• ArxCyberwolf
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    02 years ago

    I’m a railroad and siren enthusiast. Many people look down on the hobbies as “childish”, although there are tons of adults who participate. I still feel uneasy telling people though, because I fear how they’ll react.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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      02 years ago

      Keep a pocket siren on hand so if anyone is a dick about it you can give them an in person experience

      • ArxCyberwolf
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        02 years ago

        Some sirens can run as low as 6 volts, so that’s genuinely possible lmao

        • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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          12 years ago

          I keep thinking about thos and forgetting to comment back. What are the small sirens used for? I don’t know anything about this niche of objects and am curious

          • ArxCyberwolf
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            12 years ago

            Small sirens are usually used on vehicles such as fire engines, as they are audible at a longer distance than electronic vehicle sirens. Small sirens are also often used in industrial sites, where they are used as general indoor emergency sirens and lunch whistles. They are also often used by rural volunteer fire departments as fire sirens to summon firefighters to the station during a fire call. They’re perfectly suited for short range use.

  • Metal Zealot
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    2 years ago

    I still love cheesy, badly written thrash metal.
    …but no one likes my playlists…

  • Io Sapsai 🌱
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    332 years ago

    Death metal. Death metal while birding (or more like processing footage). Death metal while cross stitching. Death metal while crocheting. It’s a weird outlet that I mostly keep to myself.

    • TrollivierOP
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      32 years ago

      I listen to metal while doing a lot of things and no shame there :)

    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      I can’t let go of it either, though I don’t listen to it as frequently anymore. Got any good recs?

      • Io Sapsai 🌱
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        12 years ago

        Lately I find myself listening to The Ocean Collective, Mors Principium est, Be’lakor, Soilwork, Between the Buried and Me. Generally more melodic and progressive stuff. Sometimes I put on metalcore which can also be a banger like Monuments (saw them live earlier this year, they were amazing), Periphery, Bleed From Within.

        I know some purists would jump on my classification but it’s hard for me to put labels on music these days with bands having a much more unique style, rather than fixing themselves into a specific genre.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    Once a year or so I get a hankering for all the cheap junk food my parents used to feed me as a kid. The family and I will have the following for dinner:

    Totino’s pizza

    Tater tots

    Microwaved pretzels

    Jose Ole burritos

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    I can’t get around to eating bananas. Never really had them as a kid and still can’t stand eating them now. The taste and texture is so much different than any other food yet everyone eats them. Although I will say I like hints of the flavor, like in a cake or recently I tried a sweet pizza with bananas and Nutella.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    Very rarely I crave some disgusting Kraft Mac & Cheese and a can of Dr Pepper. The former being not easy to get in Germany.

  • Nobsi
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    62 years ago

    Still don’t like roe or caviar. Tomatos are eww

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Can’t agree about the tomatoes, but the caviar, yes. I’m pretty sure nobody likes it, they just have to pretend to appear more high class or something.

    • @[email protected]
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      I saw kid rock and Metallica in concert in the twin cities about 17 years ago, burned my clutch out on the way back, car wouldn’t make it up the driveway when I got home, took 20 min to get to 45mph lol

      It was a sign.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Yeah, Limp Biscuit.

      I unironically bought and wore a red hat too.

      I think I just had a cringe aneurysm.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    I learned to drive when I was about 16. My parents never had any food in the house, plus two extremely aggressive dobermans in the kitchen, so I couldn’t go in there anyway.

    So sometimes I would sneak out right before MacDs close and eat a burger in the parking lot.

    I’m a lot older now, but occasionally I still eat fast food in the darkness of the Walmart parking lot

    I find it calming for some reason.

    Bonus hilarity:

    At Xmas in 1979 I had an Xmas tree lot with a slave driver boss – 12 to 18 hours a day. (He did partially pay me with a shopping bag full of wed.)

    On night I got off around midnight and headed off to the local Mcds, order my food, and visit the restroom to take a piss – and somehow managed to drop my car keys in the piss water.

    Not my favorite day ever.

    Then I get home and find that they had released the dogs in the whole house and I had to yell and pound on the door to get my mother to lock them up.

    FML

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      wow friend, your folks are shit I’m sorry you went through all that. I know it was a while ago but that kinda stuff really lingers with me from my own childhood, I hope you’re doing better now

  • SmokeyDope
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    I still occasionally enjoy modern rap from time to time with super bassy catchy beats while the subject manner is almost universally angry and hateful stuff about murder and suicide and self interest. $suicideboys$ witchouse40k scales those kinds of artist. I do not like or agree with the message of the music at all, but cannot deny some of their songs have some of the most punchy beats I’ve ever heard.