Do you ever obsess over the smallest thing?

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Hi, A Team (the 'a' is for Awesome! High five, ladies, up top!)

The added piano octave drop right in verse one of The One by popular musical artist Taylor Swift gives me a goosebump everytime. You can hear it here if you like.


Muscially, it's doing nothing as it's repetition of the same notes, just 12 removed and below, but sonically it's filling a sunset that I'm walking in to. I like the song - love it actually, even though it's a bit twee and trying to be more clever than it needs to - but that piano refrain makes me obsess for when it changes. I wait for it. But then - and hold on to your butts because this is where the smallest thing becomes the best thing - the piano doesn't hold that all the way through. You have to pay attention. Or not: it'll do it anyway, whether you care, whether you notice, whether you enjoy it without knowing.

What small things do you obsess over GD and why would you never apologise for them?
 
I once painted a wall, there was an obscure undone hard to get to bit that wasn't even visible in a really awkward area to the side of a door frame.

At first I made the sensible decision to just leave it as it was, nobody could see it so who cares?

I could not sleep, every waking hour was consumed by said bit of awful painting. I actually had to get up at 3am after being unable to sleep or let it go to 'fix' something literally nobody could or would see shy of using a step ladder and craning their neck.

I'm not even the sort of person to normally be OCD, but for whatever reason it really wound me up.
 
I was at the dentist today getting root canal treatment, top 40 countdown on the radio...getting flashbacks listening to that tune...you say 'verse' but it just sounds like one long verse? If you mean the bit around 20 secs then yeah that's a small detail to notice or obsess over :p

however...nowhere near as subtle but I wait in anticipation for the 'boo hoo hoo' line right after 'in Birmingham they love the governor' in Sweet Home Alabama, might not even listen to the rest of the song
 
It was one of the hardest things I had to learn in my professional life, sometimes things can't be or don't need to be perfect.

Once I spent a week trying to find out why the Workforce Management System we bought only reported 99.9% of an agent's time in one report out of the dozen they provided.

BTW, it was the fact it didn't count the time between a call being put through to an agent and the agent's phone accepting the call.
 
wesimmo said:
It was one of the hardest things I had to learn in my professional life, sometimes things can't be or don't need to be perfect.

Once I spent a week trying to find out why the Workforce Management System we bought only reported 99.9% of an agent's time in one report out of the dozen they provided.

BTW, it was the fact it didn't count the time between a call being put through to an agent and the agent's phone accepting the call.
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Tay Tay said:
In my defense, I have none
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fake e: but real talk, very much with you. "Sometimes things can't be or don't need to be perfect" = life lesson, noice.
 

:D

Sometimes being anal about data is a good thing.

When Chip and Pin were being rolled out Visa and Mastercard incentivised it by making it cheaper to process any transaction through a C&P enabled terminal, whether the card was C&P or not.

That took me a few weeks as it was back in the day when data was transmitted by printers in the basement of the satellite offices.

Anyway, I spotted an issue in their processing logic and claimed several million pounds back we'd overpaid to other banks.
 
I love the way Susan Tedeschi smiles the first time she sings the "Midnight in Harlem" line in this concert. She reminds me a bit of Barney Gumble when she does it, but in a super sexy nice way.

I could tell you the time in the video where she does it, but that would just deprive you of the beautiful opening to the song.

Enjoy.

P.s Taylor Swift :p

 
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Is this a question card from 3-2-1?
 
Dirk Diggler said:
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Is this a question card from 3-2-1?
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Mebbe. FnG was commenting (and praising) another for getting his preferred emergent form of intelligence in the post I quoted.

As a fellow raiser of the intelli(gence) of pups (2 kids), I suggested he remember to add (versus his emergence bias above) some others. Eg. Beginning with:

A
C
D
F
H
I
M
N
P
S
T
U
V
etc.

Urgent, convergent, divergent, infragent, supra, hypo, hyper, homeo etc etc.

Edit. So I was just making a Dadsnet type of comment on child-formulas. You can happily ignore it.
 
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Some autistic trivia I was working on this morning came to mind (woke by FnG).
 
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LeMson said:
Her legs, I want to lick them.
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Kinda creepy but I admit she has got gorgeous legs :o:p

I obsess over lots of little things but probably the weirdest is that whenever I take my lunch break from work, i have to take it either on the hour or 5 mins past, or 10 and so on. So if I look at the clock and it's 2.03pm then I wait until 2.05, the trouble is someone might them distract me and before I know it it's 2.17pm and I've gotta wait another 3 mins so I can go lunch :D

(P.s. love Tay Tay :cool:)
 
I once spent 40 years chasing down the answer to a single question. Does that count?
 
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