does cologne/perfume affect others around you that are close by that may not comment about it.

That's part of the reason I cap watch purchases at $10. I tend to take them off without even thinking about it, and leave them in strange places. Same with rings. Same with wedding rings, in fact.

IIRC, people wear jewellery as a punishment in Utopia.

I second this.


This reminds me of the time when i told mrseagull he smelled great and he rolled his eyes because it was the Old Spice antiperspirant I had bought him by mistake. Smelled pretty good

I'm a Paco Rabanne guy

I use Black Panther.



60% of the time, it works every time.

I just naturally smell devious - Oops - I mean delicious.

The person I'm taking about started in 2007 or so. He was early, but it took him many years to get up to a good rank.

I won't say what he does, but you'd think it was simple enough for one person to do it alone. At a certain level, one has to get help. There is an inherent ceiling depending on a ton of factors.

For example, you can be huge, but if your audience is old men, you're videos never get ads attached, and you make no money no matter how large you get.

The days of making it huge with just talking into a cell phone are long over. Audiences expect professional quality work, props, graphics, fast editing, and so on. Effectively, they are writers, editors, producers, make up, props, actors, and well, everything. There's a reason patreon is a thing, plus getting a million views is damn near a miracle.

I'm never sure if it's the cologne or just me that causes women to swoon.

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That's it? How does a man manage with one?

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not sure if this sentence is coincidental or intentional in relation to the forum in which it's posted.

YAY ON THE CARS FINALLY GETTING INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME!!!

I know it's silly, but it makes me have the feels.

we all are now living in stereo.

hasnt stereo gone away with the streaming of music.

Hay Ray. please google 'cars living in stereo' and report back.

I knew this was coming.

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cars are good, music aint in stereo anymore over the net. my report.

*your* videos

I'm an old guy and every time I click on a video it has an ad attached. Plus, how do they know I'm old?

your a live one and they got your number. maybe they look at you through your camera on your computer. i got tape over mine.

i use ad block and hardly ever get an ad.

i guess ill go watch a hitchcock45 video now. he has hundreds of them and gets up to 6 million views on some. he is an old guy and appeals to old guys with guns.

A British surgeon was burning his initials into his patients' livers. Gotta love that wacky English humour!

More specifically, it depends on your viewing habits. If you are watching The Cars* all day, you probably aren't going to see many ads. If you watch video game tutorials, you are going to get advertised to all the time.

My friend, for example, watches nothing but old music and blues videos. He never sees an ad. I get so many it's not even funny, but then again, I'm nearing 40 and still listen to techno.

* j/k, all.

Had an adventure with my guitar. Not really, it's been sitting in the repair shop for over a week now. This happens every single time, so I'm going to ask stupid questions, like "are you planning to go on vacation this week," or "is it your birthday" on Friday, or "are you getting married tomorrow?" Seriously, all of this happened to me. To top it off, the repair guy came down with pneumonia.

Last night, I went down and pulled the guitar out of the shop because i had to audition for a singer today, or a singer had to audition for me, I don't know.

I sort of took a flier on this one. She is technically talented, meaning that there was no missed notes on anything I've heard from her (this is saying a lot, trust me), but I noticed that all of her stuff was very poor production quality and it sounded like she was phoning it in all the time. There was one video where she starts up wonderfully, then slowly falls over, eventually going off the cliff about mid way through.

Well, I figured that maybe there was nothing she was too proud to work on... plus I may as well get some collab practice going. So, my style of auditioning with people is just improvising, or maybe having the singer sing something he or she knows and playing whatever makes sense under that. We did a few songs, none she actually knew (this is typical), and I did okay.

We also went over some of the music I have and the ideas I was thinking, and so on, but still... it was like she was just phoning it in the whole time. Okay, does she have any material she is working on? Of course not.

I always ask anyone I plan to meet "what do you want to do?" I'm trying to figure out what the heck makes them passionate, what would make their voice melt hearts, what do they want out of music? This, more often than not, gets them thinking, and I've had many occasions where they finally had an answer when we meet, and it isn't quite what will work for both of us.

After one hour, we wrapped it up. She started with "I'll send you some of the vocal ideas I have and you should send me some recordings of these riffs you showed me today."

I looked at her and said, "I feel like this could have went better," just as an honest statement.

She sort of choked and blushed, and said, "Well, okay... uh, good luck then. Bye" and rushed out the door.

It feels terrible to do that. I've had that happen to me many times and it's something you never get used to. I wasn't really saying "no" to her, but I didn't really know if she was being honest with me until I saw her reaction. If she said "yeah, I agree we can do better, so let's do that," I'd have given it another shot, but really would have pushed for something better.

So that was my one day with my half-usable guitar. It's back in the shop, and I fully expect to have it back sometime after Christmas.

maybe she would have liked some more trying to get things right. but got flustered, as many people do when put on the spot. and she may have been turned down before.
never hurts to call back and explain if you want another try.

me too

me too. don't have it on my phone, though

He's OK. Shoots some interesting stuff. Long winded though, he could prob'ly do the whole thing in 5 or 10 minutes. Plus, he's finally learning to shoot a revolver. I used to wince whenever he picked one up.

Yay, one fewer surgeon. It's in poor taste, but it's not like he harmed anyone.