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4 hours ago, Sterre said:

I am from the Netherlands (don't call it Holland though, that's only a small part of The Netherlands) and sprinkles are definitely a breakfast thing, especially with combination with peanutbutter. 

I wrongly assumed Netherlands and Holland are the same thing but there not. At least I know now😁thanks 

3 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

Well at least it's better than mixing peanut butter with jelly!

 

That's a good one😁 obviously your not a fan of it. I like that combination. 😋but I know many who don't like it. 

On 12/13/2021 at 1:42 AM, FatherAlabaster said:

Ah yeah, I love a good caipirinha. Haven't had one in years. The liquor is called cachaça, and a good one will actually taste like sugar cane. More of a summer drink but I guess anything goes for new years. The rum I usually get is actually a little cheaper than Goslings but I prefer it - Brugal añejo. Goslings is too molasses-flavored in a way I don't want, and it makes me feel a little weird.

Those big-brand ginger ales just do everything wrong. Too sweet, full of corn syrup, not spicy at all, and the flavor is the most neutered representation of ginger I can imagine. I could probably hang bottles of it over my door to ward off vampires... they're supposed to have good taste after all. Macabre is probably too savvy to be fooled by that trick though.

Good one, macabre would put nosepeg on his nose. Would not put off a vampire like him. 😂Very savvy he is. Thanks for ginger beer info

Im not a big mollasses fan either. I'd rather drink something else. My brother and sister love the flavour though. 

I'm going to but that on my list. CachacA. order some for new year or spring. Still got a litre of Russian vodka and  litre of Whyte and Mackay to drink plus the slightly rough vodka I've already mentioned 😂.   

With alcohol same here. I personally go for taste notes. Sounds like bullshit but works for me for the fancy bottles. I had a more expensive Rhum agricole for my birthday sent back because it was not right tasting notes. I'm pleased I did.cheaper one was what I wanted.  My wife thought I was very rude. Perhaps I was a little. 😃 I didn't do a John McEnroe. That would have been ultra rude 😁 

23 hours ago, Balor said:

Advent calendars are definitely a thing in the US.  I have one for my cats!

Thanks for clearing this up balor. Thought it was just commonwealth countries and Europe. Lucky cats 🐈 getting advent calendar. 

23 hours ago, Balor said:

Advent calendars are definitely a thing in the US.  I have one for my cats!

Thanks for clearing this up balor. Thought it was just commonwealth countries and Europe. Lucky cats 🐈 getting advent calendar. 

18 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

As much as it has obvious religious connections I've never associated them with anything other than 25 days of chocolates leading up to Christmas. I never had them as a kid and my mum was religious, I knew nothing about them until my wife insisted on buying them for the kids. She's even less religious than I am so I can only assume it's all about the chocolate.

 

 

In the UK there popular and most dont have any religious pictures on them relating to the birth of Jesus. Its just 🎅 Santa who is a Christian saint apparently, snow men and baubles from my experience.

It's a fun way to count the days down to Christmas I'd have thought and daily helpings of chocolate 😋

19 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

Not that we've had to do it for a long time but kids party for us was always fairy bread which was a slice cut in triangles and spread with 100's and 1000's (not sure if that's what they are called overseas, they are pretty much just tiny coloured balls of sugar). It's an easy kids party food and even older kids eat it, some even secretly love it but wont admit it.

 

In Holland and Belgium they have 100s and 1000s on toast for breakfast. Probably called some thing else but there essentially the same.  When my sister brought us a load of different favours one Christmas morning from Holland we all thought it was very strange. We'd all only put them on ice cream before. But now  I think there good on some bread or toast with plenty of butter.The 75%cocoa ones were a favourite that day.  Though not had any for few years now. There low economy food for my guessing and I think they taste good . I remember googling how much sprinkles cost.  Bulk was very cheap but we decided against ordering a 20kg bag that day. No commitment 😂

On 12/8/2021 at 12:40 AM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I had to look up advent calendar. What the hell would you need one of those for? 

Are advent calendars not a thing in USA then goatmaster. You open a door for each day in December up to Christmas day. All the good ones have chocolate or better behind the door. One had whisky but it was very overpriced. Bit of rip off in my opinion. 

They are for kids mostly. The advent calendar I bought was alot cheaper than buying the product in a selection box. I got twice as much  

On 12/11/2021 at 12:57 AM, KillaKukumba said:

Nearly anything is better than supermarket sandwiches!!

 

 Definitely. 😂Thinking of those sandwiches just makes me feel ill. Saying that it's the kids birthday Saturday coming up and we've ordered alot of these. I've already said if there's loads spare I don't want them. Fortunately in-laws can't get enough 👏👏👏 And the Mrs thinks there amazing. Which I don't understand 🤨

On 12/11/2021 at 12:34 AM, FatherAlabaster said:

I'm mostly ok with dairy, love most dairy products, although I hate the taste of milk by itself. I really don't know what the deal is with milk in coffee. Just doesn't work for me anymore. 

 

We can usually get Bundaberg ginger beer and root beer at our local Target. There's actually a lot of decent ginger beer available nearby, including two local brewers who make pretty tasty brewed alcoholic ginger drinks (as opposed to mixed/flavored). Ginger Libation is my favorite. I can't fucking stand the Schweppes and Canada Dry ginger ale masquerade garbage.

Funny enough, I too have a bottle of rum I'm trying to get through and won't buy again - Goslings Black Seal. Thought I'd switch things up a bit. Not terrible but not worth repeating. 

Father a good to hear from you. It's funny about you not liking milk taste and in coffee. At least your not dairy intolerant. I've cut down on wheat because too much does not agree with me. I know I'm aging when I say things like this😃

What dont you like about Canada dry ginger ale. Is it too sweet. That's good you liked the bunderberg ginger root beer. Is that alcoholic?  

Yeah probably rum you mention is better than own brand stuff I've got. Good idea not to buy stuff you don't like that much. Still good idea to try different brands as finding a gem is worth it. I was impressed with Johnny walker red label. I just liked it alot and it's one of there budget ranges

You mentioned that Brazilian rum style drink. That's one Im going to try in new year. Apparently some reckon it was what inspired rum making in the Caribbean. I'm intrigued about history and if drink is any good too😁. 

Wolves in the throne room- primordial arcana.   Missed this album on release. Found out today from metal hammer uk albums of the year. I loved the tracks I heard. 

I forgot cutlery for my lunch. So I bought some cutlery and had some supermarket sushi. Probably wouldn't have gone for it but remembered how much I liked it when I had some for my niece's 10th birthday celebrations. (Quite mature tastes imo😁)the XL biggest  pack was worth it as had most fish on it. I liked it alot. Wasabi,sliced ginger and soy sauce was nice extra. I'm hoping I don't have food poisoning in morning. It was good though and I preferred it to supermarket sandwiches😃

I'm finishing off the litre bottle of supermarket tesco vodka. I will be pleased when it's finished.find it bit rough.  Spending that bit extra is worth it imo. I've got a Russian vodka from Petersburg on special offer so similar price but it's much smoother and I like it more for sipping. 

On 12/1/2021 at 11:37 PM, FatherAlabaster said:

I used to prefer it with half and half, but I can't really handle dairy in my coffee any more. I don't know why. It just started tasting weird and making me feel bad. 

Sounds like a plan to me father a. Stick to what works.thats what I do.  Is it just milk you've got an issue with or is it dairy in general. 

I got a Reese's peanut butter cup advent calendar as was on sale. Im very much liking it. 

Has anyone else got an advent calendar?

I got a Reese's peanut butter cup advent calendar as was on sale. Im very much liking it. 

Has anyone else got an advent calendar?

I've never got in to there music then again I prefer doomy metal. Black Sabbath I prefer.I do like some thrash and black metal. I've read Metallica loved there music. Whiplash apparently was inspired by one there tracks. Is that true?

On 12/4/2021 at 2:35 PM, FatherAlabaster said:

Ah, but did they fracture his inner ear bones or rupture any organs? The best headphones can literally pound your brain to mush!

Think I'd prefer my skull 💀 candy in ear headphones with mediocre sound to having my brain pounded to mush. 😁 

On 12/5/2021 at 7:49 PM, Sterre said:

If you find these kind of things interesting, you could look up Igorrr. This artist plays almost every instrument you can think of and mixes metal with classical music, jazz, klezmer, break core and trip pop. Me personally, had never heard such music and I found it eye opening. 

Moriemur sounds interesting, will definitely check it out! Also very curious to hear Abyssic. I'm not very familiar with the underground metal artists, but very willing to learn, so thanks for all your input!

I liked track 7 too! Very nice closer, they definitely thought their album through. 

 

Slows track 7 is rather good, I just like the atmosphere it creates. A well thought out album I agree. There was of course people saying album should have ended at track 6. You can't please everyone. One member of slow is in a new band. I should check out there stuff out. 

Igorr is very interesting music. I don't get it yet. It's certainly more eclectic than the stuff I'm used to. It ebbs and flows from what I've heard. Slow,slow bits then going very fast and bit crazy which is fun. They've been featured in metal hammer magazine a number of times so I know the name but never really listened to it. Thanks for recommending. Do you prefer early or later albums. 

Abussic have quite easy listening sound but it's true they could be classed as underground. Et moriemur would be in same category. 

If trees could talk post rock is very much my kind of music. Only heard one track though. 😁 Not heard others 

On 10/31/2021 at 7:45 PM, KillaKukumba said:

My dreams lately have been about stupid people, me included. I don't remember much of what is happening in the dream and what I do doesn't really connect to anything but the common factor is people doing stupid things. Those who I don't know personally have ridiculous cartoon faces that seem to try and reinforce how silly they are but don't necessarily reflect why they are silly. But the annoying thing is the continuation. I don't ever remember having so many dreams where they span across different naps during the one night, usually once I wake the dream is gone and doesn't come back, to either the waking or sleeping mind.

That beats the dreams my dad has. Often there about lots of random mechanical things occurring and problem solving. It's lots of fun hearing about them. Lots of actions little dialogue.

Your dreams with the ridiculous cartoon faces are more interesting. 

No memorable dreams for me. 

3 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

Damn, when I first read that I read it was hovering and I pictured you with your arms out, your body moving gently side to side and you making sounds like a helicopter!

 

That definitely sounds better than Hoovering. Hovering like a harrier jump jet. So cool unless the engine gets stalled. That's not so good😁 

On 12/2/2021 at 8:37 PM, v-metalman said:

Well, usually I only listen to music and do nothing else, move a bit to it perhaps...I enjoy the music without doning something else...

Wenn I ride by bike to the train, I also listen to music and somtimes in the train - or when vacuuming with headphones

Greetings v-metal man. Hoovering whilst listening to metal is what I do too👏🤘🤘in my case also practical as my hoover is very noisy. 

I also listen to music whilst driving. I've got a few albums on my phone  I play via Bluetooth. I drive alot for work, for many hours a day too often but at least I can rock out. Tend to avoid metal with fast tempos for driving as I speed more.

And whilst cooking I listen to metal with headphones. 

On 10/24/2021 at 2:29 AM, NokturnalBoredom said:

I just have a shitty $14 pair of Skullcandy earbuds. I don't tend to use headphones very often because I'm always listening to stuff on my turntable and it doesn't have a port for headphones as far as I am aware.

My turntable is a Fluance RT80. Not the most advanced turntable by far, but does the job for me. I have edifier speakers that are bluetooth capable, but I'm not certain what the model number is for those. I eventually want to upgrade my turntable and give the one I have now to my buddy so he can get into vinyl too, but I'm not sure what I would even buy. Probably an RT81 elite by Fluance as I'm not looking to be shelling out tons of money on a turntable any time soon.

I got skull candy wireless Bluetooth ear buds. There bit tinny sound. Changed the fittings from other ear buds which has improved sound so there ok sound now but funny enough the cheap £2 ones have better bass and overall sound. Pleased I got a few cheap ones. It was a surprise as thought 💀 candy would be better than budget ones. Another case of paying more for the name I guess.

At some point I will get the overear ones like the pictures goat master general put on previous post as I do listen to alot on headphones or when driving for work and I too often do 200 plus miles a day so lots of music

On 10/31/2021 at 12:18 AM, NokturnalBoredom said:

My room isn't really done up in a metal style persay. I have a lot of byzantine icons because I collect them, but it's just a standard bedroom with a bed, turntable, speakers, and a bookcase. I don't have any of my metal posters up or anything, I keep them all in the records they come in because I am saving them for when we relocate to NY, then I'll put them up. The only poster I have on my wall is my Seinfeld "Chart About Nothing" that links all of the characters to ever appear on Seinfeld together with one another. I also have a signed copy of the script for the first episode of Seinfeld and a few spare LP jackets on display, along with a few of my surviving show ticket stubs and a calendar of the Appalachian trail. My walls are like a greyish-blue color and I have an IKEA kallax shelf to store all of my records on.

Signed copy of the Seinfeld script that's very cool imo. I liked what I saw of that show

On 11/1/2021 at 1:00 AM, NokturnalBoredom said:

Not gonna lie, I would get the first three Metallica albums on vinyl if I could find originals from the 80s. They're great albums from the infancy of metal and I'm not denying that. I just don't like the direction they went in post Cliff Burton, ...And Justice For All just didn't do much of anything for me & neither did the black album or any of the stuff since then. They were definitely three of my favorite albums in high school, but I sort of overplayed them (I listened to the three of them every day in the 9th grade) so now they're sort of albums that I'd like to have if I could find originals, but I wouldn't go out spending $30 a piece on the 180g reissues.

 

 

I first got into Slayer through Show No Mercy when I was in the tenth grade, because I was listening to internet radio and heard the song "black magic" and I liked the first two albums, Live Undead, Haunting the Chapel but Reign in Blood did not do it for me because they went full thrash and dropped a lot of their proto-black metal image that they had going on those first two albums. I'm not saying that Reign in Blood was a bad album, again it's just one of those ones that I've listened to so many times that it's sort of stale for me now.

I've never listened to any Slayer after Reign in Blood (no South of Heaven, no Seasons in the Abyss, none of it). It's not that I don't like Slayer, it's just that I liked their very early stuff a lot more because it was fundamental to the creation of what we now understand to be black metal. Same with Celtic Frost... I like the early stuff up to Into the Pandemonium but as soon as you hit the Cold Lake & Vanity/Nemesis period, I'm no longer interested in them.

The first two Mercyful Fate albums were amazing as well. I never got into anything they did post Don't Break the Oath though (and am still looking for a copy of Melissa on vinyl)

I agree there's some albums you like so much that for variety of reasons you just never connect with there music for follow up releases, weather it's change of sound or just the music quality dips a bit e.g justice for all. I just don't like it as much as puppets. One is cool though

Overplaying stuff. I did that to master of puppets. Ive overplayed that album. I just don't like it as much as I used to. I still listen to it from time to time

Nothing wrong with what your saying at all.  Early opeth I like alot. Anything past morningrise I just don't like as much. Although the prog stuff of there's I've liked more than there metal albums post morningrise. 

Show no mercy is quite a cool album. Not bought it but heard it a few times. That's an album I need to hear again. Thanks for reminder. preferred it to reign in blood too and I like that album alot. Anything after reign in.... is not as good for me though but I do have seasons in the abyss which I like  and listen to from time to time. 

On 11/17/2021 at 7:38 PM, Sterre said:

I liked Incendiaire most. It is the second last track. 

Well symphonic metal uses a lot of the same elements as classical music, such as choirs, cello's, standing basses, violins etcetera. The tritone (a musical dissonant interval consisting of three whole steps) is also used quite a bit in classical music as well as metal and there a a lot of metal guitarists that were influenced by classical music, such as Yngwie Malmsteen, Marty Friedman, Jason Becker and Eddy Van Halen. 

But enough of my music lesson  

Lo Fi and post rock also share some stuff in common, both like to play with musical sound scapes and both genres want to focus on the vibe/atmosphere. You can look up If These Trees Could Talk (postrock) and God is an Astronaut (postrock) Bark Psychosis and Caspian. 

Let me know what you think! And if you can think of more artists like Slow, I will be grateful!

Your right Jason Becker was I've read inspired by paganini.think I got name right.  I will take your word about the others. Alex from children of bodom used to warm up playing Mozart. What a player he was. I love his live playing.  

Will look up the bands you mentioned thanks for that and I will let you know if I like them. Interesting names. 

High the memory by abyssic is cool. Death/doom with big orchestra bits. It's long but I like it. Also et moriemur album called epigrammata is very excellent. Gregorian chanting, choirs, cellos and other orchestral instruments meet death/ blackened doom in rather an amazing album. Both are on bandcamp. Both have cool artwork too

Cool. You like track  6 best from slows album. Incendaire. I like track 6 too alot👏👏👏. Good choice  track 7 is rather good imo. And as closer I like it alot

On 11/26/2021 at 3:46 PM, MacabreEternal said:

We just ended up with some coffee from Harvey Nichols which I had no idea had even been ordered.  My horror over the potential price tag was cut short somewhat by the fact that it is a really nice brew to kick start the day with.  Just one cup like, I am not a fucking animal!

Glad you appreciate the premium Harvey Nichols coffee macabre. In my experience it's more frustrating when you get some premium stuff and you don't notice much of a step up in quality but that was only blue label Johnny walker 😣Then it's case of won't buy that again. But pleased you like the hn coffee. Definitely not your regular cup of Joe.

23 hours ago, Balor said:

Also, I have a personal hunch that there are a lot more people would could do what these serial killers do, but just never had the right set of circumstances to provoke the behavior.  There are so few actual serial killers, statistically speaking, that it is no wonder that so many warning signs/contributing factors appear in each case.

I would be interested to hear what your brother might have to contribute!

Balor what you say seems very reasonable. 

I will have to ask my brother next time I see him. See what he says. My brother would give interesting response for sure

23 hours ago, Balor said:

Also, I have a personal hunch that there are a lot more people would could do what these serial killers do, but just never had the right set of circumstances to provoke the behavior.  There are so few actual serial killers, statistically speaking, that it is no wonder that so many warning signs/contributing factors appear in each case.

I would be interested to hear what your brother might have to contribute!

Balor what you say seems very reasonable. 

I will have to ask my brother next time I see him. See what he says. My brother would give interesting response for sure

23 hours ago, Balor said:

Also, I have a personal hunch that there are a lot more people would could do what these serial killers do, but just never had the right set of circumstances to provoke the behavior.  There are so few actual serial killers, statistically speaking, that it is no wonder that so many warning signs/contributing factors appear in each case.

I would be interested to hear what your brother might have to contribute!

Balor you could well be right about what you say. Your right there are not many serial killers so a load of factors has to come together to bring there actions about. The ones I read about we're all complex. 

Got no excuse now. I will ask my brother next time I see him and let you know. That is assuming he wants to answer. 

23 hours ago, Balor said:

I think genetics might play some sort of role, but most is probably environment.  In other circumstances, he might have gone on to work in a competitive field (where being a sociopath might be a benefit!), or to become just another closeted though harmless freak.  But I am no psychologist!

Balor good to hear from you again. It's complex for sure. It's so interesting what you say about some sociopathic traits being useful for some very competitive jobs. My opinion is I can see thats very possible.There's definitely some jobs where that can help.

Maybe there's no easy answer to it. Perhaps genetics plays a part, certainly a number of them did alot of alcohol and drugs which imo can't help things. Jeffrey Dahmer was kicked out of military for as far as I'm aware being totally drunk all the time.  Environment plays a key role definitely.  When you read the biographies of these guys you think that sort of stuff can't do you any good and perhaps explains why they do these terrible things. But there's alot of people who have terrible childhoods who don't do what they do. I will ask my brother as he's mental health consultant. Can't spell the word 😁

On 11/24/2021 at 2:10 AM, NokturnalBoredom said:

I just had a salad and some noodles tonight. Nothing fancy. I might have some ice cream in a little bit.

Do you put a dressing on your salad. I like olive oil and balsamic vinegar mix on it when I occasionally have a salad 🥗. A few times a year 🙂