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When Hallie went into the diary room and demanded food, a shower and some proper food, all I could picture was Steve Martin demanding a fucking car, with four fucking wheels and a seat.

9 hours ago, Chili said:

A View to a Kill is the only Bond film I've sat and seen start to finish. It's a fucking awful film but I was delighted at everything utterly weird about it. Without looking it up I remember Grace Jones breaking Bond's old lad, some horse plot, Christopher Walker has a blimp and a superb hairstyle and the Duran Duran song. Oh and one of Walken's heavies played a Columbo baddie when they brought the show back but it wasn't as good.

And someone gets murdered with a Sony Walkman.

I'm a bit soft on AVTAK, most likely because it was the first Bond I saw in a cinema, but I remember the chase with the Fire Engine being impressive. 

4 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

He didn't cry. He was too busy dancing like a crab.

 

Look Dad! I'm one of the boys!

I forgot to mention the best part.

Yesterday morning I felt a bit rough, but put it down to another 4am conversation about how dreams aren't real and we all need to go back to sleep. I dropped my son off at school, and in the time it took to walk from his queuing spot to the top of the playground, my stomach started contracting and my mouth was watering, so I knew I was going to be sick. I figured if I could get to the top path, I could disappear into the bushes and be discreet, but by the time I got to the stairs by the main entrance I knew that wasn't a possibility. 

I asked a teacher, and she let me in to use a toilet. I just wanted the nearest one, but she insisted on taking me to the caretaker's one. By now I was actually retching, and doing everything I could to keep it inside. I got to the toilet, lifted the lid and went at it like Linda Blair.

Except I hadn't lifted the lid for enough, and it fell back down, so it hit the top of the lid and fountained off in every direction. 

I fear I shall have a new nickname when I next do the school run.

One for the hardcore fans, but martial artist, stuntman, and one-time Mr Cynthia Rothrock, Meng Hoi has died at the age of 65 from oesophageal cancer.

He was never a name in the west, but he's a regular face in the classic HK action films from the 80s, and had a small role in Enter The Dragon

It's finally got me.

The flu/cold bit isn't too bad by itself, but the joint pain is a new experience. It's mainly in my upper back and shoulders, which stops me sitting comfortably, but it also means that every cough and sneeze feels like I'm getting thumped by somebody big. My wrists, knuckles, ankles and knees are throbbing, like I've fallen asleep on a coach in a bad position.

Just now, herbie747 said:

That's my evening read sorted. Thanks for that! 

I've just been through it, and I hadn't realised just how accurate my gag about it being from the past-future/current-present would turn out to be. 

2007.....fucking hell.

6 minutes ago, TimmyB said:

Dear me.

We used to have a member here called Moj. Fifteen years ago he traveled into the future so that he could see this conversation we're having now, and he archived it here:

25 minutes ago, herbie747 said:

Why does Gauntley even want to be a promoter?

Ego, bordering on Messiah syndrome. 

The first time I saw him in person was at the academy in Doncaster, when he randomly showed up during a training session. Instead of just slipping in and watching over everyone, his arrival was announced, and when he walked into the room, training was essentially put on hold while the younger trainees crowded round him, like his touch was going to cure their leprosy.

He was never going to just stay in the background and focus on the business. Remember the book of appreciation?

The boy has gotten himself another award at school, this time for being a "Times Table Rockstar".

I'm not sure whether this makes times tables cooler, or diminishes the coolness of actual rockstars (even more than Nikki Sixx has done).

Considering he hates doing them, and will try everything to avoid doing them, I think he was as surprised as I was.

Sorry to hear about his father. I liked him, and will always remember our little chats about things, like how much he paid for the ring.

The rest comes across as the same inconsistent, desperately deflective bollocks that we've heard time and time again.

I never considered putting lighter strings on an acoustic, mainly because I started on electric and didn't buy an acoustic until about 10 years later, but it makes sense.

I think one of the best resources YouTube has is backing tracks, because the best way to get to grips with chord changes is to just play, and playing with others (even in a virtual sense) gives you a sense of support.

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My 10yo picked up the acoustic no issue, but she has massively struggled with her electric and is now becoming disinterested more and more,

With electrics, there's so much variety that it might be that that particular guitar doesn't feel comfortable or inspiring.

These all fall under the "electric guitar" banner, but they sound different to one another, have different shape necks (the one on the left is like half a baseball bat, and the one on the right is about the thickness of a pencil, and very flat), and balance differently. As a teen, I didn't like Les Pauls because there was too much weight at the bottom for them to sit comfortably on my skinny thighs, so I was a Stratocaster man for years.

Is the guitar suited to the type of music she wants to play? Is the amp giving her the sound she wants? When I started, my parents tried to convince me that I should get an acoustic first, and then move onto an electric later, but this seemed pointless as I wasn't going to be playing acoustic music.

If the amp can give a good "neutral" sound, then maybe sticking a basic multi-effects in front of it will bring the sound closer to what she's aiming for. Valeton, Mooer and Zoom all make decent budget models, and many of them have loopers built in.

My first guitar came with an amp and a distortion pedal, but only one lead, so I couldn't use the pedal (and I didn't know you could overdrive an amp) and I spent the first couple of months playing with a very flat, uninteresting tone until I got a second lead, and all of a sudden my guitar sounded like all those rock Gods that I aspired to be like.

Alternatively, it may be that she just feels better connected with the acoustic, especially if she's gravitating toward the singer-songwriter/Ed Sheeran thing, or like you say, she feels that she sounds a bit shit on the electric. This could be down to how electrics tend to be played as part of a group, and can sound a bit weedy on their own, especially single coils into a small clean amp.

6 hours ago, Statto said:

Big Courtney fan myself.

The Crossing is fantastic album.

2 hours ago, TimmyB said:

Danny Rodd has been talking about it on Twitter and how he believes he has the legal right to 1PW. 🤦‍♂️

https://twitter.com/dannyrodd/status/1707316780727681484?t=EiLdGP1bC7tLq8PRuEalYg&s=19

Wasn't there a previous incident where after Gauntley had sold the name and video library to Rodd, Gauntley started selling/monetising the videos again, and claimed that because he had a new company with the same initials, that he was entitled to? If that's not accurate, it was something equally bizarre.

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Posted August 27, 2013

I wonder how capable people are of changing, really. Gauntley just seems like a born liar, fraudster and incompetent div.

Pitcos was right.

Big fan of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Invisible Man when I was young. I was always convinced Gerry Anderson based Captain Blue on him.

90 though? Can't grumble.

10 hours ago, LCJ said:

Couldn’t quite believe my ears when I heard Al Snow say that he used to bring the Mannequin Head with him to restaurants and have conversations with it (literally living the gimmick). Also said he’d been kicked out of tonnes of restaurants because of that said behaviour. Bloody nutter!

He probably heard how Ted DiBiase used to live his gimmick in fancy restaurants and thought "Well, if it works for him....."

I'm probably more forgiving on Al Snow than most, because I enjoyed his antics back in the Job Squad days. 

However, I really do question his ability as a trainer when he's not picking up and correcting poor fundamentals with his students. 

I like Mr Pectacular though. That's a great name, and will get people thinking he's a cunt before he even steps into the ring.

Did they not include the melody in the music for the first one? Maybe it was only in the trailer, but I'm sure they snuck it in somewhere.

I was in the mood for something low-brow and amusing, and so gave this a try.

How could you not love that artwork?

Unfortunately, that's the only good point. It's low budget, but so are other far better films. This is mostly people sat around talking about nothing in particular until one of them decides to go into the house, where they get murdered by the local alternative to Michael Myers. There's not even much humour to make up for it.

Avoid.

16 hours ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:

She was apparently blasting him right in his face with the sexual assault allegations in front of a crowd but it was all being edited out. Probably because he is a litigious prick, so fair play and brave she did it.

If he's found guilty, here's hoping that footage gets shown.

What I found unsettling about Dispatches is how Brand was using the studio audiences and some of the production staff like a meat market, and every time he was let go and then brought back, he went straight back to sending runners out to get girls for him. It was almost like he made it a condition of his employment.

Today I learned that Alexa can whisper. 

Not the wrong thread.

I regularly use Alexa for telling the time during the night. I'll just say "Alexa", but nothing else, so the screen activates, shows the time, the blue bar at the bottom pulses for a few seconds, and as there's no question, the screen goes dark again. I think on this occasion, she thought I said something else, and did her "I don't understand" response.

Anybody not feeling wretched enough yet?

Nice to know that #metoo did absolutely fuck all for some people.

I watched the rest of Dispatches, and pretty much agree with everyone's criticism of it. It felt like they had the main story, but needed to pad it out, and we ended up with a woman who willingly slept with him after he paid her a compliment, and then got huffy because the well established one-night stander didn't give up his womanising ways for her. It's a bit of a piss take to put her in the same category as someone that was held down and a dick forced down her throat.

Got home late from a gig last night, and so got to bed around 3:30am. As a result, I was left to sleep in this morning.

When I woke, I had no idea what time it was, so I said "Alexa" but nothing else, just so that the screen would activate.

Almost immediately in response, a woman's voice whispered back at me. I didn't catch what it said, because I jumped as I thought I was alone in the room.

Nothing followed, so I called my girlfriend's name, thinking that she must have been in there as well without me realising, and nope. I was alone in the room.

It definitely didn't come through Alexa either, it was a voice in the room. I'm trying to convince myself that I was still in a half-asleep state, but I didn't feel like I was.

I find them only slightly more convincing than the YouTube ads.