That ' s true . I think since I have off I ' m gonna watch them with my kid again when he wakes up . Yeah . Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours <| sep |> Naw , it was for apologizing when I got up to take a piss and nearly roped my turn . The only useful emote . <| sep |> Yeah . I have looked this up too and was going to say repaint the carbon with conductive paint but you mention that plus adding conditioner to the rubber itself . So good solid advice ! As for already damaged rubber , I guess it ' s fucked . Seems kinda like unripping paper back togeather . <| sep |> If you are in the US and say FL 150 , I immediately assume you are an idiot . <| sep |> I laughed but I ' m not sure if it ' s ok . <| sep |> I think you ' ve gotten a lot of good answers her already , but I ' d like to add one thing . I ' ve seen a lot of posters on this sub who seem to struggle with this , and I think they ' re often overthinking it . The way I think about strumming is like this in most songs , most of the time my right hand is pretty much doing the same thing the entire time , swinging down and up at a constant rate . The only thing changing in the rate hand is whether or not I ' m extending my fingers to hit the strings . In a typical 44 song , my right hand movement disregarding for the moment whether I ' m hitting the strings is thisdudududu In fact for nearly any song in 44 time which is almost all popular music , you could just play that , and as long as you ' re changing the chords correctly , you should have a recognizable , but boring , song . In fact , that can be a good technique for learning a chord progression forget about any strumming pattern , just change chords on the rights beats and strum all the way through . Then , to turn it into something that is musically and rhythmically interesting , you figure out the strum pattern by actually figuring out which of those 8 strokes should be omitted entirely , or which should be chucked by muting the strings with your left hand while strumming with your right . For example , a common pattern in many songs arranged for ukulele and also the guitar strum pattern in many reggae songs is something like thisxxduxxdHere I ' ve used x to indicate a chuck and to indicate a stroke that you don ' t hit at all . The important thing is that throughout that measure , your right hand simply goes down and up again , four times . You never have to think about which direction your hand should be moving st any point in time , because it ' s always just swinging down and up again . You just have to learn and remember which of those strokes should hit the strings . Maintaining a consistent swinging motion is also good for maintaining a steady pace . Imagine you want to play a rhythm like thisdudIt can be tempting to just strum downward , pause , strum upward , pause , strum downward and then life your hand back up again for the next downbeat . If you instead just keep your arm swinging the whole time , you ' ll probably do a better job of maintaining the tempo because your hand motion is subdividing the quiet intervals . If I notate the hits with uppercase and the skips with lowercase , it looks like thisDudUduDuSubdividing is a standard technique that trained musicians use so that they don ' t get ahead of themselves . You can subdivide a quiet patch by counting in your head , or with the help of a physical motion . You can sometimes see this in action in the percussion section of an orchestra . If there ' s a complex part on the snare drum , you might see that the drummer is swinging the two sticks at the drum in a continuous leftright pattern , but they aren ' t hitting each beat , and are faking the beats that are meant to be quiet . It ' s just a lot easier to maintain a steady tempo that way .