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  • ESBlondeESBlonde Frets: 3532
    VimFuego said:

    only some days?

     

    if it helps any, I am now sat here feeling over full and slightly sick.

    I refrain from giving my first answer having just read the unacceptable insults thread, there are limits you, you, you cad.

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  • BucketBucket Frets: 7749
    Electric Light Orchestra.
    - "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • LixartoLixarto Frets: 1618
    Today I found the most rock & roll photograph in the world (apologies if you've already seen it Elsewhere):

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lixarto/Lynn_Goldsmith-Keith_Richards-Neil_.jpg
    "I can see you for what you are; an idiot barely in control of your own life. And smoking weed doesn't make you cool; it just makes you more of an idiot."
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  • littlegreenmanlittlegreenman Frets: 4790
    I managed to fix a couple of viruses on my computer! Completely removed from registry and browsers, and without breaking my computer. Probably no big deal to the techy types but the first time I've done it on my own. Was crapping myself during the final restart! ;)
    littlegreenman < My tunes here...
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  • dindudedindude Frets: 8409
    After a near 4 month wait, next Tuesday is NewCarDay. Yippee.
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  • monquixotemonquixote Frets: 17108
    tFB Trader
    Today I bought a pair of trousers 2 sizes smaller than the ones I was bursting out of a couple of months ago. They fit very nicely :D
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    The boss gave me a decently sized pay rise, with the comment "Your work is good".
    :D
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • dindudedindude Frets: 8409

    Yesterday was indeed NewCarDay.

    Not worthy of its own thread but it looks just like this....and I is very pleased with it.

    http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/golf-gtd-rt_zps5d28b35c.jpg

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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    Nice @dindude but how would you fare getting a flightcased AC30 in or out of it?
    "Working" software has only unobserved bugs. (Parroty Error: Pieces of Nine! Pieces of Nine!)
    Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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  • dindudedindude Frets: 8409
    Phil_aka_Pip said:
    Nice @dindude but how would you fare getting a flightcased AC30 in or out of it?
    Carefully
    :)
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  • BucketBucket Frets: 7749
    I've finally broken the magical "100 lol" barrier.

    Also played a 1978 LP Custom, 1974 LP Recording and 1990 Ibanez Universe today.
    - "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • johnnyurqjohnnyurq Frets: 1368
    3 top guitars there @Bucket.

    So which was the heaviest between the LPC and LPR?

    I would guess the LPR as mine is as heavy as a Neutron star.
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  • BucketBucket Frets: 7749
    edited November 2013
    johnnyurq said:
    3 top guitars there @Bucket.

    So which was the heaviest between the LPC and LPR?

    I would guess the LPR as mine is as heavy as a Neutron star.
    Funny you should say that - I think the Custom inched it but they were quite close, both weren't as heavy as I was expecting though. I've heard that basically all late 70s Customs were boat anchors (saw one advertised on eBay which weighed a claimed 12lbs!) but it was relatively manageable. Well, I'd probably feel different after 2 hours of it on a strap but you know...

    Vastly preferred the feel of the Recording though - the Custom had very small frets which made bending quite difficult. Not sure if they were small to start with or just worn to shit, but the guitar itself was very clean so I'd be surprised if they were that badly worn...

    That 1990 Universe though... wow. Sounded great and played like a greased whippet. And it was so clean I mistook it for a new guitar (a new Universe model that looks very similar has just come out). And the neck... oh my god, well there was barely a neck at all, so thin!
    - "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • johnnyurqjohnnyurq Frets: 1368
    Good work that man @Bucket.  ;) 

    Mine weighs in at 11.5 Lbs.

    Doesn't bother me being vertically challenged with a low centre of gravity, but after 2 or 3 hours it feels more like 11.5 kg.

    Out of curiosity how much was the ticket prices for the two Lesters?
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  • BucketBucket Frets: 7749
    edited November 2013
    johnnyurq said:
    Out of curiosity how much was the ticket prices for the two Lesters?
    The Custom was £2995, the Recording £2795. (And the Universe was £1500.)

    11.5 lbs sounds like a pain (literally!)... my dad's Jazz Bass is probably similar in weight, that's a bastard to play standing up... or sitting down, in fact, because it ends up giving me a dead leg :D He ended up buying another bass for gigging...
    - "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • johnnyurqjohnnyurq Frets: 1368
    Wow that is not cheap and I wish I looked after and never relic'd mine.  :(

    Not really I enjoyed all the years of "playing the heck" out of it as Howard used to say.

    Mind you it will never be sold in any case and it has been through the wars and a lot of gigs with me.

    The Universe sounds like a good deal, shame they don't suit my hands and sausage fingers.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    @Bucket - was it a swirl?
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • BucketBucket Frets: 7749
    No, it was black, with the green plastics and fret inlays.

    Over on SSO they're known colloquially as "Green Dots" and are quite sought-after apparently.
    - "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    Know them well. Nice one.
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • littlegreenmanlittlegreenman Frets: 4790
    After 9 long months of being overly cautious at all times I found out today I've passed my probation period for my new(!) job.

    Finally time to put me feet up and start fecking about! ;)
    littlegreenman < My tunes here...
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5698

    9 months, feck that's a long probation.

    But congratumalations on passing.

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 26143
    dindude said:

    Yesterday was indeed NewCarDay.

    Today, for me.  I'm fairly happy with it, so far.  :)
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  • BucketBucket Frets: 7749
    edited November 2013
    Just back from seeing Peter Frampton with me dad. Was mostly unfamiliar with his stuff before, consider me a convert now...

    It was a great show, he had a great band and holy shit, he plays like an absolute motherfucker.
    - "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • ESBlondeESBlonde Frets: 3532
    Bucket said:
    Just back from seeing Peter Frampton with me dad. Was mostly unfamiliar with his stuff before, consider me a convert now...

    It was a great show, he had a great band and holy shit, he plays like an absolute motherfucker.
    When I was about your age "Frampton comes alive" was the dogs dangles and I wore the groves out on all four sides (ask your dad about them). I still spin up the CD version from time to time and come over all misty eyed.


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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    Wife playing at a concert at the Barbican in 5 minutes and she's told me literally 15 minutes ago that I'm turning for her! Stoked, nervous and VERY proud!
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    dindude said:

    Yesterday was indeed NewCarDay.

    Not worthy of its own thread but it looks just like this....and I is very pleased with it.

    http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n505/dindude/golf-gtd-rt_zps5d28b35c.jpg

    Bit late but Fuck Yeah :D
    The Assumptions - UAE party band for all your rock & soul desires
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    edited November 2013
    This weekend, I went to a zoo and a fort and drove up, and then down this road, which was rather a lot of fun :)


    Also: Clapton tickets for March :D
    The Assumptions - UAE party band for all your rock & soul desires
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  • ESBlondeESBlonde Frets: 3532
    This week the 12 year old dish washer stopped working. Without much enthusiasm and zero experience of DWs I removed it from its hidy hole and examined it.
    All looked nice and tidy but the tests were confusing me, at first it indicated a duff pump, then a duff water heater, then I suspect the control board. I procrastinated for a day or two as to replace bits in sequence or just bit the bullet and get a new machine, and then did a couple of empty cycles with the panels off and more tests.
    Then of all things it starts working again. Was it a blockage or a fault on the controller? Don't know but it works so for now it's back in it's hidy hole. Total cost zero, (except some time and effort) Yay.

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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 26143
    littlegreenman said:
    After 9 long months of being overly cautious at all times I found out today I've passed my probation period for my new(!) job.

    Fatherhood??
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  • littlegreenmanlittlegreenman Frets: 4790
    TTony said:
    littlegreenman said:
    After 9 long months of being overly cautious at all times I found out today I've passed my probation period for my new(!) job.

    Fatherhood??
    ha-ha, worse than that, Civil Service!!! :|

    Got a nice letter from HMRC today, and a second letter containing a fairly fat cheque! I "really" don't need any new guitar stuff so I think I'll be having a much better holiday next year than what I had planned :D
    littlegreenman < My tunes here...
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