Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Pifanjr]

On Saturday afternoon my parents picked up our kid to stay with them for a week. I'd thought I'd be able to get some gaming done, or at the very least some cleaning, but I haven't managed to do anything. I did have my grandmother's 93rd birthday yesterday though, so most of the Sunday was spent on that, but every other bit of free time I spent either browsing the internet or watching videos.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I woke up today with a weird rash on my two feet and my right lower leg all the way up to my knee. its not anywhere above my knee AFAIK, I can't see it anywhere else.
My left leg has no marks and my right foot is mostly clear of them too, so its strange its the left foot and right leg that are marked.

It doesn't seem to hurt and I don't recall seeing it there yesterday. its below the surface, its not grazed skin per say.
I have made a doctors appointment for tomorrow, might as well get it looked at.

Make sure you see a dermatologist instead of a GP. I had a red spot on one of my big toes once. I was worried it might be infected due to an off smell. The Dermatologist looked at it and immediately knew it was Dyshidrosis (by the smell), a rare form of eczema that can be blisters or red blotches. It's usually itchy, but can also be painful, especially when I got subdermal red spots on my palms.

I don't think yours is Dyshidrosis though. It is speculated Dyhidrosis is made worse by stress, and I believe that because since I've been living in a much less stressful place, I hardly ever see symptoms of it anymore.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Do we need to start a thread for pictures of feet?

I have large feet as well. My wife once told me that I should sell pictures of them online. I asked her on what planet women bought pictures of feet, and she said, "I never said anything about women." Ew.

 

[Colif]

Do we need to start a thread for pictures of feet?

I have large feet as well. My wife once told me that I should sell pictures of them online. I asked her on what planet women bought pictures of feet, and she said, "I never said anything about women." Ew.

Some people collect all sorts of weird things. You never know, could be a big demand for pictures of feet like yours.

I have to have a blood test tomorrow and I won't know anything about my rash until Thursday then. I have to fast tonight, no sugar before my blood test. No time set so I go over in morning and get it done.

 

[neogunhero]

Went to Nashville last weekend. Left the house 6:30PM Thursday, got to the first hotel at 3AM Friday. Woke up and left that hotel before 10AM.

We did a lot of stuff around town while waiting to get into the next hotel. The farmers market was amazing, too bad we couldn't buy any produce to take home. I did get an apricot and half a yellow watermelon to snack on, they were amazing.

We ordered room service as we were getting ready for the concert, and that was a major disappointment. Being in a new city you start to feel a bit fancy and order stuff you normally don't get. We tried a fig, prosciutto, goat cheese, and arugula pizza, which wasn't terrible, just the biggest 6/10 food I've had in a while. Not a fan but not disgusted by it. The mozzarella sticks from the hotel restaurant were up there with the best I've ever had though.

The venue was called The Pinnacle and was probably the best venue I've ever been to. Super high quality, about 5 bars throughout the whole building, amazing sound, great seating, it was awesome.

What really made the trip was Hattie B's hot chicken, not just for the food but the experience also. We met this random guy who was out partying by himself and got to talking with him. He's a software engineer who works remotely and travels across America wherever he pleases. He was in Nashville for the night and decided to go drinking. It was really cool meeting random people and learning about their life story all while enjoying some fried chicken together. By the way, that chicken is probably the best I've ever had, highly recommended.

Got a lot of gaming done on the Anbernic handheld as well while in the car. It was a great trip.

 

[Frindis]

Do we need to start a thread for pictures of feet?

If so, I want a thread for my belly button jar collection.

We ordered room service as we were getting ready for the concert, and that was a major disappointment. Being in a new city you start to feel a bit fancy and order stuff you normally don't get. We tried a fig, prosciutto, goat cheese, and arugula pizza, which wasn't terrible, just the biggest 6/10 food I've had in a while.

My experience is that the hotel breakfast is good, and I steer away from anything else, even at a high-rated hotel.

The venue was called The Pinnacle and was probably the best venue I've ever been to. Super high quality, about 5 bars throughout the whole building, amazing sound, great seating, it was awesome.

Also just opened, so I can smell that crispiness

 

[Frindis]

@neogunhero @BeardyHat Just watched a video from Nashville (never been there, but looks cool), and I am still not sure how they fastened that car? Maybe it is just plastic? Looks real though. Some kind of winch system or just heavily bolted?

View: https://youtu.be/YvzDyfS3_HU?t=536

 

[neogunhero]

My experience is that the hotel breakfast is good, and I steer away from anything else, even at a high-rated hotel.

They had other items on the menu that I know would have been good like hot honey and pepperoni pizza, it was out open-mindedness that soured the experience If it had just been the prosciutto and arugula, it would have been good. The figs were semi-dried maybe, not exactly sure so it had a strange texture, and the goat cheese was just too funky for my taste.

@neogunhero @BeardyHat Just watched a video from Nashville (never been there, but looks cool), and I am still not sure how they fastened that car? Maybe it is just plastic? Looks real though. Some kind of winch system or just heavily bolted?

View: https://youtu.be/YvzDyfS3_HU?t=536

Broadway Street was quite insane. We walked from the venue to our hotel close to midnight and the street must have had thousands of people. The police block off the road so people are walking all over the street. Music is playing non-stop all day, but at night it seemed to have gotten even louder. The bars seem to have removeable windows up front, they were all wide open so the music can blare out, and I just watched the most shitfaced people stumble across the massive hordes of people. My wife and I aren't big drinkers, and at that point we were wiped out from lack of sleep, so we didn't step into any of the bars. We made our way to the chicken place which was absolutely packed with people as well. I'm no stranger to massive crowds but when over half of the people are completely drunk, it makes for a much more comedic experience. It was definitely a sight to see lol.

 

[Frindis]

@neogunhero My last festival was at Tons of Rock 2025(Oslo, Norway) with around 40K people visiting daily. I'm not much fan of large crowds, but sitting on the grass and watching the big screens helped with that. Also I have to give the festival a lot of props for the food. It was reindeer burgers, moose burgers and I dunno whatnot! Very good choices, even for those who do not like meat. There was even a tattoo parlor, I thought that was kind of funny.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvX3B6Q0ng0

 

[neogunhero]

@neogunhero My last festival was at Tons of Rock 2025(Oslo, Norway) with around 40K people visiting daily. I'm not much fan of large crowds, but sitting on the grass and watching the big screens helped with that. Also I have to give the festival a lot of props for the food. It was reindeer burgers, moose burgers and I dunno whatnot! Very, very good choices, even for those who do not like meat.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvX3B6Q0ng0

If I were to go to a festival that large, I would do the same thing as you, stay back from the crowds and watch from the screens. I have always wondered while watching concert videos, what happens if you have to go to the bathroom very badly while in the middle of a crowd of a thousand people? Do those people just piss and **** themselves at the festivals? I drink a lot of water so I'm taking a leak once every 2-3 hours, I couldn't do that let alone wait at the front of the crowd all day to see a show that's later into the evening like some people do.

 

[Frindis]

If I were to go to a festival that large, I would do the same thing as you, stay back from the crowds and watch from the screens. I have always wondered while watching concert videos, what happens if you have to go to the bathroom very badly while in the middle of a crowd of a thousand people? Do those people just piss and **** themselves at the festivals? I drink a lot of water so I'm taking a leak once every 2-3 hours, I couldn't do that let alone wait at the front of the crowd all day to see a show that's later into the evening like some people do.

What is funny with that festival is that I finally got earplugs working. Never been a fan of those you form with your hands and stick into your ear, but this year I found a way. I just stuck them in and stopped worrying about them not fitting perfectly, and they just worked. This also meant that I could be more closer to the stage and to follow up on your toilet question:

Some people did complain about the lines being long, but from my experiences with festivals, this was no problem at all. The way I always do it is to have 4-5 beers and then go to a line because I know it is time soon. As for the risk of number two, I try to keep it safe and eat what I can see is being fried, and that stuff else looks clean.

That said, some festivals like Bukta Tromsø Open Air Festival in Norway have small areas where men (women could also, but few did) can piss outside. I liked that, because you could then decide to either stand in line or just stand behind a tree (keep in mind, a small secluded area, not just any tree available). One of my favorite festivals of all time, and in Tromsø, a city I lived in for roughly six years.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9SeJ8yd54

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

If I were to go to a festival that large, I would do the same thing as you, stay back from the crowds and watch from the screens. I have always wondered while watching concert videos, what happens if you have to go to the bathroom very badly while in the middle of a crowd of a thousand people? Do those people just piss and **** themselves at the festivals? I drink a lot of water so I'm taking a leak once every 2-3 hours, I couldn't do that let alone wait at the front of the crowd all day to see a show that's later into the evening like some people do.

Worst case scenario.

To be fair with that many people close to you in the summer jumping around hydration levels are not the highest.

 

[Frindis]

@Kaamos_Llama Or in some cases, you get the job done, but end up still smelling like piss

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-OYM7AhW7Q

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

@Kaamos_Llama Or in some cases, you get the job done, but end up still smelling like piss

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-OYM7AhW7Q

Dude caught on camera!

 

[Frindis]

Dude caught on camera!

It reminds me of the time I did an audition for a movie in Norway. I went in with my fancy sweater and good looks,. got through my well memorized lines and then I had to wait for a red or green light. I got the green light, meaning I was going further on into the competition, but then something happened: I got told to improvise that I was at an airport, telling my friend that I not only thought of her as a friend, but I loved her and wanted her to stay put. So, I just went on my knees, didn't have one clue what to say next except gibberish and the rest is story. You win some, you lose some

 

[Frindis]

What the actual Kakapo! I just watched a guy on Twitch randomly as he was filming in Japan. Then he went past some kind of locker and noticed a woman inside. He thought she was dead and called the police. They went with him back to the place, and all is good. The locker was a SLEEP POD and she was sleeping inside of it! My mind is boggled though, it looked like an ordinary school locker, like wtf! Ok, I need to slow down on my internet usage

Ok, so I managed to take a screenshot of the locker aka sleep pod. It's still really weird the whole thing....Do YOU think you would fit in that? Yeeeeah...
View: https://www.twitch.tv/cashmeow

 

[BeardyHat]

@neogunhero my wife loves Goat Cheese, but yeah, I cannot stand it. I find it absolutely disgusting.

@Frindis My bet would be winches for the car. They probably remove most everything that would add lots of weight, take out the engine and transmission, probably remove the full axles and find a way to rig the tires to the body; every little thing to save a few hundred pounds and get the weight down to something reasonable.

As for festivals, not for me! Last year we took my oldest to see his favorite band at Red Rocks, which is a large, outdoor ampitheater here and it was fun, but entirely too crowded and we ended-up all the way in the back, at the very top, so we could kind of see what was happening on stage, but were basically just watching the screens. Which, to my mind, if I'm gonna watch a screen of a performance, I might as well be at home. Definitely prefer a bar for seeing bands I like, because even if I'm in the back, they still look like regular sized people and not ants...

Also yeah, I have to pee constantly. It's pretty annoying, but we live in a dry climate and I'm constantly drinking water.

 

[BeardyHat]

Oh, should also say, helped my buddy buy a car today; against his better judgement. His old car blew-up and he needed a new one to get to work, he kept looking at all these cars that are "cool", but what I would call projects. Needs transmission work, needs suspension work, needs this, needs that, etc. I took him out today to go look at stuff and finally we parked in a parking lot and I started looking at Craigslist on my phone. Found an ad posted 15 minutes prior for a 1998 Saturn with 91k miles on it and it looked clean as hell.

I called the seller, who told me the issues (two windows won't roll up or down properly, easy fix) and scheduled a time to go look at it. It was across town, so it took us awhile to get there, but my buddy was just...not enthused. He wanted something cooler, I guess. But we got there and wow, this car is/was in amazing shape. I looked it over and the rubber in the engine looks supple and fresh, no leaks, the interior has some stains, but otherwise looks good and it's just in very good condition. After driving it, it seems my friend was convinced and forked over the $2k in cash for it, which I think was a damn steal.

I'm just glad I could get him into something reasonable and reliable, so he can actually get to work and back and not have to stress out about his car anymore. Now I just hope he maintains it.

 

[Frindis]

@Frindis My bet would be winches for the car. They probably remove most everything that would add lots of weight, take out the engine and transmission, probably remove the full axles and find a way to rig the tires to the body; every little thing to save a few hundred pounds and get the weight down to something reasonable.

Makes very much sense, but no way in hell I would stay close to that thing!

I'm just glad I could get him into something reasonable and reliable, so he can actually get to work and back and not have to stress out about his car anymore. Now I just hope he maintains it.

Props for helping him out

 

[BeardyHat]

Makes very much sense, but no way in hell I would stay close to that thing!

Props for helping him out

Oh no way in hell would I want to stand near that car. I've seen people's general level of workmanship, which is the reason I do all my own automotive work.

I'm just glad I could help. He called me the other day asking me to give him a ride to work at 5am after I'd just gotten home from my long road trip that day. I said no, but wanted to help him out as best I could and this was it. Again, I'm just glad I dissuaded him from cooler cars that are projects. I've lived that in my teens and early 20s and it's just not something we should be doing in our 40s anymore...

 

[Zloth]

Do we need to start a thread for pictures of feet?

Quentin Tarantino has entered the chat​

 

[Zed Clampet]

Quentin Tarantino has entered the chat​

IMO foot fetish people are a lot weirder than other fetish people. It's like they can't help themselves. And when you start talking about how lovely someone's long toes are, I feel the urge to put you in a straight jacket and drop you off at the police station.

 

[Colif]

If so, I want a thread for my belly button jar collection.

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Are these empty jars? Just curious - or do you have designer buttons you wear there and special shirts that show it at all times?

Another sign I am old and out of touch - wtf are Labubu? They look like loot boxes for consumers as you don't know what you get until you open box. I grew out of lucky dip in Primary School.
Paying up to $USD250 for a random doll isn't worth it, even if there are chances of getting some that sell for several thousand. Its always sold out and people buy everything in the machine as soon as they filled to flip them. It reminds me of any time a new GPU comes out.

Most toy companies now only survive by selling things to adults who never grew out of buying them... actual children probably don't use them any more, too interested in phones.
Nostalgia is overly used to sell crap to adults...
Progress isn't being made, we just going around in circles.

I know most people don't feel their age but it helps if you act it sometimes.... or so I have been told. One day I might

Doctors appointment lunchtime tomorrow to find out if he knows what the cause is.

 

[Zed Clampet]

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Are these empty jars? Just curious - or do you have designer buttons you wear there and special shirts that show it at all times?

Another sign I am old and out of touch - wtf are Labubu? They look like loot boxes for consumers as you don't know what you get until you open box. I grew out of lucky dip in Primary School.
Paying up to $USD250 for a random doll isn't worth it, even if there are chances of getting some that sell for several thousand. Its always sold out and people buy everything in the machine as soon as they filled to flip them. It reminds me of any time a new GPU comes out.

Most toy companies now only survive by selling things to adults who never grew out of buying them... actual children probably don't use them any more, too interested in phones.
Nostalgia is overly used to sell crap to adults...
Progress isn't being made, we just going around in circles.

I know most people don't feel their age but it helps if you act it sometimes.... or so I have been told. One day I might

Doctors appointment lunchtime tomorrow to find out if he knows what the cause is.

These toys are crypto for morons. Of course, it's the same thing as buying packs of sports cards, which I used to love to do. It was exciting to think that you could get a valuable card. But sports cards have been around forever, and they hold up. These stuffed animals won't be worth anything in 6 months.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

And when you start talking about how lovely someone's long toes are, I feel the urge to put you in a straight jacket and drop you off at the police station.

Does this happen to you often?

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- points to Colif for making me click on an Asmond video.

My kid came across Labubu somewhere. If shes lucky we'll get her some knock off from Teemu and hope its not irradiated or soaked in arsenic.

Theres also a song. So you can all suffer as well if briefly. On car journeys when its her turn to choose its Labubu or Crazy Frog. Saving up all these little memories for her young adult birthday parties.