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Well, one silver lining is that you can abuse that to get into places way cheaper. Or, you can be me, 6 foot tall, bearded, long haired man with a deep baritone, I get no discounts whatsoever, so I have to pay full price, lol.

So my town had the heaviest snowfall in its history, between 10-20 inches. IN ****ING APRIL!!!

Mario is actually Japanese. His surname being Itsumi. And in Japanese, the surname comes before your first name. So it'd be Itsumi Mario. :D

I see a post of well-wishes, donations, and such for my friend and fellow bandmate that died recently, and that warms my heart. But some piece of f*cking filth decided to use his death to talk about substance abuse issues in the area, literally implying that my close friend and bandmate passed...

I hate pharmacies. Doctors are fine, but I've had to yell at a few pharmacists before, same with my wife, because apparently, it's too difficult to read what the doctor prescribed.

Back pain is what annoyed me today.

My whole side of mom's family is Mormon, and I get constantly judged by them because my dad and I are very outspoken about our feelings on Mormonism. ... Let's just say we're not too fond of it, in fact, my dad and I aren't too fond of organized religions just in general, even though my dad is...

Seems like assholes are in full swing, because one guy didn't like it when I said you shouldn't be using fingertip protectors when playing guitar, and I cited Yngwie Malmsteen as an example to follow, because he doesn't need them nor would he use them, and cautioned against using Tony Iommi to...

Exactly. Couldn't continue doing business with him. What's worse, is the band he said that to was the punk band with the lead singer dressed in drag. So I feel he's projecting a bit when he says we musicians are the homophobic ones. It's not only that, but he's extremely flaky, such that other...

A guy trying to run a music festival started talking unprofessional sh*t about us and the other bands, artists, and projects we're friends with because we pulled out of his festival for his unprofessional behavior and attitude. He told a band that we're good friends with that, "They f*cking...

Some jackass is blasting god-awful auto-tuned country music so the whole neighborhood can hear, while working on a complete pile of crap with peeling flat black paint that he thinks is cool to revv the engine with no muffler, so you have that noise combined with Florida Georgia Line, and lemme...

My back's been in pain ever since the last show I played. Maybe I should insist on help every time I haul my gear, because my lower back's been killing me.

UPDATE: So thankfully after hearing our concerns, he understands, and him and another member are already in talks with a different venue, and I didn't know this prior, but any entry fees or ticket sales, as well as merch sold is ours, so that softened things a bit. Still though, he understands...

I just found out last night that our guitarist decided to schedule a New Year's show without discussing it with everyone. Even worse, it's a venue where you have to pay to play a show, which they're asking for $100, but we get $50 back. He tried explaining it to me when I asked, "So we're...

I practice meditation already for anxiety. For anger, I'm gonna look into different ways to help with when I get angry at a situation and how to express and deal with it better. Which I never thought I had to do, because I never thought I was holding onto things.

I might actually start seriously considering getting back into martial arts again.

Update: It's been four goddamn days without heat in the dead of winter. it's 59° Fahrenheit in the house, and the furnace guy was available while we weren't at home, so I left work to become available, and now I'm on his schedule. I texted and called him for him to say, "I'll let you know when...

Me too. Thanks for your concern, Dizzi! :D I can be quite a butthead when I'm frustrated, so if I was one, I apologize. :)

I'm not sure. They did get entirely new maintenance staff when the new owner bought up the complex where I live, so somebody's trying to fix the mess, but I haven't had to call upon them yet. Let's just say that based on prior experience, I expect the worst.

Lawyers are expensive, and it's honestly not worth going that far. All I really want with the maintenance staff is someone competent. There's a reason I don't go to Jiffy Lube to get my car serviced anymore, and it's largely for the same reason.

My ongoing war with apartment maintenance being lazy sacks of sh*t rages on. Backstory on their laziness: it took 5 calls to maintenance to get someone out to "fix" our washer. First time, he said, "JuSt UsE sMaLlEr LoAdS." Despite "uSiNg SmAlLeR lOaDs" the washing machine flooded, and we spent...

Oof. That sucks, man.

I'm using Guitar Pro, and I just figure it out the old-fashioned way. :) It's more of a small annoyance than anything, and easily rectified in 5 minutes.

Yep. Except in this case, everything was right where it should be. It was really well done, which I find more annoying, because they could have taken 5 extra minutes to put in the key signature, but didn't. Maybe this is because I'm a huge neat freak with charts, sheet music, music in general...

In this case they got the notes exactly right, they just didn't indicate in the key signature that there was a Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, and Gb. Thus every time one of those notes showed up, it was shown as an accidental. I just don't like clutter, and I like things to be easy to read. That said, even...

I love when people make really accurate sheet music, yet never bother to write in the key signature correctly, leaving accidentals all over the place, looking like a gigantic mess. This forces me to do some detective work in order to clean things up. Latest example, Trivium's song "Heart From...

No problem, I'll be here. :)

I'm sorry, that can be infuriating. Anything I can do?

I need to rip a massive fart, and it won't come out. Kinda hurts.

That's annoying. Hopefully you get a spot. :)

You've also directly admitted that you don't know anything about music or playing an instrument. So you don't have any experience in this field. I, however, do, considering I've been at this for 23 years. Furthermore, this isn't a matter of "people learn things differently." The guy openly...

It was on an advice exchange group. The OP mentioned wanting all 12 major and minor scale shapes, I probed to figure out what was actually needed. Come to find out he has all this knowledge, and was refusing to apply it, the only thing he didn't know was the notes on the fretboard. So I said...

This is precisely what I was getting at. Anyone can use tabs and a scale diagram and play by rote. In fact, if you understand how to read tabs and diagrams, it's actually really easy to learn a few things this way. But when the student inevitably moves beyond that, the question always rises...

Also, I really hope this debate doesn't lead to bad feelings. I truly do believe music is for everyone, and this is just a subject I'm super passionate about. I do get what you're saying, but all I was saying was that there's other considerations when talking music that have to be taken into...

Again, the guy KNEW ALL OF THIS. He just didn't want to apply any of the knowledge he had. If you want me to be blunt about it, he was being lazy. Lazy isn't an excuse, because you look for shortcuts, and I can tell you that shortcuts lead to bad habits in technique, and it ignores ear...

He had all of the knowledge, already, but was refusing to apply it. When he revealed he didn't know the notes on the fretboard, that's when I suggested that was what he needed to learn. If you already know how to make a major or minor scale, then scale diagrams aren't really helpful anymore...

The problem with learning things visually is that it gets you thinking with your eyes, and in music, your eyes are the biggest liars in multiple ways. First, if the instrument is tuned differently than normal, like an open tuning, then shapes aren't going to work anymore, even if your fingers...

It's just annoying, because what he wanted was someone to tell him where to put his fingers, but he had all of the knowledge already, he was refusing to apply it. When I pointed that out to him, and gave him what he needed, he called me annoying. It's like learning math, why would a math...

I got called annoying for giving someone advice they didn't want to hear in a guitar player's advice exchange group. Context: Guy says, "What's all 12 major and minor scale shapes?" I said, "Study up on the Circle of Fifths, it literally tells you how many sharps and flats are in a key, and...

Why do drummers insist on blasting away on drums while the bassist and the guitarist tune up or set up? I've been patient with my drummer, but it's now to the point I'm ready to start hurling water bottles at him to get him to stop. Do drummers honestly not know what restraint is?

Caeser is the salad dressing dude.

One dumb person claimed the Roman Empire didn't exist. I just... can't.

I just have a big mouth, lol. :shrug:

Don't worry about it, mate. You'll get better, just be yourself. I know that sounds like a platitude, but honestly, if you're just yourself and treat everyone with basic dignity, you've pretty much got it covered. Some people are assholes, that's unavoidable, and some are toxic, which is also...

Most likely because paleontology is a young field of science, and dinosaurs weren't known until the 19th century, when Sir Richard Owen came up with the classification. So, for now, in addition to their genus name, calling them dinosaurs as a generic term is as good as it gets. :shrug:

Well, the "King" name is its species name. Tyrannosaurus = Tyrant Reptile. rex = King. It is kinda funny though that Queenie is also a king, lol.

Fun fact, a lot of T. rex specimens have fun names. We have: Sue. Stan. Scotty. Samson. B-rex. Peck's Rex. Bucky. Jane. Queenie. Baby Bob. Tristan. And Black Beauty. ^_^ Of all those specimens, we only know the sex of one, and it's B-rex, and she was a female.

Just phonetically sound them out, and you'll be right more often than not. :)

If you break down their Greek names, they are rather apt. For example, Tarbosaurus means "Alarming reptile", alarming in the sense that it's awesome, btw, and its species name is "bataar" which is a misspelling of the Mongolian word "baatar" which means hero. So you can make a literal case...

Well, Dilophosaurus is named after the two bony crests on its head. That's indicated in fossil evidence. What there's no evidence for, is as you said, no evidence of glands to produce poison, and no evidence at all of a frill like the Frilled Lizard. And funnily enough, Jurassic Park's...