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Post by anaix3l on Nov 1, 2022 2:55:26 GMT -5
There are quite a few things I'd have a nervous breakdown over if I wasn't too busy having a nervous breakdown over other a bunch of other things.
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Post by anaix3l on Nov 2, 2022 11:51:12 GMT -5
There is no such thing as safe. There never was. Every step you take... well, take a deep breath and hope all the things that could happen won't happen. Not to you. Not this time.
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Post by anaix3l on Nov 15, 2022 12:56:42 GMT -5
Today is the 15th of November. And right now it's almost 8pm here and I'm considering sleeping with the window open tonight.
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Post by AeroCooper on Nov 15, 2022 17:44:20 GMT -5
34* F here currently, with rain and snow predicted over the next 24 hours.
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Post by anaix3l on Nov 29, 2022 13:14:03 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Dec 1, 2022 6:03:08 GMT -5
Romania, 2022. No comment.
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Post by anaix3l on Dec 24, 2022 7:07:57 GMT -5
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Post by AeroCooper on Jan 9, 2023 12:55:08 GMT -5
What is a cannibal's favorite game?
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Post by ap on Jan 14, 2023 11:10:53 GMT -5
Robbie Bachman, co-founder and drummer of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died at 69, representatives for his brother Randy confirm.
"Another sad departure. The pounding beat behind BTO, my little brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad & brother Gary on the other side," the band's frontman Randy wrote in a tweet Thursday night.
"Maybe Jeff Beck needs a drummer! He was an integral cog in our rock 'n' roll machine, and we rocked the world together."
A cause of death has not yet been released.
Canadian rock icons BTO hailed from Winnipeg and rose to international fame in the 1970s.
They had five top-40 albums and six U.S. top-40 singles, including hits like Takin' Care of Business and You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.
Born Robin Peter Kendall Bachman on Feb. 18, 1953, Robbie and his brother were into music from their youth, before Randy invited him to drum for Brave Belt.
The group recorded two albums, released in 1971 and 1972, before they changed their name to Bachman-Turner Overdrive in 1973.
Its self-titled debut album reached No 9 in Canada and No 70 on the Billboard rock chart, with its follow up ‘Bachman–Turner Overdrive II’ getting to the Top 10 in the U.S. and Canada.
It had one Top 40 single, ‘Let It Ride’, as well as one of the group’s best-known tracks, ‘Takin’ Care of Business’.
The band’s third album included ‘Roll on Down the Highway’, a hit single co-written by Robbie Bachman and Fred Turner that was originally produced for a car advert.
After 1979, BTO briefly split before regrouping in 1983, but without Robbie, who sued the new band for trademark infringement for its continued use of the name, resulting in a royalties pay out.
Robbie briefly rejoined the band for a 1988 reunion and in 2014, Bachman-Turner Overdrive were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
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Post by AeroCooper on Jan 14, 2023 15:43:17 GMT -5
^ I saw BTO once a long time ago, but only because they were opening for, you guessed it, Aerosmith. After the show the lead singer was walking up and down the aisles greeting people but really no one cared, we just wanted Aerosmith to get on with it. Kinda sad and embarrassing to be honest.
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Post by anaix3l on Jan 24, 2023 15:54:28 GMT -5
You walked so much for so little.
It's not about how I feel about the result of the theme modifications compared to the effort I put on it. It's about how I feel life in Romania in general, particularly since 2020. During the 2010s, there were lots of frustrating and even really bad moments, but at least it felt like things were changing for the better overall. Now it feels like... well, got a massive chance and blew it.
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 7, 2023 4:09:14 GMT -5
Over 4000 people have died after the earthquake in Turkey. Over 6000 buildings collapsed. Roads, airport runways split. Gas pipelines exploded. Not only was the initial earthquake the strongest one recorded since there have been instruments to record intensity, but it was followed by tens of aftershocks that would have been strong earthquakes on their own, so buildings that seemed to originally escape collapsed throughout the day. There are videos starting with people starting to document the damage, then everything starts shaking again and other buildings collapse. Which pretty much means it's not safe to remain anywhere near damaged buildings. And while I normally think of Turkey as a warmer place, I understand there was freezing rain on the night of the earthquake. It's just mindblowing. And heartbreaking. Some people trapped under rubble posted about it online, in hope someone could get to them. In one of the videos, a guy keeps repeating his address. And the videos of people being able to extract kids still alive from the rubble because their smaller bodies made that easier, but unable to get their parents out in time as well... And it's very scary because you can't help but think this could happen here too. Just like Turkey, Romania is... well, very urban, with a lot of the population concentrated in bigger cities living in big blocks. And a lot of the people are into DYI when it comes to home arrangement because of money constraints. One question heard multiple times over the course of the past 24 hours was do you know if anyone here did any apartment modifications that involve taking down a resistance structure. And then there's the question of the entire central area of Bucharest, which may be a disaster waiting to happen and may bring a repeat of 1977. I wasn't even born then, but my parents still have memories of it. They were both students and at that hour they were obviously in the dorms. My dad got out into the hallway of the U-shaped building he was in and grabbed onto the wall in the middle of the U and saw a crack open in the wall in between his hands. My mom jumped out the window with no shoes on and cut her feet in the broken glass. This map shows the evaluated buildings with the highest risk rating (class 1 and 2, but not class 3 and 4), as well as those that aren't just a risk, they're pretty much a sure collapse, maybe even without a quake. It also shows (in grey) the areas that could be isolated in case of collapse, as the streets there are generally narrow and could get blocked by rubble. But not all buildings got a proper evaluation, so it's likely the complete map would have even more red on it.
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Post by anaix3l on Feb 26, 2023 13:49:40 GMT -5
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Post by anaix3l on Mar 9, 2023 9:21:53 GMT -5
GRUB is giving me a headache this afternoon.
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Post by anaix3l on Apr 3, 2023 13:32:09 GMT -5
Comments on live recordings from recent Mötley Crüe shows are savage for a reason...
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