Home Sweet Home

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:05, 48 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Woo fucking yay!
I've spent the last hour attaching the new strings to my guitar, pricking myself with the ends of the strings and nearly having my eye out a few times, but it is done. Now to tune the bastard, which is where I came unstuck last time... o.O
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:19, Reply)

Greetings Maladelica
Did you get one of those self-assembly guitars from IKEA by any chance?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:22, Reply)

Nope - fifteen quid from the local boot fair.
I dread to think what a flat-pack guitar would take to put together; probably the instructions would all be in Swedish.

*doesn't like flat-pack furniture*
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:29, Reply)

It would have an amusing name
And you'd be able to play all your favourite Electric Boys songs.

Most of the furniture in my flat is flat pack, but I don't own any musical instruments (unless my laptop and iPhone count)
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:34, Reply)

Doesn't the iPhone come with an app
to make music. An ocarina?
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:37, Reply)

Not as standard
but I'm sure there's plenty in the app store.

I recently got an app for my iPhone to make it imitate an electric shaver.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:39, Reply)

How does it imitate a shaver?
By vibrating? If so, I think you were mis-sold it.
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:42, Reply)

IT has a picture of the shaver on the screen
and makes shaver noises that change depending on it's orientation and the speed/acceleration it's moved with. If you want to give people looking from afar the impression that your iPhone is a shaver, this is the app to use.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:44, Reply)

So it's a shaver
from very, very far away? Awesome.

*wants*
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:49, Reply)

It specialises on invisible hairs
and lets people who nag you for not shaving STFU until they get closer.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:51, Reply)

Shaving ain't all that.
There is much to be said for stubble.
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:04, Reply)

fucking this

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:04, Reply)

FUCK YEAH STUBBLE

( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:10, Reply)

despite working in a hot garage all day I smell quite nice
and I really really fancy some pasta salad with spinach and feta now damn you gonz
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:24, Reply)

    Krįstii^{iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii}iinę!     

You could even manage to still smell nice after your pasta, spinach and fetta.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:28, Reply)

I won't have it, no money :(
♥ ^♥ ♥ _♥ ♥ Mistaspakkaman ♥ _♥ ♥ ^♥ ♥
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:33, Reply)

Nay worries
Even pasta, spinach and fetta smells nice.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:38, Reply)

yeah but I don't have it
so I can't smell it either way
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:44, Reply)

But even so, you still smell like you've not been in a hot garage all day
In other news, I now have to head off to my Tai-Chi class.

cyal8r.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:53, Reply)

hello you guys!
or did i miss spakka?
and how's Kristine?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:56, Reply)

Think you just missed him.
I'm still here, trying to tune...
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:57, Reply)

sorry Mal, didn't see you there...
you okay?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:08, Reply)

So-so.
Rushed off my feet at work - every single train was delayed yesterday - and getting to grips with my guitar.

Yourself? :)
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:10, Reply)

not so bad petal, not so bad.
couldn't really be bothered with dinner tonight, just a snack. i am now dining on cider.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:22, Reply)

Am thinking along similar lines
despite having a well-stocked freezer. May nick some of Flatmate's chips.
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:35, Reply)

stolen chips!
FTW

i think i fancy a fried egg...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:41, Reply)

Eh, you can have the egg. Don't like them.
I'm currently wondering if I am, in fact, tone deaf, since I cannot for the life of me tune the guitar...
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:47, Reply)

i'm saying nowt!
did you get yourself an electronic tuner or a tuning fork?
it's easy once you get your bottom string tuned, then you can do the others off intervals...

i haven't picked up a guitar in about 4 years...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:51, Reply)

I'm using one I found on the internets
but may have to borrow one off one of the guys at work... and am starting from the top E so that may explain the problems :(

I can get them in the right order of pitch, but I can't seem to make them sound like the schematic in front of me...
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:56, Reply)

start with the bottom string and work upwards...
that way you can tune the 2nd string off the first.
simples...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 21:23, Reply)

I shall do this.
And I love it when people say "simples".
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 21:25, Reply)

i love it when people say i love it about things i say!
i picked up the guitar in a truley offensively short period of time. basically i learned, in 2 hours, what it took my ex-wife 6 months to learn. and she was the one teaching me. and she was the one in a band.
which she didn't like...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 21:29, Reply)

The truth is that I have little to no musical talent
hence the struggling to tune the guitar. I sing a perfect third out of tune. I think I've got the D as good as it can get, though the bottom E is giving me grief!
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 21:34, Reply)

have you no-one there helping you?
one-to-one lessons are the way forward.
if you can find somenoe who'll trade lessons for food...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 21:36, Reply)

Nope - my flatmate's at work and I'm using the internets for assistance.
I may well go into work tomorrow and throw myself on my supervisor's mercy, since he's an expert. I may also have to promise never to rickroll him again...
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 21:38, Reply)

if that's the price you need to pay!
LOL

right, that's me out of here i'm afraid!

catch you later dude!
x
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 21:40, Reply)

My supervisors and I enjoy rickrolling one another
so if promising to only rickroll Supervisor 2 and not Supervisor 1 is what it takes to not make a twat of myself, it's a small price to pay!

I have, however, learned to make a lovely Spanishy mishmashy sound :D

Catch you later x
( Maladicta, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 21:44, Reply)

quite fucking shit actually, how is everyone else?

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:04, Reply)

i just had a huge confusion thing there...
for a moment i wasn't sure who was who...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:08, Reply)

I tend to ruin things
soz
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:11, Reply)

it wasn't you, m'dear!
it was simply my brain kinda monging out a bit...

happens quite frequently to be honest.
age?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:20, Reply)

you're asking my age?

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:27, Reply)

you're saying your brain is monging because of your age?

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:30, Reply)

i'm saying my brain is monging cos of age.
couldn't possibly comment on yours...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:33, Reply)

I'm american, what other excuse is there?

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:35, Reply)

is it really down to geography?
LOL

so anyway, what's up with you today?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:52, Reply)

no it's down to years of alcohol abuse
whats up with me today?
I hate "players"

whats up with you today?
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 21:50, Reply)

not enough sleep!
or too much?

or whatever!

off to bed...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 29 Sep 2009, 22:01, Reply)