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Referee Damir Skomina left shows a yellow card to Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos centre against Ajax
Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos has been charged by UEFA for receiving a yellow card on goal during the Champions League match against Ajax in order to serve a suspension before the quarter-finals.
The Spain worldwide was booked in the 89th minute of his side's 2-1 victory in Amsterdam, which means he is suspended for the second leg at Santiago Bernabeu on March 5.
The European football body said its disciplinary panel will judge the case on Thursday (Friday NZT).
Ramos suggested in an interview after the match that he had been booked intentionally so as to avoid the risk of a suspension in the quarter-finals, although he later backtracked on those comments.
However, a player who is found to have obtained a booking deliberately can be banned for two games.
Ramos, however, later used social media to stress it had not been intentional to collect a caution, referring instead to purposefully giving away a free-kick to prevent an Ajax equaliser.
The 32-year-old Ramos said the day after the match that he did not "force the card".
However, he could now miss a further two games for his actions.
"The truth is that given the result I'd be lying if I said it wasn't something I had in mind", Ramos had said.
Sergio Ramos has been charged by UEFA for "receiving a yellow card on objective".
"It is not to underestimate the opponent but sometimes there is a time to make decisions and I have done so".
That foul triggered a one-game ban to be served in the second leg at home, where Madrid is heavily favoured.
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The Polar Express (2004) Review | Advent Film Calendar Day 9
by Jack HorsleyPosted on Dec 9, 2020 Dec 8, 2020
The Polar Express is a 2004 computer animated film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. It is based on the 1985 book of the same name.
The film follows a boy (credited as Hero Boy) who is sceptical of the existence of Santa, and when the opportunity arises to take a trip on a mysterious train to the North Pole, he takes it. I will start by saying, I absolutely adore this film. Maybe it's the animation that's ahead of it's time, the nostalgia or just Tom Hanks, it's great! There will always be aspects of this film that don't quite make sense… like how they got from somewhere in America to the North Pole in seemingly a few hours, or how a huge steam locomotive appeared in the middle of the street and nobody noticed, but then, maybe that's the point… Maybe the point is that not everything can be explained, you have to believe and if you believe, anything can, as with the bell in the film.
The Polar Express has so many charming aspects fromTom Hanks' huge range of fantastic voices, the amazing colours of the North Pole, an appearance from Steve Tyler and the amazing animation. Not only that but the spirit of Christmas is kept alive throughout, even when some of the characters don't believe. A brilliant score from Alan Silvestri is also not to be forgotten!
Some of the supporting characters however, help make the film as brilliant as it is, in particular Smokey and Steamer. The two train engineers bring some brilliant comedy to the film, with their whacky antics and of course…. CARIBOUUUU!
Overall this film is a fantastic portrayal of the power of Christmas, the way it brings people together, how powerful just believing in something really is. The Polar Express is a brilliant festive treat for all, full of wonder and magic!
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Q: Any reason why is my code duplicating the tokens im creating? Discord.py What is happening is whenever I create a token it posts the previous token too
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This is the code below that I'm using to generate tokens.
tokenOpts = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890".lower()

tkn = []

def GenToken():
    t1 = ''.join((choice(tokenOpts)) for x in range(5))
    t2 = ''.join((choice(tokenOpts)) for x in range(3))
    t3 = ''.join((choice(tokenOpts)) for x in range(7))
    t4 = ''.join((choice(tokenOpts)) for x in range(5))
    return f"{t1}-{t2}-{t3}-{t4}"

@bot.command()
async def createtoken(ctx, planDays=0):
    if ctx.message.author.id in config.OWNERS:
        with open(path, "r") as data: tokens = json.load(data)
        with open(path, "w") as output:
            #with open("temp", "w") as tk:
            for i in range(int(1)):
                tok = GenToken()
                tkn.append(tok)
                tokens[0]['Unused'].append({"Days": planDays, "Level": "None", "Token": str(tok)})
            output.write(json.dumps(tokens, sort_keys=False, indent=4))
            o = '\n'.join(tkn)
            # tk.write(o)
            embed = discord.Embed(
                title="Verification",
                color= discord.Color.dark_theme()
            )
            embed.add_field(name="Token Status: Created <:white_check_mark:886940376127131689>", value=f"Token: `{o}`")
            embed.set_footer(text="YoursTruly.exe")
            await ctx.send(embed=embed)

A: tkn is defined globally, so if you append another token, it will be stored even after the method had finished.
So every time the method is called, tkn is getting one entry longer.
Just move the declaration of tkn inside the function. Or don't use it all, just use tok instead of o in the embed. It should work also.

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Armenian wrestler wins gold at European Championships
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Armenia's Greco-Roman wrestler Artur Aleksanyan defeated his Turkish opponent Cenk Ildem in the finals of the 2014 European Wrestling Championships in Vantaa, Finland, to claim the continent's title for the third time in his career. The 22-year-old defeated rivals from Ukraine, Croatia, Germany, Norway and Turkey.
Another Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler Arsen Julfalakyan (75 kg) won a silver medal at the same championships. In the final fight the 26-year-old Armenian lost to Russia's Alexander Chekirski 3-4. On the way to the final Julfalakyan beat representatives of Croatia, Austria, Sweden and Denmark.
Earlier, Armenia's freestyle wrestler Grigor Grigoryan (71 kg) won a silver medal, while Garik Barseghyan (57 kg) and Musa Murtazaliyev (86 kg) won bronze medals.


Differential rate laws express rate as a function of reactant concentrations raised to some power. Integrated rate laws, which show concentration as a function of time, take the form y=mx+b. Integrated rate laws require taking the logarithm of the concentration and plotting it versus time. If it is a straight line, it is a first order reaction. The half-life is the amount of time it takes a reaction to progress halfway—the time it takes a reactant to decrease by half. This can be derived from the integrated rate law.
Why is it that when we graph [A] vs. time, we get a curve (which means the depletion rate of A changes at different time), but when we graph ln[A] vs. time, we get a straight line indicating that the depletion rate of ln[A] is constant at all time? Why is it for the same numerical values of A, we get a straight line vs. time just by ln the A values?
How did people find a mathematical way to get A to be linear to time? Did they go through trial-and-error process before they arrived at the conclusion that ln would give a linear graph?
should the rate constant be in (mol)/(L-s)?
wait, there's no units on -kt. how can you add something without a unit to a unit with mol/L and end up with mol/L. thanks.
Can the k value be negative? And when stating the k value, are units required?
I have a second question professor: when does the "T 1/2 = 0.693 / k" come into play? Is that for first order half life problems as well?
Hi Professor Hovasapian, thanks for the great lecture.
It seems that all of my sources are giving me different equations that mean the same thing, so I just wanted to get your opinion on the matter to see which one serves this purpose the best.
Do all of these lead to the same answer?
please explain how you got Ln^2/20 = 0.0346 min ^-1?


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Flash: Dead Man Running
Wayland Smith / November 2, 2019
Ah, the love story of Cisco and a new Wells…
The sixth season of Flash, much like season eight of Arrow, is pretty much straight buildup to the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover coming in December. The heroes have gotten hints about what's coming, and Barry is trying to figure out what to do now that, as far as he can tell, his fate is sealed. There's a lot of strangeness going on, and a few family secrets, in "Dead Man Running."
The episode opens with a weapons deal that goes horribly wrong, and leaves me with a few questions. The implication from some of what happens is that these blasters are fueled by dark matter. Considering how much time the STAR crew spends looking for that, I'm surprised some low-rent thugs have any.
Unaware of the mess they're going to have to deal with, Barry tells the team what they've learned about the coming Crisis. The various members take this news in different ways. To no surprise, Killer Frost is the angriest about it. Barry worries that he only has seven weeks to prepare the team to go on without him, which sort of creates a minor continuity glitch. So far, the best trainer we've seen for most of these kinds of things is Oliver Queen. We know he's busy, but Team Flash doesn't, and they never so much as mention getting him to come play drill sergeant.
Ralph got a page from the CCPD, where we find his mother has been arrested for robbery. From what Ralph has hinted, we've gotten the impression Momma Dibny is no saint, but Joe rattles off an impressive rap sheet for her. She has a very convoluted possible alibi, which gets Cecile very excited about a road trip. I guess between episodes she's already quit her job and started her own firm, which is damn impressive. Barry, with a new "consultant," goes to the crime from the opening and tries to figure out what happened, "helped" by his new assistant. Frost actually makes a few useful observations and points them in the direction of a possible suspect.
What follow is, to quote an old X-Files episode, "good cop, insane cop" as Barry and Frost go confront Ramsey Russo. He admits he's been looking for dark matter for his own experiments, but claims he got some from Ted Kord. Kord, in the comics, is the Blue Beetle, and has been hinted at in the Arrow-verse for years. He was supposed to show up on Arrow several years ago, but legal complications over rights had them change that up from Blue Beetle to Atom. Ramsey, after various misunderstandings are cleared up, offers to help them. How a blood specialist is going to help with a violent criminal hunting for a weird energy source I'm not sure.
Iris has a rough day at the office when Allegra, her new intern/reporter/metahuman brings in an interesting lead. We have our first Wells sighting of the season, but Allegra doesn't know about the multiverse, so she thinks it's the "original" Harrison Wells back from the dead. He was seen at McCulloch Industries, which was both part of a story last season and the name of the second Mirror Master in the comics, a member of Flash's Rogues. Iris tries to cover things up, badly, and really ticks off Allegra. From what she knows, I don't blame her for being mad. Conveniently, since big secrets are being revealed, Kamilla is nowhere to be seen this episode. Ralph and his mother, Debbie, make an impressive team as they try and corroborate her story, and Cecile is in over her head very quickly.
For once, no pun intended, relations between Russo and Frost are cold. He wants to talk to Caitlin and plead his case, but Frost isn't letting go of the driver's seat. From what she says, Caitlin isn't that happy with Russo anyway. Their argument ends when Barry pops back up, naming their big hulking foe as Mitch Romero. Before they can get anywhere with that information, there's an alert at Mercury Labs. Nothing goes as expected there, from what Romero is doing with his prize to how Flash fumbles with the damper cuffs to how Killer Frost handles the big bad guy. This, in turn, degenerates into more of an argument between Barry and Frost. Debbie and Cecile prove to make a good team while Ralph uses his powers to get them what they need.
Barry and Russo talk, and he asks to be able to continue his work. Not being an idiot, Barry doesn't want Russo messing with dark matter. Cisco and Iris have an encounter with the new Wells, who manages to be different from the others we've met so far. With a nice nod to Crisis creative team Marv Wolfman and George Perez, Debbie ends up revealing some secrets to Ralph about her past that hurt and anger him. Remember what I said about Barry being an idiot? I take some of that back as he brings Russo to STAR. For once, Barry hasn't revealed he's the Flash after knowing someone for five minutes or less, but I'm wondering how he's going to explain how a CSI guy has unlimited access to an advanced research place like STAR. Barry gives Russo a chance to make an idiot of himself, and Russo does. Barry does handle this well, credit where it's due. Somehow, this disagreement gives Russo some weird insight into what's going on with Barry. All stirred up after this, Barry goes for a run in the speed lab, which is a great idea to do in civilian clothes with someone you already don't trust wandering around.
In Iris' office, Nash Wells wakes up after getting on Iris' bad side, and she and Cisco try and explain a bit about what's going on. Wells is not at all impressed at Cisco's mention of the Council. They argue, Wells gets away, and Iris has some explaining to do since Allegra witnessed all this. Iris finally tells her at least some of the truth, enough to get her to not quit. In a foul mood, Frost does some training, at first alone, then with Barry. They even throw in a Matrix quote as Barry finally gets Frost to admit some of what's been bothering her this episode, and then makes a point. The wise speedster delivers some good advice, and she focuses on the mission at hand. Down in the lab, Russo works, falls victim to an action movie trope, and then makes a discovery about his own abilities. Barry and Frost work together to first trap Romero in the supposedly inescapable Pipeline cells, then Frost gets a clever idea of how to beat him when that fails. Fatal and messy, but clever. The Scarlet Speedster is remarkably inconsistent this episode about potential enemy deaths.
There is a series of small scenes to wrap the episode. Russo and Barry part under somewhat better terms, for now at least. At his office, Ralph and his mother have a heart to heart and mend some fences. Off on his own, Russo experiments with his new abilities, which can't be good for Team Flash. Barry does something really nice for Frost, and everyone joins in, although later she shares a quiet moment with Barry. Later, he finally shares the full details about what the Crisis is supposed to mean for him. And, to wrap things up, the new Wells continues his quest. The stuff he said he was after, unless they're just borrowing a name, is the first tie between the CW-verse and the Marvel Family (as in Shazam!).
What I liked: I get Barry trying to keep some of the bad news to himself, and am glad he finally shared. His trying to get the team ready to go on without him makes sense (which would be easier if Cisco hadn't randomly given up his powers. No, I'm not going to let that one go). The party at the end was fun. The possible tie to the Marvels, especially with Crisis coming, has me curious and hopeful, although I know the rights for that character are ridiculously complex.
What I didn't: While Sendhil Ramamurthy has a great voice and good presence, I'm not caring at all about his character. I don't know that we needed wacky Debbie popping by, and I suspect she's going to be a recurring character. Cecile changed jobs damn fast. I work for a city government and it takes 3 months to get paperwork processed to leave. I'm not sure about all Frost, all the time.
It was a decent, not great, episode. I'll give it a 3 out of 5.
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What is the story behind that creepy, boarded-up mansion at 5105 Fifth Ave., between Oakland and Shadyside? It seems like it's been empty forever.
Question submitted by: Megan Dunchak, Squirrel Hill
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Actually, it's only been about a year since that home, a massive Tudor mansion, caught fire. And by the standards of creepy haunted house-looking mansions, that's nothing. For proof, you need only look across the street, at the Gwinner-Harter house. The place looks great now, but a fire damaged its roof in 1986, and for years its Dickensian chimneys and brooding exterior looked far creepier than the McCook home does now.
The home you refer to was built in 1907 for one Willis McCook, who is best known for being the attorney representing Henry Clay Frick. Sadly, however, his house didn't catch fire until much later. But in its heyday, it was, as architectural historian Walter Kidney has written, a "typical Rich Man's House" featuring elaborate architecture and its own private chapel ... I guess the McCooks didn't want to spoil their prayers by actually meeting any of those meek, poor people Jesus kept going on about.
As is often the case with mansions, however, the place became prohibitively expensive to maintain, especially after McCook died. County records show that it was seized for overdue back taxes in the 1940s, and sold at a sheriff's sale for $28,000. By that time, according to an August 2004 article by Post-Gazette architecture goddess Patricia Lowry, portions of the structure had been converted to apartments. In the 1960s, it was popular housing for artsy Carnegie Mellon students provided by landlords Emil and Margaret Bonavita, who bought the property in 1949. According to Lowry, among its tenants were Albert Brooks, Shirley Jones and George Peppard.
A fire broke out on the building's third floor on the night of Feb. 18, 2004 -- just two months after Margaret Bonavita passed away. (Insert haunted-house organ music here.) Fire officials blamed a student's surge protector ... though perhaps that's because a surge protector would be the perfect way for a fire in CMU housing to start. All 15 residents escaped without injury. ("By the time I realized we couldn't put the fire out with extinguishers, I kind of realized that it was imperative to get everybody out of the house," one resident told the Post-Gazette. CMU parents, rest easy: Your tuition money was well spent.)
But the building, along with an accompanying smaller home behind it, has been on the market since last winter.
The Howard Hanna property listing describes the property as being a "magnificent baronial mansion" that is "ready for investors with vision." By "vision," it's safe to say, the real-estate agent means "lots of money": The list price of the home is $1.4 million, and that's not including the fire damage. According to the agent selling the home, Peg Lampenfield, estimates for renovation have ranged between $600,000 and $2 million.
But the potential is just as hard to estimate. "It has a grand hallway with a log-burning fireplace, 8-foot stained-glass windows, carved wood fixtures. It has a billiard room and a gentleman's parlor. I've never actually counted the rooms. Let's see, the second floor has eight bedrooms, a sitting room, four bathrooms and a linen room. So 30 for the whole house is probably a fair estimate."
To me, this is a dream home: One large enough where you can hide from your relatives, offer up burnt sacrifices in the fireplace and atone for your sins in your very own chapel. If that's not what family values are all about, I don't know what is. But surprisingly, mansions like this are often not easy to sell. According to Al Tannler, of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, to sell a mansion this size you need a "crazy person" who "falls in love with the house and has money to burn" -- so to speak. In the case of the Gwinner-Harter home across the street, that owner was Joedda Sampson -- and the building was nearly torn down before she bought it.
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Trimsaran Road railway station was opened in 1909 at Morfa It continued to serve the inhabitants of the Trimsaran area between 1909 and 1953 and was one of several basic halts opened on the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It lay some distance to the west of the village of Trimsaran.

History

The station was opened on 1 February 1909 by the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway on the Kidwelly and Burry Port section of the line and was closed by the British Transport Commission in 1953 with the last passenger train running on Saturday 19 September 1953. It was on the southern section of the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway with Pinged located to the south and Glyn Abbey to the north of the East Kidwelly Junction. A rural area with a school nearby.

The railway was originally a freight only line, built on the route of an old canal and prone to flooding, but stations were established due to pressure from the public. The freight service continued for coal traffic until 1996 by which time the last of the local collieries had closed down. The Kidwelly route was used for coal trains, resulting in the lifting of track between Trimsaran Road and Burry Port by 2005.

A public house,'The Plough', stood nearby.

Infrastructure
The station had one wooden platform on the eastern side of this single track line with a small wooden shelter. The station had no public sidings but several coal traffic related sidings stood to the south on the other side of the road overbridge.

Services
The station was open for use by the general public. Circa 1898 passenger trains for the use of miners ran from Burry Port, calling at Trimsaran Road to transport colliers who had walked there from the Kidwelly area.

Remnants
The section south of Pinged, between Burry Port and Craiglon Bridge Halt is now a footpath and cycleway.

Routes

See also
 West Wales lines

References

External links
Burry Port and Gwendreath Railway - 2011

Disused railway stations in Carmarthenshire
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1909
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1953
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Sex, Drums and Rock n Roll with Kenny Aronoff
"Don't die with the music still in you."
Our guest today is one of the world's most influential musicians, Kenny Aronoff.
Kenny has played on more than 60 Grammy-nominated or awarded recordings, totalling sales of more than 300 million units. In addition, more than 1,300 of the tracks Kenny has contributed to have been certified as Gold, Platinum, or Diamond by the RIAA.
He's been named one of the greatest drummers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, and the list of artists he's worked with on the road or in the studio is a who's who of the music scene, including:
John Mellencamp, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Sting, The Smashing Pumpkins, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Bob Seger, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Dave Grohl, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Beyonce, Santana, Celine Dion, Lenny Kravitz, and many others.
Kenny's winning approach to drumming and to life has given him the ability to stay successful for four decades in one of the most difficult industries in the world. If that resume wasn't enough, he's also author of the book Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll and an inspirational speaker.
How Kenny made it to the top of the music biz
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Let's WIN THE DAY with Kenny Aronoff!
Kenny, great to see you, my friend!
Kenny Aronoff:
Great intro, dude. I mean, goodnight, everybody. You spelled it out!
That's what we do!
You've got an incredible resume. To kick it off, what is it about music more broadly that just captures the emotion and can instantly transport people back to a certain memory, moment, or feeling from their lives?
Well, everybody has a soundtrack to their life. The songs you heard when you were a kid, the songs you heard when you were in school and all that stuff. So, that's one thing for sure.
But people are feeling creatures. I mean, that's not an argument that people are feeling creatures. And that's one part I look at. That's one of our most important experiences in this lifetime we have is to experience all kinds of experiences – but from a feeling place.
There's plenty of things that get in the way of that, but you can't deny when everybody goes into that thing where they're struggling because the feeling is telling them what they should do or what we should do or what we want to do and the brain is getting in the way. And so, we're feeling creatures. So, music is one of those things that definitely accentuates that and brings that out.
It's one of those things even if you are in a dark place, you then seek out some of that dark music – like you might put on Johnny Cash 'Hurt' or some of those things that make you feel like you're dancing with the devil.
Just as when you're in a good place, you want to have something to heighten the enjoyment of that.
Well, what you just said is very, very smart.
And if you do recognize what you just said, then you can be almost like the person helping you, where you say, "You know what? Maybe we shouldn't listen to that dark music while I'm in this headspace. And maybe we should listen to Beethoven or whatever," but something that is joyful.
It's up to you to make that decision because I mean, yeah, if you want to feel pain, there's music that can make you feel pain. Like, Trent Reznor can bring you right down the rabbit hole if you want to go there.
There's a lot of research-backed work that says if you're overcoming trauma or want to get over some type of negative event that you've been through, replaying that event with positive music can actually make a big difference as well. So, the power of music I feel like they're just scratching the surface.
And speaking of music out of all the songs that you've played on, was there one that you still hear today where whenever it comes on, you just like, "God, it was just cool that I was part of that experience?"
'Jack & Diane'. Biggest number one.
It's similar for John Mellencamp. I mean, in my book I described how I had to come up with that part on the spot and I was in fear of losing my job. I basically saved the song and it saved my career.
That song wasn't even going to be on the record. And then, I came up with the drum program, this epic drum solo. I didn't even know. Once we came up with it, I was just glad it made it on the record!
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Then back in those days, they would test. They would play all the songs on a record on radio, and people would say, "Oh, I like this, I like that." 'Jack & Diane' tested very high. And they released it as a second single, it went to number one. And I mean, it's still being played on the radio 40 years later and also like on Pandora, Spotify, and iTunes.
It's one of the two probably biggest drum solos on pop radio. The other one is Phil Collins' 'In the Air Tonight.' And so, when I hear that, I'm grateful.
Such iconic and timeless tracks.
How complex are the drums compared to other instruments and roles in the band?
A good analogy would be the drummer is like the engine in a car. No engine, no car. I don't care how pretty everything else is around it. No engine, no car.
And depending on what kind of engine you have in a car. Buddy Rich, of course, he's a drummer, but he said, "You show me a great band, and I'll show you a great drummer. You show me a bad drummer, and I'll show you a crap band."
It's true. And the drummer defines time and feel or groove and everybody has to follow the drummer. I listen as a drummer. I listen and learn and I lead, but I'm not the boss.
Your big focus was on drums, not drugs. Obviously, you enjoyed your time in the rock 'n roll lifestyle.
How common was it to see people never reach the heights they could have because they couldn't escape the clutches of the vices like drugs, sex, gambling or alcohol?
Well, I mean we have the iconic age 27, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain … all died at 27.
I think, when you're young and these people, in some cases, probably thought they were young and invincible.
Recently, I lost a good friend, and I've seen this where people take something to work, take something to sleep, and then there's that fine line where – especially with drugs now – when you get things like fentanyl that can slow your heart down to nothing.
And you just don't think it's going to happen to you.
As a freshman in college, I saw somebody shooting heroin. They asked me to tie them off. I passed out. They got high, I passed out, and this guy who's high is waking me up. It terrified me. I never went into that direction.
As a freshman in college, I saw somebody shooting heroin. They asked me to tie them off. I passed out. They got high, I passed out.
The thing that I think ultimately has kept me in check and I don't have the addictive DNA, like I'm not literally an alcoholic. If I drink, I can drink and then I stop. It's not like I wake up, start drinking. Or addicted to anything like a heroin or something.
The thing that has kept me in check is that my career is always number one over everything. It's always been – over relationships, over everything. It's just the way I'm wired. There's no brakes on this rocket ship. It just goes until the gas runs out.
And I had plenty of hangovers. So, hungover and playing in front of 20,000 people is not fun. So, that mean that you're like, "I quit that thing." I literally would stop drinking for a week or two.
You would be letting a lot of people down, especially if there's 20,000 in the crowd!
We were selling out arenas. Just us, no opening act. We were one of the biggest things in America.
We're in Philly, and I went out and I'm drinking sake and beer and everything's fine until I got to my room and I'm spinning and I'm puking. And the next day, we had to drive to Hershey, Pennsylvania and play in a big arena.
Of course, that and Rolling Stone magazine is with us and they're doing a cover story on John [Mellencamp]. And the drums I had it gives me the tempos, thank God for that. And we're playing a sold out show with a hangover. Horrible.
Who's putting on these infamous parties that I hear so much about?
Well, I'm going to give you one example.
In the Mellencamp, we had a hospitality room. And we weren't Motley Crew. We weren't like Van Halen. But we did have a hospitality room, and this would be like an example, it'd be like 20,000 people singing our songs.
I remember one time, it was on the Scarecrow Tour. Humongous stage. Security leans in and says, "What's wrong, boss? What's wrong?" I said, "Oh, man, you see the girl on the third row with the striped shirt? Give her an aftershow pass." He goes, "You got it."
Everybody's up dancing. They're singing, and he gets behind her, going, "Is this the one?" I went, "Yeah, that's the one," and I'm playing, 'Ain't that America' and she says yes to the aftershow pass.
We were all very polite. No put down for anybody, but we weren't like some other bands.
And then, if we spent the night, we would say, "Come back to a hotel. Meet us in the bar." And then, whatever happens, happens. But that, we put that on.
Actually, that's how I met my second wife. She got pulled up on stage at Madison Square Garden. John Mellencamp would bring somebody up on stage to dance in the encore under the boardwalk, and they basically go, "Yay" or "Nay." It was a yay for her!
And it was funny because I didn't even meet her that night. She came back another show because she got offstage and the photographer said, "Hey, I got pictures." He was trying to hit on her. "I got pictures of you on stage with Mellencamp."
And so, she reached out to him and they didn't come out but he says, "Well, I'm going to the next concert in Jersey," this was a New York night, "they're going to Jersey."
You probably can find out from the tour manager who the other photographers were and get, "Blah, blah, blah." It was a whole line, so he could probably... anyway, soon as she walked there, she was dressed like amazing, really hot.
Our crew had passes. Before the concert, they put backstage passes on hot girls. And I go back to the dressing room and I'm, "Oh, my god, that's the girl from Madison Square Garden." And that's how we became friends. It was a slow build to eventually getting married.
One of my favorite themes from your book is how you've never made it because you're always trying to make it – and you alluded to that a little bit earlier today.
Can you explain a little bit about that mentality of, "You never make it, you're always trying to make it," and how that was such a big part of your success?
This is my line:
I'll never be as great as I want to be, but I'm willing to spend my entire life trying to be as great as I can be. I'll never be as good as I want to be. I accept that because my goals are way out there, but I'm willing to spend the rest of my life trying to be as good as I can be.
And that's like a running back in football. These kinds of monsters, the most massive, incredible athletes, but they don't score touchdowns every time they get the ball. They spend their entire career – play by play, game by game, season by season – trying to get in the end zone.
They're trying... sometimes they get 10 yards. Sometimes they get two. Sometimes they get minus. Sometimes they fumble. Sometimes they break their leg. They're always focused on the end zone, and that I call the human condition. You accept that life is about adapt or die. You can be as prepared as you want.
I'll never be as great as I want to be, but I'm willing to spend my entire life trying to be as great as I can be.
If you're talking about football, think about Tom Brady, seven Super Bowl rings. This guy is mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually so prepared before he even steps on the field.
But when he gets on that line and that ball is hiked, I call it adapt or die. You don't know what the hell's coming at you. They're trying to fool you on the other side of that line. They're designed to fool you. Sometimes he might get sacked, sometimes he might throw an interception. Sometimes he might fumble. That's his worst nightmare.
But Brady is exactly what I'm talking about. You can see him angry, but you see him immediately readjust and go, "What's my North Star here? Score a touchdown, getting the end zone. So, what did I just learn, and how can I be the best person I can be?" And it's just trying to be the best that you can be.
Once you accept that, then you're not boggled and weighed down and frozen in a place of like, "Oh my, God, I messed up." This is where you pivot from being a child to an adult where you actually realize, "Oh my, God."
Are we allowed to swear on this podcast!?
Shit's going to happen, man. Shit's going to happen.
Once you accept that and realize that, this is when you really learn something, it's when you feel it. It's not just in your head, it's in your heart too. When you feel the power and know your North Star, you can get out of that dark place very quickly. That's when you focus on what you need to do to win.
And once you experience how powerful that is, then you move from being the child to the adult. It's a very, very hard transition that people will have because if you don't make that transition, you're frozen in life. You're absolutely frozen in that place.
That's where that line came up from, "I'll never be as good as I wanted to be. I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to be as good as I can be."
Because I get it now. I really do get it.
In order to be great, like Tom Brady, it's about 'we.' Now it's not the individual. It's like, "Wow, the power of team." And I actually asked an NFL player this year and I said, "Is it really true? Is Tom Brady really that cool?" He went, "Oh, yeah. He walks on the field. He embraces everybody. He makes friends with everybody."
That's a winning attitude, and he's a team player.
I'm using him as an example because you hear people go, "Oh, man. You should give other people a chance." What kind of statement is that? "Give other people a chance." You're looking at a historical thing here. Did people get upset because Einstein created too many genius formulas? No, you want to get the greatest.
Did Michelangelo paint a little too many great things? That's a loser mentality. He should be as good as he should be, and you should be as good as you should be.
For people who disagree, I can't even relate to that. Just get out of my way. That's the most stupid, ignorant thing you could ever say. I want to see Tom Brady come back and win another Super Bowl. I'm studying this guy to see why he does what he does.
Tom Brady also texted his players every single day to remind them that they were going to win the Super Bowl.
Little things like that. Planting that seed is why leaders like Brady and Elon Musk are so successful at bringing the right people to them because they have that mission.
Let them be as great as they can be. Exactly. These guys are team players. It's not about me, it's about we. And ironically, I came up with that then on my own, but I saw it was on the LA Rams football team.
And I heard recently that Tom Brady, at a golf tournament in the summer, was out in the parking lot doing wind sprints. Somebody said, "What are you doing, man? You got to go in."
And Brady said, "I'm practicing for the Super Bowl."
He's going like, "Super Bowl? It's June!"
Brady – mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually – is always thinking of the Super Bowl, 24/7. As soon as the game's over, the season's over, he's already thinking. That's a winning attitude, and he's a team player.
Like you said, Elon Musk, these guys hire the best to be with them. And this is a very huge distinction. In order to be the drummer I became or I'm still trying to be, oh my, God, it was all about me practicing eight hours a day.
But in order to be really successful and stay successful, you pivot from, "It's not about me. How do I serve the artist that I'm working with, the band? How do I become the greatest drummer I can possibly be for that guy's music, that band? How do I serve the musicians, the producer, the engineer, the record label, serve you, serve me, serve everybody? What can I do?"
And the North star is this, to get the song on the radio, to be a number one hit single. It's not about me. It's to get the song on the radio, to be number one. That might mean I don't play at all.
But it was a huge switch. In my book I talked about when I had that traumatic like, "You're fired," when I just gotten in the band. That was what I learned. That was the takeaway. I went, "Oh my, God. It's not about what beat I play, it's what can I do to get that guy's song on the record and get on the radio and then be a number one hit."
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Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins mentioned your reliability that you can only build up through years and years of doing the right thing, always being available, and being a team player to move the whole ship forward, in the best interests of everyone. That speaks a lot to your character.
How do you handle creative differences between band members, record labels, and other stakeholders?
Once again, you have to serve the room. I probably get hired as much from my ability to connect and communicate with people. Once you can connect and communicate with people on a personal level, from a feeling level, now you can collaborate.
And there's all kinds of wackadoodles in the music business. Everybody except me, I'm perfect. No, I'm joking!
But the point is, it's the ability to step back and look at it from almost like a producer standpoint and being able to deal with all those personalities. Few times if you see me take my headphones off and put them on the drums and I come walking into a studio, that means I'm going to lay some law down. Very nicely, but that means they've gone too far.
I can take a lot. But there's a certain point where I'm going to say, "Hey, man." Now at this point, I'm not going to be able to see anybody because you're crossing the line, and I'll say something.
And that puts your energy off?
Yeah. I mean, one example, I was doing a Tony Iommi record, the guitar player from Black Sabbath, with Billy Corgan. And Billy walks in. We had just finished a world tour with The Smashing Pumpkins, they were the biggest alternative band in the world, on the Adore album.
And I was replacing a good friend of mine who's one of the greatest drummers out there, Jimmy Chamberlin, one of the founding members of The Smashing Pumpkins. Anyway, I did a tour and we're doing two songs on the Tony Iommi album. And they stayed in the control room, and I was out in the big drum room to get big sounds.
And it was a song, I didn't even hear the vocals until the song, the album came out. We were composing the song on the spot, and Billy suddenly pushes down the TalkBack button. He's yelling at me, "No, the chorus, the chorus!"
And that's when, headphones off, I walked in the control room. And I gave $20 to the assistant engineer, and I said, "Hey, listen, when those guys talk, hold down that button so I know what they're talking about," and walked back in there.
And every time they discuss something, that guy holds the button so I knew. I mean, there was no lyrics. There was nothing, so I didn't know what was in Billy's head. That was my point. But don't yell at me if I don't know what we're talking about! That's what the message is.
You mentioned radio hits earlier. How difficult is it to predict and even manufacture a radio hit?
Totally unpredictable because there's so many variables. You may think there's a hit, but you don't know where people are at out there. Their tastes are changing, and you're at the mercy of the record label.
It takes money to get the record played on the radio. Takes money to promote. It takes money for a publicist. It takes money to put a band on tour. Think about it. Planes, buses, vehicles, semis, crews. There's so many variables. It's a team. It's an effort to get a song to even be heard.
And then, once it's heard and everybody's done everything they can possibly do, now it's up to what people want to hear.
But there are some obvious ones. I'll give you a number one hit single that I thought it wasn't even going to make to record: 'I'll Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)' by Meatloaf, from Bat Out of Hell II. The album has sold 40 million copies.
That song, we recorded in LA right here, it was eight and a half minutes long. Radio likes three and a half minute songs. So, I went, "It's crazy. It'll never make it on the record." I get a call a year later to do another two and a half minutes for this intro.
And apparently, I'm like, I was laughing my ass off, going like, "All right. You're paying me. This is never coming out."
The song gets released. They whittled it down for a radio single at seven and a half minutes. That's already twice as long. Song was number one in 20 countries in the same week! And the record, it reignited his career. He became all sudden this huge guy again. I couldn't believe it. I just told everybody, "If you want advice from me, do the opposite!"
Another song was a duet with Don Henley and Patty Smyth from Scandal. When we're doing this record, it was just when the grunge thing came up, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam. And it's this pretty ballad called 'Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough.'
She sings, he sings. I mean, it's beautiful, but I'm like, "God, it's wasting time. Nobody's going to play this shit. Nobody wants this. They're listening to the Pumpkins' 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings' or 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' or whatever. Dark Stuff.
But the song was like number one on every chart. It was huge. Once again, I was completely wrong.
Like, Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.' That was another long track that ended up having a commercial appeal. So hard to predict.
Yeah. You can never get it 100% right. Too many variables.
From all the amazing performers, is there a commonality you noticed in terms of work ethic or what is it that sets them apart?
Well, work ethic is a keyword. Guys like Bon Jovi, massive work. He's the type of guy you get offstage and he's rethinking. Mellencamp, thinking nonstop. Billy Corgan.
And I'm one of those guys. When I was on tour with The Smashing Pumpkins, Billy would change the set 30 minutes before the show. He wanted the tension. You wanted people to be crapping their pants. Like, the guitar techs were freaking.
I go and have a meeting with Billy, and I'd write everything down. And he loved this. I'd write it down, so he could count on me. But I go tell everybody in the band what's going on.
When I was on tour with The Smashing Pumpkins, Billy would change the set 30 minutes before the show.
I saw the reviews and people were going like, "Well, Aronoff doesn't play like Jimmy Chamberlin." Course not. And Billy told me, "Do your own thing, man. Just be 100%." He was smart. I can't be somebody else. Nobody can be anybody else. And Jimmy's really distinctive style. So, the way I play is with a lot of authority, and I just laid it down.
And this was the thing, they go, "Oh, man, he's not Jimmy Chamberlin." But you know what? By the end of the show, "Man, this guy is great at what he does." And Jimmy even told me that he says, "Man, you are smart. You just played like you." He said, "You're the only guy who got that right." And he validated that.
Billy Corgan, that guy, photographic memory, he could pull out a song that we hadn't done for two weeks, and he knew, memorized what I had played from his instruction two weeks prior. If I miss one cymbal crash, he'd go, "What are you doing, Kenny!?" I couldn't believe it.
We were flying every night. Russia one day, Germany the next. There was one day we woke up, we were in Dublin partying with U2 where I was hungover that night. Those boys can drink! And then, we flew to the Netherlands, played the Pinkpop Festival, huge and everybody was there to see The Pumpkins.
And then, people were like, "Oh, my God," I was the drummer now, and checking it out. And we did the entire Adore record which people are like, they wanted to hear more of the hits, but this Adore record was so different.
After we got done with the show, got on the plane and flew to Paris, three countries in one day. And I'm writing that night. It was just me trying to be as great as I can be.
Who stands out to you in terms of just sheer musical genius?
Well, one of them is Billy Corgan, Elton John, and Johnny Cash. I'm not trying to jump around. Ray Charles. How about Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis.
I played with Jerry Lee Lewis on his last performance before he had a stroke. And I mean, these guys are geniuses. They reinvented music. I mean, Jerry in the 50s with his cousin Jimmy Swaggart.
Another genius I'll go to, Leonard Bernstein, one of the greatest composers and conductors ever. I mean, it's insanity and he can read everybody's... he knows technically what every... the oboe should double read the clarinet for single beat, the flutes, the French horns, the stringed instruments, the percussion. I mean, he knows everything about every instrument, and he could seize the piano and basically play the outline of an entire orchestral composition.
What about Beethoven and Mozart, those original composers?
These guys can hear things. They could hear complete scores in their head, write it down on paper without playing it, then play it. Every note they wrote and heard was exact.
Beethoven, well, the biggest piece, the Ninth Symphony with the big choir. He was deaf. He wrote that in higher composition deaf. But when he hit, he could see his finger, he could hear in his head all the notes.
Talent alone, as we know in any industry, it's not enough. Like, I used to work at a live music venue and I would see these exceptionally talented musicians playing to 10 people. It used to break my heart knowing that they had to take on some other job just to pay the bills.
This is a bit of a hard question, but when should someone throw in the towel on their dreams if they feel like it's just not going to make it for them?
What would it have taken for you to throw in the towel with your drumming career and go and do something that's completely separate because you felt like you couldn't make it?
I have a phrase I call, "Never Say Die."
Well, first of all, you can only throw in the towel. And everyone's got their own breaking point. Maybe if I chopped both my arms off, I might say, "Yeah, probably start something else!"
There's not one answer to that. It's an individual thing.
For some people, there's nothing else in life to do. This is what keeps them alive. I mean, I'm a speaker so I get in front of people, and I feel just as great speaking in front of people as I do playing the drums. And the cool thing is I do both when I speak.
I have a very nice teamwork, innovation, creativity, realize your purpose in life, the three C's, connect, communicate, collaborate, that type of stuff. I talked about that stuff and hopefully inspire people. That feels great. It's not just... not only do I speak but then now I'm an author. But I did something that, man, it's almost impossible to do.
For some people, there's nothing else in life to do. This is what keeps them alive.
I was doing it, but it actually worked. And that is, usually you're a drummer in a band and that's it, and you're a drummer only playing that style of music. I broke the mold of, "Oh, he's young. He only plays rock. He doesn't play country."
The guys who played on the Highwayman record, that's Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, The Highwaymen. These men wanted me to tour with them. It was the heaviest mofos in the world! They make rockers look like a joke.
And they're super intelligent. The type of stuff they did, these were real men. They'd seen the world. So, if they like you, they ain't doing you no favors because they like you. Are you kidding me!?
The Smashing Pumpkins won't pick a country guy. And it's like in an audition, a drummer is going to be a very specific type of drummer, not just any rock drummer, a certain type of rock drummer, an alternative. I broke mold after mold after mold after mold.
You mentioned adaptability earlier. That adaptability is such a big thing that led you to all of those different opportunities.
Well, the key thing is you have to want to be adaptable. And I'm wired like that … maybe that's why I'm on my third wife. If I get married again, I'm going to remarry her! I told her, "If I go a fourth marriage, it's going to be the same woman again." Or not at all.
I get excited to do different things. You really can be wired that way. And so, instead of fighting it I just go with it. But I almost didn't have a choice. I was on tour with Bob Seger which also sells out massive venues, and he's got this ridiculous catalog of music.
And I heard that The Smashing Pumpkins, something had happened with Jimmy and they needed a drummer, and I had sent a resume into them for that. Two years later I got the call and we scheduled the tour.
Then, when I got the call, John Fogerty was disappointed but I was explaining to him I was seeking to play with The Pumpkins before I'd ever even played with John live. That came before and I looked at it, I was like I was a big fan, The Pumpkins. Love the music. It was different, and I wanted to be... this will come from a place in my heart. I really wanted to play something different, but I love John Fogerty – Creedence, are you kidding me!?
I've been playing with John Fogerty for like 28 years. But I mean, I've done the crazy stuff like fly from Hong Kong with Mellencamp, and then I fly to Japan, to Detroit, getting in the helicopter, fly to the Palace which is an hour and a half drive. That's why I have a helicopter from the airport, and I'm on stage five minutes before the band for sound check, sold out three nights at the Palace with Bob Seger in his home city. But I'm like, "Yeah, I'll do that."
Hell of a life, Kenny!
I'll fly from Frankfurt to Amsterdam, to Minneapolis, get off the plane, go to sound check with Sammy Hagar for a corporate event. That was maybe three years ago. Why not? Sleep on the plane. Practicing the music every night after the show on the bus.
When it comes to skill acquisition, if you were teaching someone how to play the drums but the goal was for them to be able to pick it up as quickly as possible, is there a way that you would teach them?
Or is there a way that you would impart any skill onto someone else that isn't traditionally taught?
Well, first of all, you go real basic. Everything in drumming is, to me is based on four things – no matter how complex. If I hand you a pair of sticks and I want you to play with me, first thing you should be thinking about is, "What beat am I going to play?" Because whatever beat you play, I have to adapt to that.
First, you know what you hit to find it's time. It's like a measurement. Now, you keep solid tempos. You repeat that measurement, and you're doing your job which is keeping solid time.
The third thing is feel. You make it feel like something, and everybody is wired different. We're totally different emotionally, so you want to bring that out. You want that to flow.
Now, that's a cake. It's like a cake without the icing. That's most of what you're eating. And that foundation, now you can be creative, the fourth ingredient. You can be creative with the icing and decorate, but don't mess up that foundation.
When you're keeping perfect time, make it feel good, placing everything right in the right place, listening to everybody, few creative things. You got that symbol, then creative things to that foundation. If you disrupt that foundation, you blow it. Now, that's all creative stuff as long as you don't miss a beat and groove.
So, what I would do with you I'd say, "I want you to sit down, and I want you to play this with you on a hi-hat. So, I'm going to count. One, two, three, four." You're playing twice as many beats as one, two, three. And so, on average it's going to be one and two and three, subdividing between one and two, and two and three, and three and four, and four and one.
Now, when I say one and three, you play with your bass drum, and every bass drum has to land when you hit one and three here, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one. They align together, one, two, three, four, one. So, we do that. That's basic stuff. People can still do that.
Now when you say two and four and when you hit your other hand which would be to snare them, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two.
My day may actually be doing better than I think. It's just my head, which is a sack of chemicals.
Now, here's where it gets tricky. Now when you hit one and you say one and three, I want you to hit the bass drum, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. And then, put music on. Now when a feel comes in, you could be robotic like... trying to be stiff... or as you go deep and when you're feeling... when I'm feeling, it means like... putting all this subdivision in the air. Whatever your feel is and that is basic drumming right there.
Did that seem basic? It seems like real logical on paper, but where the challenge is, is that where your coordination is in your body. What happens is some people, it's just not natural to do any one of those things, you're going against what you naturally like to do and so you can unlearn all that and learn to do this.
I have a thing called RPS. The 'Repetition' of any skill. It's the 'Preparation' for success. You want to throw a football great? 1,000 times a day. I bet you in one week, you'll be able to throw a football better than the first throw.
I still have a routine I do 30 minutes before sound check, 30 minutes before the show, and sometimes 30 minutes in the morning. Because there's just certain skills that's why Tom Brady was doing wind sprints. We're not robots.
On your best day what's an affirmation that you would write on a flashcard that you could show yourself on your worst day?
Oh, it's my statement, "I'll never be as good as I want to be, but I'm willing to spend the rest of my life being as great as I can be."
And with that statement, I understand that, dude, just focus on the end zone. I don't believe in the words. I don't use these words anymore. I'm going to say it right now. I don't believe in mistakes or failures. I believe they're just events.
When you're having a day that's not the day you want, hang in there, man. Just be tough. Just say, "You know what? I'm human. My day may actually be doing better than I think. It's just my head, which is a sack of chemicals."
You know how you wake up down on some days? Why? Forget it. Who cares? You're down. Point is that we're never in the same place all the time.
So, shit happens, man. If you're down, so just get on with it. Just get through the day, do things and I'll help you along to get past the day, wake up the next day. Now if you're still down that day, then you're going to have to start looking deeper and maybe what you're eating, exercise, all that stuff.
I try to remember to say that in the morning and at night, "Kenny, have gratitude to who you are. Appreciate yourself." I mean, "Respect yourself, appreciate yourself, and have compassion, man, and have empathy for yourself when you are in that."
Because once you're feeling that this way, you can project it out to other people. And it starts from here. You know that whole thing, love yourself so you can love others? It's true.
What an absolute pleasure, my friend. Thanks for coming on Win the Day show.
Were we on for 10 minutes? Time flew!
We'll have to get you back for round two!
When I come back I'm going to interview you! Get ready, dude because I come from that rock 'n roll world. Anyway, thank you for having me.
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How do you feel after you write a lengthy thoughtful post only for it to get minimal or literally zero attention and engagement? And how do you feel when someone comes with a low quality and low effort post yet they end up doing really well?
RoyalHistoria |2 pointswritten 4 days ago ago
Feels bad man
If you could discover the whole truth about one historical event, what would it be and why?
RoyalHistoria |1 pointwritten 4 days ago ago
Either the battle of Troy or the identity of Jack the Ripper.
Like, we aren't even entirely sure if the battle of Troy is real or if it was inspired by multiple battles. If it is real, I'd love to know which details are exaggerated, and which are accurate.
As for Jack the Ripper, he's one of the most famous serial killers in history. We don't know if he was some kind of doctor, or butcher, or if he was even a man!
I personally theorize that Jack could be multiple people, perhaps working together. One Jack could commit a murder, while another Jack visited friends, family, or hung around a busy area in another part of town. It'd throw the cops of their trail.
[Serious] How to deal with the death of a younger sibling?
It's completely normal to experience numbness mixed with outbursts. I really hope my advice helps.
I've never lost a younger sibling, but my older brother died a decade ago.
You don't get fully over it, every now and then I think of my brother and start to tear up. However, after a few years the pain will start to dull.
Allow yourself time to grieve. If possible, talk to other relatives / friends / loved ones of yours or your sibling's. You can share memories of your sibling or just talk about how the death is affecting you.
There's no shame in crying, it's a good way of letting your sadness out.
If you believe in an afterlife, take solace in the fact that your sibling is at peace, and won't experience any more pain.
There's a chance you may want to throw away their belongings because they're too painful to look at; I suggest not doing that and instead storing them away somewhere safe, you might want those reminders of them in the future.
Visit their burial place (or the place their remains were scattered if cremates) and talk to them. Talk about your day, tell them how everyone else is doing, decorate their graves with things they would've liked; it doesn't have to be extravagant, you can just grab some stones in their favorite color.
Holidays, birthdays, and death anniversaries are going to be especially hard. Try to make those days a little more positive; maybe go out for a meal with family. My family likes to leave a can of my bro's favorite alcohol on his grave.
Parents of Reddit - what's the creepiest thing your kid has ever come out with that has given you the heebies?
I was babysitting my 8 y/o niece. We were just telling each other jokes and funny stories when she says "When I first met [name], I wanted to slit his throat, but I'm really glad I didn't!"
On New Years, we were having dinner together as a family and remarking on how loud the people at the pub/hotel across the street were. My niece immediately and cheerfully said "Yeah, we should just burn it all to the ground!"
I turned to my sister and BiL, and suggested that they keep her away from weapons and fire.
Quiet People of reddit, or people who have been described as quiet, do you have a constant inner monologue and just choose not to say anything or you actually don't have much to say really. How does your mind truly work?
Yeah, I'm a little more talkative nowadays, but I've had people completely forget I'm in the room, even if I'm nearby. A teacher and classmate have also said I have 'librarian energy'.
Redditors, what would you like to know about the LGBTQIA community?
Uh, no. There's a difference between not wanting a relationship, and not experiencing any romantic attraction.
What's the greatest mental health tip you've gotten?
If I remember right, the OP of the original dishwasher post mentioned that their dishwasher was pretty shitty.
RoyalHistoria |1 pointwritten 10 days ago ago
No, aromantic refers to someone who doesn't experience romantic attraction.
What's something peculiar about you, either personality wise or physically that makes you unique?
I can cry on command.
I can wiggle my ears independently of each other.
RoyalHistoria |23 pointswritten 10 days ago ago
My brain is a constant stream of thoughts. Chances are, if I'm not talking out loud, I'm definitely talking in my head.
RoyalHistoria |4359 pointswritten 10 days ago ago
Not me, but saw it in a Tumblr post.
"Run the dishwasher twice."
To put it simply, someone had revealed to their therapist that they felt really crappy about not having the energy to hand wash their dishes. The therapist suggested that they just put their dishes through the dishwasher twice. They point out that you're not really supposed to do that, but the therapist essentially shrugs and goes "who says you can't? you don't need to follow all these little rules"
The patient takes their therapist's advice and runs the dishwasher twice. They also shower while lying down and put their folded clothes wherever they fit instead of in neat little sections.
In short, you don't need to follow arbitrary rules, just complete tasks in whatever way is easiest for you. You can follow rules when you have the mental energy to do so.
Edit: Thanks for the awards and silver, kind strangers!
My nana as a baby in 1943-44. She would've just arrived at the orphanage she grew up in.
RoyalHistoria |2 pointswritten 11 days ago ago
Thankfully, she's doing quite well. She was recently telling me how lucky she feels to have lived this long; not only has she watched all five of her kids grow up, but she's gotten to see her grandchildren into adulthood, and now she's watching her great-granddaughter grow up with another on the way.
Nan's also looking forward to volunteering at the local primary school again this year if COVID doesn't get in the way. She's been helping the kids learn to read for over a decade, hell, she taught me to read.
It was called the Hopewood Experiment and it happened in Bowral, NSW.
Has a small section on the home, just ctrl + f Hopewood.
PDF written about one of the Hopewood girls, warning for suicide
Written by one of the Hopewood girls
Unfortunately, none of the kids got adopted, though my nan did get to meet her birth family once she got older.
Unfortunately, life at the orphanage wasn't great.
The whole thing was a eugenics experiment to create a new race of 'white super-Australians' in order to further the ideal of a white Australia.
The kids were fed strict diets of raw fruit and veg, nuts, and dairy from the cows kept on the property. They weren't allowed to eat meat or sugar, though plenty of kids would secretly buy ice cream and sweets after school.
53 points | 9 comments | 12 days ago ago by RoyalHistoria from i.redd.it
What is the meaning behind your username?
I used to be really into Attack on Titan, and I liked the sound of Historia's name.
What item or object do you have in your room that most of the population doesn't?
The jaw of a nurse shark.
What saying pisses you off the most?
YES! I cried a lot during middle school over small things, so I got told that shit frequently. In reality, I was dealing with more stress than any 13 y/o should reasonably have to deal with and the small things I cried over were actually just the straw that broke the camel's back.
Without saying your age, what's something from your youth that was super popular?
Hentai artists of Reddit, what is the freakiest thing someone has asked you to draw?
Honestly, doesn't sound too weird to me.
What is something you've always wanted to ask a woman, but daren't?
The fuck is an 'eighter'?
The ovaries.
Apparently breast milk tastes slightly sweet.