
5434a
11d ago
I don't remember if it was a copypasta or a random 4chan comment that lamented "There are women all over the world walking around with big boobs full of milk and they won't let me have any. Why even live?"
5434a
12d ago
Starts with an N, similar length... got there in the end.
@TitaniumButterfly The two posts I'm thinking of were this one and this one. They're capsule summaries rather than full reviews but it was enough to pull me in. A similar thing happened with a random Reddit comment about The Wager, another naval history book, which is not my usual style at all. That one is about a sailing ship getting wrecked on Cape Horn and conflicting accounts of the ensuing mutinies. Worth a read, and only a standard ~350 pages.
5434a
12d ago
Started Castles of Steel after being drawn in by @naraburn's review. I'm not sure I can swallow all 900 pages of WW1 naval history but I'll stick with it for the meantime.
5434a
12d ago
I also disapprove of the internet style of malformed basic grammar like "a fail" or "that feel". It starts off being used with various degrees of irony in international online chatboxes and ends up with BBC current affairs presenters using it unironically. Beyond The Motte itself society should have higher basic standards than internet pidgin. We don't have the excuse that we don't know any better.
5434a
16d ago
Because a blocked nose is way down on the bottom rung of health problems next to stubbed toes and trapped wind.
I think it's reasonable to exhaust the low cost low effort options so that the doctor can calibrate to an appropriate level of examination and treatment. They're not going to refer me to an ENT for an endoscopy if the problem is that I work in a saw mill, sleep in a haystack, and the only thing I've tried is a 5G crystal amulet I bought from a friendly gypsy.
5434a
16d ago
Perhaps, hence anti-histamines and a chat with a pharmacist being my next step, but I don't have any other allergy symptoms at all.
I can see the funny side but all those things do work, just not enough. Yeah onions and chillies are funny (Dr Shrek will see you now) but you can't deny they have an immediate effect on anyone's nose and throat.
I've tried pseudoephedrine and it had little effect beyond making my hands and feet cold and leaving me feeling like I'd had one too many espressos. That might have been worth it if it also felt like a crisp Arctic wind blowing through my face but sadly not, it's more like about 25% of the positive effect of paracetamol.
5434a
16d ago
That's the direction my train of thought is heading but I'll need the doctor to diagnose. I just want to exhaust my efforts before I go there only to have them say "come back when you've tried this list of over the counter remedies".
5434a
16d ago
Is there anything else I can try or steps that I'm missing in remedying a chronically blocked nose?
I don't have a runny nose, a cough, any other sign of infection or the itchy red eyes and puffiness I'd associate with an allergy. I've tried waiting it out, I've tried nasal rinses and steam inhalation, I've tried aromatic decongestants like eucalyptus oil and eating onions and pickled chillies (more effective than I'd expect, and tasty too), and I've tried anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen and paracetamol. So far the most effective remedies have been pickled chillies and paracetamol but it's not healthy to take paracetamol daily. If I stack them all together I can sometimes get it to ease off for a few weeks before it slowly creeps back to where it was.
I think my next move is to try antihistamines to rule out an allergy and then if that doesn't work book a doctor's appointment. I might ask a pharmacist but I'm not sure what over-the-counter remedies they can suggest that I haven't already thought of.
5434a
17d ago
Thanks, kind of reminds me of those oddly mundane anime/manga concepts and characters like Bicycle Rider in One Punch Man.
5434a
17d ago
Coming back to this, I've just looked up who made the first ever (ratified) 147 break and it was none other than Joe 'Mr Snooker' Davis way back in 1955! Not such a generic name after all. His namesake Steve Davis was the first to achieve a televised 147 break.
Apparently darts players have a similar tradition of nicknames. Any other sports? I guess boxing would count, it seems to be single competitor sports that are prone to using nicknames. Wrestling too of course. Snooker, darts, boxing, wrestling... sounds more like a night down the pub than a sporting curriculum.
Any other memorable or funny sporting nicknames?
5434a
20d ago
It's the UK Snooker Championship, the first of the snooker season's Triple Crown Series, the sport's three longest-running and most prestigious tournaments. Typically the players are introduced with a nickname, some of which are earned and some of which are plainly forced and corny. An example of an earned nickname would be Ronnie 'The Rocket' O'Sullivan (world record for fastest maximum break in competitive play) or Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins, who once headbutted a match official and threatened to have his opponent shot.
Out of curiosity I went looking for a list of all the nicknames and found https://wikimili.com/en/List_of_snooker_player_nicknames
Some of them only make sense if you know the player, like Steve 'Interesting' Davis, some are phenomenally generic like Joe 'Mr Snooker' Davis, but there's some good puns too like Hong Kong player Marco 'Cue-Man'-Fu, or Chinese player Ding 'Pot Noodle' Junhui, named after the notoriously downmarket British instant noodles (available in Doner Kebab flavour, Bombay Bad Boy flavour, and Christmas Dinner flavour, all being variations on the just-add-water formula of a plastic cup containing dried noodles with dried peas and a packet of flavoured salt).
5434a
27d ago
Since my first exposure to it via /tumblrinaction more than a decade ago it's been TRA's persistence in presenting contradictory, circular and otherwise faulty reasoning as their basis for justification that frustrates me more than any idea of a man in a dress winning a sports match against women and then using the same changing room after the contest, or similar object level conflicts.
I'd be just as vexed if people made serious arguments that magic is real and that if you ruminate on it long enough your wish to learn magic can come true by forcing everyone to call your school Hogwarts, changing your name to Harry Potter and cutting a lightning scar into your head. Legislating for Hogwarts accreditation and arguing whether Griffindors are allowed in Hufflepuff dormitories is redundant.
What's crazy is that rather than getting laughed off the internet the tumblrites successfully coerced the real world into entertaining their fantasy by little more than using the threat of being shamed for intolerance on social media.
5434a
29d ago
I actually think a reasonable framing of this question is: "can men with a cross dressing fetish involve non-consenting women in their crossdress-play?"
I think a better formulation of the question is: Can men who pretend to be women justifiably expect identical treatment as women? I'd say the answer is no, they can't expect it, they can attempt it and expect push back if/when their pretence is revealed.
Can men walk around dressed in women's clothes? Yes, I don't think a person's outfit requires the consent of other people assuming it adheres to basic modesty. That doesn't mean other people have to approve of it though, they just can't formally prevent it.
Can men wearing women's outfits walk into a women's toilet and expect to be treated as if they belong there? No.
Can men become so skilled at pretending to be women that they successfully deceive people into thinking they belong there? Yes, some of them can.
Does that mean they really do belong there? No, they're men.
And finally, some men and women are not accepted in their own toilets. You should't start masturbating at the sink or shitting on the floor, grabbing people to dance with them, asking them to show you their dick, tipping the bin over, smashing the fixtures or offering around a plate of finger foods. Being the correct sex is not an unrestricted licence to misbehave in a single sex area. Pretending to be the opposite sex is one of those unacceptable behaviours.
5434a
30d ago
Calipers?
I tried with a couple of beard hairs and they read around 0.10mm on 1/100mm range calipers so I expect you'd want a micron scale micrometer to get consistent readings of thinning head hair. That said I would have thought that number of hairs per cm^2 would be a more appropriate metric.
5434a
30d ago
I've only messed around with micro batches of turbo cider. UHT apple juice, champagne yeast and a few slices of ginger root. I like it dry and strong so it's as simple as waiting til it finishes and then chilling it to clear. I should test if my yeast is still active, I've been thinking about making another bottle.
I made strawberry infused vodka once and that turned out better than I expected if a little overly sweet and jammy tasting. Would have been improved by cutting it back with plain vodka but I'd used all the vodka for making the infusion.
I did look into home stilling but I don't drink enough to make it worthwhile. Unlike @yofuckreddit the information I found made it look cheaper and easier than I expected. The method basically depends on judging when to cut the fractions (heads and tails from the hearts), and the more you spend on a still the more distinctly and efficiently they can be separated instead of having them bleed and smear from one into the other. There's some fairly straight forward chemistry and engineering underlying the process. As I say I lost interest as I don't drink that much and realised it would be quicker and easier to simply buy food grade ethanol to use for infusions (£20/L 95% according to the notes I took, roughly the same price as cheap vodka by alcohol volume). Still think it could be a fun project though. I saw some interesting videos* steeping different size oak pieces for making whisky that indicated a good product could be made quickly using pieces with the correct surface area, which makes sense as beneath the mystique it's basically a wood infusion. On the other hand this is coming from someone who rates UHT turbo cider as perfectly adequate, so mileage may vary. Now where's that yeast...
*Found it: Final Tasting - How does surface area affect the whiskey aging process?
That's like saying that people who like red heads value their fiery personalities, or people who like black women value their sassy attitudes - it's projecting lazy stereotypes into other people's minds and then labelling it as a fetish akin to their being fixated on feet or uniforms. Where Asian women do display submissiveness (I'd class it more as passiveness) it's their least attractive aspect. Cool, a woman who's too timid to exhibit an independent personality, feel the sparks fly! It probably sounds shallow and lizard-brained but I just think they're pretty and I prefer brunettes. What's wrong with being attracted to femininity?
When I think of wimpy men I think of them being saddled with domineering women who push them around, like that character in The Big Bang Theory with the gf who sounds like a fog horn.
I agree with not saying it out loud though. Not because it makes you look weak, but because it makes you look like you value someone primarily for aesthetic considerations that they had no choice or influence over. Which is partially true, and why you shouldn't say so, because the part (liking them because they're Asian and you think Asians are pretty, or whatever) is taken for the whole (liking them only because they're Asian or whatever and being completely indifferent to who they are as an individual, which probably does count as if not a weakness then a kind of failing of maturity).
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