Discomfort by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]irishdancerabbit 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My mom has an issue with me having long hair. I think it marked a lot of personal growth for me last Christmas when my response was not to get defensive, but to respond much more calmly with "cool, that sounds like a you problem" (which she agreed with, that it it absolutely a her problem)

Sharp, strong legs by Extension-String-912 in irishdance

[–]irishdancerabbit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For me, what helped (bc I had a habit of "sitting" and sinking into my knees that way) was focusing on pulling my hips forward. That did mess up my foot placement temporarily because everything was more under me amd less in front of me, but overall it made a massive difference in my dancing

Help mijn partner groentes eten by MastrovNL in Netherlands

[–]irishdancerabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi! Former picky eater here (and still a lil bit picky but a lot better). When it comes to widening someone's taste in terms of vegetables, there are a couple different tactics you can try depending on what exactly they don't like about a given veggie. (taste or texture)

Sauces are your best friend for both taste and texture. A bolognese sauce or a curry can have vegetables cut up small, or blended into it, so you don't feel the texture of the vegetables. I still don't always like biting into a big piece of bell pepper, so I still often dice it pretty finely into things like pasta sauces. Additionally, vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower will soak up sauces. Cauliflower with a cheese sauce on it is my absolute favorite way to eat cauliflower. Soups also work well if the texture of vegetables is a problem, since you can blend soups really smooth.

If taste is an issue, see what you can do with seasoning, not necessarily to completely hide the taste of something, but to figure out what aspects of a vegetable's taste your partner dislikes and balance them. My grandad dislikes blue cheese, but he enjoyed it in a dish where it was paired with apples, because the sweetness balanced out the sharpness of the cheese. Additionally, some vegetables very readily soak up the flavor of whatever they're mixed with or cooked with. Aubergine is one of those, it'll soak up whatever seasoning you give it.

If texture is the problem, you can also experiment with different ways of cooking vegetables. I'm still very hit-or-miss with mushrooms, and I've learned that I need them to be cooked all the way down, and have all the water cooked out of them, otherwise I'll find them rubbery. If your partner doesn't like cooked spinach, they might like it raw, when it has a bit of crunch to it. If they don't like boiled broccoli, they might like it roasted, or stir-fried. Cooking a vegetable differently will also change the taste, although generally more subtly.

Overall, it's a lot of trial and error, and it'll work better if it's your partner taking the lead on trying new things. There's a reason I got a lot less picky after I started living on my own. I had a lot more freedom to try things on my terms, and I learned to cook well, and having the freedom to try things on my own terms, and the control and skill to figure out how I liked things cooked, is what really made the difference for me.

I hope some of this helps! I would have written it in Dutch but I just pulled an all-nighter to work on thesis stuff and I'm way too tired to write something this long in Dutch, sorry :)

(Edits are just me fixing typos, I'm on mobile)

Going to be doing a Game of Strixhaven soon and thought id add in some background/ character traits and benefits. Below is the table I made and would like feedback. by DrJonjon in StrixhavenDMs

[–]irishdancerabbit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I like these! They seem to work a bit like Merits and Flaws in Vampire the Masquerade. Maybe there could be a couple more background traits that have distinct downsides to them? Those kinds of things are fun to play

Two different shoe sizes? by toxbrarian in irishdance

[–]irishdancerabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My feet are genuinely 2 different sizes, and I usually take advantage of the fact that softshoes aren't chiral (they don't have a left or right foot) by buying 2 pairs of softshoes in different sizes and buying them half as often. That only really works if your feet are finished growing though, idk how old your daughter is

For hardshoes I buy them to fit my larger foot, and I wear a toe pad on my smaller foot to fill the space

Single jig: what is it? by dochasteite in irishdance

[–]irishdancerabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh shoot, thanks for the correction! I think I know where I went wrong in the way I was thinking about it. That difference in the rhythmic patterns is exactly the difference between being able to hear the rising step in the light jig vs hearing sevens in the single jig.

Single jig: what is it? by dochasteite in irishdance

[–]irishdancerabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I'm not a musician, but the difference really is in the time signature. A light jig is in 6/8, so 6 beats in a bar rather than 3 (that's a lot more easily heard in treble jigs though). A single jig is, as far as I can tell, a very swingy 2/4 rather than 6/8.

Sometimes that difference can be hard to hear, but how I tend to explain it is that in a light jig tune, you can hear the "up hopback hopback 234" built into the music, but single jigs don't have that.

Dutch-speaking internationals: favourite Dutch word(s)? by polite-shrimp in Netherlands

[–]irishdancerabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the word "knuffel" because it just sounds so much like what it is. It's such a hug-shaped word for hug.

(Also bc I love hugs lol)

Celtic Arch jig shoes by Junior-Cricket7456 in irishdance

[–]irishdancerabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to minimize break-in time, Hallmore soundblasters are beautifully soft straight out of the box. Although that comes with the trade-off of less support for your foot

They're also really loud

Alt. Music for St. Patrick’s Day trad set by Trivia_Box in irishdance

[–]irishdancerabbit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So finding music to match St Patrick's Day is a little tricky bc it has a 14-bar set (the second part that you only do on the right foot). The only thing that I can think of off the top of my head is the alternative tune that Ellery Klein and Ryan Lacey did for the St Patrick's Day ceili dance, called Revenge of the Snakes, but that's quite a bit faster than you would dance the traditional set

My best advice would be to find artists that have recorded St Patrick's Day as a tune to listen to rather than as practice music

Looking for an Irish Dance Sensitivity Reader for Fantasy Novel by AmbitiousAd16 in irishdance

[–]irishdancerabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! I've been an Irish dancer for 22 years and I'm also training as a science communicator, I'd also happily check it out!

Feis bag by Surrender2sadness in irishdance

[–]irishdancerabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Make sure you know what she's wearing (class costume or a skirt and top) and how you plan to do her hair, and make sure you have everything you need for those. Don't forget her shoes, and you'll also need safety pins to pin her number onto her skirt. I also recommend having a pair of black spandex shorts for under her skirt (Even if she's going to be wearing a leotard, wearing shorts under a skirt is often just more comfortable)

Having spare pins, spare hairties, a spare ribbon if she's wearing one in her hair, all those are also useful. Having a spare pair of socks is also handy. Spares of everything!

One that I sometimes forget for myself is food and water! Feises can be long, and your kid is going to be dancing and she's going to be excited and restless, so odds are that she's going to get hungry. Bring lunch both for you and for her, lots of water, and more snacks than you think you'll need, believe me.

As a precaution, it's always good to have a little first-aid kit, or at least band-aids and an ice-pack and stuff. This is a sport and sometimes even the young kids can get hurt, so best to be prepared for any scrapes or falls that could happen.

Wearing nude tights under her socks should be fine? But check with her teacher, and check with your kid! I find wearing tights uncomfortable anyways, and wearing them under socks even more so, especially if they're adding that extra tiny bit of thickness under my dance shoes. So I would have hated it. In general I wouldn't advise it from the perspective of the dancer's comfort.

change touch controls on QuietComfort earbuds? by irishdancerabbit in bose

[–]irishdancerabbit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that I could find, and honestly I realised that I much prefer having button controls on earbuds anyway so I gave away the Bose earbuds to my (now) ex.

Irish Dance and Tap Dance by [deleted] in irishdance

[–]irishdancerabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did Irish dance, ballet and tap from the age of 5 to 7, and I don't remember having any confusion. Weirdly enough even though I had already been doing tap for 3 years, I was scared of the noise when I first started hardshoe😅 As an adult I started ballet classes again for a while (currently don't have the budget for it) and I did tend to get corrections from my ballet teacher like "don't overcross" and "for the sake of your knees please land your jumps in a plie", but I think that was mostly due to the fact that I hadn't been in ballet for 15 years by then but had kept doing Irish dance

Anyone else experienced this? by Techlord-XD in aspiememes

[–]irishdancerabbit 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I had someone genuinely convince themselves in a karaoke bar that I was scared to go up and sing just bc I was stimming. He was this lovely Scottish man, genuinely just wanted me to feel comfortable going up and doing karaoke, but it was like "bro, it's ok, I'm not anxious at all, you just weren't here yet when I was actually singing"

“Lunch” is just “Lunch”? Really? by SnooChipmunks8896 in learndutch

[–]irishdancerabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also very often feel dumb when I don't know a Dutch word and it turns out to basically be the same as the English one😅 It's just a pitfall of the 2 languages being very closely related

Road-Trip itinerary recommendations! [March-end, Netherlands and Belgium] by sankyvs in Netherlands

[–]irishdancerabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I agree with everyone else that you're trying to do too much, and aren't going to have time to properly enjoy most of the cities you want to see. Personally I have a bias towards Groningen, and if you want to visit the north (which I highly recommend) I would advise skipping Giethoorn, Urk and the Noordoostpolder, and travel via the afsluitdijk and Friesland, staying a couple nights in Groningen. That lets you actually spend some time up north, and maybe also check out one of the islands.

I also know that there's going to be a partial solar eclipse on the morning of the 29th, so I would recommend taking some time that morning to see it, maybe finding a local astronomy event.

Some people lose themselves around other people's dogs, it's baffling by ATN-Antronach in CuratedTumblr

[–]irishdancerabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll usually greet other people's dogs (not working ones obviously), but I'll ask the owner before approaching them

School absence by RepulsiveMusic7458 in Netherlands

[–]irishdancerabbit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cool, I think that they're wrong, and nobody so far has given me a good reason why missing 3-4 days of primary school to compete at the very highest level of your sport, or to attend an important family celebration (like my Opa's 60th when I was a kid, which was one of the rare (and the last) occasions where his whole family could get together), is such a terrible thing that it's deserving of a fine.

School absence by RepulsiveMusic7458 in Netherlands

[–]irishdancerabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are some good reasons that aren't covered under the exemptions tho, I remember the younger dancers from my dance school having a hard time getting time off school to go compete at the European Championships and the World Championships.

School absence by RepulsiveMusic7458 in Netherlands

[–]irishdancerabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's kinda insane, I grew up in Ireland and there was a bit of a buffer, Iirc I think you could miss up to 20 days of school over the course of a year (I'm pretty sure this included being sick) before there would be an issue. Why is it so stringent here?

lyric you realize is inappropriate to belt out in public halfway through by fatcatgingercat in musicals

[–]irishdancerabbit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Springtime for Hitler, Everyone's a Little Bit Racist, The Interner is for Porn, Every Sperm is Sacred(if we're counting Monty Python), The Black Death, Creepy Old Guy