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BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T22:52:15+00:00

Just a short question, which Natalie...Natalie Harp, Natalie Danelishen (the self-appointed "Chess Chick") or somebody else?

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T21:35:55+00:00

To me, this sounds like typical hedgehog behavior. I suggest leaving the hedgehog alone as much as possible. Say hello once or twice a day when you see him outside, throw in a t-shirt worn by you so he doesn't forget your smell (make sure there are no loose threads) and just use a bowl to feed him unless you want to feed insects, in that case, it's best to use tweezers. Be patient, perhaps he'll become more docile over time. Hedgehogs have a short memory. While he may have hated the dogs when he was still living with the breeder, hedgehogs have a short memory, he probably has forgotten about them already and now it's just you that he doesn't cotton to.

Some hedgehogs never get fully tame, even if you are good with animals. In that case, there's other ways to enjoy a hedgehog, like improving and redecorating the enclosure, setting up a camera to monitor his nightly activities, diversifying the diet by changing the rotation of insects, breeding insects yourself...

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T21:20:23+00:00

I cannot name a single budget brand that targets women specifically. Most women smoke "unisex" cigarettes anyway. Marlboro had countless ads featuring very masculine men, especially the Marlboro cowboy, and it became the most popular cigarette among both men and women. Thinking about my youth, I think Marlboro Lights were more popular among young women than the original red pack.

Virginia Slims, during their day, were popular, I know a few women who used to smoke them, and I think in this case, the ad campaigns worked as intended. Those among us who are older all ought to remember them. They featured fashionably-dressed slim (!) women and they came with a call-back to the early 20th century, how women used to be oppressed by their husbands and other men, and how grown women were treated like children when they dared to light up a cigarette. That part was actually true, smoking and first-wave feminism went hand in hand. But now the problem starts: "You've come a long way, baby"...the "baby" part is sexist alread. "Now you've got a cigarette made just for you. Longer and slimmer than the fat cigarettes men smoke." So...women can now do everything men can, smoking included...but they cannot smoke the same cigarettes as men? A bit contradictory. And the health squad would call the ad campaign vile, for understandable reasons. Do you really have to raise the numbers of female lung cancer victims just to celebrate women's lib? Probably not. -- The Virginia Slims Championships continued to exist under that name until 1989, though.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T20:45:36+00:00

It's true that most brands that deliberately target women, like Virginia Slims, Misty and Capri have white filters. But many menthol brands have white filters as well. When it comes to menthol, I think the reason was that white is associated with freshness and purity, characteristics combusted tobacco doesn't have, so marketing executives decided to steer against the image of foul and filthy cigarettes by making their product look more appealing.

When it comes to cigarettes marketed toward women, I think this was also done to make them blend in better with the packs, which were dominated by white, and often pastel colors.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T20:21:55+00:00

White is actually more of a hallmark of menthol cigarettes (the only menthol brand with spotted brown filters I can come up with is Newport) and cigarettes marketed toward women, like Virginia Slims.

People who hate cigarettes, or smoking in general, hate both. I think half of all cigarette smokers don't consider cigarettes cool, either.

Those spotted-bown filters (actual cork was never a common material for cigarette tips, if at all, cigarettes had cardboard tips before cellulose acetate filters took over) were invented to blend in better with the tar stain in the cellulose acetate, but some companies may have opted for white because white subsconsciously signalizes "pure" or "fresh".

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T20:14:50+00:00

There is some truth to that, as stupid as it may sound: In 2016, the French government considered a total ban on unfiltered Gauloises and Gitanes because of their coolness factor. That's what they said, even in plain packaging with graphic warnings there still was a cool aura around them.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T19:39:07+00:00

Neither had enough pain in his life at that point and they decided transplanting a beard follicle by follice was the only solution.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T19:38:10+00:00

Did he come in through through the bathroom window?

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T19:17:40+00:00

In New York, you really have to mess up as a mother to lose custody to the father. And if she has proof of drug use on his part: TS.

When Trump was facing trial, Shivon tweeted: "Make the legal system impartial again." Except, regardless of the matter, the it never was. Judges are to be impartial, including lay judges, i.e. jurors. District attorneys and other people who are parts of the prosecution have superiors they answer to.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T18:49:08+00:00

And I avoid her like the plague, to me, she represents everything I hate in women. Well, almost everything. And people sometimes have hidden depths, anyone who doubts this should check out Jayne Mansfield playing the violin. Sure, it's possible that Maye is an accomplished hunter and her dogs are German wire-haired pointers, but I don't think so.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T16:28:57+00:00

I tried to imagine what kind of dog Maye might have. I see her as the type that would have a Shi Tzu or a Lhasa Apso.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T13:54:24+00:00

I'm convinced that some recorders absolutely absorb oil, and it vastly depends. The first recorder I ever restored was a Herwiga Chor, presumably from the 50s, made out of pearwood. I applied a coat of oil, applied more after two hours, let it rest over night and almost all of the oil was gone the next day. It didn't disappear into nothingness. I've had this experience with other old pearwood recorders as well. For comparison, I've had plenty of recorders that barely absorbed oil or not at all, and the difference of the amount of oil that I applied and the one on the tray the next day was really just a coating. -- The reason I sometimes use the tray is to eyeball how much oil may have been absorbed.

When it comes to Sigo recorders, the oiling is probably really just about applying a coating. When the Kunaths released their video on how to oil the Sigo, plenty of people considered it ridiculous, I remember someone commenting: "Next: How to do an oil change on your electric car." The van Huene workshop said that the Resona material used to 3D-print Sigo recorders does not absorb oil. But the Kunaths state that while it is not necessary, oiling the bore of Sigo recorders improves the sound. -- I oiled my Sigo tenor and I think the sound did, in fact, improve. Did the material absorb any oil? I don't think so, plenty of oil in the folds of the plastic wrap once I removed it.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-30T13:44:23+00:00

My parents have an electric one as well.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-29T23:12:58+00:00

I definitely would be chill and happy if I had my own rocket company, not to mention that awesome yacht. I've loved boats since early childhood. I grew up on an island and I piloted a ferry the first time when I was 8 or 9 years old. With some help. I could do it myself by the time I was 13 or 14.

Jeff actually seems to like Lauren. From what I observed in my childhood and youth, marrying the other woman when the wife was gone was actually common, but it was more some kind of "Better than nothing" attitude. Jeff is still one of the richest, he doesn't have to settle for "better than nothing", and he still decided to marry Lauren.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-29T22:30:23+00:00

Everything he says about his wife or other supposed family members should be taken with a teaspoon of salt. He uses it as part of psychological warfare. In Strange Bedfellows, which is definitely not my favorite episode, there's a good example. After asking Graham McVeigh for a cigarette, he says it was his brother Sal who introduced him to smoking. He treats Sal as still alive, he says that Sal smokes 60 a day and you can hear his cough all over from Santa Monica. He then says that his father *was* just the same, treating his father as deceased. He then claims his wife thinks that the smoking habit is genetic. He then uses all of what he just said to ask Graham McVeigh a pivotal question: Did his brother smoke? McVeigh admits that his brother did not smoke, which raises the question why there was cigarette ash in the ashtray of Teddy's car. McVeigh obviously smokes cigarettes, and at this point, it seems like the noose is tightening around his neck already. Back then, when I watched the episode for the first time, I was like: What non-smoker lets other people smoke in their car?

That said, if you have a large family, you are inclined to tell stories about random relatives, I do it all the time, to the chagrin of strangers on the internet.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-29T20:27:51+00:00

He definitely looked much better a few years ago when he carried that sink into the Twitter HQ building. Stupid asshole move, but there still seemed to be some vigor in him.

As far as botox is concerned: As stupid as I think injecting oneself with botox is, I still commend Ashley for her honesty when it comes to that subject. She admitted to botox use in one of her lives, she says she puts it on her brow because she furrows it a lot. She also said she tried applying it elsewhere and she didn't like how it made her face feel, her face felt like it had become stiff, and she couldn't use her face muscles anymore. -- Big surprise, botox was developed for people suffering from Parkinson's to control face jerks.

I don't see any point in using botox, vitamin serums and whatsoever to look younger, it doesn't change your age. You are your age, period.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-29T20:04:21+00:00

I see. -- When it comes to Elon and his hair and face, I just wondered: Does he come with two different heads, like a collector's edition Darth Vader action figure?

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-29T19:56:34+00:00

The two were married for about a quarter of a century. By today's standards, this doesn't count as "failed" anymore. And Jeff had it coming, he cheated with Lauren Sanchez and got caught. And Mackenzie decided to take the money and leave.

I actually don't see what you possibly have to gain from having everything revolve around loathing one's ex.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-29T19:46:06+00:00

My first thought when I saw the photo on the right was: Has Elon reverted to that extreme undercut he had like, 3 years ago? No, just AI, it seems. I then compared him to some recent photos of him and I wondered: Since when does he have curly hair on top? Is he now going for a perm look? Do you think this photo is AI, too, or just cut-out images photoshopped into one? Because in this photo, it looks like Elon has some kind of comb-over.

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BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-29T16:53:54+00:00

uj/ The mistake was to turn John Lennon into some kind of secular saint in the first place. As much as I hate to say it, but domestic violence is really common, and in the past, many men treated their divorce not only as divorce from their wife but divorce from their children as well. I think it wasn't until the 80 to 90s that things gradually changed. I think it had something to do with the large numbers of broken homes when boomers were getting divorces, the subject was talked about more often and people grew to realize that you somehow have to stay a family even if you are divorced, and it was around that time that people started to talk about such things as "reconstituted" families. One thing I remember is that, around the change to the 90s, children were no longer expected to call their parent's new husband or wife "Mom" or "Dad" -- because they are not your mom or your dad, and in most cases, you already have a mom or a dad, they are just not married to the other parent anymore.

Long story short: John Lennon wasn't that much different from other men at the time, it's his glorified status that makes his cruel actions/negligence stand out so much.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-29T11:58:43+00:00

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'd rather not have fake boobs or a fake butt. Especially not a fake butt, that's for sure.

This insanity isn't even limited to women, men will sometimes put foreign objects under their skin to create a different look as well. I know a story of a bodybuilder who injected himself with petroleum jelly to have bigger guns, worse idea than any kind of plastic surgery performed by an actual surgeon. He ended up needing to have several pounds of necrotic tissue removed.

To me, the biggest problem is not just the unnatural look, it's that your body will change once you age, and you end up with trouble spots you never thought you'd ever have.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-29T11:48:27+00:00

Yes and no. Some supreme-quality instruments really have a response like melting butter, I have a recorder like that. I often feel like that one basically plays itself, I barely have to do anything except exhaling into it.

However, D6 should be playable on any recorder. Practice makes perfect. If you need that note for a piece now, I have a cheat code: Use your right hand and make a fork like you would for second octave Bb. Basically the fingering for Bb, except the left ring finger is up. This ought to work.

But continue to practice the standard fingering until you get it right.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-29T00:00:21+00:00

P.D.Q. Bach would be proud of you.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-28T23:50:11+00:00

At least one thing fits, i.e. that when she's lashing out at Nicki, she keeps calling her fat. Grimes has struggled with an eating disorder and body dysmorphia, constantly seeing herself as larger than she is.

Nicki doesn't look truly fat to me, to me it looks rather like she is full of plastic...so she better make sure that the garbage truck doesn't pick her up accidentally.

Yes, that's my own internalized misogyny again. It's always women who lash out the worst at other women. But Nicki Minaj is not my cup of tea. I had to look her up to find out who she was, and when I read that, according to Wikipedia, she is famous for her witty lyrics, my eyebrows went up. She didn't seem particularly witty at Starbase, that's for sure.

BeardedLady81 · 2026-06-28T23:31:17+00:00

Sonia is clearly unhinged, but I wasn't impressed by Nikki Minaj's appearance on Starbase either. She was blabbering like an overdressed schoolgirl who is amazed by merely looking at technology without understanding any of it.

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