What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[55bloke]

Me too!

[dollywobbler]

What programme was that? I'll have to i-Player it. Took some footage of the Vulcan at Goodwood Revival a few years back. Must upload it...

[M'coli]

^^^Been there, donated the £££, still get the e-mails. It's on tape for watching later, I couldn't be arsed with them going on and on and on and on about YET ANOTHER OLD HOUSE .

[catsinthewelder]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... ies_House/

[RedSparrow]

^^OK, what does a Brit do if he's out of the UK on travel but wants to watch some iPlayer Beeb? Is there a work-around?

 

http://www.tv-links.eu

[TimothyClaypole]

http://tvnoviny.sk/sekcia/spravy/regiony/kocovnici-z-britanie-obsadili-kemp-pri-seneckych-jazerach.html

 

The missus complaining about gypsies...

 

Looks like a Euro road trip, still saves them robbing my scrap.

 

Some nice new motors in the news report too.

[The Moog]

Just come back from a residential weekend for my Masters. It is really nice to be challenged for a change and to get your brain working. It is scary really how little use I make of it normally!

 

Feel challenged and invigorated.

[M'coli]

This was going into the grupmy thread until I started grinning as I wrote it:-

The dog needed an emergency bath tonight. He found a really manky, minging, dead rabbit while we were out for our walk. I'd had to whistle him to me and he appeared, merrily bounding along with it in his gob. Little did I realise that as he ran the rabbit's entrails were depositing shit down his flanks - until we arrived home and the smell became all too apparent !!!

[Guest]

Had an extremely random evening \ early morning with MM5 and WTC. The latter turned up in his newly acquired 306 XRD and let me have a go, which was rather like stepping back in time. The gearbox and brakes on his very late phase 1 were better than those on P363 PNC. Instead of trying to get the 305 running again, we embarked on what can only be described as a full on photo shoot of both cars around the UoS premises.

 

 

 

 

It was a laugh driving a 306 again, and we had the pleasure of shunting shouty legs biscuit man's abhorrent fleet back and forth for manueouvring purposes. Lots of tea was consumed and the C4 was on point as a moving source of light.

 

I'm still not sure how I managed to take 129 pictures of a pair of worthless Peugeots, but that's the STOE (Photographic Dept) for you.

 

Please feel free to assail me for harbouring scene tendencies.

[Cavcraft]

'1970's Facebook' on Shooting Stars.

[Amazo]

Just been watching the amazing Vulcan Bomber on BBC1 - FANTASTIC!

 

 

If you liked that, I would seriously suggest getting this:

 

 

The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley. The reality was more comlicated. The only aircraft that could possibly do the job was three months from being scrapped, and the distance it had to travel was four thousand miles beyond its maximum range. It would take fifteen Victor tankers and seventeen separate in-flight refuellings to get one Avro Vulcan B2 over the target, and give its crew any chance of coming back alive

 

Don't let the Clarkson endorsement put you off.

[Cavcraft]

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Absolutely fantastic read.

[tonedepear]

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Absolutely fantastic read.

 

 

+1000000000

[eddyramrod]

+Some more too. I've read that, it's a breathtaking story, and true!

[wuvvum]

Not strictly shite-related, but this does have a vague link to AS nonetheless. I've been trying to motivate myself to finally get round to learning a piece on the organ (the Toccata from Boëlmann's Suite Gothique, if anyone's interested ), and to this end I've been browsing through videos on YouTube of various people playing it. I came across

, which is hopefully going to shame me into getting my arse in gear (if a 12-year-old can do it, etc...). The video is quite impressive, but it's the comments that made me grin - look whose name appears near the top of the section. Doesn't sound like he's changed much either.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

^^^^^Fantasitc!!! Check out his musical 'likes' on his channel:

 

Oh, God... Anything French Classical, Romantic and 20th Century, excluding Widor, Guilmant and some Tournemire... some Bach... Sweelinck... Buxtehude... Reger... Lizst... Karg-Elert... Elgar... Vaughan Williams... Arnold Bax... John Ireland... Frank Bridge... William Walton... all the 20th Century English Romantic stuff, basically... rock-wise, anything grungy, some grunge/metal-influenced alt (Foo Fighters, Soundgarden specifically), any proper metal (not glam/rapcore/numetal) - although I still liked Sepultura's Roots album (most of it, anyway)... any proper thrash, though. Check out a new thrash band called Evile. Also like doom metal - Trouble, Napalm Death, whatever. I do like Dave Grohl's Probot project, too. There's a hilarious bonus track on that album featuring Jack Black of Tenacious D - another band I like. Also into ambient Brian Eno-influenced indie -

 

it goes on and on, thats just a taster.

[Mr Lobster]

organ is increasingly being used outside of church - not just in classical concerts, but in other contexts. I notice that both Lady Gaga and the Foo Fighters have made use of large organs

 

Oh aye. From what I've seen Lady Gaga makes extensive use of a large organ.

[Albert Ross]

Have you googled the body of text to see if he's copied and pasted it?

[barrett]

Judging by the comments on his channel he's done a good job of upsetting everyone on youtube too....

[brammy777]

I find it genuinely worrying there is people like that out there. I think the only thing he's ever done right was to give himself some apt username/alias.

Also, Napalm Death, Doom Metal? Yeh, right. Definitely known for their incredibly slow tempo.

[warren t claim]

A reply to EccentricDickhead....

"pininfanina1

 

pininfanina1 (4 months ago)

Spam

You pommy bastard.

 

Now, you're possibly the only human who thinks the new 5-series is too 'hard'. Its too bloody soft, and thats why all BMW fans are very angry. And just so you know, the Jag makes the power and the torque higher in the rev range. Which is bad. If you can't operate the iDrive, you sir, need to check your IQ. It's so easy! I used to love the challenge of finding out functions deep inside, but now its all too easy. Honestly, if you really don't want any luxuries, get a Suzuki Swift or something. Though I do agree that the E39 is a classical design.

I suspect you'll ignore everything I write, and stick to the Jag, while I'll do the same with the BMW. "

[Pete-M]

Can't be the same guy. He's got 19 friends on YouTube. How could that be possible?

[Guest]

Can't be the same guy. He's got 19 friends on YouTube. How could that be possible?

 

It's because of people like EccentricBellend that head in oven deaths became popular. He shouldn't be allowed nice things, let alone the bastard Internet. He makes me so very angry.

 

Also:

 

You should really consider killing yourself. You're fucking retarded.

[Guest]

 

Got this going via the MAME emulator. Blast from the past.

[scaryoldcortina]

^ He's right though Norm Jimmy Page is dead easy. Play the boy some Hendrix or something.

 

PS, I'm jealous. My 15 year old's LP copy and amp sit in the corner of his room gathering dust because it's "too hard"

[scaryoldcortina]

Funny, I've been listening to Layla (and other assorted love songs) a lot this week, as I've been trying to learn slide and Duane Allman's stuff on that album is both interesting and challenging.

[Guest]

I cannot imagine a Norm mini-me. What's he like?

[Amazo]

Well, God (Eric Clapton)

With respect to the mighty Mr Clapton, these three are guitar gods (to me):

 

Robert Lockwood Jr, reputedly taught how to play guitar by Rober Johnson no less, playing on stage - aged 91:

 

 

Steve 'The Colonel' Cropper & Donald 'Duck' Dunn playing Green Onions live on stage in Australia

Saw these cats rock in London recently with Eddie 'Knock On Wood' Floyd on vocals. Oh, and Bill Murray popped in two songs from the end to play tambourine, while Terence Stamp watched in the wings:

 

[Guest]

Brilliant! Got the hang of this MAME emulation lark after hearing from Mr Hirst that Gaelco have released World Rally as a ROM. It was available previously but wasn't debugged \ dumped correctly. The fact that Gaelco have done this for free, and available on their website 'so that people can keep on enjoying it' makes them top lads, no mistake. I remember being blown away by it in 1994 or thereabouts when I first played it in an arcade somewhere in Liverpool. I think I got through about £10 frantically trying to play through all the stages.

 

Nowadays, with dip switch and coin button emulation, you can take as long as you like.

Back in the day, I searched all over Manchester for a World Rally machine and couldn't find one. Spool forward five months, and I'm at a friend's birthday party in Laser Quest, waiting for a round to finish. I wander over the arcade area and lo and behold, a World Rally cabinet. Two missed rounds and a severe bollocking later, I've run out of money and decide to participate in the laser spectacular instead.

 

I had a right job persuading the latest version of MAME to run anything at all, so I backtracked after ten minutes' Internet research and ended up with version 0.139, which is a few years old. My desktop PC kicks off royally and doesn't want to work with many ROMs, but my netbook is more than happy to oblige.

 

Yet another thing to distract me when I go back to University. NICE 1 GUYZ

[Cavcraft]

Unattentive (is there such a word?) dolly birds in parts suppliers who undercharge you. I'd like to think the smashingly knockered bit of fluff was too busy eyeing me up she didn't realise what she was entering into the cash register. However it's more likely she was the trophy counter bint who wasn't too bright. Never mind, half price suits me fine.