What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[ChinaTom]

Hah, not quite!

 

I have also been reminiscing about the late 80’s early 90’s and the music I used to play back then. That Hohner in the second photo reminds me jamming along to “Big Area†by “Then Jerichoâ€Â, also the 7,800 Fahrenheit album by Bon Jovi – note the stars on the fretboard and how similar they are to the “proper†guitars played by Richie Sambora at the time (http://www.guitar-museum.com/uploads/gu ... 8079-1.jpg). Happy days. Lugging this around in my Father's Sierra GLS.

 

Having spent all my money on leccy guitars and trading most of my effects pedals in for a rack-mounted job, the Hothouse Flowers came along and took me down the acoustic road. This also reminds me of “Bourgeois Tagg†and “I don’t mind at all†– anyone know where I can get this now as my 7†single has long vanished. This all happened in a ceramic bue Escort 1.3 Base without folding rear seats, hence the upgrade to an Escort 1.4LX.

 

Today, I just jam along to King of Hill scene changes with the Telecaster, the Fender amp and a Boss Tremolo pedal. I hear the pub-bands playing on a Saturday night from my garden and every time I hear the intro to Hotel California played with a Squier Strat and an Octave pedal, I have a huge urge to burst into the pub with the Twinny and re-live my youth. Although in reality, my guitar would be a semi-tone out of tune with the others and therefore disappoint and the 20 minutes required to re-tune 18 strings will be the cause of the inevitable fight.

 

I can't find any Youtube demos of your LP - I think you should do one.

[retrogeezer]

They had ' A Question of Motorsport' with some BTCC drivers at the local Honda dealer last night, it was free to go so I went a long for a look.

 

Out of the big crowd hardy anyone was that fussed about talking to the drivers so I had a good chat with Tim Harvey and Matt Neal, got some photos and autographs too. Oh, and Beth Tweddle was there as the mystery guest.

 

 

Tim Harvey, Gordon Shedden, me, Matt Neal:

 

Paul O'Neal, me:

 

Shedden, Beth Tweddle, Neal

 

[Cavcraft]

Beth Tweddle is or was seeing the landlord of a local pub's son. I know you wanted to know that.

[Tayne]

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[Station]

Can I just say, Marshall are shite. They have been making amps for decades and every single one of them I've owned has blown it's components. I've heard the same off other people as well, they're just really 'breakable'.

 

I had this when I was younger:

 

 

And then got racks years after as I was sick of carrying around a 20 kilo head:

 

 

I pushed the boat out and bought a Mesa Triaxis and a Peavey EVH Woldgang, but sold them as they never got used. I haven't played for about a year, I used to be good, but all the 'talent' has gone!

(BTW, the two Marshall racks blew, as well as the two Marshall heads).

[retrogeezer]

Fletch - have ever worked as a john barrowman lookalike?

Nope, no one has ever said I look like John Barrowman. Quite a few used to say Mike Myers (when I had longer straight hair) and a couple have said a cross between Mike Myers & Tom Cruise!

 

It's funny what other people see.

[trigger]

Just saw about 10 very early Series 1 Land Rovers in a convey driving up my road, All looked they they had never seen mud though!.

[ChinaTom]

Can I just say, Marshall are shite. They have been making amps for decades and every single one of them I've owned has blown it's components. I've heard the same off other people as well, they're just really 'breakable'.

 

 

Agree. We hired a Marshall set-up for a gig and it blew, as did the replacement.

 

This makes me grin too:

 

 

Still have that axe somewhere. Lost its pickguard though and better looking for it. 80's reactorlight lenses FTW

[Cavcraft]

*Some pictures may offend...

 

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthrea ... =124653191

 

[gearoil]

Drove past the scrap merchants yard along the road from work and saw a dead Gatso camera poking out the ferrous mountain at a jaunty angle...

[pogweasel]

That photoshop thread is pretty funny tbh.

[Minimad5]

Bike + Petrol Strimmer = Jousting

 

My area is messed up

 

[barrett]

*Some pictures may offend...

 

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthrea ... =124653191

 

That's amazing! Although I never need to see anyone type 'LMAO' ever again.

 

ChinaTom, do you have a more recent photo* to compare yourself with? I'd like to think you are still rockin' the same look but somehow I doubt it

 

 

*can't guarantee that a hundred people won't photoshop you riding a giant penis, though

[trigger]

That photoshop thread is pretty funny tbh.

Very funny in fact!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I just had to stop looking at it due to laughing too much.

[ashmicro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=fJuNgBkloFE

 

 

Barely believable!

[Polystratus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=fJuNgBkloFE

 

 

Barely believable!

What ! Thats not real !

[trigger]

lol! Where is the Berlin wall?, Israel!

[Tayne]

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[Guest]

Answer the man, do they have wine in Scotland? Do they?

[Tayne]

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[Station]

MHOC "Gee that's swell, I'm Scottish too."

Me " where were you born?"

MHOC "IDAHO"

 

Did you ask 'what the hell are you's two talking about?'

[Station]

Was sitting around at a mate's house, and he decides to just show me a load of old pics from about 5 years ago on his PC. Like 'the old days' type of thing. He loads about 100 into Photoshop, and is closing each one as we look through them going 'oh I remember that', and 'oh, there's so and so', etc, until a pic came up of him holding his cock fully standing to attention, at which point he screams 'F*CK!', and tries to close the picture, which then shows further pictures of him with his fella in hand, and he's swearing clicking quicker to get rid of it, and trying to close Photoshop, but it's coming up with yes/cancel dialogue, and in the end he just ripped the plug out of the wall. I was in stitches at his reaction. He promised me to not tell anyone, but I think I've told a few people already.

It reminds me of a time when my mate opened a drawer in my desk to find an unflattering but unmistakable cartoon picture of him, drawn by myself, with 'F*ck Off and DIE you fat C*NT' written on it. We had a love/hate kind of relationship and had known each other since nursery school. What do you do in those situations?!

[Milford Cubicle]

Answer the man, do they have wine in Scotland? Do they?

I recommend Cairn o' Mohr fruit wines, their website is suitably shonky too.

[Tayne]

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[ChinaTom]

Was witness to 2 very memorable similar experience to the dodgy photo on hard-drive scenario:

 

1) A sales chap that used to work for me was giving a sales presentation to a factory a few years ago and had his lap-top plugged into their overhead projector. He clicked on his desktop icon to launch a video of our company but he had that version of Realplayer that popped up with the last video played still loaded up before playing the selected one. We were treated to 3 seconds of hardcore porn, 2 seconds of blank screen, followed by our presentation which started with an intro from the female MD of the company we were representing. Never seen a man panic so much in my life.

 

2) Ruthless co-worker embeds a webcam video of very pretty and very unassuming translator stripping and well, use your imagination in the corporate presentation on the TV screens dotted around the building. Poor girl actually fainted when she was told. Always the quiet ones. It was great.

 

 

 

Attending my first ever serious job interview, I opened my briefcase to get out some stuff to show the 3 directors, and was confronted with a giant cardboard comedy cock that my house-mates had put there for a laugh. This was met with 3 very disappointed expressions, but somehow I still managed to get the job.

[Milford Cubicle]

 

May dad also has a big downer on their product, claiming its total shit, and whilst I'm young enough not to listen to him I'm old enough to know that sometimes he makes a lot of sense.

I'm not a wine connoisseur, I just judge it on ease of getting pished (did find some of the wines a bit 'tart' though). It did the job, albeit more expensively than the new-improved Co-op super lager.

[Pillock]

Further to the embarassing photos..... my friend has a Picasa account (Google Photo Storage). My (Google) phone automatically found his Picasa account and linked all his pictures to his contact in my phone.

 

He got his album access permissions wrong.

 

His girlfriend is NICE. And quite accomodating.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Further to the embarassing photos..... my friend has a Picasa account (Google Photo Storage). My (Google) phone automatically found his Picasa account and linked all his pictures to his contact in my phone.

 

He got his album access permissions wrong.

 

His girlfriend is NICE. And quite accomodating.

 

[ashmicro]

http://tinyurl.com/235jeeb

 

 

Scahdenfreude, I think is the word