dream_weasel

Maybe it’s a glass of isopropyl.

Very succinctly so I don’t end up writing another wall, I generally agree with you on these points. Where we differ I think is that I feel context can add depth and richness (as in the Jester painting) but that the work itself should contain some INTRINSIC depth and richness.

The analog discussion I think we are having is “are placebos good medicine?”. Do you feel better after taking them? Sure. I suppose that makes it hard to say they are not medicine. At the same time, it’s the act of consuming them that gives them the effect, not anything to do with the content.

That sounds like a different kind of art altogether. The experiential kind of art where the point is the unspoken discussion between the artist and the audience, or just a commentary on the audience, is pretty cool. Marina Abramović is an icon of art in that category I would say.

Counter offer: that’s all expectation bias.

You read

War is hell. War in the deep of Russian winters is worse than hell. It is blind, cold, desperate chaos and you’re supposed to fight in this inferno while being able to tell friend from foe, but they all look the same, their blood looks the same in the snow and dirt beneath them.

then you conjure up the feeling with some art museum self-gaslighting. Maybe the art is the prompt?

Modern dance and modern art (including free form poetry etc) that try to leave rules/form/structure behind are, to me, rorschach content with accompanying flavor text that makes them smell faintly of the artists’ farts. This is to other forms of art what whiteclaws are to flavor.

I quite strongly doubt that any abstract or contemporary art in isolation gives any specific, repeatable feeling to anybody outside of maybe “chaos”. Its fine if you like it (I don’t obviously) but I think adding specific feelings that you wouldn’t get without the title is oversell and over-hype. It’s like establishing the canon for a book or story using the fanfiction for that story or just the authors opinion: if you didn’t actually write it in the main work, it doesn’t count (I see you J.K. Rowling, Brandon Sanderson, etc). Put the story IN THE STORY.

But then, this is all just one man’s polemic.

We don’t even SAY bollocks in the US.

Only if you didn’t have to pressurize them. Corners are bad news.

1 man 1 jar

Oh wait…

Groose

How bad could it be? Ethan Hawke succeeds in the movie even though he’s got no real genetic qualifications.

Nobody will ever agree on an adult to put in charge. Some will think brilliant, others will think moron.

Yeah it’s totally a mistake.

I bought some stupid hot sauces out of curiosity a few years ago (last dab kind of sauces, they are fairly hot but still edible) but was not prepared for the heat. I tried some milk and bread and whatever and it didn’t help clear my mouth. It was on my tongue and my lips and I wanted it OFF.

So having watched some of the “plutonium” hot sauce videos I put my obviously very big brain to work. In some of those videos, capsaicin crystals are dissolved in alcohol. I thought to myself, “alcohol dissolves capsaicin, my mouth is hot from capsaicin, I have an idea”. It was not a good idea.

I swished and swallowed a shot of vodka.

As you say, it really helped the spicy coat my ENTIRE mouth and top of my throat. If you have never had spicy pain in between your teeth and coating your entire gumline, it is really something else. 2/10 would not recommend.

In any event, a lesson was learned that day that I doubt I will forget.

I think the problem lies with calling things like the 1 chip challenge or “melt you wussy butthole” varieties of spicy challenges “food”.

I mean I guess you ingest them, but that’s kinda like calling magic mushrooms food or ipecac syrup food. They are things that you eat for a specific purpose that is not nourishment.

This variety is for the challenge of it, not the enjoyment of eating it.

Ah I see. You weren’t making an allegory, you were being direct.

Sorry I didn’t mean to pique your ideological perspectives by suggesting to burn a chair from a totally different thread as a joke.

No, that would be telling you that the chair stinks because you haven’t rubbed ENOUGH shit into it and big clean is just trying to swindle you out of your money.

What I’ve described is the revolution solution.

I suggest a small alteration:

Start with 70% rubbing alcohol, set the chair on its side and soak then compress / scrub… fire.

Buy a new chair.

Wash your ass with soap.

A shower with soap is best, preferably after a different method. But whatever it’s your house, you can shit direct to shower if you like.

If you got poop on you anywhere else. Dry wiping it would not be sufficient. Rinsing it off and patting it dry would not be sufficient. You would wash with soap.

That said, I have a bidet I use some of the time and plain old TP the rest of the time.

Die. :/

Not with my dumb free bouncing worx robot. Next robot will solve that problem though. No wires and use GPS (well… RTX, VSLAM, and cameras/sensors). What a time to be alive.

My robot lawnmower keeps getting stuck on my garden beds and I have to walk out at least once a day to restart it.