Swallowed something down the wrong hole, which caused a coughing fit.

Did you know one of the dangers for the elderly is to aspirate?

Quote:When food, drink, or stomach contents make their way into your lungs, they can damage the tissues there. The damage can sometimes be severe. Aspiration also increases your risk of pneumonia. This is an infection of the lungs that causes fluid to build up in the lungs.

"The wrong hole"?????

Where you going with this, bud?

Apparently, I have triggered some conservative snowflakes on Reddit:

The GOP are notoriously against helping the people, yet it baffles me that a great majority of the working class and poor will vote Republican against their own best interest. No wonder this country has gone to shite.

Idea for guitar mod:

• Start with a Squier Mini Stratocaster (preferably Dakota Red)
  
• Remove all strings, and replace with strings (planned to be GHS Nickel Rockers) gauged: 11, 15, 24, 34, 52 [gauged to exert roughly the same tension as the 9-42s that come stock on it.]
  
• Tune strings to C-G-D-A-E (lowest string four frets below the low E, highest string same as the highest on a normal guitar.)
  
• Set up intonation and truss rod accordingly.
  
• Remove top tuning peg (possibly add a grommet to reinforce it so I can add a little strong so I can hang it easily.)
  
• Move strap button to suit my Albert King-style playing style.
  

So, it might be a bit like this (except without the doubled string):

• Possible later mod: Replace neck pickup with GFS Metal Foil strat (5K) and bridge pickup with GFS Brighton Rock (6.5K)
  
• Other possible mod that I'm not sure may be feasible: detuning mechanism on D and A strings to lower both to C and G so it can do this song in a flash:
  

(December 16, 2020 at 7:37 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Idea for guitar mod:

• Start with a Squier Mini Stratocaster (preferably Dakota Red)
  
• Remove all strings, and replace with strings (planned to be GHS Nickel Rockers) gauged: 11, 15, 24, 34, 52 [gauged to exert roughly the same tension as the 9-42s that come stock on it.]
  
• Tune strings to C-G-D-A-E (lowest string four frets below the low E, highest string same as the highest on a normal guitar.)
  
• Set up intonation and truss rod accordingly.
  
• Remove top tuning peg (possibly add a grommet to reinforce it so I can add a little strong so I can hang it easily.)
  
• Move strap button to suit my Albert King-style playing style.
  

So, it might be a bit like this (except without the doubled string):

• Possible later mod: Replace neck pickup with GFS Metal Foil strat (5K) and bridge pickup with GFS Brighton Rock (6.5K)
  
• Other possible mod that I'm not sure may be feasible: detuning mechanism on D and A strings to lower both to C and G so it can do this song in a flash:
  

The last part can be done. I saw one a guy built. He called it a drawbridge. 

Essentially it is a second bridge - closer to the neck than normal - that can be engaged or disengaged. In the engaged - it goes higher - physically engaging the strings. Disengaged the string becomes full length.

It does mess with playability a bit - as the pressure needed to engage it puts the strings higher off the neck. But with a light stringed electric it seems to work....

Sort of a reverse partial capo...

I'm here all alone - what sort of chaos can I cause? Hmmm.

(December 17, 2020 at 12:14 am)arewethereyet Wrote: I'm here all alone - what sort of chaos can I cause? Hmmm.

The fun kind that leaves nuns blushing, governments apologising, and law enforcement wondering if there's a law to cover it!

I'm unapologetic.

In 2024 I'll be in the States with a placard saying, "Trump: FOUR MORE YEARS!!"

How DO you spell "penitentiary"?

I wonder if, in ten years or so, we'll be getting unsolicited emails saying, 'If you got vaccinated against COVID-19 in 2021-2022, you may be entitled', etc etc.

I think we will.  Lawyers suck.

Boru

(December 17, 2020 at 4:23 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I wonder if, in ten years or so, we'll be getting unsolicited emails saying, 'If you got vaccinated against COVID-19 in 2021-2022, you may be entitled', etc etc.

I think we will.  Lawyers suck.

Boru

I've just seen a picture of a flyer apparently being sent out by christian anti-vaxxers in the 'States.

Basically if you add the numbers of all the letters of "corona" together by their place in the alphabet, (c=3, for instance), the numbers add up to 66.

I haven't checked to verify this.

Add to it that "corona" has 6 letters, and you get 666.

So obviously the vaccine is the work of Satan and you'll lose your soul. But it's okay for god to kill millions with his virus.

It amazes me that they can put together the thought processes to put together this nonsense but many still can't work out that the world is older than 6000 years...