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xpost think it depends on genre. I go to metal and punk shows and like if you aren't gonna play it loud, I coulda sat at home and listened to it on my headset...but like stuff less abrasive, I can see how "god turn it down" might be preferable

Metal on mute is entertaining

sleepingbag forgot to log back into your primary account mang

Cool it moustache rapist

earplugs are good for really loud shows and to be able to feel screechy-ass vocals in your body, it has to be ear-destroying

being at a show with amazing sound is great, ability to clearly hear lyrics (or as clearly as they want them in the mix) and get solid bass reverberation, body resonant midrange, all without the threat of hearing loss

I would guess you could do it with really expensive speakers or a phenomenally talented soundboard engineer but I can count the number of shows fitting the bill on my hands

Meshuggah were a show that was mixed greatly last year. they're a band where if you lose sonic quality due to overamplification, the show is pretty much ruined, so they had it at a volume that was plenty loud enough to enjoy it whereas it wasn't going to give you hearing loss.

i'm a lifelong metalhead that has long disregarded sound advice on protecting his ears and even I walked out on a Withered set once because the sound was painfully loud to the point where I couldn't be in the building anymore.

I'm sure we all have that one show we'd take back just to spare our ears

there are now some really good options for better quality earplugs in the $20 range that are much better sound wise than foam, though I'm sure the custom fit ones are even better

my fave is showing up to see wolf eyes when the show was painfully under promoted and on a week night. after they started there were very shortly maybe five people up front with good earplugs and a handful huddling near the door, in a pretty long, narrow venue

I’ve bought nearly all the $20ish ones and they’re great! only used foam generic ear protection ones maybe twice in my life

Yeah we don’t need real conservatives when we have Mordy and Dmac

― .oO (silby), Saturday, 9 December 2017 04:37 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not to be all #modernpoliticalsystem privileged but I vote further left than probably most of ilx do

Unless you meant performance on msg board terms in which case ya me and Mordy get the leather strap of shame across the back alright

pictures plz

oh u

dmac I absolutely meant in online posting terms I'd never accuse you of voting for the Whigs or whatever you have there

Nah I knew how it was silby it's good

eighteen thirty four
dmac took the Whig party to war

I was going to say Whigs were originally Irish but that's Tories.

whigs were originally scottish. term was first applied to the most fundamentalist of the covenanters

Churchill that said Ireland were an ancient race, a parent nation iirc

north american-based genetic testing companies claim "British & Irish" is one category they can't separate, so maybe all the english are just rotten descendants of ireland gone wrong

Just call them all Celts and be done with it.

hey i'm irish but i don't drink alcohol, are my head & face still going to "expand" as i age

North American based

yeah my great grandparents came over & went thru ellis island

Ref to mh offering this as expertise

But also look you're american

I'm sorry

biggest north american based genetic testing company is 23andme but it shouldn't matter that it's north american surely?

i took it and instead of a map showing what percentage of each region my dna could be traced to a picture of a druid showed up

i'm a proud irish american and i feel blessed that i am allergic to alcohol. please tell me i won't hit the wall

(xp) LOL you're Welsh

xp

in u go

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fuckin luv gorkys so its all good i say

I was making fun of 23andme tbh

this american company says the irish are english and vice versa, sorry lads

cmon mh out w it

what were yr results

(xp) British and English is not the same thing, does this still have to be explained in 2017?

yo, hey, guys... is my face going to expand or what

Anyway, it makes sense that they wouldn't differentiate to much between British and Irish, six o' one, half a dozen o' the other tbh

here is a sample report

https://permalinks.23andme.com/pdf/samplereport_ancestrycomp.pdf

wait is that so? i thought British are mostly anglo-saxon and Irish are Gaelic? (or something like that?) surely that's distinct enough i'd think???

No British + Irish at all, congratulations! (xp)

(xp) They're all from Northern Spain/ Portugal.

I'm feeling a controversial opinion welling up here about travel in the modern world and what defines a unique culture

just genetically you'd think that would be one of the easier groups to distinguish

i thought British are mostly anglo-saxon and Irish are Gaelic?

you're just trolling now aren't you?

just now for the first time

that said, the majority of my ancestors back four or five generations ago all moved to a mediocre patch of land in the middle of the continent within a hundred miles of where I now sit, so I'm severely playing myself

tom d ftr that is not me in the sample report (it's the sample 23andme has posted publicly on their site)

whatever, Mr. Perm Alinks

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