stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 10/11/2016 at 8:42 PM, messiaen said:

 

  On 10/11/2016 at 7:36 PM, Bechuga said:

Parents are separating. Not really any problem emotionally--I'm 32, who cares? They should have split up years ago--but as both parents are incapable of doing anything, I am expecting an extended period of awkward arrangements and dragged feet in just getting the whole thing over with. It's going to be messy.

  On 10/11/2016 at 7:34 PM, caze said:

That's funny, whenever I get a flu, which is rarely, I usually do absolutely nothing about it and that also works to get rid of it in like three days.

I found out recently that other people go to the doctor / hospital when they get the flu. Really? I just carried tissues in my pocket and blew my nose.

sounds like you didnt actually have the flu then, which can mean days of a fever so high that you have nightmarish hallucinations. the flu is not just sniffles and a sore throat.

 

Guess I've never had it then (thank fuck)

Yeah the anecdotal thing I always heard about the difference between a cold and 'flu is: You're lying in bed and you spot a £20 note blowing about in your garden. If you have a cold you get up, go outside and get it. If 'flu, it's not even a possibility.

When I was a kid I'd get the flu every year and it was basically a night full of endless puking to the point that my mom would give me a bucket next to my bed, and a few days of having a bad fever and barely being able to eat. I fondly remember the bouts of trying to make it to the bathroom and failing and puking on the door or in my bed.

I just auditioned 11 different potential guitar parts for the chorus of a song I wrote, and I'm not 100% sold on any of them.

Layer them over each other and use them all.

​Derp, I read that wrong completely.

  On 10/12/2016 at 9:40 PM, StephenG said:

Layer them over each other and use them all.

 

​Derp, I read that wrong completely.

Really? This still sounds like a cool idea to me.

^ maybe if is like 11 diff takes of the same written "part" (guitar lead, chord progression, whatev) but in re-reading the op it sounds like there are 11 alternative parts under consideration, I dunno

  On 10/12/2016 at 7:48 AM, hello spiral said:

Yeah the anecdotal thing I always heard about the difference between a cold and 'flu is: You're lying in bed and you spot a £20 note blowing about in your garden. If you have a cold you get up, go outside and get it. If 'flu, it's not even a possibility.

I hope the 'chre never get the 'flu

Is that really how the flu is written where you are or  your own vernacular/zaz? I've always though us yanks to be way more superfluous with punctuation (e.g., Mr. not Mr)

I am however disgusted by certain conventions to no use all caps for acronyms (Nasa, Esa, Uefa, Wtf?)  Also don't understand why the US is EEUU in Spanish either but I digress

  On 10/12/2016 at 8:12 AM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

When I was a kid I'd get the flu every year and it was basically a night full of endless puking to the point that my mom would give me a bucket next to my bed, and a few days of having a bad fever and barely being able to eat. I fondly remember the bouts of trying to make it to the bathroom and failing and puking on the door or in my bed.

I hear ya, having never once made it to a toilet as a kid; always mid-sleep straight vomit out the side of my bed with no warning

So our youngest 2-1/2 y.o. daughter apparently got something stuck up her nose, two weeks of blood tinged nasal drip out one nostril, took like 3 doctor visits todiagnose and they still don't know what it is. Now we have full anesthesia outpatient surgery on Monday, just the kind of procedure to assfuck my deductible (and by extension, moi) under pretty much all 'merican "heathcare plans"

Thanks hypercapitalism

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:25 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

So our youngest 2-1/2 y.o. daughter apparently got something stuck up her nose, two weeks of blood tinged nasal drip out one nostril, took like 3 doctor visits todiagnose and they still don't know what it is. Now we have full anesthesia outpatient surgery on Monday, just the kind of procedure to assfuck my deductible (and by extension, moi) under pretty much all 'merican "heathcare plans"

Fuck :| Sorry man.

  On 10/13/2016 at 7:09 AM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:25 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

So our youngest 2-1/2 y.o. daughter apparently got something stuck up her nose, two weeks of blood tinged nasal drip out one nostril, took like 3 doctor visits todiagnose and they still don't know what it is. Now we have full anesthesia outpatient surgery on Monday, just the kind of procedure to assfuck my deductible (and by extension, moi) under pretty much all 'merican "heathcare plans"

Fuck :| Sorry man.

 

when i was little i stuck a fruit wrinkle up my nose, and had to go to the dr. to get it removed... :

I was an asshole when i was a kid, about 4 years old... took a double wheel + axle out of a hotwheels car and threw it right up my nose. Needed a couple hospital visits to remove it.

Maybe I'm secretly like Homer simpson with that crayon and I'm a gee-bnee-us, they never actually removed it! lol 

  On 10/12/2016 at 9:47 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I just auditioned 11 different potential guitar parts for the chorus of a song I wrote, and I'm not 100% sold on any of them.

IDM 1998 and supatrigga them. 

i'm sorry not sorry on the internet all the time

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:25 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

^ maybe if is like 11 diff takes of the same written "part" (guitar lead, chord progression, whatev) but in re-reading the op it sounds like there are 11 alternative parts under consideration, I dunno

 

  On 10/12/2016 at 7:48 AM, hello spiral said:

Yeah the anecdotal thing I always heard about the difference between a cold and 'flu is: You're lying in bed and you spot a £20 note blowing about in your garden. If you have a cold you get up, go outside and get it. If 'flu, it's not even a possibility.

 

I hope the 'chre never get the 'flu

 

Is that really how the flu is written where you are or  your own vernacular/zaz? I've always though us yanks to be way more superfluous with punctuation (e.g., Mr. not Mr)

 

I am however disgusted by certain conventions to no use all caps for acronyms (Nasa, Esa, Uefa, Wtf?)  Also don't understand why the US is EEUU in Spanish either but I digress

https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/aug/16/mind-your-language-apostrophe

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Examples of abbreviated words that are sometimes given apostrophes include 'flu (short for influenza), Hallowe'en (All Hallows Evening), and Jo'burg (Johannesburg). These all look a little old-fashioned and you don't need to bother, although I have kept fo'c'sle (forecastle) in the Guardian style guide for nostalgic reasons as it is a survivor from the very first "Style-book of the Manchester Guardian" in 1928.

I guess I've read a lot of linguistically old fashioned books

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:25 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

in re-reading the op it sounds like there are 11 alternative parts under consideration, I dunno

 

This is correct.  I think the answer might be to playing something other than guitar on it.  Either that or find the right sexy effect that makes the guitar magic.  Maybe it's time to bring out the Zvex Fuzzfactory... that thing's an untameable beast, but maybe that's what the song needs.

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:25 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

Also don't understand why the US is EEUU in Spanish either but I digress

cause in spanish when a word is plural you double its correspondent letter in the acronym (Comisiones Obreras would be CCOO but Comisión Obrera would be CO)

Quality info

  On 10/13/2016 at 8:59 AM, hello spiral said:

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/aug/16/mind-your-language-apostrophe

 

  Quote

 

Examples of abbreviated words that are sometimes given apostrophes include 'flu (short for influenza), Hallowe'en (All Hallows Evening), and Jo'burg (Johannesburg). These all look a little old-fashioned and you don't need to bother, although I have kept fo'c'sle (forecastle) in the Guardian style guide for nostalgic reasons as it is a survivor from the very first "Style-book of the Manchester Guardian" in 1928.

 

 

I guess I've read a lot of linguistically old fashioned books

Funny you mention that, in my city here they have an annual Halloween "spook-tacular" or whatever in the park, and every year they hang the same banner in the same place across the same street to advertise for it.  Dunno if they've fixed it yet or not, but for years it said "Saturday's and Sunday's in October" and " featuring hundred's of pumpkin's." I really should try to get a picture of it

But yeah flu has become such a ubiquitous word here that it's taken on a life of it's own, and besides a shitty affliction by any other name is still a shitty affliction, amirite?

  On 10/13/2016 at 9:25 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:25 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

This is correct.  I think the answer might be to playing something other than guitar on it.  Either that or find the right sexy effect that makes the guitar magic.  Maybe it's time to bring out the Zvex Fuzzfactory... that thing's an untameable beast, but maybe that's what the song needs.

As watmm's QC I trust you'll make the right decision, just watch out for that sixth sigma, he's a beast too!

  On 10/13/2016 at 9:52 AM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

 

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:25 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

Also don't understand why the US is EEUU in Spanish either but I digress

cause in spanish when a word is plural you double its correspondent letter in the acronym (Comisiones Obreras would be CCOO but Comisión Obrera would be CO)

Now I know the deal 4 real, thanks spanish guy!  Now if I can just grasp why inanimate objects and other nouns are magically imbued with gender then I'll be all set

Turns out I can't quite afford to quit my job.

Fuck. My. Life.

my health insurance doesn't cover massage

I easily spent at least twice the amount of time I agreed to charge for on this pop mix for a client.  Cursed perectionism.  On the upside, it sounds like it could be a commercial hit... and she did agree to giving me a royalty percentage for songwriting and arrangement input.  Of course, the chances of it getting to the ears of the right people who determine this sort of thing are negligible as always.  But there's always that fraction of a fraction of a percent of a chance it could happen.

I need more fucking money.

  On 10/17/2016 at 7:48 AM, usagi said:

I need more fucking money.

  On 10/17/2016 at 3:27 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I easily spent at least twice the amount of time I agreed to charge for on this pop mix for a client.  Cursed perectionism.  On the upside, it sounds like it could be a commercial hit... and she did agree to giving me a royalty percentage for songwriting and arrangement input.  Of course, the chances of it getting to the ears of the right people who determine this sort of thing are negligible as always.  But there's always that fraction of a fraction of a percent of a chance it could happen.

I would get that royalty percentage down in writing mate. 

  On 10/17/2016 at 9:35 AM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 10/17/2016 at 7:48 AM, usagi said:

I need more fucking money.

 

  On 10/17/2016 at 10:18 AM, tec said:

 

  On 10/17/2016 at 3:27 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I easily spent at least twice the amount of time I agreed to charge for on this pop mix for a client.  Cursed perectionism.  On the upside, it sounds like it could be a commercial hit... and she did agree to giving me a royalty percentage for songwriting and arrangement input.  Of course, the chances of it getting to the ears of the right people who determine this sort of thing are negligible as always.  But there's always that fraction of a fraction of a percent of a chance it could happen.

 

I would get that royalty percentage down in writing mate. 

 

Yeah, I should.  I mean, she strikes me as a very sincere, well meaning person, so I don't think she'd ever deliberately screw me over.  But yeah, you're right.