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I was robbed at a gas station downtown last night. After my hands stopped trembling, I managed to call the cops and they were quick to respond and calmed me down..... My money is gone! The police asked me if I knew who did it. I said yes, it was pump number 9…

Maybe your screen name should be Dribbles? ?

Higher end houses are equipped with a remote-controlled sprinkler for just such reasons. ?

You can't make a gold record without gold, ya?

Gee, that one looks familiar. I wonder where I've seen it before... Hmm... ? ?

Sign in guitar area of music store: "For an additional $4.95 we will provide a receipt that matches what you told your spouse you paid."

When you're at a gig behind some kid who keeps holding his phone/camera up in the air in front of you and you tell him to f****** stop? ??

Wait... I thought this was all you needed to know, ya? ?

Sometimes I pretend to have an Alembic... Oh, wait... That's not me. Nevermind!

We're all sad that the nipple thread was deleted, but it was for the breast!

IBTD!!!!

Just stopped back in and it looks like several have been wiped out. ? I guess you'll just have to settle for "Last Night's Jam" instead of raspberry ripple! ?

Just press these three together. Simples!

Sorry to break this news to ya, but... I doubt this is Heaven. ?

Oh, and so far 15 of the 23 chimps that Elon has implanted have died. Probably a better fate than being 100% controlled externally (which is the actual end goal of all this), right?

'Cause electronics never fail, right? ???????? ???????? ????????

Thought this was interesting! I aced it using headphones and got 97% just through my soundbar. https://www.hear-it.org/

The obvious solution is you need a new guitar! ? Ok, ok... One actual thing to make sure is working is your hard drive! If one is acting up, you can get the boot to hang as well (though it definitely sounds like a faulty update).

Although there are some recent conflicting theories, it is commonly assumed that the Grand Canyon was created using ripple edit. ?

One thing I've found that is an awesome approach to learning (hey, I actually have a certificate in accelerated learning - lol!) is to read/see the same concepts from multiple sources. Sometimes you just aren't "getting it" from one teacher, but absorb the same material from other teachers as well and things tend to click. Another issue is that you need to learn at the speed that is right for you. Because most teachers pace their material towards the bulk of their audience, it can be too slow to keep the attention of the quicker students or still too fast for the ones that might not have all the assumed background (prerequisites) for the class. I love being able to speed up most of the tutorial videos I find to 1.5x or 2x the speed. Most of the time it doesn't make the speaker unintelligible, and your brain actually retains the material easier at higher speeds (less time for other bits of stray information to pollute the training). Note that this is never a constant for any student either! Some topics will always seem easier than others. Remember, the vast majority of everything you gather is subconscious and there's only a small amount that can be kept in your short-term memory. One interesting technique (which, unfortunately, is rarely possible in today's world) is to take breaks and find a way to prevent new information from writing over your short-term memory long enough for all of what you learned to soak into your long-term memory. One study using students learning a new language then sitting in isolation chambers showed a HUGE increase in what they could remember and recall. Needless to say, this is one of the main reasons for repetition (which also alerts the brain that what its hearing is important, unlike the MILLIONS of bits that are irrelevant). This is also why actually doing what you're learning is important. It adds further importance, but also introduces additional avenues like touch. Involving as many senses as possible is very helpful. There is SOOOO much more to this! Take the state of mind you're in when you're learning versus when you're trying to recall what you've learned. I'm sure most of us have gone through a class in school where we thought we knew everything required for an examine only to not be able to access the answers during the test! The reason this happens is that we learned the material while in a relaxed alpha brain state, but then tried to recall things while in a stressed-out beta brain state. This is why it's important to learn things in the same state that they will need to be recalled (and exactly why militaries train cadets under extreme conditions; it's amazing how your thinking shuts down when you're cold, tired, sore and people are shooting at you!). This is also why people get stage fright. While some things can be learned rapidly, if it's not done on a solid foundation it's just like a house of cards. Maybe you can tap with two hands like Eddie on guitar, but if you don't know WHY or can only do it for a few seconds, what's the use? Also, you are far more likely (as explained above) to completely forget how to do anything except soil yourself when everyone is now staring at you. ?