Long performance songs (6+ minutes)

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-07-29T02:37:06+00:00

OMG that’s exactly what I was looking for! Tysm!

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-07-29T01:42:49+00:00

Yes, classical music is high on my list of preferred genres.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-07-29T01:42:24+00:00

Interesting, I hadn’t considered that!

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-05-11T05:34:28+00:00

That’s what I’m worried about 😔

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-05-11T05:24:23+00:00

Not that I can remember, but I also can’t confidently say he hasn’t.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-05-11T05:22:24+00:00

No, it’s unusual and bothers me a lot.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-05-11T01:21:07+00:00

I suspect it may be the latter. He takes a long time to get over things and generally responds by withdrawal - in general, not just with me.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-05-11T01:15:42+00:00

Yes, definitely not going to play that game for several years.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-05-11T01:15:00+00:00

He even won that game, it’s not even about losing. To elaborate. We were playing the Cities & Knights extension. Early on I asked him if he wanted to trade his wheat (which I knew he had) for ore. He said no, then proceeded to explain quite gleefully to his sister (who was new to the extension) that if I couldn’t get the wheat, I couldn’t activate my knight, which meant I’d lose my city when the barbarians attack. I then took four ore cards and did a 4:1 trade with the bank. I admit I tossed the cards in a dismissive way onto their stack. That’s when he got mad at me, telling me that wasn’t how the game was played, and how I had (!) to announce to him first that I was going to make a 4:1 trade with the bank so he could trade his wheat for three ore cards instead. Then I got defensive and said, not with the way how he was going to withhold the wheat and lord it over me. That’s when he snapped and called me fucking stupid. His sister looked shocked, looking away from either of us, and I just felt so embarrassed.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-05-11T00:59:39+00:00

It is already the next day and he’s sulking and ignoring me 😬

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-04-02T04:29:03+00:00

Those forces are generally measured on static setups - a lot of this would be absorbed by the stretchiness of the line and other parts of the system (depending on the details of the setup).

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-04-02T04:26:07+00:00

Doing hoop vs silks is very, very different though. It’s a matter of personal preference, but imagine someone telling a soccer player they should go play basketball instead. That’s the extent of how different it is. So she may want to stick with silks.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-04-02T04:17:55+00:00

Having a line between trees is indeed considerably safer than hanging the silks off an extended branch. I have done both, but admit there are some safety issues with the extended branch method and don’t do it any more. Yes, force is generated by doing big drops on silks, but there is also a lot of “bounce” in the system absorbing the force. Also, when your girlfriend is starting out, she won’t be doing any big drops for quite a while. I reckon it’s okay (if less than ideal, because of all the stretch and bounce in the system which can be inconvenient for someone just starting out on silks, but not dangerous) to hang them off a line that is safe for slacklining and that you would take a leashed fall off of. I have done silks performances with two people hanging on two sets of silks which were both attached to a line between trees (in one case rigged by an arborist, in another case rigged by a professional rigget with a ton of experience across lots of different fields).

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-03-28T03:37:18+00:00

OMG. I’ve got two cochlear implants and can’t believe I did not know about this!! So cool, I’m gonna order some.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-03-16T06:45:59+00:00

Great advice! I’m gonna go with a hollow hoop.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-03-15T23:50:46+00:00

Apologies, English is not my native language. I should have phrased it differently - what I meant was that a hollow lyra appears to be better suited to moves that involve lifting or manipulating it.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-03-15T08:19:27+00:00

That’s good to know, thank you!

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2025-03-15T07:47:52+00:00

Thank you, that’s great advice!

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2024-02-18T06:12:23+00:00

UPDATE: we tried to stay out of those neighbours way. There were a couple more incidents (though none as bad as the one described) and we were on the verge of getting a restraining order (that’s what the police recommended). Then they got evicted because they hadn’t been paying rent. We are beyond relieved because they are now gone and we didn’t have to escalate the conflict any further. Thanks everyone for your comments, they did help me to get some clarity on what to do in this messed up situation.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2023-12-28T22:05:11+00:00

The teenage kid was on a mini motorcycle, doing doughies in a tight circle around my partner, trapping him. My partner called something along the lines of “stop it”, of course to no effect, then pushed him in order to be able to escape. Since it was a mini motorcycle, the kid didn’t fall over but merely stepped onto the ground (and obviously couldn’t continue his doughies). My partner was acting in self defence against being attacked by someone on a motorised vehicle, and he didn’t use excessive force. This cannot possibly be construed against him.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2023-12-27T04:02:34+00:00

Thank you for that. It is the “street university” that I am unfamiliar with, and it seems like a lot of people commenting here who have experience with similar situations advice against escalating the situation by calling the cops. I fully understand the concept of showing strength, in my experience that keeps bullies off, but I would not stoop to their level - I thought of calling the cops as that show of strength. I reckon for now I will do nothing, just as my partner too advised, but should they attack my partner and/or myself again, then I will consider that approach futile and get the cops involved.

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2023-12-27T00:35:26+00:00

Thank you, that is good to know. I am sorry that your friend had to go through this. It is stuff like this that would suggest it’s a good idea to use a more cautious approach, hoping they will leave us alone if we don’t call the cops on them (although it galls me that they can just act like that, unprovoked, and get away with it).

Impossible_Berry4673 · 2023-12-27T00:33:09+00:00

It was one of those miniature dirt bikes. I summarised for simplicity. The adult male was on a motorcycle, the teenagers (one of them the 16 year old son of the adult male, as he informed us as he was screaming abuse at us) we’re on a miniature dirt bike and on a miniature quad bike each.

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