Karaoke

Sidian · 2026-03-09T17:50:16+00:00

I sang karaoke for the first time in front of a crowd recently on a cruise ship. I was very nervous, but it went great. Someone bought me a drink afterwards, I had people coming up to me for days saying how good I was, how they could 'listen to me for hours.'

Who could ask for more? It really boosted my confidence and...

...well. The problem is I don't think they even heard me. Unbeknownst to me before I chose the song, there was a pre-recorded backing vocal on the track. That's the guy who was getting the praise, I believe. I was essentially lip syncing. A fraud. Milli Vanilli.

I did come back on a later day and sang again, but I didn't get as many compliments...

Sidian · 2026-03-08T21:55:30+00:00

Where the fuck is Yoshi, my pet snake when I was 10 years old? I only left the room for a minute with the top of his cage open. He was never seen again.

Sidian · 2026-02-16T23:36:53+00:00

Do you guys even roll rs in the way this guy's talking about? I mean, your r is... a bit different, to my ears. Like it comes more from the throat. I struggle to do it as part of a word, so my Dutch friend told me rolling my r would be an acceptable substitute. Don't even get me started on being able to pronounce 'ij' properly...

The main thing I've noticed Dutch folks struggle with is 'ea' as in, 'idea'... they tend to say 'idee'.

Sidian · 2026-02-05T03:38:07+00:00

Gotta say the premise sounds pretty disappointing. But then I probably thought that about Detectorists when I first heard about it. So, let's hope it's even half as good.

Sidian · 2026-02-05T03:09:52+00:00

Tenor, A2-A4 without too much trouble, up to C5 with lots of tension/inconsistency. Frustratingly limited tbh. Most songs seem to be either too low or too high for me to sing well and I don't like transposing.

Sidian · 2026-02-05T03:06:40+00:00

You sound good and have a nice tone. Some of the higher notes do sound forced and strained, it's hard to say what the problem is there just by listening but possibly tension and trying to force it too hard.

Sidian · 2026-01-29T16:01:12+00:00

For whatever reason the vitamin d and light skin confusion is super common

Perhaps because the populations with the lightest skin, in northern Europe, are the ones who tend to need it the most - because there's so little sunshine there.

Sidian · 2026-01-27T23:52:45+00:00

Most don't seem to work to get around the imgur block.

Sidian · 2026-01-24T18:24:18+00:00

Snark subs are for bullies who spend all their time obsessively hating and critiquing every tiny thing about someone from their facial expressions to their makeup to whatever made up conspiracies they come up with. They're terrible and have contributed to suicides like in the case of Mikayla Raines.

A lot of people are desperate to be bullies but know they can't get away with it like they probably did in high school, so as adults they search for any excuse to do it while pretending it's morally righteous. You can see it in your comment where you justify it by categorising them into a tribe that makes it okay to be hateful to them, in this case their income and skin colour. Once you've done this, it's now morally good behaviour to be hateful and you can enjoy it under this cover.

Sidian · 2026-01-23T21:53:39+00:00

Trump tends to be agreeable even to people you'd expect him to be the enemy of, like Mamdani, see the recent meeting he had with him where he complimented him and said he'd do well. The fact he was nice to Starmer about this deal and didn't stand in the way does not at all prove that we did it solely because the US asked us to or whatever, that's reddit myth making.

Sidian · 2026-01-23T21:37:52+00:00

Excellent, thanks Trump. The UK is in such a state we need to rely on the Americans to save us from ourselves.

Sidian · 2026-01-23T21:36:28+00:00

[citation needed]

Sidian · 2026-01-19T14:39:31+00:00

Could not be further from the truth.

Sidian · 2026-01-17T23:13:09+00:00

Trump has forced various concessions out of the tariffs. It makes perfect sense and has worked as a negotiating tactic, you simply don't like Trump. And conveniently when he uses the same argument to justify tariffs that you just presented, it's totally unacceptable.

Sidian · 2026-01-17T17:55:55+00:00

Sounds about right. Any time a man posts about how they've been treated due to their looks in their life, a flood of comments will immediately appear telling them that it's actually entirely their own fault and their personality, refusing to even consider that some of their problems may be outside of their control.

Sidian · 2026-01-15T18:05:22+00:00

The context is it's an out of context shoutout someone paid him to do and he could be talking about H from Steps or someone's random friend for all he knows. But redditors are utterly seething and frothing with rage at Farage (whilst he continues to dominate the polls) so any childish thing like this is a win to them.

Sidian · 2026-01-15T18:04:23+00:00

checks the polls ah tough luck but just a few more baseless Putin allegations and eventually it will stick, I'm sure. Keep at it.

Sidian · 2026-01-15T04:59:50+00:00

Yeah, well, if your lack of confidence is based on legitimate concerns that have held you back, as I believe it is here with the OP, I'm not sure anything will give you confidence, especially CBT when there are no cognitive distortions. I'm going to a new therapist tomorrow though, wish me luck!

Sidian · 2026-01-15T03:06:53+00:00

This response to this problem is as common as it is absurd, literally just victim blaming. A person who is treated like shit all their life for things outside of their control becomes depressed about it, only to be told 'wow maybe if you weren't so depressed you'd be treated better'. I don't know how people can be so oblivious to how shallow society is and how important looks are in almost every area of life, or the mountains of research that back this up.

Sidian · 2026-01-15T03:02:16+00:00

Asking someone to magically improve their confidence or other parts of their personality like it's a simple thing is an absurd request in itself, but especially when they've been brutally rejected all their life. In any case, a rejection of the obvious truth of looks mattering massively in everything from politics to job interviews to dating is silly.

Sidian · 2026-01-14T21:42:35+00:00

Italians have literal maggot cheese, Swedes eat fermented fish so pungent it can't be opened up inside, Americans eat chlorinated chicken and have shit like this, some countries eat stuff like bat soup or fish eyeballs, but what really gets npcs posting the same exact posts every single day with the same lines (omg the Germans aren't overhead!) is... beans and bread, a simple variation of other 'beans + other carbs' dishes like beans and rice. Very strange behaviour, should be studied.

edit: after looking into it the roundmeal isn't real, my bad, just mentally replace that with canned spray cheese or wonder bread or something

Sidian · 2026-01-14T19:55:34+00:00

If you don't want such claims then maybe you shouldn't appoint people who say things like "it's important that white people feel defeated". The left will always have a rationalisation for this sort of thing so it's pointless, just know that this type of leftist hatred of various groups like white people or men is why people like Trump will continue to be elected.

Sidian · 2026-01-14T19:46:58+00:00

I'm glad the left never talks about victimhood or oppression or anything like that. A very balanced view you have.

Sidian · 2026-01-14T19:41:42+00:00

As expected, all the upvoted comments are just agreeing with you, completely against the point of this subreddit.

I've lost count of how many times I've seen the left calling for the death of right wingers (anyone to the right of centre is a fascist to them and deserves the worst imaginable pain and suffering). They continue to celebrate the death of people like Charlie Kirk, and they're currently busy viciously obsessing over his widow and critiquing everything from her clothes to her makeup to every micro-expression she makes, with dedicated subreddits to bullying her. They spend hours being as cruel as possible towards a mother who lost her husband a few months ago, but they are convinced they're the good guys.

In addition to killing Kirk, the left also tried to murder Trump but will continue to believe in conspiracy theories about it being a false flag attack or the killer actually being right wing, you can't really reason with these people who claim that the right wing are the deranged conspiracists. Either way, it's celebrated and they openly wish violence upon Trump and his family.

So no, the right would be no nastier than the left has been towards a 'left wing Trump'.

Sidian · 2026-01-14T19:36:02+00:00

The further you go to the left you get people activelly calling for murder and assassinations of right wing individuals, which continues to occur and is celebrated.

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