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[Frumple]

Like, quick check shows there were unspiked ones, but most depictions and actual historical examples you're going to see are spiked.

Spoiler: about like this (click to show/hide)

- source: The Dragon, the Hero, and the Courier, chapter 5

The real thing to note is that they were intended to catch people in armor; the design was made to pull armored folks off horseback and hold them down. The spiked sort weren't meant to be used on flesh.

[Eric Blank]

The spikes don't have to be sharp though, just extremely uncomfortable to struggle against. You could easily make one with blunt ended spikes that are still effective at restraining limbs/necks because of the pain and abrasions they'd cause if one struggled too hard against them. Probably not lethally abrasive.

[EuchreJack]

..I'm reasonably sure the spikes exist to assist in holding the person, but might also be intended to inflict pain and scare adversaries.

[King Zultan]

Maybe it was for both assisting holding them and inflicting pain?

[Rolan7]

I'm drunk and I'm close to crying because there are so many unfinished thoughts!  No wonder I was always weirdposting when I got drunk triweekly.

It's such a swarm.  And yet it's also the lack of that swarm.
That doesn't make any sense.

I see a topic, and I see the many ways to react to it, and I lack my filter.
But also, the "voices" (intrusive thoughts) are quiet.

Thing is: Those thoughts used to be so loud that they would need to be let out.  Usually via song, because that's how my brain prefers to communicate.
But with my hormone therapy they... aren't.  The distraction, the itchiness, the background discomfort, it's... gone.

I'm just me.  Wow.

[Il Palazzo]

Solution 1: drink less
Solution 2: drink more

Q: I'm looking for a specific kind of songs - pieces with quality-ish music, but inappropriate/offensive lyrics. Things that would make you first go 'huh, that's a fine tune', and then 'wait, they're singing about WHAT?'. Preferably not in English.
Something like DVDA's Only a Woman, or like these two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiAIEHG8VeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKRJqORR6ZU

[Frumple]

Not in english I don't think I can help with... I probably have some in my playlist, but I tend to very pointedly not look up translations when I find stuff in other languages I enjoy listening to. Makes playing the music publicly a risky proposition, but I like it better otherwise.

... but in english, my go-to for that one is Gavin Friday's Baltimore Whores, which is flat out one of the best pieces of music I've heard in my life -- the composition with the vocals and the lyrics basically fit together perfectly, imo. It's also a wildly inappropriate song about prostitutes boasting to each other about who has the loosest nethers.

e: Prisoner of Love is also weirdly catchy, in a sort of old-timey Grease-era broadway type sense. It's, uh. Alternate title is "Prison Bitch".

[Il Palazzo]

'Smell of my slimy slough' is one of the best alliterations I've heard. The tune is fantastic too. So thanks for that.

But what I'm after are songs you would be likely to assume to be earnestly heartfelt and soulful, if going by ear alone. With the inappropriate lyrics hiding as a bawdy surprise for the attentive. You hear a chantey and you already expect it to be about whoring and drinking. The other one similarly reveals its cards pretty much immediately, what with the vocals being such as they are.

[Frumple]

Hrm... would fairly obscure drug references count? Junco Partner and Dixie Biscuit are both alright for that, especially the latter (dixie biscuit is old/rarely used slang for cocaine).

For an oldie (well, oldie-er, junco partner was first recorded in the 50s), Rum and Coca Cola is maybe borderline? It sounds pretty cheerful and relatively innocent until you catch on to what "working for the yankee dollar" means. It's one of those songs I point to when old people complain about new music, blighters were making songs about booze and whores back in the 40s, too.

... anyway, that's about it for top of the head. Pretty sure I'm forgetting a couple that fits much better, though...

[Il Palazzo]

Thanks!

[Great Order]

Google's failing me here. Is there a way to force a user to be logged off at certain hours in Windows 10? I'm doing a piss-poor job of self regulating my computer use at night, so I'm wanting to try nullifying it as an issue completely.

[MaximumZero]

Google's failing me here. Is there a way to force a user to be logged off at certain hours in Windows 10? I'm doing a piss-poor job of self regulating my computer use at night, so I'm wanting to try nullifying it as an issue completely.

Here ya go.

[Great Order]

Ta luv

[McTraveller]

Are there any public, free methods to see the entire "order book" for stock markets? Like how many buy / sell orders there are as a function of price, maybe up to the next 50 in each direction?

I haven't even been able to see this as a tool in the brokerage accounts I actually have.

Is this because it changes too fast?

[Frumple]

I think it's more because folks want to squeeze money out of people for accessing it. There doesn't seem to be much or any venues for free order book data, nevermind any that also allows for particularly useful data manipulation.

It is dynamic and rapidly fluctuating, though, so that's probably one of the major excuses being used to horde the data in question behind paywalls and such.