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2 Oct 2017

Quote by DamonX
I see what you're saying. I would never wear a total green suit. That would just be weird. I do have a few green shirts that look good with a black sport coat. I can't really find any good pics of the stuff I have since fashion now seems to be skewed towards hipster tight pants that don't come down to the ankles and gross looking neck beards.

Surprisingly, I stumbled across this picture of Bradley Cooper in a green suit while searching for pictures, which I think looks pretty damn stylish. Not something I'd really recommend in a formal political/business setting, but it definitely has its charm (at least to me). I guess part of the appeal is that you know for certain that a guy has an extensive stylish wardrobe when you see him in an unconventional suit. A guy in a black suit can look great for sure, but others might question if he's just recycling the one-and-only suit that he bought for grandma's funerals a few years back; a guy in a green suit most obviously already has all the essential colors of suits (ie. charcoal, gray, navy), plus quite a few others as well.

Proof that fashion can often be a high-risk/high-reward venture. In my view, the risk that Bradley Cooper took most definitely paid off in that one picture:

2 Oct 2017

Concerning feminine fashion, I dare anyone here to express that Rachel McAdams isn't alluring as fuck with her green dress and her mesmerizing green eyes. 'Dare' is absolutely the appropriate word here, because if you risk saying anything bad about the magnificent Rachel McAdams, I'm totally going to come down on you like a ton of bricks:

2 Oct 2017

If we're talking about suits exclusively, the thing about green is that it really isn't as neutral/subdued as red or blue have subconsciously become (which somehow defeats the whole 'formal' intent of suits). Think about it for a second: the great majority of people in suits that the great majority of us get to see are politicians (or journalists, which often are pretty damn politically-related themselves). Now take a look at the political imagery of most English-speaking countries (eg. US, UK, Canada, Australia): that's right, it's all about the good old red-white-and-blue.

For decades, our dearest politicians have been relying on red/blue ties to meticulously promote their public image: red to inspire power/determination, blue to inspire freedom/tolerance. And for sure, these prevailing 'suit conventions' have spread to pretty much any profession which necessitates a suit in the western world. Green itself hardly promotes anything at all, other than your own originality and very personal fashion sense (which is often a big no-no in strict/professional spheres like politics or business). So yeah, unless you're an Irish politician or wish to make a fashion statement in a nightclub, green is definitely a rather risky color to implement into your formal suits.

If we're discussing fashion in the most general terms, I really don't see anything wrong with green at all. Pretty much any color can look shitty if it's a weird hue or if it's poorly matched. Admittedly, the spectrum of shitty-looking greens might be more broad than for some other colors (and shitty-looking greens tend to be fairly stomach-irritating as opposed to strictly eye-irritating), but as long as it's not a plain/unoriginal or radioactive green, it's a color that can be pleasant to look at just like any other.

I'm personally quite fond of dark/khaki greens for casual clothes; probably my favorite color to buy for upper garments other than staple black/white/gray. As opposed to blue shirts which can be quite finicky to match with blue jeans, green fits perfectly with just about any shade of pants. Not all blues are created equal and go with one another. Seriously, I have a few blue shirts that I absolutely love but that only match properly with one or two of my numerous blue jeans.

I have plenty of t-shirts, shirts, henleys, hoodies, sweaters in dark/khaki green. Stuff vaguely similar to this:

I don't have any in my wardrobe at the moment, but green coats can look pretty neat too:

And since I work in an engineering office which mostly favors a business-casual style (ie. definitely not as strict/formal as what I expressed in my first few paragraphs above), I also have a few green dress shirts that I like to wear with a sport coat (with or without a tie, though I often go without not to make my unstylish colleagues overly jealous). I have a few that are unicolor, but also a few plaid ones similar to what's shown below. The one on the right would look great with a gray suit I believe, or with gray pants and a black sport coat to keep things even more casual:

27 Sep 2017

I like this too:

27 Sep 2017

I also love the slide guitars in that one song:

27 Sep 2017

Much less exciting than a pedal (yet also much less costly), but I recently bought a set of 4 slides:

Hopefully I'll be able to pull off these sorts of dirty licks before the Devil calls me back to hell (evil grin):

27 Sep 2017

Quote by sprite
yes! it came yesterday. i unpacked it, set it up, hooked up my guitar, read the instructions, hit the pedal... and the power in our neighborhood went out for two hours... NOT MY FAULT! gonna give it another try in a bit, but now i'm a little gun-shy.

not if you do the cut-up right. or um... wow... it weight 10,000 pounds? how do you even lift it?

Congrats on the new acquisition. glasses8

glasses8

If you'd also like to complement your music with drums (and don't already have a drum machine), I'd certainly recommend Acoustica Beatcraft. It's a semi-professional software that plenty of artists use to create demos, but it's extremely simple to use and the beauty of it is that you can import/tweak/save beats however you like. You can even arrange many different measures/patterns to create full songs. I usually simply enjoy creating a basic 4-measure phrase and then improvising over it with my guitar; for some reason I'm a lot more inspired when I'm playing over a drumbeat and always come up with plenty of cool riffs/ideas. And it most definitely helps if you wish to learn to play on time...

The interface essentially looks like this:

This demo song was created using Beatcraft:

22 Sep 2017

My last date didn't laugh at my micro-penis. Embarassed

Embarassed

22 Sep 2017

Happy Birthday Rachel! x

22 Sep 2017

According to the theory surrounding the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator, your best relationship match is actually the exact opposite of your own personality-type, except for the S/N scale. For example, the best theoretical match for an INTJ (like me) would be an ENFP, while the best theoretical match for an ESFJ would be an ISTP:

All of my 4 girlfriends have been extroverts (to diverse degrees). More precisely, I'm an obvious 'introverted thinker' who has always been predominantly attracted to 'extroverted feelers'. I've fleetingly dated plenty of introverted girls in the past (or had a few as casual fuckbuddies), but as admirable/fun/sexy as they might have been, to me there's always been that 'little magical something' missing with them.

There are many ways I could explain that to myself...

As a few others already briefly mentioned, I really don't want someone that's constantly competing against me in a relationship; I mostly want someone that's complementing my own personality. I definitely have that analytical/practical aspect to my personality, and I like to be recognized as the undisputed analytical/practical figure in my relationships. Outgoing girls usually tend to accept that just fine, because they clearly outshine me in plenty of other areas and really don't need that particular distinction to feel valued in the relationship; introverted girls often inspire adversity because I'm mostly coming across as an antagonistic jerk who's trampling on their own customary source of self-esteem.

I generally feel much more valued with a spirited extroverted girl. My girlfriends all had this apparent spontaneous/insouciant vibe to them; the downside of this is that they're usually rather shitty at planning ahead and inevitably get into various unfortunate situations. Damn do I love to come forth as their protector/rescuer with all of my rational pragmatism, haha. I essentially act as the 'missing part' of them, the reasonable voice that most other people have echoing in their heads but that their particular personality-type inadvertently often neglects (how adorable). Conversely, my own intermittent serious/brooding personality tends to be a pretty strong catharsis for all of their characteristic compassionate/nurturing inclinations, and they sure love to present themselves as a carefree ray of joy over my life (ie. admittedly the missing part of me). As the saying goes, "You keep me wild, I'll keep you safe".

I definitely love the frivolous spontaneity that extroverted girls bring to my life. I have deep/intellectual thoughts spinning in my head all fucking day long when I'm left to myself, I really don't need to extend any of that to my relationships; I mostly want to be challenged and explore another side of myself. One of my first dates with my current girlfriend was in a museum (more specifically, hanging around downtown with a short trip to the museum). I was naturally commenting the exposition with my usual analytical mind: "See how the artist's style evolved when he moved to America: his paintings of cityscapes feature a lot more rectangular shapes, whereas his European years were mostly defined by circular/triangular shapes". My girlfriend was in complete awe before my astute observations (I swear!), but she still shamelessly voiced her own passionate impulses: "Aww, I just looove the colors in that one painting!".

Observers might have assumed that she wasn't quite my type, but holy fuck do I love that sort of girly expressiveness. In contrast to what I expressed above, this is personally the voice in my head that I tend to neglect the most: the voice of uninhibited delight. I absolutely love having a passionate girl at my side to remind me that hey, I don't always need a big fucking intellectual reason to appreciate something or to feel happy. And mind you, my girlfriend can be pretty damn thoughtful/insightful too, in her own sweet and adorable way. In more than a way, her specific attitude is a lot more praiseworthy to me than otherwise: being so casually passionate is something that I've envied all of my life (and therefore always admired), whereas big intellectual statements have mostly become unexciting banalities to me with time. Moreover, the fondness that a lively extroverted girl can show me is significantly more meaningful/valuable to me than the one of a distinguished intellectual; I've had plenty of opportunities through my life to appraise my analytical capabilities, whereas I've often been accused of lacking in spontaneity and cheerfulness. Extroverted girls basically absolve me from my deepest sins (provided that they're willing to bend over and let me have some fun with them).

Obviously, two persons of opposite personalities also form a much more accomplished and multi-talented team (in both daily fun and daily obstacles). Who's going to bring the excitement/spontaneity with two reflective introverts? Who's going to bring the practicality/stability with two fanciful extroverts? The usual dynamic in my own relationships is that my girlfriends often bring the majority of impulsive/crazy proposals. One might think that an analytical introvert like me just acts as a killjoy who ruins all of their plans, but my girlfriends have been invariably quite surprised by what I can bring to the table: I can take their most extravagant ideas/fantasies, scrutinize them, and come back with a plan that's a dozen times more concrete and feasible than what they ever dreamed of in their ebullient minds. And mind you, I thoroughly enjoy the challenges that this type of girls bring to my life; they constantly keep me on my toes and naturally make me avoid the pitfalls of my own personality. Without an extrovert in my life, plenty of my plans just remain theoretical plans; without an introvert in her life, plenty of my girlfriend's dreams just remain impractical dreams. The two of us united can come up with an unlimited amount of attainable dreams, and that's certainly a whole fucking lot of fun.

I'm not sure if the saying 'opposites attract' holds true for most people, but it's definitely been an accurate notion in my own life.

18 Sep 2017

I like this one, among others.

To put it simply, conceptualize who your ultimate model would be, and then become it (or at least try your fucking best to). Cast your limitations aside and become the greatest thing in this world that you yourself can admire. Why sit on your ass and wait for some hero to embody your own ideals when absolutely no one could ever epitomize them better than yourself?

Batman followed that philosophy, so it definitely can't be all that wrong. glasses8

glasses8

18 Sep 2017

If you can make any sense out of this, I've got bad news for you (though I'd sure love to know your pusher):

18 Sep 2017

15 Sep 2017

Oops, I just reread the OP and realized that Buz was mostly talking about white residues left by the deodorants themselves. I'm tired these days, does it show?

Anyway, I guess my previous contribution might be useful nonetheless.

And I simply use a clear deodorant so I really don't have that specific problem.

15 Sep 2017

Quote by Xanaphia
I believe I mentioned being a massive nerd? I love tabletop RPGs, like D&D, and card games like Magic the Gathering. Don't get to play them much in person anymore, but I have found online versions that scratch the itch.

It's been such a long ass time since I played table Dungeons & Dragons, I used to play with friends fairly regularly between the ages of 12-18. Funny thing, my parents were pretty damn liberal and occasionally allowed 6-7 of my friends to sleep over so that we could play until 3-4 am (during weekends/vacations, obviously).

I always find it funny that Dungeons & Dragons is typically associated with asexual dorks: one of these friends grew into a legit womanizer while another was charismatic beyond fucking compare. Whatever, haha.

15 Sep 2017

Quote by Verbal
We play Risk and poker.

The beauty of Risk is that you are free to form treaties, and free to break them. But if you break a truce, the other player's only reason to continue to play is to assure your destruction.

There is a zombie version of Risk we are looking at getting. Christmas, maybe.

I'll be honest and admit that one of the reasons that inspired this thread is that I planned to review 'Risk: The Lord of the Rings Edition' all along, haha. I bought it a few years ago and actually played with friends this past weekend. Parker Brothers has released so many different versions of Risk over the years, this one is infinitely better than the original (which can already be a whole lot of fun). I'm guessing that pretty much all the newer versions improved over the original, so you probably can't go wrong with that zombie edition either.

Anyway, I'm tired right now and don't have much time, but I promise to come back with a full review:

15 Sep 2017

I had issues with yellow stains on white/pale shirts for many years, although the majority of my clothes tend to be in darker shades (partly because my side-job as a night vigilante constrains me to dress in black, mwahaha).

I luckily stumbled across this video and never looked back: OxiClean works almost miraculously for yellow stains.

The guy covers it all so I don't even think that I need to add anything:

15 Sep 2017

Quote by NymphWriter
Then why did you post the picture of the poop emoji in the spa in the first place? I was just trying to provide some options for those who like other scents or might want to try a different scent.

So... what's your favorite relaxing music anyway?

15 Sep 2017

Quote by Just_A_Guy_You_Know
Huge Neil Young fan.

Neil Young is my go-to music whenever I'm driving on country roads; I must have over a dozen of his records (which really isn't all that impressive considering that he consistently released records for nearly 50 years). My sister lives in a beautiful region a few hours away from where I live myself, so my collection is certainly put to good use on a fairly regular basis.

I love how his music puts you in such a fabulous contemplative state. Driving with his music seems to alter the fundamental laws of time somehow; my travels appear to last an eternity while also being extremely expeditious (if that makes sense, I'm sure it does).

Some more Neil Young, probably his greatest classic:

15 Sep 2017

Quote by NymphWriter
Clearly we need more Poo Pourri here...

I'd simply settle for less poo, frankly.

13 Sep 2017

Quote by Just_A_Guy_You_Know
The best example that comes to mind is the Joker from Batman. As a character, the Joker is fairly one dimensional. His entire motivation is summed up as "Some men just want to watch the world burn," which I've always thought was pretty weak. He is all about chaos and and anarchy for its own sake, which I guess would make him the best personification of 'pure evil.'

Well I'm glad that you at least have enough lucidity to recognize that The Joker is a caricatural psychopath. I wonder what gave him away, between the fact that he's an extravagant comic book character or the fact that I explicitly presented him as such throughout this thread.

And without a doubt, unambiguously citing 'insanity' to explain one's evilness is a fairly one-dimensional initiative, but that in itself certainly doesn't make a character implausible or uninteresting. Numerous real-life psychiatrists have attempted to unravel what might possibly drive a psychopath to indulge in utterly wicked behaviors (including cannibalism and necrophilia) by investigating their past; the majority of them usually just end up helplessly raising their shoulders while stamping a big red 'fucking crazy' on a psychiatric profile. That's the whole charm of craziness and arguably why psychopaths (both real and fictional) always manage to gather such an absurd amount of attention: it's a straightforward yet incomprehensible explanation of evilness.

Moreover, I can easily name a hundred real-life people who've committed atrocious deeds on account of insanity: Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Andrei Chikatilo, H. H. Holmes, Albert Fish, Ed Gein, Robert Pickton, just to name a few. Can you name a single person who has ever committed a crime under the influence of some vague and mysterious 'dark side of the force'? And are you seriously suggesting that said 'mysterious force' is less of a lazy cop-out to explain evilness than actual insanity is?

Besides, The Joker appeared in nearly 2,500 comic books and dozens of other mediums over the last 75 years. Pretty damn impressive and quite a lot of substance for such an insipid character. By comparison, Darth Vader (as a proper Sith Lord) has primarily been the focus of only 3 movies (with an average screen-time of barely 12 minutes, for the record). I'll be the first to agree that he was a wonderful villain for those movies, but his entire evil persona was arguably fully covered in under 40 minutes of lightsaber clashes.

If you're still unconvinced that the Star Wars universe is a captivating yet highly stereotypical setting, I'd invite you to contemplate the few other villains that George Lucas offered us through his movies. Exact same director, exact same universe, exact same spirit, and one of them was an obvious ripoff of Satan while the other was a playful nod to Count Dracula (who was conveniently called Count Dooku and who was played by none other than Christopher Lee). I genuinely don't believe that anybody in the history of cinema has ever dared to rely on villains who are more clichéd than that:

13 Sep 2017

Quote by noll
You responded to Trinket who said it "actually irritated" her, which you seem to have read as not liking, but I read it as not bringing down anxiety (or worse) as that's what the thread is about.
And the OP kinda suggests it works for everyone: "A UK study found that it reduced overall anxiety by 65%, and resulted in a 35% reduction in physiological resting rates." So if it doesn't work at all for one person then it would have to reduce anxiety by 100% for two other people to get to that average of 65%.

Quote by NymphWriter
I'm not questioning the study and you misquoted me. I never said she didn't like it, I said it "wasn't her cup of tea." And that "Not every song will appeal to every person." I do believe that was what the OP was about. You were the one who took that as not liking the song and honestly took a rather hostile tone that even Dancing_Doll picked up on.

I disagree that the OP suggests that this song works for everyone. To me, a 65% reduction in overall anxiety means 65% of those who listened to this song had this reduction in anxiety and 35% of those in the 65% had the physiological resting rates. In other words, out of every 100 people, 65 had the overall reduction in anxiety and 35 of those 65 had the physiological resting rates. I'm not sure where you got your numbers, but since I don't teach math, that might be why it doesn't make sense to me.

Trinket said it "actually irritated her" which means it doesn't work for everyone and that was all I said.

This is The Spa dude, not The Think Tank. I wasn't being aggressive towards Trinket, I actually supported her opinion. You were the one who tried to make this into something it's not.

Ahh, the Spa, Lush-style... how thoroughly relaxing.

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Playing the guitar myself, I find songs featuring a warm acoustic guitar to be highly comforting (and therefore relaxing). A few examples that come to mind...

13 Sep 2017

Yeah, the more I dig into it, the more I start to realize that this research might only be a big publicity stunt. The song Weightless was actually commissioned by Radox Spa, who also concurrently commissioned the whole study. And Mindlab International, although having a neuropsychologist as their chairman, is in fact a profitable company of independent neuromarketing consultants. I'm not arguing that a few of the findings might have a valid scientific foundation, but it's hard to perceive the bulk of it as much else than a concerted effort to bring a hefty dose of attention to the different parties involved (ie. Radox Spa, Marconi Union, Mindlab International).

This video is the most detailed insight that I could find about the whole thing. They even refer to the song Weightless as 'the Radox Spa track'. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Radox Spa actually receives royalties for it:

And I find their Top-10 list of most relaxing songs to be highly dubious. It's rather surprising that despite the thousands and thousands of serene ambient/new-age tracks out there that share a striking resemblance to the song Weightless (ie. indistinct and non-repeating melody with a 50-60 bpm), a lot of the listed songs contradict their own established 'relaxing parameters' with upbeat melodies and elaborate lyrics. I most definitely wouldn't put Pure Shores from All Saints on my playlist if I was the owner of a spa or a massage parlor, as an obvious example.

Anyway, it's still interesting to hear what the uttermost relaxing track would theoretically sound like according to the latest neuroscientific developments. And I'm glad that this was brought to my attention, being fairly interested in both music and psychology. But in all honesty, I find it rather difficult to grant much merit to their list of 'most relaxing songs ever' when it seems just as arbitrary as all those tabloids who constantly profess that Scarlett Johansson is the sexiest woman who has ever walked the Earth.

And with that mysterious (and hopefully discreet) eruption of bubbles in my corner of the spa, I'm back to enjoying chill music with all of you guys. 588-rolleyes

588-rolleyes

11 Sep 2017

And as counterintuitive as it might sound, energetic songs like the one featured below can work fantastically well for me to unwind after a stressful day. Pump up the volume and hit the weights at full intensity to release all of my angst, fuck/masturbate vigorously afterward, and I'm guaranteed to sleep like an angelic baby.

Why strive to insistently manage your anxiety when you can just let it all out instead? glasses8

glasses8

11 Sep 2017

Whether or not that track could potentially reduce my anxiety would be extremely variable for me. If I'm deliberately trying to relax while closing my eyes and forcing myself into an uninvolved mental state similar to when I'm properly meditating, yeah, I could conceivably experience a few of the reported benefits (this recording actually resembles a meditation track much more than a conventional 'song'). In pretty much any other situation however (eg. lounging in my apartment, driving my car, having a dinner with friends, etc.), it would just fucking get on my nerves, haha.

I mean, the whole point of complementing my activities with music is to elicit a specific mood/energy with suitable evocative songs. There's hardly any sort of emotion conveyed in that one track (unless you consider flatline tranquility to be an emotion, which I really don't), so I'd find it pretty damn irritating during my daily occupations. It would practically feel like staring at a TV that's turned off when you just want to relax in front of a quiet program (which would paradoxically be rather upsetting). Sure the whole "there is no repeating melody, which allows your brain to completely switch off" might work in a meditative perspective, but in just about any other circumstances the absolute absence of movement/regularity/coherence would just seriously exasperate me and inevitably provoke a rather massive "is that goddamn track fucking going anywhere!?".

Anyway, I'd rather just stick to listening to unadorned alpha/theta waves while I'm meditating. When I'm involved in casual activities at home, what works best for me to relax is to listen to Mozart's piano sonatas:

10 Sep 2017

Tabletop Games

Despite the advent of technology and the unlimited diversity of entertainment that's brought along with it, board/card games still remain an incomparable way to have a crazy amount of fun among friends and family. Everybody knows of the classics which you can buy in any department store (eg. Monopoly, Clue, Risk), but several specialized shops offer a plethora of games to satisfy people of all ages, penchants and skills. We even have such a store here in Montreal that's located right at the heart of one of the trendiest spots of the city (ie. Le Valet d'Coeur, which is actually the shop featured in the picture above). Decidedly, embracing your nerdy tendencies has never been so en vogue!

Whether you're an unrivaled chess wizard, an avid game connoisseur or simply a casual card player (including poker), feel free to join the discussion:

- What is your favorite game to play among friends/family?

- Are you a regular player?

- Any fun moments/memories to share?

- Any recommendations to make?

- Any strategies to propose?

- Any breathtaking chess sets to show?

- Any mind-blowing poker videos to present?

Everything that's vaguely related to having collective fun around a table is more than welcome in this thread!

(though you might want to save your smutty strip-club anecdotes for another thread)