Or just use your aging sponges in a rotating lifecycle. I have 4 stages/sponges at one time that slowly get demoted as they age.
New sponge only gets light jobs. Scrapped clean dishes, pans that just need the oil washed off.
Middle stage wear is used for stuck on foods and generally more gross dishes.
Not usable for dishes, but good for counter/stove tops.
Dirty jobs. Nothing food related. Floors, bathrooms, use with disinfectants.
“So anyway, we raised the prices by 300% due to… uh…suh… supply chain issues! Somehow our shoplifting losses also went up 300%! So we decided to put an armed guard in every isle and check out starting in 2024.”
“Luckily our profits also went up 300%! In celebration, we are holding a pizza party for all full time employees on December 25th at 6:00 am in Antarctica. We suggest car pooling to combat climate change! Choice of 1 slice of cheese, or no cheese pizza. If anyone can’t make it then we will be live streaming the event to our corporate intranet. Just head into work and you can all relax in the managers office to watch the full event. The pizza will be so good, even looking at it will be satisfying! And hey, if you’re already watching the event, why not pick up an extra shift? We’re just so proud of our workers here at literally every corporation.”
That is an outrageously long time to wait for a laptop without updates. From the prices I just looked up, it also is outrageously expensive.
I would have sought a refund before now already, but that’s just my opinion.
Fuckin go for it bud.
Oh lord. That was more than enough cringe. The hook of “I don’t care if I offend you” really hammers home that they aren’t offensive, just sheisty dramatic coat riders.
They’re so offended that their opinions are largely considered shit that they wrote a song solidifying that they are “men,” and disagreement with them makes them upset enough to attempt to write thinly veiled propaganda music in warehouse basements to broadcast to everyone as if they are somehow being silenced.
I need someone to post a piped link so I don’t have to give this person any more views.
I crave the cringe.
I understand your frustration and want you to know my completely personal opinion but I’m going to explain it through my own experiences.
As every aspiring lead guitarist does, I loved Van Halen. Their verses and choruses weren’t very hard to learn once I got the basics down, but obviously the solos would have to come later. Anyway, I loved “Ain’t talkin bout love”. I found some tabs and learned the intro after a week and I had it down. It never sounded perfect but it was super fun to play.
A couple years later I found that the tabs I learned were entirely “wrong” from someone who learned it the way EVH actually played it. That guy thought the way I played it was way cooler than the way he played it. All the notes were the same but it was more technical and apparently more impressive looking, and he wished he could play it that way I did.
There are so many ways to play every song note for note, but only one way to play it “correctly”. That correct way may be easy, or it may be hard, but if it sounds good, it is good. The wrong way can make you a better player and sometimes learning “wrong” can be a good thing.
If it’s so hard that you are getting frustrated, you can always bench it for later, find easier ways to play it, find more technique based lessons on how to play it, or break it into smaller parts and practice those small pieces until you have the dexterity.
Another opinion of mine that Marty Friedman said best is “learning a song perfectly is a hobbyist’s goal.” There’s so much nuance to every guitar players style that there’s little chance you will ever sound exactly like them. Even the greatest guitarists can only get close to emulating another great guitar players sound. If you focus on sounding perfect, you most likely won’t progress very far and it won’t happen very quickly. The concepts are key.
Learn to strum the chords, doesnt have to be perfectly strummed. If it’s a G-C-D progression, even if it’s fingerprinted, just strum along. Maybe add some embellishments. Maybe use your ear to add some harmony, or try to come up with your own chord shapes.
As for self doubt, you’re most likely going to have to live with it, so get used to it. Are you going to be the next EVH, Hammet, Rhoads, Yngwie, Tosin, Holdsworth, Guthrie, or Lane? Most likely not. They’re freaks of nature. Can you make beautiful, insane, creative music that is all your own and exactly what you want to hear? Absolutely. You’ll likely even surprise yourself with how good you get when you let the pressure of being perfect go.
The fact that you even asked about how to get better shows you want more, and you’re willing to ask the questions to get there. If any of this sounds patronizing I apologize and don’t mean it as such. I just don’t know what level you’re at with your playing and knowledge, but I wish you the best, and if you have any questions about anything guitar related you can feel free to message me and ask. 🙂
He serves “ok” quality steaks, wraps them in gold leaf and upcharges thousands of dollars. His restaurant is the equivalent of the “I Am Rich” app. One critic called the whole thing dinner theater. More money than sense is required to dine there.
I can’t tell you what’s right or wrong but in my opinion, learn songs you like for a while. The first rule is to have fun.
Pretty much every song’s chords are available online so you can start slowly by strumming along to any song. If that becomes boring or tedious for whatever reason try singing along while playing.
Try using your ear to play the melody on a single note. You shouldn’t be trying to sound amazing at first, because really, even after years of playing no one feels satisfied with how they sound. You should be building your dexterity, training your ear, pushing your talent, and as always, having fun.
There’s going to be a bunch of technique snobs everywhere in every community of anything. Guitar is one of those things.
After 2 years of playing I realized I was holding my pick “wrong”. I re-trained myself with a “correct” technique within a week. A couple years later I found a new technique of holding the pick. Again, within a week I was able to play everything I could previously while holding the pick in a dramatically different way.
Technique is something you can pick up along the way. Yes, if you practice “proper” technique from the start you will be better off, but that’s only if you continue playing. Playing in a regimented fashion where you must play “properly” often times turns people away from playing at all.
All of this depends on what you actually want to do with the guitar and what your goals are.
Is it to be able to play along with some of your favorite songs? Is there a certain skill level you want to attain? Do you want to focus on lead, or rhythm?
I, for example, wanted to play the entirity of Crazy Train. I thought that as long as I could play that, I would be happy. After I learned Crazy Train, I figured, if I could play whatever note I heard in my head I would be happy. Then it was whatever phrase or riff I was hearing in my head. Then it was jamming. My practice of learning songs, paired with some very basic dexterity exercises got me beyond what my initial goal was.
That said, a good guitar teacher being there one on one will absolutely accelerate your learning. They should be asking you a lot of these same questions and directing you accordingly. More importantly than anything though, they should be making sure you’re having fun. Fun gets done. Chores get ignored.
I’ll consider it when you give me a better option than to call you moron.
I’m just here to argue.
An adult stuck in a 6 year old body that somehow knows everything and is more mature than their parents and also has money to invest, that I’m sure that won’t rouse any suspicions.
You do you bud. It’s all just opinions and assholes.
When I first heard of goon porn and looked for some videos to figure out what it was, I was met with a wall of gay and trans porn compilations. Straight cis goon porn is actually a small minority from what I have seen.
Everyone is choosing red because they think they would be rich, but would they?
Imagine having the knowledge, that you knowingly stepped back in time, and all of your memories are now not real. They won’t happen again unless you actually act exactly as you had before. No one believes anything you say because you are 6. You’re forced to go through school again at 6.
Let’s say you use your genius to progress quickly through school. Those sorts of kids become famous prodigies. You would end up on the talk show circuit with Ellen.
You would also know way more about your parents than you should at that age, and cause familial issues that would land you on Dr. Phil.
Imagine how torturous it would be to relive every moment, not being able to convince anyone of anything due to your age, unless you give up the fact that you were somehow sent back in time and know the future. Would you be able to convince your family without going insane? Would any government agency take qcute interest in your foresight? Imagine having to keep a level head while also going through puberty a second time.
How much will your presence affect the timeline? Maybe your first big move to get rich causes all subsequent moves to not exist. Maybe your parents hate you. Maybe it’s chaos theory. Maybe you end up taking a path away from opulence and become an addict due to the constant anxiety, regret and boredom. Maybe you become a nihilistic mess that drives you to a worse life than you had before.
I’d take the definite of $10M. I know what I would do with it right now. I know it would be good.
Edit: a downvote without a reply telling me how I’m wrong is really an upvote.
I don’t mean to paint with a broad brush, but every marine that saw ground combat in Afghanistan is an unstable PTSD riddled psychopath.
Show me on the cybertruck where Elon touched you.
I remember when no one talked about measles, and now suddenly everyone is. 🤔