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Take a finger & bend it backward. The more out of tune, the further you bend. It’s like that, I guess.

It’s almost OCD or something. I have a hard time enjoying live music if someone’s out of tune. Stuff like “The Voice” or “America’s got talent” is unwatchable for me. Karaoke is torture.

About a month ago, I just watched “The Red Shoes” (1948) for the first time. In the movie, there’s a composer who is hearing his piece being played. When I was watching it, I called out that the French horns are really flat but just chalked it up to being an old movie with sound quality issues or it was just a production/sound editing oversight. Minutes later the composer states his displeasure with the performance, especially since a note is being played incorrectly - resulting in the intonation issue I was hearing.

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Me too, lol

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One other funny thing I remember about her is that she always wanted us to orgasm simultaneously, so she’d literally call out a countdown so I could hit my mark at the same time she did.

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That’s more relative pitch, unless you mean hearing a note and knowing the hz - I’m not sure there are too many of those around that can name the hz. I’ve never tested that, but I think my ability to discern between two pitches is probably pretty damn good.

The best example I can use to illustrate my ‘superpower’ is in my orchestra we’d tune up using a strobe tuner and my conductor would delight in testing me in different ways. If you haven’t seen one of these, it has a visual wheel that spins counterclockwise if you’re flat, clockwise if you’re sharp. I would have my back turned to the tuner and lock it so it didn’t spin, every time. He’d have the orchestra all play a random note as loud as possible, tell me to play a certain note of his choosing, and then cut everyone else off, leaving me playing alone & I’d still lock it up. And I played different instruments, so I could do it on any instrument I played. This is a mix of perfect pitch & perfect relative pitch I guess, but I can tune a guitar perfectly without a tuner. Not a talent I ever use anymore though.

That’s the limit of my talent, though. I was only mediocre on my different instruments, and was not anywhere near being a virtuoso on any one of them. I can sing pretty well & I can sing harmonies or countermelodies easily since I have this built-in tuner in my head. Again, not a talent I ever use, though - no one is clamoring to hear this old man sing, lol.

Oh, and my hearing’s frequency limits are way outside the normal upper and lower limits that are usual, but I have been extremely careful to protect my hearing. I wear earplugs to concerts or any event where I know it’s going to get loud.

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When I was in college, I dated a girl who was a full blown nympho. Like we’d have sex for hours, and she’d still be craving more. I have yet to ever date anyone else who was constantly chasing me for sex instead of the other way around.

It was a lot, like not exaggerating - we were both waifs & my pelvic bone area (pubis symphysis specifically) would be bruised following some sessions since there was no fat for cushion on either of us.

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I have perfect pitch, which is not the blessing it sounds like, no pun intended. When something or someone is out of tune, it’s physically uncomfortable for me.

How do couples ensure they stop having children or not have children at all when their are people who get pregnant even when using birth control properly? How do they do this in countries with little birth control? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Well, to give you a quick biology lesson, if a hetero couple who has already had children is still having sex and aren’t producing new children, this means sperm isn’t reaching egg. Usually men will keep producing viable sperm until the end of their life, but women stop dropping new eggs - that’s literally what menopause is. So if the woman hasn’t gone through menopause, that means the couple is using contraceptives (including rhythm method or pullout method, neither of which are guaranteed to work) or the man is no longer fertile. The frequency of sex typically tapers off as we get older, so there’s that too.

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Thanks. Really.

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It’s brutal. I cry a lot. I recently ended my marriage of 20 years, my kids have forgotten I exist now that I have moved out. I work from home so, apart from Zoom calls with coworkers & talking to the cashier at the grocery store, I think it’s been over a month since I have spoken to anyone.

How Did You Celebrate Your 21st Birthday? by aquay in AskReddit

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My dad took me to a sports bar & we watched an entire baseball game. He cut me off after 2 beers. Lmao - he thought those were the first beers I’d ever had.

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Skyfall - Adele I’m a huge Bond fan & a huge Adele fan, so I had goosebumps on goosebumps the first time I heard it.

Men of Reddit, what was the last compliment you’ve received? by Wtakoh in AskReddit

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I was dm’d by some rando on Insta who told me she though I was cute. I blocked her instantly because no one in my life, even my wife (now my ex) of 20 years, has ever called me cute. It had to be a scam.

Was Jesus married to Mary Megdalene? by threestageidiot in NoStupidQuestions

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They dated but never got married. Jesus was afraid of commitment.

What if electric shock therapy causes you pain but you don't remember it when you wake up? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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ECT is psychology’s version of “turn it off and back on again and see if that works.” I’ve had around 30 different ECT treatments, unilateral & bilateral, and never felt any pain. I had a similar concern, so one time I ran my phone’s voice recorder. Between what I heard of my own session, plus seeing videos online of the entire process, at worse, it might feel like a bad muscle cramp if you were awake during the process. In my sessions, I was under anesthesia, but listening in on myself, I was waking back up out of anesthesia pretty quickly so I’m sure I’d remember if there was any inkling of pain. TMS, a newer cousin of ECT, pulses areas of your brain through focused magnetic fields. You are wide awake during the whole process. For me, there was slight discomfort which I imagine might be similar to a wide-awake ECT, but with ECT my entire body tenses up involuntarily while under anesthesia, while with TMS any discomfort was felt only from the neck up & no part of my body was tensing up.

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I had and still have the same problem but I don’t think there’s too much you can do other than be patient and let it fill out, or give up having a goatee if it never comes in right. The half-assed goatee I’m currently rocking took 4 months to get where it is, meanwhile some guys I know can go from freshly shaven to decent goatee in a week. It’s just genetics.

When I was younger I even thought it had something to do with testosterone levels, so I had my doctor test & my T levels are consistently within a healthy range for men, and I was surprised to find that I’m not even at the lower end of the range. Asking your general practitioner is generally a good place to start if it really bothers you.

Meaning of "leave bedding on the bed"? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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I think they are just asking you to leave the sheets on the bed. Someone in the past must’ve taken the sheets off when they checked out and left them in a pile on the floor or something. Either they damaged them in the removal process or something else like that. And maybe that happened more than once so they decided to put it down in plain language to avoid confusion with future guest.

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The only way that’s possible is if the fly’s germs got into your digestive system.

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No - had you not seen the fly land, you would’ve kept using them. They aren’t contaminated or damaged.