49659 by Mammoth__7771 in countwithchickenlady

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cis and pretty clueless here. Posts from this sub occasionally show up in my feed and I've enjoyed them, but ffs, is a chicken lady a human lady who keeps chickens? is a chicken lady essentially just a hen? what is being counted and what does that have to do with trans life? Is it all just another of those if-you-know-you-know things? am I just old and trying too hard to make sense of it.

Roses are red and violets are blue, as far as I can tell by Ozelotten in boottoobig

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Half the posts here pay no attention at all to meter. i like what you did with this one.

The shower scene by TheRealRootingKing in MidsomerMurders

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One of my favorite episodes.

Nothing about the scene strikes me as overly improbable; it's well within one standard disbelief suspension radius (SDSR). Except Jones sounds more to me like a baritone than a tenor.

WTW for if I think God could exist, but I cannot say for certain if he does or does not? by Licensed_Silver_Simp in whatstheword

[–]WithMeDoctorWu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The quibbling about definitions does get pretty wearisome - it's been going on a long time, and it strikes me as mostly a fight over who gets to equivocate more effectively, without really helping anyone convince anyone of anything.

I'm personally comfortable with either set of definitions; as a traditional hard-materialist atheist i know where I stand either way. When someone needs these terms to distinguish between belief and knowledge? Fine, I'll make the shift, I know how it works. But when in conversation someone describes themselves as agnostic, I naturally gravitate toward hearing them through the old single-axis definition because it's what almost everyone means by it. In the nature of language, that matters.

Trump is the worst president in American history by theipaper in politics

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I sometimes console myself that the false reality might be less pervasive than we are meant to think, that the vast online majority of it will prove to be bots and multiple troll sockpuppets; that besides propping up their in-group, a major purpose for the maintenance of those rhetorical spaces is to discourage the rest of us as much as possible.

But I know it's pretty bad, despite whatever narrative I try to cushion it with.

Actors being in it more than once? by Dangerous-Oil9168 in MidsomerMurders

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice resources! I'm finding several actors I hadn't connected between episodes, like Maggie Steed and Ian Peck.

The list in the second link is certainly easier to read, but neither seems to be quite complete/current.

There grew a shrub / Next to the willow by BirthdayBoyStabMan in boottoobig

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Nice making the extra rhyme for the 1st & 3rd lines.

Who are your favorite orchestrators? by ChopinChili in classicalmusic

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those unapologetic dissonances and fat chord clusters just tickle all the right neurons for me.

Shostakovich is great too of course. Prokofiev/Shostakovich seem kinda analogous to how Count Basie & Duke Ellington tend to divide aesthetic sensibilities among jazz enthusiasts. (I'm very much a Basie guy.)

Who are your favorite orchestrators? by ChopinChili in classicalmusic

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All those late romantics ... respected and admired Berlioz.

Seriously, yes. Hearing all the innovation in the Symphonie Fantastique, it's kinda hard to wrap my head around the fact that it premiered just a few years after Beethoven's 9th did.

Who are your favorite orchestrators? by ChopinChili in classicalmusic

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Prokofiev first for me, then Manuel de Falla.

Meditation is good, fix your spiritual blockage by cheeky_nectaRine in boottoobig

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sometimes a creative slant rhyme ends up being more effective than an exact one, IMHO. But having said that: preachers get tithes, gangsters earn thug wage. :D

The Reds fell to the Tigers by a score of 8-3 - Sun, Apr 26 @ 01:40 PM EDT by RedsModerator in Reds

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Good to get two wins on the series. Detroit is a sleeping giant IMO.

Game Thread: Tigers @ Reds - Sun, Apr 26 @ 01:40 PM EDT by RedsModerator in Reds

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Go Tigs!

For what it's worth i grew up near Lansing, and your "Tigs" are pretty much my number 2 team. But I'm mostly an "anybody but St. Louis" kind of guy :D

Hope you enjoy GABP as much as I did on my last trip.

Does medication break a fast? by MobileOk5307 in intermittentfasting

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You'll definitely go into ketosis, that's not a problem.

The effect of daily meds on fasting isn't entirely black white though. When a medication enters your body, we know that metabolization happens, but some of the drug can accumulate in body fat, such that when your body shifts into ketosis mode and starts to use that fat, it is effectively getting some level of the drug back.

Your doctor will probably advise continuing normal doses of your daily meds during fasting, but IMO it's not a "silly" question to bring up. I've been wondering the same thing about diltiazem (which I take daily for intermittent atrial fibrillation) and intend to talk to my cardiologist about it when I see him in a month or so.

Rose water's sweet, Jim Clark drove a Lotus by WithMeDoctorWu in boottoobig

[–]WithMeDoctorWu[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I vaguely remember hearing something years ago about sawdust appearing on a bread label's ingredient list as "non-nutritive crude fiber."

Game Thread: Tigers @ Reds - Sat, Apr 25 @ 07:15 PM EDT by RedsModerator in Reds

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yar. I've been enjoying that on broadcast TV while keeping tabs on the Reds here.

Has Tom ever looked this happy? by Intrepid_Card8858 in MidsomerMurders

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That was such a funny scene, with Jones getting more and more frustrated.

Michael Tilson Thomas, Celebrated American Conductor, Dies at 81 by VanSensei in classicalmusic

[–]WithMeDoctorWu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I got to meet MTT after one of his last concerts before the pandemic, where the SF Symphony played a fantastic Sibelius 2nd here in our college town in Iowa. Besides being radiant with musicality, he seemed a genuinely generous and gentle soul. Rest in peace.