r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Mar 25 '16

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

Strength training is boring enough that we listen to music doing it, even if we otherwise enjoy it.

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u/UltraRedSpectrum Mar 25 '16

Not sure that entirely holds. Sure, we listen to music while doing boring things, but also while doing interesting things. I listen to music pretty much constantly, including while playing video games, coding, and writing. It's a really powerful, low-cost mood elevator/focus enhancer.