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Tales of failure. What skills or achievements did you hope to acquire during lockdown?

my dad always tells me that I should listen to Arthur Lowe doing 'Diary of a Nobody' which was a radio play. I enjoyed the book and it would be great, but that's just giving up
 
I think that we are at the absolute pinnacle of postmodernism. Something else will come along. Everyone thought that the 80s was the end of everything
 
freakydave said:
A few months of learning an instrument gives you a whole new level of insecurity once you realise how difficult it is
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Ah, it's not new to me, I've been learning since 1989. But a new guitar has certainly led to trying new things. I have it tuned to open E which is interesting.
 
I determined to start conversational French-English by skype, but the one call I made confirmed the usual problem that such conversations are liable to be too contrived as well as massively prone to a small gene-pool of people in terms of finding someone you can sustain converstions with ...
As opposed to moving to a country and learning the language in the general course of getting things sorted out ...
 
I initially planned to learn Russian. Unfortunately that went by the wayside early as I slipped into a bit of a depressive state. Fortunately I rediscovered my love of history and spent the last few months absorbing as much as I can about the history of the US. In the UK we get taught very little and what does often comes with a self-defeating and condescending scoff about the entire concept of American history. It has however been absolutely fascinating and puts a lot of things that are happening today into context.

It won't be much use when I'm trying to order a meal in Moscow next but at least its been interesting.
 
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S☼I said:
Ah, it's not new to me, I've been learning since 1989. But a new guitar has certainly led to trying new things. I have it tuned to open E which is interesting.
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If it Makes You Happy (Why the Hell Are You So Sad) is played with a guitar tuned to open E
 
kabbes said:
If it Makes You Happy (Why the Hell Are You So Sad) is played with a guitar tuned to open E
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Is it? Never knew.
I've been messing about with Open D for many years, which is of course exactly the same chord shapes, but E is punchier somehow

Immediately searches for live performances of the Sheryl Crow song for chord tips
 
We play it in our band but there were bits I couldn’t get right so I bought the sheet music for it, upon which we leaned that it was detuned to an open chord. At that point it all came together.
Maybe not open E though, maybe it’s an open G.
 
Actually, I think it’s in E minor (enharmoncally equivalent time G), so it would be an open E
 
Mine is more a case of thinking "I'll do that!" doing it and either it not working (bath bombs) or "..... and what now" (jars of bath salts, crocheted granny squares)

So it's not that I didn't achieve what I wanted to do it's more that I got no real satisfaction from it.

Oh, I was a dismal failure as a teacher!!
 
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On another note, I've been labouring under some weird paranoia Truman Show delusion thingy for a while, which has been behind most of my twattishness. I hope I've not been to disruptive. I'll be lurking more and posting less. That's for the record like, cos I've had a go at a few people.
 
Haven't failed majorly but I have done over 120 days on Duolingo for my French but haven't touched Japanese, which of the two was the one I planned to spend more time doing. Have tidied the garden, sorted a chunk of the cellar, got a big pile ready for the charity shop. I do still need to take the pile to the shop which is where I may fall down but I can ask best mate Mogden for some help with that. Things could be much better in the house, still better than before lockdown. Didn't grow a miracle veg garden but managed some mange tout, sugar snap peas and currently have 1 tomato and 1 chili plant on the go.
 
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