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@Thad E Ginathom I have the opposite problem, my jaw's actually a bit further back than ideal so I have a pretty bad overbite. That's part of what the braces and splint are for.

I am sorry to hear that you went through that and that dentures aren't an option, but at least things are sorted now.

@YMO I'm Filipino. There is rice. There is a great volume of rice :)))

I lost so much weight when I had braces my M.D. put me on a high fat diet. Two milkshakes a day with this stuff called Weight-On. Back in those days they tightened the braces every two weeks. The whole think lasted 10 months. My condolences.

The ticks are a real thing.. My friend was a victim of this condition.

It's less than 24 hours since the installation and the pain is getting progressively worse, gragh. I honestly doubt I'll be able to manage anything more than broth for a while, and overcooked rice/pasta.

Pretty sure my own casts will suffer a similar place of honour haha. Glad to hear I've got good company!

there's something about that experience i can't quite place on the scale of good vs. bad where he always had a new 7 series bimmer when I'd visit his office.

HAHA glad your orthodontic torment helped fund a cushy-butt ride though. Totally get why it's implacable, shiz like that just comes across as weird.

Hahaha that's why we call it "hiatus x hiatus" I personally like Mob Psych 100 better than OPM. Haikyuu is sooo good! I never thought I would love a volleyball anime lol. 4th season is coming out soon so it might be a good time to start watching. Highly recommend watching season 1 then reading the manga. The animation team did a fantastic job portraying the manga. and I'll check out Sound! Euophonium :)

Euphonium helped me get back into band music after losing interest a few years back and going full hard rock and metal, haha. The anime's a KyoAni affair so excellent art of course, not to mention the pacing is just about perfect, not to mention the music itself. I listen to the soundtrack reasonably often, haha

Your lie in April is probably the only music related anime I’ve watched (3 times)

We had a cyclone, the year after the flood. Made a mess of our city; lost many trees. Despite my realistic expectations, we still had our one tall tree, car port, water tanks. I think we got a bit of shelter.

Still, it put on one hell of a show: heavy monsoon-type rain moving sideways in the wind!

Tropical life, eh?

Yes. Four deaths at last count which makes me angry. I'm glad that my area wasn't affected as much as I feared but at the same time I'm just fucking livid. People are making the best of it but there's still thousands displaced, no power, no clean water.

Sorry, forgot to check in with you yesterday. I should really keep up better with status updates. Glad things are OK with you and yours.

Thus freedom to agree or to face prison. Unless you rule the people and can get away with breaking the rules. As if Machiavelli's mockery of the Florence's Medici was taken literally. The younger generations can only be held back for so long...

Saw that guy in a clip of a press conference on BBC Panorama's "How to Brainwash Millions" ... what a dickhead

S E V E N D A Y S.

That reference I don't understand, but...

I'm getting the boils already.

@Thad E Ginathom Haha, it's in reference to a Japanese horror flick from the 90s called The Ring— I love many from this era (e.g. Kairo, Ju-On, Black Water, One Missed Call), they have a uniquely unsettling vibe. There's an English remake that's actually quite decent, I recommend either if you think you might enjoy Asian horror :)

@DigMe LOL holy crap I think I saw the exact same box at a local market hahahaha

The also have Lepin Movie 2

But do they have Lepin the Third? I hear that one was outright burglary but I've yet to see it for myself.

Thanks @Jinxy245 now I can't unsee the antennae lol

Having met IRL I can confirm no antenna but he does have a tail.

Oh dammit I totally missed those, hah! But yeah, temperatures dropping below 30°C so perfect time to bundle up :P

I HAVE to bite: tail on which end, dude? :))

>Boot up REW, plug EARS in and slap headphones on.
>Start measurements, halfway through, motorbike speeds past. At 1AM.
>Try again
>TWO AIRPLANEA fly over just as measurement sweep was ending.

Now it's a rooster crowing. Yeah this is a wash.

lol. But hey, good try!

Thanks to all for the "clean air input." :)

@Artasia Hong Kong. So if winds are from the north, we get air from the Guangdong factories. If winds are from the south, the air is beautiful.
@Thad E Ginathom The 3M Filtrete stuff is great for house dust and maybe pollens, does nothing for PM25, which is the long term health damaging particle range. It's great for keeping the insides of computers clean too. I can post sensor screenshots if you'd like.

Good hints! Thank you @JustAnotherRando

The first few parts were well done, but towards the halfway mark it just felt like they lost what made the stories scary trying to tie things into a single narrative.

Mostly just miffed the Pale Lady didn't scare the crap outta me like the illustration still sometimes does.

You're an asymmetrical drain

*waits for the likes to start rolling in *

Will admit that got a chuckle out of me :))

Did some snooping around and apparently a full charge cycle helps some people. I know I've done just that at least twice so lacking confidence, but if the battery's fubbernucked then it's fucked regardless.

@lerrens I KNOOOOOOW

@ChaChaRealSmooth JUST DO IT.

They broke up? :D

@zonto not for long! Only six years at last count

OK, so who are the leather chaps here? Not me!

Proper attire for dealing with fighting felines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welder#/media/File:AlfredPalmerwelder1.jpg

I used to rescue one cat from a huge intruder tom with murder on its mind. I used a large broom. Intruder cat would just take to attacking the broom instead!

I meant to ask you, wtf is a weeb?

Weeb is a shorter version of weeaboo which is a catch all term for anime fans outside of Japan.

Psycho Pass was an anime with a lot of western sci fi influences. Season 1 was great, season 2 was trash, the movie was nice. Season 3 has me nervous.

@Senorx12562 what @netforce said, haha. Didn't know there was a third season coming out by the way, argh pleasedon'tsuckthanks

EDIT: fans of anime, manga, video games, etc. Basically Japanese pop culture and nerd stuff?

My grandmother played on it a lot before she passed away. It's well out of tune now but I still remember some of the old ditties she'd hammer out while I was trying to study, haha.

And eh, aunt gets a piano and we get a place to live. Asian families. Woo.

I used to work at Gibson and used to hear the calls from the guys next to me from customers calling about pianos. Don't worry about getting it in perfect tune. Just get it in tune with itself to not stress the soundboard.

I'm showing my ignorance but youcsnyou can stress the sound board (looked it up) that way? Yikes. Might have to call in a pro to help with.

So not just 2 hours of people abusing a mentally ill man? The trailer makes the movie look depressing.

@PTS the movie definitely has a lot of that. I'm in the psych field so was leery about gratuity there as well, but putting the fact that I'm easily irritated by how mental illness is often portrayed in cinema aside, the film was just great at pulling on the right strings to keep me on seat's edge.

The movie is definitely a downer by the way, so if you're the type who has strong empathy definitely stay away from this one.

I just happen to have a thing for films that take an effort to watch. They do a better job drawing you in, counterintuitively enough.

I like Violator from the 80’s/90’s era but their last album “Spirit” from 2017 is really good too.

Sigh. Fine I'm queueing them up on Spotify now. Will probably wait til I get home though, just so I have the decent system at hand. GBuds on loan to a friend so I'm stuck with cruddy IEMs on the go.

In other news, about to watch Joker. Hyped!

@DigMe - 4 decades and still churning out excellent albums.