roboticanary

what do people here think about romantc music. i suppose i am a bit of a grouch about the whole 'not another love song, dont we have enough' thing but there are some i can appreciate. are you ok with it, find it uncomfortable, how do you feel about it. are there any romantic songs you find ok to listen to? perhaps beautiful in their own way, or maybe silly enough to be ok with? ok, admittedly this is largely an excuse to post the hippopotamus song because i find it very funny. (and acceptable to me because it is about the least romantic love song i can think of)

really interesting one this time https://sildarmillionjournal.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/call-for-submissions-october-2022-carnival-of-aros-sentimentality/ sildarmillion has put out a series of prompts on the subject of sentimentality, i'm expecting a fair range of responses as there's a lot of scope in that subject and some quite wide ranging prompting.

ok, i can pass the uselessness on to someone else, i like it next person wins a pill that lets you sleep like a baby. this sounds great if you have never been around a baby or seen how terrible their sleep cycle is.

fantastic news. sadly i'm on the wrong side of the country for this but congratulations and i hope it goes well.

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ok next person wins a lemming meringue pie

combining these, i'm imagining the grinning face of a giant maggie thatcher looming over paris.

not bad next person wins a pack of batteries (batteries not included)

Welcome!

Hi. Your English is fine, and even if it wasn't I can speak fluent duck so things would work out. Love the pfp! Have a frog in return, it can make friends with the ducks.

maybe I'm not as sophisticated as the rest of you, but as far as I'm concerned this is great.

dream jobs here, I'm going for sampler of drugs, although there's a few that catch my fancy.

Q: Who is expected to rule the UK for longer than Liz Truss? A: an assault trifle

monster

well, we've played a lot of stupid games. give the person below you a stupid prize. so next commenter, you win a rocking horse, he tries but the hooves make his guitar solos sound awful

kingdom

yeah, there is a size limit on photos as well as a limit on the most you can upload in total. to be honest i could probably be a bit more lenient on that since we are still nowhere near the limit of memory use on our hosting. as for how, reduce the image size, the picture you use for your profile is tiny and the limit is ~half a mb. to give context my pic is <17kb. I cant tell you what exactly will work on the image editors that you use but resizing to drop pixel count and convert to jpg and you should be well below the limit. If you click the option to add a pfp it will tell you the size limit you need to get below next to the line saying what file types are accepted. the site has to pay a hosting service to host the site, there is a total limit of how much stuff (pictures, files, etc) which can be stored. if arocalypse ever bumped up against that limit then it would have to move to a pricier hosting plan (true pretty much wherever you decide to host). In general if you want low cost hosting the cutoff is usually in the low hundreds of gb total. if we got near that we would either have to take a big hike in fees (not sustainable) or mass delete old image content to bring us back down. as for links, i was unaware of that, could you explain what you mean by a limit of links and where this limit is occuring. the text is called a signature, you can edit yours by clicking your profile in the top right, clicking account settings and clicking signature on the left menu. I'll add that to the site guide actually, i completely forgot about that.

I mean first up you don't need fixing. obvious is obvious but ace or not that behaviour is still shitty. If I could justify an action i take towards another person because I say its better for that person, thats not good. yeah, that stereotype that men 'should like it' is around and does hit a lot of guys. doesn't mean you will and, to borrow a phrase, 'no means no'. no amount of telling you that this is something you should like changes that. To be honest, having been to a fair few clubs and bars in my time, not liking it when random women come up and hit on you is actually fairly common for a guy, especially if they go straight for contact and explicit demands to find a private space. that does come across as creepy or at least classless. i know there is a sort of unwritten culture that suggests guys should like that, and sure some do, but a lot dont want that. And if they dont and she doesn't back off, thats wrong on her part.