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Yes, this thread's poll doesn't give enough credit to streaming as a way of discovering and enjoying albums. I have been able to expand my familiarity with the influential music of the 50s-70s by streaming albums which I would never have considered had I needed to go out and find them on CD etc...

Plenty of individuals are synonymous with numbers, but how impressive that is depends on how likely you are to encounter the number in a neutral setting. For example, if I saw the number 99.94, I would think of Don Bradman, but when is one likely to meet the number 99.94 unless one is already...

If I knew you IRL I wouldn't be able to call you Arakhor because I don't know how to pronounce it. Is it Arra-CORE or uh-RAHker or something else?

Not really although I did eventually need to embrace being called "Cathy", which was a bit odd at first. Aack!!

My everyday vocabulary contains more Yiddish-derived words than is probably usual for someone with no Jewish heritage (and who isn't from New York). Both 'schlep' and 'kvetch' are among the words that will come to my mind unbidden, i.e. I don't need to reach to recall them. (And a quick search...

This year I genuinely did set out to achieve goals, and I wrote them down too. Seems like this is the appropriate place to take stock of them so here goes: - Resolved some problems that had arisen with my flat - in particular, had my boiler replaced before it could blow up, and managed to...

So it seems I shall not achieve my dream of being a famous writer after all, as my series of wedding-themed whodunnits was rejected by the publishers. Apparently they were "too predictable". Sigh... always the bridesmaid.

Corollary: At the moment I can see 'likes I've received', but would it be possible to add a way to see 'likes I've given'? I'd love to be able to go back and find the posts that I enjoyed in the past.

Attempted to find another four-letter one (we had one on the previous page) and would like to submit this to the rules committee to see if it counts (try searching it for the reason I'm dubious): l.u.n.k

Well yesterday I had to ask someone to repeat themselves three or four times before I could hear them, so that super hearing option is looking very tempting to me.

S_o_d_a_l_i_t_y P_u_n_c_h_d_r_u_n_k S_p_a_t_c_h_c_o_c_k Y_o_u_t_h_q_u_a_k_e (kinda surprised by this one, it's still a pretty trendy word) M_y_c_e_l_i_u_m

This is fun. K_a_t_z_e_n_j_a_m_m_e_r B_o_u_f_f_a_n_t H_y_d_r_a_n_g_e_a A_c_c_e_n_t_o_r (does it count if I was the one that used it?) T_m_e_s_i_s (same question) S_h_o_e_g_a_z_i_n_g S_p_i_n_n_e_r_e_t Okay I'm done now.

I admit that I was initially fooled by this! At the time I originally posted I was absolutely willing to believe this (to be fair the first post was sprinkled with believeable little details like 'CFC hasn't been backed up in six years' :p). It was only about five seconds after I clicked 'Post...

Yeah I just looked at my tattoo. Ah dammit now I have to get that changed, too.

The obvious solution is to put our post counts in our signatures and manually increment them every time we post. I updated mine before I posted this so I'm ahead of the game! Keep up, suckers!

I'm actually almost finished listening to a series of audio lectures on this topic - 36 Great Women Before 1400 (35 of 36 lectures complete!) A few highlights: The Trưng sisters of Vietnam who rebelled against China Perpetua, early Christian martyr, fell to beasts in the arena Aisha, one of...

Equinoxes are for suckers. I will never be convinced that any part of December should be considered 'autumn'. How can we be singing "In the Bleak Midwinter" if winter has yet to begin?

Gave four of my votes to the four artists in the list that I have heard and enjoyed album-length projects from: ATCQ Kate Bush MC5 Dolly Parton Gave my fifth vote to Eurythmics because Annie Lennox is cool.

Don't want to jinx it :shifty: but I might actually have some friends now, for the first time since I left school over a decade ago...