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how are you dealing with this interminable wednesday afternoon?
alternatively, what is your most treasured possession? Mine is probably my lovely gold Fender Stratocaster. mmmm.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:01, 119 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Apart from now, obviously. My interminable Wednesday afternoon is set to drag into Wednesday evening as I attend yet another funding meeting.
*sadfaces*
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:03, Reply)
Wrong side of the country, I'm afraid. If you pop across to Alston next time you're visiting I'll see what I can do though. Just be sure you have match funding and a sound business proposal first.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:09, Reply)
I want my own roadshow, or ideally a five min slot on BBC1 every night just before the News channel comes on.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:11, Reply)
I'll be home by 7.30, unlike next Tuesday when it's more likely to be 11pm before I walk through the door.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:07, Reply)
I'm such a man when I'm ill.
Tell me to do these spanish phrase sheets for my dad. I'm soo unmotivated...
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:03, Reply)
or I'll fetch you a clip round the bear hole, you see if I don't
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:05, Reply)
how is he doing with the spanish anyways?
I've (stupidly) started learning Catalan, as well as starting driving lessons (in Spanish)
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:24, Reply)
because my grandad's ill, then my mum was ill, and things keep getting in the way.
This week we're gonna do descriptions of people and characteristics again, to make sure he's got it.
CATALAN, hard?
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:34, Reply)
luckily, i can understand it when people speak to me (more or less), can read things like newspapers and stuff.
but try speaking, or writing, or learning bloody verbs? fuck that
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:45, Reply)
or writing for that matter!
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:51, Reply)
i teach English, and quite a lot of people find it easier to speak or listen to than read.
granted, english is a shite language for pronunciation - spanish is exactly as you would expect it to sound/appear
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:04, Reply)
I can take my time and see similarities with English words. I wouldn't necessarily hear those similarities if somebody was speaking.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:29, Reply)
reading spanish or something is easier to a non-native than english is to a foreigner.
just remember that constipado is not constipated, and you should never "introducir" people
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:31, Reply)
I honestly don't think I own anything really precious to me, the classic photos etc, but pretty much anything could be replaced on insurance.
I'm not sure if this is bad thing or a good thing!
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:07, Reply)
my two electric guitars, one because it is lovely and customised, and the other because I've had it for ages
don't really give a crap about much else. other than this
www.b3tards.com/u/48ca4e4a50b7cad28251/dscf11602.jpg
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:11, Reply)
Do you have viking mice in your house raping and pillaging our fluffy field mice
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:11, Reply)
many many years ago, and has since given to me
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:13, Reply)
Can I have your Nat West piggy?
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:13, Reply)
I only have two left after the cunty fucking removal men broke most of them when I moved to Devon many years ago.
I was only missing one as well. Those fucking cunts.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:14, Reply)
Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouse! If I could hug my house I would, although I do purr to myself happily when preening over the library and re-arranging the books each time I need to slot another addition in.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:08, Reply)
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8402362.stm
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:10, Reply)
that's shocking
to be honest though, that's probably how he had it explained to him
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:12, Reply)
DiT doesn't really count as he's not a possession... he's just treasured... hmmmmm...
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:10, Reply)
seriously, I hope you meant that and you're not just after a foot-rub.
(I'm working on the Penfold thing...)
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:13, Reply)
Nooooooooobody touches my feet, feet are grim, grim, grim!
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:13, Reply)
I hate looking at them and don't like anyone touching my feet... blurgh! :S
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:28, Reply)
When I was a babysitter I used to give the kids sweets if they squashed my feet for me.
I must add that I was a kid myself and I'm not a paedo.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:35, Reply)
and drinking lots of tea.
Favourite possession is currently a Toshiba Camileo S10 video camera - it's light and tiny and brand spanking new and filling the void in my life where purpose/meaning/goals/ambition should be until the next toy comes along.
I also love this: www.leatherman.com/multi-tools/full-size-tools/wave.aspx
Using it today, I have wired a plug, trimmed a candlewick and cracked a stubborn pistachio open.
rafter
baz
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:11, Reply)
so I'm getting a different one.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:16, Reply)
Do you go spanging of a weekend and need something less heavy to spang with?
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:19, Reply)
I have a big stainless frying pan with thick copper bottom for that.
I wanted a heavy cast-iron one, with no coating on it at all.
the le creuset ones are good, but they are enamelled on the outside and seemed to have some kind of coating inside.
I'm getting one from my parents and can rely on my mum to get my the right thing.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:21, Reply)
I don't believe you!
Also your mum will totally get you the right one, mums always know about pans... and how to clean... its the law or summit!
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:23, Reply)
my current spanging pan is awesome. I also have a smaller pan for the left hand. Dual-wielding!
she totally will. my mum is great.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:26, Reply)
I think amazon cocked up the pricing...I only paid £27 when they can cost as much as £60
This One:
www.amazon.co.uk/Creuset-Cast-Round-Grillit-Granite/dp/B0000DINYI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1260375906&sr=1-2
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:19, Reply)
not seen the round ones. it is enamelled though, which I didn't want.
I like the pouring spouts and stuff though. looks good
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:27, Reply)
the outside is enamelled, but the inside griddle bit is just cast iron.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:30, Reply)
the ones I saw in person had some kind of coating inside as well I think. but they were square ones....
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:35, Reply)
If so, him. If not, my photos.
All else is replaceable. Ish.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:17, Reply)
He was in cats protection shelter after being abandoned due to the previous owners getting 2 puppies, the puppies biting his eye out and the owners not wanting to pay vets bills.
I fell in love, took him home and forked out not far off £600.00 getting him sorted.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:04, Reply)
Has he got a bit of chub or is it just the angle?
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:21, Reply)
Where he doesn't leave the flat (his choice) the fucker just eats and lies around all day....
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:29, Reply)
He has pretty ears :0)
A bit more 'proud' than my lump of Fudge.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:17, Reply)
better money than window cleaning and you clearly have a flair for it.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:28, Reply)
Aye, taking photos for a living would be brilliant, however, I'm still waiting on an offer, someone to take someone on with no previous experience :( the pic of Tommy was taken at 7am, after a night on the sweeties and what not, there's me lying out the back with just shorts on, crawling about on my belly like a vomiting junky. Happy days.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:42, Reply)
is a hugely successful photographer called Hamish Brown. He was my mate's bass player and turned to photography when their band went to shit.
So you can start at any age - shame you aren't down this way, I could get you a job assisting him like *that*, I expect.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 18:12, Reply)
Oh all the lovly fluffeh kittehs!
My neighbour Fu is the colour of Molly.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:39, Reply)
I've German reissue that I actually use for listening - the original was a (fucking expensive) gift.
Either that or my Pink Fairies poster. This sounds pretty 'meh' until you find out that it was made specially for me by scanning the inner gatefold of their 1st LP (without me knowing), arsing around with the image on photshop to remove creases etc, printed onto super high quality heave paper and then framed in a massive metal frame. Lots of thought and hard work, as well as expense.
What's just occurred to me is that both of these were from the mental ex. She did have a good side to her.
EDIT Or a bust of my grandfather. My grandmother couldn't bear to have it in her house after he died as it's such a good likeness. Or my sword from the other side of the family, worn at the coronation of George V. That's pretty fucking smart.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:31, Reply)
just because she has good taste, doesnt mean she isnt dangerously insane
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:34, Reply)
One slightly dishevelled Charles II lookalike with a rundown cockney hovel that looks like a record shop and smells of the heady mix of cat shit and pot.'
'Objection sustained.'
'No further question m'lud'
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:38, Reply)
...can we get back to talking about your Grandmother's fabulous bust?
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:42, Reply)
you put pics of them on your profile page
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:52, Reply)
mine are "kick her in the fish-mitten"
and that one earlier about bukkake.
does this say something about me, or something about the freaks who are clicking the posts?
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:55, Reply)
A BANNING ON YOUR HEAD! *gazzes mods*
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:53, Reply)
*to the tune of Bad Religion*
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:23, Reply)
I have no heirlooms as yet.
I'm hopeful that I stand to inherit a load of nice old books as my grandfather was a county librarian and book binder, and none of my aunts/uncles/cousins can read
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:37, Reply)
and more to come when he croaks. Spurs and shit from WW1, Nazi money and other WW2 stuff, and some older bits and pieces.
From my mother's side there will be loads of books too, half of them written by the grandfather whose bust I refer to above.
I'm never, ever smug about my own trainwreck of a life but my forebears are pretty remarkable on both sides and I am immensely proud of them.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:44, Reply)
not quite so cool as the Sex Pistols thing with which your grandfather was involved however!
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:49, Reply)
He didn't give it a moment's thought afterwards and had absolutely no idea of the cultural significance of the record or his role in its name. Were it not called 'Never Mind the Bollocks' I think part of its impact would have been lost.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:52, Reply)
...he is on the cross and his eyes flash on the hour every hour.
Oh and a first edition of Farewell to Arms.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:40, Reply)
Do I own her? I guess not but she is the most treasured thing in my life. Possession wise? I have no idea, I love my Stratocaster but its insured so if the house was burning I'd think fuck it rather than run back in to get it. In fact apart from my daughter I can't think of anything I would run back in for.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 16:58, Reply)
My music collection. I don't do digital music (not backed up on to laptop, no Ipod or anything) so it would involve throwing hundreds of CDs in to binbags if I needed to save them for any reason.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:02, Reply)
I had a flood last year - the bottom layer of my crates was completely sodden. A year later I still occasionally have to wash the mould off something before playing it. Heartbreaking - but not devastating like a fire.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:06, Reply)
It's all stored at my parents, alongside my dads equally (in fact far more superior) vinyl collection so I don't need to worry about that.
At least your stuff is still playable. I assume the sleeves are fucked?
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:08, Reply)
The most expensive casualty was my Their Satanic Majesties Request LP by the Stones, it was the rare holographic sleeve version and it's fucked with mould.
Most of my rarer records are in clear plastic sleeves so some carnage was averted. I was totally gutted I tell you - only a fellow collector can understand. The sheer hours spent hunting them down, let alone the money....
I know it's shallow to be so attached to material objects but to me they are so much more.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:13, Reply)
*pats back in sypathetic manly fashion*
My collection has been building for years, the main source being record fairs (mainly Buxton) Beanos (Croydon, no closed)) and The Vinyl Exchange (Manchester). I've not bought any vinly for a about 5 years now - I was spending to much.
My only vinyl reget is not buying the autographed copy of Love Buzz by Nirvana (Sub Pop issue) - it was only £250ish at the time.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:20, Reply)
You can always get more money - the same is not to be said for the first MC5 45", for example. What the fuck was I thinking?
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:37, Reply)
Man, this griddle-pan has opened up a whole new world of options to me, it's like my life is at least 25% better because of it.
But please, children, if you're going to chop chillis, make sure you wash your hands, I just rubbed my eye without washing properly and ouchy.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:16, Reply)
This one time I was hoovering my jam jar collection naked when I slipped landed ona jam jar that went INSIDE ME and the sucker landed on my cock.
i tell you A&E was embarrassing and I've never been able to look a Henry hoover in the eye since.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:30, Reply)
It's not a sexy gold Fender, no, just a Precision copy. But my Dad and I built it.
I'd just finished school and I had a summer ahead of me with nothing to do, and my 16th birthday approaching. So I got hold of a kit from some company in Wembley and over the course of a week, we bolted it together and polished it up and it's still the nicest-sounding bass I've ever owned. (Not that I've ever owned a guitar or bass worth more than about £200...)
The neck's bowing, which is causing problems with some of the upper notes. I may have to trust my bass to some stranger in a guitar shop, because I'm too afraid to tweak the truss rod myself for fear of ruining her.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 17:48, Reply)
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