ButteryMonkey
@ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
- Comment on My Country music collection 3 weeks ago:
My favorite part of that set is how he adopts the accent in the lead-up to the jokes. Im big on language, always have been a mimic, and I notice the code switch. I assume he does it unconsciously to put himself in the mindset for the rest of the jokes.
But yea thats how I feel about it, always have.
- Comment on My Country music collection 3 weeks ago:
Listen to your average unknown random song and tell me where the people who sing it came from. Thats what I mean by no accent. It doesn’t exist in language, but it VERY MUCH exists in music. A-accent is the default for singing.
Hip hop I question that, but rap i could see because I’ve heard rap in other languages and being spoken poetry that does pick up a bit, but it isn’t characteristic of the music, and you still usually cant tell unless you understand the specific language.. so id give that as a maybe at best.
- Comment on 877-CASH-NOW 3 weeks ago:
What would actually happen if you did that? Im sure people have..
- Comment on My Country music collection 3 weeks ago:
Country is a weird genre.
In NO OTHER genre do you hear an accent, and it’s more or less required for country. That twang, the drawl. Its playing in the background of the dive bar I’m at right now.
If you get someone from the deep south to sing alongside someone from the Netherlands, alongside a french person, maybe a Russian for kicks, the only genre you’ll notice they aren’t from the same country in country music will you hear where they are from. But not really because like any music its an affectation.
Conclusion: country music is fake bullshit made to pander to fucking stupid people who think their redneck culture exists, rather than being just profitable. 😁
- Comment on 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 3 weeks ago:
I have a similar relationship with my neurologist. I’ve been seeing him for over 15 years for stabby appointments. That is to say I get something like 60-80 injections every time I see him. He isn’t in a position to give me tests, but he does use the things I say to help his other patients.
Its botox injections for migraine, and he’s one of the first people to pick up doing it, so he’s seen some shit. Nothing I say surprises him at all, unless its FUN. So early on when my skin was still reacting to it big time, i told him i sort of liked that I looked like a klingon after my appointments, and thats what I always told people because I needed to go to a brewery after to make the pain suck less.
Im also almost always on board to be a training pin cushion for residents. So much that if the resident doesn’t understand what I’m offering them (a willing participant to their education; a unicorn), he just says “if you are ready to practice injections, she’s offering, and she doesn’t flinch”.
Because I’m used to it. I try not to flinch because that’s worse. I’m pretty upbeat about the whole thing. And I recently found out he has patients who scream about it every single spot. Holy fuck. I can’t imagine being that sensitive. So now i understand why he admitted to his existential crisis to me. (“I feel like I’m going to hell for causing people such pain as part of my job” he’s retirement age or older, so understandable thought)
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 3 weeks ago:
What you need is a whole bramble! Ive never seen a blackberry bush as such, but an entire wall of plants? Yes. They’ll continue to produce steadily for weeks/months.
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 4 weeks ago:
Super fair and was mostly and idk situation o just know what we see as motion they typically don’t and so was a bit confused.
All good think we are on the same page :)
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 4 weeks ago:
Ima have to try and see how they react.
But chickens process 120-200 fps so I don’t that’d do the job to show them motion.
I may have been mistaken about what hz refers to..? Not sure. Don’t… think so..?
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 4 weeks ago:
Hmm.. my chickens are very spoiled but they aren’t “have their own tv” spoiled… yet…
Im not sure how much good a tv does with birds though, they see at over 120hz, to our 60hz so most of what we see as motion on tv they see as a series of still images
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 4 weeks ago:
I had woodpeckers bang on my siding next to the window to let me know the suet was bad for about 10 years.
It was steel siding at the time, and they left several nice dents.
As much as I’d love to keep feeding them, I had my siding replaced by insurance with vinyl (unrelated issue) and don’t really want holes all up it…
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 1 month ago:
I looked forward to canned green beans in school lunches. We only had frozen growing up and the canned were just a whole different thing.
Fortunately that hankering didn’t last very long, because canned veggies are so so much worse than frozen in every way.
But we mostly brought our lunches from home, until halfway through high school when we started buying our own food for lunch with after-school-jobs money.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 2 months ago:
My favorite no-notice rage quit (tho I’ve done it several times) was when I worked for a call center dealing with big money warranty stuff. People frequently tried to get the warranty extended to cover whatever, even though it was an extremely generous warranty anyway. My mom had died a few months prior, and of course I got the minimum legally acceptable bereavement time. Three days I think. Maybe a week.
On her birthday, I had to work, and I fielded a call by someone who was giving me some sob story about how she couldn’t possibly have followed up on the warranty in the last three years since the problem started because her dad had a stroke. They were now two years outside of the warranty period, and this was the first contact we ever had with them.
I was like look, my mom died a few months back and you know what I did the next day? I paid my bills like an adult because they were due. Today would have been her birthday, and I have to work because that’s what adults do. If you can’t get your shit together in three damned years, you deserve to pay to fix it yourself. Get bent and don’t try to guilt trip people when you don’t know what they are dealing with.
I hung up on her as she stammered some objection, logged out of everything, took my badge and parking pass, slammed them on my supervisors desk, said “you’ll probably want to review my last call.” And walked out.
- Comment on Sleep well 2 months ago:
My embroidery machine is really old, like 30+ yrs, with very basic programmability, and it can do stitches in multiple directions. It has a foot plate thing that moves the cloth as needed, and it works pretty well.
I have to imagine a newer more advanced one would be capable of something like this, tho would probably need to be simplified somewhat.
- Comment on meal 2 months ago:
Fuck you for calling me out like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
🤷🏻 you do you fam.
I’m under no delusion that people aren’t tagging me if their platform allows it. I just don’t care, because it’s a nice way to keep track of who is who and what they are like, the way faces or voices work in person. If someone wants to tag me as an asshole, or whatever, they will.
I try not to be one, of course, but I have zero control over how people perceive me so I don’t really care.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s not a blocklist, it’s just information tags.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I like going through all the posts like these so I can tag people who whine about how men have it so hard or whatever incel nonsense they spout to derail. I always end up with at least 5 new users tagged (across a spectrum of descriptors). They just.. there are so many of them.. everywhere..
- Comment on Ţ̴̭̪̥̒̽̋͋̿̄́͊̾̌̓̀̔͝͝͝͝ͅh̵̬̙̩̞̻̰͇̠̭̦̊̽̆̓̍͆̑̓͌̓̋͊e̶̢̡͍̪͕̥̤̬̋͂̑̈́̚̕ͅͅ ̵̛̛͖̌̀́̌̑̃̆͆̈́͒́̌̕̚͠ǵ̸͎̩̭͒̎̉̈́̌͂̇o̸͇̗̙͖͋̚v̵͖̫͕̔̽́̋̀̋̈́̉͌͋̽̈́̓͑̚͝͝e̵̙̦̬͇̭̍̏͊̃ř̸̭͈̼̱̤̻̏̎̚n̸͍̰̠̆͆́̓̚͘͝m̷̏͂̕ͅẹ̸̡̨͎͉̲͍̝̲̌̿̽̔͊ͅṉ̶̬̠̱̩̔̌̈́̒̋͘ 2 months ago:
Why do the dead pixels leak down like that, but not everywhere?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If ice wasn’t meant to go up your ass, it wouldn’t freeze into such perfect insertion shapes. Plus you don’t need a flared base, just patience.
- Comment on stand out from your competitors 2 months ago:
You’d still need to put the stuff in plastic, those bags are mesh. They are really cheap though, so there’s that.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 2 months ago:
Ooh I get to be that guy!
Acktachully, your entire digestive system is lined with taste buds! They aren’t hooked into your normal sensory awareness, so you don’t taste your own digestive juices the way you taste your mouth, but they are used for sensing things like spoiled food and spice! Those receptors can trigger ejection of material if it’s bad enough (diarrhea/vomiting, depending where in the tract it sensed bad stuff).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m in your boat. I don’t even change my clocks for DST anymore. It doesn’t really matter beyond a ballpark what time it is most of the time (and keeping to standard time means my animals’ schedules don’t get messed up every 6 months). If there’s an appointment or something that I need an actual time for, I have my phone with tons of alarm options so it’s fine.
I haven’t set my stove clock in ages, tho I get why it has one since I can program it to start at a certain time, but beyond that appliances shouldn’t even have always-on displays. What’s the purpose other than wasting electricity?
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 2 months ago:
I have chickens, and whether or not I like the taste and smell of eggs is wildly dependent upon the eggs and preparation.
I worked at a chicken hatchery in high school and was traumatized by what we called “poppers”, which are eggs that rot inside with the shell fully intact, wherein any contact with the shell causes it to explode. It took me over a decade to eat eggs again. And I still won’t eat anything like quiche, omelets, or even just plain scrambled eggs. I find them gross for whatever reason.
But a sunny side up or an egg salad or something? French toast? Egg bread? Breakfast bagel bombs? Sure.
- Comment on Eep 3 months ago:
Interesting. Now that I think of it, I don’t think I really have different personalities with different people. I don’t have that much energy. I might be more outgoing with some groups than others, but that’s a matter of volume rather than a different tune. Maybe that’s why people keep saying I’m “genuine”?
- Comment on My morning routine in 2026 3 months ago:
See? And they want us working from home and using public transit! You can’t be efficient like that in those settings!!
- Comment on I can taste sounds 3 months ago:
Really? Neat. At least compared to the monotone I’ve got (not who you replied to, mind). I mean sometimes it harmonizes with the sound of electricity in wires or air moving through heat vents, and starts warbling, which is incredibly obnoxious, but that’s about it.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 4 months ago:
This is basically why I’m giving up collecting physical media. I have several hundred games on disc/cartridge, and consoles from most generations, but it’s really hard to find newer games on physical media these days. Most of the good ones can’t be found used, and good luck finding a new copy anywhere.
And of course all the older physical media is also getting harder to get because people are paying a lot for it now.. like I have some games in the $80-500 range that I paid very little for years ago. I know the used sales probably don’t count to this article, but you can just look at them to see what’s going on with new physical sales. They made whole consoles that don’t have disc drives, so people couldn’t buy used and bypass them making profit, ffs. Of course the physical game market is crashing. They did that on purpose.
PS5 era is the last hurrah for physical media for me, and I honestly barely even play on PS5 because there’s just nothing to get. I’ve managed to get like a dozen discs for it, and that was difficult. Meanwhile I have easily 4x that for ps4, and prior generations are even better represented. I’d like to get the current Xbox since it’s mostly backward compatible with the one before it IIUC and I have a 360, but I just have no motivation to do so.
- Comment on Parking police 5 months ago:
Maybe there’s a specific size/resolution of image you could use to make it work, if you knew the exact distance? But I’d also think this wouldn’t work..
- Comment on Parenting advice 5 months ago:
No no that’s much better.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 5 months ago:
Random my little pony and other young kid games. Hate to admit it but even the paw patrol games are entertaining in this way.
They are short and easy, and kinda junk, nice palate cleanser, and often very cute and encouraging. You don’t know a silly morale boost until you play something that says “you’re doing great!” periodically on the easiest thing you’ve done all day.