I got a lovely reply with the lyrics:
Why do I feel so sad
When people all around me look so glad
Why is my heart breaking in two
_When I look at a friend such as you
You always tell me you’re so happy
You’ve really got it made in this life
And although the world was against you
You managed to make it on your own
Not yet! But it is a Sunday, so I wouldn’t necessarily expect one right away. I will be sure to update you if I do get one!
Not a bad call actually. I will try that tomorrow
I think that this is more or less the approach I would take, but you shouldn’t worry about the actual diameter of anything. It’s not important, after all - if everything was scaled up twice as big, the answer would be the same. Just call the diameter of the cup a nice round number and then see how the hazelnuts compare to it. In this case I think there’s about five hazelnut widths to the glass, so I’m gonna call the glass diameter 50, the nuts 10, and the glass height 80.
You’ll need to change your formulae, though. pi*d is the circumference of a circle, but we need the area here, so pi*r*r (and then multiply by height for volume). That gives me 157,050 whateverunits cubed for the volume of the cup. For a sphere it’s (4/3)*pi*r*r*r, so 524 for the hazelnuts. Now, I know that spheres don’t pack perfectly into a volume, but I don’t remember the factor even for optimal packing, so I’m just gonna take a wild guess and say that 70% of the internal volume of the cup is actually occupied by hazelnuts. That gives me… 209 hazelnuts in the cup. Which seems worse than your answer on a gut level, but I can count 86 visible ones so it’s maybe actually not bad
Hah, I was way off too
No poem has ever instilled such wistful hope in me before
Hands upon fretboard
Staring quietly
Playing frippery
Three truthless chords
If I wanted to isolate myself from society altogether I’d probably already be doing that a lot more than I currently am. I keep to myself more than most, perhaps, but I’m not interested in becoming a recluse
I’ve personally never been to Texas and it’s a long time since I went to Bavaria, but doesn’t that description of Munich vs the surrounding countryside more or less work for Houston vs the surrounding countryside?
I don’t think it’s even necessarily a left vs right political thing either, both regions also just have quite distinct and independent cultural traditions from the rest of the country
You’ll be fine! Especially since you’re there with your wife, you’ve got good company to distract you from whatever anyone else is doing if the show isn’t already doing that. All sorts of people show up at concerts, even if they don’t always show up in the photos and videos of those concerts as much
I went to a Heilung gig a few years back (incredible experience, by the way) and it was really funny in a lovely way to look at the crowd. It was like a straight 50/50 split of people that looked like the very stereotype of 60s hippies and equally stereotypical metalheads. Flower crowns and corpse paint right next to each other. We all had a great time together
I’m quite a tall guy and not the most outgoing a lot of the time, so I do understand how it’s easy to feel like you’re sticking out in a crowd. Thing is though, everyone is there to see the act, not to people-watch the audience
That’s largely limited by ticket sales nowadays, right? Responsible / law-abiding venues (in countries with good regulation on it) don’t sell so many standing tickets that the risk gets too high
The wiki page you linked in the other reply has a link to a list page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_crowd_crushes
You’ll notice that very few recent ones are at concerts, and those that are consistently involve serious mismanagement of the event and usually something inciting large-scale fear responses
You are right that it’s less safe than being seated, and you do need to watch out for your surroundings and be ready to get yourself out if you think it’s too much. It is a problem that we know how to handle for the most part without banning all standing areas, though
I’m surprised to see someone say that they don’t think standing tickets are allowed any more, what gave you that impression?
Regardless, being in the standing section is exciting and usually a very good view. It’s not necessarily the right atmosphere for every person or every show, but if you enjoy the feeling of being in the crowd as everyone moves together it’s great
To explain more specifically for those that are, like me, curious but unfamiliar:
You’ve given me a horrible flashback to the time I took two hours to figure out that some code wasn’t working because someone else’s copy/paste had, somehow, introduced a few zero-width spaces that I did not think to check for
But yes, I agree that using just one character for all three of those would be fine for general purposes and easier in specific fields. I think I’d prefer the en dash to be the default since it’s the middle ground size, but to be honest as long as we don’t need to start using em dashes as hyphens for very—wide—compounds I’d be happy
I do not like the way that unspaced em dashes look. More generally I don’t think that having distinct em and en dashes is actually useful anyway, you can absolutely just use an en dash in either case with absolutely no loss of clarity or readability, but I do need to use em dashes for some work writing so I have a key on my keyboard for it and use it semi-regularly. Whenever I use an em dash outside of a professional context I space it. So, “he’s coming next Monday — the 6th, that is — some time in the morning,” as opposed to the more broadly-recommended, “he’s coming next Monday—the 6th, that is—some time in the morning.”
I have absolutely no reason for this other than subjective aesthetic preferences, but it has coincidentally become somewhat useful recently. LLMs notoriously use em dashes far more than humans but consistently use them unspaced, so it’s a sort of mild defence against anything I write looking LLM-generated
Isn’t formality itself a bunch of arbitrary rules? There’s rarely anything about any formality rule that makes the thing itself inherently more or less polite, the point is that choosing to follow those arbitrary rules communicates that you are (or aren’t) choosing to be formal about the thing. It’s like a giant tone marker for “respectfully”
While I enjoy a lot of metal and not any bluegrass that I’ve heard, I do sorta get that one. They do share quite a bit in terms of their rhythmic feel, both (depending on your metal subgenre) doing a lot of rapid-fire staccato notes to keep up a really fast pace, and also share some of their roots in Black American music. The timbres of the instruments used the choices of notes are very different of course, but I don’t think that you’re inventing a non-existent similarity
This is probably a lot heavier on the technical grammar than you need, but here is the relevant wikipedia page if you want it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_pronoun
Basically English (along with other Germanic languages and a whole bunch of others) doesn’t like having a verb by itself without something to do the verb, so we just put “it” in as a sort of placeholder. The “it” isn’t anything, but the grammar wants there to be something there
On the one hand, the quantity probably isn’t significantly dangerous. On the other, OPs mindset seems to be. If they cannot control their drinking then that’s a problem, regardless of how much they actually end up drinking
Soup and bread is genuinely great if you have them available and don’t want to put effort into cooking. It’s the right kind of simple and hearty thing that helps when you feel run down