Well exactly. The fact that otherwise people would be stealing watering cans from cemeteries is depressing.

Oh piss off. I play for myself as a hobby at the moment, I don't need to impress anyone. There actually are strings that last for a long time.

Do they sound as crisp as a fresh set? No.

Are they suitable for playing in front of an audience? No.

Do I care about the age of my strings as long as they play well? No.

That looks a lot like a giant raisin.

*two

*a few

…the watering cans are also cursed.

I've never seen this behaviour in europe with shopping carts. you maybe find a single cart randomly somewhere but thats super rare and there isnt any personal running around collecting them. I'm really sorry you have such narcissistic parents! Glad you can break the chain, I really hope future generations can learn from this and americans can adapt a more healthy, social behaviour in the decades to come

Bro please for the love of god oil that fretboard

Yep! I’m from the US, and so are my parents. The difference in me vs my own mother is insane— when we’re at a grocery store she just pushes the cart behind someone else’s car, into grass, etc. I never understand why. All of her small acts of laziness throughout life (circling a parking lot until she finds a spot closest to the building open instead of parking far away, for example) has caused her to gain weight and then “it’s too far of a walk to return the basket” eyeroll

*two kinds of feet

These are ornamental kale plants, and kale is a brassica as is cabbage (we bred their ancestor to have different traits). There are white and purple varieties and they come in that solid leaf version and lacy leaf as well.

No. Change those goddamn strings. Your guitar should be taken away from you by Guitar Protective Services if you don’t. It’s like $10. It’ll sound gobs better. Guitar strings get super gross and less effective after a pretty short time. If you actually practiced or played gigs l, you’re supposed to change them like every month. Bass strings last much longer but guitar strings do not. If you’re playing enough to work all the varnish off your neck board like this, then you sure is shit are playing it enough to change your strings on the reg. Do it or I’m calling Big String and turning you in.

Big Fret might have something to say too.

Everyone just returns them here, there is no one going around. You grab a can near the faucet, use it, and return it to the faucet. The fact that these simple social behaviors don’t seem to apply in the us belgium (or anywhere, really) is sad to me

I was under the impression that this kinda thing (like shopping carts) was also so that nobody has to go around collecting all of them and bringing them back? The people using them just do it for you if they want their money back

Dust in the Wind hits so differently to me. Plus I've offered to show him how to play since it's the only song I know but he refuses

it's not renting. you get your money back in full after returning the sprinkler.

100%, it is a shame we live in a world where the deposit is required but it's fair enough and as you say, it is a sweet idea.

Touché! In that case it’s borrowing more than renting and it’s a sweet idea .

every cementery in germany (and every other countires cementery I've been to) has watering cans without deposit. they just lay around next to a faucet for everyone to use and return. Its really sad that you need to use those means of distribution due to the seemingly widespread stealing?

It's more of a deposit as the connection looks like the same you find on shopping trolleys.

That’s quite usual here

Hen + Mental health crisis = an Egg that ended up looking like this.

It's Greenwich Mean Time of course... :)

Of course, that’s why it should be free . It’s sad that some “entrepreneur” saw a business opportunity in other people’s grief .

Kinda fitting considering the Unexplained Mystery fact for today.