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Nobody should be forced to have pie in the face (free thread)

hand crank? Surely foot pedal would have been better?
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:39 PM on May 13, 2024

Just a quick mention that seanmpuckett has a link in the MetaFilter Mall, which is one of the links at the top right of the webpage. I can't afford any art at the moment, but the MeFi Mall is an amazing place to do shopping if you have shopping to do.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 6:00 PM on May 13, 2024

I was up at 1:30am with a need to shit. And again at 3:00am. And then around 4:30am. And maybe 8:30am, and after that began the vomiting... which was maybe 6 times across the day...

But doctors all tell me all the tests are normal and they can't be imaginative about other tests to run. And yet, this is a life that I'm living, and have been for years.

Why can't I get a physical to get curious about my condition and devote some attention to it? I… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 7:34 PM on May 13, 2024

"Why can't I get a physician to get curious..."

typos suck.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 8:39 PM on May 13, 2024

Interesting that no one makes Zucchini Pie...

Oh but there is zucchini quiche...
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 5:52 PM on May 14, 2024

If you like driving techno and other related music, you owe it to yourself to listen to Trent and Atticus' soundtrack for Challengers. It's a real treat from beginning to end. [only the first 15 tracks here are the original album]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 6:28 PM on May 14, 2024

Hibbybear could it be Gallbladder?

Every test we've been able to think of comes back normal. Gallbladder function was tested at some point in the past couple of years.

I do have both a physician appointment and a gastrointestinal specialist appointment toward the end of the month, so maybe something can get figured out, or maybe we can think of more tests to run.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 1:01 PM on May 15, 2024

I've done enough needles in the past couple of years that I've gone from saying "you'd best lay me down, I might hit the floor" to anyone coming to give me a shot or draw blood to mostly being able to just tell them to be gentle and look away. It's one of the most remarkable positive changes in my life.

I am still not a fan of needles, but not having the thought of one make me feel faint is nice.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 3:14 PM on May 15, 2024

Greg_"Trainspotting"_Ace
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 3:50 PM on May 15, 2024

OMG Greg. If you're going to loathe and despise them, get some quality actual forbidden words in there, not sounds that might be dubbed in for network broadcast.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 8:49 PM on May 18, 2024

How To Live Forever

Thirty-five years of handwritten journal? Surely there would be some sociology or modern anthropology study society/department who would be thrilled to have that?

Alternately, get a pretty good waterproof chest and bury them someplace to be found long in the future. Please don't destroy them!
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 6:53 PM on May 18, 2024

The world doesn’t need an archive of me any more than it needs all the stuff I used to store in my basement

And yet that is exactly what we crave from ancient Greece, Sumer... written records of everyday life are regarded as having no value but they provide the greatest window into the lives of people.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 7:39 PM on May 18, 2024

I'ma show y'all how to move this yay'

There's enough context at the Genius page, it felt important to include that.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:10 PM on May 15, 2024

He's going on tour this summer, so if you want to watch him in person you have the opportunity.

Also, this is from an album he just released that is old songs that he's finally finished, or whatever, and he has an album of entirely new material out in early June.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 6:44 PM on May 15, 2024

So, on the Genius page, some of the lyrics are backgrounded or highlighted in a different color. If you click on those lyrics, an explanation of those lyrics will appear to the right on the screen on a desktop. I have no idea what this looks like on mobile, but I assume some kind of pop-up will appear.

It does involve a bit of fiddly clicking, but not too terribly much, and it helps make it clear exactly which lines of the song you're referring to with the explanation being offered.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 6:06 PM on May 16, 2024

And just to make things most simple for you, the song is a braggadocio about dealing cocaine. "yay'" is slang for cocaine, so the singer is bragging about how he knows how to sell drugs in good quantities. The song also talks about how the reason he's selling drugs is because his father was arrested when he was seven and so the only way he had to make it in the world was to get into a criminal racket. The song's narrator is very self-confident about his ability to sell but is also… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 6:09 PM on May 16, 2024

His dancing style, some of which echoes his "This Is America" choreography, I can't get enough of.

That kind of exaggerated facial expression and dancing I think stems out of the minstrel scene from back in the day. I never know how to react when I encounter it because it is at once very appealing and very very racist.

A film I watched that changed my life and how I look at things like that is Spike Lee's difficult… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 2:47 PM on May 18, 2024

It becomes apparent there were at least three versions of the dough

I'm guessing Godfather's Pizza was supposed to be something close to Chicago deep dish?

I remember being a ravenous teenager and able to eat an entire large godfathers deluxe combo by myself, and still skinny as a rail.

I wonder if the Godfather's in Moses Lake is still open. It was the last one I knew of that was open, only got there once about 15 years ago.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 1:48 PM on May 16, 2024

After decades of putting my pizza stone in the middle or middle-top rack position, a recipe for tavern-style pizza told me to put my pizza stone on the rack that is basically against the heating element.

It changed my pizza baking entirely. Not just for tavern-style, which is VERY thin crust OMG, but for any pizza style. In fact, I just leave the stone in the oven all the time, and the oven seems to work better with it in there.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 2:39 PM on May 16, 2024

America's Test Kitchen on Tavern-style Pizza. [11m30s]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 1:40 PM on May 18, 2024

Teruna Jaya (gamelan animated graphical score)

What a fascinating way to present music! I know nothing about these instruments or this musical form, but this visual presentation really helped me understand it better than just listening to it would have been. Thanks for posting!
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 6:45 PM on May 17, 2024

The Low Spark of High Heeled Chairs

I'm really going to have to agree with Czjewel -- the point of high heeled shoes isn't the shape it makes the feet take, it's the shape it makes the calf and ass look. Focussing so strictly on the feet while missing the calves entirely feels like they didn't think things all the way through?

Maybe they made some with calves and they looked bad. I have no idea.

It's a clever project though!
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 1:34 PM on May 17, 2024

Another layer of mediation to an already loopy transmission

The dosing differential between LSD and speed would make it basically impossible to cut speed into the LSD without increasing the volume of what you're taking in to some ridiculous amount.

LSD is measured out in micrograms. Speed is consumed in much larger quantities.

I do miss having access to actual quality LSD. I wouldn't take anything out there anymore because the sources have changed so much in the 20-odd years since mine got busted.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 8:04 AM on May 17, 2024

The Car You Never Expected (to disappear)

As a driver of a Hyundai Accent, I have to say the size of most vehicles on the road is pretty terrifying. And I say that also as someone who drove a Chevy Express Van or Chevy Express Box Truck for work for 20 years. Even in those larger vehicles, the size of other vehicles was astonishing.

I don't understand the need to have a passenger vehicle that seats at least five also be a large hauling vehicle with a full length truck bed. People don't know how to park them,… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 2:44 PM on May 16, 2024

In my teenage years in the Eighties, we had a Ford Courier pickup truck. Honestly it was the most useful thing ever. It was tiny, it got great gas milage, it could hold three people and had a full pickup bed... If they built something like that again, I might buy one! Make it electric with all that torque!
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 3:03 PM on May 16, 2024

If it's only foreign car companies going to be making sedans anymore... I assume the Civic is going to survive? And I don't think the Hyundai line of sedans is going anywhere. Volkswagen? No clue. Who else is making sedans? Suzuki folded a while ago...

oh, Audi? Mercedes but that's a luxury brand... anyway. We need to make small cars again. They're better for everyone as long as we have to have cars.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 3:19 PM on May 16, 2024

And that horrible burnt orange that was around for a while. WTF?
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 3:21 PM on May 16, 2024

Is Mazda still doing the 3, 6 and the other one? I remember when they were the 323 and then 626.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 3:36 PM on May 16, 2024

Biden's moves are strictly protectionist, as China was about to dump cheap cars onto the US market, cheaper than our own industry could produce them for. Doubling their price means that US made product will be able to find a market that could have become dominated by China before it even had a chance to get truly started.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 3:43 PM on May 16, 2024

Not sure you've read the room properly with that suggestion, but I'm curious to see how it goes.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:07 PM on May 16, 2024

Made of cardboard was it?

The Trabant was made of cotton wool soaked with linseed oil, I believe.

Was never sold in the US, however.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:29 PM on May 16, 2024

The Chevy Bolts produced at GM’s Kansas plant will be bigger than the previous Bolt model, which was retired last year.

But... this is how car models have always worked. You start off with a small car and a medium sized car as a new auto maker. You build those until you can iterate and then the small car becomes slightly larger and the medium car becomes slightly larger. You do this maybe 3 times and then your medium car has become renamed as a big… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 7:21 PM on May 16, 2024

The Last of New York City's Original Artist Lofts

I'm sorry, this comment doesn't engage with the content at all, which I promise I will get to this evening...

But my brain, every time it sees this on the front page, insists on taking a cue from Pet Shop Boys and singing "New York City Lofts" at me.

That is all for now.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 3:40 PM on May 16, 2024

“Bert, one step into animorphing into Ernie.”

The number of them that appear to carry actual Children's Television Workshop/Sesame Street branding is shocking. Surely when developing a product for an IP, you have to submit samples??? And these were approved?????????
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 2:20 PM on May 16, 2024

“interesting and adventurous and exciting and beautiful”

Knowing about this makes me happy.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 2:45 PM on May 14, 2024

I've only in the past few years come to realize that 1) I was a very attractive young man and that's why I could get picked up at bars if I wanted to be and 2) that I'm probably not going to be able to travel to a city, go to a gay bar, and end up with lodging and maybe a tour guide for the weekend in exchange for sharing a bed.

I'm still pretty cute, but I truly didn't recognize how hawt I was when I was younger. I guess I recognized it just the right amount, so I was… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 2:39 PM on May 15, 2024

OMG that's exactly the type of comment a bot would type!
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 6:28 PM on May 15, 2024

O K L A H O M A

Thank you, mods, for fixing Huge's name in the FPP.

:P
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:15 PM on May 13, 2024

Actually doing a quality television production filming of a musical is STUPIDLY expensive. Filming Hamilton cost $10million. And it involved not just running through the show and filming a performance, but there were a lot of stops and reshoots and it took a long time to shoot. If you think about the golden age of Sondheim musicals being filmed on stage, we got quite a few... those could basically not happen today with how expensive it would be.

Now... why Broadway… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 3:24 PM on May 15, 2024

Improve Your Sandwiches

I do want to speak out about restaurants that are serving "rueben" sandwiches that are not pressed and grilled.

I understand that a corned beef sandwich on rye with dressing and sauerkraut and swiss cheese is a nice thing to eat, BUT IT ISN'T A FUCKING RUEBEN!!!!

I will take a few deep breaths now.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:27 PM on May 14, 2024

And pressing? Like I didn't know this was a good sandwich construction method.

I will have to experiment with this muchly.

I know my comment above was about ruebens that need to be pressed and grilled...

but a cold sandwich that you've wrapped and pressed???

OMG I have a deep need to experiment with this. I think there are sandwiches that I regularly love that could become transcendent if wrapped and pressed.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:55 PM on May 14, 2024

Avocados are the wrong texture without enough flavor for my deviated-septum-crippled sense of taste, and kimchi has a thing about it that makes me want to vomit. I'm not happy about either of these situations, because I'm sure there is delicious food hiding behind them unavailable to me.

I am, however, a sandwich lover. I'm surprised there wasn't more addressing of... well, dressing.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 6:04 PM on May 14, 2024

Greg is the most vanilla of vanilla. I'm surprised he even made the leap to assuming there was a "touching the meat" other than food context.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 6:30 PM on May 14, 2024

I make no assumptions when it comes to touching your meat!
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 8:09 PM on May 14, 2024

Lions and Tigers and M&Ms, Oh My!
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 8:13 PM on May 14, 2024

not even a see-through sleeve for my name tag

Sorry, what does this mean? And do you mean locally or globally?

The Coca-Cola company used to have a national program of bottle deposits for glass bottles that was really truly a gigantic success. And we used to have all kinds of similar programs everywhere.

Like I don't know what the solution is. rPET has a degraded performance from first generation PET, and I don't even know what the third or fourth generation is like.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:28 PM on May 13, 2024

Thanks for clarifiying.

I mean, you could have done a web search for "glass recycling in the US" and gotten a bunch of links that would have told you the story in a way that would have been much more full than my tiny sentence in this comment stream could possibly illustrate.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:21 PM on May 14, 2024

CATSTRAVAGANZA

Where I was working in the mid-2000s, one woman had all these things on her desktop... extra toolbars, stupid stuff... she also had downloaded one of those free cursor sparkler-trail things, like fairy dust trailing behind your pointer.

Turned out it was a trojan full of malware and the company had their systems raided a couple of times before they figured out what was doing it.

Anyway, this doesn't look like it's that. It's cute!
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 1:16 PM on May 14, 2024

Soundgarden's Reunion Tour 2012

Like, I saw Soundgarden on this tour but I'm not a gigantic fan. And I have to say this is an extraordinary show. And it is SO well recorded! The sound mastering on this is amazing!
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:37 PM on May 13, 2024

Don't anthropomorphize the animals, they hate that!

they're stranger than that

Their feet have thumbs. From that fact alone, that are entirely alien to us.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:14 PM on May 13, 2024