The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Random question, apropos of being dragged into karaoke night by an overly enthusiastic Scottish lady (the mother of the bartender):
Has anyone tried singing with a bone conducting microphone? A nigh universal experience is that our voices sound so much better in our heads, courtesy of the conduction of deeper frequencies and harmonics right through bone better than air. It's the reason behind "telephone voice" (other than shitty codecs and low bandwidth). I wish others could hear how silky smooth my voice sounds like in here, as opposed to the congested version everyone else is used to.
I wonder what that would sound like, in practise, but I suspect that they're not optimized for music.
The traditional thing is singing in the bath(room). The tiles resonate nicely for everyone else in the building :)
A family friend was once met in the hotel corridor by a Frenchman who complimented him on his rendition of The Marseillaise; the walls had carried the notes from his ensuite perfectly but thankfully not my friend's words which were his own private tune and began:
"A French-man saaat on the laaaaavatory...!"
This sounds like a tale that ended happily for all involved.
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